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by giantg2 4mo ago
"Being influenced by and completely immersed in a niche of other brilliant people." The author does mention that part of the process is collaboration with other musicians. It seems by setting their "chores" they are incr
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"If a situation was fine before and changing something either does nothing or makes that situation worse" But it's not. You forgot the size and weight of vehicles from previous generations. You forgot the higher fatalities of
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Actually, many places have a drunk in public law because walking is not the safest thing when impaired. Taking a taxi or Uber is safer.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
You could propose serving limits, which would help limit drunk driving, reduce drunk pedestrian deaths, and potentially reduce alcohol related health issues. Or enforce drunk in public laws. Just as vehicle size and weight will always be a
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by giantg2 4mo ago
It's possible they will offer financing for that. From a business strategy perspective it would be almost unimaginable that they wouldn't.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
I love that it's reasonably priced and somewhat low tech, but the range is just too limited for me. I can't wait for the batteries promising 4x energy density. That would really change things.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
200 out of 350M is a small number. There are plenty other things we could address that makes a bigger impact. The bigger factor is pedestrian alcohol consumption, but nobody wants to address that.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
200 out of 350M is a small number. There are plenty other things we could address that makes a bigger impact. The bigger factor is pedestrian alcohol consumption, but nobody wants to address that.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"Implicitly if there were any other single larger cause for the deaths then the article would be about that." Then show me explicitly what the breakdown is. "the _unnecessarily_ large vehicles" Define unnecessarily. Do I
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by giantg2 4mo ago
And this applies to EVs, not just trucks. It will be the reality across all new vehicle types.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"I too would rather people suddenly woke up and were responsible" Then raise the standards for licensing. The difference between the lethality of an idiot with a civic and an idiot with an F150 isn't significantly different i
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by giantg2 4mo ago
NY is pushing the same sort of stuff. The question to ask is how many people are actually being killed with 3D printed weapons? I don't have that info, but I would guess they are statistical outliers and would have been replaced by oth
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"The argument that ownership of these vehicles doesn't infringe on my right to life or have costs to the public as a whole is ridiculous when the stats show clearly the impact." Really, can you show me ownership of these ki
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Alcohol is also a factor on the pedestrian side, not just the driver side. This has not been addressed. It is still a relevant factor on both sides. Yes, vehicle size/design is another factor.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Yes, the old joke about common sense not being common anymore. But of course it was always meant as a figure of speech to indicate plainly logical items.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Having any car or truck is a choice. People lived before the automobile. They do provide benefits, just as SUVs and trucks provide benefits. The Amish live without cars, so too could we if we chose to. In fact, the Amish could make the same
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by giantg2 4mo ago
They can both be factors, just one is much more influential than the other. Alcohol is involved in about half of all pedestrian deaths. So it seems that's the issue, but people would rather talk about vehicle size.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Licensing is mostly based vehicle operating characteristics. We already have large vehicle licenses like class B and A for heavy vehicles. Motorcycles have a separate license due to different operating concerns. If you're actually foll
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Sadly, most will ignore your common sense just as they are ignoring the data.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"How would you react if told that your primary mode of transportation is causing a big increase in deaths?" I'd ask to see the data since TFA shows only a 7.5% increase due to size. The rest of the 75% increase is due to othe
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by giantg2 4mo ago
The headline is wildly incorrect. Large vehicles are only responsible for about a 7.5% increase. Odd they aren't talking about the bigger issues at play and chose to mislead us. “Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year
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by giantg2 4mo ago
What are the numbers on that post vaccine vs pre vaccine?
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"The landowner can continue farming, growing and harvesting timber, or however else they use their land." This isn't exactly true. The land trusts can dictate the use of the land to some degree, depending on their terms. Chan
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Instead od shorting NVIDIA, why not invest in stocks that would benefit from AI failures? Or diversify by investing in AI competitors, such as Alphabet (vertical integration with TPUs).
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Clearly I questioned it the whole time, hence the confusion. "Seems like it would have been obvious given the subject." Same thing for the mermaid show mentioned before. "Or maybe, does your perception of the channel's r
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"because pretty much all deaths at younger ages are unusual." I would think most of those deaths are car accidents, heart attack, stroke, cancer, and drugs. I would not call those suspicious circumstances.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
The 4000 out of 700000 number doesn't seem quite right to me. That seems like maybe an average rate being applied to a cohort that doesn't match the average population. It would be more telling to compare deaths that were suspicio
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Similar thing for Discovery or History channel show about Dragons. It went on about how they could breath fire by eating platinum rich ore from their dens or something. I was very confused - why would an otherwise reputable channel show abs
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by giantg2 4mo ago
You're still only talking about the cost side. You're not talking about the effect side. So they're 2x the cost, but how much did they save in reduced casualties?
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by giantg2 4mo ago
If I remember the studies right, removing the plaque doesn't reverse the dementia, and some drugs that show improvements in the dementia don't remove the plaque. There's clearly other stuff going on.

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