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by glenra 14y ago
Though there are a few uses where it's the best tool for the job. For instance, taking a "Segway Tour" of an unfamiliar city such as Austin. It's like a walking tour in that you can experience the local geography of the place and see everyt
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Not only is it a math error to multiply it out like that, but it's also wrong to extend the logic to electric cars. Electric cars are likely to have LESS than the AVERAGE CAR total mileage, because (a) they're less useful in places where pe
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> we have been basing transportation on burning dead dinosaurs for over 100 years yet, and there has not been a single new car company in the US for that same period (until Tesla). Where did you get that last claim from? You seem to b
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> Is this guy serious? The average car is driven 13.5k miles/year. So 50k is 3.7 years. Did you read the rest of the article? Quote: "To make matters worse, the batteries in electric cars fade with time, just as they do in a cellphon
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On the other hand, if the subsidy makes the subsidized industries lazy and encourages political competition - lobbying for bigger subsidies - rather than technological competition in this and other industries, leaving us stuck subsidizi
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> [Lomborgh] called the greenhouse effect a "myth" That claim appears to itself be a "myth" promulgated by people who don't like the guy's political conclusions. The wikipedia page that made this inflammatory claim gave as its only re
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>It's an...opinion piece by a global climate change denier. Where by "denier" you presumably mean "person who thinks there might exist other important issues of concern in the world besides CO2 levels". Or perhaps you mean "person w
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Except that it really IS none of their business, and we're collectively better off if the TSA periodically gets TOLD that when they ask nosy stupid random questions.
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AFAICT, you just made a case that "an administrative search" is legally allowed, not that they're allowed to confiscate his stuff or prevent him from flying with it. Does their right to "search" - examine his stuff - also imply their righ
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Aha. It somehow hadn't occurred to me to click on that triangle. I'm still not sure it's a useful-to-me feature, but it at least makes a little more sense now. It's less annoying once locked down, anyway. Maybe it should default to being
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by glenra 14y ago
You mean so as to remember where you were last reading are on the page? But if you use the mouse to switch browser tabs, that arrow moves up to the top of the page, and if you use any of the controls at the bottom, it moves down. I guess on
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by glenra 14y ago
We could solve the security problem with the stroke of a pen - just abolish the TSA. It is a horrendous waste of money, a ludicrously expensive tax on our time that we choose to pay out of pure paranoia. Is it really worth building an entir
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by glenra 14y ago
Making people sit and wait for an hour whenever they need to recharge is just plain nuts. It makes the "road tripper" use case untenable. The right way to handle this for road trippers is to swap the battery packs or swap their contents. Do
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by glenra 14y ago
Actually, technology is being used to bust unions down to size. One specific technology is streaming web video, to make underhanded and reprehensible union tactics more visible. http://www.phillymag.com/articles/busting-philly-unions-pes
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by glenra 14y ago
You're oversimplifying. The original rail lines in nyc were largely built and run by private companies. Most of these lines were (and many still are) above ground. Later there was a lot of consolidation - smaller lines were bought up by lar
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by glenra 14y ago
The first time the internet got upset about this was when the Glee version of the song got posted to various sites (including iTunes) in advance of the show being broadcast. That FIRST version of the song included the duck sound and the lin
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by glenra 14y ago
I've seen retina displays (in the store, anyway) and couldn't really tell the difference. But maybe I'm just old. Size and weight and amount of disk/memory all matter to me but screens have already been "good enough" for years .
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by glenra 14y ago
I would have said it's a case where the zoning system breaks. You get "grim expanses of McMansions" because some city planner ruled by decree that this area over here is "residential" and can't have little corner bodegas mixed in, while tha
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by glenra 14y ago
Even at good schools with non-religious teachers, students are undoubtedly taught lots of information that's false. Teachers are of merely average intelligence and often just don't know that what they're teaching is false. Which is fine b
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by glenra 14y ago
Although we don't know what these orders were slashed from or slashed to . And if they were in fact slashed due to "weak demand" we don't know if that demand is "weak" compared to relatively sane projections or "weak" compared to wildly
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by glenra 14y ago
Regulators want to make sure, above all, that the drivers are paying taxes and paying for the use of their vastly (and artificially) expensive taxi medallions. So the regulations tend to require the use of an expensive and finicky and limit
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by glenra 14y ago
> it incenses me to see how darwinistic capitalism rides roughshot over the common interest. Under actual "darwinistic capitalism" anybody who wanted to would be able to start a competing transit service, even if it stole all the custom
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Shorter point: Being a tenured professor is nice but getting to be a tenured professor is essentially a lottery process - lots of work and luck is required to get there. Similarly, being "a movie star" is a pretty sweet gig, but that
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by glenra 14y ago
HN has downvotes (and the post you refer to did get downvoted) but you don't get access to that feature until you have a certain level of karma.
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Another option is that they are the products of a dysfunctional medical system. In particular, a pretty common recurring feature is that the shooters turn out to have been on antidepressants which are known to cause aggression and/or suicid
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by glenra 14y ago
It's actually plausible that the scanners - if working as designed - might cause net health benefit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis ). The tricky thing is that we have no way of
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by glenra 14y ago
> You pick the worst from a huge region and then use that to argue the case for the whole region (EU). It only takes one counterexample to disprove a rule. If you meant to say "try living somewhere in the EU...but not the UK", you shoul
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> Try living in a country with gun control laws for a bit and see where you feel safer. You mean like the UK? The UK has a horrendous violent crime rate - four times that of the US. So if people were "afraid" in proportion to actual ris
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In other words, you didn't even look at the details of your own study and whether it related to the post you were responding to, you just did a keyword match to see that it reached "the right conclusion". Got it. If you never look at anyt
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by glenra 14y ago
The anti-gun studies tend to be pretty terrible as a rule. Including that one. Have you looked into any of the studies on the other side? Suppose a woman in an isolated place avoids a rape via one of these methods: - credibly yelling "go aw

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