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by hugh4 11y ago
Sharing rides with strangers is precisely the kind of thing that I'd hope to avoid by replacing public transport with self-driving cars. But anyway, yes, it does appear that the economics of the self-driving taxi beat the economics o
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by hugh4 11y ago
> Facebook outed the past name of a transgender person -- that's never ok, and it's a problem taken very seriously in the transgender community. Why is that not okay? I mean, if people want to change their names for whatever re
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by hugh4 11y ago
Let's make some generous assumptions -- a taxi costs $20K, lasts 300,000 miles, gets 50 miles to the gallon and fuel costs $2.00 a gallon. (Or equivalent, electrically, I'm easy.) Then fuel is four cents a mile and depreciation is
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by hugh4 11y ago
> Everyone else just deals with their life quietly And it works out great for most of us. Want to deal with facebook? Use facebook. Don't want to deal with facebook? Don't use facebook. Not that tricky.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Rejecting something because you can't afford it, and then claiming it's because it's "inauthentic", sounds fairly punk to me.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Really? How do you know this? I thought that our knowledge about how things are stored in the brain was extremely poor. It seems that we do have some pretty specialised mechanisms in our heads for dealing with human faces, given how good we
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by hugh4 11y ago
I think it missed the broader point that there's many reasons you'd want to endlave others apart from economic reasons or "power for its own sake". Altruism, for instance. Who among us doesn't want to make the works
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by hugh4 11y ago
It's amazing how many people seem to think drugs should be legalised but sugar should be banned.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Which is precisely why some of us are opposed to socialised healthcare. Once you have it, every little decision you make becomes everyone else's business.
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by hugh4 11y ago
If you want to bump up the number of traffic fatalities, encouraging cycling is a pretty good way to do it. Every major injury I've ever had has come from cycling and before you blame cars -- none involved a collision with a car.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Another day, another article filled with twenty something single professionals who don't own cars because they live in a 600 square foot apartment in a dense downtown core for $4000 a month saying "Why can't everybody be more
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by hugh4 11y ago
Statistically if it's never once happened to me it's unlikely that it happens to millions of people a month. I'm not sure where you're getting your information from.
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by hugh4 11y ago
That's rather a long bow to draw based on the occasional overcharge (which you should be able to get your credit card company to reverse anyway).
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'd lived in the US for about five years before I bothered to get a credit rating. I remember when I was renting an apartment the agent looked shocked that I didn't have one. "How can you not have a credit rating? Don't
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by hugh4 11y ago
One wonders: does one really fly four bombing sorties in a week, get discharged, and get home within seven days? That sounds remarkably quick by government work standards.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Unless you find one of the many, many shonky smog-check places, which surely can't be that hard.
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by hugh4 11y ago
> So there's no objective test which can distinguish between you and a p-zombie Oh there is for me , just not for anyone else. I know I'm conscious, but I don't necessarily expect anyone else to believe it.
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by hugh4 11y ago
It seems to me that the best way is simply to severely punish any kid caught taking drugs. And do hair tests to make sure they're caught.
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by hugh4 11y ago
>In 1989-1996 studies done showed that kids involved in the D.A.R.E. program take 3-5% more drugs than kids not in the D.A.R.E. program. Are DARE programs more likely to be targeted at kids in higher-risk groups?
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by hugh4 11y ago
How about instead we start to question our city-centric culture? It's no problem getting around by car in a town of ten thousand, or even sixty thousand. But in a city of six million, transport is inevitably going to be a huge issue. T
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by hugh4 11y ago
> It's not a wealth transfer, it's just internalizing some externalities I'm wary of that argument, it can be used to justify just about anything. It's all too easy to selectively internalise a politically unimportant
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by hugh4 11y ago
Does this whole article count? Does it say anything fundamentally new or is it just a Sanders puff piece (of the type that his followers are currently spamming to every darn social news site in existence) which just happens to have a vague
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by hugh4 11y ago
When I left the country I didn't cancel Comcast, I just closed the account that it was auto- deducted from. Let's hope I never need a US credit rating for anything.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Alternatively, the royals will just loot the sovereign wealth fund and flee the country. Sovereign wealth funds in third-world countries don't tend to last long. Nauru would still be one if the richest countries on Earth except that th
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by hugh4 11y ago
While it sounds like a whole lot of fun, I'm not sure it would teach much about English or mathematics.
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by hugh4 11y ago
But there's a BUY degree of A mixing that they NEW can't cope with AUDI surely.
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by hugh4 11y ago
When I get upset about low-quality media, I just remember it's not intended for me. In Brave New World, did the alphas and betas spend their time complaining about the terrible dumb entertainment produced for the deltas and epsilons? N
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by hugh4 11y ago
Good old fashioned mad science. I can dig it.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Which makes it tempting to spend some money buying a few acres of land somewhere and hold it for a few decades in the hopes that a city will rebuild itself nearby. I guess people are already doing this?
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by hugh4 11y ago
I once read an NSA employee manual which talked about how you should talk about your work. It said you should be truthful without making it sound exciting or mysterious. If asked "where do you work" you say "the department of

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