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by hx87 10y ago
It's not just the money, it's the time. Lexus wants me to wait two days to special order navigation software for my car. Which leads to the question: why the hell do I need to wait 2 days for software in 2016?
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by hx87 10y ago
I've always wondered why it took manufacturers so long to put in a 3.5mm jack into head units--it would have saved us a lot of awful tape adapters in the 90s and CD changer emulators in the 2000s.
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by hx87 10y ago
AFAIK, that's a restriction on the driver, not the car, so if anything happens as a result of access while moving, it's the responsibility of the driver.
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by hx87 10y ago
What exactly is wrong with questioning the "authenticity" of a poll based on its methodology?
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by hx87 10y ago
That's because taxing "work" is a silly idea when most work is done by machines and/or cheap foreigners. In the former case you tax wealth/production, and in the latter you tax imports.
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by hx87 10y ago
> And here is the bait the switch. Now the protesters are no longer law abiding. You mean bait & switch. It isn't--in many cases marches and protests are lawful even if they block roads. If they aren't, use muscle, batons,
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by hx87 10y ago
Thanks for the background info, and I think you have a good point about carrying capacity degradation. I don't think "degradation" is a single variable though--it's a trade off current well-being, future well-being, and
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by hx87 10y ago
A protest is an organized expression of dissatisfaction, not anarchy--they're obeying the law as much as everyone else. If I'm inconvenienced, that's fine--there are ways to get around it, and it's a cost I'd gladly
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by hx87 10y ago
UBIs are presumably funded by taxes though, which take at least as much money out of circulation as it puts back in. Given the prevailing climate of weak consumption and overinvestment/savings glut that's likely to continue as lon
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by hx87 10y ago
Japan's problems are more due to refusing to risk short-term social disharmony in exchange for long term socioeconomic benefits.
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by hx87 10y ago
And in most cases, communism just changes who the 1% are and leaves the distribution unchanged.
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by hx87 10y ago
3% is a pretty low number for productivity gains during a span of time when 60% of the existing workforce retires. As little as 24% increase in productivity, or 8 years of 3% annual increases, is enough to have a gain in your example.
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by hx87 10y ago
That 800 year extrapolation assumes that humans won't have access to genomic modification though, which is unlikely. In any case, the number of kids one has is highly culturally and environmentally dependent--the same people whose grea
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by hx87 10y ago
Don't forget Carl Bosch! Everyone forgets Bosch for some reason. You can't just have chemist discover a process, you need a chemical engineer to make it work on an industrial scale.
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by hx87 10y ago
A couple of questions about your numbers: > was estimated to be around 2 billion By whom? A source would be nice, which is why I generally refrain from using passive tense when stating facts. > Also given that population growth was no
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by hx87 10y ago
Scarcity of reliably arable land combined with extreme disease burdens probably have something to do with that.
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by hx87 10y ago
In this case we're making the person actually responsible (i.e. in control of the door) legally responsible. Not going to be a disaster by any means.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Riding a slow bicycle and stopping at every intersection is incredibly unsafe in many American cities. I don't think blowing through red lights at or near full speed is any safer. Come on, at least do a California roll.
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by hx87 10y ago
Ah, I see what you're saying--the good old forward kick from standstill.
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by hx87 10y ago
Grandma doesn't want to fight new construction because she wants to "protect her investment". If she actually wanted to maximize the value of her property she would take out a home equity loan, demolish her house, build an ap
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by hx87 10y ago
It's basically anyone whose job is non-routine and requires significant amounts of independent decision making.
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by hx87 10y ago
If nothing else, mutually assured destruction.
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by hx87 10y ago
The diagram in that article underestimates the viewing angle of the various mirrors in the car--my rear view mirror has far more than 90 degrees FOV, and when my side view mirrors are adjusted the "new" way I am just barely unable
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by hx87 10y ago
Don't you still have to pedal forward in order for the chainset to actuate the gear change?
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by hx87 10y ago
Right, because the passenger in a cab is never responsible for their actions.
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by hx87 10y ago
Perhaps the feature could be overriden by a strong jolt (~100 N*s or so) so it would open normally if you gave it a shove.
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by hx87 10y ago
Even if the benefits are small, the costs are...what, exactly?
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by hx87 10y ago
You would think it would be the opposite though--if driving were such an essential portion of our live, we would put much more practice and attention to it, not less.
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by hx87 10y ago
> drive around the block for a half hour looking for parking That would be a dumb thing to do, unless you value your time very little. Why not just park in the nearest garage?
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by hx87 10y ago
> I've heard urban planners (in lectures) say that when there is not a row of parked cars between a street and the sidewalk, people are much less likely to walk and spend time there. Have they considered replacing the parking lane w

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