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by jellicle 8y ago
Bike lanes are incredibly efficient compared to automobile lanes. https://www.cycling-embassy.org.uk/dictionary/capacity
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by jellicle 8y ago
Well, "everyone" accepts that we "need" to give lots of money to the richest citizens to stave off market collapses, so it doesn't seem like a very big leap to give money to poor citizens as well. But somehow it&#x
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by jellicle 8y ago
This article, which boils down to "if the data seems unlikely from what we know beforehand, throw it the hell out and never look at it again", is the exact opposite of what scientists are taught, and what they are taught - not thi
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by jellicle 8y ago
It would be good to have a set of demo applications that do something that can't be done by competitors. I read the website and I don't really get it. If I give an app read access to my data, they've got a copy. Maybe they do
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by jellicle 8y ago
The story is literally about nothing except the airline learning something that it doesn't already know.
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by jellicle 8y ago
Credit cards will never disappear as long as they offer the ability to chargeback if the goods are unsatisfactory, and competing systems do not offer that.
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by jellicle 8y ago
> Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible {Looks at unrepairable phone} {Looks at unrepairable laptop} {Looks at cord with no strain relief} I don't believe you.
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by jellicle 8y ago
> vested interest in the problem not being solved That's why surgeons always leave a little cancerous tissue, to maximize their chances of getting paid to do another operation. (Since HN probably won't get that: it's a sat
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by jellicle 8y ago
The military technique for falling asleep at any available time is pretty easy. Do you want to hear it? I won't even charge you. Here you go: Do lots of hard physical labor, and get inadequate sleep at night. I know this is crazy, b
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by jellicle 8y ago
Seems like the data shows the cash crackdown was a great success, but there are some powerful people with a financial interest in presenting it as a failure so that other countries don't get any bright ideas.
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by jellicle 8y ago
You need to have good, immediate abuse-banning tools. So if Wil Wheaton says "look at my new movie" and you get 60 abuse reports about it, there should be an one-click tool that says "Everyone who reported this as abuse gets
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by jellicle 8y ago
If I target my ads to left-handed Hungarian mimes, and someone clicks on that ad and comes to my site, what do I know about that person? What user data has Google told me about them? I provided money to Google. Google provided [people, or
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by jellicle 8y ago
That's right. It's an instantaneous rate. The instantaneous rate is constantly increasing. It's not a forecast. What's hard to understand about this?
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by jellicle 8y ago
Copyright should probably be about 5 years long, total, non-extendable. This achieves 95% of the asserted benefits of the existing copyright system and gets rid of 99% of the problems. The boost to national innovation would be tremendous.
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by jellicle 8y ago
> They put Miami's expected sea level rise at 0 to 1 feet over the next century That's a false description of what NOAA says. The sea level trend is an instantaneous rate, not a projection of any sort.
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by jellicle 8y ago
The rate of increase is increasing. http://www.southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/wp-content/upl...
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by jellicle 8y ago
> If you come at this from the angle of "climate change is a myth" Is it really a fair critique to insist that articles must be written to make sense to people who believe the moon is made of green cheese? And that every coupl
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by jellicle 8y ago
Sigh. No, he's wrong, and you are too. If you come up to a Border Patrol checkpoint at the border or within 100 miles of the border, the Border Patrol can search your car and all your personal belongings. They can seize anything tha
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by jellicle 8y ago
Has Google (or any other company) ever said "we are programming our cars to follow the letter of the law"? I don't believe so. This seems to be something that programmers and lazy reporters have inferred to be true, without
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by jellicle 8y ago
> need probable cause Not according to the Supreme Court, no.
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by jellicle 8y ago
It's a couple hundred meters from the western border of the USA. Which as a thought experiment shows that the 100 miles is not the real problem; a great deal of hassle can occur even if checks were limited to a single mile from the bor
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by jellicle 8y ago
But it is. The town is allocated cheap electricity from Niagara Falls, and until recently, did not use its full quota.
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by jellicle 8y ago
An Inconvenient Truth - which was released in 2006 - does not say anything like your supposed quote. Don't lie.
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by jellicle 8y ago
No scientist is predicting that "all plant matter will catch on fire". In fact I've never heard anyone predict that. If we do nothing, within the next 80 years large parts of the currently inhabited planet will be uninhabita
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by jellicle 8y ago
Your plan includes banning personal car ownership? If it doesn't, then how do you plan to reduce it?
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by jellicle 8y ago
No one in this thread can imagine getting rid of their personal vehicle; each and every one thinks that everyone else is going to get rid of THEIR personal vehicle, freeing ME to drive fast anywhere with no traffic. It's some kind of n
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by jellicle 8y ago
Not only "doesn't really solve", but "makes vastly worse".
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by jellicle 8y ago
Because that's always what happens when you make something better: people use less of it. What?
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by jellicle 8y ago
Are there any instances of this happening, ever? > Yes, the existence of less expensive high-density housing in a neighborhood puts downward pressure on the price of single-family homes. That's false. If land can be redeveloped into
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by jellicle 8y ago
Well, okay. Right. I agree. I just don't want people reinforcing the meme that "justice is always slow and expensive and that's why businesses want arbitration" when the real reason is "courts are too fair and th

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