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by jnty 9y ago
This is a disingenuous argument - cars are "full members of the public traffic" and are regularly involved in minor and major collisions with each other. Drivers are rarely killed or seriously injured in these collisions, whereas
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by jnty 9y ago
You seem to assume that there is One True Way of doing things and we're just circling round trying to find it. In fact, as you point out, there are benefits and tradeoffs to every approach. People compile interpreted languages to make
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by jnty 9y ago
Could you explain why - would it make your working life harder, or do you struggle to find things to do outside work?
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by jnty 9y ago
This effect is at the root of homesickness, I think. In my experience you're never really homesick when you're happy - homesickness only happens when you're sad for some reason and you can't separate it from the place&
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by jnty 9y ago
Were you aware that turning right on red is legal in most of the US but chose not to, or did you not know?
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by jnty 9y ago
People write all sorts of nonsense for newspapers and get paid for it. Just because you personally don't value some labour doesn't mean it's not valuable labour.
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by jnty 9y ago
It may have escaped your notice that sidewalks like these don't exist outside of children's playgrounds, yet children successfully use sidewalks safely worldwide. The same can be true of bike tracks - have you not seen any videos
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by jnty 9y ago
So great to read. This is exactly the kind of project the Raspberry Pi was designed to enable - doing something a bit odd (and arguably pointless!) but having fun and learning loads along the way.
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by jnty 9y ago
Do you object to using sidewalks which are also suitable for children to walk on?
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by jnty 9y ago
Sounds like Vancouver is seeing fastest growing number of cycling trips in the world - do you think it's possible your experiences might not have been representative, or is there an effect you believe the stats aren't capturing?
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by jnty 9y ago
I'm hardly an expert, though I'd probably suggest focusing on avoiding the four pitfalls I mentioned. Like any hard process, it involves working hard to achieve gradual improvement, learning from others where appropriate. However,
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by jnty 9y ago
They're not necessarily unbiased or even anonymous (in a meaningful way). The problem which is set might somehow favour applicants from certain backgrounds. The language used might be unnecessarily complex or use local idioms. The comm
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by jnty 9y ago
If you were concerned about someone's wellbeing surely you'd check their page directly?
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by jnty 9y ago
A series of astonishingly poor decisions. Why are they so mystified that the people living there already are so hostile given that they've just strolled into their home?
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by jnty 9y ago
I think they mean all the other content providers, besides Netflix, whose content is on Giphy.
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by jnty 9y ago
Oh never mind, I solved it, thanks! <end of thread>
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by jnty 9y ago
The (vast?) majority of cars on the road at any given time are single-occupant. For mobile phone offences, the proportion probably goes up for the reasons you cite.
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by jnty 9y ago
Disgustingly irresponsible reporting. All this can do is encourage racial discrimination in hiring.
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by jnty 9y ago
Disgustingly irresponsible reporting. All this will do is encourage racial discrimination in hiring.
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by jnty 9y ago
I doubt that that's what you actually think. For example, I doubt you want me to be able to ask the government how much money was spent on impotence medication for you. There's a trade-off to be made regarding personal privacy. Wh
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by jnty 9y ago
What's special about individuals who happen to be employed in the public sector or in receipt of welfare payments that makes it OK to intrude on their privacy in this way?
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by jnty 10y ago
The volume and weight of traffic has changed too - with more and heavier cars, trucks and buses on more roads - and this will have affected some streets more than others. Quiet residential dead-end streets will barely change, while rat runs
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by jnty 10y ago
With mass carsharing, the number of cars should fall so this should be less of a concern. I agree though - if your cities are already gridlocked, this won't make them somehow less gridlocked. You still need mass transit, cycling and wa
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by jnty 10y ago
Other way around surely?
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by jnty 11y ago
Train companies often put "buffer time" in schedules to make up for predictable delays like this one. That could show up as a train being late at one station then suddenly on time at the next. Could that be it?
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by jnty 11y ago
"Our sidewalks are narrow and crowded, will pedestrians just move to the streets?" I hope so. If drvierless cars allow pedestrians to safely reclaim the streets that, as you point out, have marginalized them for so long, then that
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by jnty 11y ago
It's not remotely controversial in Scotland - estates effectively have legal requirements for the numbers of deer they need to shoot each year to keep the population even vaguely under control (in fact, many campaigners complain that e
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by jnty 12y ago
You say this like the car companies aren't developing self-driving technology too. They are - they just don't need or want to shout about it as they don't want to cannibalise the existing market until it's necessary.
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by jnty 12y ago
I imagine the supplier would probably care (and maybe the police too) but as long as I'm paying 25% less it's not really my problem.
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by jnty 12y ago
As long as it's not a hugely noisy in the way it changes within each exchange/source of inventory, you should be able to account for it. Don't forget plenty of other "legitimate" changes happen every day to affect t

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