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by lev99 8y ago
To me it sounds like him saying the risk is higher than most investors are willing to accept. I also hold a wildly different interruption of the saying "I didn't make this one for the critics."
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by lev99 8y ago
50M looks an awful like the total tourist numbers reported in this article[0]. I still hold the view that less than half of registered voters have been to time square. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/nyr
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by lev99 8y ago
I will agree that 3 incidents over 5 years is closer to the normal.
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by lev99 8y ago
Yeah, but spoofing GPS is possible. The black box insurance gadgets typically wire directly into a car, so it'll be harder send fake data from that pipeline, but totally possible. The benefit would come from smoothing extremes. Lie a
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by lev99 8y ago
3 incidents per year at 20miles/day is higher than the statistical average. Are you biking in a way to increase the likelihood of an incident, biking in an area that is less safe than the average bike ride, or did you just have an unl
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by lev99 8y ago
It really depends on the publication's target audiance. For the less technical reader an estimated power output converted to "households" is a good unit of measurement. I think maximum capacity in Gigawatts works well for C
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by lev99 8y ago
My understanding is that the high voltage transmissions have little resistance, and that the biggest problems with a national grid is not transmission loses but the cost of building thousands and thousands of miles of high voltage electrica
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by lev99 8y ago
> most people have been to Times Square A lot of people have been to Times Square, but I doubt most United States voters have.
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by lev99 8y ago
That sounds like a GPL loophole to me. It would be much easier to extend and replace if someone could turn off the condition " You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from
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by lev99 8y ago
Did I miss what conditions must exist for naturally occurring mixed income neighborhoods?
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by lev99 8y ago
States do get into law suites with each other from time to time. The issue has to be about federal law. Nebraska and Oklahoma vs Colorado was recently declined to be heard by the Supreme Court.
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by lev99 8y ago
We can always do more for safety. How would you strike the balance between public safety and too many regulations? The 2010 515,000 bicycle related injuries required ER attention, [0] so the problem is significant enough in size to merit p
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by lev99 8y ago
I'm sure the New York Times has a vested interest in keeping New York the economic powerhouse of the United States and this article directly attacks San Fransisco's best option for economic growth. There are entire careers dedicat
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by lev99 8y ago
> equivalent to saying bike-sharing should be banned Yeah, I said this in my root comment. I hope the city I live in bans bike shares like SF did. I addressed more issues than the helmet there too. Edit: Reasons why I don't like b
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by lev99 8y ago
People make poor decisions all the time. We can create policies that nudge people into making better decisions. We should do this because it makes society better. Yes, I think the decision to ride a bicycle with a helmet in an American u
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by lev99 8y ago
> doing enough "independent" studies until you like the result, then report that one study only This happens not only in which studies get submitted to the public, but also which submitted studies get chosen for publication. Jo
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by lev99 8y ago
Bike share companies do not fit with helmets, and they choose to do business. I interpret this to mean bike share companies do not care about the safety of their customers.
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by lev99 8y ago
In 2015 there were almost 467,000 bicycle injuries in the United States. This is a direct quote from the CDC regarding bicycles and helmets: "Bicycle helmets reduce the risk of head and brain injuries in the event of a crash." [0
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by lev99 8y ago
I hope Seattle follows SF's example, as unlikely as that is in the local climate. Seattle's current adoption of bike sharing is, in large part, an effort to reduce carbon emissions and too make more use of our roads. I am 100% fo
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by lev99 8y ago
It's often a distraction in the classroom, but it's also a very valuable tool for studying. It seems really reasonable to have laptops off during instruction periods, have them on for some labs, and use them to help with homework.
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by lev99 8y ago
> A laptop is the worst tool you can use for studying. A laptop is a great tool for studying. Word Processing makes editing papers much easier than the old markup and rewrite method. The web makes researching topics and cross referenci
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by lev99 8y ago
I think it's very poor idea to own stock in your employer. This famously is highlighted by Enron encouraging it's employers to invest their retirement account disproportionately in enron stock. The employees that did lost their
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by lev99 8y ago
I suspect many buyers in the United States are not skilled at determining counterfeits. Sometimes this is obvious, but other times the symptoms are masked as something else. When an electronic item is defective, when an item you buy reoccur
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by lev99 8y ago
I think "super high density" is probably hyperbolic. As density increases shared airwaves become more crowded and wired infrastructure becomes cheaper to operate. I can see wired internet being competitive for a long time. Even
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by lev99 8y ago
I think you'll find enough highly skilled baby sitters in the provinces living there for personal reasons. McDonald's shouldn't have any problem finding someone in a city of 50,000 to watch their burger flipping robots machi
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by lev99 8y ago
I think there are three forces discussed here. Automation (removing work). Decreased cost good (reduced labor costs). Increased wealth (those with it spend more on goods and services). Automation's effects on the economy larger depe
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by lev99 9y ago
$3k/month, free office space, and great support from Dark. It's a good deal if Dark is a good platform to use.
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by lev99 9y ago
I've watched people go up the hills on e-bikes. It looks easy enough.
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by lev99 9y ago
Every biker in every North American city has stories about clueless drivers and close encounters, if not full impacts. Seattle is probably in the top 5 cities for driver awareness, but it has room for improvement.
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by lev99 9y ago
For most trips in Seattle more than half a mile and less than 5 miles in distance biking is the fastest way to travel. It stays competitive for east-west travel and places without mandatory parking minimums for longer distances.

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