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by magduf 7y ago
>Offering reasonable alternatives is impossible? The way it is now (with the sprawl that we currently have), yes, due to physics. You can't change physics. There just isn't any way to make a bus a viable transit alternative i
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by magduf 7y ago
>I do believe that any real solution would have to provide reasonable alternatives for people who do not meet the requirements. Sorry, but that's completely impossible. You simply cannot have a spread-out, car-based society with &q
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by magduf 7y ago
>With that said, let's say I specifically name "Chase". Are you going to cancel your existing Chase bank account or credit card upon hearing this? Well put it this way: if you specifically name "Chase", I'm
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by magduf 7y ago
We're not talking about news or content sites here, we're talking about bill-paying sites. People should be able to pay their utility bills with whatever browser they want, without being tracked. The argument over free content v
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by magduf 7y ago
>In the past month about 3 of my credit card sites stopped working on FFF, as well as my ISP's site. Which sites are these? When you make claims like this, you should specifically name the businesses that do this, so the rest of us
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by magduf 7y ago
Let me google that for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=yellow+lights+shorten+contra... https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/red-light-camera-controve... "The contracts in place with red-light c
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by magduf 7y ago
>requiring licenses for engineers makes sense. It should be required for actually implementing changes, though, not just talking about them. In civil engineering, some engineer on the project (usually the head engineer) has to be license
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by magduf 7y ago
As I've said before, I think traffic engineering is probably the most intellectually dishonest profession there is, at least in America.
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by magduf 7y ago
>That doesn't seem true, France for example He meant jurisdictions in America. Local governments here are infamous for shortening yellow lights. The companies that make automated cameras even have it in their contracts that the ci
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by magduf 7y ago
>sadly we live in a society that caters to the lowest common denominator rather than demanding and rewarding excellence You can't demand and reward excellence with car driving, because by assuming that people are all highly competen
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by magduf 7y ago
Humans kinda need sunlight to generate enough vitamin D. So if you live in a cave, that's not going to be good for you either. But sunlight causes cancer too, so what should you do? I think it should be pretty obvious that we can&#x2
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by magduf 7y ago
Cigarette smoking has fallen a LOT in the US in the past few decades, though there does seem to be a resurgence lately with "vaping". Pollution is lower too (again, in the US): cars used to pollute a LOT more. Smog used to be far
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by magduf 7y ago
No, because you're only exposed to radiation if you actually use a phone. Google for "inverse square law". Your exposure is orders of magnitude lower from "second-hand cellphones" than from using it yourself; it&#
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by magduf 7y ago
Well if your culture is so utterly broken that you feel the need to "chaperone" your children everywhere, then maybe you need to fix your broken culture. Japan and Western Europe both show that you don't need cars the way yo
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by magduf 7y ago
Exactly. Horror stories abound for workers at startups who were promised high compensation after the company succeeded, but instead were totally shafted when management figured out some way to make the employees' shares worthless.
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by magduf 7y ago
>We talk about Rock stars, not Rock Bands or Orchestras. We do? Who's "we"? As a metal fan, when I talk about music with other metal fans, we're talking about bands, not rock stars. And for all the other people who
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by magduf 7y ago
Nope, when I was using 1.44MB floppies, they were extremely reliable. However, after most people had moved on, when I did use more recently-manufactured ones, they were indeed terrible. My theory is that, when Zip disks and CD-Rs took over
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by magduf 7y ago
Don't be ridiculous. Our nuclear missile launch systems need to be redeveloped with Rapid Agile methodology, and using all the latest Javascript frameworks, MongoDB databases, Kubernetes microservices, and a great web interface that c
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by magduf 7y ago
>It is OK for Google, they can donate to whoever they want to. The issue is if they are going to be an partisan actor they control too much information and have too much influence on how people gather information. If they can donate to w
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by magduf 7y ago
It would be totally hypocritical for the right wing to break up Google. The Democrats tried that with Microsoft back in the late 90s, and as soon as Bush took office the case was dropped because Republicans don't believe in enforcing
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by magduf 7y ago
I honestly don't see the problem with Google using its position to affect peoples' viewpoints. If we're going to allow other industries (such as energy) to hire lobbyists or advertisers to change peoples' viewpoints, an
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by magduf 7y ago
Exactly. Criticisms about Google's politicking are unjustified as long as lobbyists are allowed in other industries.
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by magduf 7y ago
All good things...
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm liberal, and lots of the unsolicited Democrat emails go to my spam folder.
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by magduf 7y ago
Maybe we could try not making things cost 5 times as much as over in Europe? Seriously; (western) Europe isn't exactly known as a cheap-labor place, and is generally regarded as having a lot of bureaucracy and high taxes, according to
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by magduf 7y ago
If Fiddletown, California were forced to pay for its own road construction and upkeep, instead of getting free money from the state or federal government, they'd have to massively raise their taxes, and the town would become a ghost to
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by magduf 7y ago
>then wait another 10 to 15 minutes for a train to show up You seem to be assuming that every country has train systems as horrible as America's. >and all assuming a fairly efficient public transportation system No, you're n
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by magduf 7y ago
> The Netherlands and Denmark are totally different animals. They build their bike infrastructure for decades and never adopted a car culture. That's not true at all; Netherlands was more of a car culture several decades ago, and ha
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by magduf 7y ago
>• The most obvious: People who need to be chaperoned: children, the elderly and people with disabilities. Children don't need to be chaperoned. In Japan, children as young as 4 go on errands to the local store to buy things for th
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by magduf 7y ago
>If the city planners do their jobs competently That's expecting way, way too much in America.

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