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by mayneack 6y ago
I think Matt Stoller makes some good points on this sort of topic. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-cant-america-handle-t... https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-new-york-city-is-on-t...
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by mayneack 6y ago
This puts the IFR of the worst flu in recent history (2009 H1N1) at 0.03% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic#Compar...
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by mayneack 6y ago
The subsidies mentioned are federal transportation (highway) spending. Without that (or even better with it redirected into mass transit) the prospect of commuting into the city by car becomes a lot less economical.
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by mayneack 6y ago
I don't know about SV specifically, but a majority of the homeless in LA County have been here for more than 10 years and weren't homeless when they arrived. Seems like the rising cost of housing is one of the causes of homelessne
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by mayneack 6y ago
I wonder if he's at the geographic center of his city or postcode. Sometimes a geocoding service will default to the center of an area if the address isn't precise enough or if it's using IP address based geocoding. It doesn&
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by mayneack 6y ago
Seems like it just refers to (but doesn't link to) https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/states-lean-toward-pushing-t...
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by mayneack 6y ago
Does it say that they're storing messages? The examples are all the metadata "Signal provides private groups, private contact discovery, private profiles, etc". I interpreted this as saying that my groups and contacts are syn
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by mayneack 6y ago
Some do. I pay to remove ads from the wunderground app which IBM claims means they don't sell my data. Not sure if believe them, but at least I don't see ads. https://i.imgur.com/TlOo07T.png
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by mayneack 6y ago
Here in Los Angeles, crime is actually down. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/us/los-angeles-coronavirus-cr...
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by mayneack 6y ago
Who are the "best" of the Silicon Valley billionaires that they should be compared to?
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by mayneack 6y ago
Code intended to be closed and released unexpectedly seems like the worst of both worlds though.
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by mayneack 6y ago
This whole thread is about California's roadmap. LA County is something like 25% of the state. Why stop at the USA? With people moving between places, outbreaks anywhere will matter until there's a reasonable vaccine/treatmen
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by mayneack 7y ago
Are they scarce everywhere? I was under the impression that LA county, at least, could test everyone that was symptomatic.
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by mayneack 7y ago
It looks like they're being sent home, not given sick leave. Amazon can absolutely afford paid sick leave for people they deem unfit for work.
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by mayneack 7y ago
Both of the instacart orders I've gotten since LA shut down did both parts.
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by mayneack 7y ago
They're also spending half their time in grocery stores.
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by mayneack 7y ago
It's way too early to assume that the current pandemic will cause such drastic changes to society. Even if it turns out to be close to the damage as the 1918 flu, that was still more than 100 years ago. My guess is that the rise in rem
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by mayneack 7y ago
For a long time I used what.cd to find digital copies of most of my Dad's record collection of 60s-80s folk music. A few of them we even managed to ship to users to create high quality rips of. Sadly it got shut down and the replacemen
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by mayneack 7y ago
At the moment, most tests are certainly being done in less than BSL4, there aren't that many of them. https://www.liquisearch.com/biosafety_level/list_of_bsl-4_fa...
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by mayneack 7y ago
My guess: non trivial to do it safely and non trivial to get accuracy rates you'd get from a professional lab. Doing all those things by hand also takes some time. Thinking back to my days in a lab at MIT, sample to PCR probably took a
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by mayneack 7y ago
> 2. They can reject a passenger when the call comes in I think they are penalized for doing so. They have to accept a certain percentage.
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by mayneack 7y ago
YMMV and all, but I've had a similar experience with just adaptive cruise control for long drives. Driving the 7 hours from LA to Utah became pretty easy to do without having to break/speed up every few minutes with normal traffic
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by mayneack 7y ago
If you know of initiatives you care about (like SB 50 for example), look for groups pushing that. If you're on twitter, the twitter networks usually bridge cities. I follow a lot of LA area YIMBY groups, but get some cross pollination
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by mayneack 7y ago
If Trump is really the only thing giving the contract to Microsoft, rebidding might land in 2021 at which point there's some chance Trump isn't in a position to exert influence.
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by mayneack 7y ago
That makes you quite an outlier. 95% of trips are < 5 miles https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips I don't think we should optimize our cities for that.
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by mayneack 7y ago
My route (704 along santa monica blvd on the west side) has a mix of shaded or uncovered stops. That bus is pretty reliably tracked by google maps and other transit apps. I get delayed less than once a month. They're actually about to
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by mayneack 7y ago
40 miles is a pretty long commute. A modern city shouldn't be optimized to make that experience the norm. Most trips are much shorter.
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It's obviously hard to tell by looking in windows, but there's plenty of poor and/or disabled people riding the bus and already dealing with the problems you think removing cars would give them.
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To some degree this is a zero sum game. Bus lanes are pretty magical in that they make the buses faster than the cars and reduce road capacity to reduce induced demand. Plus they're cheap because the infrastructure is just paint.
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by mayneack 7y ago
I live in West LA and have been commuting by bus for the last year after ditching my car. I think it's actually been a significant improvement to my life as it's a lot less stressful to sit in a bus for an extra 10 minutes rather

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