quantumwannabe

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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
Yes, they unironically are 15 minute cities. A typical suburbanite will never have to spend more than 15 minutes traveling for a routine errand. Just because you don’t like how they do it doesn’t mean that they don’t do it.
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Under a fair weight tax scheme, a passenger of a fully loaded bus would pay more than a solo driver of a Hummer EV (one of the heaviest SUVs on the market). Some data on bus weights [1]: Transit Bus Typ
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The Climate Model: Behind the Scenes(spaceengine.org)
2 points by quantumwannabe 3y ago|1 comments
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
The current "iPhone" is a low-cost parts bin model that was first introduced as the iPhone 5C. The current iPhone should be compared to phones in that family (5C, XR, SE, 8, and 11-15), not to the actual iPhone family (Original, 3
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
You're clearly not very well traveled if you think that the east coast is a bastion of intellectualism while the rest of the country is innumerate. The struggling student interviewed in the article lives on the east coast!
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
They drive more conservatively than the most conservative human driver, mainly because they don’t try at all to cooperate with other vehicles. It’s clearly due to technical reasons, not because they’re being more safe. For example, if they
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
Today it's a lagoon and a field so it's even more of a waste of space.
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
The hilarious thing is that when TSMC was founded they had to train EVERYONE . Taiwan had zero chip fabrication talent. All of the specialists at the time, even the founder of TSMC, were in the US. For them to complain that it's imp
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
In the description, they say they charge extra fees: ******* ▶ Mandatory fees You’ll be asked to pay the following charges at check-in or check-out: • A damage deposit of $350 will be collected by credit card. You should be reimbursed withi
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
Flashpoint [1] is a similar program that lets you download and play practically every flash game. [1] https://flashpointarchive.org/
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
You're making the same mistake as the author. What matters is how many people a lane can move in a given amount of time, not how large each burst of people is. We stop at 20 cars in 10 minutes because that's the equivalent of the
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
The bus and the 20 AVs have the same throughput (40 passengers in 10 minutes). While the AVs take up more physical space than the bus, they require the same amount of road space to transport the same number of passengers in the same amount
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
The author forgot about time. 20 small self-driving vehicles that come every 30 seconds uses no more road space than a 40-person bus that comes every 10 minutes. Musk's self-driving taxi idea also isn't new. It's essentially
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
Also, it’s not like demand for retail businesses has declined. Businesses near where people live are booming.
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by quantumwannabe 3y ago
Remember that a 4000 sq ft house without a basement (common in the South) has around the same interior square footage as a 2000 sq ft house with a basement (common in the North). The Southerner's house looks a lot larger from the stree
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
What are you talking about? There are plenty of €100+ per person fine dining restaurants in Milan while the average sit down restaurant in the US charges around $20-30 per person. Whatever restaurant you went to wasn’t fine dining or you ar
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
The only things on your list that you can't get in every other city with more than a couple hundred thousand people is specific museums, seeing Broadway shows immediately upon release, and ultra-high end restaurants. I wouldn't br
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
What? Most countries support an International Driving Permit [1] which allows you to drive there on a tourist visa if you're licensed to drive in your home country. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_D
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
The best option would be for them to identify as mixed race.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
That's because Texas diverts a large percentage of the gas tax to the school system.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Your numbers are an order of magnitude off. No suburban (not rural) American has to drive more than a mile or two to a grocery store, and if they commute by car, there are likely several on their route. They also can drive to far more store
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
No, China has not been a country for longer than European civilization. That CCP propaganda claim is the equivalent of saying that the European Union has been around for 8000 years because Plovdiv, Bulgaria was founded in the 6th Millennium
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Your post has an enormous aroma of patriotism. Where were you when Taiwan was subsidizing TSMC? They were only able to outcompete Western fabs due to the enormous amount of government help they got in the early days. Those Taiwanese leaders
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Apple has threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store – Elon Musk(twitter.com)
12 points by quantumwannabe 4y ago|6 comments
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
You should read the replies to that tweet: https://twitter.com/keccers/status/1596324554095595521 https://twitter.com/robinkunde/status/1596325433653559298 It is very common for American
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
The founders of the Effective Altruism movement are mostly non-technical people. You can't blame their arrogance and failures on the "techbros". The people mentioned on the Effective Altruism Wikipedia page: Peter Singer: Pro
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Monero is the only cryptocurrency I’ve seen that tries to actually be a currency instead of an investment vehicle. Unfortunately, it’s still too volatile to keep any money in.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
My favorite quote from the article: “FTX did need money, after all. And it needed that money from credible sources so it could continue to distinguish itself from the bottom-feeders who came to crypto to fleece the suckers.”
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Another archive: https://archive.ph/Yg64e
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
I wonder if SBF became one of the largest political donors in the country, not for altruistic reasons like he claims, but for protection from the SEC.

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