quantumwannabe

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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
It doesn’t matter how much you like light rail or how little you care about the estimates being wrong, the project was significantly over budget, delayed several years, and was reduced in scope from what was originally promised to the voter
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
The money spent was more than what the voters approved. Making a new estimate that is much higher and spending less than that isn't coming in "under budget".
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
They’re wrong. The project was delayed several years and was several billion over budget. >The Central Link project was originally planned to open in 2006 and projected to cost $1.9 billion (equivalent to $2.95 billion in 2020 dollars),
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Why don’t you actually look up the religion and ethnicity of those people instead of blindly asserting that they are Protestants and Anglo-Saxons? You haven’t cited a single source showing that the leadership of the Ivy League are WASPs, bu
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That’s an interesting way to phrase cities being subsidized by taxes paid by/on the behalf of suburban commuters.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
According to that review, it's only average for writing and programming due to it being wired and the wrist-rest being an optional addon. I wouldn't consider those things deal-breakers.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Maybe it focuses on Teslas because the quoted official personally witnessed a Tesla burning? https://twitter.com/jimmypatronis/status/1578050503279316992 https://twitter.com/jimmypatronis/stat
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
It literally is done to reduce sexual pleasure. Circumcision was popularized in the US as a way to stop masturbation, which doctors believe was responsible for various social and medical problems. From Wikipedia’s bios on two of the people
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
This appears to be a rebranding (at nearly three times the price) of the Gakken Record Maker (which is still available online for its MSRP of ¥7,980 ($55) [1]). It even comes with a copy of the Gakken magazine! Here's a review of the G
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
A spiritual successor to Second Life with modern graphics and VR support would likely be very successful. Dumbed-down versions like Fortnite Creative and Roblox have been very popular. Zuckerberg won't be the one to build a successful
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Hitler went to prison and came out stronger and more popular. Oppressing him didn't work, but there was a chance that the German people could have been convinced that National Socialism wouldn't improve the economy and restore Ger
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Why should you have the right to vote in a place where you don't live?
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5th Circuit Rejects First Amdt. Challenge to TX Social Media Common Carrier Law(reason.com)
29 points by quantumwannabe 4y ago|5 comments
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Full Opinion Here: https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/NetchoicevPaxt...
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Sounds like KidZania: https://dallas.kidzaniausa.com/ https://g.page/KidZaniaUSA
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
No, you're building an off-campus college dorm for ASU. Calling that development a city is a joke. You have fewer amenities within walking distance than the apartments closer to the campus, which have parking.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Can someone name an example of a city that has gone bankrupt due to infrastructure costs that didn't also lose a large amount of its population or lose key local industries?
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Tim Cook also invested a third of a trillion dollars in China because they did not have the manufacturing capabilities to build the iPhone how Apple wanted at the time of the investment. [1] [1] https://www.businessinsider.com&
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Because schools withhold a large percentage of their spots for "legacy students", a White kid who isn't rich or well-connected is less likely to get into these elite schools than an Asian kid with the same grades. Half of the
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Your idea is actually how car-dependent cities are laid out. Look at a map of Phoenix for a textbook example: the city is laid out on a square mile grid with retail/offices on the grid corners. People may drive to go shopping, but that
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Additionally, the only way to lower emissions from animals is to genocide them. It's not just that they are likely to die if left to their own devices, leaving them to roam freely in nature results in them emitting the exact same amo
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Or people will just have a nuclear tower on their lawn. If it can be buried (or partially buried), the tower need not be taller than the house. With some decorations similar to the ones on cell phone towers, it could even look reasonably at
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New bill aims to make digital ID pervasive in the United States(reclaimthenet.org)
2 points by quantumwannabe 4y ago|1 comments
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
The people who are vocal about those issues and share the perspective that you are implying are not the majority. There are lots of people who take the opposite stance on those issues, and the largest group (larger than both of the passiona
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Not for highways. Those are paid for by gas taxes, and before you bring it up, the only reason the highway trust fund is insolvent is due to diversions to fund transit. Local roads are also funded with property tax money as well as gas tax&
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
You do know that the bridge and tunnel tolls in Manhattan are used to subsidize mass transit? Drivers subsidize transit users in NYC, not the other way around.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
That isn't car centric development, that is urban development in a city that fell into hard times. The whole area in the picture is about one square mile (i.e. it was the dense core of the city), and during boom times it was full of bu
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
The numbers on the GP's page include the value of government benefits. If you exclude the European social benefits, their median disposable income is even lower. >The following table represents data from OECD's "median dis
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You can buy exotic produce online these days, so you can mitigate that if you know what you want.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
No university class teaches modern compilers and the state of the art is in open source projects. If someone is interested in compilers, they don’t need to get a PhD in order to learn. Many major companies that maintain programming language

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