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841.
by rdl 8y ago
A fun experiment would be to take a bus line with 20 buses and rather than a uniform $2 fare, do identical buses with a each bus charging one of $0, $1, $5, $10, $50 fares. (Maybe also experiment with something other than just farebox fare
842.
by rdl 8y ago
Amsterdam is not really what I’d consider ideal for transit (there is the walkable tourist area (with trams and for locals, bikes) and then a larger area around it with a fairly frustrating train system and great roads. Outside of the core
843.
by rdl 8y ago
The public “express buses” seem to have most of the same problems. This is possibly due to inflexibility in how/where they are deployed, or riders, or other factors.
844.
by rdl 8y ago
Absolutely. What I don’t know is if the problem is a small number of very bad actors who could probably be blacklisted, or the average “co-rider tolerability” of a larger number of people (such that it would require a whitelist).
845.
by rdl 8y ago
The challenge here is riding the bus is inferior in convenience and comfort, fundamentally, vs other options. Unless price (likely by eliminating any subsidies for other methods; today even a $0 bus fare would still not be enough) or other
846.
by rdl 8y ago
They had oil and diamonds. I don't think lack of foreign currency in those amounts ever really limited what Soviet intelligence could do. What has always amazed me is how trivially cheaply most treason is paid for; it's almost al
847.
by rdl 8y ago
We assumed they read a bunch of our lower tier codes, and the Germans (specifically Deutsche Afrika Korps) completely dominated in radio direction finding and traffic analysis, which was in many ways more important than decrypts (and largel
848.
by rdl 8y ago
Tesla is doing more innovation than the median tech company, and probably more than the 95th percentile. Plus, it's a consumer-understandable product, so you could "explain what you do at a dinner party" to someone outside o
849.
by rdl 8y ago
Tesla seems like a company where people would place a premium on being a direct employee, vs. another organization. I'd certainly feel more 'pride' in saying "I work for Tesla" than "I work for X" for alm
850.
by rdl 8y ago
The question I'd have would be should there be: 1) direct democratic participation in those authorities (elected by the residents of the area), or 2) should they be selected by the subsidiary jurisdictions (counties/cities), 3)
851.
by rdl 8y ago
California is too big to do state-level regulation. For Bay Area homes this is pretty insignificant and possibly positive (sometimes regulation might be more efficient), but adding $20-30k to houses in less-expensive parts of the state is c
852.
by rdl 8y ago
Valve (presumably the company you're talking about) is sitting on a money faucet, and while they seem to be good at some things, they're pretty bad at a lot of software/services features which a more traditional management st
853.
by rdl 8y ago
That's a netflix-wide thing, not specific to that manager.
854.
by rdl 8y ago
Why don’t vigilantes solve this, assuming the State refuses to do so? It would certainly be cheaper to redirect some of the passive and defensive security expenditure to intelligence and targeted killing.
855.
by rdl 8y ago
Baggage handlers at airports pull bags off the belts and put them in a line nearby (and sometimes give them to passengers) when there's a need to clear the belt, or when they don't have other work to do (at some airports). This i
856.
by rdl 8y ago
"Forced out before receiving compensation" just means it was done quickly; it doesn't necessarily (or even likely) mean they weren't paid. Not paying would lead to far higher risk of security compromise for the site (fr
857.
by rdl 8y ago
Solar City is 'done', does that include the Powerwall?
858.
by rdl 9y ago
I think the real question is: should they have shut down in Summer 2017 when it was clear the $50/mo model didn't work, or should they have tried this. (If they knew of a better business alternative, they would have done that.)
859.
by rdl 9y ago
It would have been cool if they'd lowered the cool-down to 20h if you upload, or something else like that.
860.
by rdl 9y ago
I’m fine with fraud detection like this, but probably 90% of my ordering is a credit card, through a VPN, or sometimes from a foreign country, shipped to a freight forwarder, with a VOIP PSTN number. There have to be ways to get around thi
861.
by rdl 9y ago
Murderer in my family, probably not, but what if it is "drug crime in my own family" or the more likely "expensive medical disorder which will preclude insurance, employment, dating, etc.". It's still data being use
862.
by rdl 9y ago
I'm surprised they are being so public about this (they could have downplayed it, even if they didn't go full parallel construction.) This will potentially cause people to be less willing to use sites like this, and this could hav
863.
by rdl 9y ago
I have a loaded late-2013; it feels weird that I can have basically any laptop in the world that I want, but there's such marginal improvement in 2015 vs. 2013, and actual regression from 2015 to 2018, that my mac is almost 5 years old
864.
by rdl 9y ago
Reading the Editors' picks there vs. the Readers' picks is amusing. I could probably do without Ulysses or The Great Gatsby from the Editors list, but 4x Ayn Rand, 3x L. Ron Hubbard? 1984 is probably the only truly great book on
865.
by rdl 9y ago
Architecturally that looks a lot like the Berlin holocaust memorial.
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by rdl 9y ago
There are some facilities which already post basically accurate prices online: https://surgerycenterok.com/ is a great example. If I needed some kind of elective or non-emergency procedure, they would be high on my list (al
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by rdl 9y ago
Great for houses that you own, doesn't work as well for apartment/condo if you don't get the building itself to just put package lockers in the lobby. My dream configuration is a guardhouse/lobby or something with packag
868.
by rdl 9y ago
Opening my car concerns me less for privacy and in basically every way than opening my home. I'd make sure any firearms were in truckvaults, but while it's possible the Amazon guy would steal the trauma bag out of the trunk, it s
869.
by rdl 9y ago
This is my favorite perk of working at a company. The only thing that sort of sucks is when you buy some items for personal use, some for the business, and some for personal-use-at-office, all from the same vendors, and need to disintermin
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by rdl 9y ago
I assume you mean “donor deceased”. Even if I were dead I would not necessarily want people using my DNA to father children. I wouldn’t necessarily be against it, either, but I would feel I had some interest in how sperm were used in a diff

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