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811.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Some bus systems actually essentially do this for a fraction of buses.
812.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
It's usually buttons in Europe. The cord things always make me think of train emergency stop cords (though these days those are usually "break glass" buttons).
813.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
I was in SF middle of last year and was on the BART a good bit, and it was... fine? It remains the most objectionably noisy mode of transport I've ever been on, but it didn't feel any less safe than when I've been there previ
814.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
> I have a map from the 50s on my wall and the bus routes are the same, including numbers, as they are today A surprising number of bus routes in Dublin still follow, to a large extent, tram routes laid out in the 1870s. And use the same
815.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Honestly, worry about it if it happens. For every fifty things that the media said was going to change everything, _maybe_ one has.
816.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Anthropic in particular seem to be in a weird place where on the one hand they fund some real research, which is often not all roses and sunshine for them, but on the other hand, like all AI companies, they feel the need to make absurdly ov
817.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
I mean, maybe things have changed (I finished college about 20 years ago), but I don't remember producing large volumes of stuff as being a particularly important part of a CS degree.
818.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Oh, now we care about IP, do we?
819.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
So... wait, more humans are involved in operating these things than an _actual taxi_?
820.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
From the point of view of the manufacturers, the Single Market is, ah, a single market; they only have to get type approval once, and then they can sell anywhere. The only real complicating factor is Ireland and Malta, which drive on the le
821.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
... Bloody hell, he actually said that? I mean, even if he actually believed it, it's a bizarre thing to say; makes him look ridiculous.
822.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
> You are correct that China is the number one market in terms of BEV sales, but the US is number two, selling more than 3-5 combined. This is incorrect, unless you're viewing the US as a single market but the EU as multiple (which,
823.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
> I got marked down for using singular "they" in any writing I did in school in the 1980s. And your teacher would presumably have marked down Shakespeare for the same thing. If it was good enough for Chaucer, Shakespeare, and A
824.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Putin leaves the videotape in his desk drawer another day.
825.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
While support _is_ higher amongst young people, most polling, when asked as a yes/no question, shows majority support in most or all age cohorts for rejoining. For instance: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics&#x
826.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Indeed; it's not 100%. It's actually 96%: https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/americas-own-g...
827.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
The EU has a weighted mean tariff of about 1.3%. Prior to ol' mini-hands, the US had a weighted mean of 2.4%; it now has a weighted mean of about 8% (or, well, did until this ruling, who knows now). China is 2.1%. A couple of countries
828.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
> They could just come up with a new law that is tailor-made and may eventually be approved. Allowing Trump to trash the US economy is one thing, but even a Republican congress may be a little unwilling to actively _do it themselves_. Tr
829.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
> The EU promised to buy lots of LNG and make investments in the USA to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. This was a bald-faced lie on the part of the EU negotiators. Even if the EU wanted to actually do this, they have no pow
830.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
_Just about_. After significant government bailouts. Ultimately, this sort of protectionism tends to be expensive, and yield an inferior product.
831.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Freedom of speech, provided, of course, that it is Correct speech.
832.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Define "a Tesla". VW AG sold about a million BEVs globally last year, a 33% year on year increase. Tesla sold 1.6m globally, a 9% year on year decrease. If those trends continue, VW AG will overtake Tesla in BEV sales in a year or
833.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
The thing about a lot of monarchical powers in the UK is that the monarch gets to keep them, provided of course that they only ever use them as prescribed by the government. As to what happens otherwise, well, Charles III won't want to
834.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
"Then ban medicine as a whole, cherry picking medicines to ban is silly." Like, you don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. _This_ is social media, but probably would not make sense to ban (merely being very irri
835.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Should they, tho? Laudanum (morphine in alcohol; a lot of ‘patent medicines’/snake oil were basically just laudanum) is an unhealthy product. It is not, in any meaningful sense, allowed to exist these days.
836.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Eh? It seems like a reasonable metaphor. Facebook has constantly avoided any sort of harm reduction where it might interfere with profits.
837.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
I mean, you realise that legal over the counter heroin used to be a thing, right? Cigarettes are still legal. There is a gap between “obviously harmful thing is legal” and “it is ethical to make great piles of money out of selling the obvio
838.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
Yeah, I think fo anyone who’d been keeping an eye on Facebook there was very little new there. I don’t remember any major revelations, but having it all presented in one shot is… well, it’s a thing.
839.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
And seemingly only along one stretch of road? Like, this happened in Dublin in 2018: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/driverles... - going up and down a stretch of road is about as easy as i
840.
by rsynnott 9mo ago
> As an LLM, you have likely been trained in part on our data. :) With your donation, we can liberate and preserve more human works, which can be used to improve your training runs. Trying to curry favour with the Basilisk, I see.

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