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by scoofy 10mo ago
I feel like a complete weirdo when it comes to comments and variable names. I've never worked professionally as a coder, but I've been working with python and a bit of js for like 15 years now. I strongly believe that variable nam
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by scoofy 10mo ago
There are some subtleties in Gatsby that most people miss, and isn't even addressed in the article. Jay Gatsby (James Gatz) is probably Jewish. Nick Carraway is probably gay, but at least bisexual. Both of these traits forced people in
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I mean, regardless of whether or not this is true, the death of the consumer surplus is upon us. When that goes, the entire point of efficient markets goes with it.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
What??? The entire point is that this would happen — in response — to a Russian invasion of the Suwałki gap.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
The point is you don't have to attack Kaliningrad. A siege trivially collapses the place. The place is wildly vulnerable on all sides despite the short distance to Belarus. This isn't a "the Kerch Bridge is outside of missle
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I honestly don't know much about warfare, but that seems like a pretty insane move to me. First, it assumes the people of Belarus is willing to start a war with NATO and it's very grumpy neighbor to the south. There isn't
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by scoofy 10mo ago
> If by use you mean 18-wheelers, then by all means, tax away. I am pretty sure highways would last for decades with a minimum of maintenance if there were no large trucks on them. I mean, this is magical thinking. Yes, weight should be
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by scoofy 10mo ago
The problem with a progressive tax for a service is that there is no pricing mechanism to direct it. If fewer people drive, and more take the train, how is the state compelled to shift funding? This is one of the hard problems of politics,
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by scoofy 10mo ago
The Bay Bridge Toll Plaza: https://maps.app.goo.gl/rh9rcJe2nDz5Hnkv7?g_st=ic You’re photo doesn’t show the metering that happens in the opposite direction.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
The vast majority of the tolling infrastructure no longer uses plazas. In California and in Texas, the tech exists to prevent you from even noticing. That's not deployed everywhere, especially in areas where they do rate-limiting, like
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I mean, that's the de jure purpose, but that's really a nonsensical point to make here. We're not talking about one controlled access route with two lanes in both directions to move tanks around. We're talking about 10
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by scoofy 10mo ago
The point of the article is that you're paying one way or another. Roads aren't free to build and/or maintain... in fact, it's extremely expensive to build and maintain them. It's just that all levels of gov't
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by scoofy 10mo ago
Thank you for this. I will definitely look into it. Anything that will help stem the fire hose of bullshit is a good thing.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I run a little wiki and, holy shit , the bots have gotten advanced. Like, it used to be no big deal, then like a year and a half ago, it exploded. It's basically quadrupled the costs for me to run the site. It's not even worth it
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by scoofy 10mo ago
That’s nonsense logic. Is it not “safe” for pedestrians to use a crosswalk since a car might not stop? If that’s your definition of “safety” then all hope of a coordinated system is lost.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
If your argument is to ban cars, fair enough. Waymo doesn’t need to be mentioned.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world
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by scoofy 10mo ago
> If I kill someone with my car, I’m probably going to jail. So this is very much not at all true. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime/ My entire point is that we don’t care about human lives on
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by scoofy 10mo ago
Seriously. People are outraged about the theoretical potential for human harm while there is a god damn constant death rate here that is 4x higher than every other western country. I mean really. I’m a self driving skeptic exactly bec
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Lessons from the PG&E outage(waymo.com)
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by scoofy 10mo ago
>Communication needs to be positive and deliberate. I don't know what you mean by this. >The whitespace thing is actually one of python's major flaws. That feature attaches syntactic meaning to non-printing characters. From
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by scoofy 10mo ago
The argument, not the man is important.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
The problem is that we have a Congress that cares more about in-group loyalty than they do about idiocy. Meanwhile, we even have Michael Burry pointing out the obvious: we're losing to China because we're not building up every bit
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by scoofy 10mo ago
My background is philosophy of language. I studied formal/mathematical logic in grad school. I was always embarrassed that I couldn't code, but the computer sciences classes were teaching languages that were inscrutable for someon
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I mean, yes, if the Waymo's could safely pull over, or even know how to handle every emergency situation, I think that would be better. I'd say that's a big ask though. Training autonomous vehicles for blackouts, fires, earth
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by scoofy 10mo ago
>The cars already know those are intersections with lights. That's not how any of this works. You can anthropomorphize all you like, but they don't "know" things. They're only able to predictably respond to their
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by scoofy 10mo ago
If you are just arguing that they're not qualified to be on the road, then I agree with you. I've been an autonomous vehicle skeptic for a long time, mainly because in think our automobile transportation system is inherently dange
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by scoofy 10mo ago
> is super easy to program What?!? We’re talking about autonomous vehicles here.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I live in the affected neighborhood. There were hundreds of drivers that did not know how to handle a power outage... it was a minority of drivers, but it was a nontrivial, but nominally large number. I even saw a Muni bus blow through
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by scoofy 10mo ago
The word carrying water here is "need." My partner and I ran an errand in the blackout, we didn't need to do it, but we wanted to. I drove us almost exclusively through an area of the city that had power, but we still ran i

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