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by scottious 6mo ago
Definitely not. The companies that were prototyping it all went bankrupt. The "Vegas Loop" is just a tunnel with Tesla car traffic in it and I don't even think they're fully self driving! Very very underwhelming. N
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by scottious 6mo ago
I remember when Elon came up with the hyper loop idea and everybody I worked with at the time thought it was revolutionary. These were very smart people who were fooled. In hindsight, how could we all have fell for this? What a profoundly
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by scottious 7mo ago
Personal responsibility is important. But at the same time, we don't let people open up a heroin shop and then claim it's your personal responsibility to not buy it and use it. We don't put slot machines in schools but tell
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by scottious 7mo ago
but then again, vehicle miles travelled per-capita has been mostly increasing in the US since as far back as 1975. There could be a lot of confounding factors. Like astronomical housing prices in urban areas forcing people live very far a
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by scottious 7mo ago
Agreed. I care enough about it to sell my car, stop buying stuff I don't need, give up most meat, and live in a small energy efficient house. However I do know people who really do not care. They may say they care but their actions
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by scottious 7mo ago
and if you're talking to somebody who doesn't care about climate change just substitute "climate change" with "traffic"
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by scottious 7mo ago
It's too bad that countries only consider things like this to address a crisis in fuel costs. Why not enact measures like this to curb the pollution and CO2? I guess it says a lot about what humanity truly values.
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by scottious 8mo ago
Once you get over the hump and develop a certain amount of cardiovascular fitness, it stops being unpleasant and stressful. The real problem is that most people don't feel like this is true. It really takes a solid 6ish months of earn
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by scottious 8mo ago
okay it's not a slippery slope, but it's something similar (that's why I said "feels like"). He's trying to establish a continuum of things that have a variety of addictive properties in an attempt to discredi
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by scottious 8mo ago
this feels like a false equivalence and slippery slope fallacy. Clearly things like cigarettes and hard drugs are bad and need very heavy regulations if not outright banned. There are lots of gray areas, for sure, but that doesn't mea
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by scottious 8mo ago
I half expected to see an "under construction" gif and a "powered by GeoCities" tag at the bottom
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by scottious 8mo ago
This feels like such a weird non-sequiter argument, but I can't exactly put my finger on it. This comment seems to be asserting (1) government jobs don't produce value and (2) GDP is the only thing that matters. I'm ignoring
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by scottious 8mo ago
> they are often purchased to carry around their kids' friends as well but it requires an adult to drive that SUV. Car culture has made it so kids don't have autonomy to move themselves around anymore. When I was 8 I used to
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by scottious 8mo ago
I am friends with a lot of other parents already. I do go out of my way to make friends. I already organize bike trips to the museum and stuff like that. I'm a very social person. What I'm saying is that there are a lot of forc
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by scottious 8mo ago
However, he specifically said "will want to have children and feel/know that their children's lives will be good ones." But this doesn't necessarily mean being richer. For example, many people are afraid of what un
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by scottious 8mo ago
Housing for the boomers used to cost 3x the median salary. Now it's more like 6x the median salary. These are nationwide numbers. Wage growth isn't keeping up to pace with housing prices Sure people can just move to a remote dy
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by scottious 8mo ago
Every morning I get to my son's school about 10 minutes before the doors open. We arrive by bike and we sit ALONE on the benches near the front door. Meanwhile, the curb is full of extra large SUVs idling with kids just waiting inside
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by scottious 8mo ago
> Cars are filled with people and people work and spend money. You're conflating people with cars. You want people and you're assuming that all those people must be attached to a car. There are other ways to get people to be
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by scottious 8mo ago
Depends on the trip. I've timed many trips bike vs. car in my city. Bike is usually faster (or very similar time) because the average speed through a city is actually pretty slow. There's a lot of "hurry up and wait"
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by scottious 8mo ago
I don't really buy this argument. I live a happily (nearly) car-free life with 3 kids. It's not hard, it really isn't. I bike them everywhere, we take transit. I even do our weekly grocery shopping by bike. I bike them t
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by scottious 8mo ago
That sounds like a recipe for getting a ton of cars into your city. Think of parking garages as "traffic generators". If you cater to cars you shouldn't be surprised if what you get is more cars. It's literally sendin
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by scottious 9mo ago
correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it just 1% of Americans, not globally?
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by scottious 9mo ago
Parents need reliable childcare. A teenager or aging parents can't fill this gap reliably. I need somebody to watch the kids most days from 8 until 4. A high schooler won't be able to do this. My in-laws who live 1.5 hours awa
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by scottious 2y ago
I guarantee you that you'd never let your kids ride a bike on the streets where I grew up. I have three kids and it would be downright irresponsible to let them ride on streets designed solely for fast moving car traffic with absolute
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by scottious 2y ago
I had a bike, I love riding bikes. These days, I bike everywhere all the time (I don't drive) but I also live in a bike-able place now The roads where I grew up had no shoulder and people frequently whipped around the windy roads at 3
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by scottious 2y ago
Having grown up in deep suburbia where I couldn't do anything without an adult + a car, I always marveled at the freedom that kids seemed to have in some TV shows. Even shows that weren't overtly urban always had these underlying
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by scottious 5y ago
For those who don't know, this is called motivated reasoning or confirmation bias. Once you can give a name to it, it's easier to notice it all around you. I'd argue that it's one of the biases that plagues humanity mo
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by scottious 5y ago
but this is not entirely academia's fault. I'm reminded of the ongoing conversation about alcohol's impact on our health. Over the decades, if you've consumed mainstream media, you've been told everything from &qu
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by scottious 5y ago
I don't really think so. The stuff that's covered in the first half of this article is certainly very math-y, but you can be a great musician and not know this stuff. I really think all you need to know is basic arithmetic and t
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by scottious 5y ago
> I'd like to ask you for advice on how to make the most out of the time during my studies Go to professor's office hours. I was always so shocked when I showed up to office hours and I was the only one there almost every time

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