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by scrose 6y ago
Training and equipping peace officers to de-escalate situations is far cheaper and better for the general population than the hundreds of millions in excessive force and wrongful death lawsuits that are paid out of our taxes. NYC alone has
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by scrose 6y ago
There's no recent official counts, but the latest data I could find looks like it's about 82,000, citywide[0]. That number is 10 years old, so there is definitely a little room for error. But if the estimated total of on street
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by scrose 6y ago
There’s an estimated 190,000 on-street parking spaces in Manhattan, with an estimated 3 million parking on street spaces in NYC total[0]. The primary issue is not a lack of parking. Cars don’t scale in dense urban environments. [0] https
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by scrose 6y ago
$20 an hour on the east coast? Where? The only place I can imagine that is in a parking garage, not on the street. Even the most congested parts of Manhattan that actually charge for parking don’t cost nearly that much, and that’s when they
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by scrose 6y ago
Apologies! I gave a hypothetical scenario as part of a question, that also unfortunately happened to be true when accounting for occupants outside of vehicles. I didn’t mean for you(or the OP) to interpret the scenario as me stating it as a
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by scrose 6y ago
> The laws and road design are usually sufficient if the driver is doing their duties correctly and responsibly. Here is where the problem lay! Expecting drivers to always be attentive, lest they kill someone(or multiple people) is not a
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by scrose 6y ago
Of course speed is not the only issue but it is definitely a contributing factor. One need only look at crashmapper.org to see how often ‘unsafe speed’ is a contributing factor in the couple hundred thousand reported crashes that happen ann
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by scrose 6y ago
I’m not sure why you put “continue” in quotes when my comment never included the word continue. You are correct that deaths for motor vehicle occupants are going down due to safety features specifically designed to keep the occupants safe
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by scrose 6y ago
My initial comment said that, but was edited 30 minutes prior to your reply to include ‘as much as they do in their current forms’ to make my point clearer. I’m not sure if you had the old message cached, but I’d recommend re-reading the po
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by scrose 6y ago
Planes also promise fast travel times, but if a plane crashes, we heavily investigate the cause and figure out a solution so it doesn’t occur again. The USA experiences the equivalent of over 100 Boeing 747 plane crashes a year(and rising),
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by scrose 6y ago
I wasn’t being snarky, and I’m well aware of real world scenarios. I’ve biked in NYC for over a decade, I’ve worked in transportation and volunteer my time for building safer streets. The majority of drivers I see on the street at looking a
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by scrose 6y ago
It seems like the obvious solution is lower speed limits and less deadly cars. Not more pollution in case the person texting on their phone at 30+mph looks up from their phone a split second before they notice a kid playing in or crossing t
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by scrose 6y ago
It’s a balancing act between a short-term gain and a long-term loss. For a while, you may notice Amazon has slightly better prices on things. One day you may need some advice on a project, so you go to the local hardware store. Except the s
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by scrose 6y ago
Japan is a different country, with different cultures, values and history. Answering ‘whataboutism’ type of questions almost always leads to an endless loop of accomplishing nothing. What about Russia? What about China? Etc... There is no v
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by scrose 6y ago
There’s a few ‘Stop: Full stop’ signs in my neighborhood in NYC where cars have to cross over a sidewalk because they realize people’s idea of ‘stop’ is normally ‘drive across sidewalk with blind spots on either end at 10 mph with face in
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by scrose 6y ago
> Not looking forward to the same kind of rig being attached to high-power lasers, and pointed at civilians. Already happening: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
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by scrose 6y ago
> Mortgages and renting just bring despair and trigger apocalyptic emotions in humans, which is why the Bronx looks like the Bronx, and Bellevue looks like Bellevue. I’m assuming you’re referring specifically to the South Bronx with your
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by scrose 6y ago
Maybe it depends on your bank? I’ve had to do a couple chargebacks on Chase CC’s in the $200-300 range and I just had to click a button in their web portal. It was more difficult for me to get reimbursed when I tried depositing $300 in a Ch
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by scrose 6y ago
The thought process of your post forms a self-fulfilling prophecy. Of course if you build with only a single mode of transport in mind, the majority of people will opt towards that mode of transportation. Unfortunately, many suburbs and sma
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by scrose 6y ago
I’m not sure where you are, but I can’t imagine anywhere where sidewalks don’t make sense. Upkeep is orders of magnitudes cheaper than maintaining a street, and provides incentives for people to leave their cars behind, especially for short
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by scrose 6y ago
I gave away my TV a little over a year ago now, with absolutely no regrets. But if I still had one, I’d definitely be looking into rooting it specifically so I could uninstall all the bloat they now come with and ensure it doesn’t try and c
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by scrose 6y ago
It’s only a missed opportunity if you think you’d get approval to improve the screens! I’ve indirectly worked with American on their screens, and I’m not so sure improving UX is their top priority.
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by scrose 6y ago
As someone who moderates a several hundred person mailing list, the arguments they listed are neither new nor unique to Slack. If anything, Slack is much easier to moderate than e-mail or other mediums of communication.
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by scrose 6y ago
The app doesn’t publish any personal information and complies with every Twitter rule. It was suspended soon after someone used the app to get information on a van that was used to abduct a protester[1] [1] https://nyc.streetsblo
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App to call attention to Reckless drivers suspended by Twitter(twitter.com)
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by scrose 6y ago
The Rails community attempted to do something like this with the introduction of Webpacker in Rails 5. They backtracked after a few months. Most likely after realizing how many thousands of npm packages make tightly coupled assumptions to t
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by scrose 6y ago
I wonder what a bug bounty for something like this would have paid out.
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by scrose 6y ago
Aren’t you assuming that users are only navigating to HTTPS sites and entering information? That’s unfortunately not the case. That also ignores the fact that having information about general activity can in itself be a privacy concern, whe
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by scrose 6y ago
No, I don't know the exact dimensions of your truck and I am not picturing you in an 18-wheeler. It's well known that the F150, as well as many other SUVs and light trucks have massive blind spots that prevent kids, disabled peopl
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by scrose 6y ago
You’re asking for a citation on the impact SUVs and trucks have on injuring and killing people in the US? A few simple google searches on ‘traffic crashes USA’, ‘SUV blind spots’, ‘pickup truck blind spots’, etc... will take you 5 seconds a

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