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by stetrain 2y ago
> OP was saying about how apple laptops are the fastest thing in the world. No, they did not. There are more axes to a good powerful laptop computer than maximum speed.
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by stetrain 2y ago
They said the gains I get which is personal and subjective. They didn't say anything about personally being superior to other people.
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by stetrain 2y ago
> You are not superior, nor do you have access to superior things or ways of working, just because you buy Apple. They didn't say they were or did. They said that they personally get value out of that product ecosystem. Me choosing
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by stetrain 2y ago
Now way more people buy iPhones even on launch day, but they're delivered right to your house instead of standing in line.
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by stetrain 2y ago
It doesn't make everything cheaper. The price of housing is one of the biggest drivers of cost of living in the US. The constraint on housing supply is primarily political (codes and zoning) not technological.
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by stetrain 2y ago
Why does the price of things today vs 1924 matter? Do you have a store of cash from 1924? Is there actually a downside of this steady long-term inflation?
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by stetrain 2y ago
I’m not sure you understand what I want then. I never said I want the US to have the same level of public transit ridership as the Japan, or replace all car journeys with trains. I was specifically responding to a quote that trips of 50-300
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by stetrain 2y ago
I understand the scope of the problem. Saying nothing can change is also wrong. We literally built a nationwide interstate highway system in this country which included bulldozing downtowns and spending the equivalent of hundreds of billion
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by stetrain 2y ago
Most of the issues above are due to Amtrak running trains on tracks owned by freight railroads. By law those railroads are supposed to prioritize Amtrak traffic, but they often block or delay Amtrak with their operations and there’s no real
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by stetrain 2y ago
The US used to have dirt roads and no highway system. It also used to have streetcar networks in most major cities and suburbs. And shops you could walk to from your house. Amsterdam used to have a city center full of cars, parking lots, an
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by stetrain 2y ago
You aren't wrong, although your comfortable car ride also includes huge amounts of risk of personal injury, we just tend to not think about that until it happens. The lack of other places for people to go often leaves public transit fa
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by stetrain 2y ago
> Even if you build the train some people won't give it a try, sadly. A lot of carbon was spewed in to the air to fly him and his suitcase over the capitol corridor tracks. They might be more willing to try if the service prices inc
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by stetrain 2y ago
Even when we build them right through populated downtown areas! https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/8605917/highways-interstate-ci...
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by stetrain 2y ago
Even just analyzing it on a person-mile-efficiency basis, moving from personal cars to personal aircraft is the wrong direction. Trains obviously do well at that metric, but I'm not opposed to exploring other options on that side of th
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by stetrain 2y ago
You can also try negotiating peacefully first: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/virginia-a...
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by stetrain 2y ago
Eminent domain means property rights issues for public infrastructure are also political issues.
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by stetrain 2y ago
Sending more travelers into the sky in personal aircraft will also be a political issue. I definitely applaud the goal of improving GA safety, there is certainly a lot to improve in that regard even if the end result isn't a huge incre
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by stetrain 2y ago
> In the US, trips that are 50-300 miles are almost all done by car because that distance is too short for commercial airlines and too far for public transportation. A bit off-topic but this is a political problem, not a technical one. T
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by stetrain 2y ago
Not through direct usage tax, but probably through local taxes. And cycling and pedestrian infrastructure generally costs less per person-mile of capacity than car infrastructure. Those streets and sidewalks were created through public acti
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by stetrain 2y ago
I don't see where iFixit said this caused an outage.
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by stetrain 2y ago
Are those residents paying for the total cost of that parking? The space consumed, the opportunity costs averted, the safety cost of more cars driving through dense areas with pedestrians and cyclists? If they are then that freedom is a val
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by stetrain 2y ago
The user asked for music festivals in August, and the response confidently listed a festival that was not in August, with dates that were not the correct festival dates. It's an understandable mistake given the dates included on that f
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by stetrain 2y ago
Is what ok? Liking technology? Using HN? I'm not sure why we should be a gatekeeper of what someone likes or whether they hang out on this site. The HN guidelines cover what topics are relevant to submit as new posts here, and cover ci
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by stetrain 2y ago
> If the roads were designed with enough capacity and planning in mind such that groups of vehicles are not stuck driving 15 MPH on a 70 MPH speed limit stretch of highway for 30 minutes or longer every day, that'd be fine. If you b
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by stetrain 2y ago
"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
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by stetrain 2y ago
I don't think so.
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by stetrain 2y ago
Sure. My point is that it's not a super clear-cut line or definition.
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by stetrain 2y ago
And there’s no legislation or settled case law yet that says if you build a sufficiently complex computer program to rearrange copyrighted works that the output can be treated like an original work from a human author.
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by stetrain 2y ago
Sure, but that’s not a perspective shared by most western copyright law.
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by stetrain 2y ago
There are lots of things that are not simple reproductions that are not fair use. If I take ten of your copywritten photographs and stack them on top of each other in Photoshop with transparency, the output is not a simple reproduction of y

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