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by stetrain 3y ago
Right, but they only received that money by delivering completed milestones and missions. They didn't get money to blow things up with no results.
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by stetrain 3y ago
Headline: "Tesla Cybertruck Production Halted" Article: "Tesla has stopped all Cybertruck deliveries" It's a minor distinction but these are not the same thing.
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by stetrain 3y ago
Most residential codes require an exterior openable window in each bedroom. If you take an office building and subdivide it into residential units that may not be easily achievable. Things that may be adequate in a large open floor office m
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by stetrain 3y ago
> Or just incompetence. Oh there is likely plenty of that too. But I think there was at least some malice in being forced to follow through on his overvalued purchase offer, in the treatment of "blue check" verified accounts, i
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by stetrain 3y ago
Value of land and cost of utilities. If you want to build a 6 unit residential building in the Bay Area you first have to buy the land it will go on, and then build a building on it which will tie into and distribute utilities for electrici
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by stetrain 3y ago
Also "Facebook"
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by stetrain 3y ago
> He also wants to make X into an "everything" app where you'll do shopping, calls, chat with friends, send payments, etc. And if that was pulled off successfully it doesn't seem like the craziest thing to distance fr
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by stetrain 3y ago
Oof.
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by stetrain 3y ago
I think the consent of the person whose body parts (or AI-imagined body parts) are being shown makes a bit of a difference.
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by stetrain 3y ago
But there is some distinction in the world between things we treat as historical artifacts and those we don't. I haven't seen anyone make a compelling case for why this particular item is a significant historical artifact, other t
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by stetrain 3y ago
If one were to slice the ear off of a dead body, mount it, and frame it on their wall, at what point does it stop being gross evidence of a crime and start becoming an important historical artifact and part of our heritage? How many months,
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by stetrain 3y ago
Are mummies general kept in a general library where anyone can poke at it upon request?
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by stetrain 3y ago
Ok, let me restate some things. - I drive a car. I like my car. I like driving my car places. You seem to be trying to find some personal sinister motivation on my part, or using me as a stand in for the MTA, and I don't think either a
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by stetrain 3y ago
> I've already said that I do. So no, I'm making a more specific argument than the one you're trying to have. My point is which externalities you are considering, and which ones a city is trying to account for. Cost of b
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by stetrain 3y ago
> You don't want the general recapture of externalities. You want specific things to be punished. I'm not the one levying this toll, I don't super care either way about it. I replied because your suggestions for capturing
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by stetrain 3y ago
> But the toll roads thing, again...that has little to do with "having drivers take ownership of the costs they produce". It's just social engineering via taxes, because people will avoid those roads, and drive on other on
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by stetrain 3y ago
Not sure what I'm 'tipping my hand' about. This is just another tier of toll in another congested subsection. If your argument is that all vehicles driving and parking in all places should appropriately pay for their external
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by stetrain 3y ago
> It is not "having drivers take ownership of the costs the produce" -- that would be, I dunno...raising the gas tax or tag fees or something. Gas taxes or registration fees don't reimburse Manhattan for the space and infr
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by stetrain 3y ago
The airframe designers don't decide the seat space per passenger. They can include all of the spacious reclining seats and lounge sofas as they want in the design, and airlines will spec it with seats and seat pitches that produce the
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by stetrain 3y ago
If car infrastructure was replaced by more transit, pedestrian, and cycling infrastructure, then more people would be able to go into Manhattan and shop and dine. One or two people per car each taking up 320 sqft of road space and parking
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by stetrain 3y ago
Yes: > XB-1 met all of its test objectives, including safely and successfully achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph)
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by stetrain 3y ago
Going from standing on a surface where you are resisting the force of gravity (like standing on the ground, or in a stable aircraft) to being in free fall definitely has a sensation. It's a sensation that actually causes a decent perce
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by stetrain 3y ago
But you don't feel the force of acceleration. Floating weightless and motionless in space feels the same as being in an elliptical orbit around a planet.
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by stetrain 3y ago
Only because you feel the air rushing past, and the impact with the ground. If you do this in a capsule where the air is moving with you, and avoid hitting the ground, we call the sensation "weightlessness" or "zero g",
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by stetrain 3y ago
Yes. I actually think this should apply to publicly run systems as well. It seems like in the US we often lament that government run systems run at a loss instead of a profit, but also tend to hamstring them from doing things (like building
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by stetrain 3y ago
I think this is one of the most extreme real-world examples of a "car-free" city, but they still have vehicles for taxis, public transport, public works, trades people, deliveries, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by stetrain 3y ago
I don't think most advocates for reduction in car dependency in urban environments think that trades people shouldn't have vehicles to carry tools and materials around in.
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by stetrain 3y ago
This is sort of the model that Brightline (Fortress Investment) is using. They are spending money on the train service in hopes of increasing the values of their real estate investments.
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by stetrain 3y ago
> Hate this way of thinking where the government (with seemingly good intentions) tries to stop something but leaves a loophole where all our lives are made more tedious and then people defend it saying the companies should just not do i
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by stetrain 3y ago
Collaboration doesn't have to mean staring at someone while they're trying to code. Collaboration in actual programming work tends to be up front in figuring out together how a problem will be solved, as needed while working throu

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