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by stfp 2y ago
No
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by stfp 2y ago
Is the next administration really likely to do, on purpose, anything that would affect earnings for large corps? It would absolutely blow my mind. I think RFK will do zilch unless it aligns with more profits for the right folks.
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by stfp 2y ago
I feel like this calls for harmonizing tax rules within europe and plugging loopholes more than let’s not even dare ask billionaires to pay their fair share.
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by stfp 2y ago
Great take imo, thanks
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by stfp 2y ago
Some pretty stereotypical technophile thought in there I think. Rockets are cool but are they progress? Depends on your (subjective, personal) beliefs and value system. IMO they’re part of a self-fulfilling quasi-religion that predicts and
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by stfp 2y ago
Unless you only look at the financial side of things, and only from the perspective of the larger corps benefiting from this trend, it's not healthy at all.
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by stfp 2y ago
Air pollution is dangerously low, it was time to reign in the eco-terrorists at the EPA :|
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by stfp 2y ago
It's very easy to get informed on these topics, yet people keep posting these high level extremely simplistic takes. You can't summarize the world with "People want the most convenience in their lives" and use that to ex
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by stfp 2y ago
Well the people are deciding what they want to do with their own city. Individualism has its limits.
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by stfp 2y ago
In French "kiki" is also slang, more like child speak really, for a more pointy part
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by stfp 3y ago
Also, maybe “ludicrous” acceleration made it easy to launch the car into that pond by mistake. It’s a common selling point for EVs now but I think Tesla started the trend.
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by stfp 3y ago
We need to stop the deaths now, not in 15 years if and when the tech becomes good enough and adopted etc. Every other country has seen a reduction in the number of deaths over time, without self driving cars.
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by stfp 3y ago
Meanwhile in reality: - More traffic due to induced demand as sitting in traffic becomes comfortable - Self-driving subscription in addition to all other car costs - More car-centric infrastructure needed as we realize that self-driving car
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by stfp 3y ago
Yup. Most transit users are murdered while reading books on their way to work.
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by stfp 3y ago
Defining progress isn't that simple. Self-driving cars isn't progress. Larger and heavier cars isn't progress. Cars with insane eye-searing LED headlights isn't progress.
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by stfp 3y ago
> that time sink might feel a bit more bearable if you could relax and do whatever you wanted during that time rather than focus on all the obstacles around you We could use... trains & buses. Self-driving trains and buses! But self-
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by stfp 3y ago
Except... They won't reduce congestion and traffic, because people won't have to drive they'll be OK with being on the road longer. You just hang out in your living room on wheels. Parking... Where are the cars going to park
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by stfp 3y ago
Not sure about the specifics here but to jump on your point about human drivers not being safe... 10000% we need safer designs for streets and roads, better education, automated enforcement of speed limits, dis-incentives for larger/he
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by stfp 3y ago
> For those who are directly affected by these changes, you will receive a calendar invitation within the next hour Is it just me or does this suck a lot? Thousands of people unsure about their fate, refreshing their calendar, checking f
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by stfp 3y ago
Sure yep. Why do they need to be self driving? We could build 8-10 people electric buses today, and let randos drive them just like we let randos drive lyfts/ubers.
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by stfp 3y ago
> AVs are much better than personal car ownership and will play a big role in improving transportation. But again what makes you think that AVs won't be personal cars with the same ownership model? GM is suddenly going to be cool wi
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by stfp 3y ago
> There is a strong monetary incentive to make sure every car has a high utilization time Not based on real utilization of cars today (5% utilization, 95% parked) There is a stronger monetary incentive to sell at least one car to every s
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by stfp 3y ago
> Such a fake comment. You were never excited for AVs. I was excited for AVs for most of my life, just like everybody, because it's cool sci-fi tech. But if you start thinking about the whole picture of transportation / urban d
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by stfp 3y ago
I don't think you have seriously thought about this long enough. It'll be exactly as easy to disable "autonomous" cars.
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by stfp 3y ago
There are many easier, "boring" ways to accomplish this goal.
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by stfp 3y ago
> Same could have been said for any labor saving technology. Lol no. When I say "this technology is unnecessary" that doesn't means I think "all technology is unnecessary" :shrug"
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by stfp 3y ago
Hopefully also the first on the team to go to jail for coding clearly unsafe dangerous behaviors into 3 ton autonomous robots. What the hell? I think software engineers are wholly unprepared and uneducated to be designing and building these
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by stfp 3y ago
I used to be very very excited about self-driving cars. Now I'm 1000% certain they will not improve anything meaningful at all. There are no urgent, legit needs that make these things necessary or acceptable. Meanwhile there are concre
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by stfp 3y ago
Maybe remote work means that suburbanites will stop preventing cities from being nice places to live? (because of regional politics, suburban drivers have a say in things like how much highways and parking a city ends up having to maintain)
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by stfp 4y ago
Read other responses and actually think about it :)))))))

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