tabeth

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by tabeth 9y ago
I don't disagree that a train is better in many situations. I'm more curious about situations where a city is prepared to make a 1B+ capital expenditure. For example boring a tunnel for a train vs. a dedicated bus lane on the high
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by tabeth 9y ago
Well, yeah. The MTA in particular apparently has a 55mph max speed (same link). A car can compete. Keep in mind I'm not counting traffic, but obviously is (currently) a huge advantage for a train. I'm talking more about greenfield
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by tabeth 9y ago
These are excellent points, but I reckon boring tunnels, dedicated lanes and self driving can mitigate the disadvantages you mention.
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by tabeth 9y ago
> Oh, but you think that's enough to found policy recommendations on? If it's just an inkling with no data to back it up, maybe keep it to yourself? Oh, wow. You sound like you're not having a good day :(. hopefully it ge
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by tabeth 9y ago
In theory, sure. In practice, they don't go any faster a car is capable of [1] [1] https://ggwash.org/view/4524/average-schedule-speed-how-does...
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by tabeth 9y ago
Err, it's just an idea. y'know, an inkling, a suspicion, impression, etc.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I always get an inkling that buses (like Bolt/Mega/PeterPan) + the existing highway + roads are superior and more scalable than any other type of transportation, dollar for dollar. Why do people push for rail? Self-driving cars ob
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by tabeth 9y ago
Excellent! I recall someone on here (HN) saying that many of Elixir's strengths are weakened significantly because K8 does similar things (auto distribution, hot reloading, etc.) Any truth to this? Also, can you distribute nodes on VMs
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by tabeth 9y ago
It's unlikely that VCs have more resources then the collective internet though. Of course there will be scams, but there are scams with or without VCs. The question is -- should only VCs have the opportunity?
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by tabeth 9y ago
How do VCs "get around the scams and pretenders?" Presumably regular people would do the same thing.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Unfortunately unless worldwide culture changes such that demand for produced goods drops dramatically in favor for intangibles (humanities, happiness, etc.) any small union that does this will basically become irrelevant in no short time. I
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by tabeth 9y ago
It seems that the majority of "legitimate" uses surrounding blockchain concern "trust", or rather try to eliminate mechanisms such that trust is inherent. Imagine some authority, perhaps a non-profit that was 100% trustw
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by tabeth 9y ago
Is there are place where you can simply download pages already "perfected" in its UX and you can simply add your own custom business logic to it? Something in this direction would be Bootstrap's templates: https://
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by tabeth 9y ago
People can still drive, though. Are you against taxes in general?
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by tabeth 9y ago
I really like Tachyons. Not being tied down to global styles is so nice. The downside though, is that anytime you make something you have to redo all the styles. I find this not to be a huge deal, though since you can just turn them into co
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by tabeth 9y ago
To be fair it's possible that they just want to maximize time, which is done by living as close as possible to where they work.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Isn't it impossible to win the game of blocking headless browsers? What's stopping someone from creating an API that opens up a real browser, uses a real (or virtual) keyboard, types in/clicks the real address, etc. then proc
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by tabeth 9y ago
Any data to back that up? I'd be curious to know what the ideal density is.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I'm still figuring that one out, hah. I think if the culture was strong enough and public transportation was "perfected" within the cofines of the 100acres people might gravitate their under normal market pressure. Otherwise
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by tabeth 9y ago
I've often wondered why somone moderately wealthy doesn't just start a super dense town, e.g. everything within 100 acres, and be within 10 miles of a major city. Create tons of these at a 50K people/sqmi density and implemen
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by tabeth 9y ago
My understanding is that it's literally another HQ. So they'd be hiring all roles -- developers, marketing professionals, sales, etc.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Are what dev jobs? HQ2 should have a pretty large mix of roles, similar to HQ1.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Can someone describe a few applications of blockchains in real world applications that cannot be implemented without a blockchain? I'm really struggling to come up with even a single case. I thought some sort of secure voting mechani
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by tabeth 9y ago
I feel as though there are too many cities. I'd be curious to know what the top 5 are. My picks, in no particular order: - Boston - Dallas - Atlanta - Chicago - Denver In all likelihood it'll be Boston or Denver.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I define small as in small business, as in less than 100k records. I also don't consider a linear regression to be "AI". Things like genetic algorithms and neural networks are probably overkill for an average small business.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Indeed, but with real estate you have to pay taxes every year (on both improvements and the land itself), in addition to taxes on the gains (unless you do a like-kind exchange) and anything you buy for your property (though much of that can
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by tabeth 9y ago
Even real estate speculators are paying tax which goes to things such as roads and schools. In addition they're incentivized to keep their property at some minimally viable state.
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by tabeth 9y ago
AI without tons of data is, well, overkill. That being said, it seems Google is sharing a few pretrained models, which is nice.
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by tabeth 9y ago
What? Bitcoin is linked to reality in that people paid money for them.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Can't say I understand what you're suggesting. Even without mailing lists people will talk about what they want to, by whatever means. Are you saying the workplace should censor and/or prohibit anything not work related? Your

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