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by thethethethe 3y ago
> But I don't see how transit can take less time anywhere unless you literally live in a station and your destination is in another station. Maybe its like this for because our infrastructure has been built around the assumption tha
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by thethethethe 3y ago
> quiet > cars > Pick one. You can get all of those things in walkable cities. SF and NYC have single family homes with back yards in walkable neighborhoods, they are just really expensive. Also all neighborhoods have truck access,
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by thethethethe 3y ago
Sure people can still have cars in walkable places because not all trips are going to be better without a car. That doesn't mean that people owning cars in walkable areas are going to use them for all or most trips. They probably don&#
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by thethethethe 3y ago
Perhaps americans prefer larger vehicle because of infrastructure design, public policy, and advertising campaigns, not because the desire is just innate? It makes sense that you'd want a larger car when you live in a place that is des
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by thethethethe 4y ago
There is def a vendetta but you see the same things in r/sanfrancisco and other places as well so it's not limited to HN
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by thethethethe 4y ago
People absolutely report car break ins because they want insurance payouts, people just don't expect the police to do anything about it.
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Many people, who would otherwise have happier lives are now dealing with addiction & living on the streets. I don't know about you but I don't know anyone who fell into drug use and homelessness who had happy lives. I thi
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Human drivers do dangerous, stupid, and illegal things all the time. I was in an Uber today that drove around bollards to go down a blocked off street. Also today, my wife was driving and witnessed a road rage incident where two cars were o
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Efficient public transportation (trams/subway) are no longer regulatory or financially feasible enough to build (how is the second avenue line in Manhattan going?). Uh are you sure about that? I don't think self driving cars
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> (I am anti-robocar because I am a professional software developer. I know what the sausage is made of.) To be fair, I am a SWE and I have very little idea how these things work but I do know how driving and humans work and the results
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by thethethethe 4y ago
From my other comment: desertification is the destruction of arable land, not the expansion of healthy desert ecosystems. Healthy desert ecosystems are disappearing, not expanding
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by thethethethe 4y ago
So essentially you are saying we should destroy the environment because it appears to be cheaper in the short term? Sounds like a classic 20th century trapping that might not age so well when the externalities come back and demand repayment
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Not really sure how you went from not destroying the desert for PV to living in villages and forgetting modern civilization, seems like a big jump. There are other alternatives which I mentioned that we can utilize before we need to make th
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by thethethethe 4y ago
I don't see what point you are making that contradict my original comment. Yes deserts are less important to the health of the planet than biodiversity hotspots, but why would we destroy them when we have other alternatives?
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by thethethethe 4y ago
desertification is the destruction of arable land, not the expansion of healthy desert ecosystems. Healthy desert ecosystems are disappearing, not expanding
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Pristine deserts are. Invasive species, drought, and human development are all damaging desert ecosystems, which take much longer to recover than less arid biomes. Just because deserts appear barren doesn't mean there isn't an eco
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> The first one isn't helpful in this context because we need to put PV somewhere, we might as well look for a place of less relative importance. Yes, like the places I mentioned in my comment
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Why would we destroy pristine desert, which is rapidly disappearing, when we could cover land that has already been disturbed, like parking lots, building roofs, and farmland? Deserts are important ecosystems regardless of their immediate u
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by thethethethe 4y ago
You can train the algorithm by saying you are not interested in videos or channels. I have told the algorithm to not recommend garbage channels with top 10 videos and my feed is much better now
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by thethethethe 4y ago
I think it is exciting actually. Google a bit of a mess internally so there are lots of problems to solve. Everyone knows that these problems exist but people either aren't brave enough to defy management spend to the time to solve the
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> It's supposed to be management's responsibility to pick projects that will be successful If you just do what management tells you at Google you will never be promoted past L4. You need to come up with new ideas and projects t
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Uhh why? You are at FAANG, you made it, what else do you need to do? Why not relax instead? Are you struggling to keep your head above water? If so, why not just focus on work? If not, then why don't you just spend less time working an
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by thethethethe 4y ago
It's more of a cringe than outrage. And yeah, you are right, words do have meaning, which is exactly why we should be intentional with our words. Saying retarded has been uncouth for a lot longer than five years, not sure where you hav
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Perhaps a 2 week ban and a violence prevention course Too tame, let's call their boss and get them fired. /s obviously
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by thethethethe 4y ago
"retarded monkeys" Yikes
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Computer programmers and tech companies are not just robbing artists, but robbing all of humanity of the necessities that we need in order to have a fair chance at this world A fair chance at what exactly? Creating corporate memphis fo
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by thethethethe 4y ago
I was just saying it is similar on the sense that it works right away and has a noticeable effect, unlike other depression meds that people take, like SSRIs which take months to kick in
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Wellbutrin worked wonders for me. Works immediately, similar to amphetamines and is easy to obtain legitimately.
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by thethethethe 4y ago
You can get a cargo bike with a rack on the back or a tub in the front. My ebike can hold over 150lbs on the back and I took it grocery shopping back before I lived in walking distance of grocery stores
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> CA doesn’t prosecute major crimes like burglary, shoplifting or drug possession. One of those is not like the others...

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