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by tzs 4mo ago
It's not the biggest factor. Phone use tends to increase accidents but not to change the severity of the accidents much. Tall more vertical fronts change the severity of accidents, which changes the ratio between fatal and non-fatal ac
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by tzs 4mo ago
SUVs started becoming popular in the 1990s but there is significant lag between becoming popular among new car buyers and becoming a significant fraction of cars on the road. For example SUVs and light trucks rose to 30% of new sales in 199
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by tzs 4mo ago
It is not clear to me that exurbs would increase deaths, at least if we are still talking about pedestrians, because isn't most driving between the city and homes in the exurbs on freeways which generally do not have pedestrians?
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by tzs 4mo ago
Pedestrians will be a lot safer getting hit by you than by an F-150 because of this: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/toyota-bz4x-2022-su...
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by tzs 4mo ago
From the late '70s through 2009 there was a huge drop in the number of people who walked or bicycled, and there was also a significant drop in drunk driving over that time. Those explain most of the pedestrian fatality drop. As far as
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by tzs 4mo ago
Wait...is the massive problem that it should be more than an order of magnitude more people killed than those killed in mass shootings, or is it that it should be less than an order of magnitude more? They are such completely different cate
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by tzs 4mo ago
Paid test prep is generally considered to be more effective on the current SAT than it was several years ago which also makes it harder to compare across years.
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by tzs 4mo ago
> The US could invest more in battery tech, manufacturing automation, robotics etc The US is investing in batteries. Domestic production has increased rapidly over the last couple of years and is continuing to do so. The US can now produ
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by tzs 4mo ago
(Is "foreign imports" redundant?) I'd be OK with tariffs if they are not meant to simply keep foreign car companies out of the US, but rather to encourage foreign car companies that want to enter the US market to build fact
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by tzs 4mo ago
> OTOH, absolute pitch means that learning a fiddle tune by ear takes only a couple of choruses That doesn't require perfect pitch. Most of the YouTube musicians noted for making videos of going on sites like Omegle and its successo
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by tzs 4mo ago
He just knows that someone on HN who is not using their real name has described witnessing government fraud at some unspecified point in the past and reporting it to the head of the project. He doesn't have any information about where
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by tzs 4mo ago
They are irrelevant in the sense that there is no legal means to correct them. They are relevant to the question of who did the voters actually wanted to win, which while not a legally relevant question is interesting. The statistical repor
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by tzs 4mo ago
There are checks such as when registering to vote. They are not rigorous checks because rigorous proof of citizenship has not been needed by most US citizens for most the country's existence, and there is no way to rapidly switch to a
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by tzs 4mo ago
Georgia accepts these documents. • Birth certificate issued by a US state • Passport • Certificate of Citizenship • Naturalization Certificate • A Report of Birth Abroad of a US Citizen • Birth Certificate issued by the Department of State
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by tzs 4mo ago
> Fill-in-the-bubble scantron systems are much faster and less error prone; not as fast as purely electronic voting, but you get a reliable paper trail that is more transparent and much easier to audit. An even bigger advantage of scantr
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by tzs 4mo ago
The problem is implementing that in a way that doesn't disenfranchise a lot of people. Most or all countries that have the kind of robust national ID system for such a system also make sure it is easy for every citizen to get the neces
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by tzs 4mo ago
What about the butterfly ballots? The errors those likely caused would not be randomly distributed.
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by tzs 4mo ago
As a human (as far as I know...) there is a decent chance I'd write it like that, depending on the exact numbers. It said "over 197 thousand". That's what I'd probably say for a number in [197000, 197999], or maybe
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by tzs 4mo ago
Usually they do act, I believe. If they are following the DMCA they take the alleged infringing content down and notify the party that uploaded that content. If that party files a claim stating that it is not infringing the host is required
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by tzs 4mo ago
I don't care much about price loss if it is happening everywhere, so if I ever want to move to another region selling my house here will pay for one there.
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by tzs 4mo ago
The first two paragraphs are > On June 15, Oracle engineer Lois Foltan confirmed what a good chunk of the industry had stopped believing: JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects will be integrated into the main OpenJDK repository and is targe
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by tzs 4mo ago
When Trump vetoed a drinking water project for Colorado that had passed both the House and Senate by unanimous consent they failed to override it. Don’t underestimate how afraid Republicans in Congress are of angering Trump.
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by tzs 4mo ago
Can you really call a 20 year old company a startup?
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by tzs 4mo ago
I'm not sure it is that simple. The housing units per capita numbers on first impression would suggest the number of housing units is keeping up with population growth, raising the question of why that isn't sufficient. Some quick
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by tzs 4mo ago
Nissan Leaf should get a lot of credit for establishing that market. Tesla launched first, but for 4 years only had an $100k car that only sold around 2500 units over its lifetime. Nissan launched the Leaf 3 years after Tesla, but it was th
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by tzs 4mo ago
Doesn't Chrome limit ad blockers to something like 30k rule each, and limit the number across all installed ad blockers to 330k, whereas Safari allows 150k rules per ad blocked and 900k across all installed ad blockers?
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by tzs 4mo ago
Neither have I. The number of people who have encountered such events is probably close to negligible. However I bet there is a good chance that will not be the case for self-driving cars. The reason is simple: human brains are slow. When c
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by tzs 4mo ago
The free option with libraries was somewhat limited because libraries rarely had more than a small number of copies of a given book or newspaper. Saying people with higher income bought for convenience is understating the situation. If you
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I don't see how that is relevant since they already have a large number of major car manufacturers. The person I was replying to was asserting the the EU could never approach China and US levels in AI even if they made a major effort t
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by tzs 4mo ago
If you Google you will find that in fact similar headlines exist all over the place. The only problem with the HN headline is that it should have mentioned that the breaking records is for large scale batteries like grid storage and for EV

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