vel0city

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by vel0city 10mo ago
> Link me so I can draw some circles for you. https://www.ntta.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/06-27-2025_... > then regulates a consumption tax on the road Yeah, the toll. One assumes you're
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by vel0city 10mo ago
This is a yearly tax. So that would be the same as 105,000mi in three years meanwhile the average car probably only drove ~37,500 in that time period.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
It's far away from the average of around 12,000. Few cars drive 35,000mi.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> Look at the financial reports yourself I have for the toll roads I drive on. It shows the debt payments being paid by the toll revenues, not other state taxes. > In EVERY CASE of a failed toll road the major bond holders have all be
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> you can definitely use school facilities after hours Aside from a few things like some playgrounds shared with public parks next door this has often been pretty untrue. I've definitely had police escort me off school basketball co
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> Toll roads are primarily, originally funded through tax dollars This is untrue of all the toll roads I've regularly driven in multiple cities in the US. Their construction was funded through bonds which are paid back from the toll
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by vel0city 10mo ago
I'm fine with a decently fair registration tax to offset the gas taxes, but the one in my state is the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gas for the state gas taxes. If the car was a 35mpg hybrid that would be 35,000mi of equivalent drivi
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by vel0city 10mo ago
There are still all the roads that aren't toll roads that still need that tax revenue to support.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
> Is a Lego Technics set a toy? Expensive plastic, still a toy. Guess you're right it's not cheap . Definitely depends on the kid on this one. Legos can be OK toys, one of the few rare exceptions. > Is a model plane that re
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by vel0city 10mo ago
A lot of System76 laptops are essentially rebadged versions of Chinese or Taiwanese ODMs. You might have some luck trying to research what model the ODM produces the laptop as and find replacement batteries for that instead of focusing on f
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by vel0city 10mo ago
As a parent I largely agree with this take. Most toys people buy my kids are essentially cheap plastic trash that won't last a season of interest but emotional toil to try and get rid of. If you must get something outside of a donati
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by vel0city 10mo ago
20 years ago I was hopping from Intel to AMD and then back to Intel. After that practically every decent jump in CPU performance on the Intel side of things meant a new socket (LGA775, 1156, 1155, 1150, 1151...). AMD typically kept sockets
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by vel0city 10mo ago
Well, there's little choice for TVs without smart features these days. Especially if you're wanting certain quality and other features.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
Use the other servers as well: https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi For instance, time-a-wwv.nist.gov. One should configure a number of different NTP sources instead of just a single host.
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by vel0city 10mo ago
You know what's snarky? Suggesting a suburban city actually draws it's roots to 13,000 BC when it definitely doesn't . Suggesting it does is a disservice to those people who were forced away.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
I never agreed to be bound to some "law of conservation of momentum"! I'm a free person!
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by vel0city 11mo ago
I'm well aware of these. And yes, lots of areas around North America had quite complicated and developed societies with large trade networks and even "highways" connecting ancient cities. But, these things are practically ent
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by vel0city 11mo ago
> Every big city I have lived in has had a stadium and parking lots owned by either the stadium or third parties So not the city, the stadium corporation (which might have ties to the city, but usually a wholly separate organization) o
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Yeah, they moved. Away from here, for many reasons, often under bad situations. And most no longer exist, and are thus irrelevant to the discussion of lineage of current towns. Insane you're really arguing a suburb of North Texas is ol
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by vel0city 11mo ago
This is a discussion about urbanism, not just broadly "civilization". Nomadic tribes didn't live in urban environments. The city I live in practically didn't exist until very modern times. The fact some people used to to
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Not the reality around me. Almost all parking lots are privately owned. This is true for just about every US city I've ever lived in. Every Walmart, every Target, every big store has its own parking lot that is private property.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Revisionist history you're pushing here. I'm well versed about the native tribes in the area, definitely more than the average North Texan. A very interesting history, don't get me wrong. They didn't develop cities like
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by vel0city 11mo ago
Parking lots are private spaces where the store management can ask you to leave at any time. That some don't is almost a happy accident. Compared to a public park where anyone is free to loiter and play. Plus parks are usually segregat
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by vel0city 11mo ago
The city I live in practically didn't exist by most measures until the 1940s. Meanwhile many cities in Europe draw roots back a few thousand years BCE. The lot my house is on was barely even used as farmland in 1960, and got turned int
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by vel0city 11mo ago
People will say they want these things and then move to some far flung enclave of a suburb neighborhood, vote against transit and bike lanes, vote to widen highways, and fight removing parking minimums.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
I never understood this though. It seems like more work and even more uncomfortable just to knowingly make things worse for yourself.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
I've had annoying seatbelt warnings on my cars aging back to at least the 90s.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
You register addresses based on Router/Neighbor Advertisements in NDP. In your RA, you'd point it to your DNS server, which would then handle registration when hosts check in with their new IP addresses.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
If you're doing your DNS properly it's not really that difficult. If you're statically definining all your DNS you're doing it wrong.
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by vel0city 11mo ago
You've been able to buy DRM free digital music since the 1980s.

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