vel0city

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by vel0city 3mo ago
An unused car parked isn't causing traffic jams on the highway. It's irrelevant to my comment that AVs increase traffic, not decrease traffic. I agree reducing parking needs is a benefit to AVs, but arguing it will reduce cong
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by vel0city 3mo ago
You say it can't be done, but it's literally happened several times before. The most recent being when we built all these urban highways. It turns out you don't actually need to tear up sewers and electrical infrastructure to
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by vel0city 3mo ago
The average passenger capacity per mile of a Waymo is <1. The average for a regular passenger car is >1. Moving the same number of people with fewer passengers per car increases traffic.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
As someone who has lived in and around Dallas for a long time, parking is a constant source of tension, going in both directions of not having enough and having too much. It's a massive cost factor as well.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
At least for accounts you want to keep very secure, session cookies are probably very time-limited. Stealing a passkey ensures persistent access in the future. But I largely agree, if they're able to do this on your system you're
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Eh. Old American sedans were often longer. A '77 Ford LTD was almost 5.5M in length, while this is only 5.3. I guess I do agree those were insane monsters of vehicles. I couldn't imagine driving one of those today in urban areas.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
You can't buy a self-driving Tesla today. Even Tesla tells you that in the fine print. Its self-driving (supervised). If it was actually self driving, they wouldn't be saying (supervised).
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by vel0city 3mo ago
The 100F time is already the late afternoon/early evening. Am I supposed to mow in the dark when its 98F? Or should I wait until 1 AM to mow? I'm sure my neighbors will love it. At least with the extreme heat the grass doesn'
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> Plus mowing a lawn is meditative Not when its >100F and >30%RH and a bright sun in the sky.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
There are tons of automated systems which take cash. I do agree it would add some complexity to the equipment in the car, but its not like it would be that difficult to do it. These cars have to go back to the depot eventually , emptying
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> All I get to do is choose the job. And have minimum wages, and have workplace safety standards, have recourse for injuries while working, etc. They don't get that, they're not "employees".
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by vel0city 3mo ago
At what point is it forced/not forced to you? This was related to an Arizona Correctional Industries prison labor contract. In Arizona, labor is mandatory. They either work in these corporate-tied programs or they have to work some oth
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Yes. Using forced prison labor is using slave labor.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I agree a company being implicated as a source of a multi-state outbreak should absolutely be communicating with the executive branch. They should absolutely have their teams talking with the USDA, FDA, CDC, state health and food agenci
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by vel0city 3mo ago
This isn't in the featured article, thanks for sharing. I see its in one of the linked articles giving more backstory. This is still an instance of a partial match. If it was looking for an exact match of 34 DTM, it wouldn't have
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by vel0city 3mo ago
That too, I agree! I'm just also pointing out situations like Kay Granger.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
1,600M / 18 means $88.8M per launch. Supposedly they've been selling launches for ~$74M per launch. https://nextspaceflight.com/rockets/3/ If its profitable at $74M then I'd imagine its more profita
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> Flock themselves mis-translated the plate, plain and simple To be fair to Flock, from what was said in this conversation they were told to be on the lookout of a partial plate of 34DTM. Meaning, there could be some additional character
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I agree, we do need regulations on this. We do need to also hold our elected representatives accountable. They're literally asleep (or in the alzheimer's ward) while on the job. And we also need to hold our police and other organi
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by vel0city 3mo ago
This just reads to me like "won't someone please stop me from grinding up all these babies? If only someone would pass a law preventing me from doing these horrible things I keep doing..." Like, you know you can just stop doi
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Speaking of tires, its actually a crazy mixture of units here in the US. You might have a size like P215/65R15 which translates to a radial passenger tire of a 15" rim, 215mm wide tread (sidewall to sidewall), and an aspect ratio
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by vel0city 3mo ago
When you're at a lower floor and you're trying to go down, but its a time period where traffic is trying to leave you can end up in a situation where nearly every elevator going down is already full. So you call for down, cab arri
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Not Austin, but in DFW there's a local chain called freeplay arcade. Its a ~$13 cover charge and then unlimited gaming. https://freeplayinc.com/ While not totally covered by a cover charge, there's also an arcade
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by vel0city 3mo ago
In the local minor league hockey games near me the power play (the man advantage resulting from a penalty) is usually sponsored by an electric company. The announcers say things like "..and with that cross-check they're on a TXU E
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by vel0city 3mo ago
~300 - 200 = 100mn useful barrels. If we're drawing it down by about 4 a week, that's about 25 weeks. If it's really closer to the 180 needed to prevent collapse and hit unusable supply then it's 120mn barrels and we&#x2
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Lots of people (even exceptionally wealthy ones) don't want to always have to go to the theater room to go watch something. Lots of people like having the TV on in the same way one might think about having a radio on, its not necessari
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Levi's jeans does have pretty consistent styles and has model numbers that haven't changed their main style identity for decades. But, I swear the different factories will often produce slightly different cuts. I used to buy 517&#
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Tons of people trust having their phones while taking a bath or near a swimming pool. I've sometimes clean my phones off by washing them in the sink when they get exceptionally dirty after the kids have been messing with it. I regularl
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Quite a lot of developers use Windows. https://commandlinux.com/statistics/developer-os-preference-...
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by vel0city 3mo ago
About 40% of the electricity coming to my house from the grid is from renewable sources, and I live in a state where if it was ranked against countries around the world would be the 3rd biggest natural gas producer.

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