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by volkl48 8y ago
Here's a pretty interesting map showing TPH (and number of train cars) in 1954 for the AM rush. I believe some lines are running fewer trains today than they were then. http://transitmap.net/image/55177865550
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by volkl48 8y ago
Depends on where you are I suppose. Where I got a ticket once (Upstate NY) and it was an official policy. If you have not had more than X tickets in Y years and choose to contest it, they would knock down minor moving violations to no-point
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by volkl48 8y ago
Maybe in a lot of US/European airports that originally date from the first half of the 1900s, they're too close to the city center and don't have enough land to expand. Even then, they seem to be regularly able to find ways t
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by volkl48 8y ago
Quite large, especially if you're including "all in one" and SFF type desktops. Plenty of typical office workers have a fixed desk/workstation/cube and don't need a portable computer. If you don't need or
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by volkl48 8y ago
Taleb's books are something I almost hate to recommend. I don't like a lot of his attitude (arrogance) and I'm not sure I'd call them all that well written either. He likes to ramble and seems to cram as many "SAT w
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by volkl48 8y ago
I can tell you that NYC cabs do not seem to, as they're often lined up 5+ cabs deep at the pumps at the remaining stations in Manhattan. The buses certainly do.
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by volkl48 8y ago
The law as written and the law in practice, are different matters. NYC would not function with actual adherence to the law. There is never a break in pedestrians long enough for a car to turn in a fully legal fashion at most intersections,
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by volkl48 8y ago
Toronto is more like 10th in size (metro population). Your comparison is based on population within "city limits" which are arbitrary and widely varying as to how much of the urban area of a city they cover. Your overall point isn
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by volkl48 8y ago
If you're fine with it being large, having no battery life/using a lot of power, why are you buying a laptop at all?
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by volkl48 8y ago
Cities:Skylines is lacking the "deep mechanics" side, which is why many people still play SimCity 4. It's best looked at as more of a "city painter" than something which is going to be challenging to build a large,
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by volkl48 9y ago
Human nature. While it may be worse in our industry, these issues can be seen in almost any organization, it's just a matter of the degree. For an example from a totally different direction, consider something like "Kitchen Nightm
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by volkl48 9y ago
I kind of disagree with that though. They knew their core product was bad and that it was severely hurting their business. That's a lot less difficult to find the courage to take a risk on changing than when your core product is decent
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by volkl48 9y ago
I'm skeptical of Bloomberg's take, or at least that the details will really match it. I've loosely dealt with Japanese financial regulations (while working on some projects in the insurance industry). My impression and the im
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by volkl48 9y ago
The saying in those fields is "the rules are written in blood". The Therac-25 (a medical device) is taught in practically every CS Ethics class for having changed software development practices for such things. The cynic in me thi
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by volkl48 9y ago
If it is suffering from anything, I'd suggest Craigslist is suffering more from the number of scam/spam/low-effort posts ("Honda for sale." No model, mileage, photos, etc in the post) that you have to sort through o
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by volkl48 9y ago
While I use a lot of FB Chat, I feel like the thing I use most like old AIM is Steam's chat. I chat randomly with a lot of people, some of which I don't know in real life.
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by volkl48 9y ago
The vast, vast majority of kids don't know it exists and have no idea what they'd do with it even if it did. Yeah, I'm sure there's the one kid who loves tech in the class that wants to use it, but they'd be just as
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by volkl48 9y ago
I'd say more like 10-15 days (2-3 weeks). That's said, I will point out that most people posting on this site are in desirable enough roles that US work culture is a choice, not a requirement, even when you're living in the U
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by volkl48 9y ago
Realistically speaking, the answer to that question depends on the current makeup of your employees. If most of your workforce is 50+, you probably don't need more highly experienced people and are probably overpaying for some of the m
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by volkl48 9y ago
An obvious solution to me would be hiking grid connection fees to the point where that part of the business doesn't operate at a loss, then. I would wager that the vast majority of people are still going to need/want the connectio
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by volkl48 9y ago
The first season was Amazon's top draw (as this article indicates). The 2nd season seems to have largely been better received, not worse. Seems very, very unlikely that Amazon would be canceling a show with those circumstances. I could
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by volkl48 9y ago
Amazon's basically just cutting a check to "W. Chump & Sons" (The production company Wilman, Clarkson, Hammond and May each have a 25% share in) for the show. They supposedly have very little to do with the actual making
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by volkl48 9y ago
Couldn't you just disable the Windows Update service?
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by volkl48 9y ago
If you could drive the unit costs of electricity low enough for it to be cheaper than natural gas for heating, you could see major growth from that. Obviously, not likely to happen anytime soon, but if the cost-reduction progression of rene
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by volkl48 9y ago
As with most things driving, the US is a typically a lot more relaxed than that about handing out licenses. I know in my home state (NJ) I took a 2.5 day class over a weekend and got my motorcycle endorsement from passing a basic skills tes
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by volkl48 9y ago
Even if they're not reusing any of it (this time), it's still very useful to examine and analyze how well it's held up. Perhaps some piece of metal is showing more fatigue than they'd like to see, or a wire had damage to
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by volkl48 9y ago
If you get to the point of considering moving, you may wish to look into a college town. They'll typically have far more extensive transit than the average mid-sized city/town does.
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by volkl48 9y ago
Probably depends on if it's a broad crash or a single-currency one. If it's just one currency people would probably switch. I suspect that when there's a crash it's going to shake confidence in all crypto and you're
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by volkl48 9y ago
Your first point is misleading. As birthrates fluctuate (ex: "the baby boom" was a high point), so do the number of people who can potentially be starting college in a given year (at the traditional age). The next few years of Ame
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by volkl48 9y ago
I fully believe that plenty of these were not tested because of bias/incompetence/whatever. With that said, I'm not sure if the idea of testing them primarily for database purposes was really on the radar in the 80s-90s. Did

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