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by willio58 3y ago
Regulations are there to help in cases like this. If the regulation is failing to accommodate modern vehicles, they need to be changed. Trusting companies to "get it right" on their own and act in the best interest of peoples&#x27
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by willio58 3y ago
Did you watch the video? Because that's exactly what he says. The whole issue boils down to the fact that the regulations are outdated, not that there are conflicting regulations.
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by willio58 3y ago
> keep enough distance, pay attention and this is never an issue If this was helpful, far fewer crashes would happen on roads today. People are imperfect. They're distracted, they have slow reaction times, they have poor vision, and
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by willio58 3y ago
Airships just seem so unappealing to me. Their benefits over all other modes of transportation seems to boil down to "they look cool".
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by willio58 3y ago
I do agree Apple's hardware is still top-notch. Their home-made chips have been amazing to use and I have no worry they'll continue to push the envelope there. And even iOS I feel is a solid piece of evolving software (other than
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by willio58 3y ago
As a MacOS user, this looks really cool. I just hope Apple figures out how to do it, which I don't have a ton of hope for since they've flubbed Siri for so many years. I mean seriously, the fact that Microsoft is this far ahead wi
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by willio58 3y ago
Google has enough resources to in theory thrive in any business they attempt. Yet, they fail in so many businesses they attempt to get into. https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by willio58 3y ago
While I agree with a lot of this, I do think we need better transit! Bikes/walking is great when you live close to what you need but inevitably (at least in my life) there's a weekly trip to the other side of town to see a friend
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by willio58 3y ago
It’s one of those buildings that looks ugly on first seeing it, but it definitely grew on me. It’s like a life size hamster play structure
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by willio58 3y ago
Over the past 5 years I've definitely drank the kool-aid around walkability and better public transit. In the last year I moved to the one fairly walkable part of my city (of course it's the oldest part, this tends to be the case
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by willio58 3y ago
To me, it's good she's going to prison for fraud. But I do recognize that white collar crimes like this are too often solved with a slap of a measly fine and nothing else. I think all crimes like this should be punished in an equi
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by willio58 3y ago
Suicide around the teen years is so sad because it shows just how difficult life can be in that time, and how little support is being given to so many thousands of teens. Being a teenager in the U.S. means you're: 1. Going through pube
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by willio58 3y ago
I hold a center position on this. I think PHP is great for a lot of things (especially these days). I even agree about Swift. Love that lang. But for web, I personally prefer Typescript frontend and backend combos. It's amazing to be a
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by willio58 3y ago
Datadog prices are insane. We're leaving them now at my work because they've gotten to be more expensive than our entire AWS bill.
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by willio58 3y ago
The recommendation for React projects for the past few years has been to write everything using functional components vs the old class-based components. In function-based components, you can only use hooks so useState is that's why the
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by willio58 3y ago
Angular is falling off hard in the frontend frameworks race. And I totally agree about how the boilerplate and other things about Angular feels bad to work with. Other frameworks are far easier to build with, to the point where a 1-person t
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by willio58 3y ago
I agree. To answer your question it's really just companies sticking with what they know. Just like how a huge portion of the internet is still built on PHP. Check out this chart (click rankings in the top right): https://20
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by willio58 3y ago
Did you look at the papers I linked? One is about how Australia instituted a ban on guns and immediately not only saw a drop to zero mass shootings but also numerous other benefits including general murder rates dropping
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by willio58 3y ago
Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I think the U.S. so far has failed horribly on this front. My note about blue states was simply that they are the only ones pushing for public transport like this. But will we ever see CA high-speed rail
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by willio58 3y ago
I totally agree, I say TAX ME MORE. The thing is though, it's not even most higher-salaried tech workers that we need to tax heavier. We need to tax the rich. When I say the rich I don't mean people making 300k/yr. I mean peo
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by willio58 3y ago
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/do-guns-m... https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/199... To be honest, I don't really care if you ha
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by willio58 3y ago
I'm always confused by this. Climate change is inherently a global issue. It will take progress by _every_ country, not just those with the highest populations. Blaming China and India does no good to help the planet. We should instead
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by willio58 3y ago
As an American I am increasingly jealous of European countries and their public transport (among other things cough health care cough gun control). It feels like the only way we will ever get there as a country is one state at a time, a
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by willio58 3y ago
Exactly. I use ChatGPT for help coding sometimes and it's like 50/50 if I get an answer that is truly helpful, but that's infinitely better of a tool than I thought we'd have 1 year ago.
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by willio58 3y ago
The reason may be dumb but I'm anti-monopoly enough that I simply don't care. Anything that even slightly hinders companies from completely removing any form of competition in the space makes me happy.
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by willio58 3y ago
I totally agree about the reality of mental health issues in the US. And I definitely agree we need more studies on LSD and its effects. It's very unfortunate that LSD is schedule 1, meaning that research is exceedingly difficult to do
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by willio58 3y ago
slack is great, we have that too. But it's asynchronous by design. Async communication is great, it's super useful for getting work done. Synchronous communication is important for things like brainstorming, when ideas are half th
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by willio58 3y ago
One thing my remote team does that I think helps massively with this is we have a zoom room that's always open and we use it for regular meetings like standup, sprint planning, etc. When the meeting is over, you can hop (many do) but y
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by willio58 3y ago
Sure but that would only work for users that existed with a blue checkmark last year. What about all the new creators and news sources? I get the intention of this, to try and claw back some usability of Twitter. I say let it be. Spend thes
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by willio58 3y ago
I get where you’re coming from but I’m comparing two drugs here, LSD and Alcohol. One of those communities is underground, mixed use with harder drugs, associated in large part with people who are “less than” in society. There’s no way to g

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