TulliusCicero

Japanese websites tend to be bad in general.

Obviously there are bad websites in the US or broader West as well, but the average in Japan feels a lot worse imo.

Except for the phrase "or else!"

Oh that's good to hear!

It's been years since I needed to use it, but: lack of an undo button. Not being able to undo stuff was very annoying, and felt out of place for an otherwise nice piece of software.

Saving lives is the main thing for me. Waymo at least seems to take safety fairly seriously, with data indicating they cause far fewer serious accidents than the average human driver.

Traffic fatalities are one of the top 3 causes of death for kids in the US (iirc it's right behind firearms).

You misunderstood their point. Singapore has mostly public housing, instead of private.

Ah, blue city progressivism: "Welcome to my country! Now get the fuck out of my city."

Also, note that these cities always happily welcome more offices and businesses. They just don't want to build the housing for those workers to actually live in.

You seem to have completely missed the point.

Growth should be checked by (reasonable) zoning, not by constant one-off meetings that make the de facto rules stricter than the on-paper ones.

Laws and code should be transparent.

People are arguing about this but just making the cap income-dependent seems an easy fix.

I'm not a Republican, but if this is accurate, it's something that these companies (or individuals in these companies) should be prosecuted for.

Hardware looks good except the FoV is really bad, a huge downgrade compared to the Quest 3.

I totally agree. If homelessness is causing you to become a public nuisance (meaning lawbreaking) then clearly something has to be done. It should be a choice of help or jail, where obviously we'd prefer they get help, but jail is the stick.

It shouldn't be a crime exactly to set up a tent in a park because you're homeless, but if you then refuse to get help from society to fix the underlying issue, that's not acceptable. Can't have it both ways.

Related, I usually hate CRT filters in game, the scan lines usually look too strong (and often the image is darkened inappropriately), but I really liked the one in Cyber Shadow. It just felt right.

I think you're right that people are against these things, but wrong about the reasons.

Taking homeless people to jail because they're homeless just seems stupid and pointless, not to mention harmful to the person going to jail.

Shelters have the issue where people don't want them near where they live (for often justifiable reasons) but obviously they have to go somewhere.

I understand why, but it often results in bad outcomes. Part of why transit in other countries is better is often precisely because of greater commercialization. It's not just that it's more convenient for travelers, but also it makes money to fund transit.

This would definitely be a great thing to add.

One thing that I don't like about American culture is that people are a little too hesitant about adding 'retail' into publicly-owned spaces. There's a reflexive attitude of that being A Bad Thing, even though most Americans who visit, say, Japan, really appreciate the various shops and kiosks they have in transit stations over there.

I also really enjoyed in Germany when at the top of some hike there'd be an inn+restaurant, something Americans seem to treat as nearly anathema.

It really shouldn't be. We should have dedicated shelters for that.

Relying on libraries to be de facto homeless shelters is bad for everyone compared to the alternative of dedicated facilities. It's worse for homeless people, worse for the library and staff, and worse for patrons.

Correct, part of safer street and road design is supporting transit, biking, and walking.

That said, it's essentially impossible to get rid of cars entirely, and you can see that just by looking at countries or even regions that have good transit and notice that they still have tons of cars. Even Singapore has lots of cars, and the entire country is a super-dense city-state!

So it's definitely worthwhile to develop self-driving cars and trucks, even if you have fantastic transit and biking and walking available.

> Fatality data is extremely skewed. 44% of drivers aren't using a seatbelt, 29% are speeding related, I recall alcohol involvement being about 30%, though it's not listed in the link I checked.

How is that 'skewed'? It sounds like you're just listing dangerous things, and yeah of course dangerous things are associated with fatalities, duh.

It's like saying that accidental gun deaths are 'skewed' because they're associated with keeping your gun loaded and not locking it up in a safe.

Trains or bikes, really (plenty of Waymo/Uber/Lyft trips aren't super far).

> Better driver education and higher test standards would save lives too. So would banning alcohol.

The biggest thing would be safer road/street design, but Americans are kind of allergic to that. Talk about traffic calming or road diets and a lot of folks get absolutely furious.

> The species was first documented in the 1970s and, being fairly new to scientific observation, has yet to be scientifically described. Because of this, LPSO has no official scientific name.

Is that a joke? It takes over 50 years to come up with a scientific name for a species?

People always say this, but

a) even countries known for good transit like Japan still have a ton of cars for various things, and

b) there's no getting around that the money going into self-driving cars vs public transit isn't something that can really be swapped. It's coming from a different place for a different reason.

We absolutely could invest into more trains even with the SDC money flowing anyway, it's not like the SDC money is blocking it. We collectively choose not to do this, and it's not Waymo's fault.

Yeah, it's not like drivers text while driving, go over the speed limit, fail to signal, fail to fully stop at stop signs, run red lights, tailgate, or park in the bike lane, right?

I mean that's true for side-by-side foldables in general isn't it? It doesn't require what Apple is saying about the aspect ratio here.

But it's not really the same aspect ratio, is it?

Because one is used predominantly vertically, and the other horizontally.

As long as there's this landscape vs portrait difference, how does the aspect ratio similarity actually help?

Okay, but IP protections exist to benefit society. Being less harmful isn't good enough, the justification has to be "here's how being longer than twenty years benefits society".

Do movie companies or authors choose to make stuff because they'll be able to pick up more revenue 25 or 50 years from now? Seems unlikely. Both indiviudals and corporations are typically focused on the immediate future.

I don't see any reason it should be longer than patents (20 years).

Why should authors be granted vastly larger IP protections than inventors?

Just make it 20 years, like patents.