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This is a disingenuous argument - cars are "full members of the public traffic" and are regularly involved in minor and major collisions with each other. Drivers are rarely killed or seriously injured in these collisions, whereas it's almost impossible for a cyclist to escape these collisions without an injury. "Some people are terrified" because injury and death is a very real possibility in traffic.

The primary issue with road safety is not the speed of cycling but the presence of motor vehicles. The only adequate mitigation is to make them go very slowly to reduce the energy of collision (on side streets) or eliminate them (on well-designed, segregated bike paths). The fact that Germany is not very good at segregation does not invalidate the concept - just look at the Netherlands for an example of what can be achieved.

You seem to assume that there is One True Way of doing things and we're just circling round trying to find it. In fact, as you point out, there are benefits and tradeoffs to every approach. People compile interpreted languages to make them run faster, but are using them in the first place because they're easier to use. People who have come to compiled languages for speed are now naturally looking to make them easier to develop with as well.

Compiled C is not going to go away any sooner than interpreted Javascript - but a widening of the options available is great as it allows us to focus on developing things quickly and correctly, rather than making decisions based on which particular annoyance you're happy to put up with.

Could you explain why - would it make your working life harder, or do you struggle to find things to do outside work?

This effect is at the root of homesickness, I think. In my experience you're never really homesick when you're happy - homesickness only happens when you're sad for some reason and you can't separate it from the place/situation you're in. That reason is only sometimes a direct result of that situation, but your instinctive response is to think "this would be better if I were at home" regardless.

Getting over homesickness seems to be about being able to accept the bad thoughts as you would do at home and move on, rather than "feeling bad about feeling bad" in the form of wishing you could just go home.

I'm fortunate enough to have never experienced it, but I imagine serious grieving is like this too.

Were you aware that turning right on red is legal in most of the US but chose not to, or did you not know?

People write all sorts of nonsense for newspapers and get paid for it. Just because you personally don't value some labour doesn't mean it's not valuable labour.

It may have escaped your notice that sidewalks like these don't exist outside of children's playgrounds, yet children successfully use sidewalks safely worldwide. The same can be true of bike tracks - have you not seen any videos of what has been achieved in the Netherlands?

So great to read. This is exactly the kind of project the Raspberry Pi was designed to enable - doing something a bit odd (and arguably pointless!) but having fun and learning loads along the way.

Do you object to using sidewalks which are also suitable for children to walk on?

Sounds like Vancouver is seeing fastest growing number of cycling trips in the world - do you think it's possible your experiences might not have been representative, or is there an effect you believe the stats aren't capturing?

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2016/02/eco-counter-cycling-index...

I'm hardly an expert, though I'd probably suggest focusing on avoiding the four pitfalls I mentioned. Like any hard process, it involves working hard to achieve gradual improvement, learning from others where appropriate.

However, I can guarantee that resting on your laurels and calling your process "unbiased" from the start won't work.

They're not necessarily unbiased or even anonymous (in a meaningful way). The problem which is set might somehow favour applicants from certain backgrounds. The language used might be unnecessarily complex or use local idioms. The comments and variable names might betray the candidate as a non-native (but perfectly proficient) English speaker. If the candidate uses company hardware, the keyboard may be set to a different layout to what the candidate is used to.

There are lots of ways any test which (ostensibly) aims to test raw ability can be very biased indeed. A lecturer of mine once told a story about a horrible experience he had during an exam trying to whisper an explanation of the rules of Checkers to a student who was from a country where the game was rarely played - the possibility hadn't even crossed his mind.

Declaring the interview style you use as "unbiased" from the start seems like a great way to get complacent and have large amounts of bias creep in unnoticed.

If you were concerned about someone's wellbeing surely you'd check their page directly?

A series of astonishingly poor decisions. Why are they so mystified that the people living there already are so hostile given that they've just strolled into their home?

I think they mean all the other content providers, besides Netflix, whose content is on Giphy.

Oh never mind, I solved it, thanks! <end of thread>

The (vast?) majority of cars on the road at any given time are single-occupant. For mobile phone offences, the proportion probably goes up for the reasons you cite.

Disgustingly irresponsible reporting. All this can do is encourage racial discrimination in hiring.

Disgustingly irresponsible reporting. All this will do is encourage racial discrimination in hiring.

I doubt that that's what you actually think. For example, I doubt you want me to be able to ask the government how much money was spent on impotence medication for you. There's a trade-off to be made regarding personal privacy. Why do you think that trade-off should be made against certain groups of people?

What's special about individuals who happen to be employed in the public sector or in receipt of welfare payments that makes it OK to intrude on their privacy in this way?

The volume and weight of traffic has changed too - with more and heavier cars, trucks and buses on more roads - and this will have affected some streets more than others. Quiet residential dead-end streets will barely change, while rat runs and secondary routes may be seeing significantly more traffic than they were ever designed for. Equally, main roads may have been massively overengineered at some point in the past and therefore able to cope with the increase. There's a lot more going on there than just the layer at the top.

With mass carsharing, the number of cars should fall so this should be less of a concern.

I agree though - if your cities are already gridlocked, this won't make them somehow less gridlocked. You still need mass transit, cycling and walking no matter who's driving the cars.

Other way around surely?

Train companies often put "buffer time" in schedules to make up for predictable delays like this one. That could show up as a train being late at one station then suddenly on time at the next. Could that be it?

"Our sidewalks are narrow and crowded, will pedestrians just move to the streets?"

I hope so. If drvierless cars allow pedestrians to safely reclaim the streets that, as you point out, have marginalized them for so long, then that's fantastic.

It's not remotely controversial in Scotland - estates effectively have legal requirements for the numbers of deer they need to shoot each year to keep the population even vaguely under control (in fact, many campaigners complain that estate populations are allowed to keep deer populations too high to improve the commercial hunting.) This is generally accepted because, as you say, they have no natural predators. Is the situation different in England? I didn't realise it was.

You say this like the car companies aren't developing self-driving technology too. They are - they just don't need or want to shout about it as they don't want to cannibalise the existing market until it's necessary.

I imagine the supplier would probably care (and maybe the police too) but as long as I'm paying 25% less it's not really my problem.

As long as it's not a hugely noisy in the way it changes within each exchange/source of inventory, you should be able to account for it. Don't forget plenty of other "legitimate" changes happen every day to affect the value of placements too - usage patterns, page layouts, tastes and fashions etc. They can be just as nefarious but all need to be accounted for - fraud is just another factor.