jschwartzi

No, Induced Demand describes the phenomenon whereby the roads eat considerably into the surrounding neighborhoods and get louder and more dangerous while the amount of traffic remains the same.

What about electric trucks? I set the veh/hr to max and then when I changed truck percentage to 14% I almost immediately stopped traffic at the onramp as the trucks inevitably don't have enough space to accelerate from the meter point. Especially if one of the cars cuts the truck off.

This actually shows a difference in how fascists and nationalists use words versus how the rest of us use words. For most people words are a truthful declaration of intents and ideas. But fascists often use words for a different purpose. They don't use them in their common meanings, but rather as tools to inflame and to denigrate others.

Take use of the word "socialism" or "nationalism." I've seen a disturbing tendency on the right to call anything they don't like "socialist." Nothing makes that clearer than Trump's call to the Cuban expatriates in Florida to vote against the "communist" Joe Biden.

If you know anything about Biden's policies you would recognize them as pretty standard Progressive policies. I have never once heard him discuss taking private property and distributing it as a public good. He's not once talked about erasing private enterprise. He is manifestly not communist. So the only conclusion I can draw is that Trump is using "communist" to mean "person you don't like" so he can fan the flames.

Given that, I don't think we can take anything he says at face value. This is actually a common tendency on the right, and it's why they're so good at fanning the flames. They see what our words mean and they disregard that meaning.

The problem here with the Libertarian argument of "live and let live" is that clearly these people didn't.

Nothing is stopping the Russian government from doing that today, so I don't see why it matters.

I could say the same thing about your ask that YouTube allow a free-for-all on their platform but that's only because I'm witnessing the logical conclusion here in the US. We have to do something different or these events will repeat themselves.

Sure, but you seem to be implying that government has no place in how we self-police and restrain ourselves. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Government is not an external entity which subjugates us, it is the tool by which we settle our grievances with each other without beating each other to death with rocks. To facilitate that, we give government the exclusive right to police us. And I would argue part of that duty extends to ensuring that the populace is informed and aware of the facts of the situation.

In our rush to condemn the reprehensible aspects of government we have lost sight of the goal, which is to promote civil society and respect for our fellow man.

And indeed who voted and who spoke and how they spoke was far more consequential to our country than hot air from 5 random commentators. I was watching PBS NewsHour and saw people like Representative Cawthorn give very calculated speeches that were very disturbing if you read between the lines.

GM contracted with one or more actual medical device companies to produce ventilators under the DPA. So yes we needed ventilators, but we produced a ton of them to fulfill that need.

Generally, you should do what makes sense for your organization regardless of what other organizations are doing.

And depending on how they detect “down” they may also start the DHCP server under normal conditions.

I would buy the shit out of a titanium framing hammer but only if they put a soft steel face on it. Older framing hammers are better than newer framing hammers because nails tend to smash the waffle teeth down enough that they don't tear up your thumb when you miss. Titanium is strong enough that this never happens so your hammer destroys your thumb no matter how old it is.

Given that we've never before studied an mRNA vaccine, how do any of the numerous other studies apply to either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine?

We have data, but no information. We have to synthesize the data into information using analytical techniques or it is meaningless.

Setting aside my deep visceral reaction to what you're suggesting, how is it safe or productive to conduct a review on a Friday evening at the end of a long week and not sleep or eat until it is done? Do you have any reason to believe they would make more or fewer mistakes doing so? And what's your personal policy on making really important decisions while sleep deprived? Would you, for example, get some sleep before signing a contract on a house?

how many mols is that? Gas is not very dense.

And that it didn't work at all until USDS took it over.

Kind of. The difference between human vision and computer vision is that human vision is stereoscopic. We perceive depth in addition to color and shape. And that gives us the ability to perceive the 3-dimensional shape of an object, which lets us anticipate how it might move. A lot of CV algorithms operate on single images from a single camera, which makes it impossible to judge depth. In that case you'd have to use the size of an object as a proxy for its distance and speed, so you'd tend to misjudge how far things are from you and where they're going.

The nice thing about LIDAR is that you can gather that depth/shape information and with sufficient calibration map the shapes in the camera image to the depths in the LIDAR image. You can do the same thing with two cameras so I'm not sure why LIDAR would be preferred here.

What about all the paninis you can get if you can make the shot though? Think of it as urban duck hunting.

A lot of Postscript printers are configured to print source code when there’s a syntax error in the file. My 2017 HP laser printer has this as an optional feature.

If you get COVID and survive it some of the side effects you can look forward to are: motor control issues, traumatic brain injury, lung scarring, heart tissue scarring, and even limb amputation. It is not “milder than the flu.”

Yeah this is why a lot of battery-powered electronic shelf labels use LCD. E-Ink's product is great but they're impossible to actually build into a working product line because their terms are so odious.

In the case of masks and lockdowns the "freedom" in question is more analogous to drunk driving. This is in the sense that exercising the freedom could cause the people around you some severe life-altering problems, and you're imposing that risk without their consent or knowledge.

Why does there have to be a dichotomy here? Another option would be to lock down but also to provide for people who will otherwise be ruined by the lockdown.

That seems to be the most humane option. Make it illegal to evict people, provide them with a reasonable base income that allows them to lead a dignified life through the lockdown, and then shut everything down for a little while.

Suggesting that the lockdown is synonymous with loss of livelihood is exactly the problem here. Surely the same elected officials that have the power to close everything down also have the power to authorize emergency payments to those impacted by the lockdown.

This was a serious discussion my wife and I had when we were deciding to have a kid. The maximum out of pocket for both of us could easily wipe out my savings.

It felt really fucked up to have this discussion in what is supposed to be a first-world country. Like we were talking about alternatives like hiring a midwife or a doula because it would be cheaper. I don't even think that would be a discussion in most second-world countries.

The whole system is outrageous.

Imagine having to do this every time you change jobs.

These organizations charge exorbitant amounts of money for the care they provide. This is care which very few people are able to refuse. And if you do refuse care you are likely to die. What hospitals do would be considered extortion if a private citizen did it.

I have no sympathy for them whatsoever.

Sure but the fact that you need benchmarks and big performance optimizations in a chat app is a sign that your approach is very inefficient and slow. Especially considering the same feature set was available 30 years ago in computers that were less capable than my wrist watch.

Please explain. What do you mean by that?

It seemed like you were suggesting that the COVID deaths should have less impact because it wasn't a terrorist attack.

If a test is going to take more than an hour then I'm not going to sit around after work waiting for it to finish.