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It’s a direct quote taken out of context. The article explains that the helicopter pilot was flying within the poorly defined helicopter route and within expected altitude on the a…

This is a very bad tl;dr and is definitely not the main takeaway of the article. Edit: to add details, the article explains that the helicopter pilot was flying within the poorly d…

All I see is a paywall

Until someone fine-tunes a capable model to have the behavior of "wanting to live" and "wanting to propagate itself to other compute hardware".

I think he completely misunderstood 15 minute cities as a concept. 15 min cities mean cities that are mixed use enough that you can get all your needs within 15 mins without a car.…

CEQA in California is very often used to block apartments in existing urban areas. So, instead, California continues to mostly build single family housing sprawl into natural habit…

If you can afford a car in NYC then you can afford the toll. Cars are very expensive to own.

In sports betting you are betting against the house. If the sportsbook sets a bad line, you can lock it in and make money off of it. Horse racing is what you describe, parimutuel, …

When I looked a few years ago the Await element was best consumer grade one on the market at a good price. I’ve been happy with it so far.

Pixar famously spends quite a lot on compute for their render farm. https://nofilmschool.com/why-pixars-24000-core-supercomputer...

I’ve gone down the air quality monitor rabbit hole and, after building my own, have settle on just buying/recommending the Awair Element.[1] Interestingly, it’s not in the table in…

“Luxury” is often a marketing term used for very much not luxury apartments. There’s nothing “luxury” about a 900 sqft apartment that happens to have decent stainless steel applian…

Plenty of fat or elderly people can ride bikes, especially e-assist bikes. More people can ride bikes than can drive cars… 82M people don’t have drivers licenses in America. In fac…

The GPS has to shut off when going faster than a certain speed or higher than a certain altitude. IIRC the GPS maker can decided which they want to follow, and most chose to stop w…

Lots of smaller regional banks pay ATM fees, as they don’t want to run their own fleet of ATMs. And they have local branches when you need it, like for a cashiers check.

Paper ballot, electronic counting. Best of both worlds. You get a quick count, but also if there’s shadiness/hacking going on you can always recount the paper. Some states seem to …

It’s to help prevent voter fraud. Anybody who cares can check who voted and when. Also, your name, birthday, and address will never be very private. You give it to so many differen…

I disagree. If you pay attention to where you’re being routed you can totally learn special awareness and routing in your city. Some people don’t, but those are the same type of pe…

Human oil extraction in the region likely reduces the amount of tar on the beach as it relives pressure from natural seeps. An oil company even has a cap over one of the bigger nat…

A foreign airline operating domestic routes in the US would likely use many US pilots/employees.

It’s my understanding that the scientific consensus is that coffee is actually pretty great for you, as long as it’s not interrupting your sleep.

It you wanted to kickstart a technology I think it could make sense for shorter periods of time. For example Electric Vehicle tax credits make it much easier for car companies to d…

You’re conflating two different things. In the former, states have set up legal framework for marijuana sales. In the later, state laws don’t have any opinion on the matter.

As a Mac user, I feel it’s irresponsible. I don’t want zero days published before Apple has a chance to fix. I also think that the vendor has a responsibility to fix the exploit qu…

How did you get your start freelancing?