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This is exactly what I mean by cheap digital production tools; but it's been possible to do it right since well before cds.

It's well above the rate you need to reproduce everything a human can physically hear; this is one of the big points that shows the author as a moron... The change from cd to vinyl…

Chicken and egg problem. If you start with the assumption that you have a car, they are pretty great. Quiet, no through traffic and can become neighbourly, potentially large blocks…

So what? It's a genuinely irrelevant detail... We don't need to optimise for space, we need to optimise for cost of transport, and door to door duration.

What happens, is your underserved bus has to increase stops per loop for viability. You have areas where leaving the cul-de-sac zone takes 15-20 minutes on foot; so you need a stop…

Because people are not nearly as rigid about a 9-5 as you are imagining in aggregate; enough people commute off hours to increase the number of round trips per car significantly. E…

What? Autonomous cars can park wherever...

Because a transit method that follows a fixed route, on a schedule, is inherently worse than an on demand one; unless you can separate the traffic.

As infrastructure, busses don't make sense if you assume self driving EVs are going to be widespread. Trying to keep using something that is comprised by fixed routes, schedules, a…

See, I would call getting a breed of dog that has been identified as dangerous, as incredibly selfish. Genuinely an insane degree of self centred reasoning. My special dog is fine,…

It's interesting, as an Aussie, the decline in rule following is honestly a bit upsetting. Part COVID, part mass migration, but the general decline in social trust is something tha…

If you compare 100/40 plans to starlink, starlink is about 10aud more over the best reseller promotion I can see, but has the occasional promotion; and getting cheaper. If you are …

Its also a pricing thing; in Australia our nationalised provider keeps getting more expensive, starlink is now getting cost-competitive.

All the major models censor and filter, most just take mainstream silicon valley corporate as "neutral". Uncensored models tend to follow Tay's law.

Generally the cars with better lane warning/centering use camera or radar to see other vehicles. We have been moving from pretty crude centering, to adaptive based on other vehicle…

The LHC is such a crazy thing; kilometres of strange infrastructure, thousands of people, all for what seems like pure scientific curiosity. I think only surpassed by the SETI prog…

I've never heard it in terms of courtesy, more that a human employee is an entirely different category to some mechanical component of a business. So the setup goes, if a doormans …

All very achievable, I have a setup with a wireless keyboard to the htpc, and a script that wakes up my desktop with wake on lan, ssh's in and starts sunshine if I start moonlight.…

Depends on which jobs; at a big enough scale you have people who are so deep in the hierarchy that their real connection to the domain is low. Seems possible to flatten out a compa…

You probably won't see new commencement of building projects, but it probably doesn't mean ongoing projects would be scrapped... And these things have a lead time of years

Every statistic regarding refugee attainment shows that it is; unless you are proposing to limit intake to only the skilled.

I've always been a bit sceptical about these types of statistics, seems like it's a classification problem as well; the big established companies that traditionally take on lots of…

It's a scale problem; fuses can be set up protect components or machines in a car or factory context; and often this is what is taught (or what people have first hand familiarity w…

Art class as part of public education is not completely uncontrovertial. It grew out of a time where basic artistic skills were expensive to learn, and could be a real class differ…

Except that they are a competitor trying to catch up; it's not enough to follow what spacex did. They need to target where spacex will be when their own product is mature.