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"Stand to the right on an escalator" "Put trash in a trashcan and not on the ground" That wasn't complicated. And took 30seconds. Are there a lot of rules? Of course. Is knowing th…

What qualifies as good manners varies from situation to situation, but the concept of acting with good manners is hardly complicated (conform to the expected behavior of the situat…

There was just an outbreak at Taco Bell - should we fine Yum! Brands out of existence. liquidate their assets and imprison the executives, like some people elsewhere in the discuss…

How are Tech companies fighting public transit? At least in these parts a relatively high fraction of their employees commute by (private) bus. I can only presume that Tech compani…

This is America, anything you do pisses people off[0]. The problem is that the rest of us listen to them because it is easier to understand one person's complaint than the distribu…

You seem to be missing the underlying reason(s) why tech nerds are, well, tech nerds. 0dd to be angry about tech nerds being tech nerdy about things.

When the government proscribes discretionary permitting to those items you mentioned corruption and scarcity follow. It is exorbitantly expensive and difficult to build a house, a …

Cooling demand is only fractional with respect to the load: cooling 1MW of heat will only cost a few 10's to low 100's of kW, depending on the specifics. 10-20% overhead on cooling…

>This idea that Americans are genetically pre-ordained to be fat seems like fanciful thinking. The idea that it being genetic or not should matter is odd? Who cares why people are …

Nonsense, one not just as easily say they are overweight because they aren't taking enough GLP-1 agonists. A patient with scurvy is proscribed vitamin C - they might even need to t…

For those of us at home who need to decide which team to root for its very much relevant when and what bills a party sponsors.

You as an individual? Probably not, but you could lobby your local government to, for instance, require any such dataset taken from information in the public be subject to the free…

Pretty much. The discretionary nature of permitting, and other add-ons like CEQA, pose an enormous, and worse, unpredictable, burden on attempting to start a business in many place…

The point that it is a reasonable comparison: being able to reasonably compare the performance of a lump of silicon to a human being at a complex task in the real world means the O…

What 3 year old is judging the depth of a puddle before jumping in? Regardless, consider what you are saying: how can you seriously compare a computer to a (young) human and your r…

Replace agent with 'direct report' and you've just described middle management. For better or worse, companies have always run on non deterministic tasks doled out by persons who b…

>any vulnerability in any software available for inspection is going to be instant public knowledge. Or at least public among anybody who matters. Shouldn't this naturally lead to …

>Some level of permitting reform is warranted but I would think hard about whether you want to adopt China's policies. Given the current geopolitical trajectories we are going to b…

And the meaning of the truism you so adoitly picked up on is that at reasonable projections trimet and similar public transit will be uncompetitive in price (and service) relative …

Assuming an average fare of 2.47$ per to make the math even, that's 6.00$/ride total cost. When a company / government gets the cost per mile to run a fleet of autonomous EV's down…

How many tax dollars go into subsidizing a public transit ride? Varies from place to place but it's not insignificant.

Because the regulations, set by those with vested interest in real estate, make it difficult to build more housing. Otherwise anyone with any sense would undercut the existing hous…

Ianal, usual disclaimers, etc. The design files don't qualify for copyright protections, they describe the design which (maybe) qualifies for copyright protections.[0] The artistic…

Humans. Humans repeatedly violate traffic laws. Humans behind the wheel are killing 10's of thousands every year. Yet we keep giving these drugged up meatbags licenses.

Declaring "my position is a fact" doesn't make it so. Wanting something to be doesn't make it so either. Channel your indignation and anger into a more productive avenue, there's h…