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95% of people drive because 95% of transportation funding goes to enabling that choice. People at large are rational and will make rational transportation choices given incentives.…

The simple geometry problem of how much space cars take up is arguably the worst now (given tailpipe emissions are on their way out), and there is no solution to that outside of fe…

Billions of people all over this planet take trips every day without the use of personal private automobiles. It's fascinating how, to me, my comment was very clearly "don't use a …

> it's that any cop can access your location history for any reason This requires the assumption that your location and your car's location are always one and the same. If you care…

EVs use more than an average home's entire daily electricity budget to go 50 miles. In an emergency you could run your lights, fridge, and water heater for weeks on an EV battery. …

This assumes there's an army of competent mods in waiting that the admins can tap into, who could take over (without many of the tools the previous mods used) and effectively run s…

By definition anyone posting/commenting/upvoting right now doesn't support the blackout. I don't think it's fair to say these comments represent the opinions of those communities.

> the defining trait of a village is that it’s group of people where the average interaction over time is with people you’ve seen before. This finally made it click for me why I st…

People have been trying for years to do what you're describing with gaming-centric Android TV boxes. People don't want to play mobile games on their TV. They want to watch TV while…

I've never come across a page on MDN I felt I could contribute to since it's so complete, but if I were to come across out of date docs I absolutely would. I imagine it's similar f…

Just like a parked motorcycle or bicycle right? You can just throw it on your van because it's abandoned.

I also use the web browser for this, it's extremely efficient: CMD+A,C,T,V,A,X,W,V I don't even release the CMD key between presses and it's all done with one hand extremely quickl…

> a touchpad with a size that's actually usable The touchpad is inferior to the trackpoint, so I'd much rather they get rid of it entirely instead.

I bought a North Face SURGE which advertises this, but at LAX and Heathrow I was made to remove my laptop from the bag regardless. It just ended up wasting time as I tried to run t…

Huh? This has never happened to me and I use Google Maps daily. Is there an update note or something for this?

The update on 16 Feb 2018 is by the CEO, detailing why they've failed to deliver and are shutting the project down. They took the money and ran, basically. https://www.kickstarter.…

This list is a joke, that's not even close to a 1:1 comparison. It looks like they intentionally picked the most expensive options for everything. You don't need a $160 AIO water c…

Nope, you do it through an app or website for every card I've gotten.

They really don't. Trying to find a toilet you can use in downtown San Diego even as a regular looking person is a struggle and you will probably end up having to buy something. Bu…

E*Trade and other online brokers are the "rich," with their silly fees and ridiculous limits on when you can take your money out. Robinhood, by not having fees, takes the stock mar…

> I now have portable battery packs and cheaper USB-C chargers all over the place that charge both my phone and MacBook Pro This isn't true if you buy both an Apple phone and compu…

But have you ever tried drinking from a mug while wearing a VR/AR headset?

You can download a complete copy of the data Facebook has on you, including all messages you've sent since your account was created [1]. I did this some years ago to graph changes …

Schools and governments were buying up PS3 systems because they could be turned into cheap clusters. Sony didn't like this, as they were losing money on every PS3, so they disabled…

Why on earth would a consumer care about profit margins?