I actually did this. In college, I had to take a wellness class that included a pedometer that we were given half way through the semester. One was apparently expected to wear it until finals week and then to be graded on his/her average steps/day (which was supposed to be 10k).
I remembered to wear the thing maybe two days. A week before finals, I realized we were graded on activity... So I pulled out a desk fan that I hadn't been using, off-balanced its blades with an attachment made of Legos, and affixed the pedometer to the front. A few days later, I had enough "steps" for an A.
And then wait for CM to stop issuing stable (or even "snapshot") builds for your model. I can do without the newest shiny features, but I want the security updates backported to the latest stable version. CM is beholden to no one.
You had mobile servers? We used to dream about mobile servers. We painted our algorithms in caves and performed bit-logic with rivulets of subterranean rivers.
I disagree that either Obama (or the administration as a unit) could possibly have been "happy" that Snowden did what he did. They promised to dismantle the program, had the power and opportunity to do so, and frankly still do. Have they? No.
One could argue that when Obama was campaigning, he was not "the government," but I think that argument is weak. He was a Senator, and as a campaigner had more at stake than a sitting president. Okay, I'm done strawmanning.
Was Snowden supposed to go on the Sunday talk shows and say, "the government is doing really sleazy, illegal and unconstitutional shit, but I can't tell you what it is"? They'd have laughed at him.
As near as I can tell, that is a reasonable approximation of what Senator Wyden was saying.
Among pedestrian fatality and severe injury crashes: LT crashes outnumber RT crashes 3 to 1
Then if you have to make three right turns to make up for a left turn... do you come out the same? I am not confident enough in my command of statistics to determine whether the relationship is that simple.
Either I don't understand what you mean by "fill up," or what you mean by "24/7," or you're just trolling and I am falling for it.
I took "fill up" (and previously "peak capacity") to mean "the most cars that can safely fit on this stretch of road simultaneously, while going the speed limit." I also took "24/7" to mean "all the time."
If you wait long enough without widening the freeway, you will not see peak capacity maintained indefinitely. People aren't going to "fill up" the freeway at times when they don't have a reason to be on it.
I agree entirely that the equilibrium point will have nonzero amount of traffic congestion at some times. I assert that it is less than half the time, though.
Your first sentence is rubbish. Rhetorical questions only work when the answer is in favor of your claim. A demand curve doesn't "show a way" to keep traffic flow constant any more than it "shows a way" to solve any other perennial economics problem.
One could certainly under some conditions manipulate demand into a constant flow, but those are merely thought experiments. There are toll roads that attempt to regulate their price based on the traffic in them, but they still can't spread traffic out constantly. You aren't going to pay people vast sums to incentivise driving in the middle of the night to keep your traffic flow constant. One could also reduce the lanes to zero. You'd have a constant flow of no cars, but that's also unhelpful.
Now that I've knocked down some straw men, do you have something interesting to say?
It is indeed a small state, and because of that, the area taken up by people who live within the environs of Baltimore and DC is a sizable fraction of the state's entire land area. It's not as high a fraction as New Jersey or Rhode Island, but it's not in the same league as Virginia or Pennsylvania.
I still don't know what you mean by "overall sparsely populated." I wouldn't be surprised if you could come up with some formula to divide New England and the Mid-Atlantic into "MA, CT, NJ, RI" and "NY, MD, VA, PA." I do, however, assert that any such formula would be contrived.
And now I feel silly for arguing a bit of worthless pedantry on the internet
If any highway anywhere moves half of its peak capacity in a day, the transportation engineer responsible for it should be fired.
They're not intended to move a constant vehicle flow. Rush hour is not an arbitrary phenomenon. It's come about because we structure our lives around visibility of the giant ball of fusing gas we orbit.
This is untrue. At least 80% of actual legislation introduced by congressmen is written by the non-partisan House Office of Legislative Counsel. While I can believe that more legislation is written by interested non-government entities than ever before, it is not even close to a majority.
Most bills are drafted when a congressman gets an idea (which could come from industry, sure) and asks HOLC to write him/her legislation that actually implements her/his idea.
I am not under the impression that the HOLC is well-known.
Sport sponsors who do not have to pay their athletes, nor even provide compensatory insurance in case they are permanently injured while training for or playing those sports.
I discovered this with the "Tell us your birthday. We need it for reasons. We promise never to tell anyone else." thing a few years back. That was a lie. If you scroll back up my timeline, it now says "Three people wrote on <my name>'s wall for <my possessive gender prefix> birthday."
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I actually did this. In college, I had to take a wellness class that included a pedometer that we were given half way through the semester. One was apparently expected to wear it until finals week and then to be graded on his/her average steps/day (which was supposed to be 10k).
I remembered to wear the thing maybe two days. A week before finals, I realized we were graded on activity... So I pulled out a desk fan that I hadn't been using, off-balanced its blades with an attachment made of Legos, and affixed the pedometer to the front. A few days later, I had enough "steps" for an A.
Last I remember, FitBit sucked at detecting bicycle activity.
Is this what you are talking about?
"The sun was too far away from my solar panels, so I built a closer sun."
And then wait for CM to stop issuing stable (or even "snapshot") builds for your model. I can do without the newest shiny features, but I want the security updates backported to the latest stable version. CM is beholden to no one.
You had mobile servers? We used to dream about mobile servers. We painted our algorithms in caves and performed bit-logic with rivulets of subterranean rivers.
How do I mod +1 Troll?
I disagree that either Obama (or the administration as a unit) could possibly have been "happy" that Snowden did what he did. They promised to dismantle the program, had the power and opportunity to do so, and frankly still do. Have they? No.
One could argue that when Obama was campaigning, he was not "the government," but I think that argument is weak. He was a Senator, and as a campaigner had more at stake than a sitting president. Okay, I'm done strawmanning.
Was Snowden supposed to go on the Sunday talk shows and say, "the government is doing really sleazy, illegal and unconstitutional shit, but I can't tell you what it is"? They'd have laughed at him.
As near as I can tell, that is a reasonable approximation of what Senator Wyden was saying.
It is like saying "change the engine in your car for this other engine, it doesn't have DRM or auto-updates".
I see what you did there.
Out of mod points, but this is the correct answer to GP. I think the worst I have ever seen it was Market St. in Philadelphia.
If this comment's source is correct:
Among pedestrian fatality and severe injury crashes: LT crashes outnumber RT crashes 3 to 1
Then if you have to make three right turns to make up for a left turn... do you come out the same? I am not confident enough in my command of statistics to determine whether the relationship is that simple.
Either I don't understand what you mean by "fill up," or what you mean by "24/7," or you're just trolling and I am falling for it.
I took "fill up" (and previously "peak capacity") to mean "the most cars that can safely fit on this stretch of road simultaneously, while going the speed limit." I also took "24/7" to mean "all the time."
If you wait long enough without widening the freeway, you will not see peak capacity maintained indefinitely. People aren't going to "fill up" the freeway at times when they don't have a reason to be on it.
I agree entirely that the equilibrium point will have nonzero amount of traffic congestion at some times. I assert that it is less than half the time, though.
Your first sentence is rubbish. Rhetorical questions only work when the answer is in favor of your claim. A demand curve doesn't "show a way" to keep traffic flow constant any more than it "shows a way" to solve any other perennial economics problem.
One could certainly under some conditions manipulate demand into a constant flow, but those are merely thought experiments. There are toll roads that attempt to regulate their price based on the traffic in them, but they still can't spread traffic out constantly. You aren't going to pay people vast sums to incentivise driving in the middle of the night to keep your traffic flow constant. One could also reduce the lanes to zero. You'd have a constant flow of no cars, but that's also unhelpful.
Now that I've knocked down some straw men, do you have something interesting to say?
It is indeed a small state, and because of that, the area taken up by people who live within the environs of Baltimore and DC is a sizable fraction of the state's entire land area. It's not as high a fraction as New Jersey or Rhode Island, but it's not in the same league as Virginia or Pennsylvania.
I still don't know what you mean by "overall sparsely populated." I wouldn't be surprised if you could come up with some formula to divide New England and the Mid-Atlantic into "MA, CT, NJ, RI" and "NY, MD, VA, PA." I do, however, assert that any such formula would be contrived.
And now I feel silly for arguing a bit of worthless pedantry on the internet
If any highway anywhere moves half of its peak capacity in a day, the transportation engineer responsible for it should be fired.
They're not intended to move a constant vehicle flow. Rush hour is not an arbitrary phenomenon. It's come about because we structure our lives around visibility of the giant ball of fusing gas we orbit.
Maryland is 5th in population density.
You're puns are like a rolls canardly. They roll down the one hill and canardly get up the other side.
I canardly follow your joke.
What kind of truck do you have? You've piqued my curiosity.
The precious information on public .gov websites?
Back in my day, there weren't any episodes yet: We had a single copy of the unproofed screenplays from a mimeograph that didn't have any vowels.
This is untrue. At least 80% of actual legislation introduced by congressmen is written by the non-partisan House Office of Legislative Counsel. While I can believe that more legislation is written by interested non-government entities than ever before, it is not even close to a majority.
Most bills are drafted when a congressman gets an idea (which could come from industry, sure) and asks HOLC to write him/her legislation that actually implements her/his idea.
I am not under the impression that the HOLC is well-known.
Sport sponsors who do not have to pay their athletes, nor even provide compensatory insurance in case they are permanently injured while training for or playing those sports.
...inane comments instead rational thought.
Wonder no longer: the locals call it "Florida."
I discovered this with the "Tell us your birthday. We need it for reasons. We promise never to tell anyone else." thing a few years back. That was a lie.
If you scroll back up my timeline, it now says "Three people wrote on <my name>'s wall for <my possessive gender prefix> birthday."
I am not falling for "promises" again.