Another point of similarity to Mussolini, not Hitler, is military weakness. Mussolini had trouble conquering Ethiopia of all places. Hitler came very close to conquering all of Europe. In today's Turkey, Erdogan has so weakened the military by purging political opponents that it's been having major trouble conquering territory from irregulars in the failed state of Syria.
Erdogan is more like Mussolini than Hitler. He's a dictator, sure, but he doesn't have Hitler's rabid hatred of any minority. Not even the Kurds. There are actually a ton of devout Muslim Kurds who vote for Erdogan's party. Not to excuse the brutality Erdogan is using against rebellious Kurdish areas in southeast Turkey, but he obviously doesn't intend to exterminate all Kurds, like a Hitler would.
I agree. I think if hyperloops have a place, it's on long straight flat routes like Chicago-Dallas where many of those issues are avoided. Not on relatively short routes like LA-San Francisco where traditional high speed rail is appropriate.
Want to go from City A to City B at 500mph? No problem. We already have a complete infrastructure in place that will allow you to go from just about any city to just about any other city at high speed. It's called airplanes and airports and has existed since before you were born.
This method is uncomfortable (legroom), nauseating (turbulence), frequently delayed or cancelled (weather), with inherent capacity limits (airspace, runway space), and long lines for creepy invasive security checks (TSA) before you get on. High speed trains have none of that.
You should try taking a high speed train some time in Europe or Asia. The station is downtown, often right next to your destination or a quick subway ride away. You can arrive 5 minutes before departure and get on with no problems. There is no security check, just a guy at the platform entrance to check that you have a ticket. The train leaves exactly on time and arrives exactly on time pretty much every trip (and by "on time" I mean actually on time, not within the half hour padding that airplane schedules have to boost on-time rates). The ride is perfectly smooth and quiet, often with free wifi, and plenty of leg room. For trips of 150 to 400 miles, it's frequently the fastest option door-to-door as well. Just try this once, and I think your opinion of high speed rail will change.
For all intents and purposes, Uber is banned in Italy.
All major surveys show that Uber has steadily declined in market share. Uber is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Uber is to survive at all it will be among car sharing dilettante dabblers. Uber continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Uber from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Uber is dead.
This is straightforward if you fully consider the consequences of hunting other humans.
Other humans most likely live in tribes just like you. By hunting one of them, you are declaring war on the entire tribe, who have good reason to fear that they are next. So they will fight very viciously against you. You may win in the end, but likely not without casualties. Even in the best case, you'll have to constantly watch your back rather than doing productive things. All this for the calories from a single person.
This is a question that comes up in utilitarian theory. It's frequently asked, shouldn't utilitarianism allow you to find a lonely old woman, and kill her in order to save the lives of ten people awaiting organ transplants? In the short term, this might save lives and increase overall human happiness. But in the long term, every slightly-vulnerable person would wonder that they are next. This would cause an overall decrease in human happiness.
That's arguably even worse. It means that drivers are being paid per mile/minute of driving they do, while passengers are paid per trip they get. In other words, for entirely different things. That indicates Uber is NOT facilitating contracts between riders and drivers, but rather, they are providing rides while paying the driver a salary. No different from your local city bus. Once all those drivers are classified as employees, it's immediately obvious that Uber is violating a million employer laws.
The US is resembling Russia more and more. Once a superpower, now going gradually downhill socially and politically. Whenever anyone points this out they get huffy and isolate themselves from anyone who criticizes them in any way. Which only further contributes to their problems.
Which, incidentally, is why flying cars will never take off (apologies for the pun). Humans are much heavier than Amazon packages, so the flying car would be correspondingly louder.
It takes more discipline than I have to live off of white bread and sliced cheese for three days so that you can pay an electric bill,
Someone who's interested in saving money shouldn't be eating white bread and cheese. They should be eating rice and beans, which are much cheaper per calorie. Eat just rice and beans for a couple weeks, and you will have a good chunk of the $300 you need for the shoes which will save you money in the long term. Is it fun to eat just rice and beans? No, but the key is, you only have to do this ONCE. That lets you save up a little money, which you can then use to make a more efficient (but initially more expensive) purchase the next time. That, in turn, lowers your cost of living, and from then on you can save a bit of money without eating just rice and beans. The effects of being disciplined compound themselves over time, and over the course of years, this allows an able-bodied and disciplined person to escape extreme poverty. As an example, immigrants in NYC's Chinatown frequently start out living in horrible conditions, 10 or 12 to a single apartment, but as they save up money they are eventually able to move to a nicer place elsewhere.
Is it poor people's lack of discipline "their fault"? Well, I'm sure discipline is affected by one's genes and upbringing, neither of which one chooses. So in that sense, no. Yet it's still true that a more disciplined person, in the same situation, would likely not remain poor. So we shouldn't use "lack of discipline" as an excuse to cut the social safety net, but we should still point out and encourage the benefits that discipline brings.
To someone in the middle class, $60 a year on shoes doesn't seem like much. What about clothes? A winter coat? Furniture? Blankets for your bed? And god forbid you want some luxury item like a vacuum cleaner
To a large extent, those are luxuries. Yes, everyone needs some clothes, plus a winter coat, and probably a blanket. But most people have massively more clothes than they really need. And one can live happily without extensive furniture or a vacuum cleaner. Billions of people do it around the world.
or you have an unexpected medical expense.
That is indeed a major problem in the US. Thankfully it does not really exist in every (other) civilized country.
To pretend, this is about "privacy" is a gimmick — a spin, employed by people afraid of the sunlight shining on the darker corner of the government
I find it hard to believe EPA research is the part of the government that most needs sunlight. How about we start by releasing the tax returns of prominent executive branch officials, to see what connections they have to Russia? Isn't that a more urgently needed form of sunlight?
Sometimes pressure on politicians works. Congress members received 50 times as many calls opposing TrumpCare as supporting it. And the bill failed. We could try the same thing here.
You need to follow Market Urbanism. They are also "hopeless libertarian nutjobs". Their fondest wish is that anyone would be able to build to whatever height they want in cities like NYC and San Francisco. Then housing costs would drop to near the level of construction costs, which in many areas is several times lower than the current housing cost. Nobody would have to live in cities, but millions of people who want to live in cities and can't afford it would suddenly be able to afford it.
High speed rail is designed for service BETWEEN urban areas, not WITHIN an urban area.
For example, there are high speed rail routes between London and Paris, between Madrid and Barcelona, and between Moscow and St Petersburg.
In suburbs/exurbs, you want to stop every couple miles to pick up more passengers. It's impossible to go "high speed" (generally defined as over 120 or 160 mph), because before you finish accelerating to that speed, you already have to decelerate for the next stop.
However, you could build regular-speed rail to the suburbs, which is plenty fast enough for suburban service.
Slashdot Mirror
> The administration official sad
Final proof that Slashdot editors intentionally introduce typos into the summary to spur people to comment more. Sad!
Re Germany: All that was done, and from what I have heard, is appreciated by contemporary Jews.
Incidentally, Austria did none of that, despite being equally a part of Nazi Germany...
Another point of similarity to Mussolini, not Hitler, is military weakness. Mussolini had trouble conquering Ethiopia of all places. Hitler came very close to conquering all of Europe. In today's Turkey, Erdogan has so weakened the military by purging political opponents that it's been having major trouble conquering territory from irregulars in the failed state of Syria.
Erdogan is more like Mussolini than Hitler. He's a dictator, sure, but he doesn't have Hitler's rabid hatred of any minority. Not even the Kurds. There are actually a ton of devout Muslim Kurds who vote for Erdogan's party. Not to excuse the brutality Erdogan is using against rebellious Kurdish areas in southeast Turkey, but he obviously doesn't intend to exterminate all Kurds, like a Hitler would.
Says the guy with a user number of infinity...
I have taken trains in Europe, but not in the UK, maybe it's worse there.
I think air travel is more reliable in Europe than the US, probably because there are fewer major weather events (thunderstorms and blizzards).
I agree. I think if hyperloops have a place, it's on long straight flat routes like Chicago-Dallas where many of those issues are avoided. Not on relatively short routes like LA-San Francisco where traditional high speed rail is appropriate.
Want to go from City A to City B at 500mph? No problem. We already have a complete infrastructure in place that will allow you to go from just about any city to just about any other city at high speed. It's called airplanes and airports and has existed since before you were born.
This method is uncomfortable (legroom), nauseating (turbulence), frequently delayed or cancelled (weather), with inherent capacity limits (airspace, runway space), and long lines for creepy invasive security checks (TSA) before you get on. High speed trains have none of that.
You should try taking a high speed train some time in Europe or Asia. The station is downtown, often right next to your destination or a quick subway ride away. You can arrive 5 minutes before departure and get on with no problems. There is no security check, just a guy at the platform entrance to check that you have a ticket. The train leaves exactly on time and arrives exactly on time pretty much every trip (and by "on time" I mean actually on time, not within the half hour padding that airplane schedules have to boost on-time rates). The ride is perfectly smooth and quiet, often with free wifi, and plenty of leg room. For trips of 150 to 400 miles, it's frequently the fastest option door-to-door as well. Just try this once, and I think your opinion of high speed rail will change.
For all intents and purposes, Uber is banned in Italy.
All major surveys show that Uber has steadily declined in market share. Uber is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Uber is to survive at all it will be among car sharing dilettante dabblers. Uber continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Uber from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Uber is dead.
This is straightforward if you fully consider the consequences of hunting other humans.
Other humans most likely live in tribes just like you. By hunting one of them, you are declaring war on the entire tribe, who have good reason to fear that they are next. So they will fight very viciously against you. You may win in the end, but likely not without casualties. Even in the best case, you'll have to constantly watch your back rather than doing productive things. All this for the calories from a single person.
This is a question that comes up in utilitarian theory. It's frequently asked, shouldn't utilitarianism allow you to find a lonely old woman, and kill her in order to save the lives of ten people awaiting organ transplants? In the short term, this might save lives and increase overall human happiness. But in the long term, every slightly-vulnerable person would wonder that they are next. This would cause an overall decrease in human happiness.
Limits to the number of taxis are necessary in certain places (like Manhattan) where taxis form a large part of street congestion.
That's arguably even worse. It means that drivers are being paid per mile/minute of driving they do, while passengers are paid per trip they get. In other words, for entirely different things. That indicates Uber is NOT facilitating contracts between riders and drivers, but rather, they are providing rides while paying the driver a salary. No different from your local city bus. Once all those drivers are classified as employees, it's immediately obvious that Uber is violating a million employer laws.
The USA.
They don't care. But it's good PR to say that they care.
The US is resembling Russia more and more. Once a superpower, now going gradually downhill socially and politically. Whenever anyone points this out they get huffy and isolate themselves from anyone who criticizes them in any way. Which only further contributes to their problems.
Ouch! Call the burn ward. But only if his insurance covers it...
That's awesome. But let's keep in mind that in Rwanda the alternatives to drones are much less effective than in the US.
Which, incidentally, is why flying cars will never take off (apologies for the pun). Humans are much heavier than Amazon packages, so the flying car would be correspondingly louder.
It takes more discipline than I have to live off of white bread and sliced cheese for three days so that you can pay an electric bill,
Someone who's interested in saving money shouldn't be eating white bread and cheese. They should be eating rice and beans, which are much cheaper per calorie. Eat just rice and beans for a couple weeks, and you will have a good chunk of the $300 you need for the shoes which will save you money in the long term. Is it fun to eat just rice and beans? No, but the key is, you only have to do this ONCE. That lets you save up a little money, which you can then use to make a more efficient (but initially more expensive) purchase the next time. That, in turn, lowers your cost of living, and from then on you can save a bit of money without eating just rice and beans. The effects of being disciplined compound themselves over time, and over the course of years, this allows an able-bodied and disciplined person to escape extreme poverty. As an example, immigrants in NYC's Chinatown frequently start out living in horrible conditions, 10 or 12 to a single apartment, but as they save up money they are eventually able to move to a nicer place elsewhere.
Is it poor people's lack of discipline "their fault"? Well, I'm sure discipline is affected by one's genes and upbringing, neither of which one chooses. So in that sense, no. Yet it's still true that a more disciplined person, in the same situation, would likely not remain poor. So we shouldn't use "lack of discipline" as an excuse to cut the social safety net, but we should still point out and encourage the benefits that discipline brings.
To someone in the middle class, $60 a year on shoes doesn't seem like much. What about clothes? A winter coat? Furniture? Blankets for your bed? And god forbid you want some luxury item like a vacuum cleaner
To a large extent, those are luxuries. Yes, everyone needs some clothes, plus a winter coat, and probably a blanket. But most people have massively more clothes than they really need. And one can live happily without extensive furniture or a vacuum cleaner. Billions of people do it around the world.
or you have an unexpected medical expense.
That is indeed a major problem in the US. Thankfully it does not really exist in every (other) civilized country.
$300 over five years is a miniscule amount of money. If you had any discipline, you'd be able to save the $300 at some point and then get the boots.
Problem is, Americans don't have discipline. Even rich ones. Our waistlines are evidence enough.
To pretend, this is about "privacy" is a gimmick — a spin, employed by people afraid of the sunlight shining on the darker corner of the government
I find it hard to believe EPA research is the part of the government that most needs sunlight. How about we start by releasing the tax returns of prominent executive branch officials, to see what connections they have to Russia? Isn't that a more urgently needed form of sunlight?
The more relevant question is: will I be upgraded?
Sometimes pressure on politicians works. Congress members received 50 times as many calls opposing TrumpCare as supporting it. And the bill failed. We could try the same thing here.
You need to follow Market Urbanism. They are also "hopeless libertarian nutjobs". Their fondest wish is that anyone would be able to build to whatever height they want in cities like NYC and San Francisco. Then housing costs would drop to near the level of construction costs, which in many areas is several times lower than the current housing cost. Nobody would have to live in cities, but millions of people who want to live in cities and can't afford it would suddenly be able to afford it.
High speed rail is designed for service BETWEEN urban areas, not WITHIN an urban area.
For example, there are high speed rail routes between London and Paris, between Madrid and Barcelona, and between Moscow and St Petersburg.
In suburbs/exurbs, you want to stop every couple miles to pick up more passengers. It's impossible to go "high speed" (generally defined as over 120 or 160 mph), because before you finish accelerating to that speed, you already have to decelerate for the next stop.
However, you could build regular-speed rail to the suburbs, which is plenty fast enough for suburban service.