Are they laying tracks from solid gold, set with sapphires?
No, the gold and sapphires are going to the Central Valley farmers whose land the train will cross. Land which after the train goes through will be so much higher in value that a rational government could have had them bid for the privilege of paying for the right to have the track running through.
I have done London-Paris using both modes. Trust me, you would prefer the train. Get in in downtown London, get off in downtown Paris while airport travelers are still dealing with the latest wildcat strike at CDG.
The People's Republic of California could order every component of this bullet train system right out of the Alstom catalog, so technology is not the issue in the Gilded State. It's strictly because of the stupid politics that you will be able to hop a self-driving car to the Hyperloop station before the HSR is finished.
It's true. Right now in Arizona, it's 9:12pm, March 8, 1952.
Hey kids! Did you know that on that date, we had a party whose voters believed that dental fluoride was poisonous to our vital body fluids and that the Russians were conspiring against us everywhere?
This is still another category: "stealing" is when Asians make a technology profitable that the West developed but declines to use, even when no patent is involved.
When white men learn from other cultures, it's called "appropriation." When they design something new and useful that other cultures adopt, it's "colonialism."
All this is, is discrimination dressed up as assistance.What if i live in the UK and am on benefits. Do i get a discount? What if i have a delibitating terminal disease? How about if i'm a paraplegic? It's basically a case of "you don't get a discount because you're not poor enough and live in the wrong country"
And you're also being discriminated against because you don't live in that one place whedre Amazon is running a checkout-free test store.
Just checked out two Windows laptops, running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. On each, I checked Windows Update and found the usual uninstalled stack of Optional Updates waiting to be downloaded. On each machine, I dutifully checked all the installation boxes and clicked Download and Install. Both machines cranked away for a half hour and then crapped out with "Cannot find updates. Try again later?"
Before Microsoft puts anything resembling AI into Windows, could it deign to release a version of the OS that doesn't turn into unupdatable shit after the first year?
Self-driving cars meticulously observe speed limits and stop signs, which I suppose would piss off California drivers. But why would PEDESTRIANS attack a car that has carefully stopped for them. If it hadn't, it wouldn't be vulnerable to attack in the first place.
But since it pushed a desired narrative, it wasn't questioned.
What was a real hoot was seeing the Hatorade drinkers try to argue a contradiction: that Uber pays so little that nobody will drive for the company, while at the same time being so dominant that it's driving mass transit systems out of business.
Eons ago, when I was young, people had to take pictures on "film" that they had to take in to a drugstore for "developing." Employees at these places were under similar orders to watch for child porn in the pictures they processed. Some spotty high schooler at Walgreens therefore had an actionable first opinion on whether or not those snapshots of your one-year-old in the bathtub constituted child porn. People would occasionally get hauled in for embarrassing interview sessions before being able to clear their names.
When it comes to computer files, that's just one obvious line of inquiry. What if Geek Squad Guy sees he thinks is a double sets of tax files, or "hacker scripts" or a menu from a marijuana store in the legalized next state over?
Am I the only one who finds this story several orders of magnitude creepier than yesterday's revelation that some ad-supported movie ticket app tracks the user's trip to and from the theater?
Put the movie "Of Men and Horses" on your Netflix queue and you'll see how easy this is. Fishing vessels pass by all the time. For a case of Icelandic brennivin a Russian fishing crew will do anything you want.
Or a weed plantation. Or a datacenter. Or a trader in derivatives. Or maybe they stole some stirling engines as well and are generating their own electricity from volcanic heat.
The difference is that unlike these other data applications, mining servers do not have to be connected to the Internet. Energy usage is the only way to detect them.
What the UC Davis study shows is that in this early phase of ridesharing adoption, when too few people are sure enough that ridesharing is here to stay to give up their own cars if they drive them, the significant effects so far are less bus use and more walking. City buses are the form of mass transit that people find most irksome because of their slowness and frequent stops. Now that Uber is subjecting them to competition, perhaps bus service will finally improve. I can see bus systems meeting the challenge by using smaller, demand-activated vehicles that pick up and drop in response to apps. And that's without even considering the advantage of having rideshare apps that display transit options where available.
The adoption side of the study shows that we are still at the stage when most Uber rides are used to avoid the DUI dragnet and urban parking. Freed-up parking spaces and less drunk driving benefit any city.
Standard economic theory contends that this demand for Uber cars will create supply. Initially this may be via drivers using existing cars, but if the money is good enough then it will encourage those who do not have cars to purchase cars to use to pick up passengers.
That's funny. I thought the whole point of this thread is that effective salaries for Uber drivers are so low that you would have to be crazy to go into the business? But yes, what standard econ theory is telling me when I talk to real Uber drivers, rather tah the medallion apologist who started this thread, is that Uber driving is lucrative enough that a certain fraction of the driver population will go into the business of giving rides to others, mostly on a part-time basis. Every Uber ride is a car not driven, replaced by a car containing two or more people. Net traffic saved.
When to Uber to the station, your own car is still parked at home, rather than being in traffic. Two people in one car, instead of two people in two cars. But best of all, an increasing number of big-city drivers will decide they no longer need a car at all. In fact, this encourages more people to ride transit if a train would save money and/or time on your regular route. In fact, I predict that rideshare apps will make arrangements with transit operators to include a transit option in ride route displays so riders have the opportunity to save by taking the train over part of their route, rather than Uber the whole way. People will be apt to do this for their regular commute.
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Are they laying tracks from solid gold, set with sapphires?
No, the gold and sapphires are going to the Central Valley farmers whose land the train will cross. Land which after the train goes through will be so much higher in value that a rational government could have had them bid for the privilege of paying for the right to have the track running through.
Take the train from London to Paris.
I’ll take a plane instead.
I have done London-Paris using both modes. Trust me, you would prefer the train. Get in in downtown London, get off in downtown Paris while airport travelers are still dealing with the latest wildcat strike at CDG.
The People's Republic of California could order every component of this bullet train system right out of the Alstom catalog, so technology is not the issue in the Gilded State. It's strictly because of the stupid politics that you will be able to hop a self-driving car to the Hyperloop station before the HSR is finished.
But we survive underground as the world turns into an ice ball!
No, as the oceans rise we survive by developing techniques to pump more water deep underground.
Enjoy your $20 runway surcharge tacked on to every flight in and out of that airport. And don't think for a second that cost burden won't be shared.
There are so many fees tacked onto every flight right now that nobody's going to notice an extra $20 for runways in San Francisco.
But there's a better alternative - just let the city sink, taking its uniquely poisonous political influence with it.
It's true. Right now in Arizona, it's 9:12pm, March 8, 1952.
Hey kids! Did you know that on that date, we had a party whose voters believed that dental fluoride was poisonous to our vital body fluids and that the Russians were conspiring against us everywhere?
And in those days, it was the Republicans.
Well Arizona is already in their own timezone.
No, we just stay in Mountain Standard all year.
The right way to do this is to eliminate DST, not make it permanent.
This is still another category: "stealing" is when Asians make a technology profitable that the West developed but declines to use, even when no patent is involved.
When white men learn from other cultures, it's called "appropriation." When they design something new and useful that other cultures adopt, it's "colonialism."
All this is, is discrimination dressed up as assistance.What if i live in the UK and am on benefits. Do i get a discount? What if i have a delibitating terminal disease? How about if i'm a paraplegic? It's basically a case of "you don't get a discount because you're not poor enough and live in the wrong country"
And you're also being discriminated against because you don't live in that one place whedre Amazon is running a checkout-free test store.
Kudos to the ESA for coming up with this. But now for the important news question: what shirts was this engineering team wearing?
Just checked out two Windows laptops, running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. On each, I checked Windows Update and found the usual uninstalled stack of Optional Updates waiting to be downloaded. On each machine, I dutifully checked all the installation boxes and clicked Download and Install. Both machines cranked away for a half hour and then crapped out with "Cannot find updates. Try again later?"
Before Microsoft puts anything resembling AI into Windows, could it deign to release a version of the OS that doesn't turn into unupdatable shit after the first year?
Self-driving cars meticulously observe speed limits and stop signs, which I suppose would piss off California drivers. But why would PEDESTRIANS attack a car that has carefully stopped for them. If it hadn't, it wouldn't be vulnerable to attack in the first place.
But since it pushed a desired narrative, it wasn't questioned.
What was a real hoot was seeing the Hatorade drinkers try to argue a contradiction: that Uber pays so little that nobody will drive for the company, while at the same time being so dominant that it's driving mass transit systems out of business.
Eons ago, when I was young, people had to take pictures on "film" that they had to take in to a drugstore for "developing." Employees at these places were under similar orders to watch for child porn in the pictures they processed. Some spotty high schooler at Walgreens therefore had an actionable first opinion on whether or not those snapshots of your one-year-old in the bathtub constituted child porn. People would occasionally get hauled in for embarrassing interview sessions before being able to clear their names.
When it comes to computer files, that's just one obvious line of inquiry. What if Geek Squad Guy sees he thinks is a double sets of tax files, or "hacker scripts" or a menu from a marijuana store in the legalized next state over?
Am I the only one who finds this story several orders of magnitude creepier than yesterday's revelation that some ad-supported movie ticket app tracks the user's trip to and from the theater?
Unrealistic. Convicts don’t have smartphones in their cells.
What you mean is they aren't supposed to...
When you run this app in iOS, does a dialog come up asking whether you want the app to track your location? Do you mindlessly click through it?
Just synchronize them to the French grid frequency.
Who the fuck has a 50 year old clock?
I still have my old Casio Personal-8. It won't be that long before it will be a 50-year-old calculator.
Put the movie "Of Men and Horses" on your Netflix queue and you'll see how easy this is. Fishing vessels pass by all the time. For a case of Icelandic brennivin a Russian fishing crew will do anything you want.
Or a weed plantation. Or a datacenter. Or a trader in derivatives. Or maybe they stole some stirling engines as well and are generating their own electricity from volcanic heat.
The difference is that unlike these other data applications, mining servers do not have to be connected to the Internet. Energy usage is the only way to detect them.
What the UC Davis study shows is that in this early phase of ridesharing adoption, when too few people are sure enough that ridesharing is here to stay to give up their own cars if they drive them, the significant effects so far are less bus use and more walking. City buses are the form of mass transit that people find most irksome because of their slowness and frequent stops. Now that Uber is subjecting them to competition, perhaps bus service will finally improve. I can see bus systems meeting the challenge by using smaller, demand-activated vehicles that pick up and drop in response to apps. And that's without even considering the advantage of having rideshare apps that display transit options where available.
The adoption side of the study shows that we are still at the stage when most Uber rides are used to avoid the DUI dragnet and urban parking. Freed-up parking spaces and less drunk driving benefit any city.
Standard economic theory contends that this demand for Uber cars will create supply. Initially this may be via drivers using existing cars, but if the money is good enough then it will encourage those who do not have cars to purchase cars to use to pick up passengers.
That's funny. I thought the whole point of this thread is that effective salaries for Uber drivers are so low that you would have to be crazy to go into the business? But yes, what standard econ theory is telling me when I talk to real Uber drivers, rather tah the medallion apologist who started this thread, is that Uber driving is lucrative enough that a certain fraction of the driver population will go into the business of giving rides to others, mostly on a part-time basis. Every Uber ride is a car not driven, replaced by a car containing two or more people. Net traffic saved.
When to Uber to the station, your own car is still parked at home, rather than being in traffic. Two people in one car, instead of two people in two cars. But best of all, an increasing number of big-city drivers will decide they no longer need a car at all. In fact, this encourages more people to ride transit if a train would save money and/or time on your regular route. In fact, I predict that rideshare apps will make arrangements with transit operators to include a transit option in ride route displays so riders have the opportunity to save by taking the train over part of their route, rather than Uber the whole way. People will be apt to do this for their regular commute.