Sure. A crappy, heavy, low-quality bike, with a no-name component groupset, that you likely won't get your moneys' worth out of before something on it fails, then at that point you may as well chuck it in the recycle bin and get another one. You need to spend more like $1000 to get something of decent quality that, properly maintained, will give you your moneys' worth.
I bought the cheapest bike I could find that seemed able to support my needs - 300lbs including luggage/groceries. It was $200, and I have put over 10k miles on it. I needed to replace my rear wheel after about 5k miles and a new chain since I am bad about cleaning it. It has an aluminum frame and seems really light compared to the schwinns and huffys I grew up with. Shimano gears, but I'm confident you can find a way to make fun of that.
I've had so many bikes stolen over the years I can't bring myself to spend much on one. I find your pompous attitude that $1000 is the minimum buy-in to be a cyclist to be destructive.
Same in SF bay area, all the ferries I have taken sell beer, wine, and simple cocktails. They have ample heads (toilets). Traveling by boat is wonderfully civilized!
I think you're confused. Why in hell would a robot car drive from work back to the home empty? That would be idiotic.
When I step out of my robot car I would rent it out. Whoever nearby needs a car would use it and it would make the rounds. I wouldn't give a crap which robot car I get into after work. My car could be in Timbuktoo, or I could not even own a car, or I could own a baker's dozen and make a few thou a day off em. Who cares? Only reason we are so married to our cars is because right now they need us to move around. Once that is decoupled it'll be more like car sharing services. You won't even think about it, but whenever you need one "poof" one appears nearby ready for use.
If your engine fails during a storm and you have no way to generate sail power you can deploy a sea anchor from the bow which will keep the ship pointed into the waves.
In my neighborhood I see so much wasted travel because a human driver is needed. I see huge chains of cars dropping kids off at school. Many of these cars drive from the parent's workplace to the home, pick up the kid, drop off at school, then back to the workplace. 90% of that is wasted travel. I see people drive their spouse all the way to work, turn around and drive all the way home again. 50% wasted travel, repeated at the end of the workday.
An additional benefit of robot cars is nobody will feel territorial about them. Nobody will give a crap about their kid sharing a robot car with a neighbor kid or three, or sharing a robot car to work.
Plus, with the decreased accidents and improved efficiency of robotic navigation there won't be as bad traffic so travel time and inefficient detours will be reduced massively.
I see it as pure win. Drivers will be out of work, but we'll find something else to do with their time. We always have found things before.
I'm curious why you pay for an app that others do better for free. When I traveled in western Europe google did wonderfully. I was a little apprehensive to travel where I didn't speak the language but I did fine.
There are specialty applications like mariners and truckers who don't have good free options.
This is quite humorous! Americans eat raw meat. The dish you describe we call "Steak Tartare" - so it appears French attribute raw beef to Americans and Americans attribute it to the french.
And, what we call French fries are Belgian, so I am told.
Yeah, I am spoiled living a few miles from google HQ. This area is mapped better than anywhere else on the entire planet. I've encountered the map problem you describe several times. I've learned to pay attention when someone goes out of their way to provide directions, especially when visiting a remote area. I ended up "beaching" a rental car on a 4x4 road one time when I assumed the robot navigator was smarter than the local who insisted on giving me directions over the phone.
I did some research and learned how to report the map error to google, and a year later when I visited again the navigation directions were correct. If you give me the details on your local error I'd be happy to report it.
I'm guessing if a car company wanted to use apple or google maps it would cost a lot of money and alienate roughly half their potential customers. It is probably contractually impossible for them to offer both.
Tried Waze. I never got the hang of the fruity interface and it is super irritating to have to manually enter addresses. Thanks to the all-seeing eye of google, the maps app knows everywhere I go and my recent searches from my computers and all that. Also, google maps has real time crowd sourced traffic now and routes me around delays as they occur.
I'm guessing they'll add that stuff to waze someday or just merge them.
Cellphones must be a godsend to 911 in this regard. I wonder how many people died over the years because they couldn't tell the ambulance where to come?
911 used to bring up your physical address at dispatch, back in the dinosaur days when people made phone calls with a land line. Mobile phones and VOIP have destroyed 1:1 relation of phone_number:physical_address
Your lack of curiosity is depressing. I'd suggest keeping it to yourself unless you have some reason to make people feel sorry for you.
Trying to understand how things work is a very basic human urge. Trying to understand criminals is especially fascinating for many people. What possible reason could you have for trying to belittle and discourage this?
You think its bad with software? Engineering physical things like bridges is way more difficult.
There are design considerations for materials. Materials are going to have defects, you can try to specify tolerances and specs but physical things will always vary. Decay over time, corrosion, external factors such as acidic birdshit, chlorides in saltwater spray, pollution eating away at things, acid rain, etc.
You need to expect earthquakes, lightning strikes, heavy wind, bigrig collisions, tanker ships ramming your towers, tsunamis, punkers carving their band name into the structure the list is endless.
I'm not a structural engineer, but I hear them bitch about how hard it is and I am not envious.
US production is a bit off its peak, but it is still at very high levels historically, and has been increasing in the last few weeks
New wells are way down, but production continues to be high and increasing. Continued low prices will eventually result in lower domestic production, but it hasn't begun to happen yet.
I love stuff like this. Finding a scientific explanation for something that sounds like baloney. All the bogus gluten and electricity allergies have made me very skeptical about things like this, but this is fascinating. It sort of rubs me wrong, it doesn't make sense to me that vibration could induce an allergic reaction, but I cannot deny evidence like this.
No browser works the way I want it to "as is." I have to install a handful of 3rd party addons or whatnot before a fresh install is not crazy-making. I'm not sure why this is a big deal. You can still manage cookies however you want with 3rd party extensions so who cares?
Nobody did any of that shit 100 years ago, aside from a tiny fraction of people who watched whatever primitive sports were around back then. Nobody did anything remotely like any of that. Hell, 10 years ago half your list didn't exist.
Think about what the US was like even 50 years ago. Xians ran our culture through and through. You couldn't be black, gay, weird, commie, or even dress bad because Jebus. Things are changing so fast. All it will take for the stupid religious BS to die is something quite possible: alien contact, cheap power leading to the end of scarcity, even microbial life on another planet that clearly evolved separately from our planet, who knows what it will be that will make all that stuff seem irrelevant.
Humans have a need to believe in something big, and religion has typically filled that irrational need, but there is no reason it has to be religion. It's just been handy. I see a lot of changes so far, and plenty more potential changes.
Maybe not. >90% of jobs today didn't exist a hundred years ago. I have great faith in humanity finding stupid ways to busy itself for money. Once we figure out how to cleanly make cheap power and robots are taking care of necessities we can all live like kings and do stupid stuff for cash. If things keep progressing faster our culture won't be recognizable in another hundred years. We simply can't imagine what people will be like or do with their time.
It is truly astonishing to think that there are people alive who remember a time before radio, electricity, computers, antibiotics, etc.
People worried about the cotton gin and so forth, but nobody can argue that conditions were better back then for anybody.
Can't tell if joking. Lettuce grows just the head. When it is mature it is chopped away from the roots for harvest. Gardeners at home can pick leaves from the plant, leaving it intact and pretty dramatically extend the productivity of the plant. When it starts to go to seed the leaves become more bitter.
Lettuce gone to seed is pretty fascinating. It can get 6' tall and makes tons of tiny fragile blossoms. Some plants only open their flowers for a few hours and then hide them back away. The seeds have dandelion-like fluff to help them spread, and they make a truly spectacular number of seeds. I like to let a few go to seed in my garden, then I have wild lettuce growing everywhere next year.
I spent an hour trying to get my printer working on win 10, no luck. Rolled back to 7. I tried manually installing the driver that worked in 7. I searched forums for ideas and tried numerous suggestions. I'm not eager to waste any more time on it, but if you can point me to some helpful sites I will give it a shot.
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A bicycle costs $500
Sure. A crappy, heavy, low-quality bike, with a no-name component groupset, that you likely won't get your moneys' worth out of before something on it fails, then at that point you may as well chuck it in the recycle bin and get another one. You need to spend more like $1000 to get something of decent quality that, properly maintained, will give you your moneys' worth.
I bought the cheapest bike I could find that seemed able to support my needs - 300lbs including luggage/groceries. It was $200, and I have put over 10k miles on it. I needed to replace my rear wheel after about 5k miles and a new chain since I am bad about cleaning it. It has an aluminum frame and seems really light compared to the schwinns and huffys I grew up with. Shimano gears, but I'm confident you can find a way to make fun of that.
I've had so many bikes stolen over the years I can't bring myself to spend much on one. I find your pompous attitude that $1000 is the minimum buy-in to be a cyclist to be destructive.
Same in SF bay area, all the ferries I have taken sell beer, wine, and simple cocktails. They have ample heads (toilets). Traveling by boat is wonderfully civilized!
I think you're confused. Why in hell would a robot car drive from work back to the home empty? That would be idiotic.
When I step out of my robot car I would rent it out. Whoever nearby needs a car would use it and it would make the rounds. I wouldn't give a crap which robot car I get into after work. My car could be in Timbuktoo, or I could not even own a car, or I could own a baker's dozen and make a few thou a day off em. Who cares? Only reason we are so married to our cars is because right now they need us to move around. Once that is decoupled it'll be more like car sharing services. You won't even think about it, but whenever you need one "poof" one appears nearby ready for use.
I started donating blood and haven't had a gout problem since. Even beans would give me a flare up before.
If your engine fails during a storm and you have no way to generate sail power you can deploy a sea anchor from the bow which will keep the ship pointed into the waves.
In my neighborhood I see so much wasted travel because a human driver is needed. I see huge chains of cars dropping kids off at school. Many of these cars drive from the parent's workplace to the home, pick up the kid, drop off at school, then back to the workplace. 90% of that is wasted travel. I see people drive their spouse all the way to work, turn around and drive all the way home again. 50% wasted travel, repeated at the end of the workday.
An additional benefit of robot cars is nobody will feel territorial about them. Nobody will give a crap about their kid sharing a robot car with a neighbor kid or three, or sharing a robot car to work.
Plus, with the decreased accidents and improved efficiency of robotic navigation there won't be as bad traffic so travel time and inefficient detours will be reduced massively.
I see it as pure win. Drivers will be out of work, but we'll find something else to do with their time. We always have found things before.
I'm curious why you pay for an app that others do better for free. When I traveled in western Europe google did wonderfully. I was a little apprehensive to travel where I didn't speak the language but I did fine.
There are specialty applications like mariners and truckers who don't have good free options.
This is quite humorous! Americans eat raw meat. The dish you describe we call "Steak Tartare" - so it appears French attribute raw beef to Americans and Americans attribute it to the french.
And, what we call French fries are Belgian, so I am told.
Yeah, I am spoiled living a few miles from google HQ. This area is mapped better than anywhere else on the entire planet. I've encountered the map problem you describe several times. I've learned to pay attention when someone goes out of their way to provide directions, especially when visiting a remote area. I ended up "beaching" a rental car on a 4x4 road one time when I assumed the robot navigator was smarter than the local who insisted on giving me directions over the phone.
I did some research and learned how to report the map error to google, and a year later when I visited again the navigation directions were correct. If you give me the details on your local error I'd be happy to report it.
I'm guessing if a car company wanted to use apple or google maps it would cost a lot of money and alienate roughly half their potential customers. It is probably contractually impossible for them to offer both.
TomTom?! Do you still download music on napster? There are way smarter GPS apps now that route you around traffic jams in real time.
Tried Waze. I never got the hang of the fruity interface and it is super irritating to have to manually enter addresses. Thanks to the all-seeing eye of google, the maps app knows everywhere I go and my recent searches from my computers and all that. Also, google maps has real time crowd sourced traffic now and routes me around delays as they occur.
I'm guessing they'll add that stuff to waze someday or just merge them.
Cellphones must be a godsend to 911 in this regard. I wonder how many people died over the years because they couldn't tell the ambulance where to come?
911 used to bring up your physical address at dispatch, back in the dinosaur days when people made phone calls with a land line. Mobile phones and VOIP have destroyed 1:1 relation of phone_number:physical_address
Your lack of curiosity is depressing. I'd suggest keeping it to yourself unless you have some reason to make people feel sorry for you.
Trying to understand how things work is a very basic human urge. Trying to understand criminals is especially fascinating for many people. What possible reason could you have for trying to belittle and discourage this?
You think its bad with software? Engineering physical things like bridges is way more difficult.
There are design considerations for materials. Materials are going to have defects, you can try to specify tolerances and specs but physical things will always vary. Decay over time, corrosion, external factors such as acidic birdshit, chlorides in saltwater spray, pollution eating away at things, acid rain, etc.
You need to expect earthquakes, lightning strikes, heavy wind, bigrig collisions, tanker ships ramming your towers, tsunamis, punkers carving their band name into the structure the list is endless.
I'm not a structural engineer, but I hear them bitch about how hard it is and I am not envious.
US production is a bit off its peak, but it is still at very high levels historically, and has been increasing in the last few weeks
New wells are way down, but production continues to be high and increasing. Continued low prices will eventually result in lower domestic production, but it hasn't begun to happen yet.
I love stuff like this. Finding a scientific explanation for something that sounds like baloney. All the bogus gluten and electricity allergies have made me very skeptical about things like this, but this is fascinating. It sort of rubs me wrong, it doesn't make sense to me that vibration could induce an allergic reaction, but I cannot deny evidence like this.
No browser works the way I want it to "as is." I have to install a handful of 3rd party addons or whatnot before a fresh install is not crazy-making. I'm not sure why this is a big deal. You can still manage cookies however you want with 3rd party extensions so who cares?
Nobody did any of that shit 100 years ago, aside from a tiny fraction of people who watched whatever primitive sports were around back then. Nobody did anything remotely like any of that. Hell, 10 years ago half your list didn't exist.
Indeed! Have you seen the ones that make red berries in the ferny explosion? Those look like fairy magic
Think about what the US was like even 50 years ago. Xians ran our culture through and through. You couldn't be black, gay, weird, commie, or even dress bad because Jebus. Things are changing so fast. All it will take for the stupid religious BS to die is something quite possible: alien contact, cheap power leading to the end of scarcity, even microbial life on another planet that clearly evolved separately from our planet, who knows what it will be that will make all that stuff seem irrelevant.
Humans have a need to believe in something big, and religion has typically filled that irrational need, but there is no reason it has to be religion. It's just been handy. I see a lot of changes so far, and plenty more potential changes.
Maybe not. >90% of jobs today didn't exist a hundred years ago. I have great faith in humanity finding stupid ways to busy itself for money. Once we figure out how to cleanly make cheap power and robots are taking care of necessities we can all live like kings and do stupid stuff for cash. If things keep progressing faster our culture won't be recognizable in another hundred years. We simply can't imagine what people will be like or do with their time.
It is truly astonishing to think that there are people alive who remember a time before radio, electricity, computers, antibiotics, etc.
People worried about the cotton gin and so forth, but nobody can argue that conditions were better back then for anybody.
Can't tell if joking. Lettuce grows just the head. When it is mature it is chopped away from the roots for harvest. Gardeners at home can pick leaves from the plant, leaving it intact and pretty dramatically extend the productivity of the plant. When it starts to go to seed the leaves become more bitter.
Lettuce gone to seed is pretty fascinating. It can get 6' tall and makes tons of tiny fragile blossoms. Some plants only open their flowers for a few hours and then hide them back away. The seeds have dandelion-like fluff to help them spread, and they make a truly spectacular number of seeds. I like to let a few go to seed in my garden, then I have wild lettuce growing everywhere next year.
I spent an hour trying to get my printer working on win 10, no luck. Rolled back to 7. I tried manually installing the driver that worked in 7. I searched forums for ideas and tried numerous suggestions. I'm not eager to waste any more time on it, but if you can point me to some helpful sites I will give it a shot.
What about interns? Candy Stripers? Apple fanboys? None of those are paid.