If you do things which impact a large number of people, you will inevitably piss some of them off. > Do you not know about the French revolution? The main losers in the French revolution were regular people, and the…
But what if I'm looking at a world map to get a sense of where different cities fall on different latitude lines to gauge their climate?
Because the rest of it is not relevant. Harassment is harassment.
If your take is "terrorizing people for making unpopular decisions is good" then you are not a serious person. Protesting is fine, harassment is not, and protesting outside someone's home is most certainly harassment. I…
Apps with maps use a specific and different Mercator projection which produces a nice quadtree for dynamically loading data. This is possible with other projections too, but reprojection and training users to expect a…
Many people have to make unpopular decisions because society needs them to. Would you say the same thing about, say, a politician raising gas taxes? What about a ridehailing app that displaces a taxi cartel with a long…
Technology can solve problems which are objectively measurable. If you want the politics to match your ideals you can vote and volunteer; blaming self driving cars for issues caused by politics is like blaming…
Inattentive here means not looking at the road. I've been in car accidents where drivers were looking at the road and got blinded or missed some traffic because they were overloaded with other stuff. That's pretty rare.
Having a dedicated team to track protests and avoid them to protect your own life is "maximum heat."
There is a world of difference between building a doomsday bunker (which is definitely not limited to the ultra wealthy) and suggesting that someone should walk through a riled up crowd that hates their guts. If you are…
Driving a car is not an emotional act 99.9% of the time. Driving a car while you are emotional is in fact dangerous and often leads to violence. Pretests aren't dispassionate. That's why they have to be protected,…
Intentionally obtuse, got it.
Do protests ever lead to violence? Are you being obtuse or do you believe this is actually safe?
How are your rights being violated? I'm sure you have a solid and thought-out answer that justifies such a casual attitude towards violence.
His point is that "written and vegan agreements" is not the same thing as "has a contract" and that the legal niceties need to be respected or else it would be impossible to get anything done. Asking "is it cool if I…
Not if there was a contract governing the property. There almost certainly wasn't here, but owning property does not always give you unrestricted rights to do as you please with it.
Yes, obviously nothing bad ever happens when someone walks out into an emotional crowd of people who hate them.
The overwhelming majority of bad driving is caused by alcohol and other drugs, drowsiness, and inattentive driving. Sober, well-rested human beings who pay full attention to the road are surprisingly good drivers, to…
Do you care to elaborate further or would you like to just join the nebulous cynicism club and keep on making irrelevant comparisons?
Yeah I have. I still don't see it, I do see a lot of unwarranted cynicism and extremely sloppy arguments.
No, dammit. Pedestrian friendly streets are great! You can't walk that far, and I love walking places when I have time and energy. Bike lanes are great! I bike to work. If I'm not careful I'll arrive sweaty, and that…
So you mean to tell me that when I called a Waymo a few weeks ago at 1AM because I was drunk at a bar and wanted to go home, it was actually because my government and Google wanted me to go home? Woah! This conspiracy…
Can you actually define what the kool-aid is here? Because AV companies are saying "look at this new product, it objectively drives better and safer than a human, you don't have to deal with a human driver, it works…
Sure, some number of years is reasonable - but what do you think that is? Because 70 is insane. A single bestseller should not be able to support an extended family over three generations; at some point the rent-seeking…
As long as there are 200M American Prime subscribers who like two day shipping it seems unlikely.
If you do things which impact a large number of people, you will inevitably piss some of them off. > Do you not know about the French revolution? The main losers in the French revolution were regular people, and the…
But what if I'm looking at a world map to get a sense of where different cities fall on different latitude lines to gauge their climate?
Because the rest of it is not relevant. Harassment is harassment.
If your take is "terrorizing people for making unpopular decisions is good" then you are not a serious person. Protesting is fine, harassment is not, and protesting outside someone's home is most certainly harassment. I…
Apps with maps use a specific and different Mercator projection which produces a nice quadtree for dynamically loading data. This is possible with other projections too, but reprojection and training users to expect a…
Many people have to make unpopular decisions because society needs them to. Would you say the same thing about, say, a politician raising gas taxes? What about a ridehailing app that displaces a taxi cartel with a long…
Technology can solve problems which are objectively measurable. If you want the politics to match your ideals you can vote and volunteer; blaming self driving cars for issues caused by politics is like blaming…
Inattentive here means not looking at the road. I've been in car accidents where drivers were looking at the road and got blinded or missed some traffic because they were overloaded with other stuff. That's pretty rare.
Having a dedicated team to track protests and avoid them to protect your own life is "maximum heat."
There is a world of difference between building a doomsday bunker (which is definitely not limited to the ultra wealthy) and suggesting that someone should walk through a riled up crowd that hates their guts. If you are…
Driving a car is not an emotional act 99.9% of the time. Driving a car while you are emotional is in fact dangerous and often leads to violence. Pretests aren't dispassionate. That's why they have to be protected,…
Intentionally obtuse, got it.
Do protests ever lead to violence? Are you being obtuse or do you believe this is actually safe?
How are your rights being violated? I'm sure you have a solid and thought-out answer that justifies such a casual attitude towards violence.
His point is that "written and vegan agreements" is not the same thing as "has a contract" and that the legal niceties need to be respected or else it would be impossible to get anything done. Asking "is it cool if I…
Not if there was a contract governing the property. There almost certainly wasn't here, but owning property does not always give you unrestricted rights to do as you please with it.
Yes, obviously nothing bad ever happens when someone walks out into an emotional crowd of people who hate them.
The overwhelming majority of bad driving is caused by alcohol and other drugs, drowsiness, and inattentive driving. Sober, well-rested human beings who pay full attention to the road are surprisingly good drivers, to…
Do you care to elaborate further or would you like to just join the nebulous cynicism club and keep on making irrelevant comparisons?
Yeah I have. I still don't see it, I do see a lot of unwarranted cynicism and extremely sloppy arguments.
No, dammit. Pedestrian friendly streets are great! You can't walk that far, and I love walking places when I have time and energy. Bike lanes are great! I bike to work. If I'm not careful I'll arrive sweaty, and that…
So you mean to tell me that when I called a Waymo a few weeks ago at 1AM because I was drunk at a bar and wanted to go home, it was actually because my government and Google wanted me to go home? Woah! This conspiracy…
Can you actually define what the kool-aid is here? Because AV companies are saying "look at this new product, it objectively drives better and safer than a human, you don't have to deal with a human driver, it works…
Sure, some number of years is reasonable - but what do you think that is? Because 70 is insane. A single bestseller should not be able to support an extended family over three generations; at some point the rent-seeking…
As long as there are 200M American Prime subscribers who like two day shipping it seems unlikely.