I am no expert, but those state road funding figures are highly misleading. It ignores all direct federal subsidies on roads. It ignores the original moonshot-scale creation of the interstate highway system, which was…
The comment described a plausible scenario of how flock could be used in the described stalking. Instead of assuming the commenter is paranoid and delusional, we should make sure that surveillance cameras cannot be used…
They are fundamentally different from bicycles, but I agree they should not be allowed on sidewalks. If you simply generally forbid cars from the city (with some exceptions), there would be plenty of room for delivery…
It is a few notches beyond sitting in a wagon and emptying a fire extinguisher to go for a little ride, and about as practical, but I do not see what makes it some incredible feat of engineering.
You have provided no evidence to support the absurd claim that I am being harmed by my cruelty to a pile of sand. I would beat it with a stick if I could, just because i would enjoy it, and no harm is done.
and yet the ocean surface is already at roughly +1 degree Celsius. As long as we are doing absolutely useless comparisons of enormous numbers that could potentially be used as disinformation to vastly understate the…
Interval training also seems like a great way to burn out and make yourself dread the thought of exercise. Other than for elite athletes tuning specifically for bursty competitions, interval training is such an…
Almost -- power is equal to force multiplied by velocity, so double the speed is 8x the power considering only air resistance.
Oreo changed their recipe to cardboard flavor relatively recently, within the past decade or so. My question is whether they really changed the recipe again to now taste like music instead of cardboard, or is it just…
Telescopes in space are extremely expensive even if the launch itself were completely costless. A decision of whether or not to destroy the dark night sky globally should be made at a societal level beforehand. Instead…
It does not need to be a choice between having internet or seeing stars at night. Also, telescopes on the ground can be made much bigger and more powerful than in space, so even if some satellite profits were somehow…
Science is progress. Putting mirrors in space in order to provide sunlight at night seems more like willful destruction than progress.
> "Bikers don't pay taxes" That is obviously false -- just ask any biker who is not a little kid or a billionaire.
In many places, bicyclists are not fewer in number, not that the distiction makes the rest of your comment rational.
At least it is a break from the endless stream of anti-LLM posts written by LLM with half the comments being serious replies and the other half fake-politely debating whether it was written by LLM. Plus there is a bonus…
Implicit in "this post looks like AI"—at least the vast majority of the time—is that it is a wordy ramble with no real value because it says nothing novel or substantive—so I would not call it an hominem attack, but…
> "But parks aren’t some natural creation, they’re entirely manmade." ? That does not at all match my experience with parks. But besides that, I am not sure how it would support your argument.
I agree. Stability of a system is not so much about whether there is some mechanism or force that wants to push it away from equilibrium (because there probably is some such perturber outside of a perfectly controlled…
It is difficult to know whether going faster is overall safer. In my experience, some fraction of cars will pass a bicycle under any conditions, no matter what speed that bicycle is going (even if keeping up with…
For me, when someone promises to "drain the swamp", they reveal their ignorance and selfishness with their shallow anti-swamp ideology. Swamps are rich ecosystems with incredible natural beauty and diversity. Draining a…
My guess is that the very rich can instead figure out a way to avoid it mostly, but I like the idea of taxing ridiculously high wealth, even if it is difficult. However, a tax an unrealized gains would seem to greatly…
That seems like sarcasm because it is an overused excuse that republicans give for the bad usa economies under republican presidents. I never once heard a reasonable explanation why policies only start to have an effect…
Without regulations, ads seem to infiltrate into every space--virtual or physical--that is not controlled by the owner or some other gatekeeper. I would hope most people anywhere would see that as a bad thing,…
That is an extremely cynical view, and it does not fit with reality. There is no mechanism where little Timmy gets a free ticket to be a university professor in science. People who manage to make a career in science…
"worthy position" could only mean a relatively senior position, so the scientist would have already demonstrated success via publications, and having friends would of course be expected and required in a collaborative…
I am no expert, but those state road funding figures are highly misleading. It ignores all direct federal subsidies on roads. It ignores the original moonshot-scale creation of the interstate highway system, which was…
The comment described a plausible scenario of how flock could be used in the described stalking. Instead of assuming the commenter is paranoid and delusional, we should make sure that surveillance cameras cannot be used…
They are fundamentally different from bicycles, but I agree they should not be allowed on sidewalks. If you simply generally forbid cars from the city (with some exceptions), there would be plenty of room for delivery…
It is a few notches beyond sitting in a wagon and emptying a fire extinguisher to go for a little ride, and about as practical, but I do not see what makes it some incredible feat of engineering.
You have provided no evidence to support the absurd claim that I am being harmed by my cruelty to a pile of sand. I would beat it with a stick if I could, just because i would enjoy it, and no harm is done.
and yet the ocean surface is already at roughly +1 degree Celsius. As long as we are doing absolutely useless comparisons of enormous numbers that could potentially be used as disinformation to vastly understate the…
Interval training also seems like a great way to burn out and make yourself dread the thought of exercise. Other than for elite athletes tuning specifically for bursty competitions, interval training is such an…
Almost -- power is equal to force multiplied by velocity, so double the speed is 8x the power considering only air resistance.
Oreo changed their recipe to cardboard flavor relatively recently, within the past decade or so. My question is whether they really changed the recipe again to now taste like music instead of cardboard, or is it just…
Telescopes in space are extremely expensive even if the launch itself were completely costless. A decision of whether or not to destroy the dark night sky globally should be made at a societal level beforehand. Instead…
It does not need to be a choice between having internet or seeing stars at night. Also, telescopes on the ground can be made much bigger and more powerful than in space, so even if some satellite profits were somehow…
Science is progress. Putting mirrors in space in order to provide sunlight at night seems more like willful destruction than progress.
> "Bikers don't pay taxes" That is obviously false -- just ask any biker who is not a little kid or a billionaire.
In many places, bicyclists are not fewer in number, not that the distiction makes the rest of your comment rational.
At least it is a break from the endless stream of anti-LLM posts written by LLM with half the comments being serious replies and the other half fake-politely debating whether it was written by LLM. Plus there is a bonus…
Implicit in "this post looks like AI"—at least the vast majority of the time—is that it is a wordy ramble with no real value because it says nothing novel or substantive—so I would not call it an hominem attack, but…
> "But parks aren’t some natural creation, they’re entirely manmade." ? That does not at all match my experience with parks. But besides that, I am not sure how it would support your argument.
I agree. Stability of a system is not so much about whether there is some mechanism or force that wants to push it away from equilibrium (because there probably is some such perturber outside of a perfectly controlled…
It is difficult to know whether going faster is overall safer. In my experience, some fraction of cars will pass a bicycle under any conditions, no matter what speed that bicycle is going (even if keeping up with…
For me, when someone promises to "drain the swamp", they reveal their ignorance and selfishness with their shallow anti-swamp ideology. Swamps are rich ecosystems with incredible natural beauty and diversity. Draining a…
My guess is that the very rich can instead figure out a way to avoid it mostly, but I like the idea of taxing ridiculously high wealth, even if it is difficult. However, a tax an unrealized gains would seem to greatly…
That seems like sarcasm because it is an overused excuse that republicans give for the bad usa economies under republican presidents. I never once heard a reasonable explanation why policies only start to have an effect…
Without regulations, ads seem to infiltrate into every space--virtual or physical--that is not controlled by the owner or some other gatekeeper. I would hope most people anywhere would see that as a bad thing,…
That is an extremely cynical view, and it does not fit with reality. There is no mechanism where little Timmy gets a free ticket to be a university professor in science. People who manage to make a career in science…
"worthy position" could only mean a relatively senior position, so the scientist would have already demonstrated success via publications, and having friends would of course be expected and required in a collaborative…