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atomicthumbs posted:that thread was four years old. it belongs in a museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfWxeszXEI&t=74s
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atomicthumbs posted:that thread was four years old. it belongs in a grave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfWxeszXEI&t=77s
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https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/missouri-hyperloop-coalition-announces-feasibility-study-along-i-70-route posted:KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Travelling from Kansas City to St. Louis in less than 30 minutes might sound like science fiction, but the possibility of bringing a hyperloop route to Missouri took a big step forward Tuesday. reminder, missouri has horrendous roads
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well, even that would be kind of dumb, because afaik nobody really needs to go between kansas city and st louis on a regular commuter-style basis like musk dreams half this crap up because he wants nice private-y fast ways between Malibu and LA/SF
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im pretty sure the last new passenger train service built in missouri is the little street-level tram in kansas city to take people from the parking garage at union station to the bars in the power and lights district a short distance away and thats probably all it will ever be able to do
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Jan 31, 2018 18:09
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is it an amazon strip club?
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Jan 31, 2018 21:24
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wtf are you doing on the internet?
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Jan 31, 2018 21:46
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I've purchased like 1 or 2 things on eBay and sold tons of stuff thats my eBay story
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Feb 1, 2018 06:08
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thiel is such an rear end in a top hat and I think he would be a hilarious like daca-ice deportation case
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Feb 1, 2018 18:04
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my bitter bi rival posted:lmao the first fuckin town you get into when you cross the bridge is fremont. well when you live in SF/Malibu...
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Feb 1, 2018 18:44
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part of that rider is probably like some integrated auto-agreement NDA about the rider
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Feb 1, 2018 18:53
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woz is part of the era of bay area hippies that were kind of frustrated with the failures of their political projects and saw computers as some new one (whole earth catalog type stuff), and he seems to have a lot of the trusting optimism a lot of those guys had woz is also probably the most successful one of those guys because he partnered with jobs, the other archetype of the bay area hippie -- the hyper-capitalist that kept the lifestyle bits of hippie-ism, who commercialized his product it was fun to go to a reunion with a bunch of these guys and the modern techies and have them realize that a bunch of their heros, who they had never really looked into all that deeply, were actually mostly just burnt out hippies who's ideas never really went anywhere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu for example), and not super capitalist min-maxing tech-lords like them
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Feb 1, 2018 19:46
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because people hate driving but they don't want to take transit because its not in a great state right now and they've been using and have had private transportation marketed to them their entire lives
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Feb 1, 2018 20:12
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because they've successfully marketed robotic cars as being in the tech company cluster and people tend to be optimistic and mystified by anything that can be placed there or in the classic joke fashion: 1980s: don't ever get in a strangers car! 20XX: meet strangers on the internet and get in their cars!
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Feb 1, 2018 20:19
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of course it is -- its a problem thats been worked on for a long time that we likely still don't have all the understanding to solve reliably yet, but people like musk have already been leveraging it to sell cars so now everybody has to go along with it or be left out also you have to remember people are idiot suburbanites with what I like to call Disneyland Syndrome: they just kind of assume safety and it doesn't take much to convince them like they'll in simultaneously buy musks "we need autonomous cars because deaths~~~" but go hop in their car and feel completely safe and never want to do anything but drive themselves places
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Feb 1, 2018 20:27
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well yeah its hard to do when a chunk of the heavyweight competitors have cashed out
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none of those things are problems you see, because I will just be renting a car, hailing it to take me to point a to point b with its automated magic none of this is possible today you see and totally solves everything wrong with private cars
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the part of all of this that I like is that there is indeed an opportunity for vastly increased safety, that we can implement right now, coming out of all of this when you strip away all the marketing fluff like a lot of things that are sold as ~autonomous~ were being sold as safety systems previously or within the same time frame before this whole tend took off -- dynamic cruise control, automated brakes for pedestrians and cars, lane departure prevention and alerts, blind spot monitors even if you are the most attentive driver you only have two eyes and ears as your sensors in an environment that can quickly overload you; augmenting this with a bunch of additional equipment can really help improve situational awareness and lower the cognitive load, helping people be safer drivers
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Feb 1, 2018 21:06
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the uber and autonomous should be combined and there should be twice as many cars because one needs to be a minute away constantly to pick someone up to maintain instant gratification because people would rather sit through 2 hours of car traffic than a 35 minute train ride because they might have to wait 15 minutes at the platform and see people less fortunate than themselves
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Feb 1, 2018 21:09
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*person in grossly paid management position* look they're paid to do work, whats wrong with making sure they are doing what they're paid to? *goes to 2.5 hour lunch*
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My Linux Rig posted:we could automate these warehouses and spend tons of money in r&d, manufacturing, deployment etc *glados* now you're thinking with captialism
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Feb 1, 2018 21:29
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Elysiume posted:bus m8
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Feb 1, 2018 22:47
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Krankenstyle posted:i dont even understand how your traffic lights are so hosed up that you give them thought *drives into left turning car*
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Feb 3, 2018 04:21
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when I was a kid my dad drove an old dasher wagon and I kind of missed that car when we got rid of it I would totally buy an old thing or something if I had the time/space
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I love when they switch water sources in my area occasionally and it smells like I’m showering in a lake
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thats why I drink borjomi 
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Feb 5, 2018 08:09
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my cities water isn’t even fluoridated also wasn’t fluoridated where I grew up
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Feb 5, 2018 16:40
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Jonny 290 posted:the 'hot springs' bubbling up into the pretty pools downtown in hot springs arkansas are like 93% gas-heated tap water and 7% actual thermal spring water, as is the lower federal bound for legally calling it a hot spring isn't hot springs a national park?
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Feb 5, 2018 19:18
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or even outside the context of uber, think about lots of places people gather and how many of the groups of people there all drove individually, even when some of them live in the same neighborhoods, because thats just how toxic our car culture is
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quote:But Paul, a lawyer who was sworn in as Cupertino’s mayor in December, is taking a more cautious approach. He says his residents worry that a massive influx of housing would increase traffic, make the city more congested, change the feel of local neighborhoods and lead to the overcrowding of Cupertino’s desirable schools. 
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if you want a fun podcast on California housing https://player.fm/series/left-coast-1528758/e029-hgtvs-housefuckers-la-zoning
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:ie soft water there’s also a cult dude that will sell you stream water in glass orbs from Hawaii
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Feb 6, 2018 16:14
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i kind of want that hierarchy chart to be some kind of cynical joke but who knows anymore 
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Feb 6, 2018 21:29
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I didn’t see the launch but I overheard someone watching it and it sounded like a Super Bowl half time show production and nerds were eating it up
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Feb 7, 2018 03:06
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musk learned like thiel that the best grift of them all is the MIC
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Feb 7, 2018 05:44
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well yeah that might detract from the image that he’s running a fully functioning private space enterprise rather than an MIC leech building the fiery parts with former NASA personnel/contractors and facilities
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:ffs arguing with people who are like "musk is the first to do this!" Yes they did
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Also NASA has been rated as the government org with the highest workplace satisfaction for a few years at least http://bestplacestowork.org/BPTW/rankings/overall/large
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suburbanization is a disease
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