josephcsible

> How about the World Trade Center to Yankee Stadium. Driving is 32 min with a $9 toll, or 38 min with no toll. Subway is 31 min with $3 fare. When I checked that route just now, I saw 31 minutes d…

They don't do that, but even if they did, it wouldn't skew the statistics, since the NHTSA still counts it as engaged if it disengaged within 30 seconds of the crash.

> They disengage FSD when they detect a potential accident. Even if that were true, any accident where FSD was disengaged up to 30 seconds prior is counted as being engaged. And 30 seconds is long …

Can you name a specific pair of locations that I can plug in to Google Maps and see that outcome?

> we should simply stop giving away public land for vehicles as if it’s free. Require the public, as owners of the land, be reimbursed for land consumed by private vehicles, including headway. Isn&…

How will the robotaxis become unsafe? The reason public transit is unsafe is because of the other passengers on board with you, but you have the robotaxi to yourself.

> Your parked car is adding to congestion. It takes up space that could otherwise be used by humans. But that's not what congestion means.

> A good public transport system can be faster than driving, tho. Really take any city with a large metro system. Does DC count as having a large metro system? Because in DC, driving at the slowest…

> if getting from one part of the city to another takes 2 hours in a car and 20 minutes in a subway But that's not the case anywhere, and there are no proposals that would even come close, unl…

You could also invite a police officer over to your house to watch recordings from a completely offline air-gapped camera pointed at the street.

If they do those things, then it would indeed be a privacy issue, but right now they're not.

Wouldn't cash be worse? With a credit card, you might be able to get your deposit back in a chargeback, but with cash, your deposit is definitely gone.

Winning a chargeback isn't just refusing to pay a bill. A neutral third party confirmed you were in the right and the merchant was in the wrong, so it's unfair for the merchant to punish you…

Sure, but that's a lot more work than just disabling Secure Boot, and for most people's threat models, there's zero actual security benefit gained in return.

They even do that with ISO C. They claim that portable functions like strlen are deprecated and insecure, and their recommended replacements are MSVC-specific.

I don't like this advice because it seems like it's only useful to people who want to do tivoization in the first place. I hope people who try to do that keep failing at it, because "su…

Isn't freedom of speech just "you're allowed to say whatever you want", and not "you're entitled to the use of taxpayer dollars to help distribute your message" or &…

> I like my skin not blue Isn't that problem just with silver, not gold?

What "injury in fact" is Apple claiming to have suffered that gives them standing to sue over this?

> on paper, the moment you were terminated you lost your legal status That's not true. There's a 60 day grace period after your employment ends during which you still have your legal stat…

Has anyone ever actually wanted these from any site other than messaging apps? 99.9% of sites that try to get me to subscribe to them really do seem to be spam.

> Let's imagine that there is a huge amount of time dilation (we live on the surface of a neuron star or something). That idea is the premise of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#…

This isn't part of that slippery slope, since that was Cloudflare's voluntary choice, but this is legally required of them. (I do think both kinds are bad, though.)