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because almost everyone gets a refund. You pay taxes monthly, you don't pay when you file (unless you want big penalties)
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seems to me that "AVs are safer than human drivers in general" is obviously untrue, only "waymo is safer than human drivers within a limited domain" is plausible
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so they sent in 2000 national guard troops because that sounded like a nice number to write headlines about. Eventually found make-work tasks for up to 300 of them, most of which was just handling logistics for the other 1700 unemployed guards
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I didn't understand music at the time but looking back the band was comically large, even Sousa would have been like whoa, that's way too many brass and woodwind instruments in one orchestra. And that was just the kids in my grades, each grade had its own comically proportioned wind-only orchestra
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I can't wait till we get to the phase of this cycle where gen z influencers are discovering you can actually go to a restaurant and sit down at comfortable tables and eat your food while it's still fresh. Did you know state law actually *requires* them to provide you a free restroom too?
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Food delivery is giving you soggy cold food, at a much higher price, while killing all the cute walkable restaurants the town used to have, it's really sad
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A rule of thumb I had on the old site: if you have a local golf course, you are in a big city suburb not "small town" or "rural"
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I have never encountered an actual HAWK beacon. 100% of examples I've ever seen of this style of cross walk have just used regular red-yellow-green traffic lights. I assume the only reason any jurisdiction would choose the HAWK instead is corruption
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Ideally there should be some sort of sensor to detect when all pedestrians clear the street. It's really important to train drivers that when the crosswalk light is red, there are pedestrians actually in the crosswalk, need to minimize that red-but-empty time
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I honestly can't think of an example of one of these near me where an immediate yellow would be an actual problem for traffic flow
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If you have to stand around for it to eventually turn yellow, the pedestrian will just cross before it turns, and then the drivers learn to never expect a pedestrian when it actually is red. Both sides of the interaction learn to ignore the crosswalk signals
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what the 3d printer is for is to explore the possibilities space, make some prototypes that you then send off to a real factory for production. If all of your effort is just going to get the darn thing to work, it's not working for you
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Like, no it's not normal for a plastic toy to melt in the sun, this is constraint created by the need to rely on easily melted materials in the 3d printer
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The same is true for making plastic nicknacks but people fail to see it. If you are making more than just a few prototypes, it's almost certainly cheaper to use a more conventional type of plastic molding, and this opens up a huge range of options denied by the 3d printer's needs
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something about the 3d printer hype breaks people's brains. People intuitively understood that while having an HP laserjet printer or whatever was fine for home use, if you had a bulk need it was cheaper and better quality to go to an industrial offset print shop
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it almost never makes sense to deploy the national guard, least of all for police-related stuff
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and somehow they still seem to be in over their heads, idk
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a thing that stood out in reading about gay history in the US is how all the right-wing "recruiting children" conspiracy theories about gays are just barely-edited conspiracy theories they originally said about jews
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*furiously types out 2 million lines of code over a weekend*
Performance review: "fixed that bug you were having"
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People do this all the time when comparing public investment to private contractors and it drives me crazy. "This company made X for a fraction of the cost" no, you are comparing an all-in actuarially fair analysis of public costs to a fake price made up by a startup that has never turned a profit
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the backup noise is overdone in general imo, it is both too common and too loud. And the fact that cars all have backup cameras now severely undermines their benefits
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I was confused by the term, they seem to mean "cant" in the sense of angled or slanted
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people have all kinds of crazy theories about castile soap but I suspect this is what people historically were after. Most other soaps made from other kinds of fat are yellowish, whereas olive oil turns white and won't yellow your clothes
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Anyway you can have a really thick accent and your english will still be heard as "correct" by english speakers because nothing about the rules depend on accent. I suspect this is not how native mandarin speakers hear an english speaker fumbling through a mandarin sentence
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spelling isn't really part of the language. English spelling is goofy because spelling didn't become standardized until movable type and
1)english pronunciations were changing rapidly at that time, and
2)most of the printers were dutch at that time. Blame the dutch