I don't think they generally think that deeply. I think they really do want less illegal immigration (and less legal immigration, and the expulsion of all non-white, non-fundamentalist-Christian people) because that will create the "unified, blessed" nation they believe that they need to have.
That said, they aren't concerned about dealing with either of those issues rationally or efficiently. It's moral, not policy. "Impure" people who enter our "pure" nation are evil and must be thown out so we continue to have the favour of our deity (I refuse to write capital-g god here out of respsect for actual, loving Christian doctrine, as rare as it is). You deal with moral violations with exile and shame, not with compassion, wisdom, and welcoming.
Trump doesn't even get that deep. "How does this play in the ratings? (and secondarily, how do I look?)" That's it. It's why he likes Mamdani in person—he gets ratings.
Wilson expressed deep regret about parts of his vote. “There are some things I regret about voting for President Trump? Yes, a hundred percent. Trade policy is one of them… I wish it hadn’t have turned out that way.” Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump—reflecting a dilemma felt by many in rural America.
And there you go. "The other stuff" is more important than their own business. I'm willing to forgive a certain amount of being on the wrong side of history once they've seen the consequences of their actions, decided that they were wrong, and started the work to repair. But double down? Now you're saying you actually want this.
Generally agree. I don't know enough of the data to say whether or not they should be motorcycles or a new category of vehicle that can be regulated separately, but I'm in favour of increased regulation and licensing as they get more powerful.
↑Motor Power ∝ ↑Frequency of going at high speeds ∝ ↑% of time when a severe accident is possible.
I understand the argument that any given rider doesn't have to use the power. It's the same argument as "guns don't kill people, people kill people". While technically true, it ignores all of the evidence that shows that having the thing accessible increases its use in aggregate. I'm okay with people choosing to put themselves at risk, but a user of a more powerful eBike increases the danger for those around them as well. That kinetic energy works both ways when you hit someone else, and it's way easier to get up to that energy on a powerful eBike.
I hope we can agree that unlimited eBike power without a license is the incorrect policy. If my bike has as much power as a motorcycle (and electric motorcycles do exist), then I should need to be appropriately licensed. At some insane power, it should probably not be street legal. If you imagine a "smooth morph" between the most powerful electric motorcycle and the least powerful eBike on the market, there is some line where we need to transition categories. I'm willing to argue over where the various categorical lines around vehicle regulation and driver licensing should be, but I hope we can agree that they need to exist.
That said, I'm not sure that the 25km/h limit in NY is the right limit, I might choose something more like 30-35km/h (18.5-22 mph). But that's without any data and I'm not an expert, so 🤷
The main argument here is "if you can go as fast as traffic then you are more like traffic". Not Just Bikes did a 1.5 hour treatment on how US/Canadian bike infrastructure got the way it did, and the one man responsible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI
This guy believed that only "real cyclists" should be riding, i.e. people who ride racing bikes as fast as they can. Casual riders need not apply. He wrote a book on how to design streets for bikes based entirely around "real cyclists". It's commonly used today. The infrastructure it recommends is dangerous for most actual people who bike, so no one bikes. The video is a great 1.5 hr rant though, very entertaining.
Point is, this article falls into the trap of accepting the whole "real cyclist" framing of the argument. If there's separate bike infrastructure, then the idea of needing speed to integrate with car traffic goes away, and the whole article is moot.
There needs to be some subset/common theme for the Universal Blue distro family: Aurora, Bazzite, and Bluefin. I am not aesthetically talented enough to come up with such a collection.
The problem is that "ADHD" is not defined as a dopamine processing deficiency. It's defined as a cluster of symptoms that exceed a certain level. Those symptoms could be related to dopamine processing, or something else! So you're not wrong, in any real sense, but you are wrong by the definition set out by those who say what ADHD is.
SOLID often comes up against YAGNI (you ain't gonna need it).
What makes software so great to develop (as opposed to hardware) is that you can (on the small scale) do design after implementation (i.e. refactoring). That lets you decide after seeing how your new bit fits in whether you need an abstraction or not.
It depends on what your goals are with the transit.
If you're trying to connect existing, dense areas, then buses are potentially fine.
If you're trying to guide future growth, buses are useless. Bus routes can change, train tracks can't. Developers will build around train stations because of this immovability.
That said, if what this poster says is true, then LRT might have been the right choice not just for the UBC extension, but the entire Millenium Line extension from Commercial-Broadway all the way to UBC. But try convincing the car-brained of that… Doug Ford is a good example of someone who thinks it's a good idea to spend 10s of billions on subway instead of 100s of millions on LRT.
An MP3 isn't a single FT or DCT of the entire waveform either. The format breaks the stream up into frames, which are then processed.
So when engineers say "it's a Fourier Transform" they mean:
"It's a Fourier Transform the same way that we use it in practice which is to first break up the audio in the time domain and then transform each chunk into the frequency domain using a Fourier Transform or Discrete Cosine Transform for analysis of that chunk of audio."
But it's quicker to just say "It's a Fourier Transform".
Oh, I hope she doesn't run for President yet. It would be a waste of her talent. Not that I think she'd do a bad job (considering the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) but I don't think the electorate in the US is ready for her yet, and I think she has a lot she can contribute legislatively. I hope she unseats Schumer though. That's not only within reach but very doable.
It's almost like he's a fully fledged, complex human being and not an avatar of one side of a highly simplified model of political thought.
He's quite "left-wing" (from a US Overton Window) on most issues. MTG was relatively early speaking out for Palestine. That doesn't make her a leftist, either
I just got back from my first (short) trip to Montréal in nearly 10 years. It's the most human city in Canada, IMO. This would be a very human-empowering step, which is on brand, IMO. I hope it passes.
Montréal isn't perfect, and neither is PR, but both are better than many alternatives, IMO.
Seems viable, although niche. In the past, launching companies/nations would look for a small number of launch sites that would cover all the orbits they needed. I wonder if the future is many launch sites each specializing in a few particular orbits. I also wonder what the deltaV efficiency is compared to a more equatorial site.
Also, while I would prefer that this site were being developed by a Canadian company, if they're respectful to how we do things in Canada and the local community, as far as I'm concerned they're welcome. Not that my opinion matters in this decision. Good to see a Canadian supplier getting business, though.
Deep Rock Galactic's great game design has caused it to grow one of the most positive, supportive communities in online gaming, IMO. While problematic players do exist, they are the exception rather than the rule.
I remember in one map we had a new Engineer who didn't know they could use their platforms to block up holes vertically to prevent bugs from getting to us during swarms. This new player also wasn't responding to any comms.
One player started pinging where we needed the platforms to go. Then, another player joined in and started pinging an existing platform. Then all three of us were alternately pinging the Engineer, an existing platform, and where we wanted the new platform.
After some time, the Engineer figured it out and started putting up our protective ceiling.
I don't think they generally think that deeply. I think they really do want less illegal immigration (and less legal immigration, and the expulsion of all non-white, non-fundamentalist-Christian people) because that will create the "unified, blessed" nation they believe that they need to have.
That said, they aren't concerned about dealing with either of those issues rationally or efficiently. It's moral, not policy. "Impure" people who enter our "pure" nation are evil and must be thown out so we continue to have the favour of our deity (I refuse to write capital-g god here out of respsect for actual, loving Christian doctrine, as rare as it is). You deal with moral violations with exile and shame, not with compassion, wisdom, and welcoming.
Trump doesn't even get that deep. "How does this play in the ratings? (and secondarily, how do I look?)" That's it. It's why he likes Mamdani in person—he gets ratings.