>Yeah, but how far can you make it in FUCKING LOS ANGELES

Probably a lot easier since the roads aren't FUCKING CATTLE PATHS THAT GOT PAVED OVER.

Crikes, you're stupid.

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If you saw an item that should cost $10 priced at $0.01, and you believed the listing erroneous, would you take advantage of the error to get a quick bargain? What if the item should actually cost $1000?

If so, what is your justification?

I'm an urban cyclist.

I can make it from Arlington MA to Downtown Boston no problem, down Mass Ave, one of the most traveled roads anywhere.

And I don't feel like it's suicidal at all. Then again I don't bike like a moron and I pay attention to traffic laws. Clipless pedals help a lot.

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Next it's not that hard to develop mathematical techniques to analyze text and language in posts ...

Budget projects much? "Doable" and "easy" are not the same words. I'm guessing one person out of a hundred in the general population could take a reasonable stab at developing such an algorithm, and only one person out of a thousand could be considered a natural talent.

The first 20% of the work gets you to sqrt(sqrt(7e9)) as your mean perplexity, which is simultaneously impressive and yet not terribly actionable. And then the difficulty curve shoots off into the exponential regime.

The lawers' grasp of the rules of English capitalization does not inspire confidence:

“SPE does not consent to your possession, review, copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading, or making any use of the Stolen information, and to request your cooperation in destroying the Stolen Information,”

It reads like a bad fantasy novel full of Portentous Capitalization.

Well, if the Sony records had been subpoenaed, your analogy would be spot on.

It /is/ walkable.

4 miles is 1 hr 20 minutes at normal walking speed.

2 hours by car? No, just no. That kind of time spent in a car going nowhere is just maddening.

Fer crissakes, it's 1 hr 20 minutes from here to Boston's South Station, and I'm in Concord NH and even during rush hour, it's not two hours. And once you're in Boston or Cambridge, you honestly don't need a car.

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You know, just because you're ignorant doesn't mean there's a conspiracy every time you're forced to learn something new.

Found that. When you said amusingly terrible, I thought you meant it in the sense of every powerpoint presentation being terrible, but that might have been the worst powerpoint presentation I've ever seen. That was just painfully bad.

"Polar Vortex" appears in the scientific literature decades before it became news.

Has there been any indication that newspapers and such are going to publish full scripts or anything like that? They might report on leaked scripts and torrents containing said scripts, but that's not what a newspaper is going to be interested in.

Very badly written article. The bad writing is not in the summary, it is in the original. There are about 4500 bird species. There are 48 orders. Species -> genus -> family -> order. All extant bird orders, and they took one sample species from each. The article has mangled the reporting of the original research.

FTFA:
Killeen said her four-mile commute to UCLA, where she teaches a public relations class, can take two hours during rush hour.

>4 miles
>Sunny LA

GET A FUCKING BICYCLE!

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1) What are the remedies for breach of the terms of the GPLv2?

This one is easy - if there's a breach then the license is void and Copyright is the effective law. Code was copied without permission, which becomes a copyright violation, and remedies are already established for that.

GPL is entirely based on the teeth of copyright - almost every OSI license is. If you hate imaginary property then you might question your use of licenses that depend on it.

Traffic calming measures have been common for quite a few years now. But I think that Sherman Oaks could take this one step further.

Traffic furniture rearranging.

Every day, get the road crews out there to move some barriers around randomly: dead ends in the middle of some block, random one way signs, maybe just drop a wrecked car in the intersection where the off-ramp exits the freeway. Reprogram traffic lights to introduce 10 minute delays. Make Waze's advice to be worse-than-worthless to the average driver, and just maybe they'll give up on your city.