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Comment Re:The problem is arseholes. (Score 1) 83

If 30 is what seems safe to him, who are you to argue?

If he's not following the law, then... anyone? Everyone?

Highways do have a minimum speed though. 80kph here.

California's highways have a minimum speed, too. It's "drivers cannot drive so slowly that they block or impede the normal flow of traffic". So if he's going 30, and everyone else wants to go faster, he's breaking the law. Also, California state law requires that if you are on a highway and there are five or more people behind you, YOU MUST PULL OVER AT THE FIRST SAFE OPPORTUNITY TO PERMIT THEM TO PASS. This is an extremely underappreciated and underenforced law. I've seen someone pulled over for it just once, they were operating construction equipment and there were dozens to hundreds of people stuck behind them — I could not see the end of the line, so I only know about dozens.

Comment Re:All your gaming data belongs to us (Score 1) 32

Doesn't Google Maps Street View achieve the same, but with a more thorough street coverage?

Kinda. They don't have the same accuracy because of the drive-by nature of the activity. They also skip a lot of roads, they can't leave roads or trails, etc.

Pokémon Go pokestop scans were in sort of in random locations

Nope. They were in apparently random locations that Niantic wanted scanned. They fill in the gaps left by scanning programs like gmaps.

Comment Re:Terrain following navigation tech predates GPS (Score 4, Interesting) 32

Using the Pokemon data is a pretty interesting repurposing of the data.

It's literally not repurposing. They always intended the game to deliver high resolution imagery coupled with positioning information that could be used for non-game purposes.

Comment Re:Highly abusable (Score 1) 40

And if a police officer "beats the shit out of" someone is that a "serious crime" that qualifies? If it is, why should you broadcast it?

You're asking why a video of a police officer beating someone should be posted? Are you new?

You realize this is Poland right?

Uh yeah, we realize this is Poland, right. Are you new?

You realize this is Poland right?

YES WE FUCKING REALIZE IT'S POLAND.

Comment Re:Headlines (Score 3, Interesting) 127

Women do not want children in more numbers than ever because they are not marrying, because they follow each other on instagram and other mass hysteria sites where they promote hedonistic living to each other

GP comment explains the why, you're explaining the what, we already know what the what is. And some of us know what the why is, but not you. Therefore you're stupid and your comment is stupid.

So women as a voting block created the environment of high taxation and subsidization

Just absolute clown shit.

Comment Re: Ban smartphones in school... (Score 1) 127

World population is levelling off around 11-12bn, which is sustainable with modern farming methods.

That would only be true if modern farming methods were sustainable. They require the use of fertilizer derived from oil, and use of that synthetic fertilizer destroys soil diversity which is necessary for crop production and in fact just for those crops to be nutritious. Even if the population didn't increase we'd already be cruising towards disaster. Factory farming is outdoor hydroponics in a dirt medium.

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