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Comment Re: Even better: no cars at all (Score 1) 175

False. You can't just call things lies because you don't want them to be true.

Ah, I see you're pushing anti-people propaganda. You want cities built for buses and bikes, not for people.

Here's a nice overview article from urbanists: https://archive.strongtowns.or...

Cars are superior to every other transit mode for commutes. It's a simple fact. They are faster, more convenient, and don't require spending time in the company of fentanyl addicts. Or wasting entire lifetimes every day waiting for bus to arrive.

Comment Re: Even better: no cars at all (Score -1, Troll) 175

Bit if you can properly connect people in ways faster than cars it reduces traffic and makes everyone's life better (drivers too).

This is the biggest lie from transit/bike pushers. Transit (or bike lanes) do NOT reduce the traffic. Heck, it's in the very foundation of the ideas for forced densification: induced demand. And it's also supported by multiple studies.

You can argue that forcing everyone into 15-minute concentration camps is good for them, but you don't get to claim that transit reduces traffic.

Comment RIP US automakers (Score 4, Insightful) 179

Well, the Ford guy toured the Chinese companies, got scared, and decided that it's a good time to squeeze the automakers for the last dregs of profits. Before they go down for good.

Meanwhile, Africa and Asia are getting flooded by Chinese EVs. That are now superior to gas cars on price and reliability. And that can be charged from local solar, not depending on imported gas. The cheapest Chinese EVs are now less than $10k, and you can get a very reasonable EV for $15k.

It's amazing seeing the entire industry self-destructing before our eyes.

Comment No content, DRM, so why bother? (Score 2) 138

It turns out that without ANY content the 8k support is not needed. And there is little content because the HDMI Forum is refusing to pull its head out of its ass and allow HDMI 2.1 to be licensed without heavy DRM and NDA requirements.

Well, the industry shot itself in the foot with 3D, by making it hard to create 3D content. The only supported way was H.264 MVC, with barely any tools that can output it. Meanwhile, saner side-by-side 3D was not consistently supported.

Comment In short: bullshit (Score 1, Informative) 120

The Victorian Era cities were a good approximation of hell. As for "moar density" bullshit, no large city in the US, Western Europe, or Japan lowered down housing prices by increasing density. But sure, we just need to allow real estate developers run rampant. Just trust me, bro.

As a practical example: Vancouver, BC rapidly built out fully automated grade-separated transit system. It then allowed unlimited density near transit stations (resulting in nauseatingly ugly high-rises), it (effectively) banned purely investment foreign purchases. Basically, it did all the wishlist of misery pushers.

Can you guess the outcome? Hint: it's not "affordable housing for everyone".

Comment In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics (Score 1) 122

At $1.50/gal ready to go in a car with just energy as an input, even with those huge up-front costs for the machine it could make sense for gas stations to have an array of these constantly filling their Regular or Economy tanks.

There's one small problem: you need a lot of electricity to run this process. About 10x more than just using it for EV charging. And this is not something that can be improved with mass production, it's a fundamental limitation imposed by thermodynamics.

Comment Re:Disimproved with more last-mile problems (Score 1) 171

Better yet, no cars so buses aren't blocked by packed streets.

Buses are not slow because of cars. Buses are slow because they are buses and have to stop on each bus stop. So they mathematically can't be much faster than they are, even on completely uncongested routes.

If you space the stops farther, this will STILL not help. People will just have to spend more time walking, so the average commute goes up.

Comment Re:MRI is cheap! (Score 1) 23

That's not how cancer prevention works. Cancer development rates for "suspicious" things need to be tested ASAP, 1 year later you're likely to find yourself experiencing very expensive, potentially painful or life threatening treatments.

So it's totally better to just wait until the cancer gets to stage 4 and then do an MRI to confirm it. Big brain. Much smart.

In reality, plenty of cancers are slow-growing and take years to spread. And of course, for more concerning cases, there needs to be a quicker follow-up. For example, another MRI in a month.

Sorry to break the bad news but you got scammed.

I meant that they found nothing alarming. The cysts are still there and unchanged.

Comment Re:MRI is cheap! (Score 2) 23

That is, if you go and get a full body scan, they will find something 'suspicious'. You never pay just the $1,000, because they have to test the suspicious thyroid nodule, the mole that might be cancer, the cyst that might be cancer, and that brain aneurysms that turns out to be harmless.

Well, yes. And? Just do a follow-up scan in 1 year. I did a Prenuvo scan 2 years ago, and they did find suspicious cysts (I knew about them, actually). They flagged them and recommended a followup in 2 years. I also did that and it found nothing.

Basically, we just need need follow-up criteria for the MRI images. When they are used diagnostically, and not to just solemnly confirm a terminal cancer.

Comment Re:US does not recognize Maduro's government (Score 1) 180

and a populist leftist faction who wants to control the oil, mostly in favour of the general populace

You have a problem right there. There is no faction in Venezuela that wants to help the general population. It's not a democratic country, and the entirety of its ruling elite is simply focused on holding on to power. They didn't even bother with messaging anymore.

Now the factions that formed its armed enforcer wing ("colectivos") will fight one another.

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