yimby

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[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Source for further reading? I'm also pretty invested in road design and I'd like to learn more about how it's done in Ontario.

[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

Thank you for being an amazing admin!

[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

I know it from the tribute plaque to the Apollo 1 astronauts who sadly passed in a tragic fire during ground tests.

[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is it your instance or my instance doing the censoring here? Scunthorpe effect at work.

[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Survivorship bias?

[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago (16 children)

Two facts:

  1. The average occupancy of a car in my North American city is 1.2 people per car. This does not vary much by city.
  2. Autonomous vehicles will almost certainly be worse for traffic than human driven cars. They will circle empty with no passengers and drive to pick up passengers empty (dead heading) even with a fully rideshare system. If there is widespread private ownership of autonomous vehicles (and you bet your butt that car companies will campaign for this aggressively to keep sales up), the dead heading problems only multiply. If you don't believe me, look up any recent literature on the topic: by most accounts it will be worse, not better. Dead heading is only the tip of the iceberg of problems there.
[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

Followed by a hyperlink to the page for cunt

[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't know, if I were surprised by a panther I think I would also be shocked and say holy shit, haha. How should I react to not get hirt?

[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

Ellipses... definitely.

Sentences ending a full stop. Somewhat.

Very context dependent though

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xkcd #2878: Supernova (imgs.xkcd.com)
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They're a little cagey about exactly where the crossover point lies relative to the likelihood of devastating effects on the planet.

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