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New comment by Buttes in "Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring"

Buttes — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:21:07 +0000

Like, the drivers manual? We're talking about basic driving skills here. Cars need room to stop, the higher the speed, the more room they need to stop safely. Most human drivers aren't perfect and leave a lot less room than they should, AVs won't share that flaw.

New comment by Buttes in "Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail"

Buttes — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 18:48:17 +0000

A highway cuts through my city, largely because it used to be very poor and it was politically expedient to prioritize interstate traffic at the expense of city dwellers (there's measurably higher rates of asthma near highways).

Its not just "StrongTowns hates them", it's that a lot of cities have gotten the shit end of the stick, transportation-wise, and people who actually live in the city don't want to live next to a fucking highway for the convenience of suburbanites. It's not a conspiracy, there's political support for these policies in cities.

Just use park and ride, cut throughs can go fuck themselves, you sound entitled as hell. It's not your God given right to shit up other peoples' home with your car.

New comment by Buttes in "Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring"

Buttes — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:30:38 +0000

You also need hardcore vent systems.

New comment by Buttes in "Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring"

Buttes — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:28:22 +0000

No you can't, you need to leave stopping distance for safety reasons. If anything AVs will leave more room between cars than human drivers.

New comment by Buttes in "Cryptocurrency will always be political"

Buttes — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:55:10 +0000

Crypto is the new cyber.

New comment by Buttes in "SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO"

Buttes — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:37:02 +0000

I'd say they're more like trading cards than anything.

New comment by Buttes in "Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?"

Buttes — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:29:53 +0000

It's certainly possible there are fraudulent trades driving price, it's pretty easy to do on BTC exchanges.

New comment by Buttes in "Undoing the Dis-Education of Millennials"

Buttes — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 13:59:35 +0000

>newbostonpost

Someone on r/boston constantly posts links to this garbage "news" source, everyone flags it as spam there, I'm going to flag it as spam here as well.

New comment by Buttes in "IOTA Surges Past Ripple"

Buttes — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:47:39 +0000

>Why does everyone repeat that Byzantine consensus requires maximum 33% of participants to be dishonest?

Not 33% of participants, 33% of the hash power, could just be one participant with a pile of GPUs or ASICS or "JINN" chips lol. That's the claim made by the IOTA author, anyway.

Right now it wouldn't surprise me if someone could amass 90+% of IOTA hash power anyway.

>If messages cannot be forged

Tbh this is not even a given with IOTA.

New comment by Buttes in "IOTA Surges Past Ripple"

Buttes — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:31:48 +0000

The closed-source coordinator, presumably.

New comment by Buttes in "IOTA Surges Past Ripple"

Buttes — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:31:34 +0000

My understanding is you only need 33% of the hash power at any given time. Since PoW is only done as part of sending transactions, it probably takes less hash power than you'd think to cause problems.

New comment by Buttes in "IOTA Surges Past Ripple"

Buttes — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:29:33 +0000

It gets better... their "improved" version of "curl"? Kerl.

You can't make this shit up.

New comment by Buttes in "Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler"

Buttes — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 19:38:03 +0000

For fun.

New comment by Buttes in "System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan"

Buttes — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:48:36 +0000

This is a great idea, I'd totally buy a "chromebook" with coreboot and Ubuntu.

New comment by Buttes in "Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them"

Buttes — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:58:33 +0000

You're hopeless, this is not subtle stuff, you're being deliberately obtuse, or you're just plain stupid.

New comment by Buttes in "Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them"

Buttes — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:34:40 +0000

> He seems to have been disavowing racists since the start

Pandering to racists since the start:

* Initial refusal to rebuke David Duke.

* "Rapists" remark.

* Violence on "both sides".

* Not mentioning the Jews on Holocaust Remembrance day.

* No traditional White House Ramadan celebration.

* Attacking the hispanic judge in the Trump U case because of their race.

* Calling for and attempting to implement a "Muslim Ban".

* Appointing Jeff Sessions, who had been denied a judgeship due to his racist beliefs.

* The dog whistling about the lawless "inner cities".

* Supporting the birther theory.

The list goes on and on.

Even when he does rebuke racists, it's never prompt, and always with a wink and a nod. If you don't believe me, go peruse stormfront and look at all the threads celebrating their "victory" when Trump says these things, they recognize what's going on.

New comment by Buttes in "Introducing the new Snapchat"

Buttes — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:40:08 +0000

I know middle aged people who do the same thing, their "performances" are appropriate for their age. Pictures of expensive vacations, manicured gardens and so on. Same phenomenon.

New comment by Buttes in "Introducing the new Snapchat"

Buttes — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:37:14 +0000

Is it easy for mastodon operators to disable?

New comment by Buttes in "The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011)"

Buttes — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:08:35 +0000

It's like how you kinda need to know js to do anything with coffeescript. The fastest way to learn Elixir is to learn Erlang first.

You will be dealing with Erlang data structures (sans syntax sugar), the Erlang stdlib (Elixir doesn't wrap everything) and Erlang libraries to accomplish anything substantial. Sooner or later you'll have to grok Erlang.

New comment by Buttes in "U.S. government once wanted to plan false flag attacks with Soviet aircraft"

Buttes — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:09:26 +0000

A war.