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New comment by mozumder in "Dugout Loop"

mozumder — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:37:44 +0000

I'm saying the numbers are so astronomically off that there is no viable path to profit without public subsidy, for any theoretical future system, big or small.

New comment by mozumder in "Dugout Loop"

mozumder — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:35:11 +0000

In the US, "public transportation" means "transportation system owned by the public". This is opposed to "private transportation", which is owned by private entities.

All tranport systems are available for use by the general public.

Also, the MTR infrastructure is government subsidized.

New comment by mozumder in "Dugout Loop"

mozumder — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:29:45 +0000

This was possible because cities weren't as developed as they are now. Property was cheap back then.

These days, the major expense of building a mass transit system is just buying property. And in cities, these properties are going to be already developed.

Right now, there are individual buildings in US cities that cost over $1billion, so grade-separated ground rail is not going to happen for cheap. That only leaves tunneling, which also isn't cheap.

New comment by mozumder in "Dugout Loop"

mozumder — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 04:46:08 +0000

It's not anywhere close to self-funding a real public transport system.

How do they expect to make money as a private enterprise if these are the numbers they propose?

Public transportation is supposed to lose money, not make it, hence the "public" part. It's paid for by tax dollars, because it is impossible for private companies to make money from it.

Even the private rail systems around the world are largely subsidized pubicly during construction, with only operations being privatized.

New comment by mozumder in "Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior"

mozumder — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:32:00 +0000

At the root is narcissism. Narcissism blocks profound insight, and rewards anti-social behavior.

New comment by mozumder in "Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX, a Raytracing GPU"

mozumder — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:22:43 +0000

Die size is ridiculous, causing such high prices due to exponential costs associated with die size. It seems like an opening for AMD to use their EPYC Infinity Fabric interconnect for their next-gen GPUs in multi-chip modules with smaller dies.

New comment by mozumder in "Humans May Have Reached North America by More Than One Route"

mozumder — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:14:10 +0000

Wouldn't people be able to traverse the continent in a few months? Why are they giving estimated ranges that span thousands of years?

New comment by mozumder in "Six Months at Riot Games"

mozumder — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:44:41 +0000

> I've been in the industry 20 years and not had that happen anywhere I worked in the UK.

Do you think that's because of the corporate culture you're at or due to you personally not knowing about it?

What do you do after-hours at conferences in Vegas? Check out the Britney Spears show or Cirque du Soleil?

> The guy I knew who did that at his gaming company Christmas party got put on "final warning" for a year.

So, how come he didn't get fired? Was he critical to project success at all?

New comment by mozumder in "Six Months at Riot Games"

mozumder — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:28:53 +0000

So, in tech, do people not go to strip clubs anymore?

Like, what's the culture now? Are all interpersonal relationships now formalized into an algorithm?

Do people not get into actual fistfights at the office anymore?

New comment by mozumder in "Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021"

mozumder — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 01:05:34 +0000

Not if you're one of the many people that don't pay taxes! (retirees, children, the poor, etc..)

Intel has no chance in servers and they know it

mozumder — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 23:52:58 +0000

Article URL: https://semiaccurate.com/2018/08/07/intel-has-no-chance-in-servers-and-they-know-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17712013

Points: 39

# Comments: 10

New comment by mozumder in "YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's Lead"

mozumder — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 21:58:12 +0000

You're making the mistake of thinking that Alex Jones and his followers are rational and good-faith actors - a pre-requisite for debate.

The best thing to do is just silence their voices; no ifs, ands, or buts.

Remember, these people are against the idea of democracy.

New comment by mozumder in "SpaceX set to re-fly a Block 5 rocket for the first time tonight"

mozumder — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 14:54:57 +0000

OK I get that booster reuse cuts down costs, but the fact is the 2nd stage is still not reused, which limits the economic benefits needed to open new markets. We get a 50% reduction in costs, instead of the 95% reduction in costs.

You can get a 50% reduction in costs just by going to India for launch..

Is SpaceX going for 2nd stage reuse at all? That's going to be a lot harder than booster stage reuse, since you're returning to land at orbital velocity.

And then there's the whole issue of increasing reliability of the 1st stage for reuse hundreds (or thousands) of times needed for new business models...

New comment by mozumder in "Young people don’t want construction jobs"

mozumder — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:59:43 +0000

And this is how you cause an economy to collapse, by raising inflation.

The market doesn’t know what’s good for it. It’s only interest is the immediate short term.

New comment by mozumder in "Young people don’t want construction jobs"

mozumder — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:58:34 +0000

and increase inflation, punishing the poor and elderly on fixed income the most?

New comment by mozumder in "Young people don’t want construction jobs"

mozumder — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:55:08 +0000

OSHA has largely supplanted union safety regulations but the real issue killing this work is just workforce education.

We spend thousands to pay for 12 years of public education for each student to teach them things like Calculus and Geopolitics and Literature only for them to perform manual construction labor that an illegal immigrant from Central America with zero schooling can do?

Yah that’s not happening...

Young people don’t want construction jobs

mozumder — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:17:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/young-people-dont-want-construction-jobs-thats-a-problem-for-the-housing-market-1533029401

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672096

Points: 51

# Comments: 99

New comment by mozumder in "Setting Up a Fast, Comprehensive Search Routine with PostgreSQL"

mozumder — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:38:24 +0000

How would you build an order-processing & accounting system with only SOLR/Elasticsearch? Can you guarantee data reliability?

New comment by mozumder in "Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life"

mozumder — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 02:51:15 +0000

I'm more "Encino Man" here..

New comment by mozumder in "Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface"

mozumder — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:50:30 +0000

Tru dat. Interpolation will probably be too difficult in 4-D space.