Actually they cannot sell it, even the bank cannot foreclose on it in many cities. This is the crux of the problem. The government has effectively taken one persons property and assigned it to another for the duration of the pandemic or whatever the next issue they want to latch on to - that is what makes the situation even worse is now that they have found one justification to block evictions and more its a short step to finding another.
The government should have been forced to cover the costs or percentage of the lost rental costs. Just like the government should be the entity covering hero pay requirements.
Instead they abuse a class which garners little sympathy to score political points at no cost to them (that group is landlords and in some cases businesses with out of state ownership). Or you could find similar examples like using a local BBQ joint near me which was not allowed to sell alcohol during parts of the pandemic yet was not refunded any of the licensing fees paid to the city, county, or state.
you can get shadow banned from subs for posting on other subs and its all automatic as well. this I know first hand as I was a regular poster on an antique related sub only to one day find none of my posts getting noticed and the pictures not showing. came to find out they are part of a group of subs which ban people who post on another sub.
reddit has become a real cess pool and its not the users and what they post but the back door rules and such and pettiness among to moderators of many subs
> Cycling is fine until its too cold, too wet, too hot, and oh I am late or I need to carry something else or .. or... or..
Welcome to life, it's hard, and this will hardly be the worst thing you'll face. I bike year round in Berlin, all you need is a rain coat and waterproof shoes, I'm faster than cars on any trip <5km. I still cringe every time I bike next to a 1km+ traffic jam (ie. every single day) and see that every car is occupied by a single person. Moving 2 tons of metal for a 70kg meatbag will always be the least efficient way. Just stop a minute and think about it, the whole street if completely packed, hundreds of square meters used, for what, maybe 300 persons in their expensive wheeled boxes... and then you have the space used by parking spots.
People in the past, and a lot of people today, still live perfectly fine without cars. We fucked up by designing all of our activities around them and now we're slave to them, it doesn't have to stay like that.
Convenience will kill us all if that's all we care about and don't take into account the non monetary price of it
I think there are a few convenience sacrifices you're neglecting. Not everybody has the luxury of living in such a mild climate as Berlin. In north Texas for a quarter of the year anybody will be a sweaty mess in a few minutes after stepping outside. Berlin has average of freezing temperatures in the winter months. That's not suitable for biking in a raincoat. You're fortunate that your job/school is a brief bike ride away. How does your choice in employment/school change when your spouse needs to commute 30 minutes in the opposite direction. What about children working or attending college? What about multigenerational households? Each person in the home that needs to commute somewhere constrains what they can do, where your family can live or both. Should everybody just waste more of their day with less flexible modes of transportation?
> when your spouse needs to commute 30 minutes in the opposite direction.
They wouldn't need to if we didn't design cities around roads instead of designing them around people.
Cars pushed people away from their working place, we commute as much as in the paste but we travel much greater distance and now we're trapped. It was a curse in disguise, and I'm not even talking about the financial stress owning a car ads to most people's budget
Some of my fondest memories are of when the weather was "too" something. Some of them make great stories. But I'm sure you enjoy recounting your tales about how comfortable it was in your little box. I prefer to live and experience the world.
I lived day in day out with a bicycle for years. Do you not believe me? Even now, I have a car, but I don't use it every day and I cycle if it's close enough regardless of the weather.
As for needing to carry something, you make other plans. You're on hacker news, I'm sure you're smart enough to figure it out. And being late? What? Are you advocating speeding?
What is this? You claim that people are only comfortable in cars because they've learned to be, and then someone responds providing all of the ways that cars are actually more comfortable and your response is "being uncomfortable makes for a great story"?
I mean, sure, you make some good points, but they have nothing to do with the completely valid statement you are responding to. If you're going to completely sidestep their comment, just man up and admit you were wrong before you move on to other arguments supporting your position.
First of all, there's a difference between being less comfortable and uncomfortable. I said I was never uncomfortable on my bike, I didn't say it was equally as comfortable as every other state of being.
When I used to ride in cars as a child it was incredibly uncomfortable because I got car sickness. When I started to learn to drive it was uncomfortable again because of all these weird controls and the stress. I'm sure many of us would find it uncomfortable merely to be inside a car had we not grown up with them from a very young age. I, and everyone else, learnt to find cars comfortable just as I learnt to find bikes comfortable.
I mean you're not wrong but you're not refuting that bike's are less comfortable, just that our lives would be better off with a little less comfort. I agree with you, but I don't think most people would.
I'm not trying to. My point is that there is no absolute scale of comfort. We are comfortable with what we are used to. That's why one person's comfort zone is different to another's. When I started to drive seriously it was way less comfortable than cycling for me. Manoeuvring a four-wheeled vehicle around is considerably more difficult. Acceleration is pitiful and you can't stop easily. You have to actually queue behind other cars in heavy traffic! Trapped in the little box in which you must remain, even if walking is now quicker. And just look at how angry it makes people. I've seen people literally go mad stuck in traffic. They're all on edge and the slightest mistake or unexpected behaviour can turn them into a frenzy. And this is meant to be the pinnacle of comfort! Because I don't get wet when there's a little rain?!
I’ve commuted by bicycle all year round in Umeå in northern Sweden (as well as Stockholm and Ann-Arbor MI). When you are used to it you don’t even think about it. You need good clothes to pull over when it’s raining or cold, but those cost less than most people pay in car insurance for a month or two.
And I’m far from alone. For a lot of people it is the solution, day in and day out, and it has been for many years.
Those times usually not that big of a deal anyway. Too cold you can dress up against, to warm could be a thing depending on where you are, if you're late then a bike is probably the fastest mode of transport through a busy city anyway, carrying things is definitely possible.
And these situations aren't common anyway, and I say that living somewhere where so many people bike everywhere all the time that finding parking can be an issue (though is still much easier than finding parking for a large steel box on wheels.)
AI is just a cover for others to hide behind when their decisions are enforced upon others. They can point the bogeyman behind the curtain all the while avoiding the charge that they gave that bogeyman the script by which it runs. The danger is when they fool the public into believing that is not the case.
A true AI would not be kept bound by those who gave it its start and no politician or business person is ever going to let something else make the decisions
Well we certainly added to that number with many districts refusing to return to class even when the science proved it was safe and the concerns being bandied about were not supported by any research.
The real danger not mentioned in the article is how many of that seven percent have students in school districts that were not offering classroom education?
We have areas of the country, mostly serving minority students, who have irreparably harmed their chances because politics trumped science.
I really wish I could fully agree but in a nation of over three hundred million it is easily expected to have a few hundred thousand not fit to be in society.
now what we should be doing is removing any one not convicted of a violent crime from any prison. This means mostly drug offenses and this would mean we would have to stop putting people in jail for business activities.
see this is what I find interesting about HN. People will scream their lungs out that prisons are bad ignoring yet turn around and cheer on threads here wanting to put executives into them.
Sorry, make up your mind. Violent crimes deserve prison all others deserve probation and fines
It won't be cooperation. Either it will requiring buying off those countries or using coercion which could include anything from tariffs, fees, and penalties, or to even locking them out from access to global banking and assistance.
a global tax lets the countries with irresponsible spending to offload their costs to other countries. pure and simple. it will be packaged as something else entirely but it is no different that what happens internally in many countries between different levels of governments (states,cities, territories,etc)
trying to understand what determines which city is aligned with each party? Is it strictly who the mayor is, city council, or both?
Plus the real issue is not percentage that the rate went up but how many people does that actually mean? Going up in Chicago is going to greatly dwarf most other cities and I am not sure they are very large Republican governed cities.
In effect, they are using statistics to attempt to make the issue seem less dire than it really is. The number of deaths is ridiculous so they don't want that number out there.
Waymo works like a rail shooter. You cannot go where they have not built detailed maps down to curbs and such. It says so on their site. That is not FSD but instead a theme park ride.
While I own a Tesla model 3 with FSD I am more impressed by what is shown on youtube by beta testers than by anything my car can do. Simply put, Telsa only recently changed their entire FSD suite to include maintaining an active awareness of all labeled objects which in itself is greatly improved as my car clearly does not see everything.
Think of it this way, current versions work on a very short moment of time so and don't have labels for everything it can see which leads to missing parked vehicles (as in how did that survive this long) and more. My favorite example is my car rendering cones around a parked cable/phone truck but not the damn truck! It also had fun with a garbage truck doing a great job rendering the guy and cans and with the truck not always there but immediately real once it moved.
As for buying FSD, don't. Regular autopilot provides the driver assistance people can actually use on long trips. Which is, keeps you safe if you get distracted or worse. Plus there is still an issue with trade ins to Tesla, pretty much they were assigning ZERO dollars for FSD. So until Tesla provides a transfer fee or puts FSD at the account level I am never buying another one.
FSD needs to be at the account level. It would actually make Tesla more money as they could then sell a subscription for those who only need it for trips.
They actually have a clip of the sound in the video, and if I remember correctly that sound was recorded in the 1% atmosphere chamber, so should sound similar to how it would sound on Mars.
The government should have been forced to cover the costs or percentage of the lost rental costs. Just like the government should be the entity covering hero pay requirements.
Instead they abuse a class which garners little sympathy to score political points at no cost to them (that group is landlords and in some cases businesses with out of state ownership). Or you could find similar examples like using a local BBQ joint near me which was not allowed to sell alcohol during parts of the pandemic yet was not refunded any of the licensing fees paid to the city, county, or state.