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Ask HN: Would this idea encourage more people to use public transit?

3 pointsamichail6 comments

Public transit would be free for anyone who can convincingly impersonate a famous historical figure (think Einstein riding the bus).

The performances would entertain paying passengers and hopefully boost ridership.

Do you think this idea would work?

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Is there a browser extension to hide one single HN user's submissions?

I only know how to do comments vs submissions in uBlock

     news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser):has-text(/\bUsername\b/)

And then there are topics themselves

    # Filter some topics
    # top (title / url)
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(Elon|lockchain)/):upward(tr)
    # bottom (stats / comments)
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(Elon|lockchain)/):upward(tr) + *

But I'm sure it could be done in uBlock, guess I need to play around with it. This removes the subline which would indicate something is up but I need to encompass the two rows. It feels like there should be a class that spans the two rows but I am awful at this.

    news.ycombinator.com##tbody > tr#bigbox > td > table > tbody > tr:has-text(username)

How about everybody must be able to convincingly impersonate an ordinary respectable person, and nobody else gets to ride?

You either do not use public transit, or do not have beggars or street music players entering your trains. If the music player is ok, it is ok. The only time I have enjoyed it though is when he was playing a piece I knew.

There might have to be some sort of practical limit so that we don't have entire busses full of of Einstein impersonators and no paying customers.

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