San Francisco already does this with cigarettes. An eighty five cent tax per pack is levied specifically for this purpose. So around 4.25 cents per cigarette. I don't see why this could not be applied to other problematic litter sources.
I rode a skateboard every day for 8 years, from high school through college and thought helmets where stupid. I got a Boosted board last year and after one ride bought my first helmet. Would never use it without one now.
Your right. Electrics can do that kind of speed but I was on a kick scooter and probably in more of a 3-4 x range and probably averaged 9mph after lights, pedestrians and the like are taken into account.
This exactly: bikes require planning and strategy and are not good for improvisational day-to-day things like you described. Bikes make walking easier but all other forms of travel like bus, train or taxi/uber/cars more difficult or impossible.
I rode a non-electric kick scooter (Xootr) for three years working in downtown SF. It is by far the best form of transitional transport there is and superior to bikes for 99% of actual real world travel. It was easily 4-5 times faster than walking and more importantly suddenly made the entire city open due to how insanely efficient it was for "glueing" together various forms of public transport. I could hop from transport hub to transport hub insanely quickly and the entire system suddenly worked in a way that did not happen with walking or biking. Some people say walk, but it's too slow and a 1/2 mile "walk" section on a complicated transport route would be impractical on foot. Biking is fast enough for long trips but massively inconvenient for quick trips to a store or park or restaurant. A scooter on the other hand could be with me all day, I can take it into the store with me, I can take it on the bus. Transition cost from arrival to getting on the bus or walking into a store was seconds instead of minutes with a bike. The scooter had tons of upsides and the only downside was, at the time, that it was kind of embarrassing to be seen on. People talk to much about the "last-mile" as if the only travel people do is on massive transport corridors to and from work. The scooter solves the transport mesh, the hops and transitions of actual day-to-day living.
I (lol)ed because "turbo" and "turbo-s" are a naming convention from their conventional cars that is fairly non-sensical on an electric car given that they don't have turbochargers.
Eg.
Macan < Macan S < Macan Turbo
Of course, the two non-turbo Macan models above both turbochargers so the moniker really just means "the fastest model" in Porsche speak.
From road and track: """At launch, Porsche will offer two versions of the Taycan—the Turbo and Turbo S. The Turbo will carry an MSRP of $153,510 at launch, while the Turbo S will cost $187,610. Both of those numbers are minus destination charge."""
I suppose that leaves room for a non-turbo (lol) Taycan closer to your prices sometime in the future.
I've driven nothing but BMW for the last decade and several of my friends now drive Teslas. I can't think of a single aspect other than subjective preference for rear-wheel drive bias where the BMW is any better than the Tesla. And it is objectively worse on a number of easily measurable factors. Anyone who thinks these cars are not fantastic is in denial. Are they perfect? Of course not. But on virtually any measurable scale they absolutely blow their competition out of the water at their price-point.
I lived in Noe Valley for 14 years in a rent controlled apartment that quadrupled in value during that time. I was eventually evicted with an owner move-in but during that period I saw all of the useful local businesses close and be replaced with ...
1. Doctor/Dentist offices
2. Real-estate agencies
3. Banking and financial institutions
3. Doomed boutiques riding off the areas old reputation - these always closed within 6 months.
4. Expensive date restaurants or bars serving just enough food to count as a restaurant.
Off the top of my head, we lost the newspaper/magazine shop, hardware store, a few cheap restaurants, the glass blowing shop, the running store, a bunch of nice boutiques, the local butcher and most (but not all) of the businesses that made someone want to live in Noe in the first place. We gained a ton of financial and real-estate frontage (useless for day-to-day life) a couple of nice but expensive upgrades like a Whole Foods. All this money and no-one seems to actually spend it on local business, so nothing stays open for long.
Kind of funny this came up. I used fizz-buzz in all my interviews for about two years (at first as a joke). Not a single new CS grad ever solved it in about a dozen interviews. The best I got was pseudo code like "if (i divisible by 5) { ... } else if (etc... "
You nailed the description. At my school they had one Apple ][ and this infuriating rule that only kids who had an Apple computer at home could use it. Us poor kids had to use TRS-80 model 3s. I carried an anti-Apple grudge for years and years because of that policy.
I agree. Nothing in a typical CS degree would help with this. Maybe if your Masters was specifically in this obscure part of the field. On the other hand, I used to work in the video game industry where degrees (used to be) relatively rare and I probably knew 12 different guys who could optimize this kind of thing in their sleep.
During the 2017 Tubbs fire in Santa Rosa virtually all the stores in West Sonoma went cash only. I pulled out maybe 300 bucks when I drove up to check on my property and spent 3-4 days buying everything with cash. Came back to work with maybe 150$ in my pocket and was shocked how many of the places in downtown SF didn't accept cash. It was a real eye-opener.
The difference is amazing. I have a 'newish' 2012 Yamaha and it doesn't even bother tell you what gear you are in. It's considered pointless information by many riders since they ALWAYS know. If you bemoan the direction that cars are going and want to be one with "the machine", get a bike.
I read a study several years ago on a similar topic about attention and safety citing higher engagement/less distraction with manual transmissions. However, it also found that while manuals increased safety for younger drivers by forcing them to be fully engaged, it _decreased_ safety in older drivers due to the added complexity it introduced. So while the effect may be real, it is nuanced.
The Suunto 9 GPS watch claims up to 120 hours between charges depending on how you configure the GPS. It's mostly marketed to ultra-runners and hikers who need that kind of battery life.
Yeah, I went all-in on smart bulbs (Philips) and they are just impractical. I do however recommend dimmable dumb bulbs along with smart switches like Lutron. They are easy to install, "just-work" and give you 90% of what you need.
Not terribly interesting from an Apple perspective but I did find this illuminating.
"But as enforcement loosened, notably under the Reagan administration, buybacks began to increase. Now, they are omnipresent. A Roosevelt Institute study released on Tuesday found that corporations spent 60 percent of their net profits on stock buybacks between 2015-2017."
Sixty percent of profits on AVERAGE from 2015-2017 (across all corporations? US?).
Compound this with statistics (same article) that see no long term stock benefit from these short-term injections and you have a broken system of incentives with a generation of executives playing games with bonuses. It reminds me of all these studies criticising code metrics like lines-of-code as producing nothing useful except extra verbose code.
Thermostatic showers are starting to get more common. They have pressure and temp controls which automatically adjust the hot and cold water ratios to keep the temperature constant (even if someone turns on a sink or flushes a toilet).
I have worked at many companies ranging in size from small two person startups to massive megacorps (Hewlett Packard, Salesforce). One big difference I saw was that, in a small company, everyone succeeds or fails together. Everyone wins or everyone loses. This creates focus on shipping good product, not getting promoted over other people or competing for a bonus pool for the top 10% of the team. Larger companies have numerous structures and methodologies that decouple this and create many paths to "winning" that have nothing to do with shipping anything of value. You can completely fail to do anything and still get promoted. There is tremendous internal competition and politics, fighting over budgets, hiring, resources and power plays of all sorts. I personally got huge bonuses for literally doing nothing as managers and teams optimized around the internal political structure rather than any kind of product strategy.
Storm is a low level system for managing (optionally) transactional multi-machine tasks. It makes no assumptions about what is being processed (ie. analytics, data transforms). The primitives you are talking about exist in the child project Trident which runs on top of storm. Storm itself is no more for analytics than a web-server. It is a lower level tool.
Agreed, although I suppose LSD regulation could fit the proposed narative; "Weed" has been a political target for far longer than hippy culture. This quote is often attributed to Harry J. Anslinger, the head of the Bureau of Narcotics as far back as the 1930s.
“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”
Apple HomeKit works without cloud services. It is entirely local with your phone, mac, iPad etc directly interacting with the devices. I'm sure some of the individual devices from partners may leverage cloud services but I have yet to purchase a device that requires it. The only "cloud" aspect is if you want remote access to your devices an AppleTV can act as a proxy/gateway that let's you control your device from the internet rather than the local network. The eco-system is a hot mess at the moment but the basic design is well thought out.
>A lot of people seem to think that it is something inherently German that made the Holocaust so terrible
I'll quote a drunk Austrian friend: "All Germans are Nazis. Or rather, it would be more accurate to say, if there must be Nazis, Germans make the best ones"
No kidding... my first sync basically made my PC useless for a good week. Over 1GB of memory and 100% processor usage for around 8 days to sync 35 GB of data.
Wow. I knew about the durability changes but I had no idea that sparse and covered indexes where coming. These three changes where the biggest drawbacks to mongo for me.