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hessprojecton When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City

That's not necessarily true either, many of the new bike lanes being put in are protected lanes. That still runs in to the issue of pedestrians but they're a problem for car traffic in Manhattan too. Take this stretch of 7th avenue where they are removing a whole lane of car traffic to add in a new protected bike lane: https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170925/chelsea/seventh-av...

hessprojecton When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City

You can get to most of Manhattan under 125th st and almost all of northwest Brooklyn without leaving a bike lane: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikemaps.shtml

Even in my neighborhood in Queens I can get into Manhattan with only a 3 block stretch outside of a bike lane.

Obviously there is going to be more traffic than Stockholm, we have almost 8 million more residents.

There is a already a large effort to create bike lanes in the city. The city website lists current bike lane projects: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bike-projects.sh...

hessprojecton Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

This is very dependent on the program. At my university calc, discrete math, java, and data structures were all expected to be completed freshman year.

hessprojecton Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover

Remember that Pittsburgh only has a population of 300k. Obviously the Bay Area has a more bustling tech market, but for such a small market Pittsburgh (with an h) is doing pretty well, especially when you factor in how badly it was hit when the steel mills closed

hessprojecton Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?

There are two ethical lines the poster may have crossed.

> I even insert a few bugs here and there to make it look like it’s been generated by a human.

As a few others in the original post pointed out, this seems to be the biggest issue. He is intentionally misleading his employer as to the nature of the work he is doing. The automation itself isn't immediately unethical, but the intentional misdirection could be.

The second issue depends on whether he is paid for his time or to fulfill his job duties. In the case he is being paid to fulfill his job duties, he is doing the job he was hired to do adequately, he is meeting the deadlines expected of him by his employer, at the price he negotiated when he was hired. However, if he is being paid for time, it seems clearly unethical to bill the company for 38 more hours than he worked.

hessprojecton How I learned to code in my 30s

My experience was way closer to the 192 than the 4, but either way your program was pretty vital for getting my first 2 jobs. Thanks for what you do