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Their point is to answer the question “who is going to consent to Google telemetry on linux”. 99% of humanity, that’s who.

Corporations can plaster over the open source baseline to make a Product, at which point Consumers will feel the comfort and familiarity of being able to displace responsibility for their satisfaction onto someone else in exchange for a price, such as their privacy.

Consider the Capitalist adage “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”. How would that belief affect how someone feels about baseline Linux, about FOSS in general? They would constantly be waiting for the catch, for the monetization or hack or cult pitch or communism that explains why people are spending their time contributing to FOSS instead of making money.

Corporations are the devil they know.

Yes, so it’s a testament to how ridiculously ideal for public transit this fictional scenario is that in this fiction, hyperloop might be a worthy investment.

One of the reasons hyperloop was a scam is that they never really tried. There were some very public-facing stunts, like the design competitions, but they didn’t do the SpaceX thing of throwing a couple billion dollars worth of government subsidies at failing prototypes until they started working.

Another reason is that high-speed rail makes a lot more sense when you have regular stops like a real-world HSR line would. Accelerating and decelerating take distance, so the faster you go the longer you need to go between stops for a top speed to matter.

And another reason is that high-speed rail didn’t exist yet, and this was presented as a better alternative. If you already have the best open-air HSR money can buy, the next logical step is to stop having it be open-air.

Though, saying that, an atmospheric pressure pneumatic tube where the surrounding air is brought up to the same speed as the maglev train would probably make a lot more sense than a vacuum tube.

Really? Can you point to a democracy that has done much of note that doesn’t have an economic system based on free market capitalism?

*points to a bombed-out shell of a city*

*points to a council massacred by some suspiciously well-armed drug gangs*

*points to a nation that has survived centuries of economic siege*

For some reason, wealthy liberal democracies get kind of angry whenever you try something other than strictly regulated neocolonial capitalism.

If NYC and LA were the only cities, trains would be amazing. Just one HSR sleeper line straight across the empty desert, trains leaving every 5 minutes to meet demand.

With the amount of passengers and the lack of stops along the way, a state-of-the-art 500-600 km/h maglev like the L0 series shinkansen would be able to bring the travel time down to 6-8 hours while being a lot cheaper, more comfortable, more spacious, and with much better access to the city.

My god, it could even be worth trying to build a hyperloop.

As far as I can tell, the LPI is defined as such:

• Divide the world into realms and all animals into species groups.

• For each species, divide the realm into populations, and consider the percentage change of those populations relative to 1970. Take the mean of all percentage changes.

  • For example, if a species of bats exists in two populations, and one population went from 1000 to 0 and the other went from 10 to 100, then the species’ average change is (-100% + 900%)/2 = +400%.

• Take the mean of species within a species group.

  • For example, If bats and deer are the only species of terrestrial mammals, and bats “went up 400%” per above while deer went extinct (-100%), terrestrial mammals “went up 150%”.

• Take a weighted average from among realms and species group, using a weighing that is not specified.

The fact that the LPI is down to 0.27 while half of species declined means that populations have increased mostly among species groups and locations that the authors think don’t matter as much for planetary wellbeing.

Was it worth it to get disbarr’d

Just so he could drop these bars?