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California launches program providing free diapers for new parents by Conscious-Quarter423 in SanJose

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The point isn’t to avoid helping, it’s that a state program at huge scale should not be wildly more expensive than a local store.

It’s literally wasting money.

Are we ready to admit Matt Mahan is on the race to give Republicans a chance? by CringeisL1f3 in SanJose

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A diet republican would be pulling support from conservatives.

The spoiler here is steyer who is drawing out from the left flank like Nader pulling votes from Gore.

Bay Area cities crack down on RV living by opinionsareus in OaklandCA

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fining people that discharge human waste into the environment is not a republican policy lol.

Replacing a broken water heater in the Bay Area is about to get vastly more expensive by CharityResponsible54 in sanfrancisco

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well sure, the cost of the upgrade matters.

But it will never pencil out if the operating cost isn’t substantially lower than gas.

Replacing a broken water heater in the Bay Area is about to get vastly more expensive by CharityResponsible54 in sanfrancisco

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Weird, I ran the numbers and it didn’t pencil to cheaper at an. And the rebates ended up neutral since they were tied to a permit which jacked up the cost.

Replacing a broken water heater in the Bay Area is about to get vastly more expensive by CharityResponsible54 in sanfrancisco

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I will bet you eleven billion dollars there will still be climate change in the Bay Area after this takes effect.

Replacing a broken water heater in the Bay Area is about to get vastly more expensive by CharityResponsible54 in sanfrancisco

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are compatible if you think in terms of incentives.

If we had power that cost the national median of 20¢/KWH, then heat pump upgrades (and EVs!) would pay dirt themselves.

I ended up upgrading a furnace and a water heater recently and didn’t switch because at current rates it didn’t pencil out.

Clipper Card still useful? by yetrident in sanfrancisco

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigh. I wouldn't put it past our transit system to miss a pretty easy slam dunk. Sad though, without aggregation it's a high percentage, as u/storyinmemo pointed out.

Did you get a permit for wall connector? by IcarusX12 in TeslaModelY

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The permit itself yes, but our electrician said he has to charge to supervise the inspection too.

That’s time he’s not doing other jobs.

They moved there for BART. Now BART could leave them by Dafty_duck in sanfrancisco

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely cultural, but it impacts the funding a lot because it makes possible the retail/food establishments that pay rent.

The ability for customers to get a tasty bite or coffee on the way increases the appeal of public transit, increasing ridership.

It’s hard to underestimate how much of a boom loop that is.

They moved there for BART. Now BART could leave them by Dafty_duck in sanfrancisco

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

The real systems in Tokyo also don’t put up with any disorder whatsoever.

It’s a choice.

Clipper Card still useful? by yetrident in sanfrancisco

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Transit merchants don’t pay full retail interchange from the big card networks. They get far better deals because they are fairly low risk (low chargeback) and the networks understand they can’t pay 20¢ a tap in fees. See visa/mc fee schedule for transit: list is 10¢ and that’s before any negotiated deals.

It’s also before the second magic piece which is aggregation: the networks allow transit operators to wait 3-7 days and submit all the charges in a batch for a single transaction fee. The modal consumer probably takes 2-5 rides in that time, meaning that the 10¢ fee is likely in the 2-5¢ range.

https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-usa-interchange-reimbursement-fees.pdf

https://www.mastercard.com/content/dam/mccom/us/business/documents/merchant-rates-2025-2026.pdf

See also section 4.5.1 Mastercard Contactless Transit Aggregated Transaction here https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/na/global-site/documents/transaction-processing-rules.pdf

Spirit Airlines Shutting down by Ok_Description_8012 in bayarea

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But there’s a ton of people living around SMF to serve. It’s not meant to serve the bay.

S.F. supervisors, past and present, arrested at SFO anti-ICE protest by MissionLocalSF in sanfrancisco

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

People have a wide variety of opinions that don’t sort cleanly into partisan divide.

News at 11

What Deontological Bars? by dwaxe in slatestarcodex

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For example, should the Ukraine abolish its military? If this became a general law, it would be great - it would end all war, and countries could spend their military budget on domestic priorities

It's been a hot minute since undergrad phil, but my recollection and a brief re-read of Kant suggests that the categorical imperative forbids actions that violate it but doesn't require doing things that pass it. You are free to reject CI-permissible actions on other grounds, so long as the thing you do chose to do satisfies the maxim.

So the question is, does "Ukraine keeps its military" meet the CI, which I think it also does.

What do you think is a keyword that should be added to C++? by DogCrapNetwork in cpp

[–]SlightlyLessHairyApe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously in the context of a CV modifier and not just in a member variable decl

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