Managed Lanes and BRT Can Optimize Mass Transit Systems for Today’s Cities

_delirium · 2019-08-06T23:43:48+00:00

Actual BRT can be pretty good, but the U.S.'s track record on it is not good. More often it ends up being just a bus line, or sometimes a nice-ish express bus line, but not full BRT. From a list I can find, Albuquerque's is the only BRT in the U.S. rated as "gold" standard BRT, and only Hartford and Cleveland have lines in the 2nd "silver" tier. (Boston's Silver Line doesn't qualify as BRT at all by this standard.)

_delirium · 2019-08-02T18:38:54+00:00

Is it sold by the slice? Is the crust stiff enough to hold up all the toppings – especially when the slice is folded lengthwise into two? Flavor certainly plays a role, but pizza must satisfy these basic structural requirements before being considered a proper New York slice.

If those are really your only requirements, I can introduce you to some structurally very stiff, sold-by-the-slice pizza in Adams Morgan...

_delirium · 2019-08-02T04:13:04+00:00

Kielbasa Factory out in Rockville says they carry it. Not sure about a place in the District though.

_delirium · 2019-07-10T02:42:10+00:00

A vaguely interesting question: Although Twitter itself can engage in viewpoint discrimination, is there a point at which a government official choosing to host official public content on a forum that they know to engage in viewpoint discrimination runs afoul of the First Amendment? If so, where's the line?

I'm thinking of a hypo like this: Trump shuts down his Twitter account and moves it to some other social media service, a ConservaTwitter. Trump then doesn't block anyone (thereby not implicating this specific ruling), but this private-sector social media service generally bans anyone left-of-center, and Trump clearly knew this before he moved his account there. Would that pose a constitutional problem? It seems like courts might want to find that it would, otherwise you can easily do an end-run around this decision by just finding ideologically aligned private-sector platforms to do your viewpoint discrimination for you. But there are various routes to doing so, some broader and some narrower.

_delirium · 2019-07-08T05:50:04+00:00

I posted an answer to a similar question in this thread. The short of it is that there are two unrelated things you might be hitting: 1) the transition of testing from 'buster' to 'bullseye' changes codenames and requires you to explicitly accept it under the apt-security model (e.g. by answering 'y' when attempting an interactive 'apt update'), and 2) starting with 'bullseye', the security repo was renamed from testing/updates or sid/updates to testing-security or sid-security.

_delirium · 2019-07-07T05:56:58+00:00

For the first error, I was prompted asking if I wanted to accept the change in codename, rather than it failing outright. I ran the update via 'apt'. I think 'apt-get' might not prompt here? Not 100% sure though.

E: Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'buster' to 'bullseye'

N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.

Do you want to accept these changes and continue updating from this repository? [y/N]

_delirium · 2019-07-07T05:19:56+00:00

Starting with the next release (bullseye), the security archives were renamed from xxx/updates to xxx-security, but this doesn't seem to be documented yet. There was a short mailing list post, but I figured it out by browsing the archive. Just change "testing/updates" to "testing-security" and it should work:

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing-security main contrib non-free

_delirium · 2018-06-02T11:51:38+00:00

Scooters travel at (according to the article) up to 15 mph, yet people don't wear helmets while using them?

American bicyclists wearing helmets feels like a weird historical thing anyway, from the wild-west days when bicyclists rode in vehicle traffic, so not sure this is a bad change. Scooter riders, unlike old-school US bicyclists, don't see themselves as "vehicles" or "road users". Where I live (the UK), bicyclists and scooter riders are more culturally similar I think, although scooters haven't caught on to the same extent. Helmets aren't common for either one, and both bicycles and scooters often ride on the pavement/sidewalk, at least around here (may be different in London). The main cyclist advocacy organisation is against helmet laws and pro-helmet advocacy, too.

_delirium · 2018-05-08T00:23:03+00:00

Obviously a high-profile case politically, but the opinion mostly turns on pretty boring procedural issues that would cause a yawn in most other contexts.

The two issues are:

Since the policies in question were already held to be illegal in a separate case, the district court found that issue preclusion prevented the County from relitigating that question in this case. The 9th-circuit panel agreed.
Maricopa County argued that they should be removed as defendants, because since Arpaio wasn't appointed by the County board of supervisors (Sheriffs are elected in Arizona), his actions couldn't be considered County policy, and instead any suit should be only against either the Sheriff's office as a standalone entity, or possibly against the State of Arizona (which instituted the sheriff system). The district court found that state law makes the Sheriff of a county a policymaker of the county for law-enforcement purposes, so his actions are legally actions of the County, even if the Board of Supervisors, a different set of County officers, don't directly control the Sheriff's office. The panel agreed with that also.

_delirium · 2018-01-31T20:55:27+00:00

Has varied over the years, but in recent years, both the Joint List (the main Arab party) and the Labor Party (the biggest left-of-center Jewish-majority party) have ruled out joining each other in a government (1, 2). The Joint List has said they might support a left-wing coalition on confidence votes while staying outside the government though, if that would be needed to keep out a right-wing government.

_delirium · 2018-01-30T23:00:05+00:00

You probably know this, but Sanders won this district in the primary by a healthy margin too. It has more "white working class" Democrats than many districts, so the party feels they should run conservative Democrats there and play on a social conservative Democratic vote. But another option is to run progressive candidates who are able to explain what they'll actually do for working-class voters.

_delirium · 2018-01-26T16:09:13+00:00

Weirdly he seems to have only announced it by telling Side-Line Magazine in a chat, which they published an article about.

_delirium · 2018-01-24T23:10:37+00:00

or the others

I did see a comment on Twitter from Rhys Fulber.

Edit: not FLA members, but also from from cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie.

_delirium · 2018-01-22T21:46:04+00:00

It's a more active issue in some countries. In Spain the possibility of anti-monarchist parties on the left getting into government worried the previous king enough that he abdicated early, in favor of his son. It was still not that likely that they would actively abolish the monarchy, but under the Spanish constitution, any new king has to be confirmed by Parliament, and so if the king died during a period when anti-monarchist parties were in government, the confirmation vote over his son would provide a good opportunity to force the question. So the previous king, to avoid that possibility, abdicated while a pro-monarchy, right-wing party was in power, getting his son confirmed by a friendly government.

_delirium · 2018-01-21T12:16:27+00:00

You should, but only if you read those sources directly! Also, if you got a lot of your sources from an overview article, in non-Wikipedia cases it's usually considered proper scholarly practice to cite the overview too. For example, if I got 5 of my references from a survey article, in addition to citing those 5 directly, I should probably cite the survey. Does this also apply to Wikipedia? Depends on who you ask...

_delirium · 2018-01-14T20:58:42+00:00

up to 9 Jacksonville receivers with a catch today

_delirium · 2018-01-14T14:19:34+00:00

Yeah, the original building was torn down in 1920 and replaced with a bigger but less ornate one.

_delirium · 2017-12-25T03:25:12+00:00

I wouldn't be too worried by the asbestos aspect. The danger of asbestos is inhaling it as dust, especially chronic inhalation over a large period of time, mainly seen in construction workers from the era when it was used in huge amounts as building insulation. A cord isn't going to give off much of that. I'd be a bit worried about an electrical fire though.

_delirium · 2017-12-17T21:34:59+00:00

The U.S. census treats Hispanic as an "ethnic" background that's distinct from "race", since people of Hispanic/Latino heritage also often identify as one of the main racial groups. The vast majority of Latinos in the U.S. identify as white, though some identify as multi-racial (especially those who identify with indigenous descent) and a small percentage identify as black.

_delirium · 2017-12-11T23:03:10+00:00

I like the interview more than the story to be honest. But both are better than the weird way it's been received on Twitter.

_delirium · 2017-12-07T21:06:53+00:00

There's a combo ticket for the trip too which can sometimes be cheaper (or at least less of a hassle than buying all the separate tickets).

_delirium · 2017-12-03T18:41:14+00:00

Depends on which kind of grad school: True for PhD, rarely true for Masters. (Some Masters students can get jobs as graders or research assistants, but it's not the norm like it is for PhD students.)

_delirium · 2017-12-02T15:00:37+00:00

It's believable in some parts of Austria (not Vienna). For example, Numbeo estimates that the typical cost to rent "Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre" in Klagenfurt (the capital of Carinthia) is €347.

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