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I disagree with a completely free public transport. Paying creates an entry barrier that suppresses traffic surges and misuse. Instead you can offer free tickets to those who actually need them and subsidize it enough to be a competitive choice regardless of free tickets.

An example of what I mean: one time I was returning home from the airport with the bus after a long flight. The bus was already packed at the airport, but as it crossed the city, a bunch of youngsters started entering without tickets, turning a mild inconvenience into a 90 minutes of living hell.

Many of them used the bus for a mere 1-2 stops, others took this (more expensive) express bus instead of the regular one, and some were just joining for fun (I think this was after a football match or something). Point being: having to pay optimizes usage.
I’ve had a similar experience. Would never go back to The nickel and dining nightmare that was Citibank.
Even in most places that have private public transport, either there is a local monopoly or near monopoly. It's very rare to be able to pick which carrier you want for a particular route.
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In other words, the companies are optmizing for precision, rather than recall, which makes sense.
Always thought this would be an amazing idea for housing in places like London. Make transport free and regular (as in runs all night) between the centre and the far cheaper to live satellite towns and cities and (young) people (especially) are far more likely to live elsewhere and be happier doing so.
I think this is bullshit - from a psychological perspective.

We need to foster our children that our actions take a toll out of our shared resources.

It's clear that "free" sometimes is valued as "worthless" - The Swedish city Uppsala introduced free bus rides for teenagers a couple (20?) years ago, and the experiment was cancelled after short period due to extensive vandalism - buss seats where destroyed, etc.

If you look closely enough, a lot of "free" resources that are actually funded or subsidised are overused or misused, or just plain vandalised - probably due to that it's not obvious how the resource is being paid for in the "background".
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For my diabetic mother in a disaster, I would pay a few grand for something like this that is reliable — it could even be tiny!
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Thank you for the writeup.

Possibly interesting links:

https://www.autodeskresearch.com/people/gord-kurtenbach#pate...

Display and control of menus with radial and linear portions
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5926178

Methods and system of controlling menus with radial and linear portions
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5689667A

Method and apparatus for producing, controlling and displaying menus
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6618063B1
Getting rid of the barriers removes the ability to control overcrowding on the platform itself, which at peak times with DLR strikes causes a big headache. You can't just let tens of thousands of people stream into an enclosed space like that without controls.
Yup, will definitely be a big part of the story!

Not sure I'm a big fan myself. They sort of sit between bicycles and electric mini cars. [0] The cars are safer and allow easy multi-passengers, groceries, long-distance, all weather conditions, intercity travel. Bicycles are cheap, good for your health, nimble, safe on dedicated cycling infrastructure (see the Netherlands).

Scooters take the best but also the worst from both. They're low-effort and relatively high-speed compared to bicycles, but nimble and relatively cheap compared to cars. But they're also relatively expensive compared to bicycles, have poor weather conditions of bicycles and are relatively unsafe and can't do intercity trips or grocery runs as easily as cars. They also aren't really suited for automation, and I feel they're less suited for ridesharing, but it's not easy to identify exactly why that is.

I kind of feel every scooter ride is better off either as a bicycle ride or car ride, assuming you have these ubiquitous self-driving car2go 'travel pods' you could call em, and assuming you have nice cycling infrastructure. (I have a very European/Dutch perspective on this, outside cyclist-friendly cities I'd much rather have an electric scooter. But as a city I'd rather promote different infrastructure choices than scooters.)

[0] https://www.car2go.com/media/data/germany/stuttgart/stuttgar...
As far as odd times (3am, for example) and odd locations: Yes, the government should include these. I've worked many jobs that would fall outside of normal route times at night (when I've had access to busses, that is). Weekends, late nights, early starts. These jobs range from nurses aides to pharmacy workers to fast food to retail to factory work. Many are low-paying, but some aren't.

If people cannot get to and from their jobs, especially folks working low-paying jobs, in a timely manner, it works against the goals of public transport.

Now, there are other good points to having odd hours: Getting drunk folks home, enjoyment of city life when city life is happening, and so on.

As far as the competing companies, they probably would bid to run the bus system in an area for x years. Overlap might be an issue otherwise.
It's very simple for me: Don't.

If the military wants to use technology to enhance their killing techniques, then they should do it themselves with in-house development.

If they can't that's just too bad.
It's £8.80 now. About 10% of prescriptions are paid for, which contributes about 0.5% of the total NHS budget. Prescriptions are free across the board in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

The bigger problem IMO is dental charges and the shortage of NHS dentists. The NHS fee for a Band 3 dental procedure (crowns, veneers, bridges etc) is £256.50, which is prohibitively expensive for people on low incomes. Many people can't access NHS dentists at all because of a shortage of providers in their area.
We often can't start from definitions- we start with loosely held type cases that are obviously important. The project of finding better outcomes can be run in parallel with the project of understanding what depression is, and can iterate as our understanding of it improves.
It’d be great if we could forget them, actually. Paris is filled with them; they take space everywhere and a lot of people don’t drive properly because you don’t need a licence. A lot of buildings have spaces for bikes, but scooters must be left in the streets. They damage sidewalks they’re (illegally) left on due to a high weight on a small surface.
This makes sense. What's usually true with public transport is that:

1. High % of the cost of running it is due to the fare system.

2. The infrastructure is paid with tax money and yet only rich people (as in, able to pay the fare) can benefit from it.

So, it should really be free to use.
I dont mind running 1 electron app on my desktop, where battery isnt an issue, but imagine if every app you run all day was electron. How long would a battery last? How much more energy is being consumed across the world because of it? If your making a get-in-get-out type of app, its a no-brainer, but if your making a live communications app, a text editor for professional text enterers, an image editor for artist, that's supposed to run all day, I think its worth considering something more efficient. It'd be a hard comparison to make right, but I'd like to see if electron apps don't undo all the energy saving changes done by chip manufactures.
You take a capitalist point of view. But the problem could be approached by having the government pay for it and avoid transport competing in a city that is already narrow in space.
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At Canary Wharf and the ticket barriers and escalators are deliberately kept closed or are going in the "wrong" direction to prevent the platforms from being too full. This way there is room to get off the train even at 6pm when there are a thousand people waiting to get in the train.
This is a step in the right direction, although still a little bit too scary for normal users accustomed to classic context menus:

https://addons.mozilla.org/mn/firefox/addon/radialcontext-mz...
And the places where you can pick your carrier are typically also the ones where people complain about the ticketing complexities.
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Part of the issue might be a variant of FUTON bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUTON_bias): can I easily get the official text of the ASN.1 standard, without having to register somewhere and/or pay hundreds of Euros?
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Another tip for finding business ideas: be good at ms excel and offer people with a non technical background your help with their existing spreadsheets. As far as I see it seven out of ten spreadsheets contain at least one idea for a simple saas product. Those spreadsheets have often been tailored to fulfill exactly the needs of a certain industry but the people who created them know they are far from perfect and are often willing to pay for a more convenient solution.
The DLR in London is already a bit like this, at least some of the stops don't have any barrier and rely on honesty/inspectors to tap your card before you get on or have a valid ticket.
Doesn't your story show the opposite? The bus being paid didn't actually prevent misuse and a living hell.
I don't know about the rest of European countries but in Sweden the regional governments purchase the service from private companies for a fixed price over a 4 year contract. Every time the contract is up for renewal they ask for bids from all eligible companies so there is competition to place the lowest price based on requirements.
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> The Swedish city Uppsala introduced free bus rides for teenagers a couple (20?) years ago, and the experiment was cancelled after short period due to extensive vandalism - buss seats where destroyed, etc.

Anecdata. Dunkerque, a city in the North of France, saw a 59% decrease in vandalism acts when they tried free transports on Sundays and holidays during 6 months.
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Lots of cities just do spot checks and do better that way. Oslo and Vienna do spot checks for instance and have much higher throughput and need fewer station staff that way and do not want to sacrifice hat.
If the extension field is anything like IP or TCP options, some middleboxes will also tamper the hell out of that field and strip unknown extensions, or just break connections.

Often-referenced paper in that field:
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Humans need free medical coverage more than free transportation. Oh and free emergency transportation too.
It depends on your route. Grandparent sounds like they are bussing in central London. Further out busses are often the fastest route as all the tube lines are headed into the city, but people often want to go in other directions. There are many people further out whose commute is bus then tube as well. Bus stops are 1km apart and the bus might stop for 30 seconds or skip stops entirely.
> Python, which is so obviously like Lisp

Hang on! Do you mean some similarity other than what is talked about in the article?
I think it probably would but there are 2 major issues there (under some interpretations):

- the IP, under GDPR, is personal data. You need consent or a legitimate interest to process it.

- it is very murky regarding EU persons abroad. So if I operate with a German citizen originating in Hong Kong, I may be subject to the law.

Personally, I think that you'll be fine blocking EU IPs as long as you aren't doing anything more with them, but that doesn't change the philosophical problem.

Someone else, through proactive work on their part, came to my site (say hosted outside of the EU), even though I did not want them to and I am on the hook for a law I had no agency in creating.

Again, largely a thought exercise and not a real problem for real businesses, but it does beg the question...are websites liable for every law in the world? Do we just fall back on the 'well they can't enforce it' model of evaluating website legislation?
Yes, you are right. I use and love this app. I'm trying help publii team to promote their product. Their team is just two people, so any help is appreciated, especially that this is free, open source soft. What wrong with my comments? There are only a few and always on the subject. I don't understand your point of view.
Your description doesn't reflect mine. I take the bus all the time and see people from the whole spectrum everytime.
Well, many Forths provide some form of access to heap[1] which is altogether that different from e.g. C malloc

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Your last paragraph is how it works in Switzerland. There are no checks when entering busses, trams and trains. Busdrivers in cities will usually not let you pay with them but sent you to the ticket machine placed in the middle of the bus.

They do send controllers "randomly" to check whether people have valid rides and hand out quite hefty fines if not.

So far I have only ever heard the transportation companies complaining loudly about not being able to collect fines from some people, rather than fare dodging itself being considered a big problem.
I hate to mince words but...instead of free, I'd prefer if we used publicly funded, or similar.

1) Usage might be "free" but ultimately someone somewhere is paying for it.

2) More accurate wording would actually better reflect the priorities of that particular culture, often in contrast to others of different priorities.

Free here sounds like "oh, a ride doesn't have to pay a buck. How nice." But the accomplishment is much bigger (and requires a larger financial commitment) than that.

p.s. As a side note, I hope someone is going to study the health related side effects. That is, for example, will riding more mean walking less? Will that add up to an unintended consequence?
Stalking isn't the only malignant usage: tracking data can also be used, for example, to determine when someone is away and their home can be safely robbed.

Aggregation of personal data imposes negative externalities whose costs are borne by individuals. As the aggregation accelerates, so does this problem.
I absolutely support free medical coverage and free education... but I cannot put transportation in the same wagon.
People who say that it is paid by taxes and it is not free are not wrong thou. The article should notnuse free but a different word. The system in nordic countries is wonderful but it is also starting to get abused.
Regulations cost money. Unfortunately that disproportionately falls on the poor. :-(
yeah, the tapping really isn't the bottleneck that count the correct change was, and many people boarding buses for short distances are using them precisely because they're not that mobile.
>Estonia to Become the World’s First Free Public Transport Nation

Wait a minute... What about USSR?
Unless you live in Japan where real estate depreciates.
> the even values of n approach the GCD pattern as the values increase

Meaning that the chance of finding a prime in these sequences of N numbers approaches one, after eliminating the cases that make primes impossible (n odd and r=2 mod 4, gcd(r,c) > 1).

Is there any deeper meaning to that, or is it simply that the probability of finding a prime in any sequence of n numbers approaches one as n increases, excluding sequences in which primes are impossible?
There's a single company running the routes and it's owned by the city: http://www.tallinnlt.ee/en/about-the-company/about-tallinna-...
Dasher is really impressive. I really like the idea of bringing it into VR and maybe it can be taken even further. If you turn the exploration into a 3D graph of X/Y options into the Z direction as opposed to 2D graph of Y options in the X direction, combined with eye tracking of newer VR headsets, you should be able to get a decent improvement to accuracy and would be able to increase the speed.
> World's First Entirely Tax-Funded Public Transport Nation

World's First Entirely EU-Tax-Funded Public Transport Nation

Estonia gets quite significant subsidies, subventions, grants and whatever other aid from EU so they can afford such experiments.

Interestingly, EU officials are also happy because they see the impact as opposed to having money simply disappeared - which is not an exception. Only EU tax payers and donor countries might not be happy because they have to pay for this fun and for their own transportation too - but who asks them :(
Obviously, it depends on the app you're trying to make. But I recently worked with a founder who found a niche, used Gravity forms to collect data, Gravity view to display and export the data, (your basic CRUD in programming parlance) and this solved the basic needs of the problem.

I presented on this a couple years ago at a WordCamp, and am giving the updated version in a week at WordCamp Belfast.
https://wordpress.tv/2017/06/05/corey-maass-rapid-web-app-de...
Can you go into more detail about the proof or technique they thought you were using?
I don't think it's bullshit. I think it makes a lot of sense. In the US driving is free (excluding the cost of maintaining your own car, but if you own one you're already committed to most of these costs) despite the substantial cost of maintaining the roads, while riding the train costs money. This is pretty much backwards when we consider the relative effect of riding the train versus driving.
Yep. We need superman, but we are a bicycle repair shop.

Only superman will do, that is the only thing we know for sure.
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Yup. Building up a shared understanding of a potential solution, and then fluency in converting that shared understanding into code, is my goal from a code pairing interview.

Crucially, I don't think it's important to have critical insight into the problem and come up with a solution unaided. We don't work alone - if we can come up with a solution together, and the candidate can be trusted to implement the solution, it's what we need.
Buses are a hard problem.

In the UK, most of the bus network was in public ownership until the 1980s. The Thatcher government deregulated the bus industry, allowing any operator to run bus services and set their own routes and timetables. This greatly increased the level of competition on popular and profitable routes, but it also created the problem of cherry-picking.

The new private operators didn't bother with unprofitable but socially-valuable routes, which local governments felt obliged to serve or subsidise. The most profitable routes often became massively oversaturated, with competing operators engaging in "bus wars" in an attempt to dominate that route and force out the other operators.

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Which cc does not charge interest before the thirty day grace period with cash advance?
Or just allow a certain number of free miles per day. Ramp up pricing on longer unsustainable commutes. This would mean that the maximum number of people can use the system and prevent abuse.
Yes, the low hanging fruit has been plucked, sometimes a dozen times. But if you think of WordPress as a very simple method of self-hosting, there are lots of apps that have yet to be built.

The other option is building a SaaS app and using a single WordPress install or WordPress multisite as the platform. I thought this was a crazy idea a couple years ago. Now I know of dozens of apps that have WordPress as the back-end, and it works well.
I take the title as telling me there are a lot of lab biology going on in the world (and that many of them are women).
If its airborne transmissible, it could transfer both ways, right?

Besides, if you live in an area with Rhesus monkeys, your snide comment is not applicable.
I personally liked the interviews and now it’s just a summary :(
The counter argument is that removing travel costs makes other market forces (competition in shopping, accommodation and employment) more active at the low end where travel costs matter more (and travel time less)
Before "Who owns and controls the personal data we collect?", there has to be "What personal data do we keep, in actual reality?"

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Exactly, and how fatal is Measles?
I've done a lot of interviewing and participated in a lot of hiring decisions at a very large tech company.

I think our process is guided far more by tradition than deliberate optimization for anything in particular. :)
That'd make US law contradictory.

The reason the number of unbanked keeps going up is that post-9/11 the USA kept tightening anti-money laundering requirements. These require banks to refuse to bank with clients who they suspect might be criminals, on pain of the banker becoming a criminal themselves. That means once people fall out of the banking system for whatever reason and have to live in the cash economy for a while, they cannot prove where their income came from and are thus presumed guilty by default.

To fix that you'd need to make US AML laws much less punitive. No political appetite exists to do that.
I don't use these technologies but looking at the screenshot in the post, it triggers some memories of Adobe's Flex XML declarative UI making. It feels like the same technologies just continue to be reinvented. Flex and Air were gonna be the future everybody was talking about it... And here we are now.
> he made a joke with the word thesis

In other words, his content doe snot belong here. He should go to reddit or some other useless "fun" site. And so should anyone defending such BS.
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I support this too. Cars are death to cities.

But your points are valid. One approach would be the good old market. Give people x amount to spend on transport and let them decide how to use it.

When I had parking cashout in Santa Monica early in my career I loved the extra $2500 a month in my paycheck, and starting my day with a bike ride.

Of course, this only works if, every road is tolled high enough to account for the negative externalities of driving (pollution, people killed while walking, cycling, motorcycling, etc., noise, the end of the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation causing northern Europe to be nearly uninhabitable in winter.. so on and so forth), and of course, to build/maintain/police it.