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663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Uber: 3,045 Sexual Assaults Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year

Wouldn't most Uber trips be on roads with lower speed limits since they're almost entirely intra-urban? In that case it'd make sense that they're safer than national average.

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Google Kills Cloud Print

I thought that service was part of the Google Enterprise suite (i.e. a paid service)

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Tesla Cybertruck

What about quick release wheels? You can easily fit a bike in a compact car or two if it's something like a Mazda 3 / Prius

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Bar Chart Race, Explained

What's the advantage of an animated bar chart compared to an area chart? I personally think they're incredibly painful to look at but since I keep seeing them pop up on reddit I'm sure there must be advantages I haven't thought of, right?

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Perl Master Plan

The OP is about Perl 5 not Raku (formerly known as perl 6)

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings

Does Toyota even import cars (to North America, at least)? I was under the impression that most of their models were built locally.

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Barcelona’s Line 9 – Inspiring Montreal’s Pink Line

The sad story is people like you perpetuating 30 year old stereotypes about Quebec and sticking to them even after being proven wrong multiple times. Maybe you should practice what you preach and visit the province once in a while.

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Barcelona’s Line 9 – Inspiring Montreal’s Pink Line

>resulting in Quebec being one of the poorest provinces in Canada with a lot of unemployment

Quebec has the 2nd lowest unemployment rate (5.0%) in the country. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=141002...

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Barcelona’s Line 9 – Inspiring Montreal’s Pink Line

>You might as well say that quebecoi [sic] don't want to learn the language of the rest of the country.

"Between 2006 and 2011, the number of persons who reported that they were able to conduct a conversation in both of Canada's official languages increased by 350,000 to 5.8 million. The English‑French bilingualism rate within the overall population went from 17.4% to 17.5%."

"The growth of English-French bilingualism in Canada was mainly due to the increased number of Quebecers reporting that they were able to conduct a conversation in French and English. Quebec accounted for 90% of the net increase in the number of bilingual persons between 2006 and 2011. In fact, 71% of the net increase in English-French bilingualism in Canada is attributable to the population with French as a mother tongue in Quebec, in particular to the population aged 15 to 49."

"In Quebec, the English-French bilingualism rate increased from 40.6% in 2006 to 42.6% in 2011. In the other provinces, bilingualism declined slightly. The largest decreases were recorded in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia, where in each case, the bilingualism rate decreased by half a percentage point."

- https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98...

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

Better GPUs is what enabled modern ML, it wasn't a CS breakthrough.

663e1b | 6 years ago | on: Going Vegan Won’t Save the Planet

>Undoing this damage, while also managing to feed the nearly 10 billion people expected to populate the earth by 2050, is going to require lots of ideas integrated together.

Back of the envelope calculation: The global cattle population is around 1.5 billion. A cow eats between 8 and 16 Mcals per day, which is roughly 4-8 times what is recommended for an average adult (2 Mcals). If we diverted all those calories to humans we could feed 6-12 billion of them (neglecting protein, vitamin and mineral content).