mazugrin2 (u/mazugrin2)

mazugrin2 commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale

repeekad · 25 days ago

That’s not basic safety, if you walk into a crane not in use that’s on you not the contractors. It’s paternalism, not safety, and the American in me groans at the idea of at midnight the cops showing up and causing a ruckus over that. A big hole you might fall into, yeah you need some cones

mazugrin2 · 25 days ago

The cones aren't to alert the pedestrians the the crane. The cones are to mark out a path in the road for pedestrians and to alert auto drivers to that path. As an American I get that you don't typically walk anywhere but I can't believe you've never ever encountered a set of high visibility cones marking out a temporary path around construction equipment on a roadway.

mazugrin2 commented on SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired wired.com/story/faa-doge-... · Posted by u/actionfromafar

mazugrin2 · 6 months ago

Is there a good light under which to view this? It's corrupt. Isn't that far worse than whatever benefit you presume "HN" would be cheering?

mazugrin2 commented on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker congestion-pricing-tracke... · Posted by u/gotmedium

whimsicalism · 8 months ago

it's too bad SF did not build an underground railway system covering the city in the short window when the labor to do so was affordable

mazugrin2 · 8 months ago

What do you mean by "the short window when the labor to do so was affordable"? Other cities in the world seem to be able to build underground railways just fine and they have similar labor costs as the US. See Paris or Sydney for cities that have created new underground railways recently.

mazugrin2 commented on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker congestion-pricing-tracke... · Posted by u/gotmedium

maxwellg · 8 months ago

> All we do in SF is make car driving worse, we almost never make public transit better.

In the last half decade we've seen the opening of the Salesforce transit center, the Chinatown subway station, the Van Ness BRT, the Caltrain Electrification Project, BART expansion to Berryessa, 800 new BART cars, and hundreds of smaller projects.

You can see a full list of SFMTA projects at https://www.sfmta.com/sfmta-projects

mazugrin2 · 8 months ago

How would you imagine one could make driving better, aside from making public transit better? The best thing you could hope for if you feel like you need to drive within SF is to have as few other people feeling the need to drive within SF.

But wait, I have to ask: why do you live in SF?

Practically anywhere else in the US is cheaper and better for people who want to drive.

Very few other US cities are better for people who want to get around by other means.

mazugrin2 commented on How Boston City Hall was born bostonglobe.com/ideas/201... · Posted by u/goles

mazugrin2 · 8 months ago

There used to be a neighborhood around it that had architecture similar to what the neighboring North End still has, which is very distinct among the entirety of the Americas. The lack of imagination that existed back then that led to it all being razed to build this and the rest of the garbage of the current West End is stunning.

mazugrin2 commented on How Boston City Hall was born bostonglobe.com/ideas/201... · Posted by u/goles

mazugrin2 · 8 months ago

And at least there's this there now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_slide

mazugrin2 commented on FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices cnbc.com/2024/12/17/ftc-b... · Posted by u/LordAtlas

ensignavenger · 8 months ago

Really, you expect them to go through every item in the store, multiple times per year, and update the price tags?

mazugrin2 · 8 months ago

Aside from silly "sales-tax-holidays" I've never heard of the sales tax rates changing so frequently. I'm curious to know where this is happening "multiple times per year". Here in MA it's been the same rate for 15 years. And for the sales-tax-holiday situation can't a shop just say something like "everything will have x% taken off at the register" just like they would during a typical "10% off all items" type of sale?

mazugrin2 commented on The size of BYD's factory twitter.com/taylorogan/st... · Posted by u/elsewhen

MichaelZuo · 9 months ago

Why did you expect local officials to stick their necks out for you?

They don’t make the relevant laws but can be punished by higher authorities for breaking them.

Unless it could be legally guranteed any potential punishment would be transferred to your team’s shoulders, it’s bizarre to expect someone else sitting in some municipal office to take the risk.

mazugrin2 · 9 months ago

Why did you expect a foreigner who is not from China to realize that they'd be inhibited by the local authorities from doing work they were invited to do by those same local authorities? It's bizarre to think that it's bizarre that a foreigner might merely express some surprise by that.

mazugrin2 commented on Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine motor1.com/news/734156/po... · Posted by u/tempestn

kevin_thibedeau · a year ago

BEVs will never take over in North America. There are too many people spread out or living in places with no hope of charging infrastructure. People are going to balk when they find out they can only charge from a 20A circuit if even that is available.

mazugrin2 · a year ago

"Never" is a really long time.

It would take a severe lack of vision to not be able to imagine that the following will -never- improve: charging infrastructure, charging technology (specifically, charging time), and BEV range

mazugrin2 commented on Show HN: How much is 13B euros? howmuchis13billioneuros.c... · Posted by u/dndn1

mazugrin2 · a year ago

A lot of folks aren't great with numeracy, so I think it's good to use examples to help people understand how much tax Apple didn't have to pay that they themselves would have had to pay if they earned as much as Apple did.

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