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The traditional suburban street design of winding roads and cul-de-sacs is just as responsible for U.S. car dependency as the distances created by sprawl, according to new Yale research.

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Right, but even then, a significant portion of the cul-de-sacs homes can still be serviced. Just those close to the entry/exit.

There are also recommendations that bus stops should only be about 200 meters apart. That seems to match my experience when living in a small-ish town. Some parts were inevitable underserved, but that's hardly avoidable I think.

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Kompletter Stillstand in ganz Deutschland: Bahn stellt Zugverkehr bundesweit ein – Funknetz ausgefallen

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Die Frage ist aber wieso gibt es bei der Bahn überhaupt einen "single point of failure"? Es sollte der Bahn gar nicht möglich sein den gesamten nationalen Zugverkehr durch einen einzigen Fehler in den Stillstand zu versetzen.

Und das bei Funk hinzubekommen ist irgendwie eine Leistung. Was soll denn eine zentrale Stelle da überhaupt an Mehrwert bringen? Außer an Ausfallsicherheit (also dass ein Ausfall mit Sicherheit stattfinden wird) natürlich.

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Kompletter Stillstand in ganz Deutschland: Bahn stellt Zugverkehr bundesweit ein – Funknetz ausgefallen

Jetzt warst du 10 Minuten schneller als ich, ich hab das auch eben erst mitbekommen >:(

Aber wie schafft man es, dass ein einziges Update den gesamten Zugverkehr lahmlegt? Vor allem bei so etwas inhärent Dezentralem wie Funk??

Ich glaub nicht mal die Telekom wäre in der Lage, das Internet deutschlandweit ähnlich kaputt zu machen wie die Bahn es jetzt mit dem Zugverkehr geschafft hat. Das ist echt eine Leistung, Hut ab.

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Are You Kids On Dopamine?

This assumes executive dysfunction only ever comes from lack of (available) dopamine though.

It's better advice than stressing yourself out, sure, but it may just be useless.

The only thing that has ever worked for me - and I have tried giving myself treats before and during a task - are hard, immovable deadlines.

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Arch users when they discover they contain 98% "bloated" Junk DNA:

To be honest, DNA is stupid anyway. Worst data format ever invented.

I mean, a single mutation to get sickle cell anemia? Use fucking error correction codes, dammit! No, having everything twice is not error correction. It's only error detection and the detected error is just silently ignored and randomly passed on to your offspring.

Where are the damn backups? 3-2-1 should hold for every data format! How would an offsite backup be designed? I don't know I'm not evolution incorporated.

Why are viruses even a thing??? There is no reason EVER to be able to insert new DNA into your genome. Make it read only! With checksums! Why is there no Denuvo DNA-DRM?

Slightly unrelated but even worse, your immune system is literally only controlled by the equivalent of HTTP. Deactivate completely? Attack everything on sight? No authorization required whatsoever! Just use the public API! Surely nothing could exploit this, right??


Small Edit as a response to everyone mentioning the need to change for evolution:

Maybe, just maybe use a test environment? You don't just push to production the moment you make a change. Move fast and break things my ass. Since women already have the production environment just create a similar structure in men! They already have TESTicles after all.

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Alpha rule

Aaaahh please use punctuation

It would make it infinitely more understandable if you wrote:

Normalize saying "is that a furry thing?" whenever a guy says he is an alpha