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Those bikeshare companies we're also part of a huge bubble in China so there were way more bikes than possible riders. By quite a lot, as it turned out.
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Control Volume posted:The kicker is that driving is also faster than trains Ahh, but if your infrastructure isn't poo poo, Trains are MUCH faster than trains. Even the standard trains on the Danish main lines reach 160+ km/h. And even if the highway speed limit is technically 130 km/h, that's not everywhere, large chunks of the network is limited to 110 km/h. And that's not counting the usually issues roads have.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I remember in China those bike share startups have a big problem with people signing up once then literally throwing the bike away when they're done with it. In Melbourne it was more picking up a locked bike and throwing it in the river, up a tree, on the train tracks, on a roof etc. They got a big barge and went down the river fishing them out, they stopped after a few km when there was no more room on the barge
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This discussion reminded me of when I visited Nashville and learned what Bird is This about sums it up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU6WSFG8CIA kumba has a new favorite as of 14:54 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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Jul 27, 2018 12:10
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That scooter looks like just the thing for when I want to visit Santa Monica, the California Space Museum, and UCB Franklin all on the same day. What do you mean it's not highway legal?
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Jul 27, 2018 12:22
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EoinCannon posted:[oBike] launched in Singapore in February 2017, and ceased operation on 25 June 2018 in Singapore jesus loving christ so they were barely around for over a year yet were active in over 20 countries somehow?
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Catboy Autonomist posted:jesus loving christ so they were barely around for over a year yet were active in over 20 countries somehow? ~disruption~
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I remember in China those bike share startups have a big problem with people signing up once then literally throwing the bike away when they're done with it. In an actual dumpster? That sounds like a Simpsons/Family Guy gag.
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Jul 27, 2018 14:43
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Ofecks posted:In an actual dumpster? That sounds like a Simpsons/Family Guy gag. There were literal gigantic piles of discarded bicycles.
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Jul 27, 2018 14:51
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They have a scooter share now in the US: http://www.wlwt.com/article/ride-share-electric-scooters-arrive-in-cincinnati/22559740
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Jul 27, 2018 14:51
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Hey not all of those bikes end up in giant heaps! Some of them use combination locks and aren't equipped with gps so you can just slap your own lock on it.
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Iron Crowned posted:We've really used up all the good surface resources, so nothing will ever return to our technology level. uh what about in 50 millions years bro sun ain't gonna explode for another couple billion
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Jul 27, 2018 15:06
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I read somewhere that old cities like London and Rome are just layers and layers of generational material. To the extent that there's more copper buried under these cities than there is still un-mined in the ground. No idea how true that is, but future civilizations will literally mine past civilizations. They won't have a lot of oil, but nerds will get their steam punk future after-all because there will still be loads of coal.
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Jul 27, 2018 15:16
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Krispy Wafer posted:I read somewhere that old cities like London and Rome are just layers and layers of generational material. To the extent that there's more copper buried under these cities than there is still un-mined in the ground. Dunno about London but for Rome that's definitely true, whenever Rome was attacked and buildings burned instead of clearing the rubble they'd just compact it down and build on top of it There's a church I visited that is literally the 4th church built in that exact spot, with 3 layers of churches/catacombs beneath it
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Jul 27, 2018 15:32
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kumba posted:Dunno about London but for Rome that's definitely true, whenever Rome was attacked and buildings burned instead of clearing the rubble they'd just compact it down and build on top of it That and a lot of old Roman ruins had the marble taken off them for new buildings. See also the Pyramids.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That and a lot of old Roman ruins had the marble taken off them for new buildings. Whenever you see old buildings with relatively regularly spaced chunks missing from the bricks, those were the attachment points for a stone exterior.
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Iron Crowned posted:They have a scooter share now in the US: We've had those for a while in San Diego. The dockless bikes have been a huge issue for the NIMBY capital of the US (Coronado Island), so much that they banned them: http://www.cbs8.com/story/37771242/coronado-to-declare-dockless-bikes-a-public-nuisance  I'm pro-bikeshare, but I've started spotted them abandoned in ditches and on the sides of freeways, so I don't know how long this will last. It can't be profitable.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:We've had those for a while in San Diego. The dockless bikes have been a huge issue for the NIMBY capital of the US (Coronado Island), so much that they banned them: NIMBY hive or not it's hard to blame Coronado for banning the things. I nearly backed into one that someone had abandoned outside my garage door one morning.
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Papa John sues Papa John'squote:In a lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday, Schnatter's lawyers say he is seeking to inspect company documents "because of the unexplained and heavy-handed way in which the company has treated him since the publication of a story that falsely accused him of using a racial slur." Later, in the same article... quote:Schnatter has admitted he said the N-word on a conference call with a marketing firm.  Also in the news, MoviePass couldn't afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
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RagnarokZ posted:Ahh, but if your infrastructure isn't poo poo, Trains are MUCH faster than trains. Wow, really? That’s amazing!
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Krispy Wafer posted:I was walking my dog in a hotel parking lot in Virginia and stumbled across one of those big Blockbuster signs that become obscured in the dense foliage like some kind of ancient burial tomb. When the building became a Verizon store, the Blockbuster branding faded away. They took down the signpole out front but not the huge marquee sign. And, as you saw, the trees ate it. EDIT: late but no regrets I brought my Drake has a new favorite as of 18:14 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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Don’t worry, they just borrowed $5 million, that should last... roughly a week. It’s almost poetic that Moviepass is crashing and burning almost exactly a year after they started with their crazy idea.
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I don't why, but I just assumed they had worked out some sort of up front bulk or discount with the theater companies to pay for those tickets but I guess they were just paying for tickets one at a time? 
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Rotten Red Rod posted:We've had those for a while in San Diego. The dockless bikes have been a huge issue for the NIMBY capital of the US (Coronado Island), so much that they banned them: I imagine there would be a similar service for those bikes, but its harder to stow a few bikes in your back seat. Greatbacon posted:I don't why, but I just assumed they had worked out some sort of up front bulk or discount with the theater companies to pay for those tickets but I guess they were just paying for tickets one at a time?
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kumba posted:Dunno about London but for Rome that's definitely true, whenever Rome was attacked and buildings burned instead of clearing the rubble they'd just compact it down and build on top of it
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Also I’m a huge fan of dockless bike sharing systems. There’re a lot of problems for sure but to me it’s an integral part of a public transit system. For instance, you might have been choosing between driving to work and taking a combination of a train ride and a long walk. Dockless bikes make the latter so much more reasonable of a choice.
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Greatbacon posted:I don't why, but I just assumed they had worked out some sort of up front bulk or discount with the theater companies to pay for those tickets but I guess they were just paying for tickets one at a time? I also don't know why they didn't think that theaters would just go 'yeah, nah...we don't need a middleman' and just do it themselves, like AMC is doing with their 'see up to 3 movies a week in any format' thing.
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Vegetable posted:Is that safe? I don’t know why but it feels like building on top of compacted old buildings would be risky. Germany has a lot of scenic and built-on "hills" that are actually dirt and trees over World War 2 rubble. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuttberg
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Vegetable posted:Is that safe? I don’t know why but it feels like building on top of compacted old buildings would be risky. I think a San Francisco subway line goes through an old ship that had long ago been sunk and buried over to create more land in the harbor. There's all kinds of stuff people build on. Ground conditions vary greatly and there are tricks to bury foundations in softer earth. Most of the time it works. Sometimes it's like that new high rise in San Fran that's uneven so people's stuff rolls to one side.
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Vegetable posted:Also I’m a huge fan of dockless bike sharing systems. There’re a lot of problems for sure but to me it’s an integral part of a public transit system. I really can't consider dockless bike sharing an integral part of anything when by all accounts, it just results in a shitload of bikes-as-litter: https://www.wired.com/story/the-bike-share-war-is-shaking-up-seattle-like-nowhere-else/ posted:The city’s rules on where to park these bikes are strict and clear. Bikes should not be left on corners, driveways, or ramps, nor blocking building entrances, benches, bus stops, or fire hydrants, and they should always leave six feet clear for pedestrians on sidewalks. Companies have two hours to move bikes that are reported as being incorrectly parked. But while the smartphone apps communicate these restrictions to users, nothing prevents riders from leaving a bike wherever they want, nor are there currently any penalties for doing so. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/dockless-bikes-promise-future-transportation-litter-city-dallas-n866351 posted:Hassle-free rentable bikes lead to fewer cars on the road, which leads to shorter commutes for drivers, which leads to less pollution — especially good, since Dallas is the 13th-most polluted city in the U.S. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/10/05/abandoned-vandalized-and-illegally-parked-bike-share-bikes-now-a-d-c-problem/?utm_term=.a4b79f373985 posted:There it was, a neon-orange Spin bike parked on the very edge of a busy sidewalk, perfectly positioned to block the pedestrian traffic from the crosswalk in the northeastern corner of 14th and K streets. Anyone crossing and rushing to work Tuesday morning had to go around it. And the bike sharing companies whine when cities try to implement common-sense measures that try to avoid that: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-dockless-bike-lock-debate-20180503-story.html posted:The city’s new dockless bike share program mandates that rental bikes be capable of being locked to some physical object — like a bike rack or signpost — by July 1.
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FilthyImp posted:It's not uneven. It's actively sinking like an inch a year and these folks' million dollar condos are effectively worthless. You say sinking, I say progressively uneven. You get the most amazing Dutch angels in this place.
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ESA used the Sentinel 1 SAR Satellites to do some interferrometry and saw the displacement well enough to publish an article on it. http://m.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/11/Millennium_Tower_sinking
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Krispy Wafer posted:You say sinking, I say progressively uneven. Short arm of the law: Top Cop Angle tells it to the kids.
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Dockless bike companies' business model is based around flooding cities with cheap, lovely bikes and externalizing the costs of dealing with bike litter to the city governments. I'm glad cities aren't taking their poo poo.
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ryonguy posted:Also, the downside for the industry having a only small segment of the population buying guns and poo poo like crazy is that word of mouth spreads real fast, and across the board Remington ammunition is basically considered unusable garbage. To add on to this, about 70% of Americans own 0 guns, about 27% own ∼2 guns, and about 3% own ∼17 guns.
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Sure seems like MoviePass is done https://twitter.com/grahamflanagan/status/1024042444713807872
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FlamingLiberal posted:Sure seems like MoviePass is done “We are now Old Movie Pass.” “You mean the older version of Movie Pass we all loved?” “No. You can now only see old movies.”
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Krispy Wafer posted:“We are now Old Movie Pass.” "For 9.99 a month you can pick out 2 DVDs from the Dollar Tree DVD rack!"
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They’ve also taken to making every showing past the first showing of the day a “premium” showing where you have to pay like $6 extra to see it. That finally pushed me to cancel though I had been having fun watching movies on the venture capitalists’ dime.
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