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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
the historical reason for the current rules was that computers didn't exist when the rules were written and it would have been extremely complex to make a market for a direct listing via humans calling each other on the phone or trader
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
The problem is right now in SF we have a strong bike lobby and we vote and it still isn’t enough. The idea that voting with a block is a way to forward policy goals in 2020 is quaint TBH. As far as I can tell pretty much all successful poli
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
The fact that there are poor people that drive does not take away from the fact that the median cyclist income is always lower than the median driver income in all US urban areas so any policy that distributes risk in the form of liability
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
A cyclist can cause harm to themself and rarely one other person while running a red light, a car driver can cause mass casualties while running a red light. Difference of scale.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
This is a bad way to look at the numbers. In urban areas, cycles are on average below median income, and drivers are above to far above median income. Yes, there are poor americans, they are by and large not driving cars in urban areas, wea
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
yea, I am not advocating for "legislation" I am advocating for law suits. I think the proper process to make change here is (1) Create real penalties for drivers that hit cyclists (2) get insurance agencies and drivers themselves
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
I am a cyclist and a driver. Unfortunately, I think the only way forward for cyclists is intense litigation against both cities and drivers around car collisions. The city will not prosecute cars for dangerous driving or violations, even if
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
Yea, most cities don’t because they are small, but most people have access to these mode shares because more people live in large cities than small cities
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
The world of urban centers is a world of a fixed amount of lane-miles of road. Cars are an extremely inefficient use of road space, they have some of the worst throughout in terms of people per lane-mile per hour relative to other transit m
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
That’s fine, you are allowed to pay the true unsubsidized market rate cost of operating a car. No one is stopping you, we are just making sure you’re not externalizing the costs.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
Yes, commute is like ~10% of emissions in US IIRC
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
This isn’t correct at all. If you look at cities by population and/or density pretty much all global cities, from SF to Lima to Tokyo have sufficient transit and non-car mode share.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
Very few people actually need a car. The status quo in most cities is that car use is extremely subsidized through free parking. Remove the subsidy and allow people to pay the cost for their choices.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
“Not everyone can go at bike race speeds” With eBikes the number of folks who can go at bike race speeds is incredible. I also know a lot of disable folks who can use eBikes but cannot drive. It’s an incredible technology.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
Electric cars are still extremely polluting. Tire and break dust is the majority of pm 2.5 particulate pollution in US cities and there is a growing body of research that shows reducing these emissions is a huge impact on our general cognit
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
The majority of the people who are prohibited from living in Paris due to cost but commute in for work use transit, they’d do not drive. Redistributing road space from cars to bike and transit space is a benefit to them. Additionally an eB
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
Prepare yourselves. A key factor of for solving climate change will be actions like this. Removing free parking and replacing with bike/bus/walking space is an incredibly high impact carbon reduction strategy. What’s surprising is
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
You mention diversity. Do any black folks work on your team? Do you think it’s possible that black engineers are treated well and black CX are treated poorly?
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
the vast majority of road degredation isn't due to weather, its due to weight wear. As heavy vehicles travel down the road, they create a "ripple" on the road surface in front of the axle. You can create a similar effect if y
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have had very successful strategies and outcomes.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
awesome thanks! Always interesting to see content moderation strategies in action IMO.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
not arguing, just curious why? Did I violate something? Something I can do better next time? I'm highly supportive of the content moderation procedures here.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
yea, the silly thing is that we all really underestimated or at least accurately estimated the involvement of Russian actors in the rise of trump in 2016. This is cannon, and the report was written by republicans.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
...yes. How could you execute someone from a country that didn't exist yet? To be more clear, the Jewish ethnic identity and the Israeli national identity aren't the same identity, and while there is overlap conflating them isn&#x
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
Ok, looking at first reply to my post, they reference "commercial freedoms", which I support. Look at COVID 19, commerce (measured in restaurant reservations and retail purchases) dropped like 90% before the government lockdowns.
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
Most people in the right don't disbelieve the coronavirus exists, they just think it's not going to kill them, its going to kill someone else . FTFY
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
I kind of entirely disagree with the your read on the situation. The struggles that America has aren't that it doesn't have a common culture, the struggles are that it has too many veto points in its political process so it is ext
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
wow man, theres a lot tied up in here. First of all, "the jews" and "israelis" aren't the same thing. In fact, the nazis killed basically zero Israelis in the holocaust. Second of all, the modern state of Isreal und
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
There are facts here. Things like Covid 19 and climate change are both real and current or impending disasters. The "left" has solutions and the "right" pretends they don't exist. The US right has slipped further an
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by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
As a cyclist, this says nothing to me about the safety of these cars. I was biking and I "struck" a car that was heading opposite my direction and making a left hand turn across my path in the bike line and crossing my right of wa

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