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by L_Rahman 7y ago
@Doreen: I will speak for Max here and say that we are both on your side. The kind of political change that would allow SROs to be built where people want them is the same kind of political change that would allow more housing construction
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
I should be able to live where I want. My inability to not afford housing in the places that I want to live in are not an outcome based on “efficient markets”. The cost of housing in major American cities is largely determined by whether th
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Yes, but that’s to manage L train shut down problems. There’s a meaningful difference between a stop gap plan to address immediate problems and larger change in how we think about transportation within New York
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
"Administration" is probably a better way to frame it. The New York state government and its associated spending is one of the single most undemocratic and corrupt institutions in the world. It has been so for over two centuries.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Peak and especially distance based pricing are fundamentally regressive and unjust tax schemes that penalize the poor. Subway fares are already regressive in that they represent a larger share of income in poorer people than in the rich, ma
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
I don't understand why this comment was voted into the negative, but I suspect that it has something to do with the world view of the people who oppose taxes on a fundamental level. To those of you, I ask - why? New York's flat no
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Not at all. The plan is to ban private vehicles and through traffic within the cross town streets (East-West direction, numbered roads) in Manhattan. Larger cross-town streets like 14th, 23rd and 42nd would remain open to all traffic. The s
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
I especially enjoyed the meta recognition that the act of writing this article and giving it a name itself possibly perpetuates the myth.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
The Fourth Estate didn't abandon that job in the 80s, private equity companies saw their advertising based recurring revenue streams, bought them in LBOs, decimated the teams and extracted profits until nothing was left. Online adverti
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Western psychotherapy has developed a specific ritual for activating this kind of shivering focused on releasing traumatic energy. It's called a TRE (Trauma Release Exercise) and particularly when done in the presence of someone who ca
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Ah, but your expectation should be for thoughts to intrude. Even the greatest meditators experience this and you should expect this to be especially true for you as a beginner. Meditation is not actually about being free from thought. The g
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Here’s some very straightforward evidence for you: compare the cost of using the parking space to either the price of equivalent square footage in neighboring building or a private parking garage on the same street.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
This meta problem, transferring best practices or as I like to call them "cultural technology" between groups of people, is literally the thing I'm working on right now. If you're interesting in chatting about this, feel
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
This is off to an auspicious start. Here's to seeing your "How HN helped us start an ISP in New Orleans" blog post in a few years!
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
There are some interesting experiments with hospital operation models in India that try to make it more like flight. Every patient gets the same surgeon and treatment, but people who pay more get nicer facilities (private rooms, less crowdi
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
really enjoying mistape and thought to make a recommendation that I suspect you've already come across - Meg Myers, an incredibly talented singer, covered Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill on her NPR Tiny Desk: https://y
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
This is a symptom of low road demand for Queens-Brooklyn transit which in turn is because of the relative size of both boroughs, their lower population density and most importantly because there isn't a subway line that truly cuts acro
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
The GFW is likely sophisticated enough to make distinctions between corporate VPN connectivity using products like Cisco AnyConnect and personal use setups on AWS/DO/Azure/GC or even a home server. One of the things I've
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
This is great. I'd add for Brazil, a great alternative to the libraries are SESCs. SESCs are cultural centers, funded by a payroll tax proposed by big business in the 50s when they were afraid of Communist sympathies in population. The
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
This is not black and white. If I recall correctly from other interactions we've had on Hacker News, we're both Bangladeshi-American so please know I'm looking at this with a similar lens. My parents absolutely should have em
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
$100M in annual revenues isn't even much of a stretch. 1.6M knowledge workers paying an average $5 a month for their primary note taking app - apps on every platform: iOS, Android, iPad, Mac, Windows, ChromeOS, Linux, encrypted cloud s
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Not OP, but deeply interesting to me and especially so as I travel around South America. I am completely fascinated by the home infrastructure choices in different parts of the world. I'm currently in Sao Paulo and the hot water setup
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
If there's a broken down vehicle blocking the car portion of the road, the road is closed. If the bike lane were protected with a physical barrier, you wouldn't be able to enter it. Why shouldn't it just be off limits? I&#x27
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Apple's desktop options are actually quite strong right now. If you just want a really powerful desktop computer for dev work - get a souped up Mac Mini If you want it with a nice screen - get an iMac Pro If you're a video profess
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
As galago mentioned, the Ganesh Temple Canteen in NY is a beloved institution in the city and popular with people of all backgrounds.
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by L_Rahman 8y ago
Yes, I guess one solution to this could also be to create nodes outside of Manhattan. Who cares if SoHo, Chelsea and the West Village are large malls if the soul of the city moves somewhere else? But that would require sustained public infr
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by L_Rahman 8y ago
I'm as far from NIMBYism as is possible for a person to be [1] but the urban neighborhood growth curves seem to inexorably point to either of: 1. open air mall with prestige housing and office space (SoHo) 2. steel and glass mall with
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by L_Rahman 8y ago
The transit infrastructure argument is moot. Here's transit reporter Aaron Gordon making the case far better than I could: > The G, 7, E, M, F, R, N, and W are all within a reasonable walking distance from the proposed HQ site. In t
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by L_Rahman 8y ago
The anti-Amazon movement wasn't about hating Amazon specifically. The anti-Amazon movement was about the world's richest company and the world's richest secretly negotiating three billion dollars in subsidies with the governo
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by L_Rahman 8y ago
We have an existing example to extrapolate from. Cantonese is the native dialect in Guangzhou and it's fading away in the current generation of children in no small part because of government pressure in schools. It's likely that

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