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by actionablefiber 3y ago
This take does not square in the slightest with my actual experience in the DC area. I make a middle class income, pay a fairly modest rent, and have an active social life and tons of hobbies that are enabled by the trappings of city living
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Are they, though? Surely some people have unusually expensive loans but the full cost of a car comes from loan interest, depreciation, tolls, insurance, parking, gas, maintenance, taxes and any emergency repairs you have to make when someth
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> The real reason Americans own cars is because we’re rich enough to afford a more expensive and more convenient system. Are we? When you zoom in on things like road maintenance backlogs and auto loan delinquencies, it kind of seems like
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> A young person just starting out or at least earlier on in their career doesn't really have the opportunity to make friends, meet people (romantically), or otherwise make social connections while working from home. Sure they do -
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> As prices for city apartments increase dramatically, people lose interest in living in those cities. I would argue that the prices reflect at least an incredibly persistent demand to live in those cities. Just for different reasons tha
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I am sort of baffled at the idea of reducing the appeal of city living to commuting and shopping? I live in DC, can easily bike anywhere, and it is to me about visiting friends at their homes, parks, going to museums, relaxing on the waterf
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I do not care what happens to the rideshare business, but I am worried about Motivate and all of the systems that they operate. Capital Bikeshare is one of the reasons why my monthly transportation costs are less than $50.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
DC is it for me. I don't want to own a car or drive, I want to ride a bike or take the train everywhere I go, and DC has the infrastructure to support that lifestyle.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> Planes are held to a standard that we don't hold buses and trains to. Or highway/pedestrian/cyclist safety, for that matter?
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> As it is, I don't need to ride a bike 45 times a year as I live and work close to transit. I think that might be our different mindsets at work here. I ride transit when I must, but when I need or want to go somewhere my first tho
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
A membership is $205/yr (~$185/yr with a citi credit card). I don't know what your standard is for "once in a while" but I visit NYC once every two months or so and get enough use out of it during my visits that I j
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
At the extreme, the demise of Microsoft would trigger an immediate and prolonged crisis response to everyone whose IT systems depend on it (i.e. essentially everyone, either directly or indirectly), both on-prem and for cloud services. At s
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Yes, you can see I costed out a non-car round trip at $5. In NYC on the MTA it would be $5.50; in DC, between $4 and $8. One thing I do in DC is ride bikeshare to the bar (where the amortized cost of the ride, with my annual membership, is
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> cycling (mountain biking, road cycling) I want to add that in cities, social cycling is a real thing too, and a fantastic way to meet people and have fun. Many US cities have some combination of Critical Mass, bike party, queer bike ri
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
If I spend $15 on drinks then Ubering to and from has just at least tripled my cost of going out. If going out with friends costs $20 a head instead of $45, more people will want to do it.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I think another point is that thanks to TSA measures it will pretty much always be unpleasant, so you can make money squeezing people with layovers who don't want to, or don't have time to, go through security an extra time. If yo
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
It seems sensible to me, as a defense against someone taking your answer out of context and splicing it with a different question to make you look bad.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Indeed. I mean, once they couldn't get their hands on ZIRP anymore the withdrawal symptoms were pretty violent.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I mean, the advice is "use a giant pile of money to set up and maintain a dual-home situation until you are satisfied that the job will pan out." Laws are supposed to protect people who don't have the resources to proactively
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
WeChat will loudly grumble every time you try to send a photo if you haven't given access to all photos. But at least it works.
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
> What about the medical costs from getting hit, or if you get hit again and are injured to the point where you are disabled for some time? The motorist's insurance paid for that. For incidents where that doesn't happen, this i
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
> Firstly, cars are getting significantly better as they go electric. Smell is eliminated, while noise and environmental impact will be significantly reduced - without any changes to our road infrastructure. The issue with the road infra
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
> My issue is not with people who are anti-car, but with people who cannot understand why other people have different priorities and who make different trade-offs. A lot to say here for why I think the number of people who can legitimate
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
Quite a lot. I save a lot of money - my monthly transportation cost is some two-digit number even after including the occasional weekend trip to other cities - most of which I squirrel away and some of which I spend on other things; I am al
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
One major issue is that if you as an individual attempt to go car-free, the resulting lifestyle makes cars into such an incredible intrusion into your daily life that it is hard not to become more radicalized. That has been my story at leas
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
> Remember, he didn't want to buy Twitter. He pitched it in the first place purely in an attempt to get leverage over the board. He didn't really want to own it. He didn't just "pitch" it, he made a buyout offer
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
I feel like this is motivational when you use it on yourself and misleading when you use it with other people. If I call myself a pianist or a Japanese speaker, people will get the wrong idea of my skill level and be surprised and disappoin
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
One issue with dumping, even if you have the equipment for it, is that in some cases you will still need to patch it to defeat the copy protection.
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
One consideration is that some games implement checksums and other copy protection measures to detect if they've been copied, and then refuse to run - or appear to run normally at first but sneakily punish the player. Preserving these
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by actionablefiber 4y ago
Get a new bank. Ally, SoFi, AmEx all pay upwards of 3.5% with no minimum.

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