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by ahoy 5y ago
driverless/electric/etc cars are a lot like filtered cigarettes. They're a somewhat improved way to keep up an unhealthy habit.
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by ahoy 5y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608916/ Your opinion isn't in agreement with the research. And before you come tell us that electric cars are quieter (they are, for the occupants), the grea
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by ahoy 5y ago
Automobiles require a lot of raw materials and energy to produce. Roads require materials & energy to maintain. They also take up a LOT of space and slice up the natural world in a way that wrecks ecosystems. Personal autos as the defau
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by ahoy 5y ago
I see this notion a lot, that density decreases home values. Yet home prices are at their highest in our densest cities. I just don't buy it.
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by ahoy 5y ago
> Generally the presence of other people devalues places this is why rent is so cheap in manhattan, san fransisco, london, etc
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by ahoy 5y ago
I used to live across the street from a smaller NYCHA building. 5 stories, probably 20-40 units (new york city housing authority, pubic housing here). It seemed perfectly fine. I never went in, but the outside was clean, well lit, and well
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by ahoy 5y ago
I can imagine a world, maybe a generation or 2 from now, where our suburbs have shrunk to a bike-accessible scale. That would really, finally, be a step in the right direction.
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by ahoy 5y ago
Thats just not true of NYC, Boston, DC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and basically every other east coast city
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by ahoy 5y ago
Normal people do not have, use, or understand cryptocurrencies. If you think they do all that means is you live in a very specific bubble.
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by ahoy 5y ago
This is the exact kind of utopian fantasizing that the article talks about. Charming!
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by ahoy 5y ago
"Home videos" implies amateurism, maybe candidness? PewDiePie is obviously a professional making video entertainment as a career. That's meaningfully different than a recording of me taking my kids to the zoo. Venue isn'
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by ahoy 5y ago
The notion of "victimless crimes" has always been odd to me. The harm might be diffuse, or indirect, but I'm certainly hurt when illegal sublets drive up the cost of rent in my neighborhood. Even if the "agreement"
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by ahoy 5y ago
alternatively, "Rent control not working because government allows it to be undermined."
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by ahoy 5y ago
so the same things that cause issues in NYC
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by ahoy 5y ago
Specifically that's 45% of all households , not 45% of residents. Those rates are super low the closer you are to manhattan, and much higher as you reach the outer parts of the outer boroughs [ https://edc.nyc/article&#
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by ahoy 5y ago
This is nihilistic and terribly misinformed. A LOT of foundational economic activity is what we derisively call "unskilled labor," performed by the very "semi-educated humans" you're talking about. In the US alone,
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by ahoy 5y ago
This is the comments section on that very evidence.
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by ahoy 5y ago
No amount of new technology, training, equipment, or funding with change this. US policing is fundamentally a broken system.
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by ahoy 5y ago
"please dont present a united voice against the source of the problem. Balkanize yourselves into a dozen little groups so no change ever happens!"
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by ahoy 5y ago
Your analogy is nonsense. There are another 3000 hunter-gatherers who have hoarded 90% of the resources. If we split up the resources more equally we could support everyone easily.
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by ahoy 5y ago
Child tax credits are fine, but if you don't make enough income to owe taxes in the first place they don't do squat for you. It's a credit, not a payment. The lowest wage-earning parents get benefit from them. Social housing
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by ahoy 5y ago
Yes, unequivocally. It is a moral failure of our society - where there IS so much wealth - that so many struggle so hard just to put a roof of their heads. It's a worse failure still that anyone goes homeless.
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by ahoy 5y ago
So if there are 35000 adults in a city making minimum wage and 200 total 2br apartments they can afford, does that somehow lead us to a different conclusion? Of course it doesn't.
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by ahoy 5y ago
Tables are not a layout tool, and you'll cause more problems than you solve by using them that way.
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by ahoy 5y ago
Only vertical centering was ever tricky
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by ahoy 5y ago
This is how I know you haven't touched CSS since the early 2000s - the bad old days are gone, flex and grid have been here for years and years.
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by ahoy 5y ago
I like working in an office, I just don't like that it takes me 40 minutes to get there. In a better world I could live _in_ that downtown core, a short walk or bike ride away from work.
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by ahoy 5y ago
I think any discussion of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" needs to come with the caveat that the author (Jared Diamond) is widely criticized by the greater historical/anthropological/poli-sci community for prioritizing narrativ
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by ahoy 5y ago
Do you want me to send you a picture of my license with my home address? The subway, especially post-covid, is clean.
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by ahoy 5y ago
I live in a new york. Our subway is clean and regular, the bike share docks in my neighborhood are stocked and well-maintained. The busses, though sometimes crowded, run on time. Public transport works well when your city prioritizes it. I

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