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by akgerber 10y ago
Many urban building typologies are effectively illegal in nearly all of the country (but not Manhattan below 110th Street) due to parking minima, even in supposedly-unzoned Houston. One of my great hopes for autonomous vehicles is that they
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by akgerber 10y ago
I tried a non-powered longboard as a more-compact supplement to a bicycle for city transport. The handling isn't hard to pick up, but riding with traffic is more challenging, especially without a brake. I ended up just sticking with my
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by akgerber 10y ago
The same people who went to prison when this vehicle's automated control system failed and killed people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2009_Washington_Metro_tra... In practice, sober automobile drivers who s
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by akgerber 10y ago
That entirely depends on land use. If downtown Palo Alto near the station were full of skyscrapers, as its land value would justify, the Caltrain would be an effective commute for many more workers.
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My bike ride into work usually feels significantly more sluggish if I skip breakfast and/or coffee.
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The 'communal pot' in the United States is actually 'broad taxation of 5% GDP of one of the strongest, most stable economies in the history of the planet'. Social Security maybe won't be as much as estimated today,
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by akgerber 10y ago
Only a bit of it. I do have a Robert Mappelthorpe t-shirt that is safe-for-work, if a imposing (it's a tightly-cropped self-portrait of eyes), but unfortunately most people don't get why it's funny to wear to work :(
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by akgerber 10y ago
A fleet of autonomous vehicles transporting people from disparate point to disparate point still requires a lot of roadway space per human being transported, which is the root cause of road congestion. That is as true in 2016 as it was in 1
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by akgerber 10y ago
Self-driving cars may lead to marginal improvements in road throughput, but shared-vehicle transportation will always be able to move more people in the same amount of space. If a transit route has sufficient ridership to justify investing
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by akgerber 10y ago
In the context of a basic income, being a doctor will still convey wealth and status, in addition to altruistic satisfaction. Perhaps no one would be a dishwasher for a price people are willing to pay, and restaurants have people bring or w
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Given a sane zoning regime, the supply of housing will increase in response to increased demand.
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But it also has the upside of allowing American automakers to sell a lot of high-profit SUVs!
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The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck
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'Disruptive' means something worse and cheaper than eventually overtakes its more better, expensive competitors, like microcomputers versus mainframes. Which makes the current market-winning electric cars, which are generally both
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early 00's php standard-bearers gotta stick together
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They do: https://newsroom.uber.com/us-new-york/a-reliable-ride-for-yo...
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by akgerber 10y ago
Lyft just sent me a push notification telling me that rides will be half-off this week. Thanks for subsidizing my lifestyle, venture capitalists!
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Moreover, the spec has held pretty much steady on mid-1970s equipment.
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by akgerber 11y ago
'“Capitalism, Peretti concluded, needs to be constantly producing identities for peoples if the system is to survive,” Matthews writes. “And ten years later, he built a factory to fill that precise need. Matthews later reached out to P
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by akgerber 11y ago
New York City and San Francisco are also some of the most urban and mass transit-oriented areas of the US, which means walking is a default part of one's life instead of a leisure activity— getting through one's daily life means w
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by akgerber 11y ago
None. But 'gentrification' in, say, Pittsburgh means houses in newly-hip neighborhoods that used to cost $50,000 are being renovated and sold for $250,000, instead of houses that use to cost $500,000 being renovated and sold for $
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by akgerber 11y ago
I'm sorry someone is forcing you to own a car, and forcing you not to pay a garage owner for somewhere to park it.
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by akgerber 11y ago
Very dense neighborhoods can still be quaint with trees and bushes. This census tract is around twice as dense as San Francisco: https://goo.gl/maps/d2rQ7wc6Tc12
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by akgerber 11y ago
I was one of around 30 grandchildren of my grandma's 12 children. I heard about her death via email— it would have been impractical to share the news otherwise, or to ask her caretakers to make 50 or even 12 calls while dealing with al
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by akgerber 11y ago
When people say "Housing is so out of control in SF soon nobody will be able to afford to live there," they mean 'nobody like my friends or me'— the system may reach a new normal, but it is a new normal where a city with
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by akgerber 11y ago
Inclusionary zoning is both a perfectly reasonable idea and, by empirical evidence, dramatically insufficient to spur affordable housing production: http://cityobservatory.org/inclusionary-zoning-has-a-scale-p... Much of th
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by akgerber 11y ago
You may not see much traffic currently because there is a very heavy rainstorm in NYC.
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Water and electricity and gas are generally less cost-efficient to provide to less-dense neighborhoods, as the length of wire & pipe (and maintenance overhead) needed to serve a given number of residences is significantly higher. This i
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by akgerber 11y ago
Parking is massively subsidized in the United States (read 750 pages about it! http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Parking-Updated-Edition/dp/1... ) and drivers only get tickets because they habitually violate tons of
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by akgerber 11y ago
I grew up in an older suburb that still had sidewalks, so I could walk to friends houses, the park, and even a movie (the local theater is actually closer to my parents' house than my local theater is now in Brooklyn).

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