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by akgerber 11y ago
America has been building suburbs for 100 years so there's a lot of variation— I grew up in a walkable streetcar suburb of Milwaukee that was right next to the city and looked like many urban neighborhoods, with narrow streets and side
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by akgerber 11y ago
Who hires many people in tech in Milwaukee? I'm from there and don't know of anywhere that does much other than basic in-house line-of-business software— is it just banks and insurance companies?
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by akgerber 11y ago
'Unintentional injuries', among which car crashes are a leading type, are the most common cause of death among those ages 1-44: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/leadingcauses.html
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by akgerber 11y ago
Great? Speeding on a residential street is dangerous, especially to those walking or cycling.
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by akgerber 11y ago
I would be more inclined to have some empathy if my local drivers didn't think the city's bicycle lanes were an appropriate place to park for the next week because they are too lazy to dig out a parking space.
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by akgerber 11y ago
They find 'non-typical' rentals, e.g. group houses (even as a married couple), trailers parks, etc. Or they commute obscene distances.
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by akgerber 11y ago
In NYC, where Uber/Lyft drivers are required to operate Taxi and Limousine Commission-licensed cars, citizens can file complaints via the web, leading to tickets: https://twitter.com/hashtag/cyclistswithcameras
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by akgerber 11y ago
I have repeatedly been unable to pay my T-Mobile prepaid bill in the past couple months after my CC number changed, because changes via the interface seem to have just failed to persist.
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by akgerber 11y ago
Nice upgrade. I still use Sheldon's site occasionally. The web in 1998 was still pretty great :)
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by akgerber 11y ago
As an anecdote, after intentionally avoiding credit cards through college, I was rejected from several when I applied for my first after graduating in 2010— and was only approved for a 'student' card (despite having graduated) at
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by akgerber 11y ago
They are illegal to street-hail— but this is unenforced. The city is working on normalizing them, including adding taxi-like branding: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/industry/vans.shtml
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by akgerber 11y ago
The main reason the homes are unprofitable investments is 'a race thing'. Metro Detroit has had a stable population for the last 50 years— the reason so many houses in Detroit are abandoned is because of near-total white flight.
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by akgerber 11y ago
Most 'inflation' in our society lately is in buildable land prices within commuting distance of desirable cities, mostly on the coast. If we increased the amount of buildable land, either by upzoning existing neighborhoods to allo
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by akgerber 11y ago
Tearing down a freeway doesn't necessarily lead to 'luxury condos and luxury retail/commercial spaces' when there's no demand for such property in the neighborhood. There's vacant land at the edge of downtown M
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by akgerber 11y ago
Such a system would still be much more inefficient than fixed-route transit because of the winding routes required and insufficient concentration of demand.
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by akgerber 11y ago
The suburbs were about a lot of things (some were built in the 30s as utopian projects by the US Government) but mass suburbanization was driven by FHA loans to veterans, which were not available to blacks.
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by akgerber 11y ago
Specifically: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6853187005_135a28db2f_z.j...
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by akgerber 11y ago
I mostly darn sweaters as opposed to socks, but nice wool socks can cost $10-$20 so they're worth making a 5-minute fix on.
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by akgerber 11y ago
Poor immigrant communities also have long histories of filling gaps in public transit services with dollar vans— this is just a dollar van from a rich neighborhood with a publicist: http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/
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by akgerber 11y ago
"Chariot is Alexis Van Lines with an app" would also be a fair phrasing. Alexis Van Lines is a longstanding NYC dollar van operator that has also agilely branches out into new routes: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/s
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by akgerber 11y ago
The problem is that the standard American house is modeled after a farmhouse or country house, despite the fact that we all live in cities. Townhouses don't have lawns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse And
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by akgerber 11y ago
And I buy a lot of that clothing from Buffalo Exchange and similar stores, but in spite of Buffalo Exchange being a national chain it's a modestly sized private company: http://www.buffaloexchange.com/about-us/
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by akgerber 11y ago
The 30,000+ dead and 2 million injured a year in the US alone question your contention that car commuting is 'nearly perfectly safe'.
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by akgerber 11y ago
The prices in the Mission or downtown Palo Alto, for example, don't really reflect your contention that people in California don't want to live near public transit. The real issue is that California isn't building much new tr
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by akgerber 11y ago
It's not that difficult— if such a person travels travel, they go to major cities or resorts or places where driving isn't necessary, and if they want to go hiking, etc., they take public transit or go with friends. Downtown-orien
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by akgerber 11y ago
Product page: https://www.lytro.com/immerge
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by akgerber 11y ago
"Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards." [0] How do we ask people to care about this problem without being able to do any research about it? [0] http://www.harpers.org/blog/2008/06/webe
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by akgerber 11y ago
'Suburb' is a tricky word, with meanings that vary from 'residential neighborhood' to 'cul-de-sacs and freeways'. But most pre-WWII cities do have a belt of railroad/streetcar suburbs to which many of thes
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by akgerber 11y ago
Detroit is a little more willing to build killing people into its business model. Hence the 30,000+ death toll on the roads for the past century, their big push in the 1990s to replace lightweight cars with big heavy SUVs, and their present
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by akgerber 11y ago
Beyond that, the state is who sends a sheriff to evict someone from a house when they don't pay rent to a landlord.

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