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by akgerber 11y ago
The confounding factor here is that many voters don't want to increase the quantity of housing, especially not near them.
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The outer borough Green Cab system also plays a huge part— the licenses to drive a green cab are available for a few thousand dollars, and thus the formerly illegal-but-accepted car service street hail system has been brought into a legal f
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That's the straw that broke the camel's back for me, personally. A lot of sites out there were becoming completely unreadable.
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Why [San Francisco] Can’t Fix the Housing Crisis on Its Own(marketurbanism.com)
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by akgerber 11y ago
I would suggest that the real factor preventing more-widespread application of this idea is a lack of developable land near frequent rail service. The houses do appear to make extremely efficient use of land in the Japanese fashion, however
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#1 for young people!
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San Diego has had the electric Car2Go service for several years: http://cleantechnica.com/2015/02/04/car2go-san-diego-upgrade...
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by akgerber 11y ago
I'm in that boat— I've been watching RidEye since early in the Kickstarter, but don't really count on hardware Kickstarters until V1 is shipped and reviewed, especially after hearing about the infamous espresso machine Kickst
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Which is great, because San Diego is too hot & sunny.
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by akgerber 11y ago
Self-driving vehicles enable smaller higher-frequency buses in less-dense areas. And auto-taxis for the .50cent/mile cost of a personal car cut the Gordian knot of parking politics that often prevents new dense development in urban nei
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by akgerber 11y ago
Pittsburgh's actually been doing very well over the last 10 years— the recession barely happened there. And, of course, the stakes are much lower when you can buy a nice house in the city or a nice school district for $150,000. Detroit
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by akgerber 11y ago
Ikea makes a nice birch tabletop of a similar size and aesthetic: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50106773/
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by akgerber 11y ago
Depends on what you mean by 'chips'— Qualcomm sells both discrete modems, which many cell manufacturers use, and systems-on-a-chip including modems, which they had recently been doing very well with, but just had a bad round of.
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by akgerber 11y ago
Reducing the complexity of a large number of intersections (AKA closing & narrowing Broadway) can move traffic through them more quickly: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/broadway.shtml &
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by akgerber 11y ago
It's actually not particularly difficult to charge drivers directly for their usage of roads in the Manhattan CBDs: http://iheartmoveny.org/ It just would require a heavy political and bureaucratic lift.
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by akgerber 11y ago
The building featured here seems like a false example of blight, since it's in an area that's seeing major redevelopment. The same is true of the mall alongside it, which has been reckoned as a 'dead mall' in other artic
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by akgerber 11y ago
I don't think the people requesting her information are landlords so much as leaseholders whose home she would be subletting, and they are concerned about subletting to someone who would destroy all of their property. Standard New York
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As reflected in this classic Onion article of January 2001, "Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'" http://www.theonion.com/article/bush-our-long-national-night.
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by akgerber 11y ago
Probably not much— streetcars disappeared in Northern cities at the same time as in the South. A huge problem for many private transit systems was that they signed contracts specifying a nickel fare in the pre-inflation era, so once inflati
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by akgerber 11y ago
No— the coasts have substantially higher property values. A cartogram scaled by population is far less dramatically distorted: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0110/graphics/cartogram_3-l... The big citi
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by akgerber 11y ago
That figure isn't particularly illustrative either, conisdering that, in much of the US, living a normal life requires driving significant distances on a daily basis. In most other countries, driving is an optional convenience. The dea
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by akgerber 11y ago
'Most of the US' is rural, if you weight by area. But most people live in suburban areas, which are dense enough to support public transit if they weren't designed in such a pedestrian-hostile fashion.
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Why does SF have that problem? To a significant degree, because more people can live in buildings like this: http://cache-graphicslib.viator.com/graphicslib/media/c8/ver... than buildings like this: http:&#x
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by akgerber 11y ago
The 1880s also saw Chicago's population grow by 118% and New York's by 23%. Compare that to today, when we treat urban population booms of 5% a decade as 'breakneck growth' (e.g. San Francisco, from 777k to 815k from 200
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by akgerber 11y ago
I would guess that that the NREC engineers were paid locally-competitive engineering salaries in Pittsburgh, which would enable them to live a very decent lifestyle. Doubling their salaries probably was a change from $80k a year to $160k or
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by akgerber 11y ago
My parents bought a 2-family in Milwaukee in 1980 for around $30,000. They sold it in 1988 for around $30,000. It's still worth around $30,000, if it's still standing and maintained. And Milwaukee is not, by a long shot, Detroit—
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by akgerber 11y ago
In the New York City commercial waste industry, one often sees men hanging off the back of trucks flying through Manhattan at flagrantly illegal speeds.
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by akgerber 11y ago
That's completely untrue. I live in a rent-stabilized apartment I rented at (moderately) below-market rates three years ago. Had the landlord not done what they claim are $40,000 worth of renovations, they would have had to rent it to
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by akgerber 11y ago
Novosibirsk in January has an average low temperature of -21C/-6F: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Novosibirsk Winnipeg is about the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg#Climate In fact, &
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by akgerber 11y ago
There are plenty of parts of the United States with similar housing costs.

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