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by akgerber 12y ago
Perhaps off-topic, but recently it's appeared that NYT pages have had some sort of JS memory leak when left open for a long time in Chrome.
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by akgerber 12y ago
"But before long more than a hundred decorated omnibuses were crowding the streets of the city, with names painted on the sides, from George Washington to Lady Washington to Benjamin Franklin. They were popular. And they caused complet
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by akgerber 12y ago
Motorola did have their Maxx models that were thicker with more battery, but it seems like they gave up on that when they were acquired by Google.
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by akgerber 12y ago
Secure the IOU with the valuable thing you brought.
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by akgerber 12y ago
The MetroCard system is pretty old, and the MTA is probably doing the minimum possible maintenance since it was planning on phasing out the system 2 years ago: http://secondavenuesagas.com/2013/02/24/a-rudderl
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by akgerber 12y ago
Phone-oriented SoCs have aggressive frequency scaling and power gating, such that the newer chipsets have lower power consumption in ordinary usage and only scale up to similar power usage in high-utilization applications.
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by akgerber 12y ago
There are proposals to bring back postal banking, including small loans: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2014...
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by akgerber 12y ago
That, too, was as much a political problem solved politically; here is Harper's illustrating the effect of NYC getting a well-run Sanitation Department: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/wp-content/uplo
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by akgerber 12y ago
There's an abandoned blast furnace (Carrie Furnace) outside Pittsburgh that offers occasional tours, and also doesn't have any meaningful security.
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by akgerber 12y ago
I grew up in Milwaukee, and my mother worked at the local technical college, so I heard about tool-and-die making and machining and so on growing up. But the last 30 years or so haven't been kind to skilled manufacturing workers in the
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by akgerber 12y ago
Also available for bicycles! http://www.rei.com/product/792644/nokian-hakkapeliitta-w240-...
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by akgerber 12y ago
Another big difference between today & 1999 is that today there are a lot more un- and underemployed people, which makes business based on being a 'network' employing 'contractors' is a lot more practical, since the
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by akgerber 12y ago
Pretty much every libertarian I know of believes the state should enforce property law. In anarcho-capitalism, people apparently have property rights to land that "he occupies and puts to use by means of his body, provided only that no
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by akgerber 12y ago
Cooll and Belke are both perfectly fine joint names, if they don't want to hyphenate.
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by akgerber 12y ago
TIPS already exist, and you can buy them online easily: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan... It doesn't magically fix human nature, which prioritizes immediate needs over very dista
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by akgerber 12y ago
Why is it that libertarians never consider it government wealth redistribution when one has government employees with guns come around and point them at people on a piece of earth that a piece of paper at a government office says one have a
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by akgerber 12y ago
Anyone who wishes is able to drive a vehicle of up to 6,000 lb. onto the Brooklyn Bridge, right next to its cables and towers. What greater damage can be done on top of the bridge, carrying a backpack, than with a multi-ton vehicle on its d
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by akgerber 12y ago
Rent control doesn't reduce the quantity of housing when redevelopment, especially denser redevelopment, is essentially illegal due to zoning laws and a lack of by-right development. It might reduce the aggregate quality, but that&#x27
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by akgerber 12y ago
The homeowners have votes and corporations don't. And the homeowners are either rich enough to have bought a Silicon Valley home recently, or have owned a home so long that they pay disproportionately low property taxes due to Prop. 13
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by akgerber 12y ago
Times Square is right in the middle of Midtown Manhattan, the biggest and best-paid central business district in the US including a lot of financial industry headquarters, so depending on how they define 'Times Square' (especially
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by akgerber 12y ago
My reading of those figures is that the US never recovered its steel production after the steel collapse of 1982: http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2012/12/23...
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by akgerber 12y ago
Buses in the US are cheap, but our government monopoly rail service is even more expensive and even slower— NYC to DC is shorter than Paris to Lyon, but costs for a ticket a week out are higher for the low-speed Northeast Regional than the
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by akgerber 12y ago
Bikesharing is designed to encourage short trips within its service zone— even if you want a longer trip, you can just dock/undock a bike to avoid a fee (aka docksurfing). The escalating hourly fee is designed to keep the bikes in circ
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by akgerber 12y ago
There is very little in this article about the interests of anyone not driving— crash severity is due to speed deltas, and pedestrians and cyclists are almost always moving much slower than automobiles. And a self-interested driver won&#x27
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by akgerber 12y ago
Sounds like you're in the Milwaukee area? I'm from there, but likely won't move back due to the lack of job opportunities. For others curious about Wisconsin, Madison isn't much more expensive and has significantly bette
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by akgerber 12y ago
'200 years old' is ancient in the US. I live in a 100 year old brick tenement in Brooklyn, though, and hear very little of our neighbors myself— occasional creaking floorboards, and some sounds from the staircase near the front do
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by akgerber 12y ago
That looks like a pleasant enough development, but the commute to any employment center with jobs allowing you to service a half-million dollar mortgage seems rather unpleasant. And, of course, all that driving offsets a lot of other enviro
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by akgerber 12y ago
It's also pretty well solved in old construction. There are just a lot of post-war apartments built as cheap housing with crappy thin walls— those are where you hear your neighbors through the walls.
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by akgerber 12y ago
That's maybe true in California, but not in the Midwest, or even in a lot of the older railroad suburbs on the East Coast.
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by akgerber 12y ago
Traditional, walkable development on a grid with narrower streets, smaller lots, and less emphasis in the zoning code on unlimited free parking and huge setbacks on the lots. This: https://www.google.com/maps/place&#x2F

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