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by akgerber 13y ago
Much of the demand increase is domestic: as crime and pollution have decreased in American cities, and the downsides of auto-oriented suburbs have made them unappealing to many, there are a lot more Americans looking to move into urban hous
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by akgerber 13y ago
Where's the irony? Cleveland in 1900 was a hugely wealthy city with a rapidly growing population and innovative industries, near the forefront of technologies like electric railroading, automobiles, and aviation. It's fallen from
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by akgerber 13y ago
It implies that there's a housing shortage, and that housing is purchased by the rich and those willing to live above their means (or willing to skimp in non-housing areas of their budget) bidding up the small quantity of available hou
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by akgerber 13y ago
What are the 'very strict' gun laws in Cleveland and Cincinnati? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Ohio
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by akgerber 13y ago
The fact that drivers are regularly violating the speed limit[0] implies the bicyclist is responsible? [0] https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Elk+Tree+Rd,+Woodside,+CA&hl=...
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by akgerber 13y ago
This supposed "bike accident" happened when a driver violated the bicyclist's right of way by turning into her path. The driver may not have intended to kill anyone, but simply classifying this collision as an "accident&
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by akgerber 13y ago
Bell Labs and PARC both are from a long-gone era where high tax rates meant the government would tax away high dividends or executive pay, which made empire building more appealing: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox&#
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by akgerber 13y ago
He got fired because, as an executive manager, he was in a position to make hiring and firing decisions based on those opinions, which is illegal (and thus a liability to his employer) in addition to being immoral.
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by akgerber 13y ago
The flash memory chips used in phones are essentially the same as those used in SD cards, and phones often use SDIO for internal communication. The SD card is just a point of reference for the cost and availablity of flash memory unbundled
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by akgerber 13y ago
SD cards are available with up to 256GB of storage. They just cost $400 or so[0], so I don't think enough people see the value of paying for that much storage in a phone. [0] http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Professional-256G
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by akgerber 13y ago
I am willing to bet your health insurance did not actually pay $44K, but rather the rate they had previously negotiated with an in-network providers for the services rendered. The high cost of healthcare stems from many systemic factors, al
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by akgerber 13y ago
A person will be free to purchase plans that consist of catastrophic insurance, plus a small amount of preventative care: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-insurance/articl...
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by akgerber 13y ago
The point (or at least one of the points) is that you cannot be permanently trapped without insurance, and thus essentially unable to access the American healthcare system, if you acquire an expensive pre-existing condition, which many peop
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by akgerber 13y ago
Many Americans claim that American cities are difficult to walk or bicycle in because they are all so much newer than European cities. But maps like these demonstrate that a huge proportion of European cities were built in the automobile er
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by akgerber 13y ago
It is inaccurate to say there are far fewer apartments in Manhattan-- many neighborhoods simply became less crowded, as improving mass transit meant that a working-class family sharing a one- or two-room apartment could have a larger space
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by akgerber 13y ago
Cars generally cycle the batteries far more gently, as their weight and size constraints are far less tight. 10-year-old Priuses have NiMH batteries chugging along just fine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius#Ba
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by akgerber 13y ago
Put one of these on wheels: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/3/4180118/google-owned-buffer...
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by akgerber 13y ago
There are plenty of larger cities away from the Northeast and West Coast that have similarly cheap rents. You could live in Minneapolis for about the same amount of money, Milwaukee for similar or less money, Pittsburgh for similar money, a
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by akgerber 13y ago
They are much colder and foggier, and are not particularly convenient locations to commute from, especially to jobs outside of downtown San Francisco. They also aren't "fun" neighborhoods that young people want to move to, so
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by akgerber 13y ago
Local roads, which bicyclists mostly use, are generally paid for by property taxes or other local taxes, at least in the US. Only highways are paid for by federal gas taxes, and since that tax has been declining in real terms since 1993, hi
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by akgerber 13y ago
Pedestrians are not banned from travelling on roads lacking sidewalks.
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by akgerber 13y ago
LA has 4000 hit-and-runs a year, including 100 pedestrians killed (in 2009). The police department doesn't do a very good job of investigating. http://www.laweekly.com/2012-12-06/news/los-angeles-hit-and-...
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by akgerber 13y ago
This is Rotterdam at the end of World War II: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Rot... Modern Rotterdam was built almost entirely after World War II, the same era that many Am
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by akgerber 13y ago
Many smaller Midwestern cities (speaking as someone who grew up in one and went to college in another) were founded and to a significant degree built out in the streetcar era, and have a physical form in the central city that reflects that.
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by akgerber 13y ago
It is illegal. Cops, in almost all cases, don't care.
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by akgerber 13y ago
resu_nimda: Many roads, especially in older cities like Chicago, were not in any way built as 'car roads,' as they were built before the widespread adoption of the car. Many were poorly retrofitted in an attempt to move automobile
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by akgerber 13y ago
Low-frequency bus-based public transit in midsized cities (mostly provided as a last resort for the poor and elderly) might become outmoded, but there's nowhere near enough roadway space for cars, robotic or not, to replace subways, co
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by akgerber 13y ago
Most of the cost of traffic congestion isn't in road wear, it's in lost productivity to those stuck in it.
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by akgerber 13y ago
You can always make the buses free with an NYC ID, and require tourists to buy a pass to use them.
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by akgerber 13y ago
Most people moved to Long Island to commute to Manhattan. The train, in fact, came first, and then people moved there because the rattling train gave them access to Manhattan: http://images.nycsubway.org/i77000/img_7745

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