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by akgerber 7y ago
Or — "after I spend all my money, I don't have any money left!"
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by akgerber 7y ago
Rushing to execute a contract in order to meet economic goals is unfortunately also a failure of nominally-socialist systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_505... As are arbitrary cost-cuttin
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by akgerber 7y ago
Per what data? Human-driven cars cause 1.25 deaths per 100 million VMT in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U... Even Waymo is nowhere near 100M miles driven: https://www.for
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by akgerber 7y ago
Putting unproven self-driving software into public use won't lead to a reduction in deaths. If Tesla were serious about preventing traffic deaths rather than pushing whizbang tech out before it's ready, it could push a software up
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by akgerber 8y ago
"Frequency is freedom" is a slogan that bus consultant Jarrett Walker likes: https://humantransit.org/2011/12/how-frequent-is-freedom.htm...
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by akgerber 8y ago
The plurality of Asians live in China which has built dozens of metros with thousands of miles of track in recent years: http://www.thatsmags.com/shenzhen/post/19044/china-s-breakne...
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by akgerber 8y ago
Tokyo, unlike NYC, seems to have noise regulations for construction, apparently enforced by a decibel meter mounted to the construction site: https://i.imgur.com/aOOBrIS.jpg https://www.env.go.jp/en/law
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by akgerber 8y ago
I'm not rich! I don't have any money left after I spend all of it!
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by akgerber 8y ago
Shippers will have to pay a congestion charge but will also experience less congestion, which means they might well be able to charge less money.
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by akgerber 8y ago
The majority of New Yorkers don't own cars, yet the vast majority of NYC road space (and maintenance expense) is dedicated to the small number of people who drive in Manhattan, making the city more dangerous, noisier, and more polluted
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by akgerber 8y ago
You can buy a brand new house with insulation and heating for under $200k in parts of the US with low land value. Even in California, you can buy a brand new house for $250k, mortgaged for under $1000/month— they're just in the pa
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by akgerber 8y ago
Where can I buy an affordable new 700-1200 square foot fee-simple townhouse on a small urban lot with no parking because I don't have a car? They're illegal to build in almost all American cities, but a huge component of Japan&#x2
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by akgerber 8y ago
Zoning laws (minimum lot sizes, minimum setbacks, minimum parking requirements that are uneconomical to meet on a small lot, bans on 2- or 3-family houses, etc) have intentionally outlawed many smaller, more-affordable styles of houses sinc
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by akgerber 8y ago
Do you think Silicon Valley and Westchester County tract homes are appreciating due to their superior construction quality? (There are many far nicer houses in the Midwest facing abandonment.)
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by akgerber 8y ago
Housing was a significantly smaller proportion of family budgets in the US during 1900 and 1950 — two years in which the US had seen over 10% population growth in the preceding decade: https://www.theatlantic.com/business&#x
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by akgerber 8y ago
Really? I found it pretty straightforward, personally. It helped that you'd be able to retake the interview if you failed, which isn't usually true for phone screens. It also helped that it was a large sample of questions about ho
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by akgerber 8y ago
I'm vegetarian and have been since I was 12. There isn't all that much repetition in my diet. I don't eat that much 'American' food, though, because 'American' vegetarian options can be pretty limited. I j
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by akgerber 8y ago
A mechanism to build apartment buildings cooperatively with friends, with ownership still subdivided among the tenants, in the style of the German baugruppe, is much more sustainable than multiple families sharing a single house: https:&#x
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by akgerber 8y ago
At least in the US, the millions of empty homes are mostly in places people don't want to live, for a variety of reasons (mostly related to limited opportunities). If you wish, you can buy a lovely, well-located mansion for $800,000 in
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by akgerber 8y ago
I just ran into this nice article with some companion maps linked from the Wikipedia page: https://medium.com/@jay.penner/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley...
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by akgerber 8y ago
I've never tried Footpath, but so far I've found the best app for setting up bike apps on mobile is the German app Komoot.
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by akgerber 8y ago
This recipe is very easy, requiring little special technique, and can be made in a big pot: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread
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by akgerber 8y ago
No one has a right to credit, but we have strong regulations around credit scores because they determine so much about our lives.
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by akgerber 9y ago
It's easy to ignore when you turn off notifications for your work emails on your phone.
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by akgerber 9y ago
I've work in the startup world in NYC for years and no one has ever complained that I don't check my emails outside of work hours — I do have Slack installed on my phone, and occasionally answer things outside of work hours, but n
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by akgerber 9y ago
There are a lot of factors — that math only works out if you're not planning on moving much and owning is cheaper than renting, which it often isn't. Plus we're at a pretty high point in the real estate cycle right now. This
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by akgerber 9y ago
We should have a program to report dangerous driving by AVs, as there is a system to report dangerous driving by NYC cabs: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/sub_consumer_comp... http:/&#x2
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by akgerber 9y ago
Before we cared about how many children were killed by cars, kids piling onto bench seats was standard. Car seats are only required because car crashes are common. If the safety promise of self-driving is delivered, car seats will become un
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by akgerber 9y ago
If Waymo's safety record holds, we can hope for a world with sufficiently-few crashes that car seats become unnecessary.
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by akgerber 9y ago
Conductors average $62k/year: https://bizfluent.com/info-12099370-salary-new-york-city-tra... It's a decent middle class job.

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