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by akgerber 9y ago
I wonder how much of this is related to hardware generally being developed and tested in isolated suburban office parks as opposed to big cities.
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by akgerber 9y ago
People generally don't buy Exxon's products because they're hydrocarbon aficionados— they buy them because they need to get to work and their kids need to get to school. And they need cars and gasoline to do those things beca
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by akgerber 9y ago
"mid-size, independent haulers" in NYC are truly awful drivers. They regularly violate every single rule of the road— I recently saw one signal a right turn, then proceed to turn left and pull a 360 in the intersection while almos
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by akgerber 9y ago
Interesting. Thank you.
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by akgerber 9y ago
One can always open run this in bash running in a Docker image like so: docker run -it ubuntu /bin/bash
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by akgerber 9y ago
Neither Troy Hill nor Duquesne Heights nor the South Side Slopes nor the entire city of Morgantown are terribly crime-ridden, by either personal experience or any statistics that I know of. Troy Hill is the 'worst' area but mostly
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by akgerber 9y ago
This is often true on the coasts, but not particularly true in Appalachia or Appalachia-adjacent urban areas. A basic house is $65k in Morgantown: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Morgantown-WV/22898744..
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by akgerber 9y ago
Maybe because you're not a rich minority? Plenty of them have filed complaints: http://people.com/celebrity/al-roker-files-complaint-after-n... http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/04/nyre
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by akgerber 9y ago
All the 401ks I've had in my career (mostly at 'startups'), even relatively poor ones, have offered at least one Vanguard index fund and/or target date fund-of-funds.
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by akgerber 9y ago
Does legalizing apartment buildings 'restrict' your ability to raise your kids in a home with a yard? Because it's illegal to build apartment buildings on the vast majority of land in nearly every American city— that's t
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by akgerber 9y ago
Is requiring every adult to spend thousands of dollars a year to fully engage in society and strictly limiting how property owners use their land to maximize ease of driving your definition of 'individual liberty'?
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by akgerber 9y ago
Except that the land use of Silicon Valley makes cycling dangerous and distances often too large to be practical for many.
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by akgerber 9y ago
Except Chicago in the runup to the Civil War had population growth of 274% in a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Well over 10x what Silicon Valley has experienced during another world-historical boom: htt
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by akgerber 9y ago
Because the postwar suburban land use of the surrounding area is designed exclusively around automobiles and makes it nearly impossible and extremely unpleasant to walk for transportation, a prerequisite of functional mass transit. Silicon
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by akgerber 9y ago
You can call it 'wealth redistribution' or you can call it 'an acknowledgement that things like the state enforcement of the artifice of private property in urban areas results in humans being unable to build themselves homes
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by akgerber 9y ago
Depends on the context and quality of drainage. An urban trail should probably be paved. Gravel or crushed limestone works great in more rural contexts. Plus road bikes these days have tires of a more sensible width than the long-popular 70
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by akgerber 9y ago
We have pretty successfully engineered almost all physical activity out of the normal daily life of a middle-aged suburban American, who move from bed to car seat to desk chair to car seat to couch to bed with as little walking as possible
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by akgerber 9y ago
Meat is chemicals too. Just more complex ones, usually.
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by akgerber 9y ago
They still sell big ol' buckets of Legos: http://www.target.com/s/lego+creative+bucket+10662
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by akgerber 9y ago
My aunt's town in rural Western Massachusetts still only has broadband in the library plus scanty LTE service and current terrible satellite— how and whether to wire the town with broadband is driving the first contested election in de
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by akgerber 9y ago
I cycle to work in New York, colder than much of Central and Northern Europe, year-round. The main issue is that the city doesn't do a great job of clearing its many new bike lanes of snow.
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by akgerber 9y ago
Any bike with wide tires is a good idea for urban riding, which fortunately includes many road bikes (or so-called 'gravel bikes') these days.
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by akgerber 9y ago
Every nice day, I love walking up to Washington Square and grabbing a dosa or uttapam from the dosa man.
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by akgerber 9y ago
I call them 'cyber-jitneys' or 'e-jitneys'. It's a term with a long history in our urban areas, referring to car hire that often operates outside taxi laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitney
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by akgerber 9y ago
Ouch! Unfortunately it looks like you cycle in the type of suburban hellscape where you need to practice Vehicular Cycling. It works, especially with aggressive eyeball-searing lights and clothing and a mirror, but it's stressful. That
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by akgerber 9y ago
Sidewalks are usually dangerous because they usually a lot of intersections with driveways and cross streets, and drivers aren't looking for fast-moving vehicles there. If it's a sidewalk along, say, fenced-in land with no drivewa
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by akgerber 9y ago
Wool definitely can smell. It just takes a while.
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by akgerber 10y ago
The fines happen. The evidence is photographs and my testimony if the driver doesn't plead guilty. One Twitter user documents his use of the process quite thoroughly: https://twitter.com/D00RZ0NE
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by akgerber 10y ago
Note that Uber was not the only taxi reform in NYC. A quote from the paper: "For my analysis, I use data from collisions that occurred from January 2007 through July 2013. This period includes Uber’s entrance into the New York market i
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by akgerber 10y ago
I live in a tenement house with no doorman in a neighborhood where package theft can be an issue, and usually get my packages at work. But it's easier to get packages near home now that UPS (at least here in NYC) just rolled out the &#

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