andrewliebchen

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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
I use to live in Cambridge, which seemed to ban right-on-red citywide (more or less). This made the roads much safer for cyclists, pedestrians, and automobiles. I think you're right about some cyclists in the US taking it WAAY to serio
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
Yeah, but you don't shy away from setting up straw men you can knock down in service of your "I don't think its feasible to bike to work, so we shouldn't bother making it easier for anyone else" argument.
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
You could go 120 mph in a helicopter, why don't you take a helicopter to work?
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
I bet your have a gym within walking distance to your office. If you go to the gym when you get home, just shift your gym time to before work. You ride to your gym, take your shower, walk to work. Bam problem solved.
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
We tear up and rebuild roads all the time. As we do, it's not that big of a deal to give more consideration to other modes of transit.
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
Commuting from out of town to Kendall Square is a great example of multi-modal, depending on where you live in the suburbs or surround towns. Since it's on the Red Line, if you're coming from Lexington/Concord, you could easi
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
Banning cars in the city sounds like a great idea. At least, they should have to pay to be there, given the amount of space they take up.
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
Nobody ever makes this same argument about cars that disobey the laws. "Changing the speed limit in this neighborhood will not stop car drivers who disobey the laws from hitting our children!" I think you could imagine that when c
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
You all have heard of sneckdowns, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneckdown Road geometry goes a long way to influence driver speed and perception.
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
Doesn't mean he didn't use something similar. David Hockney made this point in 2001 (if I recall). Besides, Brunelleschi used a mirror to demonstrate the effectiveness of his perspective drawings in the 1400s: http://ze
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
I don't, but I am a designer, with a graduate degree from RISD, if that qualifies for something. I don't think you understand sarcasm. The point is that it has been long assumed that Vermeer used at least a camera lucida to constr
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
OMG! Vermeer used a camera lucida! I'm surprised! ...Said no art historian ever.
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
This looks like another Socrata-based offering. Socrata allows cities to dump their datasets online for consumption. Certainly this makes the data more available than ever before, but it doesn't do much to help the ordinary citizen par
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
Yeah, I think that's on the road map. We're growing fast and looking for developers, designers, and data scientists. If you're interested, hit me up: aliebchen at opengov dot com. YOU could help build our public API. http:&#
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The City of Palo Alto(paloalto.opengov.com)
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
I'm designer for OpenGov, we're an a16z-backed startup that's doing precisely this: the usability and simplicity of consumer apps to the world of government finance. So far, we have a financial transparency product available
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
This is a Socrata site as well.
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
Los Angeles's OpenGov site is much more attractive, and at least when it comes to city finances, more immediately useful. http://losangeles.opengov.com . Disclaimer: I'm a designer at OpenGov :)
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by andrewliebchen 12y ago
Cambridge, Watertown, and other cities and towns outside of Boston as well.
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
Yeah, I expected a 4 x 4 x 4 cube.
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
It's realtive for buildings. Air-tightness is measured in air changes/hour, which measures how many time per hour the internal air of a structure is completely replaced my external air. Normal construction has 3 ac/h, if it r
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
http://time.com/10672/making-the-world-trade-center-panorama...
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
I thought it was a result of nested <font> tags with font-size defined by em units. Since the each <font> tag is 1.75 times larger that it's parent.
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
You're right. Though we can tell you didn't compose your comment in Hemingway. It characterizes one of your sentences as "hard to read," and another as "very hard to read."
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
Is it becoming tradition now to do something like this every time a new Mac Pro is released? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_X_(computing)
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
50:50 is the ideal ratio if you think that there is no biological reason that men would be better at anything than women (as I do). The key point is interest . Why would women be less interested in CS?
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
Great definition of privilege in this context, thank you.
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
You said: > Women are so entitled nowadays. I don't know if you're just incredibly tone deaf, callous to what your words mean, or are trying to be funny. If you think that women have equal ability to men (by your comment, maybe
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
Having the full interview behind a $400 paywall doesn't help anyone evaluate his words "in context."
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by andrewliebchen 13y ago
For a forum that spends a lot of time talking about disruption with members who I'm sure pride themselves on their rationality, there is a surprising amount of "damn the torpedoes" defense of the status quo here.

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