chrismealy

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by chrismealy 9y ago
Shared space doesn't really work except for places with very little traffic, and there only if the streets are small enough to make driving difficult and unpleasant. The Dutch model of providing safe, separated spaces for cycling and w
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by chrismealy 9y ago
King County Metro (Seattle area) is very highly rated.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I thought Fagles was good too but that is just electric.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
If nice places for people are too expensive, make more nice places for people. But instead we make more nice places for cars.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
The real problem is when half your friends are priced out of the city and have to move away.
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Rent is the answer(thelongandshort.org)
2 points by chrismealy 9y ago|1 comments
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by chrismealy 9y ago
What else are rich people going to do with their money? Buy bonds at 1%?
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I know a guy who ruptured his spleen from hitting the water at a water park (he was very overweight at the time). It happens.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Unless the oceans had a low rate of return, then you would kill all the fish as quickly as possible and invest the proceeds in higher-returning assets.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
The space station is just in low earth orbit. Radiation is a lot worse in real space.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
People don't want to accept the truth about humans in space.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Same for me, but it was sugar instead of gluten.
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Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?(nymag.com)
177 points by chrismealy 9y ago|83 comments
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Cryptos Fear Credit(perrymehrling.com)
1 points by chrismealy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chrismealy 9y ago
What kind of therapy?
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I saw the headline on HN and knew right away someone had rewritten it. Too obvious guys.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
A fun game to play with any Tyler Cowen article is to ask, "How is he playing dumb this time?" You'll always win.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Sure, valuations are high, but what else are rich people going to do with their money? Buy bonds? All that money has to go somewhere.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I strongly considered moving to the Netherlands because it's so much better for kids than America, but I decided it was better to be near family, and I worried that my stress in moving would be bad for the kids. I am not sure I made th
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by chrismealy 9y ago
None of this early academic education is necessary. In Finland, which consistently has top scores in reading and math, kids don't start school until they're seven, and at that point they're only expected to be able to turn te
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by chrismealy 9y ago
A Harvard MBA once told me that going from zero to ten is a 1000% increase. I was not impressed. Also, George W Bush.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
You don't have to worry about because it'll never work.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
It sounds impossible but it actually happened - just acknowledging the stress I was under made the pain go away (it's not like you have to solve anything). I think it only took about four days. The crazy thing is it was actually visibl
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I read about three chapters of this and it cured my wrist pain. Never would have believed it possible if it hadn't happened to me.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
It's true. When nice places for people get too crowded and expensive the obvious solution is to make more nice places for people. Sadly America only makes more nice places for cars.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
You have to drive everywhere because everything is so far apart to make room for all the roads and parking and setbacks to avoid the problems created by all the cars.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
The future belongs to bikes. With safe and smooth infrastructure it's the most efficient and healthiest way to get around. It's not a coincidence that Dutch kids are the happiest in the world.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Somebody didn't read the article.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Pollan's point is that there's more to nutrition than carbs and protein. It was already established that the green revolution (which ultimately was about turning fossil fuels into food) resulted in food with more carbs and less ev
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by chrismealy 9y ago
If your only income is qualified dividends you can make about $90,000/year and pay zero taxes.

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