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by dublinben 2y ago
This is nothing but blogspam of the embedded Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM . This article adds nothing that is not already included in the video itself.
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by dublinben 2y ago
Here is total employment for "Computer Systems Design and Related Services" going back all the way to 1987. This is the best category I can find that includes data over a decade+ time frame. https://fred.stlouisfed.org&
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by dublinben 2y ago
>Transit should be free, like sidewalks and parks. And most similarly, roads. The theoretical 'farebox recovery ratio' of most roads is 0, but this is never part of the conversation. Maybe if it were, transit would look much be
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by dublinben 2y ago
Another way of saying this is that because physical space in the city is a scarce resource, the allocation of infrastructure for cars and infrastructure for people is a zero sum game.
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by dublinben 2y ago
Buy Now Pay Later is growing very quickly and taking market share from credit cards, especially for younger consumers. The introduction of FedNow is going to make it even more convenient to use these apps to make purchases and avoid the cre
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by dublinben 2y ago
If it was "Places That Don't Exist" with Simon Reeve, it's available here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0I404gXbNg
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by dublinben 2y ago
Why would using Apple's Hide My Email functionality make non-Apple platforms unusable for logins? If you're storing these credentials in a cross-platform password manager like Bitwarden, you should be able to enter your (fake) ema
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by dublinben 2y ago
Digital products are also worse than physical ones, because the content cartels have used DRM to trample on your first-sale rights like resale and lending. It's no coincidence that digital books are often more expensive than paper book
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by dublinben 2y ago
cURL is ubiquitous. It's unclear whether there is even a proprietary alternative still being sold commercially.
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by dublinben 2y ago
There's a lot of talk about painting pavement white, but no mention of ripping it out and replacing cars with other forms of transportation. Internal combustion engine vehicles themselves turn 100% of the energy from gasoline into heat
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by dublinben 2y ago
High interest rates also push up demand by keeping more people stuck as renters who would rather buy a home.
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by dublinben 2y ago
So they’ve finally reached parity with human drivers then.
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by dublinben 2y ago
For anyone on iOS, there is a cycle tracker built into the Apple Health app, so no third party app needed. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210407
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by dublinben 2y ago
>good luck introducing anyone in the 25+ category to new albums that actually experiment into novel sounds and become the music of the current 20yo generation Both here and in the article there's a conflation of "new music&quot
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by dublinben 2y ago
No kidding. This admission feels like a professional food critic whining that McDonalds isn’t available on DoorDash. This music isn’t my cup of tea, but this guy sounds like a real poser.
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by dublinben 3y ago
They've already been beaten to the punch by BYD and their multiple cars under $20k. They even have a small hatchback for less than $10k! https://electrek.co/2024/03/06/byd-launches-cheaper-seagull-...
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by dublinben 3y ago
So much fun, but so much harder than paper targets. They move!
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by dublinben 3y ago
Cities aren’t loud, cars are loud. Noise pollution is a real problem, but most people aren’t willing to do anything about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
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by dublinben 3y ago
This wasn't a problem when students rode school busses instead of being individually chauffeured. Alternatively, Paris solved this problem by closing the nearby streets to cars, so the students can safely walk to school.
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by dublinben 3y ago
Why not both?
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by dublinben 3y ago
Libby / Overdrive for ebooks are a racket. The publishers sell ‘disposable’ licenses that expire after something like only 20 uses or a few years, whichever comes first. Support your local library, but don’t support greedy publishers.
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by dublinben 3y ago
When you hover over the graphs, they get 'brighter'.
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by dublinben 3y ago
Here it is from Justice.gov as well: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline
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by dublinben 3y ago
If this seems familiar, this seems to be largely republishing a Fediverse thread that was originally posted back in November. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38240861
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by dublinben 3y ago
Cities are populated by people, not cars. As point A and point B become closer, people are less likely to drive. If your mailbox is attached to your house, you can lean out your front door to get your mail. If your mailbox is at the end of
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by dublinben 3y ago
You can't assume that the number of cars is a constant though. As point A and point B become farther apart, car usage goes up. When they become closer together, car usage scales down.
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by dublinben 3y ago
Severance is much better than either of those.
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by dublinben 3y ago
Even as a driver, if you think about the second-order effects of getting more (other) people out of their cars, it becomes obvious that it would improve traffic for you. An enlightened self-interested driver would want to increase investmen
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by dublinben 3y ago
This is an artificial hill covered in artificial trees illuminated by artificial lights, sealed in glass so they can maintain an artificially habitable atmosphere. In other countries, you can just read outside on a real hill, under real tre
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by dublinben 3y ago
Despite what is going on with this rent price collusion situation, the problem that high priced cities face is far too few vacant apartments not too many. The vacancy rate in some places is as low as 1-2%, which is much lower than it should

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