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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Why does anyone have an account at Bank of America or Wells Fargo? There is a community bank in every town in the country.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
I guess we're just taking for granted that Google does something incredible on a weekly basis, to such a degree that we don't even notice any more. Here's some things that are basically magic that Google has quietly (or loud
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
That seems like a weird example. I just searched for the last film I watched - “Hud” - and Google gives me four options to rent the film, one of which is Google and three of which are not. It is hard to see how Google is harming consumer a
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Global instant communication is why we will all die. One person who knows what he’s talking about will be drowned out by fifty naysayers shouting fake news.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Thanks, that is a great contribution to the discussion. I hope in the coming years these charging schemes will be so common that cataloging them becomes impossible!
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
In theory there is a $350 fine for needless honking in New York. In practice this is never enforced, and five years ago the city took down all the "no honking" signs. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29&#x
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
These statements have no relationship to reality. In real New York, the only 3% of households in the lowest income quintile own a car. "The poor" are overwhelmingly reliant on walking, biking, buses, subways, and trains. Car ow
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
This framing of the issue is typical for the mainstream press, however readers should note that this scheme changes nothing about the cost of driving. It only changes who pays, and how. Today everybody pays the costs associated with drivi
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
I can’t imagine where you came up with that. In 1980, 80% of Manhattan households did NOT own a car. There has never been a time where the statement “everybody owned a car” was remotely true in Manhattan.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
He didn’t say they could. But tracks built today can be used forever, because wheel-on-rail technology has a hard limit at Mach 0.5 and we’ll never have faster trains than we have today.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
The Woodlands has 1.5 dwellings per acre. Urbanity begins at 20 dwellings per acre, and even that isn’t particularly dense and may not enable walking as the primary mode.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
What you’re leaving out is CO2. California is committed to reducing CO2, but emissions from transportation are the largest component of state emissions, and they are growing. Air travel cannot be done except by burning hydrocarbon fuels. Tr
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Some trains will run sf-sj-la without further stops. Those will be far faster than air if you are traveling between city centers.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
BART is currently running at what could be considered its maximum theoretical capacity given conditions. What I mean is that the built environment provides only unidirectional flow of passengers: toward SF in the morning, way from SF in the
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
California spends that much on our roads every four years. It is hardly unimaginable.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
In order to meet the voter-mandated requirements of the proposition which started the project, some trains must run non-stop from San Jose to Los Angeles at 220 MPH. Many trains will go right through Fresno at very high speeds. That is why
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Ridership “per mile” is also a dumb way to measure transit systems. BART has a general geographically-mandatory ten track-miles of tube right in the middle of the system that bloats up the denominator.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
You can just leave these plugged in all the time if you never want to think about the battery again. Unfortunately plugging them in doesn’t make the MX Ergo be a USB mouse. It only charges the battery.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
The ATC task sounds like it would have been a lot easier with a light pen, or a touch screen if those had existed at that time.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
I love these comments because they highlight the ambivalence of the HN commentariat. If google actually had copies of deleted user data, the privacy-minded would lose their heads. And they’d be right because there are all kinds of laws arou
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Kent Walker isn't your typical corporate lawyer. Kent Walker really does look forward to crushing his opponent in court. After Kent crushes this fool, he will probably host a company-wide Q&A where he will gloat over the bodies o
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16073219
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
You’re reading the cultural difference right now. The story is about a dead kid but we are invited mainly to sympathize with the perpetrator. We are also expected to take on faith the “he darted out of nowhere” narrative that is very common
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Why does this thing take 12 minutes to boot? I think this software must be built incorrectly. I have an AMD Geode system, which admittedly is more of a pentium-class processor running at 233 MHz, but it boots in about 5 seconds. When the
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
In our society where we generally use pricing to distribute limited goods, your desire to drive to and park at a train station, at no or low cost, is irrelevant next to the market price of that land when that price is about 6-10 million dol
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
It's an 8-acre site. At that height I'm sure they could figure out how to get 100 dwellings per acre, and that works out to something near 2000 occupants. A parking space at a BART station produces fewer than two rides per day,
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
This bill is saying that cities can’t take state money to build transit and then sabotage it with sparse housing and cars. Cars in the vicinity of transit unquestionably reduce the utility of transit projects. This is also a big middle fing
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
The state and cities do not share the same relationship that the states and the nation enjoy. The federal system is a creation of the states, and has enumerated powers. The states also create cities. So all the power lies with the state.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
An interesting feature of this bill, and SB35 before, is that it makes operations of local bus agencies far more relevant. As written, I could build a 55-foot-tall building without parking on my land in Oakland. But if AC Transit moves the
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Chromebooks, obv. Integrated marketing strategy!

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