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by erispoe 10y ago
Jarrett Walker, the writer of that blog post, makes actually the same point in another post. In public transit there is a trade-off between maximizing ridership by focusing on great service on a limited number of lines, or maximizing social
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It's not a question of private vs public. It's a question of space efficiency. A single rail line can transport 20 times more than a freeway lane (i.e. without street lights) Rail transit is vastly more space efficient than indiv
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San Francisco is 3 times less dense as Paris. It's still a dense city by North-American standards, but it's not dense by comparaison to most big metropolitan areas in the world.
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Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density(humantransit.org)
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You would need a lot less rail cars than that. Rails cars move the weights between the low and the high point, but they are re-used multiple times in a cycle, going back and forth constantly. It wouldn't be very efficient to have a mob
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It is true but as pointed the benefits are mainly on highways.
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We can tolerate errors in banking that we cannot in voting. Banking can be good enough, voting must be trusted to the most absolute degree.
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Why do you even put money in the equation? Raising kids is not about paying for stuff. Nor is paying for stuff what defines your relationship with them. Whether you're paying for stuff or not has little to do with how you're tryin
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Your problem is not one that will be solved by tech.
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I made some bad choices. But thew ability to make choices is also how I learned to become an adult.
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It is normal to worry, and I've done this as a kid too. But I've learned a lot about responsibility and communication through this, more than if my parents just had a bug placed on me 24/7. I've learned that you earn tru
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Do your teens (you're hardly a 'young child' at 16) share your enthusiasm for sharing location at all time with their parents? I know I was not at that age. Learning to be autonomous is part of growing up. Setting up a one-cl
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Crying wolf contributes to ease the path to authoritarianism. If people think they already live in a police state, it becomes way easier to actually implement one. Be specific about abuses you think are inacceptable.
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I never could get beyond the first dozens of pages, I was very annoyed by the way Robinson paints broad group of people as having homogeneous traits (the "arabs" living in a martian kasbah and depicted as backward people). Does it
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> potential partners definitely evaluate each other based on criteria like fitness, appearance, and intelligence, which have genetic components To have sex, yes, but I'm not sure it translates in any meaningful in the number of surv
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Ask HN: What's the fastest way to prototype a SaaS app?
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How do you get rid of collective decision?
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Turns out when people have to actually govern the thing they're pragmatists. That's what happened to Syriza. They're not "untrustworthy", they're just doing the best with the hand they inherited considering wha
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China is bound by international treaties the same way.
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Yes we should totally incentivize publication of negative results / failed experiments. If anything, we need more publication of negative results, that are likely to not be cited ever for the most part. It's a big problem that man
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It depends what the US allows them to do, the same way you cannot legally "cut corners" with FDA regulations. Obviously you cannot sterilize astronauts. But they could be restrained to landings outside of the special regions, whic
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Private parties still have to comply with planetary protection treaties. In fact any colonization plan, or even commercial flight, to Mars (or anywhere else in the solar system) from SpaceX needs to be approved by the US. It's not a fr
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Hyperloop One looking for funding as costs rise over expectations(forbes.com)
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Hyperloop Expected to Cost Far More Than Originally Stated(cahsrblog.com)
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We don't know if life exists or has existed on other bodies of our solar system, therefore we take great precautions to avoid contamination. Probes are sterilized, and some regions of Mars (Mars Special Regions) are barred from landing
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The idea that you should have a right to dictate what your neighbors can and cannot not do in their own homes is not uncontroversial, and a slippery slope.
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Sewers don't have induced demand.
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Gridlock is a feature, not a bug. We know there is a strong induced demand with individual transportation. Building more capacity will attract more car drivers. The same effect is true for mass transit, once the network is strong enough. Bu
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Autonomous cars are still nor nearly space efficient enough for dense urban environments. Autonomous cars will be great for suburbs and highways. Cities will still need mass transit.
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Self-driving cars will make cars more efficient, but not nearly as space-efficient as we need in dense urban environment. Even if you multiply the efficiency of cars by 2 (ambitious considering you still need to share the road with pedestri

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