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by fnimick 3y ago
> Teams that attempted to measure the points in good faith were stessed and most of them showed signs of burn out. They regularly worked 60 hours a week. So in the short term, the company benefited, yeah? They got more work out of the sa
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Oh hey, this is me, when it comes to products. I am almost certainly of the "harbinger of failure" group where if I like your product, it's going to be a disaster. https://arstechnica.com/science/2015&#x2
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So when an employee shunts a task off onto a coworker abusing their agreeableness, you're saying that other coworker deserves it and that the first employee is morally justified because they haven't "put in the energy" t
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Mowing lawns is pretty bad for insect life though, to be fair. And even having lawns should be avoided from an environmental perspective.
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Also, suburbs were planned and most were explicitly designed to continue segregation.
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Monopolization of resources (water) by rich business interests is also an inevitable part of capitalism.
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Or maybe the knowledge that a climate and economic crisis is imminent and the political reality is that it will go unsolved, ruining their lives before they have had a chance to live them?
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I mean, we joke that Oracle is a legal company with an engineering department... but at least they build things.
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Not just huge companies! The entire venture capital model relies on providing a service substantially below cost and burning money to acquire users and eliminate competition so you can raise prices and profit later. In a sane world, Uber un
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And like any system, middlemen will attempt make themselves mandatory in order to preserve their status and profits. Look no further than car dealers lobbying for laws that all sales must go through dealers, for example. Or car companies lo
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This is me. I occasionally ride my bicycles (acoustic and electric) on sidewalks. I do so at walking pace, though. Everywhere you see a cyclist on a sidewalk, that's a sign that the road isn't safe enough. If the road were safe, d
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And by people who live in urban areas who don't get the benefit, since they also pay property taxes that are sufficient to pay for their infrastructure. It's a subsidy for the suburbs.
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The article explicitly highlights modern car centric development as not paying for itself.
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The whole point I'm making is that many suburbs are zoned by law to be exclusively single family. That's a problem. Expanding that zoning doesn't mandate density, but it will allow it where it is currently banned.
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You have explicitly said other people in your suburb should not be able to build dense housing on their property. Why? And if there are many people who want urban areas and not enough housing to accommodate, would you support expanding them
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I had a conversation recently with someone lamenting that we didn't have roads like LA here in Boston. Saying their ideal road was 3 lanes, plus a bike lane, plus a bus lane in each direction. Imagine being a pedestrian trying to cross
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Except for price, because a lot of people want to live in dense areas. Why exactly do you think you should have a say over how other people live? That's what you claim to oppose, but your support of zoning in order to prevent other pe
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It's there, but here's more evidence and data to back up the assertion that suburbs are a net drain on city finances, with more cost than tax revenue from properties: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018&#
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You can in fact build a new single family home in Manhattan, if you can afford the land to do so. Meanwhile, regardless of land price, dense housing is illegal to build pretty much everywhere that is not currently dense, due to zoning laws.
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"I'm happy knowing that my vehicle choice is making the roads more dangerous and making me specifically more likely to kill someone else in an accident because it makes my life easier" Sure, but actually own that choice. Say
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How about the death rates to people _in the other car_ in the collision? Or the pedestrian they hit?
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There's a separate problem here, which is that large heavy cars are not required to be designed in a way that takes the injury to people outside the car (pedestrians, cyclists, or in other cars) into account. This results in people buy
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Apologies, I was basing my take there on having biked through most neighborhoods and witnessing the worst traffic by far in those areas, so it certainly feels as though the car density is the highest. (It's also the only place I'v
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Perhaps when those things have a benefit to society, we should invest in infrastructure to make them more pleasant, rather than browbeating people as lazy if they don't brave urban arterial roads to walk to a grocery store?
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How does mandatory single family zoning and parking minimums factor into your "feature?" When people want to live somewhere dense, and that's illegal to build, they're forced into suburban living even though that is not
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Specifically, right through minority neighborhoods in cities. You can't ignore the explicitly racist history of urban "renewal" when discussing freeway planning.
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If you read the link you would realize that property taxes don't even cover 25% of the ongoing maintenance cost. The rest comes out of the general tax pool at everyone else's expense, regardless of whether we live there or not.
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The poor people living in Boston live in Roxbury and Dorchester. Coincidentally, these are the areas with by far the worst car dependency and worst public transit in the city.
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I live in Boston and would still use the T buses as an example of bus service as an afterthought. The buses are loud, uncomfortable, bus stops frequently have no shelter and are on busy roads with no buffer from 2-3 lanes of traffic, and th
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Your attitude is pretty revealing. All those people on bikes need to be "kept off the street" when doing their "leisure activity." There's no more car-centric way to make that statement. It's as though the poss

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