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by galdosdi 10y ago
Agree 100% that the experience is similar in NYC. Non-yellow cabbies in NYC seem much less experienced (I mean on average, of course) with urban traffic -- when I'm cycling, I am much warier of the black uber cars than of the yellow ca
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> There's no way that anyone in 1937 had congestion in mind when they were creating the taxi medallions What on earth makes you assert this? The intense and (to modern eyes) borderline insane levels of traffic congestion in NYC at
903.
by galdosdi 10y ago
A lot of people say the same thing you do -- their diverse anecdotes agree that regular cabs are obviously (better, worse) than uber/lyft/etc. The trouble is, they don't agree which way it goes. I think the resolution to this
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Maybe, but consider adding another constraint to the game of maximizing your chance to being right -- you have a finite amount of resources (eg, time) to spend on examining evidence, so you need to strategize even what evidence is worth con
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Baloney. Just add a bunch of buses, with exclusive bus lanes covering their whole route. Choose the initial routes so they'll at least break even. Bam, you have a good public transit system that is much faster than private cars due to
906.
by galdosdi 10y ago
It sounds like it would _not_ have longer battery life, in the sense of "how many days can I go in between having to charge" It sounds like the battery can withstand more charge cycles before getting crappy and needing replacement
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I almost mentioned vesting, but decided to summarize as > Look into all the details and conditions of the program. Either way, you're not _losing_ money, even if there's a delay in getting the match. And IANAL and don't fe
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Tend to agree. A bit of a side ramble: Unfortunately, sometimes regarding rule 2, you already have a system where losing a single machine is a problem, and it will take time and resources to improve or replace it to the point where losing a
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Switching jobs has NOTHING to do with this. (IANAL so maybe there's strange cases I'm unaware of but...) You can always rollover to a new account, so when you quit your job, you take your savings with you and can move them into an
910.
by galdosdi 10y ago
That's your own fault for being delusional enough to think that you should buy a house as an "investment" (or even worse as speculation because you think it will go up high and fast) Buy a house if you like it and want to liv
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I'm with you, a reasonable middle ground like that is a great way to go. I visited Nagoya and Tokyo and was very positively impressed with the kinds of neighborhoods generated by that kind of zoning. In a way, the typical pattern actua
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> But then what if the person is a travelling salesman? Has the $1m prize for this problem been solved and awarded yet? Not that I know of. Side note, the TSP is only infeasible in theory, not in practice.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I don't buy produce and meat from TJs, because local supermarkets have better deals. I just buy dry/frozen goods from TJs, and have yet to experience what you did, shrug.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I live in lower Manhattan, so I'm speaking from experience. I can even list specific store locations if requested... It's just not hard to find clean, fresh produce at a reasonable price here. But it's also not hard to find p
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Very well said. This is why I see TJ's eating Whole Foods's lunch. TJ's started from the opposite end. Like what I imagine possibly happening to iOS at the hands of Android, this is a true example of "disruptive" in
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Gristedes is a joke. Not sure why that's your go-to comparison. Have you tried some more affordable "normal" supermarkets like Key Foods, C Town, Western Beef, etc? You might still complain about quality (don't know your
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Um, well, then they should have to pay for their share of that too. Given that, still confused what the objection is.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
OK, then I guess all I'm saying is I think my definitions are right and others' are wrong. My definition is: Pretend there is a dark shroud covering away all boundaries of your property line. Whatever elements, whether noise, shad
919.
by galdosdi 10y ago
Assuming the noise or smell was somehow contained, what's wrong with living next to a concert venue or sriracha factory? I should merely have a right to my property being as smell, noise, and shadow free as it was when I bought it. I s
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by galdosdi 10y ago
"The right to swing your fists ends where another man's nose begins" should be the motto to follow here. (And not "The right to swing your fists ends a statutory 3 meters away from any places that may contain noses"
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Why should the rest of us get burdened? I'm not in favor of that at all. If you build something that requires more water/electricity and thus requires more maintenance/building more pipes or something by the city, then you sh
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by galdosdi 10y ago
That's fine, as long as a propertyowner not currently in a HOA cannot be forced to join a HOA, not even if 99% of their neighbors voted to join. You can still go somewhere where there isn't a HOA or there is a competing HOA. In ma
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by galdosdi 10y ago
For god's sakes, just let property owners do what they want with their property (within limits of safety). If they want to keep it empty or a small 1 family house, let them, and don't let their neighbors or city government bully t
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Exactly my point
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I'm sorry for any confusion but I did not mean to artificially distinguish driving an owned car versus renting a ride. Same thing, a 10 mile trip on either will put the same amount of congestion on the road. People will want to ride in
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Medallion has nothing to do with it, any TLC licensed driver can rent a medallion cab. To get a TLC license you pass a BS exam that anyone can pass and a background check, and get an ID. I don't see why LibreTaxi, in areas that have a
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by galdosdi 10y ago
You are ignoring a major cost of operating a privately owned car: the time you spend driving it. In the greater NYC commuter area, people already willingly pay more to live near a train station so they can more easily commute without having
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Shouldn't be an obstacle. This is already exactly how normal, hailable, regulated taxis work (at least in much of the USA, and certainly in NYC -- I can't speak for elsewhere). That's why taxi driver is (at least in the US) a
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Luckily there is already seemingly an oversupply of human-drivable cars (in both automatic and standard, aka "manual" transmission) today. The price of a working car has dropped so low that it is barely above the scrap price, and
930.
by galdosdi 10y ago
When in the history of economics has changing nothing but making a resource _cheaper_ lead to consumption of that resource _decreasing_? Don't kid yourself, if car driving gets cheaper people will do more of it. Or will you not be more

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