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by hcurtiss 4y ago
The point, I think, is that the elimination of zoning is meant to upset the R-1 style of development you say is prevalent in Chicago and that I agree is conducive to kids playing outside, on and off the street. Where you have high density
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That second link sure looks to me like the R-1 developments the activists seem upset about. Yes, I would expect kids play there.
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Kids play outside on the sidewalk/street in urban Chicago? I've never been to Chicago, but my wife went to school at University of Chicago, and she says she never saw any such thing. The area around the university is pretty roug
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We have a great park just down the street (about a block and a half), but the street is great and it's right outside. Maybe 10 cars per day travel our street. Besides, the street is paved for bikes and rollerskates. The park is, of c
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I think it's more likely because there are very few kids playing outside in urban areas. There are kids in the Pearl and the South Waterfront in Portland. It is rare to see them play outside, much more rare to see them playing in the
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I live in a suburban R-1 neighborhood in Oregon and my kids play basketball, ride bikes, and roller skate in the street literally every day with boatloads of other kids. If that's your vision of a nightmare, I fear we're not goin
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But isn't your position premised on an entitlement to live in a particular place? I don't recall ever creating or affirming that entitlement. And it doesn't exactly strike me as reasonable. There are expensive neighborhood
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Maybe excess population live somewhere else that costs less? That is, quite literally, the choice I made.
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Any bets on whether eliminating zoning has any effect on the number of "people living in fucking tents?" In my experience, the people in tents aren't waiting with a down payment that's a few tens of thousands short of m
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But I do think that's a matter of opinion, and totally unrelated to prejudice.
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I've worked with legislators in a variety of capacities. In my view, this is a good thing. In order to compromise, politicians need to be able to speak freely with one-another and with the public about matters that may not on their f
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Genuine question -- do eunuchs have sex drive?
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Yes, but the assertion is that so much capital is required that it's a barrier to starting a business. And that's just not true. It is definitely possible to bootstrap a small business, and there are many government programs ava
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There are many, many examples proving that's wrong.
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People will say capital, but there are successful businesses in America started in garages literally every day. Not every one becomes Apple, but many of them go on to support lots of families.
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Yet, contrast USA with Mexico (not communist). Geography is no match for governance. The USSR failed because their system of government, like every other communist state, produced abject poverty.
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Yes, the relative abundance produced by capitalism would have overcome the USSR/Russia even absent Yeltsin's visit. Everywhere communism has been tried, it's failed, and the most assertive efforts have led to the death of te
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News to me. My PGE bill in Oregon totals out to 14.3 cents per kwh.
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Not in one day, and there's been a lot more violence than that on Metro, including shootings and stabbings. I'm much more comfortable with the risk on the highway, which is in many ways contingent on my own behaviors. Rational o
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I wouldn't call it a scam. The subsidy per rider is, in fact, a relevant number. As others have pointed out, commuting by rail in America largely sucks, particularly in an age of COVID and rampant crime in many metro areas. In Portl
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Is that true? The Tesla semi presentation cracked me up with the huge container of batteries prepared to charge a single semi. The grid load for charging any meaningful number of EVs simultaneously is hilariously out of reach (even if we
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Passenger rail in the US, like Amtrak, is spectacularly subsidized.
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Inflation-driven real asset appreciation.
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Yeah, I’m definitely not trained in security like the password manager engineers are. But I keep wondering if being distributed offsets that risk. That is, I can spin up Bitwarden in my Unraid machine in like five minutes and behind a reve
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Respectfully, I would have fired you immediately.
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This article is silly. There are many companies that provide corporate registry services. For instance, if you searched all the tens of thousands of companies that use CT Corporation, you would find lots and lots that have been involved i
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That video was pretty neat. I did not take away from it "first gen dog."
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The kid dying in his arms or his wife’s beside him — I feel like this is not a good one to be screaming “liar.”
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Maybe because I’m the older brother, but I’ve never been a big fan of the “I’m not touching you” game.
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I don’t know. This obsession with Musk’s whereabouts strikes me as a little dicey. I get it — there are safety rules. And Musk could charter a jet. But I don’t think making the guy a martyr is a good look.

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