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by jeffbax 8y ago
This. Let transit be a business and fix the incentives.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Privatize it and stop letting local politics strangle it https://www.econlib.org/no-more-public-mass-transit-infrastr... > In Japan, being in the railway business means being in the real estate business, explained Egon T
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Guessing they've never heard of "Amazon Basics" either.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Just because we send government pork to big farm and all kinds of other regulations around limits on what food can be sold and how doesn't mean they are good ideas. I am open to the possibility, but I severely doubt that lower food pri
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Profit is a function of materials, land, labor, margin, and very much regulatory cost. When town laws limit the height you can build, that means you have fewer units to distribute total costs across. Building 10 stories might be 70% the cos
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by jeffbax 8y ago
...and a universally disastrous policy that results in higher prices, less maintenance by landlords, and less residential mobility/adaptation to changing job realities. Outside of zoning, it is SF's original housing market sin.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Agreed, have been a Mac user since 2004… and got the first Intel iMac specifically for the ability to boot Windows for gaming too. I think the only native Mac OSX games I had when I got that first 12" PowerBook were Q3, UT2004, Starcra
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by jeffbax 8y ago
"…not only is the corporate tax rate on overseas profits just half the normal rate (10.5% versus 21%)" Never mind that the US is one of what two? countries that tries to tax their companies sales (and citizen income) based on acti
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Apple will almost certainly not switch to AMD rather than going all in on ARM, as much as I wish I had a Ryzen Mac option. Also Apple having $50B in revenue vs $500m for ARM doesn't mean they would be guaranteed to out execute the enti
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by jeffbax 8y ago
It is probably regulated in a far more complicated manner. Singapore has forced savings accounts for basic care (out of pocket spending drives costs down), less barriers to entry into the medical profession (thus more doctors at lower wages
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Portugal has of, if not the, lowest drug usage and overdose rates in the world.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
I've been happily using fish for maybe two years now, just as a default shell and not doing anything fancy. Out of the box it is great. I'm not sure how to feel about only now learning its indexes start at a [1] though (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Actually one of the latest episodes of the Impact is about how aggressively annexing ended up serving those within the city very poorly. https://art19.com/shows/the-impact/episodes/99ffb9d5-58d6-44... > Th
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Mostly true, but there's definitely vapes that contain the popcorn lung chemicals as well as who knows what yet. It's new, heated chemicals going into lungs. I imagine the jury is still out disregarding the combustion part
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Sorry, but an "Authoritarian Government" absolutely makes it FAR easier because it can chase any kind of developmental boondoggles it wants to. See China's ghost cities. It has stupid cheap labor supply and can relocate hundr
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Nevermind the small but incredibly obvious stuff like keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop behavior and text selection…
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Most small apps have ditched the web view for safari due to speed, maintenance, and integration with things like password management and content blocker support - but the big guys like Google and FB which don't want to support an ad bl
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by jeffbax 8y ago
The military budget being too big doesn't mean that the IRS budget isn't either. Our tax code is absurd, and held captive to interests that like to keep it that way (the wealthy who can dodge or bother to itemize expenses, and com
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by jeffbax 8y ago
When I'm stressed out, I watch this documentary. It made me feel so good about America.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
http://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/home/
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Agreed. Look I enjoy a good Daikatana joke like any other, but while Carmack was the technical wizard, Romero was every bit as important in regards to getting those games to pop with the character and attention to detail -- maybe more than
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by jeffbax 8y ago
I do not agree. At all. Quake has some of the most amazing maps/episodes and utterly terrifying aesthetic of any FPS, despite how disparate levels were at times. I can think of few older FPS that hold up as well as Quake 1's singl
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by jeffbax 8y ago
If you haven't watched it yet, "The Farthest: Voyager in Space" is an incredibly great documentary recently released by PBS https://www.netflix.com/title/80204377
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Maybe you are happy with a race to the lowest common denominator in regards to quality and expectations, but IMO that serves any platform terribly. Using a QT app within a GTK window manager always sticks out in numerous ways (though probab
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by jeffbax 8y ago
VS Code might be a nice editor and relatively efficient Electron application resources wise, but it is definitely not native. You can't even CMD + CTRL + D words to look up their definition, which is such a basic expectation of any nat
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by jeffbax 8y ago
State budgets are utterly imploding under public debt obligations. To claim there was austerity in the US is comical. The lack of meaningful budget tightening now is going to cause actual austerity eventually though.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Blue Apron, not really. Uber certainly has a network effect. While many switched to Lyft given bad press, plenty more still got Uber originally (both sides of the market) and just use that. As they add more transit capabilities to their app
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by jeffbax 8y ago
This is all conjecture from your gut. We are watching what rent control does to a city like SF in real time -- it is a disaster. The only way out of it is to ramp up supply. To whatever degree Tokyo has priced anyone out, it is significantl
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Tokyo has one of the best land-use regimes in the world, the way they have kept housing prices down is a miracle compared to other cities. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/th... http
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Rent control being bad for the housing market is one of the few generally agreed upon conclusions across the political spectrum of economists https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html > Economists ar

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