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by jimlawruk 2y ago
I put in a photo of a small lake near Truckee, CA, several miles from Lake Tahoe, and it reported it was Lake Tahoe. It was wrong, but impressed it was geographically very close.
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Traffic Disparities in Pennsylvania on April 8th Due to Solar Eclipse(lawruk.com)
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by jimlawruk 4y ago
We moved from DC to Camp Hill, PA for similar reasons. Camp Hill has a decent walkable/bikable community (stores, schools, etc.) Harrisburg is the capital so it has just enough going on. I miss DC for sure, but it is nice to have an
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
also the CO2 cost of extracting and refining the oil for the gas
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
Due to light pollution, many people on Earth rarely see a starry sky.
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
although most believe the cost of commuting falls to the employee, in reality, the cost is shared. a long commute means the employee will demand more money, quit sooner, not accept the job in the first place, etc.
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
Buyers in a high priced area are taking on way more risk then people realize. If you have $200K and buy a $1M dollar apartment, you just put 500% of your net worth into one asset. If prices fall by 20%, you just lost all of your money. Ho
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
A bribe is secret and typically illegal. This type of exception to the rule would be completely public and could be debated, discussed, voted on, etc.
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
Yeah. A simple donation to the local municipality would have gotten this requirement waived. I once heard of a company getting past height restrictions by simply buying the town a few new firetrucks.
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
The quote is a good way to summarize what economists call "price discrimination" or "differential pricing." I think the practice generally results in a lower price for the people who "do care" than what they wo
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
I have. My great aunt was killed as a pedestrian crossing a busy road in an strip mall area. She was not crossing illegally. No charges to the driver. The driver felt horrible about it. No one in my family really blamed the driver. The mi
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
More importantly, while you are at work, it pick ups other riders. Which is why people won't need to buy these cars.
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
It would be more accurate to say rocks are being thrown.
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by jimlawruk 9y ago
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-legal-to-short-a-companys-stock-...
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
To be a cartel, you simply need to agree to limit supply to keep prices higher. So it sounds more like a cartel of survival rather than to make obscene profits.
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
If I was a member of this church, I would be upset by the seemingly misappropriation of resources. Has anyone in the leadership calculated the likelihood of an attack. Have they considered other safely improvements that might statistically
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
I kinda wish this would happen in my city, where motorists rule, and the brave cyclists are treated like inferior annoyances. I do agree these "rich" areas should not be limited to a select few.
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
For those of you in the US interested in this topic, I suggest listening to podcast called The Kunstlercast. It really opened my eyes and altered my views on housing, land use, transportation, etc.
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
People do want to live in them. It is the people who control what gets built that don't. Consider a neighborhood with a great school. You don't think families would jump at the chance to live in a new apartment in that town? The
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
Where in upstate? You should look up Duncan Crary, who lives in Troy, NY. He did a ton of podcasts with James Howard Kunstler, and has a newer one called a Small American City. It is about this very topic of revitalizing small American citi
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
Exactly right. Young people today would rather be poor in a "trendy" city, than rich in a not so trendy one. It has almost become a badge of honor of how much you can rough it to stay afloat in X trendy city. I am guessing it was
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
Hopefully future AI can help alleviate the healthcare shortages we seem to be facing.
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
Good point. In the US, per capita carbon emmissions also vary wildly by state. http://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/state/analysis/
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
The tenants will need devise a new service to perform for the land owner. Perhaps build him a house, maintain the land, watch his kids, etc. Option 2 might be to pass a property tax to encourage the land owner to sell some of his excess lan
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
Depends on your definition of proper disposal. Putting anything in a landfill other than biodegradable materials just seems far less than ideal. Won’t the metals, precious elements, batteries, etc. eventually need to be dealt with by future
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
> Nobody wants to share things. I don't think that is always true. Some people want to see resources being used efficiently, which is why they like to share.
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
Is the cause "air" pollution, or could it be "noise" pollution? I would think living near loud traffic areas might lead to less quality sleep for the brain. And a lack of sleep is linked with alzheimers. Just a thought.
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
Ouch, that's pretty harsh. I really don't. And I would agree your examples fit medical care and are excellent points. I just wanted to people to consider, is artificial hormones really more healthy? Is healthcare an accurate term?
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
Reminds me of Michael Burry and others in The Big Short, who shorted the housing market, but had to wait a long time for the market adjust.
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by jimlawruk 10y ago
Mary Poppins

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