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by jrock08 11y ago
And I'm not going to point-by-point refute arguments that aren't particularly convincing, but here's some thoughts. > Closely related to poverty is lack of social mobility. It's not just closely related, when consider
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by jrock08 11y ago
It's not clear that reducing income inequality is bad, please explain. The arguments against eliminating income inequality rest on the idea that people won't do a hard or bad job if it didn't pay more than other easier or ni
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by jrock08 11y ago
Unless you are trying to be obtuse, or hate brevity, the statement "eliminate income inequality" and "eliminate excessive income inequality" read exactly the same. No one is arguing for a move to a fully socialist state
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by jrock08 11y ago
There is a huge difference between racism, and telling someone that their idea isn't fully thought out. The social justice movement doesn't care about the latter in the slightest. Discouraging racism and sexism in a workplace is
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by jrock08 11y ago
Why is a personally owned self driving car a better solution than robust public transit? Self driving cars still are inefficient if they need to be parked and likely don't magically solve congestion if they take up as much space as cu
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by jrock08 11y ago
> I wanted a Samsung phone but a pure Android experience That's Samsung's fault. > Shouldn't have to buy a phone direct from Google to get that. Oh, I completely agree, but Samsung doesn't want to simply provide OE
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by jrock08 11y ago
> You shouldn't have to buy phones direct from Google > My iPad 3 You do realize that you've undermined your point here right?
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by jrock08 11y ago
Revenue is a much better indicator of growth. Yelp 2012: 137M; 2013: 232M; 2014: 377M SAFM 2012: 2.3B 2013: 2.6B 2014: 2.7B So, SAFM grew ~5% while Yelp grew 100%
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by jrock08 11y ago
He's literally using fried chicken as an extremely thinly veiled way of measuring the number of black people in an area. This is a good article on why "fried chicken" when paired with other things can be racist. [1] Since &
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by jrock08 11y ago
Why? I use panniers for my groceries, however, the grocery store won't allow me to just bring my bike inside, so instead I have to take the panniers off my bike and put them in a cart. Using my bike as the cart would make sense.
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by jrock08 11y ago
So, helmet laws are actually a terrible example of "effects aren't what you want", at least, it's a terrible example if the implication is that we are getting an effect that we don't expect. Now, it's possible
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by jrock08 11y ago
Cycling in Australia dropped by about 2% between 2011 and 2013. [1] The biggest issue with helmet laws though is that they significantly neuter bike share programs because people don't want to cary a helmet or use a shared helmet. [1]
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by jrock08 11y ago
If the only vehicles using the road are public transit vans, we can clearly reduce the size of roads and the infrastructure. The vastly reduced wear and tear on the roads would free up government money for investment in public transit.
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by jrock08 11y ago
Cars are absolutely a dominating factor in biker safety. In NYC in 2012 and 2013 there were 7766 injuries and 30 fatalities of bikers reported which involved cars as compared to 537 injuries and 3 fatalities of bikers which did not involve
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by jrock08 11y ago
Oh man, you are the first person to bring up the elderly and disabled. I bet we can't figure that out at all so we better not try. Or, municipalities continue to provide on demand transit using small vans to the elderly and disabled, s
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by jrock08 11y ago
This is something that I'm uniquely qualified to comment on. I am an IMSA alum who was by and large, a below average IMSA student during my first two years. However, I learned a lot just by being exposed to my very smart classmates.
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by jrock08 11y ago
Social cost isn't made up and it isn't really the same as seeking approval. It's related to, but deeper than simple approval. For example, you might not care that someone thinks you are a bad parent for not dressing up your
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by jrock08 11y ago
You know it's pretty childish to dismiss someone's experience right? He didn't say he was seeking approval, he said that when he does the most minor childcare thing he gets praise, while when neither he nor his wife do some
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by jrock08 11y ago
I can't find aggregate statistics for Palo Alto, but here's the 2012/2013 statistics for the New York Burroughs. Cyclists killed 1 pedestrian (in 2013) and injured 560 pedestrians for a mortality rate of .1%. Drivers killed 3
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by jrock08 11y ago
Trucks in Palo Alto kill pedestrians http://sfbay.ca/2015/04/19/bcn57palo-alto-pedestrian-dies-in... Drivers in Palo Alto kill pedestrians http://abc7news.com/news/driver-arrested-on-susp
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by jrock08 11y ago
Interestingly, closing roads and reducing the number of cars would improve the number and availability of foot crossings. It's funny you mention good city planning, since a lack of good city planning is actually why we are in this sit
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by jrock08 11y ago
> The infrastructure issue isn't so simple. It's really not that complicated though > In my local we are in a real estate boom. Congrats. > There are many groups claiming that cars will not be so prominent in the near fut
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by jrock08 11y ago
Why shouldn't we spend some money to pave a bike path that could be well used. When I rode on the bayshore pathway, there were parts of the path that had been partially washed out, leaving about 3 feet of 2-5 inch ruts. Elsewhere the
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by jrock08 11y ago
You're posing a false choice between biking and public transit. Biking and public transit can be improved together since, when properly designed, biking to public transit is a very easy way to extend the effective "bikeable"
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by jrock08 11y ago
False choice much?
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by jrock08 11y ago
Most local road infrastructure is already largely covered by general fund taxes, so if anything bikers should be able to use the roads they've already paid for. http://taxfoundation.org/article/gasoline-taxes-and-t
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by jrock08 11y ago
> That is situation-dependant. So let's do it where it makes sense > I have seen slow bikes cause backups on roads. Build bike lanes. > I've also seen heavily-used bridge lanes turned into empty bike lanes. Why didn'
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by jrock08 11y ago
> dismantlement of motorvehicle-related infrastructure. Whether it is turning car lanes into bike lanes, Yes, it turns out we overbuilt streets and under-built bike infrastructure so now we have to reclaim some car lanes to create bike l
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by jrock08 11y ago
As a grad student, let me explain why I don't think I'm getting ripped off. 1) I have (at least) weekly meetings with advisors who can charge >$250/hr as a consultant. They are brilliant, and our conversations are enlight
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by jrock08 11y ago
It's amazing how much an article can be both correct and miss the point so strongly. >"The critical limitation preventing EVs from disrupting the lowest end of the traditional auto market is battery performance, but battery cos

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