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by kaesar14 5y ago
Sure, I wish we had more outer borough connection lines. This country sucks at building anything but 12 lane freeways.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
The only goal is to get in and out of Boston in a reasonable amount of time. I wasn't around for pre Big Dig Boston but it's still dangerous and time-consuming driving to get out of Boston by car. The Big Dig might've made it
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Ok, just compare the Metropolitan areas. The actual city of DC is 68.34 mi², smaller than Hong Kong. Still worse to get around in.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
You can connect those smaller cities with stuff besides rail, you know.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
The context of this thread is about Virginia which is part of the I-95 corridor, the most densely populated area in the country, with a population density comparable to many Western European countries[1]. This is like the one region of the
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by kaesar14 5y ago
I'd rather the T be functional and get me to where I need to be, and a better commuter rail system, then having to drive to and fro on Storrow at rush hour. There's no amount of bridges or expansions to the roads that would make i
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by kaesar14 5y ago
> I love transit and want more of it, but the transit folks realized it's hard to compete with driving, so they've just given up entirely on making transit great. It's easier to ruin driving. It's way more like the dr
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by kaesar14 5y ago
The example was clearly intended to include the motorist in question, being allowed to be on the road. As long as the motorist got to use the road, it wouldn't matter to said motorist how large the capacity of the road was, if they wer
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by kaesar14 5y ago
I mean, I don't see how that's really a fair response to saying what people care about is traffic. Yeah, ability to use the road, sure. I don't think people want a new highway to be built and then told they can't use it
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Because the metric people care about is traffic on the roads, not how many motorists are able to use the road in a given day. The Big Dig by this metric was a resounding success in Boston, able to dramatically scale up the amount of commute
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by kaesar14 5y ago
I don't think anyone disagrees English writing sucks, but the inertia is massive, and the benefits not all that clear relative to the absolutely massive cost. Retraining every English speaker to write, changing all our keyboards, chang
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Until Chinese romanizes it will never be a lingua franca. Simply far too hard to learn the written word, Simplified or not.
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Truly a nightmare situation.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Your story doesn’t make any sense. Rapid tests have been available in America since at least the spring. Also you said you were going in September and Memorial Day is in May.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Another package manager for Python is exactly what the world needed
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by kaesar14 5y ago
The New York Times target audience isn’t a highly educated young American? Maybe that’s the problem, as pointed out?
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by kaesar14 5y ago
What do you think is overrated about the story of John Adams? I find him to be quite compelling.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
I'd just like to point out that everyone saying English is easy to learn in this thread is from a self-selecting population that's good enough at the language to participate on this forum. For this example specifically though, I d
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by kaesar14 5y ago
You think people who’d otherwise excel in this competition instead choose to play sports?
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by kaesar14 5y ago
I'd plug New Haven here!
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Other people?
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Try getting anything done with a French or German bank. American customer service is several levels better than my experience with European institutions.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
The last outage of this kind I can even remember is the summer PSN was down for like, a month?
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Why doesn't the mayor of a city with one of America's most important ports call in experts like this the second trouble started? It was this easy and he never bothered to ask the experts?
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Where do you get this notion from? If you separated the economic system from the global economy during the biggest expansion of the economy ever, we’d have been even better off? Based on absolutely what information?
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Ah, I misread.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Right because the money they could get from people who'd actually pay for Facebook is a small fraction, a rounding error of a fraction, of the money they get from stealing all your data and selling your psychological profile to adverti
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by kaesar14 5y ago
If they're the parasites, what was Facebook and co?
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Seems like providing the north woods of Minnesota better internet than the Twin Cities is a rather poor investment of resources
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Those include massive subsidies by the government.

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