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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Any good LVT in my mind would robustly employ "conservation easements", which lower/waive taxes on land that is preserved for environmental protection. These are a common tool of land trusts today, and IMO they would fit grea
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
It's a good concern to bring up. The market will help to a certain extent, because land in the countryside is not going to be assessed (and therefore taxed) nearly as highly as land in the city center. "Vacant lots" out in th
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
> his worse friend + GPT combined can build whole apps. Which is cool and noteworthy! But cute little apps are not the "craft". The craft is solving problems in novel ways, managing enormous complexity, scaling massively, deli
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I'll admit that I read up until this point: > At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried Googling
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I'm not saying this justifies the ethical problems and environmental impact, but I think we cannot dismiss the emotional significance that meat-eating has to many cultures. Cooking is a major way in which families bond and connect with
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
GP here. Article is BS, that money wasn't stolen. The decision making behind the purchase was transparant. Furthering the cause of EA itself was a goal of the specific fund from which they drew that money [1]. It gives them a place to
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
The working classes of developed nations need systematic help. Unequivocally. Poor people in underdeveloped nations also need help. EA targets the latter need, but that does not invalidate the former need. Unfortunately, people like SBF, wh
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
GP is not saying you have to join EA to criticize it. They are saying that you should probably try volunteering or giving a signiciant fraction of your excess income to charity before criticizing. It's not "joining the cult",
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Yup, exactly. If the organization is truly bad, then facts will speak for themselves. IMO heavy editorialization is a sign of a weak argument.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I keep seeing takes like this, but the effect EA has had on my life so far is that it gave me motivation and an easy framework to donate thousands of dollars a year to fund deworming, vaccination, and other direct relief in underdeveloped c
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Hey, don't let the keyboard warriors get to you. HN commentors will always find a way to position themselves as smugly superior. Thanks for your great blog post.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
> can use proportional fonts with the first example too. what, how? Wouldn't the number of spaces you'd need to prefix lines 2 and 3 with vary between fonts?
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
It is indeed the system, and you (to no fault of your own, probably) are part of that system. NotJustBikes, while a little anti-car-propogandaey for my tast, does a good just explaining why it'd be basically impossible for suburbia to
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
It means that when you look at government revenue vs expenditure per square mile, urban dwellers are massively subsidizing surburbanites. It's mainly because maintainence of roads, parking, and utilities for a spread-out surburbia is v
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I don't live in Spain but I live in a reasonably dense city. * More things to do. * More people to meet. * More restaurants, which leads to the best restaurants being better. * More mom and pop businesses. I didn't know independen
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
So talking with your in-laws is enough to make you sure that literally eveyone from there absolutely hates them?
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Yes. Some of the environmental benefits of EVs will be offset by the increased road maintenance they'll require. Of course, the same could be said about unnecessarily enormous ICE vehicles people drive nowadays too. Vehicle weight real
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I agree with everything you've just said. But I don't know why that means we can't have nice transit in the US, unless we're just throwing up our hands now and submitting to the most ardent anti-law-enforcement flank of
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Yes, the progressive Left does have a problem where we can't seem to agree on how to make sure people feel safe and comfortable in the public spaces which we care so deeply about. Socialist blogger Freddie deBoer has several pieces alo
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
You're making big assertions without giving any details. > Ironically, the contingent of people that are most aggressive/ambitious about promoting public transit are often the same that are most against taking the (admittedly,
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
We don't need all Americans to give up their cars. We just need fewer people to drive in urban centers. Much of NYC, SF, Boston, DC and Chicago are already on board with this. They have been for decades. It's wannabe-suburbanites
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Yes, and every time AI comes up, the downsides of AI are also brought up. Because they're important to talk about. Anyway, the driverless car pilots are happening in our dense city downtowns. If it was all confined to Palo Alto and oth
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Public transit can be solved in the US. Plenty of other countries have done it. That's why it's so exhausting that so many of our brightest minds AND the public's imagination of the future are dedicated to turning our unsusta
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
We're talking in circles.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
This is what set the context: > This is the way to think about all businesses. Even if they’ve been making your favourite products for years, never forget that they’re just here to make money. > People who attach morals, norms, and em
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Not necessary in the design I'm talking about, assuming you're driving nice and slow: https://lede-admin.mass.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/s...
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Your argument here boils down to "all decision making can be viewed in terms of expected net economic gain/loss", and while I don't disagree with you, it isn't a very salient or novel point. My whole argument is thi
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
> In the example, someone wanted to see a tradition carry on even after they were no longer involved. To achieve that, they accepted a lower offer for the business to sell it to someone who also wants to carry on the tradition. But that
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Yes, I agree, I meant "profit" not "self-interest".
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
You're right, I should have said "profit" not "self-interest". My point stands. Large businesses are more exclusively profit-driven than smaller ones.

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