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by kiddo 17y ago
I consider the taxes I pay to fund the US military to be a gas subsidy. Without it we wouldn't have access to such cheap and plentiful oil.
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by kiddo 17y ago
This line caught my attn: "Not including tuition, I lived (and lived comfortably) on $103 a week, which covered my necessities: food, gas, car insurance, a cellphone and visits to the laundromat." To each his own, but if it was me and I wan
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by kiddo 17y ago
Yes, but the sport might become more exciting if the players are able to perform better, and the participants might enjoy it more. It might also make the sport accessible to more people if it makes skating easier.
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by kiddo 17y ago
Go further. Why not try living out of a backpack? Why not live in India for 6 months, then Peru for 6 months, then wherever you want. There are no limits.
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by kiddo 17y ago
There's a good book that covers this exact topic in much more depth. It's called "False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the Word" by Alan Beattie. If I remember correctly, he focuses on how Argentinian land was owned by wealthy el
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by kiddo 17y ago
What if there was a thin wall that you leaned against during takeoff, with a half seat attached to it? Then on landings you turned and faced the back of the plane and leaned on the half-seat facing the back of the plane?
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by kiddo 17y ago
Havana, Cuba is another successful example: http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/273
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by kiddo 17y ago
Try craigslist. I live in a private bedroom in a 3 bdrm apartment in Park Slope, 2 subway stops from Manhattan. I pay $900/month. I have a friend in Sunset Park (brooklyn) that pays around $700/month for a private studio apartment. That's a
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by kiddo 17y ago
I always find this peculiar when google says they found users were doing fewer searches when they increased the # of results on the serp to 20 or 30. Maybe when a user sees more results they find what they were looking for more quickly, and
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by kiddo 17y ago
I'm American. I spent a year and a half traveling through Asia, Australia and NZ. Then another 6 months in South America. There are tons of people, Americans included, doing the same. In general it's extremely safe.
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by kiddo 17y ago
Like what?
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by kiddo 17y ago
I don't think it has much to do with population growth. I think it has more to do with planning in advance where you want your growth to be. In the US we just let developers put new houses pretty much wherever they want, which turns out to
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Sink and swim(theatlantic.com)
5 points by kiddo 17y ago|1 comments
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A creative, non-legislative way to get guns off the street(slate.com)
8 points by kiddo 17y ago|10 comments
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by kiddo 17y ago
Baltimore has a master plan for bike lanes: http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/government/planning/bikeplan.p... And Baltimore has a bicycle club: http://www.baltobikeclub.org/ The club is probably an advocate for the bike lanes. Lend your s
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Will energy consumption really follow the Kuznets curve?(nytimes.com)
3 points by kiddo 17y ago|0 comments
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by kiddo 17y ago
Try traveling those routes on a holiday weekend when traffic on the highways is barely moving. Even without heavy road traffic, though, the train is faster. Plus you can get up and walk around on the train, there's more legroom, and food se
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by kiddo 17y ago
Transportation costs my be cheap now, but consider what would happen if fuel prices rose or the cost of containing the pollution produced through the transportation increased. New Urbanists aren't saying yards are a waste of precious urban