kory

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by kory 4y ago
> Your comment history is fascinating. Can we refrain from the reddit-esque creepy "gotcha" of digging through post history of another user instead of addressing the argument at hand? > You posted yourself about the ridiculo
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by kory 4y ago
It’s good thing we moved from these old urban walkable designs to a car centric lifestyle, which the vast majority of Americans enjoy. The tradeoff of owning a single family home with a good plot of land is well worth the loss in walkabilit
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by kory 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220728105345/reddit.com/r/tifu...
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by kory 4y ago
> This is true, but then you'll also have to deal with the negative externalities such as traffic, car costs (I think I read here that the median car cost was like $48,000 now?) high gas prices, traffic fatalities, road maintenance
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by kory 4y ago
Sorry, I don't buy that either. Single family homes are objectively nicer in many ways. Some, like mine, are even in very walkable neighborhoods. I've lived in apartments and houses, and I'd take the house every single time.
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by kory 4y ago
There is a very zealous nature to pro-density advocates online. I appreciate the passion of these people, but I admit I very much find solace that all people people I know in the physical world don’t feel the same way. Which, I suppose, is
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by kory 4y ago
I don't buy that Americans on average actually want to live in the "missing middle". They want a small detached house. Lower income folks were able to afford small detached houses for nearly half of the 20th century. The rece
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by kory 4y ago
No, thanks, I’d prefer to not see the neighborhood I live in and all the work my neighbors and I have put into it not get bulldozed for ugly modern “dense” buildings. Large towers create unhappy people. Humans were not meant to live that wa
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by kory 4y ago
Perhaps I mean more of, “convinced this is an idea that could potentially be a commercial product” rather than “passionate”
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by kory 4y ago
This is something I'm excited about, as I have the time & interest. One concern I have though, is coming up with an idea I'm passionate about enough to run with. Where are these business ideas found? A Ubiquiti host is great o
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by kory 4y ago
Something tells me that residential water rationing will be less palatable to the West's population than "California Almonds will be significantly more expensive this season".
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by kory 4y ago
Take amazon, for example. Fine the corporation for using excessive packaging at scale. People don't have a choice of what packaging they receive.
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by kory 4y ago
I encourage you to read more on how the monetary system works. Debt = more currency for use around the world. We need to continuously increase money supply to keep the dollar from appreciating too much and causing a disastrous level of defl
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by kory 4y ago
I think you misunderstood. Vegas uses less water in total than in the 70s, in spite of the population difference.
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by kory 4y ago
> Even as we watch the reservoirs and lakes of the West go dry, we keep watering our lawns, soaking our golf courses, and growing water-thirsty crops. Residential water use has plummeted in the west. Some areas, like vegas, use less wate
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by kory 4y ago
Have you ever considered that the FED just really doesn't know what it's doing? Their track record clearly shows they are shooting in the dark on every policy decision they make. The economy is an extremely volatile, unpredictable
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by kory 4y ago
It seems to me that there's a common theme among urbanist folks. That is, if people don't like the urbanist vision, they should be forced to change their habits via government policy, even if they don't like those changes. Wh
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by kory 4y ago
An export ban would place the maximum American crude price at about $70/barrel, since that's a little bit above the shale breakeven price. Prices would tank overnight. There is no conceivable scenario where an export ban would not
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by kory 4y ago
Please stop the urbanism spam. On average, Americans like suburbs. They like driving. They like space, a yard, a DIY workshop, and sunlight. They don't like cities. "haha go live in a city and bike to work" is not a fair resp
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by kory 4y ago
A lot of us like the competition and continuous push to improve to keep up. I am one of those people. This is the environment I've known since high school. I love it because otherwise there'd be no big challenge to overcome, nothi
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by kory 4y ago
It's not really the fare evasion itself that is the problem (though it does allow people to use transit as a homeless shelter). Fare evasion is a symptom; the real issue is it being politically unviable to have a police force actively
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by kory 4y ago
I live near a rapid bus line in Seattle. One stop is a block away from my house, and the other stop is 2 blocks from the office. The traffic to the office is always awful, so a pleasant ride to the office, skipping traffic via dedicated bus
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2 points by kory 4y ago|1 comments
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by kory 4y ago
Not really a rescinding of a signed offer for business reasons, since the person in question didn’t get a Visa. The offer would have had to be rescinded regardless. Looks more like they weren’t able to get a Canadian offer letter approved,
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by kory 5y ago
Americans don’t want to live in small apartments, and large portion haven’t had to do so for 50 years. Building more small units with no yard to replace the housing that is most desirable is not something Americans will be willing to accept
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by kory 5y ago
But the parent poster says he wants to live in a single family home. Zoning in Seattle is not a problem for families. They want single family housing. Demolishing beautiful old pre war neighborhoods for developers isn’t going to entice fami
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by kory 5y ago
“Life where I’m from” has a great video on why japan’s zoning helped it become so livable. https://youtube.com/watch?v=wfm2xCKOCNk
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by kory 5y ago
It is nonsense? Just a few months ago, facebook was banning people for the “lab leak theory,” and now it’s a widely accepted possibility. Facebook bans people now for writing about vaccine side effects.
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by kory 5y ago
https://archive.md/EEZ0f
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by kory 5y ago
Government should prove it can spend the money well before asking for more. The waste and incompetence I see in government is astounding. It's much worse than anything I've seen in private corporations. Speaking specifically for A

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