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by lewis500 8y ago
Congestion pricing is certainly do-able, and it would have the significant advantage of charging all vehicles rather than just TNC's. But it is technologically more complex to install readers everywhere than to tell TNC's to vary
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by lewis500 8y ago
"TNCs had little impact on congestion in the western and southern San Francisco neighborhoods." Recently Supervisor Peskin apparently reached a deal to impose a "net fares" tax on the TNC's. I wonder if they will co
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by lewis500 8y ago
Can someone knowledgeable answer something: if the judgement goes against Harvard, would this apply to faculty and staff hires, too? I recall in grad school being in an econ
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by lewis500 8y ago
Yeah that’s who my mom is descended from and I’m from Alabama. What happened is There was a migration of scots Presbyterians to Northern Ireland, and then from Northern Ireland to Appalachia. In the south they call that ethnicity scots-Iris
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by lewis500 8y ago
I was real interested in this article since my ancestors were about 80% scots or welsh. Welsh is undeniably a language, but Scots makes you wonder about the difference between a language and a dialect. I found this article by a famous lingu
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by lewis500 8y ago
Our cities are "crowded" and "unlivable"? If they're so unlivable then why do so many people want to live there that they're crowded? Especially when the country is full of suburbs...suburbs, where, in fact, mo
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by lewis500 8y ago
This whole piece makes me ask what a bubble really means. The author admits to having been wrong about housing prices since 2000. But that’s okay because bubbles can, apparently, last decades. If a bubble can last a very long, but totally i
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by lewis500 8y ago
Is this still true? I’ve read some eastern euoprean countries are suffering from very low birth rates. Also interesting the US seems to have a sort of fertility zone right down the middle https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPor
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by lewis500 8y ago
Parking minimums are based on a handbook full of pseudoscience. When city engineers crack open the ITE handbook, it’s the equivalent of a doctor cracking open some old medieval text about humours.
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by lewis500 8y ago
They don't advocate having no roads and transit...just being more cautious about expanding whatever infrastructure you already have. They are a foil to the idea that infrastructure expansion is always an "investment." Their e
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by lewis500 8y ago
Why would you have to increase taxes to let people build corner stores? They aren't proposing government-run corner stores.
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by lewis500 8y ago
Strong Towns is much more focused on NOT building new roads than on building new transit. Overall, the message is that new infrastructure of all kinds can be unsustainable financially.
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by lewis500 8y ago
I am more expressing surprise that a consultant can get their ideas covered so widely by posting a paper on their website. I searched and there are dozens of articles reporting these claims. I think it speaks to a general scorn for Uber an
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by lewis500 8y ago
The Davis study doesn't make any of the big claims that are getting attention here. Being academic and from a good department, it is much more measured: "Net vehicle miles traveled (VMT) changes are unknown." "While this
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by lewis500 8y ago
I don’t understand why this study is receiving so much attention. It’s not peer reviewed. It doesn’t contain actual data collection (the estimates are all extrapolated in a way the author considers reasonable, not measured data from traffic
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by lewis500 8y ago
Lyx is great. Although I’ve moved on to just typing straight latex, I probably would never have gotten started if it weren’t for Lyx. I still use it to set tables and such, because coding latex tables can be a huge pain. A great project.
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by lewis500 8y ago
This is great. Love the idea of passing components as props regularly. I have done this a few times before, but I guess in my head I still think of components as something "real" and so passing them down as prop data feels wrong s
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by lewis500 8y ago
vicapow wrote the code for this one; i take no responsibility for the horrors that await you
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by lewis500 8y ago
keeps getting posted and going to the top, almost like HN is a memoryless process... :) glad yall are still enjoying it.
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by lewis500 8y ago
> Because Julia is fast and expressive and extensible, in Julia everything can be Julia and not a mashup of other languages. I've been doing some work in Python recently, and it's painful to have Python lists, numpy arrays, Pan
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by lewis500 8y ago
Yep and I also went to University of Pittsburgh. Not a coincidence.
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by lewis500 8y ago
1042 miles per hour is a fast car
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by lewis500 8y ago
Regarding roads, it's not true that building roads can't alleviate traffic congestion---although there are special cases where building roads makes travel times. It depends on the network. In general though we should expect buildi
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by lewis500 8y ago
You can define culture many ways obviously, but my point is that you can distinguish behaviors that move with the individual to other places and those that are part of stable equilibria, where one's choice only makes sense in light of
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by lewis500 8y ago
Regarding the line-cutting/cheating he talks about. I like to distinguish between "culture" and something vaguer, which is what type of equilibrium someone is trapped in. I started to think this way when I lived in Argentina.
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by lewis500 8y ago
That is a remarkable cost for a structured parking space! In America the construction cost is like $20-30k (17-25k EUR). I bet you could find projects for more than that but nothing like 70k EUR.
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by lewis500 8y ago
Yeah all I see here is incoherent posturing. "Most of them [the people living on RSA] indeed live out of poverty, but they are no incentivized whatsoever to get any extra training or even to find a job." This is a plain lie and, b
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by lewis500 8y ago
I keep reading stories about how it's a puzzle that more jobs are being created but wages aren't going up. Part of it seems to be this new ingenuity at finding marginal workers and getting them to take jobs. Paul Krugman has a the
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by lewis500 8y ago
I'm joking. this is clearly the agenda of retirees and busybodies trying to keep things just the way they are, to the detriment of young people.
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by lewis500 8y ago
Baffling why Vermont's population is aging rapidly, given its "charming village centers and idyllic surrounding farms and forests in four historic towns." This is what young people crave. Millenials just can't get enough

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