lukas099

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by lukas099 3y ago
Usually renting is an easy workaround. For instance you can rent a private room at a pub for your yearly gathering. Or rent heavy equipment when you need it for your garden.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Great point.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> Why? Do the life choices of other individuals really cause you that much harm? I meant more emphasis on the 'kind of' in 'kind of annoying'. Maybe 'frustrating' would have been a better word. It is frustra
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by lukas099 3y ago
Your 'edge case' seems to be practically weekly, so that's fine for you but not what I was talking about.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> Those parties I throw are the highlight of my year. That's what renting is for. You can rent a better party room than your dining room for very little. > My parents staying here with me is important to me, I wouldn't have
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by lukas099 3y ago
I thought hybrids were the cost-conscious choice currently?
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by lukas099 3y ago
People focus too much on edge cases when making life decisions, imo. > We need a dining room for when we have parties (has a party once every 2 years; room sits empty 99% of the time) > We need a guest bedroom (guests
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by lukas099 3y ago
They're helping you find spots you missed.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> when you go to city council meetings residents and business owners ask for more and cheaper parking because it draws in business and keeps street parking available for residents. Apparently not that much, since that's the point of
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by lukas099 3y ago
You see it that way; I see it as we are taking one major step toward the goal.
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by lukas099 3y ago
There is already a lot of private parking infrastructure in cities, and it wouldn't take long for profit-seekers to build new parking garages where demand exists. The new law could include a phase-out period if it's a problem. Ove
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by lukas099 3y ago
No, by public parking I mean parking on public streets.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Not to mention that they were introduced by humans almost everywhere that they exist.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Building height is actually a tradeoff against habitat destruction, since taller buildings use less land but are ostensibly struck more often by birds.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Is this an actual thing? Like are there studies showing this and stuff?
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by lukas099 3y ago
I would like to know why you feel so confident.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Sadly I never got to live in a tier one city and probably never will. Please enjoy as much as you can!
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by lukas099 3y ago
For one, most jobs are not remote.
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by lukas099 3y ago
I vote we ban all free public parking and let the free market determine how much parking there is and where.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> End result: Nobody has space for a car, lots of demand for public transit, makes it worth building public transit. Also, far more tax revenue (from making land more productive) makes public transit more affordable for the city.
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by lukas099 3y ago
It's not making life shittier, it's making life better.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> Without other rules or planning to compensate, it creates a tragedy of the commons where every builder wants to offload their parking needs onto the rest of the neighborhood in order to save money. Good. Then more people will choose di
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by lukas099 3y ago
Don't forget the price of all the extra healthcare you need if you don't walk or bike anywhere.
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by lukas099 3y ago
One thing that made this worse for me is that it actually worked for the first 18 years or so of my life. School work was easy enough that I could be a perfectionist and actually get rewarded for it. But now that the work piles up it's
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by lukas099 3y ago
Any case law for shooting a bullet across state lines and hitting someone?
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by lukas099 3y ago
Valid for an average of all nudges. We need to do the same publication bias test for individual nudges.
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by lukas099 3y ago
I think the study you posted is valid, but I'll bet that some individual nudges really are effective.
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by lukas099 3y ago
That’s crazy to me that you have all that within a block of where you live. Are you in an East Coast city or something?
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by lukas099 3y ago
That’s fair and I’m sure that just a few can do a lot of damage
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by lukas099 3y ago
You should engage with the part of the article that talks about this. > Now, I can hear some people saying, people like cars and houses and privacy. That’s all there is to it. Was air conditioning a “revolution”? Stop telling people how

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