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by mertd 6y ago
Not mentioned but there is also stabilization, which helps immensely.
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by mertd 6y ago
and the number of people who are actually qualified to dispatch such advice is even smaller.
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by mertd 6y ago
and comparing mpg assumes they will cover the same distance in 7h.
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by mertd 6y ago
The photos in the article are not enhanced for dramatic effect. This is really how it looks like in person. Hopefully this will finally hit some people hard and we'll reverse the decades of urban sprawl and environmental mismanagement.
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by mertd 6y ago
Your general point is true. I'm pointing out an alternative where zoning stays predominantly single family yet the real estate prices grow unbounded.
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by mertd 6y ago
> And the gain wouldn't exist with stricter zoning because it comes from the fact that your property is worth more when somebody can buy it and build twice as much housing on it. Counterpoint Bay Area. Industry hotspot, liberally al
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by mertd 6y ago
How do you mean it is going alright? Almost 30 students tested positive last week.
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by mertd 6y ago
Is that so? There was a period during industrial revolution, where people were hopelessly overworked but before that most people must have a had fairly well defined work-life boundaries.
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by mertd 6y ago
There is something about commuting that is a net stress inducer (whether by car or something else), whereas cooking is somehow relaxing.
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by mertd 6y ago
Maybe after not paying high street retail rent and wait staff salaries, margins go high enough to allow delivery, and don't forget the workday lunch market, which is more about convenience and sustenance.
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by mertd 6y ago
They rely on family. Grandparents or older siblings watch over the younger ones.
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by mertd 6y ago
Free market won't deliver to unprofitable zip codes, won't treat unprofitable diseases and cannot effectively account for negative or positive externalities created by a given business.
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by mertd 6y ago
It doesn't let you select the result to ctrl+c.
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by mertd 6y ago
How would it be illegal?
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by mertd 6y ago
You say like it is a bad thing but I'll take 12 hours in a nice stable train over 7 hours spent in going in and out of airports and sitting on economy airliner seats. I would actually pay a premium. This actually is reality today. Acel
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by mertd 6y ago
Lots of employers are remote until the end of the year. There is no good reason to renew or get into a new lease right now. It won't be clear whether rent drop is a real change until things are back to more normal.
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by mertd 6y ago
$56 per minute saved https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-yorkers-will-pay-56...
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by mertd 7y ago
Fix the outbreak then fix the financial system. The first one isn't the Fed's job.
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by mertd 7y ago
If you shift school an hour later and subsequently office schedules an hour later as well, aren't you reinventing standard time but calling it something else?
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by mertd 7y ago
The solution (adding a day every four years) doesn't seem specific to either.
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by mertd 7y ago
That's impossible without someone else subsidizing your delivery as it wouldn't pay the delivery person minimum wage.
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by mertd 7y ago
Caltrain is great as long as it shows up. But it is a single point of failure for many commutes and it does fail a lot.
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by mertd 7y ago
You might have it backwards. Traffic is increasing because we're adding offices but no housing nearby. Therefore people need to pour in from further out. With higher density, alternate transportation options become viable and attractiv
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by mertd 7y ago
Not every NIMBY is motivated by greed. Some just want to stay put, pay property taxes like it's 30 years ago and drive to their favorite burger shack in under five minutes. That particular generation also holds on to the doctrine that
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by mertd 7y ago
In a lot of North American towns, driving is not a choice.
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by mertd 7y ago
Where will the teachers and firefighters live if the cost of housing doubles but their pay only grows commensurate to inflation?
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by mertd 7y ago
You are overlooking healthcare costs. Most Americans are one fractured leg away from bankruptcy.
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by mertd 7y ago
This is a great idea and also is nearly impossible to implement. There is no way to tell how wealthy someone is and even then how much of that wealth is liquid.
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by mertd 7y ago
What about the retailer that sold the perfume? They'll usually auto sign up the customer to their product emails and/or adapt their landing page to customer's interests (like Amazon).
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by mertd 7y ago
This response is the most callous and gutting. People are genuinely raising concerns about things that are objectively broken here like housing, transit, income disparity and drug use, and right on cue someone comes along and says "the

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