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by mjmahone17 4y ago
The logical thing in this case seems to be to make the crosswalks an X pattern: have them go right through the roundabout. Could probably add a mid-block crosswalk for crossing to the other side. I doubt that’s what will be done, but it see
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
You don’t want to do this now, but there’s a reasonable world we end up in where either inflation hovers at 1%, like most the last 5 years (so you earn 2% by paying down a mortgage, vs -1% when putting it into a savings account), or interes
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
A union is much less likely to allow a company to use the cheapest health plan possible. So their purview is larger, as they need to ensure their members have access to basic benefits other countries provide “as right” regardless of union m
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
I read it more as there being a mismatch in promises: the managers promised that their teams are held to high standards, and promised that they expect high competence from their reports. If going in you believe your definition of high compe
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
In NY illegal idling is an actual crime (at least in a lot of people’s eyes). It’s a violation of the commons by outsiders who are transient, so aren’t affected by the pollution they’re causing. I am greatly in favor of allowing people to b
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
How is this any different from a reward for information leading to someone’s arrest?
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Learning JavaScript is such a small cost for an experienced developer who has done any kind of similar work in any language, relative to the 3-6 months of company level ramp up you propose, as to be essentially meaningless. If you need a JS
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
New York City grew by 700,000 people between 2010 and 2020, while the metro area grew by 1.15 million. I’m not sure where you’re getting the declining figures from?
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
That isn’t the only response. There are a lot of things NATO can do without committing ground forces: - NATO could ensure a supply train for material coming from Poland and Romania: all Ukrainian forces need to do is hold a corridor from Po
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
> Even if you take in equivalent money (which you don't) having poorer people to serve results in catches like this in every endeavor of municipal government from the library to the roads to the police. This isn’t totally true. Poor
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
NYC bans truck+trailer lengths over 55’ long, which bans all 53’ trailers. Unfortunately the city doesn’t do a good job enforcing this requirement, so we have a few dozen people die each year due to trucks that don’t fit on the street hitti
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
It’s not necessarily that it’s unpopular: zoning laws make it mostly illegal. Lots of cities disallow too many unrelated adults from living in the same house, and Single Room Occupancy is mostly illegal to build. I actually agree and know a
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
> Honestly we even have the technology to do it now just limited will if things ever get real bad that would change very quickly. COVID tells me that’s highly unlikely. We literally have a movement rejecting known-to-save-lives technolog
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Road usage isn’t necessarily success. For a political region, economic activity is usually considered a success. If by building a larger road through your city, you induce people to live outside of your city instead of in it, then you’ve ad
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Starting around the renaissance, we kind of had “open source fairies” in the form of research grants, professorships and other forms of patronage. If you look at 19th century scientists, it seems like most the famous ones weren’t paid to do
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Right exactly. So long as at least one of you uses a coin flip to switch between the strategy they last suggested and the strategy you last suggested it will work.
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
The coin flip on the main puzzle is assuming each person proposes exactly one color: do you switch or stay the same. So there is guaranteed to be at most a pair of colors, and the goal is to eventually get agreement between those two option
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
I believe the FDNY has not yet approved battery systems like the Tesla Powerwall for use in residential solar systems.
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
The one thing helmet laws seem to do that may be a public health risk, at least in cities with bike share systems, is suppress how many people ride. When you cannot ride a bike without a helmet, a good chunk of people will opt to take a car
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
A point the article also alludes to: often people are only “unicorns” due to the specific context they’re working on. Move them to a different project, and your high value person may be a net negative. And it’s not possible for people who a
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
I’m not sure why responsible riders wouldn’t want to see huge groups of riders asserting their equal right to public space? Critical Mass helped spur NYC’s bike lane growth. If you’re against direct action that’s fine, but it’s hard for me
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Housing within bicycle commuting distance (under 5 miles) in many cities is abundant, if you’re willing to forgo a car. Especially if you convert the car savings to rent or mortgage payments. Basically, if you can be all-in on not driving,
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
In NY a good number of people use Citibike even when owning their own bike, because there are a lot of factors like not needing to carry a lock, being able to mix biking and transit, etc. that make it more attractive for some trips. It also
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
It would be amazing for students. In college a lot of students get a device that needs to last for 4 years, not knowing what classes they’ll end up taking (often they switch majors). Lots of students will get iPad Pros as their only device.
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Maybe we need a class-offensive suit? Basically allow suing a class as a whole, where if the class loses each member (named in the suit up front) gets a lien? Or perhaps if you can identify the tree of dissemination, you can roll up all the
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
This is an issue with your workplace. Yes, a parent is essentially threatening to be fired every time there is an issue with their kid. What we need is more people implicitly threatening the same whenever they have non-kid issues crop up th
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
That’s a bit defeatist. The Dutch took the approach of treating car crashes similarly to how the FAA treats plane crashes: do a deep analysis of what occurred, what the root structural issues were (for instance, is it difficult for a car tu
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
If a home has a heat pump (most AC systems), heating primarily with electricity isn’t that hard, at least in milder cold temperatures. Most homes in the colder areas of the US heat with gas because the cost per joule of gas is a lot less th
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
There’s a pretty simple solution there: move the fossil fuel subsidies to subsidize people directly. For instance by paying the first $N of their fuel bills (where N is determined based on something like the expected required energy for the
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by mjmahone17 5y ago
Maybe? But sometimes people don’t see “obvious wins” for a very long time. Look at Musk’s electric car story: there were a variety of electric cars that companies killed off (like the EV1) years earlier than the Tesla was released. It’s unc

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