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by osdiab 7y ago
This statement is way too sweeping... Some forms of pessimism probably reflect that, I'm an optimistic, not-depressed person who sees things that way - but I know plenty of often-depressed people who fail to see their circumstances cle
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by osdiab 7y ago
Fixing income inequality != "giving people money", and great teachers still can't help a ton if the kids they're teaching have precarious backgrounds. Regardless, as you mentioned, we need to do both; but based on the re
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by osdiab 7y ago
Eh, but identifying the poor riders opens a door to a system to game, a sprawling bureaucracy to manage all that, and the social stigma/hit to dignity of being seen in such a program... I like the simplicity of a flat fare since the ov
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by osdiab 7y ago
I always liked the social implications of flat fares - poor people tend to have to live farther away so distance pricing, and especially peak pricing, basically makes life harder for people who already have a hard life. I think that the who
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by osdiab 7y ago
I don’t really want to discuss further, but after rereading OPs post I don’t really see how he’s making an argument exclusively supported by feelings that flatly dismisses logic as a tool for discussion. I encourage you to step away from th
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by osdiab 7y ago
Why so black and white? OP’s saying that there are other things besides “logic” (which is often itself just masked “feelings” from someone unaware of their own biases) that are relevant to the problems of the world; not saying that logic al
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by osdiab 7y ago
As someone with friends and family personally impacted by that conflict, I’d wager quite a few people care and think that resolving that geopolitical issue is very contributive to society.
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by osdiab 7y ago
Look through that list of injustices. If you're a mainstream Chinese person, most of it doesn't strongly affect you. And additionally, if you're a mainstream Chinese person, your life is very positively affected by the surge
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by osdiab 7y ago
The utter lack of public transit is my main issue. Even the cities that have some tend to be very unreliable. Though to your point, interstates tend to be pretty good, but but a lot of random cities’ surface streets can be pretty bad, there
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by osdiab 7y ago
Similarly cities often have overly restrictive minimum housing sizes as well, often induced by low-density zoning, parking requirements, or other laws. That makes economical, tiny apartments for singles/childless couples scarce; so nat
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by osdiab 7y ago
No, he meant Styled Components, a popular library for styling React components.
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by osdiab 7y ago
I don’t rent furniture but I see the appeal - I myself am not in a stable living situation (nor do I want one at the moment), I like living in different places and don’t want to deal with moving, reselling or disposing furniture every time
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by osdiab 7y ago
I want more transit too, but I think transit faces the same effect - add more capacity, and if there’s demand it will fill the capacity. Plenty of very very built out transit systems in the world that are constantly pushing full capacity. B
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by osdiab 7y ago
There are other mediums of digital communication than IM and video chat. Old school forums are one, more modern things like Twist are another. I really liked the latter for corporate talk - good balance between organization of information b
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by osdiab 7y ago
There’s a (behind paywall) Quartz special on exactly this with SoftBank Vision Fund https://qz.com/1565699/the-complete-guide-to-sovereign-wealt...
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by osdiab 7y ago
I prefer the subs tho mainly because the voice acting in different languages is usually not great - movies’ original languages usually sound much more natural.
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by osdiab 7y ago
For a real-life anecdote, last year I lived in Tokyo in a 6 jo apartment (tatami bed + living room around 110 sq ft + about equal size bathroom and kitchen), and my rent 40 minutes by train from Shibuya station and 15 minutes from Kichijoji
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by osdiab 7y ago
That said it's nothing compared to the homeless situation in SF. My Japanese gf visited SF for 2 months, and she was seriously shocked by how horrible the homelessness situation was. She never imagined any developed country could have
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by osdiab 7y ago
While I'm totally in favor of what you're saying - it could be that the article means greater Tokyo and not just the central part of Tokyo (to bring the comparison similar to the Bay Area one), which would amount to more like 39 m
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by osdiab 8y ago
I heard the market for buying is different than many other places because of the social pressure to own - when a man marries for example they often need to have a house, or else it could put the marriage in jeopardy, in effect increasing th
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by osdiab 8y ago
What I see people missing here is the transportation aspect - land is only scarce in San Francisco if it’s permanently limited to a 7 by 7 mile square. Transportation increases the viable size of where you can live to access the city. So ma
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by osdiab 8y ago
I took a long-haul, slow train in China from Shanghai to Guilin (18 hours or so) and that was a great experience - watching the Chinese landscape go by, really cheap to get a sleeper car with my friends, and no delays. The high speed rail i
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by osdiab 8y ago
They’ve done a ton of stuff to limit emissions, from flat out banning coal furnaces in some regions (somewhat prematurely) and halting all construction for future coal plants, investing in mass transit much more than any country on the plan
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by osdiab 8y ago
What are the aesthetic consequences of having a more developed jaw from chewing tough foods as you grow? Given how sensitive people are to cosmetics when it comes to their teeth, would doing this to your child positively impact their dental
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by osdiab 8y ago
I went to Stanford for Computer Science, and from my friends who went to Ohio State, equivalent courses sound significantly harder there to me - not much grade inflation, larger amounts of work. It’s anecdotal but I think the primary differ
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by osdiab 8y ago
It's the classic induced demand phenomenon - when roads are expanded, people drive a lot more, and congestion remains the same. Same thing with transit - people ride it up to the point where it's miserably crowded. Both are signs
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by osdiab 8y ago
I hope that startups like Omni ( https://beomni.com ) / autonomous cars + cheap remote storage end up working out well, because it would allow people to not actually need to own the things they’re not sentimental about. I lov
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by osdiab 8y ago
I'm all for policy like that, as well as generally reducing zoning restrictions in general as far as housing capacity goes. Japanese nuisance zoning is a pretty good system, for example. But my main point is, it takes interventions tha
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by osdiab 8y ago
So long as getting a decent place to live is dependent on income, it's unsurprising to me that cities - which are established because of their ability to produce outsized economic value - become the domain of people who produce outsize
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by osdiab 8y ago
I think what he’s saying is that the industry’s still working despite the fact that such experts are generally not present, and that this can continue. Separately, I think that people consistently haven’t actually penalized most companies f

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