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by osdiab 8y ago
I do wonder if there's a breaking point where people won't be willing to pay the premium. Current rents are already severely stretching the budgets of your average entry-level techie. EDIT: some early evidence to that speculation:
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by osdiab 8y ago
Pretty sure people need money in order to have them decide how to spend it, and that most people can't personally save their way into affording million-dollar cancer treatments. I don't particularly trust cutthroat employers, who
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by osdiab 8y ago
There are plenty of examples of nice places that remain nice even as people move in. It's up to the city to be dynamic enough to adapt to a changing environment. In concrete terms, that means: building sufficient housing and infrastruc
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by osdiab 8y ago
Yep I think we see eye to eye on all of that. With a clarification that SF is great in particular for having professional, tech- or entrepreneurial-focused conversations, but that social scene is pretty weak otherwise. I've found that,
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by osdiab 8y ago
To color it in with an anecdote as a 27 year old who grew up in the suburbs and spent the last 7-ish years of my life in city centers: my personal preference is just that I like the presence of other people. I don’t feel bothered by lots of
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by osdiab 8y ago
I think it’s not necessarily in contrast - what works for you may vary but I think that’s only the case when the time and energy it takes to make a decision isn’t part of your calculus. It’s good to be conscientious when you’re making decis
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by osdiab 8y ago
Although they're not easily repairable, they remain usable so much longer than competition. Not sure if this source is accurate, but I've heard the statistic that 63% of iPhones ever made are still being used [1], which I'm p
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by osdiab 8y ago
Curious—have you ever actually been to China? Those exist, but a lot of the infrastructure is used a hell of a lot more than most American infrastructure, where passenger trains are so crappy nobody rides them except in a handful of cities,
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by osdiab 8y ago
Totally anecdotal, and I wasn't obese but only marginally overweight; but when I was in the USA, I couldn't seem to get any lighter than 165-170 pounds even when trying to diet and exercise heavily (like 3-4 times a week of strenu
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by osdiab 8y ago
I wonder if there’s a way to get the quality of reviews and rankings from Tabelog in the USA - for those who don’t know its the Japanese equivalent service and diners are so critical that most restaurants have 3 stars, 3.5 is an exceptional
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by osdiab 8y ago
I don’t really think of preprocessors the same way as something like this library or bootstrap, that provide specific prebaked components and layouts
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by osdiab 8y ago
The more web development I’ve done the more I’ve swung back to just writing CSS myself rather than depending on CSS frameworks; I’ve ended up seeing these less as ways to accelerate development for a team that is skilled at frontend, but in
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by osdiab 8y ago
Cities don't have to be loud. My neighborhood in Tokyo is the one of the quietest I've ever lived in but minutes from places that are denser than literally anywhere in the United States. Not having giant streets, as well as nuisan
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by osdiab 8y ago
The thing I dislike about infinite scroll is that almost everything that has it is intended to make you addicted and compulsively scroll more, to the point where I pretty much have sworn off any app that makes it a central part of the exper
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by osdiab 8y ago
It looks like the comments aren’t showing up properly when I’m on Safari on iOS in the blog post :P http://imgur.com/kFPTMaC
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by osdiab 8y ago
Yes! If it’s something that I can host as cloud functions or something that would be even cooler :) I’d contribute.
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by osdiab 8y ago
Except it's on fire really frequently—track fires caused by garbage are a fairly common cause of NYC subway delays. NYC is also riddled with inefficiency and corruption that bloats the price of everything they build, which create and e
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by osdiab 8y ago
An addendum: crime isn't just a law enforcement problem, it's reflective of broader societal ills like wealth inequality, poor education, and lack of access to opportunity. In my opinion, law enforcement is a bandaid for those sym
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by osdiab 8y ago
^^ key point, I'm glad to see it came from you actually! I'd add that it's rare to see well-used transit systems where stations end up being hotbeds of crime; it's mostly the poorly designed and barely utilized ones wher
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by osdiab 8y ago
I think treating it as vital infrastructure is one way to get it to work properly (assuming federal, state, and local gov't can get their act together enough to do a good job of it), I don't know much about the historical preceden
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by osdiab 8y ago
I'm not knowledgable about this, but does New York MTA own/commercialize the land above their stations or just the tracks/right of way? I always felt like in NYC it was really odd how the stations are usually really tiny and
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by osdiab 8y ago
The value of transit isn't the fact you rode on it, but the fact you get somewhere you want to go. Tokyo rail companies, and those of many other countries as well (Hong Kong comes to mind), also hold the ability to build shopping and a
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by osdiab 8y ago
I actually find Axios to be a pretty great news source. Lots of solid, insightful analysis on categorized topics delivered as regular newsletters that don’t take up all your time.
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by osdiab 8y ago
I tried out Twist with my team and I loved it. Much easier to keep up with corporate communications—people tag you on the threads you absolutely should care about, for the rest you can skip entire conversations if they aren't relevant
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by osdiab 8y ago
pure art, this website lit AF
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by osdiab 8y ago
In The SF Bay Area Sonja Trauss, SFYIMBY and friends actually did bring a lawsuit against the suburb of Lafayette for housing development. https://youtu.be/91g6N_JNnQE They also established a legal agency for doing exactly
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by osdiab 8y ago
While navigability of grids is nice, I kinda like it when cities have haphazard street layouts—older cities with chaotic street grids tend to be easier to walk around in (assuming you know where you're going) with slower traffic and sm
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by osdiab 8y ago
I've always been surprised by how expensive Princeton is even though short drives in any direction can be much cheaper. Students seem to be mostly in student housing anyway, and anybody who lives there in any other capacity probably ha
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by osdiab 8y ago
China, HK, Singapore have a lot of copy paste buildings lined up next to each other, which I find pretty odd to look at and dehumanizing/alienating to be surrounded by (though probably very efficient to build, and it seems like Chinese
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by osdiab 8y ago
I wonder how much the built environment impacts the independence we can give our children. For instance, regarding the milestone of safely crossing the road that this article mentions, does the common milestone age decrease in more pedestri

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