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by pandaman 2y ago
> that's much more efficient in terms of space than a world where 80% of trips are via car and 20% are walked. I feel like you are trying to say that it will require less space? Like roads can be made narrower or shorter? Why though
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by pandaman 2y ago
I am sorry, you are still making little sense. The space taken by a car is the same no matter how many people walk, crawl or stay at home and don't go anywhere. It's more than a man but less than a horse carriage. And since you st
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by pandaman 2y ago
And a car takes significantly less space than a carriage with a horse so I don't see what are you trying to say here. You compared length of a car to the length of a foot and made far reaching conclusions but when offered to compare a
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by pandaman 2y ago
How does it matter how they were used? It's not like they shrunk when used for "noble" causes from your PoV and required narrower roads (and from my reading of classics, horse-drawn carriages were used by city dwellers for in
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by pandaman 2y ago
There is a fixed time in every supermarket trip no matter how big or small it is. Multiple trips accrue these costs. For example, I live next to a supermarket, a big one. It's a 3 minute walk door to door, 6 min round trip. Inside it t
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by pandaman 2y ago
Before the very first car has been made people in the West and Asia had been using horse-drawn carriages for centuries and built cities to accommodate those. If your logic is sound then adoption of cars has shrunk the cities as a horse-draw
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by pandaman 2y ago
"Sold a million" might be something cool in music, where you get a "platinum" for selling a million of CDs but a PS2 full price game was $50, of which ~$10 went to Sony for license and $10 went to various expenses from s
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by pandaman 2y ago
Yes, Killzone, a PS2 game. Not PS3 game Killzone 2 or PS4 game Killzone: Shadow Fall . We don't have benchmarks for the studio model from PS3 on as by the time PS3 came out the studio model was dead and AAA development was done by p
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by pandaman 2y ago
Shadow Fall was a PS4 game. Killzone was on PS2, and has not made any significant sales (and a million in sales on PS1/PS2 was par for the course, Crash sold multiple millions and had <50 dev team, for example).
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by pandaman 2y ago
It's incentives. A studio nowadays is either outright owned by the publisher or is signed up for development with little or zero equity. In this situation the only source of income for a studio is the milestone payments or salary paid
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by pandaman 2y ago
This is not "days on market" in aggregate though. This is the percentage of the current listings, which are older than a month. Imagine a very hot market, where almost anything gets snatched the same day. Any listings in such a ma
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by pandaman 2y ago
You are right, I stand corrected - it's only half of the federal income tax collected (which was ~2.2T in 2023).
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by pandaman 2y ago
The US pays over 1T in interest for its debt per quarter at this time [1]. Pretty much all collected income taxes go into debt servicing. Debt matters because if you keep doing this you run out of taxes to service the debt and then people w
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by pandaman 2y ago
It is not unusual from "urbanists". Whenever things they've heard from notjustbikes or read on Strong Towns clash with reality, they go into first two stages of grief: denial and anger. Hopefully you will reach the other thre
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by pandaman 2y ago
You might want to check with a lawyer or, at least, with Google, what does "fiduciary responsibly" mean.
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by pandaman 2y ago
So it's just the name of the position? Somebody with a title of "chief nutritional officer" has to live for the employer and somebody doing the same job with the title of "associate project manager" doing the same j
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by pandaman 2y ago
Officers are employees too. At what level do you make distinction?
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by pandaman 2y ago
>You need roads for trucks, but not highways. I am not sure what does this mean. You want unpaved roads for trucks? And when there are rains and they become impassable you just go without cargo in your dense cities? > you can make bot
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by pandaman 2y ago
Not quite. You will have to pay for endless freeways and you can pay for a subway system on top. You see, even in the most European and sophisticated cities in the world they don't have cargo subways. All the shops need stuff to sell d
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by pandaman 2y ago
If the CEO has to work for the shareholders benefit even outside the work then what about the rank-and-file? Should not all the Amazon employees be forced to shop only at amazon.com and WFM? Should not all Microsoft employees use only Micro
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by pandaman 2y ago
The athletes can customize the bikes they are given by the sponsors as the sponsor is interested in winning the race even more than the athletes.
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by pandaman 2y ago
>Cycling without a helmet may not be statistically safer. See for example "The Ultimate Question: With or Without a Helmet?" I believe you wanted to say "may be statistically safer" because the article you referenced
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by pandaman 2y ago
Is this "Latin machismo"? Look at the cyclists on the streets, I don't know where you live but everywhere I've been in the US at least half of them are without a helmet. It just appears that most people don't believ
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by pandaman 2y ago
As someone who actually moved to Texas from California I am calling bs. I pay less in local taxes than I did in CA despite my income growing more than double. It's not just the lack of income tax but also lower sales tax, lower vehicle
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by pandaman 2y ago
Trails and bike lanes too. If you want an electric motorcycle - get one, get a license, register it and stay the fuck off the bike paths.
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by pandaman 2y ago
It's not "emotional", it's "regulation-evading" that people are looking for. They want a moped without registration, license, insurance and all other things that may accompany one depending on jurisdiction. As
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by pandaman 2y ago
You could buy a 5.42kg steel bike with a carbon fork in 2019 https://www.bikeradar.com/news/worlds-lightest-steel-road-bi... , given that a regular steel fork is about 800g, even if the original carbon fork is 0g, you c
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by pandaman 2y ago
How do you know? Do you believe weight weenies are only into steel and this is why they don't buy ultralight carbon bikes (there are few under 3kg carbon/composite bikes that had been made but nobody bothers with industrial produc
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by pandaman 2y ago
Non-racers appreciate light and comfortable bikes too (if anything it's much easier to load a 20 pounds bike on a car/bus rack than a 30 pounds one), this is why carbon is now even in the midrange consumer segment. And with the tu
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by pandaman 2y ago
You can make a steel frame bike which will be lighter than the UCI weight limit with modern technology. It's just nobody cares to make one because the "unracer" crowd who believe steel frames are magic, won't be spending

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