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by raldi 3y ago
It’s paying for infrastructure through cost reduction.
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by raldi 3y ago
> Now let's just remove the way people get about to doing all those things No, congestion pricing removes the obstacles slowing people down from doing all those things. Take for instance a plumber who still has to drive around. Yes,
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by raldi 3y ago
You seem to think the government makes money when someone drives a mile, but in fact it loses money — significantly more than if that person had taken transit instead. The fewer miles people drive, the more money the government has availabl
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by raldi 3y ago
An increase in gas taxes and road tolls would make people drive less, requiring less road maintenance, traffic policing, etc, and allow buses to move more efficiently, freeing up funding that can then go into improving transit.
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by raldi 3y ago
Do you have a citation for that claim? Here are a few refuting it: https://bikeportland.org/2016/01/25/low-income-households-dr... https://medium.com/100-hours/is-congestion-pricing-fair-
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by raldi 3y ago
If no one is driving, we can take the unbelievable amount of public spending currently going into subsidizing automobile traffic and redirect it to fund public transit.
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by raldi 3y ago
Lower-income Americans already take the bus far more than wealthy ones, who are much more likely to be driving. A congestion charge will fall disproportionately on the wealthy, and allow the buses carrying lower-income folks to move through
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by raldi 3y ago
Driving is hugely subsidized. This proposal is simply to slightly reduce that subsidy, which will continue to be hefty.
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Children 13, 9, 4, and 1 found alive in jungle 40 days after plane crash(washingtonpost.com)
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by raldi 3y ago
Ha, I also access the site exclusively through the old web interface, but I do tons of moderation there via my phone, and might phrase it as, it’s as natural as reading a novel on my phone, or watching a movie.
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by raldi 3y ago
Here’s a photo of Las Vegas table. Could you mark it up to show where the wire is supposed to be? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/las-vegas-coronavirus-...
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by raldi 3y ago
Me neither, and I’ve played Craps in many cities in several countries. I can’t find any google results for [craps table wire] either.
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by raldi 3y ago
That only says the house has permission to invalidate the roll, not that the player is committing a crime (as would be the case if they were, say, using a device to cheat).
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by raldi 3y ago
Even if there’s only one thing that could possibly go there, you shouldn’t omit the final
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by raldi 3y ago
It's hard to remember after 13 years, but for example if someone made a purchase and redeemed it, or checked the status of their subscription.
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by raldi 3y ago
Self-replying to add: This wasn’t a particularly frequent occurrence.
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by raldi 3y ago
It was neither read-heavy nor write-heavy.
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by raldi 3y ago
It wasn't an extremely hot table, and the scale of the data was well-bounded insofar as the only way for it to become non-negligible would be for us to have had revenue beyond our then-wildest dreams.
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by raldi 3y ago
We had lots of indexes on the user table; there was a separate table with details of paying users.
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by raldi 3y ago
If you have nothing to optimize yet, how will you know if you’re optimizing it right?
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by raldi 3y ago
Nope; it was used every time we needed to look up whether someone was a subscriber, which was cached for some things but not all of them.
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by raldi 3y ago
I had read a Joel Spolsky post about how they used to get an email every time they made a sale (“Ding!”) and the day they finally turned it off was full of pride. (I did that too, originally not even filtered out of my inbox.)
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by raldi 3y ago
When I wrote Reddit Gold (now called Reddit Premium) I intentionally left the paying-user table index-free, looking forward to the day it would become necessary. It hadn’t happened by the time I left the company, even though sales were exce
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by raldi 3y ago
It doesn't; it attacks the demand side instead, by paying farmers to not grow things.
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by raldi 3y ago
Asserting and considering are not the same thing.
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by raldi 3y ago
Is it really unscientific to consider the possibility that birds turn into mice when we see eggs turn into chickens and caterpillars turn into butterflies all the time?
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by raldi 3y ago
The expectation when a car is sold is that the ignition cannot be easily bypassed by an unskilled person using ordinary household items. There is no expectation when a window is sold that it cannot be smashed with a rock. Further details:
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by raldi 3y ago
I was so confused by this comment before I figured out you were actually straightforwardly telling the truth. Details: https://pinehollow.livejournal.com/26806.html
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by raldi 3y ago
Is “up” an even or odd number of meters?
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by raldi 4y ago
What do you think an American tourist overseas wants when they ask for [football scores]? Do you think an ergonomics engineer logged in from the office and a musician in their studio might want different things when they search for [keyboar

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