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   by rp1 5y ago

   If someone has a mortgage on a home, their net worth is still positive (unless they're under water). If you put 20,000 down on a 100,000 home and get a 80,000 mortgage, then your net worth is still 20,000. Yes, you have 80,000 in debt,
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   by rp1 5y ago

   Manhattan has congestion pricing. And the tolls to get in are $20. I’m sure Leonia would be happy to charge commuters those rates.
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   by rp1 5y ago

   Exactly. The streets are public. They are paid for by the taxes collected by the town. And now Google is using them to increase the utility of their app, which benefits Google and their shareholders. The increased traffic causes wear and te
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   by rp1 5y ago

   https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.northjersey.com/amp/7724380... Basically, the state doesn’t want towns to have the ability to limit traffic on their roadways.
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   by rp1 5y ago

   True, but the app is inducing demand for cars, so it’s both a symptom and a cause.
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   by rp1 5y ago

   Google routes interstate traffic through our little neighborhood during rush hour traffic, causing multiple hours of complete gridlock everyday. Absolutely disgusting that they’re allowed to extract profit from public resources like roadway
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   by rp1 5y ago

   This is separate from your question, but never trust someone who says “you’ll get promoted in X time” unless that person is directly responsible for making that happen. Promotions in large companies are done by committee, and you can be den
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   by rp1 5y ago

   With music, you can both verify that a person liked the music as a teenager, and present that person with other music sharing the same qualities to see if they like it enough. This provides empirical evidence regarding this theory on their
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   by rp1 5y ago

   I’m always skeptical of these types of explanations of human behavior. What is the thought process exactly? Do people think to themselves “Hmm, I need a quirk that makes me different”? I can’t imagine having such a thought. Why things appea
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    by rp1 5y ago

    You'll be paying over 30% more in the worst case, just fyi.
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    by rp1 5y ago

    I like to imagine CO2 in solid form (dry ice) to help visualize the scale of the problem. 1) Burning a gallon of gasoline releases almost 10 kgs of CO2 into the atmosphere. Let's say the average driving American consumes 1.5 gallons of