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by rtlfe 5y ago
> People in Europe drive cars. Of course some do, but far fewer than in the US. France and UK have roughly half the number of cars per capita compared to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_veh
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by rtlfe 5y ago
> We're not Europeans here, Raphael. We don't want to be. Speak for yourself. Almost everybody I know would be thrilled to see better transit, walking, and bicycle options even if it means getting rid of their car and yard.
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by rtlfe 5y ago
> If you want to work at a FAANG, specialization is the name of the game. Strong disagree. Most FAANG dev hiring is through generalist pipelines, and plenty of L5/L6 devs move around between different domains and tech areas.
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by rtlfe 5y ago
I shared this link in a sibling comment, but here it is again: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/neighborhood-defenders/... A big problem is that local governments place a lot of weight on "community
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by rtlfe 5y ago
Pretty good at what? They're good at giving outsized power to a small number of wealthy white old people, but I don't think we want that. This is well researched: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/neig
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by rtlfe 5y ago
I'm not sure how to respond to somebody so confidently asserting something so obviously false, but maybe photographic evidence will help? https://nypost.com/2020/12/20/cyclists-frozen-out-of-bike-la...
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by rtlfe 5y ago
Honestly the easy solution is to ignore the CBs. Surveys show that the majority of people want more bus and bike lanes, so just build them and skip all of the "community input" aka "giving veto power to a small minority"
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by rtlfe 5y ago
If you go to any community board meeting, you'll hear old people rant for hours about how their cars are essential and bike are destroying the city. And for some reason, this is who politicians listen to.
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by rtlfe 5y ago
> you're comparing apples and oranges More like comparing apples and shotguns.
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by rtlfe 5y ago
1.5 miles is not just doable, it's trivial. 10mph is a pretty easy speed on a bike, which would make it take 9 minutes. If you build up some strength and/or upgrade to an ebike you can cut that in half.
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by rtlfe 5y ago
We're really bad at step 2 in NYC. Bike lanes are just additional parking spaces.
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by rtlfe 5y ago
> Where I’m at it’s mostly NIMBYs and small business owners. It's business owners here too. There are many studies showing that bike lanes create more customers than parking spaces, but the owners don't believe it and consiste
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by rtlfe 5y ago
1. If you change the laws to simply allow more density and mixed use, things will start changing soon. Especially in high-cost cities. Governments don't need to invest any money here, just time. 2. People tend to underestimate how far
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by rtlfe 5y ago
> Removing on street parking, when our city already has a parking deficit. Building free/cheap parking spaces creates a dependency spiral where there's never enough. Counterintuitively, the best way to meet parking demand is to
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by rtlfe 5y ago
Amsterdam in the 1960s was just as full of cars as US cities are today. Here's some video: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amsterdam/comments/d3484b/amsterdam... If we start today and incorporate the lesso
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by rtlfe 5y ago
I don't think "usually" is close to accurate. People go to work, restaurants, friends' homes, etc without transporting any cargo. Big grocery runs are maybe once a week.
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by rtlfe 5y ago
Yes, single family zoning must be abolished. Doing so will cost governments no money and is among the most effective changes to improve housing affordability and climate change.
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by rtlfe 5y ago
People say the same thing about winter in the Northeast. Then when they see how convenient and freeing it is to ride a bike, they quickly learn to deal with the weather.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
Can you turn it on/off without logging out? I use i3 at work, and I'd guess I would want it 20% of the time for my personal computer.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
How is it not ethical? They're stopping people from losing money buying something that is overpriced.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
To me, the thing that really makes online arguments different than in person ones is that I'm usually not trying to persuade the person I'm directly replying to, I'm trying to present an alternate viewpoint to the other peopl
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by rtlfe 6y ago
The thing you just called non-toxic definitely sounds toxic to me.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> Indeed if the recruiter/hiring manager even gets a whiff that you're potentially wasting their time - it's game over. It really depends on the company and role and person. In some situations there can be years of conver
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by rtlfe 6y ago
I got a fancy keyboard with layers and set one to have arrow keys on hjkl so I can use them everywhere.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
I think it's pretty similar. Like are UX and Eng working together to solve problems? Or is some VP telling UX what to design then telling Eng to implement the design.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> Can somebody elaborate on the stolen/corruption angle? It's easy to find articles about stolen electricity [1][2], but since these are both about people who were arrested it seems the governments weren't helping them. [1
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> $400 is extremely cheap for a bike frame, It's on the low end, but certainly not "extreme". A nice steel frame like Surly or Soma is $500-600. "Extremely cheap" would be something like Huffy that is under $200
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by rtlfe 6y ago
I think the question really was: why didn't you stop after the first time?
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by rtlfe 6y ago
How does this compare to existing batteries for environmental impact?
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by rtlfe 6y ago
Photo hosting might have been the biggest immediate change back in 2012, but since then there have been a lot of features added to IG that share a lot with FB. You've probably seen things like recommendations of people to follow in IG

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