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by so33 8y ago
The song may have taken 15 minutes to write but I can guarantee it did not take 15 minutes to record, produce, and promote the song.
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by so33 8y ago
Transit systems can run backup buses on the roads when the trains are down for a significant amount of time.
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by so33 8y ago
More anecdata: I have seen: - Someone watching a video on YouTube while driving - Someone on their phone, with headphones on, while driving People are using their cars like they’re already driverless ;)
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by so33 8y ago
>it's worth noting that the Stockholm subway system is operated by MTR Corporation, a for-profit corporation based on Hong Kong It’s also worth noting that the MTR Corporation is majority owned by the Hong Kong government and, at le
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by so33 8y ago
Some BMWs do this: https://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/23/active-sound-design-enha...
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by so33 8y ago
From the article linked in the article: https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/education/i-promise-school-a... >I Promise kids’ school days will start an hour later than their peers. They’ll also receive an addit
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by so33 8y ago
Competition with MasterCard, Discover, and Amex should hold them back from doing this, because at such punitive rates merchants would definitely stop accepting them. I believe Amex is only able to get away with its highest-in-the-industry r
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by so33 8y ago
It’s win-win: Starbucks keeps their most loyal customers loyal and likely uses the “unspent” money to subsidize the loyalty program.
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by so33 8y ago
Slightly off-topic: My "favorite" fee I've encountered is Spirit Airlines' "Unintended Consequences Fee": https://www.cnn.com/2012/02/01/travel/spirit-fee/index.html
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by so33 8y ago
>Given that planning and zoning boards making it illegal to build anything other than low density suburbs are elected officials, their actions are pretty good evidence of preferences... ... of the voting population, whose demographics un
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by so33 8y ago
The aerial picture of downtown Houston with all its parking lots is a favorite to show the deleterious effects of mandatory parking minimums: http://www.cdandrews.com/2014/09/surface-parking-lot-design-...
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by so33 8y ago
Rural areas are not the problem. People will have to use their cars in rural areas no matter what. But that’s fine - there’s no density there. You don’t see people complaining about traffic in rural areas either. The issue is the cities, an
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by so33 8y ago
>Q-line Most American streetcar systems suffer the same fate: Shiny but slow, much like a theme park monorail; and sold first as a way to boost property values and economic development. They are designed to do everything except provide a
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by so33 8y ago
>There are timeless Brutalist, Modernist, Classical, and Contemporary buildings just like there are ugly, unremarkable, bad examples. The same is probably true of Facadism. I think one of the original goals of facadism was to blend a new
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by so33 8y ago
>Fixed-route 19th-20th century public transportation networks are inefficient because most of the vehicles are pretty empty most of the time. This makes these systems expensive on a passenger-per-seat-mile basis. Not to mention the colos
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by so33 8y ago
Uber, Lyft, and taxis don't just use subsidized infrastructure, it puts additional strain on that infrastructure compared to even single-occupancy vehicles. Uber cars circle around already heavily-congested roadways looking for fares (
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by so33 8y ago
The idea of Uber Express Pool is set up so that you walk to a designated pickup point, wait, and walk from a designated drop-off point. So, essentially, it's a tiny bus that makes stops along a route. But with less capacity than a bus
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by so33 8y ago
>In a downtown corridor during rush hour? Sure - I could totally see a lane full of just busses. However, most dedicated bus lanes won't be that busy. These are precisely the places where dedicated bus lanes and BRTs exist. BRT is c
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by so33 8y ago
Because pollution doesn't travel across city borders (In SimCity 4 at least), you can build a bunch of coal plants in your neighboring city, set up a neighbor deal for power in your "real" city... boom, clean air. For your
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by so33 8y ago
For many centuries, land ownership was (and in fact still is) the largest source of wealth. Historically, it conferred not only wealth but also power. This was the key characteristic of the feudal system.
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by so33 8y ago
Regulations like mandatory minimum lot sizes and density restrictions make it a lot harder for younger people to buy their own piece of the ownership pie, which creates scarcity, which in turn causes property values to skyrocket even furthe
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by so33 8y ago
This was sadly predictable. And according to the article, Google is making another app, a service that will not only depend on Google, but on carrier buy-in to a standard called "Rich Communication Services" as well. ( https:&#x2F
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by so33 8y ago
>Wouldn't squashing the voices of the "right-wing contingent" just lead to an (already implied) echo chamber of leftist thought? That implies it's only possible to be "right-wing" or "leftist".
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by so33 8y ago
The Facebook container is the "newer" extension, IIRC, released after the Cambridge Analytica news. Both extensions use an API called contextualIdentities: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebE
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by so33 8y ago
Not OP, but: >Firstly, there should be no real reason for the tunnels to be deeper than about 30-50 feet because sewers and utilities are all concentrated at backhoe depth, which is shallower even than that and building foundations are p
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by so33 8y ago
>I hope that this would be a boon for transit costs in America which are ridiculous compared to Europe [0]. What is special about America's underground bedrock, compared to Europe's, that today's existing tunnel boring tec
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by so33 8y ago
Many of these examples are outright deceptive. But I always thought that when "dark patterns/dark UX" practices are discussed, people are referring to those practices that are not overtly deceptive, but yet come up very close
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by so33 9y ago
The best case scenario is that Apple has cooked up some sort of awesome translation layer between the Cocoa Touch APIs and Cocoa, letting iOS apps function almost like native macOS apps. Hopefully this will happen. But I won't let it g
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by so33 9y ago
I have always viewed traditional mattress companies as very sketchy. I can't find a more authoritative source than Vox that corroborates my view, but here it is: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/5/8151607/
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by so33 9y ago
Then we should only call UberPool ride sharing. UberX really just boils down to an app-based taxi service.

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