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by so33 9y ago
Staten Island is notably known to be conservative (having voted for Trump in 2016). And it is in NYC, so...
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by so33 9y ago
This is not a problem innate to cities, and it’s not even endemic within cities that have these problems.
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by so33 9y ago
I’m guessing you and your wife share a home and an IP address, and Facebook is using that to associate “your” ads with your wife’s FB account. Edit: How Facebook would get your browsing data, even if you’ve disabled things like ads and thos
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by so33 9y ago
I agree. But time and time again, Apple does something risky, it catches on (or at least doesn't matter as much as people think), and their decision proliferates throughout the industry while commentators tweet sarcastic, oh-so-clever
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by so33 9y ago
One of the top posts in this very comments section at the moment contradicts your claim.
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by so33 9y ago
A bus with 50 people is 49 cars taken off the road. Even with a self driving carpool option the bus still takes off 9 other vehicles (assuming 5 passengers in a vehicle).
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by so33 9y ago
In Canada, Indigo is a chain of bookstores just like B&N. To counter the threat of Amazon, they have dedicated a large amount of their stores’ square footage to a lifestyle concept that sells aesthetically pleasing stationery, home good
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by so33 9y ago
To play devil’s advocate: the reason Bing can implement their own AMP cache and conform to AMP pages so easily is because AMP is an open project.
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by so33 9y ago
It’s funny. All I hear about in my social circles is people complaining how PC everything is now. It seems like it’s rather PC to complain about political correctness.
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by so33 9y ago
Apple can lock down their devices however they damn please. No matter how much they lock it down, it will not directly affect the majority of people, who use Android. If Apple made everyone use Apple News, only a minority of people will be
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by so33 9y ago
Steve Jobs was right. HTML 5 really is the future of apps... at least under certain circumstances.
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by so33 9y ago
The NYT example is interesting. During the US presidential election I interpreted the needle’s fluctuations (on what was a simulation of an analog gauge–a skeuomorphism) to indicate some form of uncertainty in the data. This would not be de
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by so33 9y ago
Bluebird (mentioned by the parent) is a checking account alternative (read: not a real, FDIC-insured bank account). No one's loaning anything in this case. It's designed to appeal to people who, for one reason or another, cannot a
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by so33 9y ago
>My mom grew up in a small southern town in the '60s, and my impression is that many people there lived pretty close to work. In the 1960s there was approximately half the population in the United States that exists now. The problem
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by so33 9y ago
I feel like I have talked about cars and transit quite a bit, and everyone else has covered this down thread. But I'd like to address your other comments: > Overcrowdedness Again - when we are talking about increasing density we are
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by so33 9y ago
>feel-good-ism Trails and paths are considered (or should be considered) part of a city's recreation system as well. Chances are that the trail and bike path was converted from railway right-of-way meaning it was built for fairly ch
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by so33 9y ago
>super dense cities like Tokyo or New York can feel suffocating Not all of Tokyo looks like Shibuya Crossing! Do a Google search for "Tokyo residential neighborhood". You'll find mostly two- or three-story buildings. The m
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by so33 9y ago
In many large cities in Asia, the solution has been to elevate the pedestrian layer entirely using a system of skybridges, at least at the most congested roads. Of course, this would require a large investment in infrastructure.
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by so33 9y ago
So the article talks about three concepts: “Driverless rooms”, “Lego skyscrapers” that are powered by smart contracts that these driverless rooms park at, and “decentralized cities” that result because these rooms can rearrange themselves o
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by so33 9y ago
From what I recall, the creative professional market has always been their intended "Pro" market. It's unfortunate that they are unwilling to offer a MacBook Pro Developer Edition, but it's not surprising given Apple&#x2
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by so33 9y ago
FB does far more than host photos. In addition to being a platform to disseminate any sort of media, from cat videos to news to political commentary (so much so that they developed Instant Articles), it serves as a platform for text/vi
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by so33 9y ago
You can still use FB for, say, Messenger instead of News Feed. Edit: OP says they “unfollowed” everyone, as opposed to unfriending, which is what I’m basing this off of.
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by so33 9y ago
Considering ST3 hasn’t broken ground yet, I find it hard to believe that the cost overruns are due to construction.
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by so33 9y ago
That’s not true. The majority of the costs in the light rail project discussed (ST3) involves ROW acquisition, for above grade or underground rights of way. You may be thinking of the original light rail or Sound Transit 2. The original lig
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by so33 9y ago
The NYT article compares East Side Access and the Second Avenue Subway to the Line 14 extension project in the Paris Metro: >... while the Second Avenue Subway cost $2.5 billion a mile, the Line 14 extension is on track to cost $450 mill
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by so33 9y ago
1Password does this also, and I believe LastPass. I too prefer this behavior to autofill, especially in situations where I have, say, multiple Google accounts, to the point where the UX tradeoff (introducing extra UI) is totally worth it.
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by so33 9y ago
>The point is that f it is, it will end traffic. Will it though? Lyft claims that self driving cars are smoother and more consistent. They claim this will end traffic. Smoother, consistent driving doesn’t take into account traffic lights
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by so33 9y ago
The NYC subway accounts for 5 million trips each day, taking millions of cars off the road because they don’t need to exist in the first place. Traveling with kids? Something people do with public transit and walking every day. Promoting wa
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by so33 9y ago
>That adds up to more than 600 million miles of motor-vehicle traffic in the past 3 years alone—reflecting not only the staggering growth in rides, but also a trend toward lengthier trips and more “deadheading,” or cars traveling without
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by so33 9y ago
The word "e-bike", in my experience, has been used to refer to a lot of things. I've seen the pedal-assist bikes called e-bikes, as well as ones that look more similar to mopeds. The moped-style e-bikes are generally what get

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