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by superuser2 10y ago
This is just like the anti-car people. "People ought to be restricted to slow and unpleasant methods of transportation because they should not want to leave their immediate vicinities." There's a grain of truth in both cases
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by superuser2 10y ago
>to an insecure server Email is insecure regardless of who owns the server or where it's located. The government's own position is that emails in transit are postcards, not letters, and emails at rest are abandoned property, no
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by superuser2 10y ago
This is a great article. The rage of the blue-collar masses is misplaced. It belongs with engineers, STEM people, operations research, Taylorist management. Globalism isn't the architect of their fate. We are. Want enough work to go ar
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by superuser2 10y ago
That's met with vigorous opposition in the Bay Area, by people who think we should instead be building more apartments near the BART stations. Of course, the parking lots service ~1000 people, while apartments obeying the height limits
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by superuser2 10y ago
>I'm sure everyone is a fan of that! Are you a fan of laws like "people who sell you financial products are not permitted to lie" and "financial institutions must make an effort to ensure that their salesmen are not l
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by superuser2 10y ago
>All encrypted traffic is typically decrypted by the recipient. The use-cases for inspection at the corporate firewall are often explicitly about catching cases where the recipient isn't policing itself: - the device is compromise
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by superuser2 10y ago
Okay, I guess >we'd be even happier if we could coordinate non-driving was more central to what you were getting at. I've never really thought of the presence of other drivers as a primary or even ancillary reason to also drive
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by superuser2 10y ago
The inability to build densely comes from height limits and mandatory separation of residential and commercial districts. Converting parking lots to apartments just gives you more apartments on the same footprint. It doesn't bring the
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by superuser2 10y ago
> people would vote for more mass transit Serious rail projects take on the order of 30 years. I think it's much more likely that people would go somewhere else, rather than endure an entire adult life without acceptable transportat
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by superuser2 10y ago
Residential parking permit programs are essentially designed to make sure enough street space available for residents near their homes. If you bought a house under a RPP program and then the government suddenly issued RPPs for 100 people li
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by superuser2 10y ago
This is why we have alleys.
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by superuser2 10y ago
I don't think there's much doubt about how awesome it is to live a trivial distance from everything you need. This much is clear from the extreme premium that housing in such places commands compared to freeway-connected suburbs
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by superuser2 10y ago
If it were true that other modes of transportation are always better for the people using them, banning cars would be a no-op as there would not be any.
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by superuser2 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying here. I've no doubt that you love walking and biking, but if your neighbors felt the same way, they wouldn't need to be coerced into it by car-unfriendly design.
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by superuser2 10y ago
What happens is people have to spend more of their free time in transit (and be much less comfortable in transit), or more of their money for housing that is closer to their destinations. This is time and money that is no longer available f
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by superuser2 10y ago
Spousal support isn't so much paperwork as a long-term standard of living cut.
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by superuser2 10y ago
This is so bizarre. I knew I wanted to keep my car, so I filtered my search to apartments with parking available and factored it into the rental price in my comparisons. My building's garage has pretty high occupancy - the demand is th
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by superuser2 10y ago
We don't make every building a blast shelter and everyone wear body armor. People who walk through the steps of attacking the US physically are going to succeed. Our security strategy is to: A) surveil, infiltrate, and block conspiraci
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by superuser2 10y ago
>Housing can still serve as something of an inter-generational value transfer Except inheritance comes when you need it least: late middle age, when the house is already paid off or close and there's little time for savings to compo
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by superuser2 10y ago
>there is a crisis of unreasonable expectations and spoiled people. We do have a crisis of entitlement: people feel entitled to hold the vertical space in their neighborhoods empty when it is worth much more than they're willing t
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by superuser2 10y ago
1) Most families have more than one child. 2) Lots of young adults are going to chase the best opportunities in their fields, which are not accessible from the towns they grow up in. 3) Even only children don't get to inherit the house
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by superuser2 10y ago
>top theatre It is the lowest tier of theater which demands the greatest sacrifices, because it can , because the people making it are desperate for work. The budgets are also smaller, so more responsibility is heaped onto smaller cre
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by superuser2 10y ago
Politics don't exist to be a conversation topic. Local policy has real and massive impact on real people's lives. You can tune out ambient conservatism up until the moment you fall on the wrong side of a majority opinion that has
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by superuser2 10y ago
Be warned that only finance-related jobs tend to be downtown; most "Chicago" cost center IT jobs are in low-rise office parks around Chicagoland sprawl and are an hour or more away from the city under normal traffic conditions.
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by superuser2 10y ago
Wow. Imagine if he hadn't gotten access to the forum and preempted the police call.
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by superuser2 10y ago
What happens to the crews of these ships? Can they leave? How? Who pays to transport them to shore? Under what authority are they permitted to walk on shore? Office and factory workers of a suddenly-derelict company can walk off the premise
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by superuser2 10y ago
It was mine. To be fair, I think there is a tier of elite institutions which primarily attract the prestige/wealth crowd (Ivy League, etc), and a tier just below them in rankings which attract the nerds who want to do hard intellectual
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by superuser2 10y ago
The allowances made for hackers and amateurs in both radio and aviation are pretty incredible. If either of those things were invented today, there's no way the amateur radio or private pilot licensing programs would exist. Food for th
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by superuser2 10y ago
Highly selective colleges are the mother ship. When the handful of isolated gifted students are plucked out of their widely dispersed high schools and collected in one institution, one dorm, it's incredible. People feel home for the fi
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by superuser2 10y ago
>designs that reduces availability. It's a slimy abuse of language to call a service "available" when it's giving incorrect output and corrupting its persistent state. I can write a program with lots of nines that is

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