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901.
by trgn 5y ago
But the flying buttress solved a need. They wanted to build higher because they wanted to celebrate god in an even more glorious fashion, bringing in more light, more stained glass, more people in front of the altar. The difference with mod
902.
by trgn 5y ago
Urban renewal was the realization of Le Corbusier's ideology at a large scale. It really was his vision. Focussing on a detail whether corridors have light or not, I think is somewhat of a diversion. Urban renewal did not fail because
903.
by trgn 5y ago
It depends on the underlying valuation of the stock, and the industry sector. Stocks for retail/commodities/food/oil... will generally keep up with high inflation, since these industries have low margins and profits track clo
904.
by trgn 5y ago
I get that point for sure. It's and/and. And electric vehicles (which won't be a solution to climate change) will at least reduce noise and pollution. They're just more civilized, and I think invite more civilized drivin
905.
by trgn 5y ago
notjustbikes is such a great channel. I think he paints a great picture of all forms of transportation existing side-by-side. It's not an either/or, but an and/and. Super inspiring channel. > What if we could eliminate the
906.
by trgn 5y ago
> We already largely know how to drastically reduce our emissions--clean energy and electrification I think the parent is arguing against this premise. You argue from a value system, in which cars for personal transportation, are an axio
907.
by trgn 5y ago
Great video, loved it. Perfect example. Figuring out stuff, doing science, equations, technology stuff, is valuable in and of itself. No word on what is the inherent value of colonizing another planet, why a human would need to be on Mars i
908.
by trgn 5y ago
Why would the poor be sent to Mars? Its my impression the discourse is the other way around; the adventurous, people with options, would mindfully choose to leave earth and start anew.
909.
by trgn 5y ago
Gravity similar to earth, breathable air. So my body still works fine on this new planet. Mediterranean climate would be great, but that's negotiable. I like your analogy with ice cars and electric cars. It perfectly captures the valu
910.
by trgn 5y ago
I'm sure it wasn't your intention, but this comment describes perfectly why I find there's nothing appealing about colonizing Mars. Ah yes, that glorious future of humanity, let's go live underground in a tube. Not that
911.
by trgn 5y ago
It might not be that simple. Even if UBI is funded by taxes, UBI would be a wealth redistribution, increasing money on the lower end, generally pushing up demand for goods and services that fulfill basic needs, and lowering the money on the
912.
by trgn 5y ago
That's bleak. And in the American context unnecessarily dystopian. US has no need for soul crushing housing towers since our cities do not have to handle a tidal wave of new incomers from the countryside. US needs smart infill. So many
913.
by trgn 5y ago
We were writing a reply together it seems. 100% agreed on this.
914.
by trgn 5y ago
I don't think this will be the case this time. In wealthy societies, housing becomes a way to store generational wealth. In the USA, the complaints about high housing prices seem to ignore to how much housing costs in other countries.
915.
by trgn 5y ago
I find that a copout answer. Screens are inherently distracting. They literally flash and flicker. The devices that those screens are attached too have buttons and little jiggery bits. There's a ton of distracting software on those dev
916.
by trgn 5y ago
tbh maybe it should stay like that, it's only an anomaly if you start your timeline at the advent of central banking. Interest rates on deposits are a purely mathematical fiction, creating no new value. If people would like to see thei
917.
by trgn 5y ago
Which isn't what's happening. It's been months now that this was being floated, and the stock market has been volatile the last half year, an outright bear market in some sectors. Trillions in equity have evaporated already,
918.
by trgn 5y ago
It's too bad the author hinges the article on the perceived lack of genius today, it is too hard to quantify. Genius, it's one of those things, you know it when you see it. The incremental progress on the margins that characterize
919.
by trgn 5y ago
And people only die more because they get run over by drivers at a higher rate. I'd say here the glaring problem is not the timekeeping, but designing our urban infrastructure for cars, so that when a person is just a teensy tiny bit m
920.
by trgn 5y ago
Same personality that is attracted to a profession with built-in prestige, say doctor or lawyer. This story would be way less believable if he were an artisan of any sort.
921.
by trgn 5y ago
Yes, americans share a solipsism when it comes to envisioning walkable city life. City life without a car cannot be imagined, mainly, because we are trying to integrate a vision in our imaginations that rejects the fundamental premise of re
922.
by trgn 5y ago
No, my comment was that there's no counter-pressure to prevent people from buying gas-guzzlers, oversized SUVs and trucks and the like, that will be around for 10-20 years, and will continue to drive wasteful demand for gas. When price
923.
by trgn 5y ago
+1 It's been almost two decades since the last spike, five since the oil crisis of the 70s. If you're buying 50k plus gas guzzlers, and then get squeezed when gas prices are going up, it's almost self inflicted by now. So man
924.
by trgn 5y ago
Noise pollution is just one of the many reasons we should have never allowed cars to be the default mode of personal transportation. In practice, it is more quiet and peaceful at night in a dense walkable city neighborhood, than it is in th
925.
by trgn 5y ago
Weird, I thought it was a great article. One that actually gets better as it progresses. I don't see how it's fluffy at all. In the first half, he is mainly referring to the current state of fine-arts, which is still in the grip o
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by trgn 5y ago
> the risk of accidents with the costs are you joking? The risk of driving is injuries and death, primarily born by those _not_ in a car. How somebody weighs this with speeding or rolling stops, or any other form of acting like a carele
927.
by trgn 5y ago
That's exactly wrong. Human drivers need to get better, or get off the road. Robots shouldn't mimic careless driving habits.
928.
by trgn 5y ago
I sincerely hope we will never care. That in the US, our mentality gets past this infantile fetish for powertools and convenience. It's a vestige of high modernism, an adolescent ideology that life must be mediated by technology. Scrap
929.
by trgn 5y ago
Maybe your mother saw Reign of Fire, it makes the exact same claim, Star Wars will be the new folklore in the post apocalypse.
930.
by trgn 5y ago
Why preserve the opacity of that relationship? Tax trucks higher, and it will reflect in the prices of the products those trucks are hauling, fairly distributing the cost increase of their operation across the consumers of those products. W

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