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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Unfortunately I think these kinds of places are almost impossible in modern american cities due to rent, labor costs, and red tape.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
The deposit on cans and bottles in some states seems to work perfectly with little to no cost. I'm sure it could work with plastic bags.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
If there's an overall plan to revamp transit and public spaces to accommodate all people then I'm in favor of it. That's how functioning cities do it. This is clearly just a money grab by a corrupt city.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
This analogy pretty much gets at the heart of what makes these policies distasteful. Me walking or driving through my own city or neighborhood, where I live, pay taxes, and vote, is not the same as me taking a trip to Disney. I don't d
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Not everyone who drives through NYC lives in NYC. Even if it were, those transit hops add time. Now you're forcing people to choose between paying money they don't have or spending time they don't have.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
These are all lifestyle choices. You don't need to do any of those things. Getting to work or getting around one's own city are not lifestyle options. They're necessities. Using market-style policies to try to nudge people ar
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
People pay what they have to pay do get to work or get around. In that sense they could "afford" it, because the alternative is to move or get a different job. You're trying to make it seem like driving in NYC is simply a lif
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
If you're going to massively inconvenience millions of people then you have to do better than a couple buses running faster. Better as in, using the new funds to completely revamp the whole system. If those faster bus lines don't
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Would you be in favor if they also wanted stop "giving away" access to the sidewalk and fresh air?
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Yeah, and I'm guessing the opinions of those people don't get taken into account by folks who are studying or manufacturing consent for these policies.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
If transit is an option for those peiple and if all other things (transit time, safety, etc) are equal, then yes.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I assume you're referring to just taking the metro instead. Not everyone who drives lives near a metro. Not every destination is accessible via the metro. Many people commute from more affordable areas far from the city where public tr
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I'm not curious because I already know the answer. The inconvenience is that driving through the city is $9 more expensive without any improvement in other transportation alternatives. For some people that's no big deal but obviou
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
If you make it so only rich people can do a certain thing, you'll have way fewer people doing that thing. I'm curious what kind of inconveniences this has caused for people who can't afford to pay the fee though.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I'm not the person you replied to, but I think that in the lay world, people do indeed think that peer review is as you've described. If it's not, then maybe it should be? Research gets cited constantly in public debates and
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
It's not a new desire on many people's part. Many residents of eg. LA, Chicago, NYC have been lamenting the decline of law and order since (and also before) the 2020 riots. Politicians and law enforcement in these cities have show
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
My answer to both of your questions is "no." I don't have a problem with the protesting. I do have a problem with violence and law breaking, regardless of who's carrying it out.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I'm concerned about property owned by me as well as my personal safety and that of the people I care about. Mobs can break into my home and kill me or violate my mom. That's a valid concern.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I don't doubt that Trump's goal is to escalate and take advantage of the situation. But the fact that LA and cities like it accept a high level of lawlessness and destruction of property as "normal" already casts doubt o
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
It doesn't. Just an example from recent memory of how things can get out of hand if there's no law and order. My city suffered a lot from the drstruction and violence and I would prefer it not happen again.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
My neighborhood was severely damaged. Many people left and never came back and many stores never reopened. I live in an apartment building which could easily be compromised and then I'd be a sitting duck for whoever wants to break into
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I don't disagree with you, but after all the damage that was done by riots in 2020, there should be a desire to nip violent protests in the bud.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
How is this possible?
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
This sounds like the same split that has happened with sex and gender in recent years.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I ask this as someone with a lot of respect for education and the Humanities: do the majority of Humanities students actually get this type of education? Any conversations I've had with students or graduates of Arts, Literature, etc. i
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
If a teacher knows the topic that they're teaching, then a 30 second talk with a student is enough to determine if the student actually knows anything. Maybe "assignments" aren't the best method of building and verifying
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
P/E simply isn't a very good ratio other than just for a quick glance. Real analysts look at 5+ years future cash flows (not earnings), risk free interest, risk premium, cost of capital, and other factors. Differences in any of th
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
P/E ratios are probably more useful for comparing companies in the same industry at the same moment in time, rather than as a global rule of thumb. Valuing a company needs to take risk free interest rates and future growth into account
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
It's not that people don't support these goals. It's that people don't trust the folks who say they're pursuing or funding them. There seems to be very little transparency in how money gets spent or what the tangibl
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
It's a protocol. The new version of the web that gets built with it may get shitty, but like HTTP or TCP, the protocol stands on its own merits and can be used freely to build cool stuff outside of that shitty ecosystem.

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