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the webiste Strong Towns has some good info on parking minimums: https://www.strongtowns.org/parking https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/11/25/parking-minim... Some more: http…

'never too late to stop making things worse' is good advice in many areas!

you read the links, thank you!

>The Le Corbusier spirit of zoning It's not Le Corbusier. Zoning in the USA started in the late 1800s, an effort to regulate light and air in cities, and turned by the early 1900s …

You may mean Corian [1], which is a countertop surface[2] 1: https://www.corian.com/ 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corian

Radiolab's More Perfect had a pair of very interesting episodes on Edward Blum: http://www.radiolab.org/story/more-perfect-plaintiffs/ and https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/archite…

Yes, it's happily becoming less common, but it was and is common for all options in a 401k plan to have high fees, and be set up to benefit the company http://time.com/money/395994…

> And you always have to walk fifteen minutes, just to get to the transit spot. I know a lot of broke people who live within less than a two minute walk of a bus stop and could not…

>I am sure this comment will only be seen by me, only through this browser. hi! Since your model has led you to an incorrect conclusion, are you going to revise it?

"Is the Second Amendment the Second Most Important?" - "The order of that list, however, still reflects Madison’s view: They come in the same order as the sections of the Constitut…

He was already a scumbag before prison: https://www.quora.com/Did-Andrew-weev-Aurenheimer-contribute...

That would be telling.

As soon as you said this I thought of Peter O. Knight and the Davis Island Yacht Club. I used to watch the planes land as we derigged our dinghies.

Ada Palmer's "On Progress and Historical Change" https://www.exurbe.com/?p=4041 "So when I tell people about this election, and they ask me “Does it always have the same outcome?” …

>After 50 mins working on something very difficult my mind gets so mucked up. I am suddenly reminded of my college classes that were 50 mins on the dot, with 10 mins in between as …

Conor Freidersdorf argues this is an American phenomenon: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/what-th...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918928

I would also recommend Caroline Alexander's A Winelike Sea http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/winelike-sea and the ensuing discussion at MetaFilter "Achilles sat on the shore and …