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Reminds me of the Stop Killing Games movement. If you give people an end date, they can plan around it.

But rich cities can also have great public transit. New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore... in fact rich cities with transit as awful as the Bay Area s…

You could get together in a big group and all say the same things in unison. Maybe even hold some signs saying those things

Your argument about increasing demand for services isn't convincing. Since there are more people in the area, should supply be higher as well, balancing prices? It seems more likel…

Those footnote toggles that transition to margin notes on bigger screens are absolutely amazing! Definitely going to try stealing that, thank you :)

Here's an infographic from Sustainable Prosperity: https://i.imgur.com/2rgkaOZ.jpeg That's just one area in Halifax, but the idea is that higher population densities require less i…

I was going to mention WebRTC! It seems designed for video calling, but there are lots of cool use cases - I recently ran across https://github.com/dmotz/trystero , a dead simple W…

I'm sure you're right about the declining quality of Camembert, but I can't help but be reminded of this comic: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/craproot

This discussion is about public EV charging. If you live somewhere rural or suburban and can afford a car, you can probably afford a garage for it. The push for public EV charging …

The question here is how many people don't have a garage but still want a car. The rural and suburban folks are out - plenty of room for garages and charging. So any discussion of …

How does input work on iPhone? Keyboard overlay?

Do you live in an apartment complex? What's the home parking situation like?

Agreed. I'd add that it feels there's less of an establishment to rail against than in the Bush days. I'd bet there was a drop in numbers in 2009, when Obama started.

I didn't know Apple TV wasn't device exclusive until this comment

Tastes change. This isn't some engineering or logistics constraint; if plastic phones have a real advantage, adoption is simply a matter of marketing.

Sure, it's a sign that we don't "understand this stuff properly", but you can say the same about human brains. Is it a red flag that we use language to communicate with each other …

Online job platforms like Monster, Indeed, Glassdoor, etc. have changed things significantly. If you can apply in one click, or just a simple form, it's trivial to send out 50 appl…

It's a Blu-ray mystery to me.

I'm really confused about this. It's the slimmest possible veneer, collapsing upon a cursory browse of the commit history. Why put in the time to update at all?

> And usually having competitors is something that validates your market. Don't users validate your market? ChatGPT has plenty of users, so I would think competitors only hurt thei…

> If people didn't need cars, they wouldn't buy them. This is a chicken-and-egg problem. US cities have spent billions on highways and parking and rewrote ordinances to require low…

From the article: > "If Huawei is constructing facilities under names of other companies, as the Semiconductor Industry Association alleges, then it may be able to circumvent US go…

Decoupling? You want to eliminate trade between the world's two biggest economies? This feels like economic policy from the 18th century. The decline of mercantilism and expansion …

I'm not an expert, but isn't the housing crisis global? From London to Mumbai, Barcelona to Shanghai, Amsterdam to Boston, the world's cities are becoming unaffordable. For the mos…

Depends on the viewing platform, but HN usernames are usually small font and low contrast compared to comment text. I think most are unlikely to notice who said what.