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> ... It feels like there could be some societal benefit to similarly reducing the number of busses and just making them free. (Today most busses are only at 10-30% capacity). ... …

> This is empty speculation. And it can be trivially refuted by noticing that vacancy rates are at record lows. His rants were prompted by his failed attempts to rent out specific …

Louis Rossmann has a video series of his rants about commercial real estate and the refusal of landlords to rent spaces to him which have been vacant for multiple years. One of his…

> ... GDPR is simply ignored by any bigger US company, it took 5 years for NOYB to facebook get fined which was less than 0.3% of their income, basically a small tax, not a huge fi…

> Long-lived rails apps are a nightmare to work with, in exactly the same manner as long-lived java, python or php apps Agreed that tech debt and bad architecture is everywhere. Ho…

> Could you give some examples of what the use cases are where Rails makes it hard to stray from the beaten path? Rails is amazing for greenfield projects. It will automatically do…

Information asymmetry exists in markets. Most people are not subject area experts in regards to infrequent purchases. From informal conversation it seems that a lot of consumers ha…

> They cancelled "All-American Muslim" because they couldn't get advertisers even though it was averaging 1 million viewers per show which would made it one of the most popular sho…

There are a lot of cities in the Rust Belt and Midwest like I described, with the regional population around 1-2 million which are far away from being mega cities. In the few examp…

In the context of the US, the vast majority of all infrastructure built or rebuilt over the past century was optimized for cars at the expense of everything else, including demolis…

With the risk of sounding like a broken record, it's what Strong Towns bases their advocacy around: https://www.strongtowns.org/ There's also a overview of their stuff from Not Jus…

I can compare old houses at the edge of a city which cost four times as much to new builds at the far edges of that city's metro area which cost significantly less. The more expens…

Yep, the new Reddit interface responds with the IP block message while old.reddit.com still works for me. This is both with and without a VPN. EDIT: It looks like it's back. I defi…

An asset can be owned by multiple investors who have competing interests with some wanting to take a large amount of risk by allowing real estate to remain vacant if it can mean a …

Neither. Both cost significantly more to build and maintain than at-grade intersections. That's part of the reason more and more grade separated highways are being demolished and r…

To contribute some rough anecdotal evidence, when I look out the window next to where I'm sitting this exact moment I see a mix of newer and older Honda Civics, Toyota Corollas, an…

That is my experience in the East coast US. Here, the suburbs are very spread out, with amenities 15-20 minutes away by car. There are older suburbs where that is not true, but tha…

What supports the argument that people overwhelmingly prefer using cars over other transportation methods? There was some study done in past decade that found that in the US only a…

That's a bit of a non sequitur. Roads and streets existed before cars. Even then, that ignores that the same location can be traveled to through different means. Goods can be deliv…

> Owner-operators are actually not completely allowed in California. And trucks for the most part must be very new to comply with California emissions requirements. The "labor shor…

For a rough anecdote, what I've heard consistent from my network is that the current job market is wildly different depending on experience level. From what I've heard and seen, an…

> ... > and all of this is before you get into the issues with the non trivial number of junk papers published in social science and psychology journals and the like that at best s…