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Here is a table of vehicle damage levels by size. https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...

Sorry for the late response. I think the solution is clearly to make more places like San Francisco. Not to make SF more like everywhere else.

"The science is wrong because I disagree" - ipaddr

Any books you recommend?

The most import thing to take from this is that American pattern of suburbanization was a government choice. Highways, suburbs, and car domminance would not exist anywhere near the…

Its not just anti-road. Its non-dense development. The more spread out services the more resources it takes to maintain them. The fact of the matter is that we've been accumulating…

So price the negative externalities of not having the tree and send it their way. Maybe people aren't entitled to live in suburbs where trees are a threat

Oh but you can! Paris, London, and I'm sure countless other cities in Europe have pedestrianized or reduced traffic in large areas. The Netherlands has done this in most cities. 99…

TLDR: * Write three things you're greatfull for daily. Bonus points if you share the task with friends * Take walks and pay attention to what's happening * Listen to soft nature so…

That's not true though. The gov pays the providers as well.

Yeah but why not just have literal slaves and not require that people have health insurance. The reductive "race to the bottom" can go both directions

Those poor poor jerbs

I mean minimum wage isn't inflation adjusted is it.

I mean, what it only kicks in after say $25 million? Then everyone would be able to own 25,000,000 worth of stuff free and clear.

>What the hell else are we paying for? Are chips for industrial equipment or cars? When you say cutting edge I think desktop / phone / servers.

Those democracies are protectorates

spending on RnD is equally incentivised. RnD increases share price which would tax free increase net worth. >find even more creative ways to give it to themselves This is not a goo…

Yeah but how does a society deal with negative externalities like poisoning the water table, ecosystem destruction etc

Was it along the lines of, trying to convince OPEC to stop accepting dollars?

Oh cool! Much more than I would've suspected. Thanks for sharing

Most people who argue the point shout about how cheap, iphones, TVs, nice cars, and flights are. Something 80% can't afford regularly.

But Americans aren't educated outside of stem > And it shows

Is that adjusted for rise in costs? What counts as substantial?

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