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Shared space doesn't really work except for places with very little traffic, and there only if the streets are small enough to make driving difficult and unpleasant. The Dutch mode…

King County Metro (Seattle area) is very highly rated.

I thought Fagles was good too but that is just electric.

If nice places for people are too expensive, make more nice places for people. But instead we make more nice places for cars.

The real problem is when half your friends are priced out of the city and have to move away.

What else are rich people going to do with their money? Buy bonds at 1%?

I know a guy who ruptured his spleen from hitting the water at a water park (he was very overweight at the time). It happens.

Unless the oceans had a low rate of return, then you would kill all the fish as quickly as possible and invest the proceeds in higher-returning assets.

The space station is just in low earth orbit. Radiation is a lot worse in real space.

People don't want to accept the truth about humans in space.

Same for me, but it was sugar instead of gluten.

What kind of therapy?

I saw the headline on HN and knew right away someone had rewritten it. Too obvious guys.

A fun game to play with any Tyler Cowen article is to ask, "How is he playing dumb this time?" You'll always win.

Sure, valuations are high, but what else are rich people going to do with their money? Buy bonds? All that money has to go somewhere.

I strongly considered moving to the Netherlands because it's so much better for kids than America, but I decided it was better to be near family, and I worried that my stress in mo…

None of this early academic education is necessary. In Finland, which consistently has top scores in reading and math, kids don't start school until they're seven, and at that poin…

A Harvard MBA once told me that going from zero to ten is a 1000% increase. I was not impressed. Also, George W Bush.

You don't have to worry about because it'll never work.

It sounds impossible but it actually happened - just acknowledging the stress I was under made the pain go away (it's not like you have to solve anything). I think it only took abo…

I read about three chapters of this and it cured my wrist pain. Never would have believed it possible if it hadn't happened to me.

It's true. When nice places for people get too crowded and expensive the obvious solution is to make more nice places for people. Sadly America only makes more nice places for cars…