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A) If customers can't manage select a properly secure cloud camera system, what makes you think they're going to do a good job picking a VPN vendor and setting up their product? Bu…

Elderly people driving cars isn't exactly an ideal situation either...

You will find this to be a common theme across most of the country

Additionally, if this urban farm plot exists to the exclusion of several stories of apartments, and those apartments must instead be located further away from where people want to …

I feel it’s worth pointing out that saving people from financial ruin was only part of the intent of the PPP legislation. The main point of a “stimulus” is to stimulate the economy…

You are correct that the access security of a booklet is almost certainly better than that of a password manager. The issue with the booklet is that humans do not like transcribing…

Suburbs ARE evil, but our land use policies keep us from building enough housing in cities, which makes them too expensive to be considered a good option for most people.

Radiation which is, in small doses, mostly harmless, since it is of the non-ionizing variety.

It seems like this is an unsubstantiated claim. At the time that this change was introduced, Chicago was at the tail end of one of the longest economic declines that it has ever ex…

I'm not sure this is right. One of the very clever things Uber did was take advantage of a loophole in the hackney laws that allowed drivers to operate for hire without taxi medall…

I'd posit that we are going to have a very hard time fighting off climate change if we aren't allowed to do anything to discourage people from driving 40 minutes to a nearby town e…

But even in the relatively narrow scenario you describe, there is an immediate benefit for those living and working in the city, which is that there is significantly less car traff…

But also significantly lower carbon emissions!

Driving and transit are not the only two ways of getting around. There is also walking, which is both the cheapest form of transit to provide and also completely dependent on densi…

Arguably people need a home more than they need a car even in the most extreme cases.

The question is, if you’re going to design a system where 1 person != 1 vote, how can you argue that it is in any way more fair for someone’s vote to count double (or more) simply …

I would advise the opposite of this. Many of his solutions listed at the end are ineffective, poorly researched and/or totally impractical ("more rent control!", "socialize all hou…

New York is nowhere near as bad as San Francisco when it comes to permitting, and it does have more parcels where height is not significantly limited, but it still builds far less …

This is actually a key problem with using rent control as a primary means to achieve housing affordability. Rent control works as a way to soften the blow of large rent increases (…

> What I find annoying is the same people that are against rent control and zoning are also utterly against government providing basic public services such as buses, subways, and m…

People buy properties as "investments" when they see prices rising constantly, not the other way around.

> I've always thought that cities needed to focus on redevelopment as a much broader, city-wide strategy. Instead of following trends of what the next "up and coming" neighborhood …

Japan is really the only rich country that has that (and it has the housing prices to show for it).

"Communities with a large number of parents who feel that education is their responsibility tend to still do a good job of educating their kids in their public schools. " Arguably,…

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