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The difference between conjecture and reality. Musk supposes he can put through 3360 pax/hour. Today we already have rail lines that routinely discharge 100000 pax/hour. We don't n…

In retrospect, even the pretext was bunk. It turns out that turfing old people out of their giant, valuable houses is a benefit rather than a problem. Today, thanks to Prop 13, Boo…

"Reston is a Car-Dependent city" -- https://www.walkscore.com/VA/Reston

You obviously have no idea what the boundaries of Brisbane are.

You seem to be defining "Brisbane proper" as the area between San Francisco Ave. and Firth Park. But Brisbane is much more extensive. The majority of its land area is taken up by e…

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6888189,-122.4091851,410a,35...

This one is. It almost seems designed to trick a machine learning classifier into classifying it as a warehouse or something. Point it the existing built environment of Brisbane, C…

With respect to your and our values, the people of the state have mandated that greenhouse gas emissions be reduced below 1990 levels by year 2020, and state law requires every cit…

I was just objecting to the idea that a small town was inappropriate in this context. With a suitable urban form there's no reason why you couldn't take the entire population of Br…

It's on ice. Nobody is building anything in Coyote Valley. But it's a wonderful plan.

There's nothing wrong with small villages 7 miles from a major city or even a capital city, if the principal city is built properly. If you walk 7 miles from the center of Zurich, …

Those numbers don't make a lot of sense. Wouldn't 4400 homes generate something in the vicinity of 50 million dollars in annual property taxes?

This has been going around, but even this plan to build 4400 dwellings is still total nonsense, because the plan also includes office space for 15000 people. 15000 jobs requires mu…

Most Americans repeat "socialism is bad" while driving down their toll-free interstate highways.

Essentially, poor white Americans oppose any kind of social service that might benefit black Americans. Virtually every problem that America faces is complicated by this one simple…

Seattle is at a higher latitude.

In the internal Google salary survey, controlling for level and tenure, salaries in Pittsburgh are within 10% of salaries in Mountain View. Moving to Pittsburgh is similar to getti…

Most people don't realize that because it's not true. The air quality of the combined statistical area of San Francisco is worse than that of the CSA containing Pittsburgh, but pol…

There are still major steel works in the area, some of which are operating with grandfathered emissions limits. Also Pittsburgh receives the wind-blown emissions of practically eve…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_d...

Good luck finding a sunny day because Pittsburgh enjoys the fewest hours of annual sunlight of any major city, and continues to have air quality as bad as any other US city, being …

Google's CDN is huge and extensive. See https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure

Agreed on the scam. The way to handle this is to not pay, and send a letter claiming that you don't owe it. If they send it to collections you can sue for collecting a debt not owe…