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The one counter is that commercial real estate is way cheaper than it used to be. The potential savings of putting everyone in a full open floor plan aren't as high as they used to…

I do think everyday behaviors have more single point of failures than they used to. The complexity has just gone up (with the example of needing to use the internet to get a parkin…

If you were a random person in a town 1600 - how many people do you think you could buy meat form? I honestly dont know. I guess if everyone had subsistence farms with some chicken…

I am not too in the weeds on this particular issue, but it seems not that crazy to me that "the biggest four companies" produce 55% of the US's chickens. Presumably that means ther…

>But Mayor Femke Halsema complained last year that cruise tourists were let loose for a couple of hours, ate at international chains and had no time to visit a museum, consuming th…

Harvard posted that 70% of their legacy admits were white and 30% non-white. That's higher than the population of 18 year olds but maybe not as extreme as some would think.

I'd actually love to see more data on this. My cynical take is that now people donate to schools they didn't even go to - and are concentrated anyways in a few big donations a year…

The other benefit is simply seeing the current subscriptions, even if you had to cancel elsewhere. I should be able to see on my Bank of America credit card which companies are goi…

That double dipping doesnt make sense unless they are doing something more complex - like limit supply or time swings in the market. Let's say there cut is 2%. If I sell a ticket f…

I almost feel like it is competing more with FB than anything, which could possibly work. None of my friends use Facebook but presumably there is still a need for people to ask wha…

I am surprised by how little takes on this seem to address the fact this is likely to be bureaucratic. There are many people or departments who would benefit from increased funding…

I guess I'm still not convinced the "reasoning" has anything to do with it. If a company says the reason is inflation they can only maintain that pricing power if every other firm …

I still don't find the argument persuasive. Companies have always tried to maximize profits, as you said. To me this highlights more companies realizing they have pricing power sim…

Agreed. In particular the fees paid to Booz Allen should be disclosed. Looking back earlier this year I paid $40 for two cave tours of a national park through the site. There are n…

I sorta hope they find some streets or avenues to convert to bike lanes. I do sorta feel like having a congestion fee without much added ways to get around for pedestrians leaves t…

I suppose to expound on my point more - the graph is by people not housing units. Presumably if a cheap city, like Detroit, had a bunch of unused units the graph would not credit i…

I realize he is arguing for that but I think its pretty silly to have the chart there showing the correlation if so. He does address the point I made in the article but I think he …

Isn't the obvious arrow here that high prices drives density? The fact that NYC is the densest and most expensive seems to be an obvious story of high prices incentivizing people t…

I'm curious what the legal restrictions are here. I would imagine if a hamburger from a fast food restaurant could replace half of its meat with plant protein that I may not really…