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If the old city centers are crowded and expensive because they're so desirable, then why do we need any new solution? Can't we just copy paste the old stuff outward in every direct…

It seems like it had othe problems apart from being discontinuous from the city. There are lots of areas like this in the US which are contiguous with the city, that still end up a…

I'm afraid I don't get your point either. Hit man? The police overreached here, and the only thing that protected the victim was, of all things, Twitter. The police are supposed to…

They also could have done the complete opposite. Imagine your life being in the hands of Twitter.

Could you explain some more about how they were good administrators? I always had the impression that they were good conquerors but bad administrators. They'd conquer you then leav…

I'm not the person you posed the question to, nor am I challenging what you're saying. However, it was my understanding that cities that resisted them would sometimes be destroyed …

I'm trying to follow, but having a hard time. The Mongols were NOT brutal and they WERE great administrators? So why was their reign so short?

I don't trust the laws. I think they're either implemented on behalf of the hotel chains, or else they only entrench people who already got "permits" for short term rentals, which …

In what way do the rich lose money here? The big property owners will get subsidies to repurpose the now useless buildings. Corporate chain businesses will simply close down and co…

Are they incompetent or just aren't even trying? I ask myself this question all the time.

But wouldn't the pharmaceutical companies do it themselves in-house then?

Isn't this how drugs get developed? Even worse, the research is done using public funds, and then privatized and commercialized later.

It's a great organization, but different chapters have different vibes. They might range from super diverse and fun groups that also like to go for drinks after the meeting, to sub…

It still exists but at least in the big city where I live, about half of the meetups are online only, which defeats the whole original purpose of the site. I also notice that a lot…

Trains only work if people live close enough to walk to the station and if the destination station is walking distance to where they want to go. Driving to a train station, then la…

If I filter out the AI spam and then the SEO spam, I'm not left with much anything. HN is one of the few online spaces where I feel like I can actually read the thoughts of actual …

The problems he described have less to do with the technology and more to do with the fact that people just have way too much time on their hands. We consume garbage content becaus…

> At this point pretty much everyone knows what’s going on in these horrible farms, and knows the climate impact. At this point the effects of this "knowledge" are neutralized by l…

It looks like a lot of these are self-help or other fluffy books. It's funny because whenever I read these books I feel like someone just took a bunch of bullet points and then add…

Neverending wars are exactly what I want to avoid. Eventually both sides end up becoming the bad guys.

I don't feel any differently about the NRA. They're yet another group that's peddling a never ending culture war.

I'm not denying anyone's struggle or their right to organize against it. I'm saying that the groups in question are amplifying the problem 100x, with the goal of angering folks lik…

I don't think they're too powerful. Like I said, the major victories were won long ago and are in the history books. The institutions that claim to fight those things are the ones …

Scientists research cancer and are producing visible, measurable results. If they hadn't had any for the past 50 years, I'd say maybe they should change course.

Do you feel the wars on drugs and terror will ever be won? I don't. I look at your wars the same way. They'll drag on and on. Some people will get rich and powerful, but the people…