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> For those volunteers, that is a great example of doing something to make yourself feel better at the expense of the others you're claiming to help. In this statement, you're subt…

Do you have any references for this statement. I'm not arguing there are no externalities (there are externalities in just about every choice we make). I just haven't been convince…

I think your comment is a bit misleading. Dumping sewage into a creek is an externality that is bad. Someone preferring to live in a suburb does not mean they're generating externa…

Agreed. Although I think it has to do with more than location. For a childless couple, the cost of a 3 bedroom house in the suburbs might be the same as for a one room apartment in…

My somewhat libertarian take is that they themselves are best suited to judge what they should or shouldn't want. Not that there isn't a time for trying to bring a different perspe…

I think the original comment proposal was (my, slightly sarcastic, paraphrase) "stop incentivizing anything but urban infrastructure and living, everything else is a ponzi scheme" …

Well said - I don't fully agree, but I agree that an automobile centered world is sub-optimal, and fuels our feelings of disconnection. I'm fully on-board with working to make subu…

> A major reason for the preference is the lower price per square foot in the suburbs than in higher density areas. I think that's a big part of it, but also people choose suburbs …

> If the individual cost of buying a house "in the sticks" was reflective of that, people might start to think twice. I don't buy that subsidization is what makes buying a house "i…

> pretty heavily subsidize Is a pretty general term that's hard to respond to. Yes there are rural subsidies, but I'm unconvinced that the per-capita subsidization of rural and sub…

I called it naive because I believe it is an oversimplification. Strong Towns has an agenda (which I mostly agree with), and in order to promote their agenda they have a straw man …

I appreciate this argument - and there is some truth to it, but certainly not to the point of (paraphrasing here) "anyone who doesn't want to live in the city is participating in a…

I agree with your take.

I'm a fan of strongtowns too. To the degree that that analysis is true, it will sort itself out. We don't need to do anything to save our neighbor from themself. We can make a life…

Why do we need to convince someone they don't "need" anything? Each person has the best information about their own situation to decide what they need (or even want - you don't hav…

Generally speaking, people will always choose to spend money living as close to their ideal as they can, with the resources they are able to give toward it. The fact that so many p…

I'll go first (blush): Amazon, HN, Facebook, LinkedIn, StackOverflow, Bank, Bank, Github Probably more self-disclosure than necessary there - but I'm curious what other people have…

My Chrome start page is looking a little boring, and it made me wonder what the top 8 visited sites are on other Chrome users start pages?

I like Hugo - S3 - Cloudflare. It's simple, fast, and I can move it easily if I want to.

SEEKING WORK -- I've done freelancing for many years on the side, and now I'm getting a side software contracting company off the ground. Prefer cloud native projects; kubernetes, …

I've written over the years about various things; Faith, Technology, various interests, and solutions to gotcha problems. A number of posts are curated links from interesting artic…

Even opening in a clean incognito window hits the paywall

I had a hard time finding a customizable UniFi external guest portal, other than ones written in PHP. This is a Go and Docker solution that fits my home needs - feel free to review…