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Texas' high property taxes play an important role. Owners are incentivized to permit new development to satisfy demand and keep their taxes low.

...or expressing the opinion that there's more to manhood or womanhood than a declaration of manhood or womanhood. I don't want to get into a debate about transgender politics here…

It could work, but would it be cost-competitive?

I thought comparing capacity factor instead of capacity would be more fair, but I got roughly the same result. Elwha's capacity factor was, at one point, 39% [0], and capacity fact…

Portable SSD?

In some sleepy suburb you must pay for food delivery or hop in your car and drive to the restaurant. In Manhattan you could pay for delivery or skip delivery altogether and walk to…

Because most public transit simply isn't profitable

On this small scale, rebuilding would likely be more expensive than this tunnel. But extending this network to every home would be (IMO) on the same order of magnitude as redevelop…

I'm American and have lived most of my life in American suburbs. I don't like them very much, and I don't like the imperial system. I don't think denser development is a short term…

I'm not objecting to convince in favor of density because there isn't a choice to be made between the two. You can have convenience in low or high density development. The differen…

What problem is this system trying to solve? It seems to be, in this initial deployment, that the office park is too far away from the restaurants its employees want to visit, comp…

To a point. Their usefulness is typically eclipsed by trains, drones, and direct insertion in the late game. Let's extend the metaphor. If you're trying to move a small, intermitte…

> That is not what the survey shows. In OP's article, doesn't the survey show that conservative respondents are about as likely to allow campus speakers who espoused liberal opinio…

> No nuance can save C1-3. Sure it can, at least for C1. If gender dysphoria isn't a mental disorder, then its treatment doesn't need to be covered by health insurance.

The liberal talking points used in the survey (2nd Amendment should be repealed, religious liberty is used to justify discrimination, structural racism exists) are also just repeat…

That's a poor comparison. We can't control when we get solar power, and we can't easily store excess solar power right now. Hydropower is available on demand. Green sources of elec…

You can already download and run Edge on Chrome OS; it's as simple as `apt install microsoft-edge-stable`. All devices made since 2019 should feature support for a Linux VM (Termin…