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It's 1.35m people globally per year and millions more with life altering injuries.

I think you would really enjoy Doing Good Better by William MacAskill.

Exactly. All it's saying is that you can do whatever you want with your land, as long as you can afford to. It forces landowners to account for the opportunity costs they impose on…

If you want a deep deep dive into how parking has shaped our cities - I would recommend reading about the “high cost of free parking” and “parking minimums”. https://blog.getmypark…

There can be other regulations for single stair that can prevent this. Limiting number of units per floor or providing balconies that are ladder accessible. https://www.treehugger.…

Europe resolves the fire issue in other ways. Regulations that limit the number of units per floor (4 for Germany, 8 for Austria), regulations for maximum distance to stairwell, an…

I don’t think the goal is to increase the apartment capacity of existing multi-stair buildings. Allowing single stair buildings facilitates multi family dwellings to be built on mu…

I’ve lived and worked in very earthquake prone cities (Wellington, NZ). One of the reasons given to stay inside is that in certain areas of the city, shattered glass falling from s…

In the article, the architect spoke about how the goal of single stair buildings is to kill that hallway - one stairwell with the doors to each apartment on the stair itself, then …

The parent comment said abolish it.

I don't think the NZ bill of rights is applied the same way as other countries. > Section 4 specifically denies the Act any supremacy over other legislation. The section states tha…

I think a more concise explanation is just that street design impacts speed choices. https://beyondtheautomobile.com/2021/02/08/what-is-design-sp...

New Zealand has previously given citizenship to island nation citizens, it is likely that that will continue if things worsen.

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All that is true, but - we also don’t force farmers to internalize the externalities created by their industry. Southland farmers themselves are saying that if they had to comply w…

By changing what "enough" means. Provide easy access to other/better means of mobility and then we can have fewer cars in total.

First it's bridges, then it's roading, electric lines, gas lines, water lines, sewerage, civic buildings needing maintenance (schools, hospitals, community centers). There are endl…

It's almost always a case of too low density - providing services to suburbs costs more per capita due to the area needing to be covered. http://newclimateeconomy.net/content/relea…

Have you seen a city with under-maintained infrastructure? https://www.artba.org/2021/03/23/over-220000-u-s-bridges-nee...

That's not how that works. Infrastructure is built with many years of a cities budget; they are maintained with the current years (and sometimes, the next 5 years) budget.

Everyone knows the true measure is lines of code deleted. (Congratulations!)

I think part of it is how much work has encroached into our lives - long commutes and long work hours tend to prevent people from finding/existing in social spaces where it is appr…

Every town, including big cities where the above situation would occur.

Why have you conflated combating anti-unionism as wokeness? That's such a strawman

In this context, maxreps means to do as many push-ups as you can in a single set (until your arms give out).