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Riding with other people is _a_ problem, but I don't think it's the primary problem for why transit isn't used in the US. Imo, the biggest problem is that of convenience. Convenien…

So, if trial lawyers are have reduced demand, I wonder how that impacts the billboard market. On a more serious note, I think it's obvious that we shouldn't reduce safety improveme…

Considering the push for reproduction from this admin and his technocrats, I'm curious if they would consider something like this.

I'm sure they'll exist. I'm not sure they will be used for a majority of trips.

Exactly my thought. People have been saying that robotaxis and self driving cars will take over in a couple years for at least a decade. It hasn't happened, and not only that, but …

> I'm with you, but given that I have no control over any of them We all have a little bit of control over at least housing and transport. Local politics determine land use, and mu…

I've actually wondered how many datacenters it would take to effectively perform a 51% attack on bitcoin. It seems like most newly built computing resources are at the disposal of …

Can't read the article but I was able to get the summary. I think evidence in Minneapolis, Denver, Austin, etc. is showing that increasing housing supply can apply downward pressur…

I live in the Denver metro and have worked on zoning code in other municipalities. This is actually the first I've heard about the "Unlocking Home Choices" plan. This proposal seem…

This, combined with the serenity prayer [0] have helped push me to try getting involved in fixing problems I never thought I'd be involved with. We can all make a positive differen…

What do you find them useful for? Could they potentially provide value to another open source project if integrated?

I named my phone HAL9000 and when I read this I immediately thought, "Well yeah I just turn it off"

One of the easiest things to pirate is music. Spotify basically killed mainstream piracy of music by making it cheap and easy to pay for nearly all music. I used to pirate video ga…

> Why did it fund sprawl? Road funding is a big reason. Federal, state, and local taxes are used for roads, and more driving. Parking minimums required land to be dedicated to park…

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For a long time, the US had the money to build things, use them, let them slowly deteriorate, and then abandon them. It was cheaper to simply let things fall into disrepair, and bu…

People do break traffic laws regularly without consequences.

A large problem in speed limit setting is that 85th percentile is used many times for setting the speed limit and other factors are ignored or aren't weighted as heavily. It's a ve…

An argument I've heard is that by legalizing betting, it can be more easily monitored with regulation and reduce the amount of black market betting. People still bet when it's ille…

I think the intention was a joke: One Rich A*hole Called Larry Elison.

When I worked for Oracle in 2015 during my co-op there, IDC was generally just another office. NetSuite may be their focus, but I think they generally cover almost all Oracle softw…

Yup. If my gf is streaming something and an ad appears, I'll trigger the download for it during the first ad break, and then when the second ad breaks, it'll most likely be finishe…

Where do you see these long term forecasts?

Nice. The bike trail to my office and a few grocery stores doesn't have any of these.