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One other problem is that whenever these conversations come up in "extremely public spaces" (i.e. the internet), you inevitably have a small group that strongly identifies with the…

You do realize that I'm responding to someone that made the assertion, also implied in the NYT article, that this "donation" was "done in a way that intentionally incurred a large …

Chouinard is probably marginally better than your average billionaire, but it was almost certainly not done in a way that didn't also very clearly benefit him, and, more importantl…

A majority of the use cases for self-driving cars are either solvable, or already solved, by some combination of better urban planning (i.e. zoning and probably large-scale regulat…

As someone who grew up in Austin, it was never walkable at any meaningful scale.

It's far from the biggest source of disappointment I'm subjected to on a daily basis. I also frequently choose not to engage with ill-informed comment threads; I'm regretting my la…

These are at least often informed by (overly specific) personal anecdotes.

This is also not limited to just COVID discussion either. Most things that aren't somehow related to day-to-day software development devolve into unsubstantiated, or ill-informed, …

> Bus was awful. Exactly. Similar to the problem many adults have trying to get to work by bus, it often doubles or triples a commute time.

Finally. There are these long comment threads talking about high school students taking public transit/school buses, but that just isn't how most high school students get to school…

Most of America is a serious street safety/transit problem which should be solved. A plurality ~35% of high school students are driven to school, though not necessarily by a parent…

My point about good faith was assuming people that claim to simply be in favor of devolution of authority to legislatures or states are being truthful; and not just also saying tha…

This is one of those cases, where, people like the original commenter, if we assume they are arguing in good faith, will then be "surprised" when it turns out those they are electi…