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> I am aware how HR works, the question was about the whittled down 100. Appreciate the word salad, though. Apparently you aren’t aware of any sort of common courtesy. Or how HR wo…

I’ve said this above but I don’t think this is an incompatible view with what the article says. But the predominant attitude is that everyone just ought to move to the suburbs even…

I don’t think that’s the thesis of the article. Rather, I think the article is saying that nice things alone don’t compensate for the opportunity costs and negative second-order ef…

> Living in downtown Palo Alto probably costs 100% more than living in Pleasanton, which is roughly a one hour commute. As I understand, there’s heavy resistance to building any so…

> the left and the right my opinion are missing the key points on freedom (the left suppressing and labeling, the right militarizing). If I had to choose between “cancel culture” v…

Bus rapid transportation could be a better fit, given existing freeway infrastructure. But good luck taking away two lanes of highway anywhere in the United States (true right-of-w…

Nespresso isn't technically espresso either, as Wirecutter points out ( https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-nespresso-ma... ). That being said, I was under the impressi…

> It's like saying "Delhi is too Indian" No, it’s like saying “Delhi has too many Hindi speakers” or “Delhi has too many Brahmins” or “there are too few Muslims in Delhi” or “Delhi…

cities built around transit and biking.

I believe the first Intel product announced was the [EDIT: iMac - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_(Intel-based)#1st_generat... ] MacBook Pro at Macworld in January of 2006,…

> The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan > In this present crisis, government is not the soluti…

> As evidence, he pointed to data from real estate companies that showed less interest in California, New York and New Jersey as well as slowing searches for homes in larger cities…

> It's only when you go out to the suburbs, probably one of society's least efficient constructions, that you see the lowest prices -- a perfect balance of efficiency, I guess. It …

But USPS is focused on efficiency and profitability. They have streamlined many of their operations and created new profit making initiatives (e.g. Informed Delivery), all while ha…

> TurboTax on the other hand, is a relatively nice experience. For this tax year I used TurboTax. I have a relatively simple return, but editing stock sales was extremely tedious a…

> A car is just easier, assuming light traffic, short drives, and good parking And that’s precisely the problem, because cars don’t scale well. Suburbs surrounding large growing ur…

Now imagine how the non-bike lanes would look like if every one of those people on a bike was in a car instead!

FWIW I don’t see anything extraneous, neither in the source code nor on the page. Browser extensions can inject content, of course; that might be what’s happening here.

The check is issued by the “Bank of San Serriffe” ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe ). Perhaps they have different typographical conventions...

Sure, comparisons to Gitmo might be unwarranted, but this article is not about cafes merely playing music nonstop (which is indeed ubiquitous), but about Starbucks playing the same…

>I see your point, but still EVs are not that great for environments compare to trains, forget the energy for moving. Energy to build, the tire residues that goes to our public wat…

>Just look at the mayhem easy to obtain government backed student loans have caused in "higher" education - skyrocketing tuition and a bachelors degree being worth about the same a…

Maybe the smart car was too small, but “Small” cars (by American standards, anyway) are still popular. They’re just disguised as SUVs and classified as “subcompact crossovers”. Wit…

The goal of most "anti-car" (most aren't really anti-car, just anti-cars in the city) people is not just to create pedestrian zones, but also to change land-use patterns so that it…

It's important to note that public transport systems are often forced to run unprofitable routes. Late night routes and paratransit are inherently unprofitable but improve accessib…