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Even with an overall hierarchical design, some places still tend to have fairly major roads with houses on both sides, these are the places I'm concerned about, directing more traf…

Maybe it's some limitation of the human brain that causes us to reduce everything to the same recurring roots :) It may be better to open things up elsewhere, as long as the reason…

Let's say that a given road has a certain service life, maybe measured in tonne-miles (e.g. a car which weighs 1.5 tonnes and travels a mile on the road would reduce the roads serv…

But how is this different to how the road system has developed from the start? People choose the popular routes by driving on them, then these are the roads that are repaired/upgra…

I would be interested to see how the use of lots of small street routes around a main route affects the flow of the main route, and what the efficiency gain generally is. Maybe it …

@macNchz Why is it okay to push even more of these costs on people around the main route, don't you think that people in all areas should take on their share of these costs. Also s…

I didn't mean barriers that prevent through traffic, I meant barriers that protect pedestrians.

So, I guess you think that this new driver tracking would be cheaper than traditional obstructions (i.e. speed humps, chicanes, etc...)? I guess it could be, but what are the non o…

I don't think it is necessarily a worse overall outcome, even if the small streets become somewhat less safe. It could be that installing barriers at some of the more dangerous poi…

But why should it be for residential traffic, if the through traffic is driving within the speed limit? Again, just because the history of a street made it appropriate for relaxed …

First time I've heard of "rat running", but am having a hard time seeing the justification for the negative connotation. I can only see it as a more efficient use of the road syste…

"Another metaphor would be like a computer with many programs running simultaneously. The more programs that are running, the slower the computer functions. This is a problem then.…

Yeah, it's kind of amazing that people can have any sort of an objective view of the world, with the amount of noise being input to their senses. I guess even if you have almost co…

Given that the world is shown as perceived by the protagonist, what irked me was the straw man depiction of how a "hacktivist" supposedly perceives the world. Maybe there exist hac…

Yeah, I think that's how the GP meant it, ideally that would be the way it is thought of, but I could see it being used as a justification to look down on people like that farm wor…

It may be better if a person used that creative energy in a side project, if the product they work on has a large, varied user base. I would not want to stop people being elitist, …

I appreciate the sentiment, but what if striving for "artistry" turns out to just cause a nuisance for the user? I think the problem here is that everyone experiences "art" differe…

I think this is the way it is commonly thought of in society, I don't think this is a particularly good way to look at it though. I think the implied assumption in this framework, …

I don't like the endless repetition by people trying to exploit flaws in the human brain for their own purposes, but if you are able to mentally filter the inanity, you can experie…

I find 4chan valuable because it seems to give an insight to raw humanity without the self censoring common in normal human interaction. I would rather people tell me what they rea…

It is encouraging for me to see my opinion on this reflected in your comment, I find it very worrying that it is so common for people to seemingly blindly accept the popular narrat…

I don't actually see income disparity as the largest problem, within limits it doesn't seem too harmful. What I see as a more important goal is too enable people to choose do thing…

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/ Take your pick, or interpolate between them.

manual upvote (site won't let me upvote normally, this is probably frowned upon, but then you should let people upvote normally)

(In this article): The same people who are condemning taking your bags, citing it as an impediment to evacuation, are suggesting an additional movement restriction, passenger bag c…