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This whole time I've been confused how investing more money in roads is compatible with our climate goals. Should we not trying to decommission roads and encourage people to move to denser, walkable and cyclable city centers?
> Should we not trying to decommission roads and encourage people to move to denser, walkable and cyclable city centers? Roads are still needed inside cities and between them. The Ancient Romans (famously) had roads. Roads used to be for people: > Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor…
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This whole time I've been confused how investing more money in roads is compatible with our climate goals. Should we not trying to decommission roads and encourage people to move to denser, walkable and cyclable city centers?
That’s probably a reductive take. This bill is massive, over 2000 pages. It has funding for all kinds of transportation, green, energy and digital infrastructure. Roads are a part of that because once they are built, they need to be maintained or else people will die. There are several examples of bridges and overpasses collapsing and leading to deaths and badly maintained road surface leads to fatal accidents as wel…
Maintained or decomissioned.
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The comment I responded to consisted of one sentence that communicated one idea. Where’s the ambiguity in what I think is good?
Ok, so I assume you are saying it's good crypto is having bad news. May I ask why?
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I’d be interested to know the implications if you have time to share.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/06/house-sends-inf... Tl;dr it will be a felony offense to receive >$10k of any digital asset without filing a report including KYC information on the sender.
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An area that I didn’t see talk about was investment in pedestrian and bicycle safety infrastructure. That’s generally a much smaller investment with significant gains in reducing car travel, to the GP’s point. I would have liked to see spending on bike and pedestrian safety projects as a percentage of any money spend on car infrastructure.
I live in a fairly rural, but affluent, part of Michigan now, and at one of the township board meetings, they were discussing a proposed bike lane. The reason they didn't want it? Only one person (on the board) really said anything at all, and his reasoning was that he imagined a scenario in which there would be some sort of biking event where lots of people would be biking the trail, and his driveway could somehow e…
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$100bn/year is still an astronomical amount of money.
For a person: yes. For 330 million people: no. To compare: the US occupation of Afghanistan cost about this much per year, but that budget has been freed up. I live in Europe and I see the same lack of basic understanding of finance. People claim the EU costs a lot of money. And it does. But not per person. Not at all. And any reporter that talks about macro economic numbers like this without normalizing it per capit…
It has not. Do you think we downsized our military after leaving?
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It gives the DOE secretary a mandate and budget to commission projects for new, smaller nuclear plants (300MW). Unless that got removed…
This would be really cool! Unfortunately I have no idea how to even tell what's in this bill -- do you?