Tactician_mark
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Comment · 1 year ago
Reminds me of the Stop Killing Games movement. If you give people an end date, they can plan around it.
Comment · 1 year ago
But rich cities can also have great public transit. New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore... in fact rich cities with transit as awful as the Bay Area seem to be the exception, not the rule
Comment · 1 year ago
You could get together in a big group and all say the same things in unison. Maybe even hold some signs saying those things
Comment · 2 years ago
Your argument about increasing demand for services isn't convincing. Since there are more people in the area, should supply be higher as well, balancing prices?
It seems more likely that costs are higher in cities because there are valuable opportunities for skilled people who demand high salaries, simultaneously encouraging dense living to maximize access and increasing cost of living through the Baumol effect. High prices causing density, not the other way around.
Comment · 2 years ago
Those footnote toggles that transition to margin notes on bigger screens are absolutely amazing! Definitely going to try stealing that, thank you :)
Comment · 2 years ago
Here's an infographic from Sustainable Prosperity: https://i.imgur.com/2rgkaOZ.jpeg
That's just one area in Halifax, but the idea is that higher population densities require less infrastructure per person. Less road, power line, water/sewer pipe, etc. However, low density houses usually pay less in property taxes per unit area than high density, meaning that increased infrastructure cost is coupled with a considerable tax break.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was going to mention WebRTC! It seems designed for video calling, but there are lots of cool use cases - I recently ran across https://github.com/dmotz/trystero , a dead simple WebRTC library for peer-to-peer multiplayer browser games.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm sure you're right about the declining quality of Camembert, but I can't help but be reminded of this comic:
Comment · 2 years ago
This discussion is about public EV charging. If you live somewhere rural or suburban and can afford a car, you can probably afford a garage for it. The push for public EV charging is in more urban places, where public transit would be a better investment.
Comment · 2 years ago
The question here is how many people don't have a garage but still want a car. The rural and suburban folks are out - plenty of room for garages and charging. So any discussion of public charging infrastructure is focused on places where public transit would be a better investment.
Comment · 2 years ago
How does input work on iPhone? Keyboard overlay?
Comment · 3 years ago
Do you live in an apartment complex? What's the home parking situation like?
Comment · 3 years ago
Agreed. I'd add that it feels there's less of an establishment to rail against than in the Bush days. I'd bet there was a drop in numbers in 2009, when Obama started.
Comment · 3 years ago
I didn't know Apple TV wasn't device exclusive until this comment
Comment · 3 years ago
Tastes change. This isn't some engineering or logistics constraint; if plastic phones have a real advantage, adoption is simply a matter of marketing.