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Spokane is Eastern Washington, the college in Cheney is literally called Eastern, its just not a desert.

Spokane is not desert. Even surrounding territory is more plains. Some desert military training happens at Yakima much further west.

Interesting video, but it's all from the pov of the city's tax revenue and nothing else. Taking the first example, if they don't build the new food complex and keep the old one, less people will want to live in that city, and eventually the tax revenue will go down. Plenty of ghost towns around me that prove that point, you have to stay modern or you go under. As far as the suburb part, if those high income areas spend all their money downtown, then tax revenue downtown goes up but the source of money is still the suburbs. You have two sources of tax revenue in downtown (business + residents), but only one in the suburbs. So naturally tax revenue is lower in suburbs, but without them the downtown businesses wouldn't survive at all. It's a relationship, and it's odd they don't address this point. Also in the southwest there are plenty of suburb-only cities that grow rapidly without a downtown district playing major part.

"Cities" is the wrong word here, it's really "downtown" or "city center" areas. The center of activities will move outwards toward the suburbs, but stay in the wider metro area. This has been slowly happening for a while in many (most ?) metro areas, but the pandemic will certainly expedite things.

Yes, but very limited. They are only allowed to ask "are you a US citizen", and walk a dog around the car. I've never had one take more than 60 seconds in either AZ or CA.

Rest would give you energy regardless, both physically and mentally. Nearly every sport has built in sitting breaks.

It's not about ignoring editors, it's about taking constructive feedback, and the ratio of constructive feedback to noise is very low in complex projects. In those projects, people that aren't heavily invested typically don't know enough about the wider project to make valuable contributions.

> I've never understood why it's somehow considered more 'consensus'-oriented than say FPTP. Biden won his election with 51% of the vote...

Odd example here. That election wasn't FPTP, it just happened to work out that way. Overall people don't think FPTP is consensus because you have to vote pragmatically for people you don't necessarily like. Therefore the winner is not the consensus "favorite" choice of everyone who voted.

Has anyone tried this with real estate solicitors ? I get a message per day about selling my house.

> Importantly, Facebook helped people to get accurate, authoritative health information.

Surely the author experienced some form of cognitive dissonance while typing this out.

Yes. I worked for a major newspaper and would guess that all the people in editorial make up less than 50% of the staff. You have business, accounting, tech, delivery, support, sales, security etc...

ditto

No improvements on old features or adding new features, basically no updates at all for the past few years. Recommendations and rating system are crap. Usability around core features like bookshelves are terrible. The awards are just a popularity contest.

+1, that was a great episode. The iOS hack story is especially crazy.