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"The fully enclosed shopping mall, that island of boxy chain stores and lost apostrophes in a sea of asphalt, was not born in California. But this seems to be the place where people are digging its grave, at least in its present form."

https://web.archive.org/web/20150527125625/https://www.nytim...

From 2001: "Dying shopping malls reborn as old-fashioned downtowns"

https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2001-12-12/article...

From 2003: "Malls: Death of an American icon"

https://web.archive.org/web/20030707142032/https://money.cnn...

Cory Doctorow was talking about dead malls in 2003:

https://boingboing.net/2003/04/19/dead-mall-contest-re.html

From 1998: "Enclosed malls losing luster as well as tenants"

"Mintz thinks the vacancies signal a deeper problem -- that malls are outdated and out of touch with the needs of today's shoppers."

https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/1998/02/09/st...

From 2018: "America’s malls are dying. Owners are hoping virtual reality and fitness centers will save them"

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-malls-revival-2018091...

Of course there are a plethora of recent articles as well:

https://duckduckgo.com/?va=v&t=ha&q=%22Malls+are+dying%22&ia...

Comment · 3 years ago

I don't have any information that's not available on the website, but it looks like the Lightyear 2 is more of a conventional a four door sedan, while the Aptera is a two passenger enclosed three-wheeled motorcycle.

Comment · 4 years ago

Is it that time of year already? "Dying malls" is like the "The suit is back" type of meme. Malls have been dying for most of my adult life (and I'm old enough to have used an 8088 processor on our home computer as a kid).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944850

Comment · 4 years ago

Another interesting look at "turn the other cheek":

https://web.archive.org/web/20160307005615/http://dharmagate...

Comment · 4 years ago

https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/sw22-victory

Comment · 4 years ago

"When the parties agreed, they could lay their dispute before the moot, whose members, much like present-day mediators, attempted to facilitate an accommodation that the disputing parties found acceptable. When reached, such accommodations resolved the dispute in a way that preserved the peace of the community."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=586941

This is like a buy-one-get-one-free comment, not only is the above about evolved dispute resolution systems, it mention the moot.

Comment · 5 years ago

>"Sorry, grandma, I know you've been sort of attached to your name for the last 80 years, but the white folks find it inconvenient for their computer systems. Don't worry, they promise they'll make something close for you."

Is there a resource to read more about this? I don't get that vibe from things like:

https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode3.0.0/appA.pdf

Comment · 5 years ago

"This is the first of a set of papers that look at actual Einstein-Podolksy-Rosen (EPR) experiments from the point of view of a scientifically and statistically literate person who is not a specialist in quantum theory."

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9611037

...I wonder if anyone has ever followed up on Caroline Thompson's work after she passed away.

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150

Comment · 5 years ago

>You haven't been hearing it twenty years either.

Back in the year 2000, someone created the Deadmalls.com website:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadmalls.com

...just a few random items from DDG:

From 2000: "Retail Darwinism Puts Old Malls in Jeopardy"

https://web.archive.org/web/20150527125625/https://www.nytim...

From 2001: "Dying shopping malls reborn as old-fashioned downtowns"

https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2001-12-12/article...

From 2003: "Malls: Death of an American icon"

https://web.archive.org/web/20030707142032/https://money.cnn...

Cory Doctorow was talking about dead malls in 2003:

https://boingboing.net/2003/04/19/dead-mall-contest-re.html

From 1998: "Enclosed malls losing luster as well as tenants"

"Mintz thinks the vacancies signal a deeper problem -- that malls are outdated and out of touch with the needs of today's shoppers."

https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/1998/02/09/st...

And it turns out there was a book published in 2002:

"Greyfields into Goldfields: Dead Malls become Living Neighborhoods"

https://www.amazon.com/Greyfields-into-Goldfields-become-Nei...

Comment · 5 years ago

I wonder how this has worked out:

    A Hedge Fund Manager Who’s Shorting America’s Malls (2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209161

...seems like 4 years is enough time to get a feel for things.

Comment · 5 years ago

Is there a good way to quantify? There are also endless youtube videos of all manner of abandoned structures in Detroit, but I don't know that extrapolates to things outside of Detroit for example.

Comment · 5 years ago

In our current "age of big data" is there a source of data that would show the number of malls as a function of time? It would also be interesting to know the trend of vacancy in malls over time, and things like average number of outlets in malls over time. Where would someone mine data like that?