thekyle

If the goal is to reduce the number of vacant homes, then why not create a tax on those specifically. Corporate owned homes and vacant homes are not the same thing at all.

I think it's worth pointing out that congestion pricing is a policy that already exists in several cities around the world including New York City.

I think big box stores are popular largely because it would be inconvenient to drive between many smaller shops just to find the same variety of goods. It’s the same dynamic we see with car-dependent shopping malls, where the main advantage is being able to park once and visit multiple stores. If instead you had to re-park at each individual store, the experience would be far less convenient.

But if a town is designed to be fully walkable so that people can easily walk from store to store (similar to the experience of shopping inside a indoor mall), then I think the appeal of large one-stop-shop stores is greatly reduced.

It's interesting that they consider the presence of ads and the presence of Yandex ads as separate factors. I wonder if this implies a priority for pages with Yandex ads.

I found that they worked for me in Chrome, but not in Safari

I believe the Tor feature of Brave is an optional setting, so I assume only a small fraction of their MAU use it.

I think everyone has been able to tell convincing lies for quite some time before language models even existed.