ajmadesc

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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Here is a table of vehicle damage levels by size. https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Sorry for the late response. I think the solution is clearly to make more places like San Francisco. Not to make SF more like everywhere else.
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Any books you recommend?
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
The most import thing to take from this is that American pattern of suburbanization was a government choice. Highways, suburbs, and car domminance would not exist anywhere near the scale that they do without massive government subsidies, or
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Its not just anti-road. Its non-dense development. The more spread out services the more resources it takes to maintain them. The fact of the matter is that we've been accumulating "debt" to build suburbs by ignoring the cost
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
So price the negative externalities of not having the tree and send it their way. Maybe people aren't entitled to live in suburbs where trees are a threat
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Oh but you can! Paris, London, and I'm sure countless other cities in Europe have pedestrianized or reduced traffic in large areas. The Netherlands has done this in most cities. 99.99% of suburbanites couldn't afford their lifesty
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
TLDR: * Write three things you're greatfull for daily. Bonus points if you share the task with friends * Take walks and pay attention to what's happening * Listen to soft nature sounds
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
That's not true though. The gov pays the providers as well.
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Yeah but why not just have literal slaves and not require that people have health insurance. The reductive "race to the bottom" can go both directions
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Those poor poor jerbs
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
I mean minimum wage isn't inflation adjusted is it.
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
I mean, what it only kicks in after say $25 million? Then everyone would be able to own 25,000,000 worth of stuff free and clear.
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
>What the hell else are we paying for? Are chips for industrial equipment or cars? When you say cutting edge I think desktop / phone / servers.
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Those democracies are protectorates
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
spending on RnD is equally incentivised. RnD increases share price which would tax free increase net worth. >find even more creative ways to give it to themselves This is not a good argument.
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Yeah but how does a society deal with negative externalities like poisoning the water table, ecosystem destruction etc
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Was it along the lines of, trying to convince OPEC to stop accepting dollars?
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Oh cool! Much more than I would've suspected. Thanks for sharing
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Most people who argue the point shout about how cheap, iphones, TVs, nice cars, and flights are. Something 80% can't afford regularly.
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
But Americans aren't educated outside of stem > And it shows
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Is that adjusted for rise in costs? What counts as substantial?
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
All the 'printed' money is given directly to corporations. This increases their share price. That's where the inflation is. Asset process
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
He did it to buy the world's biggest yatch, and a space program
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
> The idea that real estate speculation being the baseline goal of universities is funny but doubtful Drexel university is spearheading the gentrification of west Philadelphia. They paid tens of millions for a dirty old tire shop. They r
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
"Administration", "outreach", "development"
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
And if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
> I stopped reading at “more fragile white Princeton….” That seems quite a fragile thing to do
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
Taxation does fix the problem. The tax system is simply intentionally overcomplicated to allow the wealthy to avoid taxes.
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by ajmadesc 5y ago
So it boils down to. Don't break the window, burn the building

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