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by eherot 3y ago
A) If customers can't manage select a properly secure cloud camera system, what makes you think they're going to do a good job picking a VPN vendor and setting up their product? But perhaps more importantly.. B) What about the app
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by eherot 4y ago
Elderly people driving cars isn't exactly an ideal situation either...
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by eherot 4y ago
You will find this to be a common theme across most of the country
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by eherot 4y ago
Additionally, if this urban farm plot exists to the exclusion of several stories of apartments, and those apartments must instead be located further away from where people want to be, the net carbon emissions (not to mention the effect on h
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by eherot 4y ago
I feel it’s worth pointing out that saving people from financial ruin was only part of the intent of the PPP legislation. The main point of a “stimulus” is to stimulate the economy. If your friend received money and then spent it on somethi
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by eherot 5y ago
You are correct that the access security of a booklet is almost certainly better than that of a password manager. The issue with the booklet is that humans do not like transcribing long strings between computer and paper so (at least in my
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by eherot 7y ago
Suburbs ARE evil, but our land use policies keep us from building enough housing in cities, which makes them too expensive to be considered a good option for most people.
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by eherot 7y ago
Radiation which is, in small doses, mostly harmless, since it is of the non-ionizing variety.
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by eherot 8y ago
It seems like this is an unsubstantiated claim. At the time that this change was introduced, Chicago was at the tail end of one of the longest economic declines that it has ever experienced. Several huge retailers that were located in the a
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by eherot 8y ago
I'm not sure this is right. One of the very clever things Uber did was take advantage of a loophole in the hackney laws that allowed drivers to operate for hire without taxi medallions as long as they did not perform street hails. From
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by eherot 8y ago
I'd posit that we are going to have a very hard time fighting off climate change if we aren't allowed to do anything to discourage people from driving 40 minutes to a nearby town every time they want to go shopping. The transporta
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by eherot 8y ago
But even in the relatively narrow scenario you describe, there is an immediate benefit for those living and working in the city, which is that there is significantly less car traffic, which means less noise and pollution and greater safety
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by eherot 8y ago
But also significantly lower carbon emissions!
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by eherot 8y ago
Driving and transit are not the only two ways of getting around. There is also walking, which is both the cheapest form of transit to provide and also completely dependent on density in order to work. Places like Boston, London, and New Yor
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by eherot 8y ago
Arguably people need a home more than they need a car even in the most extreme cases.
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by eherot 8y ago
The question is, if you’re going to design a system where 1 person != 1 vote, how can you argue that it is in any way more fair for someone’s vote to count double (or more) simply because they have chosen to live in a sparsely populated are
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by eherot 8y ago
I would advise the opposite of this. Many of his solutions listed at the end are ineffective, poorly researched and/or totally impractical ("more rent control!", "socialize all housing!"). It's telling that he
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by eherot 8y ago
New York is nowhere near as bad as San Francisco when it comes to permitting, and it does have more parcels where height is not significantly limited, but it still builds far less housing than it needs to, and overly restrictive zoning is s
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by eherot 8y ago
This is actually a key problem with using rent control as a primary means to achieve housing affordability. Rent control works as a way to soften the blow of large rent increases (like the kind you might see after a major building renovatio
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by eherot 9y ago
> What I find annoying is the same people that are against rent control and zoning are also utterly against government providing basic public services such as buses, subways, and mass transit. I guess I must be the exception then. I am v
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by eherot 9y ago
People buy properties as "investments" when they see prices rising constantly, not the other way around.
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by eherot 9y ago
> I've always thought that cities needed to focus on redevelopment as a much broader, city-wide strategy. Instead of following trends of what the next "up and coming" neighborhood is, actually revitalize all areas of the c
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by eherot 9y ago
Japan is really the only rich country that has that (and it has the housing prices to show for it).
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by eherot 9y ago
"Communities with a large number of parents who feel that education is their responsibility tend to still do a good job of educating their kids in their public schools. " Arguably, many of these parents educate their kids complete
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by eherot 10y ago
Or so we thought... https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
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by eherot 10y ago
35 here. DevOps software engineer. Also do not work for Google. I personally find this stuff fascinating and not particularly creepy. I'm far more concerned about credit reporting agencies and their data retention/sharing habits t
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by eherot 10y ago
It created fewer new jobs for the people who already live there, which presumably resulted in lower wages on average. Supply + demand and all.
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by eherot 10y ago
> The market has demonstrated that hotels and similar will be built until supply mostly meets the demand. Actually I think what we're seeing is precisely that this is not happening. If that were the case, hotel rooms in NYC would
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by eherot 10y ago
How does this affect the validity of the original statement?
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by eherot 10y ago
NIMBYism (in the form of parking minimums and height/density restrictions) are one of the main causes of that housing shortage you mentioned. The fact that permanent residents feel like they are locked in a tight competition with short

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