f1yght

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by f1yght 1y ago
I'd be curious to see a breakdown by age. I can imagine a lot of people under 35 whose experience with capitalism was the great financial crises, the housing crises, and the continued eroding of "safe" jobs. Not to mention th
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by f1yght 1y ago
I think the final paragraph of the article sums up the issue pretty well. The tech world spends a lot of thought and energy on trying to escape our current existence instead of trying to make it better. There's very real crises that ar
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by f1yght 2y ago
That's the way it should be, easy to understand. This set up might be short but it's complex to read.
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by f1yght 2y ago
I think this could largely be an issue with public or VC/PE funded companies. There's plenty of private companies of small/mid size that make plenty of money but don't feel a need to grow excessively. You could think of
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by f1yght 2y ago
Why do people drag out trade schools? Sure they can make sense financially, but there's a heavy toll of working with your body instead of sitting in an office chair for work. And the numbers don't lie, college graduates make signi
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by f1yght 2y ago
I'm surprised funding isn't the number 1 issue across the spectrum. It's abundantly clear the schools near me are already underfunded and also have a 100 million a year budget hole. You can complain about admin and what not,
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by f1yght 3y ago
Cars still kill people at high speed, human bodies haven't adapted to get hit by cars better.
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by f1yght 3y ago
That's your opinion, sharing a wall but being able to walk or bike easily to everything I need it a huge boost to my quality of life.
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by f1yght 3y ago
You have to change zoning laws in large swaths of the United States to even allow building homes that share walls.
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by f1yght 3y ago
I'm not sure how another urbanizing country choosing cars is evidence against my belief that denser and more walkable cities are better to live in. Places like the Netherlands are choosing to build dense walkable neighborhoods and in m
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by f1yght 3y ago
Okay fair enough, but you understand my point. Some EU countries have higher standards that avoid the issue of hearing your neighbor. I remember watching a tour of a construction site that an american construction manager was going on and t
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by f1yght 3y ago
I think when people think of the ideal urban environment, they're thinking 3-6 story mixed use buildings close to the street with tree lined streets. People have an idea of miles of single use suburbs because that's the prevailing
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by f1yght 3y ago
One of the main issues in cities like Seattle is 76% of the city land area is zoned for single family only. People in Seattle aren't overly worried about what suburban towns are doing, but the city limits itself still has a ton of land
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by f1yght 3y ago
We still have to build and maintain roads for cars, which has its own emissions. EVs also weigh more and road damage cubes or ^4 with vehicle weight, so EVs also increase the cost and frequency of road repair. EVs are an improvement, but le
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by f1yght 3y ago
Everyone driving EVs still has very large infrastructure costs of building and maintaining roads, parking, garages, etc versus if people lived in walkable and bikeable areas. Less wear and tear on roads by orders of magnitude when not using
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by f1yght 3y ago
In the EU they have much higher construction standards including much thicker walls and floors that block sound between units better. I wish the US could duplicate that, though that would increase building costs which are already high here.
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by f1yght 3y ago
It's funny, brownstones originally had similar resistance for being bland and uninteresting yet we find them beautiful now. I think cost effective new housing just isn't going to be that visually interesting, but we need it anyway
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by f1yght 3y ago
Isn't part of the issue that state and federal funding for higher education hasn't kept up with costs, so the increase just goes straight to the students paying?
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by f1yght 3y ago
I think some places have tried it before, but if it's optional then people who think they will earn a lot will just get a traditional loan, and people who think they will earn less get the income based one. So it ends up not being econ
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by f1yght 3y ago
So... there isn't enough supply to match the demand growth.
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by f1yght 3y ago
A friend of mine was a PM at amazon and was part of the layoffs earlier in the year. Hasn't had any response to their applications, only 1 interview from a referral but it wasn't a good fit.
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by f1yght 3y ago
Why would you age out of having amenities closer to you? If anything, as you get older things should be even closer.
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by f1yght 3y ago
It's much easier to convert older buildings than newer ones, just due to them being designed differently. You lay out structures different if you're designing a small building for PI style offices than you do if it's a huge o
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by f1yght 3y ago
They're also difficult because modern office buildings just don't lend themselves to small apartments very well. One of the conversions in New York cut a giant hole through the middle of the building so they could have interior un
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by f1yght 3y ago
This assumes that small towns that have shrinking and aging populations are more desirable to live in than cities for the sole purpose that housing is cheaper. Cities have large advantages like proximity to other jobs should it be lost, ser
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by f1yght 3y ago
Honestly, if you're getting decent reviews at work then that's plenty.
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by f1yght 3y ago
According to the census, 80.7% of americans live in urban areas. We really should be creating spaces where people don't have to have a car to do the basic necessities. When talking about car dependence, it's about creating viable
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by f1yght 3y ago
Almost 10% if you include the metro areas. SF, NY, and Chicago account for a significant portion of how Americans experience the world.
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by f1yght 3y ago
Wear the right clothes. I on and off bike to the gym and if you wear the right things the weather isn't a problem.
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by f1yght 4y ago
My comment was relative to the 3 day weekend of the 4 day workweek

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