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What exactly does this have to do with the article?

Why would anyone prefer to drive when you can be driven?

That is a very uncharitable read.

Ironically, your sentence structure here carries the feint smell of LLM

From the article's first source:

https://calelectricrail.org/how-environmental-law-holds-back...

I think we’re talking past each other on this one. The article is about outcomes, not intentions

Exactly—and that’s the normal, healthy function of a housing market.

Prop 13 distorts that by making it financially irrational to ever move, which contributes directly to the lock-in and underutilization the article describes

It is interesting how you raise that yardstick on housing and not on income tax or sales tax.

Frozen property tax assessments benefit homeowners who are already rich, and disproportionately benefit the literal richest.

It is not entirely clear at all whether you’ve read the article

How it is framed and what the outcomes are are two different things entirely.

This means that employees would only be able to sell their stock 2 windows a year where they currently can sell 4 windows a year, correct?

What is "n8n"?

Your analogy about drunk drivers actually makes my point: we don't just tell parents "be vigilant". We have DUI laws, road design standards, and enforcement--systemic solutions, not just individual responsibility.

With tech, we've largely abdicated that, placing the entire burden on parents to defend against industrial-scale manipulation.

Expecting individual parents to successfully counter industrial-scale behavioral engineering is a systems failure, not a parenting failure.

When did "healthy parenting" become a full-time cybersecurity job with no training, adversaries backed by infinite capital, teams of PhDs optimizing for addiction, and sexual predators from around the globe dialoguing with your child through any glass surface your child can get their hands on?

Should Apple/Google be liable as platform?

I'm trying to imagine how you envision regulation without going after the biggest individual apps that enable child financial fraud & sexual grooming.

Not sure if you have children, but this is exactly what a healthy government regulatory framework looks like.

No one's killing a porcupine here.

In California, it's called an "impact fee"

Sounds simple:

In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the probe and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC.

The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January, according to six sources familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, Trump appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the case, two of the people said.

It’s unclear what reasons FBI and Justice Department officials gave for shutting down the investigation. But a Trump Justice Department appointee called the case a “deep state” probe in early 2025 and no further investigative steps were taken, the sources say.

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On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources.

While cool, this does not incorporate real-time data, just the static schedule.

I've explored this--you need 511 API access to obtain real-time data, and to conceal your API key you need to stand up a web application.

Cool proof-of-concept, need to take it to the next level!

US healthcare is barbaric

I would be happy to pay for carry-on if it meant guaranteed space.

On the other hand, checked bags should be free/at a discount.

I have not understood why the pricing was inverse.

Pulling a Tanium would be to fire people right ahead of their vesting cliff:

https://www.inc.com/business-insider/tanium-security-startup...

The study does not control for distance traveled.

This is all hand-waving, to try and bolster the case for safer infrastructure for bicyclists (electric and not) which I of course also support.

No, what's that?

Yes yes, the person outside of a car must provide deference to the car owner. Poor people serve the rich.

Bus fare on SamTrans to the San Mateo County Fair is also cheaper with Clipper Card ($2.05) vs. cash ($2.25).

Probably much better fraud protection, and much better usage tracking (e.g. accurately tracking bus stop boarding metrics).

I was with you until your assertion that enforcement is the answer. Copying Texas on traffic engineering is not a serious take:

https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/trf/trafficsafety/engin...

Having to drive defensively to avoid other people’s recklessness is a signal that you’re operating your vehicle in a higher risk traffic environment. Insurance already differs by geography, that sounds like more accurate pricing of risk. Bad drivers raise everyone’s collective insurance costs.

Why is it Caltrain’s fault that you chose to live far from a station, your employer chose to lease offices far from a station, and you chose to work for said employer?

The fact is that San Mateo was built as a suburb of San Francisco, and the transit choices were built as a function of residents commuting into San Francisco.

Why did you choose to live in San Francisco? You cannot expect the transit system to revolve on a dime around your housing & employment choices.