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If you have mobility issues that prevent you from exiting your building easily then you can move somewhere else. We don’t need to make every apartment building in the country more expensive for this extremely specific scenario.

This puts aspartame in the same category as aloe vera. It is classified as less risky than drinking hot beverages or eating red meat.

The problem is that horns and sirens typically provide little practical benefit. Even in an emergency situation like a heart attack, arriving an extra minute or two faster rarely improves patient outcomes. Essentially, these noises are put on for show.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/us/sirens-noise-ambulance...

The worst part is that horns and sirens often little practical use. Even in an emergency situation like a heart attack, an extra minute or two rarely improves patient outcomes. Essentially, these noises are put on for show.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/us/sirens-noise-ambulance...

Adobe halted development of painting and illustration features in Photoshop a number of years ago. Their goal seems to be to get people to use Illustrator for illustrations and Fresco for painting.

They are not a sign of a strong American dollar. They are a roadblock that limits the yuan's usefulness for anyone outside of China.

To continue your analogy: the two major competitors also have serious flaws. The Euro is like Mastodon. Its decentralized leadership prevents it from offering the features and convenience of Twitter. The Chinese Yuan is like Truth Social. Tight restrictions on what you can do there mean it is not a useful alternative for most people.

“One can debate the merits of any of these objectives. But larding already-uncompetitive businesses with crippling new costs to advance completely unrelated social goals is simply at odds with the stated purpose of this law.”

How about funding vocational training, building more housing, rejoining the EU and courting the tech industry by any means necessary?

I find ASMR videos about as pleasant as nails on a blackboard.

Living in the middle of a dense city does improve quality of life for many people via access to amenities and jobs with a very short commute. A hypothetical 50 story skyscraper can provide these benefits to 50 times as many people as a single story building could.

You're right that light and sky visibility are finite resources that require more land. 100+ story buildings can feel oppressive to people. The question to ask then is why we allocate so little land to mid-rise development and force it all into Manhattan and small downtowns. That's the biggest reason we have such tall buildings there.

It’s one of the safest places to live in the US, period.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...

From the same Substack:

"Homebuilders don’t seem to think the burdens of OSHA and other safety regulations are all that high. Complying with OSHA is the second lowest category of perceived jobsite regulatory costs."

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/how-much-safer-ha...

A few differences compared to other commercial iPhone-based capture techniques:

- Whole-clip solve instead of noisy frame-by-frame streaming - Automatically generating a face model to calibrate the rig - Solving from raw sensor data instead of Apple ARKit pose data

VFX studios typically develop proprietary solutions a few years in advance, so it can be hard to say what is truly "new and different."

Because it’s the best city in the United States

If it costs an extra $20k to set up a new farm then we let food prices rise slightly to cover the costs. Why does the government have to step in?

Today we lose immeasurably more lives through unnecessary delays of important new medicines. There is no cost benefit calculation whatsoever.

Exactly this. One of the reasons Maya remains favored in studio environments is its strong API stability guarantees. Python is excellent for automation when performance is less of a concern.

The Chinese situation is caused by government rather than by their culture. Chinese corporations are forced into inefficient state-mandated investments and provide meager rates of returns for shareholders. They get tons of shiny public infrastructure while savers are given nothing, and are not allowed to invest internationally. In other words, it is pure financial repression.

Incentivizing people to own their primary residence tax-free kills almost 90% of the Georgist incentive structure. The only justification for doing that is if you consider homes an investment asset. Almost all homeowners own only one home and would have the exact same incentives to advocate development restrictions. Governments would forego almost all of the land value tax and be forced to continue with high levels of other less efficient taxes.

Healthcare in this country is so broken. This industry should be made as simple efficient and affordable as visiting Walgreens. The regulations, the cartel-like barriers to competition, the behemoth corporate powers. The only way to get adequate care is to become so rich you can escape the whole thing.

This list is a bit idiosyncratic like one guy’s personal tastes. A lot of far away inconvenient locations. Personally I would suggest going to the fan favorites like scarr’s and L’Industrie instead. Bleecker Street is in the intersection of these strategies

I do not get the love for L&B Spumoni Gardens!

My reaction to tasting their food was similar to this: https://youtube.com/shorts/ra72I-5t5D0

Downtown Brooklyn has Norm’s and Juliana’s. Sadly the whole area is kind of devoid of commercial activity and restaurants.

One good place in a whole neighborhood doesn’t change this! New York is plagued with bad pizza in the outer residential areas. The median pizza place in Bed-Stuy is not good.

It didn’t always have the lines. Especially post pandemic the calculus is different. Still a damn good slice worth trying at least once.

I disagree. Here in Prospect Heights the pizza is a solid notch below than Prince St or Bleecker St and I think it is worth making a pit stop to get a slice at those places. Restaurants like L’Industrie are worth a whole trip on their own to visit.

I used to live near Bagelsaurus and it is better than any bagel I can get in my Brooklyn neighborhood now.

Dragon Pizza there similarly high quality.

You just have to look at Tokyo and Taipei. It is possible for cities to grow without soaring rents as long as you build lots of housing for everyone.

We’re not just talking about the tiny San Francisco city proper, we’re talking about the whole Bay Area, as well as the rest of the state.

You’re right that fixing housing won’t fix everything, but more problems than you think are caused by high housing prices, particularly crime and homelessness. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-e...

The best way to achieve more space in a walkable urban area is to densify. Today Manhattan has fewer residents than it did a century ago, but more and larger buildings. This is partly because people are living and working in more spacious accommodations.

The bicycle crowd feels unsafe too. The physical risks of cycling are almost entirely due to cars. Even in icy, slippery conditions, a bicycle accident poses almost no risk of dismemberment or death, except when there are cars involved.

For millions of people, cycling is a cheap, convenient, healthy and fun way to get around. This is particularly true since e-bikes became widely available. There is no way to get these riders back into cars. But almost nowhere in the US is there enough biking infrastructure to make them truly safe and separated from car traffic. This lack of infrastructure is why they can come off as a nuisance to drivers and pedestrians.

I'm sorry you feel pressured by cycling advocates to change your lifestyle. Maybe that is not the best way for them to advocate for change.