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Their actions have a moral cost and the people who pay those costs aren't the tech transplants, they're literally every other kind of person who slowly finds themselves unable to live in a place that is just as much their home as the owners of property. Schoolteachers, firefighters, garbage truck drivers, restaurant workers, people who lost their job, people in temporary unemployment and in need of retraining.

I understand that the problem feels intractable, but it's because we treat the people make it so like something that simply is. It is not a thing that simply is, it is a moral choice made my hundreds of thousands of people over and over again and it is their failure.

Identity politics flavored social justice activists literally make the exact same claims as you.

Taxing the rich isn't about generating revenue to make something. It's a reallocation mechanism for dollars that already exist in the economy to things that we want as a body of people.

If this seems radical, notice that this is already part of the American social contract. We already tax people to provide services and invest in long term projects. All this does is change the rates and the allocation direction.

I'll leave the tax plan aside to respond to this. As slow and creaky as the world is, when a government as powerful as the United States aggressively puts forth a vision for the world the systems of the world bend to make it work.

Remember also that the vast majority of logistical challenges with climate change aren't developing new products, but handling coordination problems around deploying existing ones.

Things that might happen if America decided to commit seriously to a Green New Deal: - automotive roadmap overhaul to 80% electric drivetrain for all deliveries in the United States by 2030 - tectonic shift in land use around the country to higher density zoning, mass transit, HSR - hundreds of billions of dollars of research to public and private institutions to map all the carbon in our system and the most effective ways to remove it

But these are all giant changes. Here are simple ones that are straight up applications of government power: - switch all major urban areas to Tokyo style zoning with property taxes tied to mass transit investment - steep cliff on ICE vehicles delivered in the United States hitting some x00% in 2030 - end all fossil fuel subsidies - move all energy supply to a Texas style market

Emergent properties of human behavior responding to incentives would take care of the rest.

I agree that we shouldn't make the tradeoff that London does. I'm a NY lifer and being out in London past 10pm makes me feel like I'm skulking around in a period drama.

But bus rapid transit is real and many of the people who make this city run (my dad for many years drove a cab he picked up from a garage in LIC) already depend on buses for their last mile commute. It is entirely possible to do five years or a decade of overnight subway shutdowns with BRT supported by real enforcement and protected lanes while preserving the city's culture.

I fall pretty close to the maximal end of the YIMBY spectrum but there are real tradeoffs between the 4-5 story walkups and giant towers.

Central Paris has a residential density higher than NYC despite composed almost entirely of 4-5 story mixed use walkups. There are lots of reasons that this is a pretty ideal, human scale existence.

Those 4-5 story walkups in the East Village have a population density of 113,000 per square mile. If a half of NYC had the same density, our population could be 16 million people which is 2x the total population in NYC.

If the greater NY metro area (13,000 sq mi) had the density of 4-5 story walkups in the East Village we could house 1.5 BILLION people or many times the entire population of the United States. Of course all of this assumes linear scaling which is entirely inaccurate but the point is that 4-5 story walkup density is entirely sufficient to meet housing needs.

The challenge is getting other neighborhoods to 4-5 story walkup equivalent density.

hi claudia, I've really enjoyed reading your comments in HN the past few days. I'd love to learn more about how you think about the world - reading, learning, choosing your path. If you're interested, please send me an email. Details are in my HN user page.

It is an extremely slippery, the case law and enforcement are both murky and no one really knows what is going on.

Here's Matt Levine again thinking about what insider trading even is and what constitutes privileged information:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-15/inside...

The UK (and currently EU) law is different. In the EU, even if the party dispensing the material non-public information does so with no benefit or even unknowingly and by accident it is still illegal to trade on that information.

For a more thorough examination, see a recent Matt Levine piece about someone being charged for insider trading after overhearing material non-public information in a public place:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/inside...

This is quite good. I wish it would go a little further and let them expound on why they settled on those choices, but I understand that's not the intention of that interview format.

This is a very fair response and I completely agree with you.

In fact, I would argue that part of the negotiation that cities ought to do with Bird and Lime and others like it is to make any deploy conditional on the passage of and adherence to scooter parking laws.

I think the other responses summarize the problem quite accurately. In fact, I alluded to it when I mentioned the littering of cars.

People who park cars believe in an inherent first claim to all roadside space above other users and they are extremely aggressive in their resistance to even the slightest loss.

Functionally this is the easiest problem in the world to solve. It's the same solution for scooters and dockless bikeshare.

Take two parking spots in each block. Put beacons on the corners or some kind of signaling tape around the whole thing. Only let users drop off rides inside that spot. Bonus points for having non-locking racks to help organize.

People get to litter their car on the side of my road, often in the bike lane for free and everyone walks around like it's okay. It's not. Neither are the scooters on the sidewalk. We know how to solve both problems. Parking spots for dockless transit and banning cars from transit and pedestrian rich neighborhoods.

[edit] I removed a line saying I was annoyed that people kept complaining the scooter parking situation. Those complaints point out a very real problem with scooter deployments and that we have a solution for it that is difficult to get passed doesn't make the complaint less valid.

GP might be referring to a Tylenol with Codeine that's only available with a prescription. I may be wrong however because codeine is still an opioid.

I've been developing an opinion lately that what we need is fewer roundups and "objective" reporting and more opinionated here's the end-to-end stack I use and I think is good and here are the tradeoffs. With a diversity of stacks and opinions, this represents most of the roads you can go down and lets you pick the person whose approach or philosophy most closely aligns with yours.

There is a very simple solution to this problem. Build more libraries or bigger libraries.

A terrific example is the Jefferson Library in lower Manhattan. It is technically a children's library to the point where it's nearly impossible to find bathrooms that are adult accessible without children.

It is also possibly the best quiet library in the city because the upper levels of the space are adult only and nearly pin drop silent. You can absolutely have both.

I imagine it's one of these: https://limitlesscoffee.com/store-locator/

This is a fair argument and I will concede that if we're thinking about success as the getting high quality compliance for managerial games (which really does make up most entry level work in finance, consulting and tech) then hiring from a top school is highly predictive.

Going more meta, starting a median VC-backed company in the Valley is largely playing the same kind of game as in elite private schools and colleges - observing a social scene, identifying powerful players and the ladder to reach them, meticulously performing the necessary social roles in order to achieve funding, cargo cult management styles from the group.

The idea that high school students have good habits that lead them to good colleges that lead to good work behavior is a laughable one.

I say this as someone who won the "game" on every count with this. Near-perfect SAT score, perfect high school performance, 100% acceptance rate into the Ivies (Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Cornell).

These say nothing about me other than my parenting, background and ability to win games that other people made up. Any intelligence or ability or skill or discipline that I have is in spite of those things, not because of them.

It does not exist. This isn't just for the software architect, but systems architects as a class don't have a generalized IDE to build diagrams (static or time-series) that allow them to think, demonstrate or iterate on systems in any meaningful way.

My workflow right now is hand-drawing diagrams in Paper and pulling them into a Notion page. Notion is amazing, the Paper workflow is not.

As another child comment mentions, Shake Shack was designed in a lab to be a franchise monster. The founder of Shake Shack is Danny Meyer, who is quite possibly America's most celebrated restaurateur and the CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group. By the time Shake Shack opened, Meyer had been running restaurants for over 30 years.

The hot dog cart in Madison Park that originated Shake Shack was stocked by the kitchen of Eleven Madison Park (then a Meyer owned restaurant) which sits next to the park, has three Michelin stars and in 2017 was #1 on the World's 50 Best Restaurant's list.

It's on the roadmap!

https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba...

And in fact the replication crisis in psychology suggests that the practice goes beyond just clinical trials.

Office jobs are not trustworthy.

The model you should have for an office job is that it's basically a social game within which some actual work takes place. Most of the time people spend is maneuvering within the game.

I say this as someone with an office job.

Under "SAFe Agile" POs quasi report into PMs. PMs own products that different scrum teams are developing. POs own the scrum teams and work with the PM to translate the PM's requirements into the scrum team.

That's because it's the product manager's job to tell the data scientist what kind of customer behavior they want pulled out of the data.

This seems to be the most common outcome amongst product people looking for an out.

Sales Engineering has that "talk about the business," "talk about the tech," "talk about the people" flavor but with directly measurable outcomes, high transferability across jobs, and depending on commission structure and company - 2x-3x pay.

Oh yes.

1Password X for Firefox and Chrome, 1Password on Safari have pretty much solved this problem. The vast majority of passwords I fill are CMD + [shortcut].

Generating and saving new ones works like that maybe 50% of the time. The failure rate however is driven less by the extension technology and more by the password form itself.

The question is how you eat fewer calories.

Eating fewer calories is a function of two things:

1. Reducing the number of points in the day in which you eat. 2. Changing the kind of food you eat at each of those points. 3. Changing the quantity of food you eat at each of those points.

From the amount of emotional energy or willpower necessary to do that, it seems like an intermittent fasting regimen is a technique that helps people do that.

whoa

stavros.io is FAST. I'm sure Netlify deserves some credit but much of it belongs to your static approach and the decision not to load the page with 200 JS calls.