dublinben

>ban all rental e-scooters from October because of the risk they pose to pedestrians

>injury-inducing street litter

Do cars next, I dare you.

This is nothing but blogspam of the embedded Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM. This article adds nothing that is not already included in the video itself.

Here is total employment for "Computer Systems Design and Related Services" going back all the way to 1987. This is the best category I can find that includes data over a decade+ time frame.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPUMN54151W200000000

This category is defined by the BLS as "establishments primarily engaged in providing expertise in the field of information technologies through one or more of the following activities: (1) writing, modifying, testing, and supporting software to meet the needs of a particular customer; (2) planning and designing computer systems that integrate computer hardware, software, and communication technologies; (3) on-site management and operation of clients' computer systems and/or data processing facilities; and (4) other professional and technical computer related advice and services."

>Transit should be free, like sidewalks and parks.

And most similarly, roads. The theoretical 'farebox recovery ratio' of most roads is 0, but this is never part of the conversation. Maybe if it were, transit would look much better in comparison.

Another way of saying this is that because physical space in the city is a scarce resource, the allocation of infrastructure for cars and infrastructure for people is a zero sum game.

Buy Now Pay Later is growing very quickly and taking market share from credit cards, especially for younger consumers. The introduction of FedNow is going to make it even more convenient to use these apps to make purchases and avoid the credit card infrastructure entirely.

If it was "Places That Don't Exist" with Simon Reeve, it's available here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0I404gXbNg

Why would using Apple's Hide My Email functionality make non-Apple platforms unusable for logins? If you're storing these credentials in a cross-platform password manager like Bitwarden, you should be able to enter your (fake) email address and password anywhere to sign in.

Digital products are also worse than physical ones, because the content cartels have used DRM to trample on your first-sale rights like resale and lending. It's no coincidence that digital books are often more expensive than paper books, because the publishers have killed the second hand market.

cURL is ubiquitous. It's unclear whether there is even a proprietary alternative still being sold commercially.

There's a lot of talk about painting pavement white, but no mention of ripping it out and replacing cars with other forms of transportation. Internal combustion engine vehicles themselves turn 100% of the energy from gasoline into heat, localized to the roads they are driving on. This pumps billions of BTUs of heat directly into a city on a daily basis.[0] We could start cooling these cities down by not unnecessarily heating them up in the first place.

[0] https://www.treehugger.com/cars-add-heat-to-cities-ban-them-...

High interest rates also push up demand by keeping more people stuck as renters who would rather buy a home.

So they’ve finally reached parity with human drivers then.

For anyone on iOS, there is a cycle tracker built into the Apple Health app, so no third party app needed.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210407

>good luck introducing anyone in the 25+ category to new albums that actually experiment into novel sounds and become the music of the current 20yo generation

Both here and in the article there's a conflation of "new music" with "contemporary mainstream popular" which seems invalid. Is the Billboard Hot 100 any more or less innovative in 2024 than it was in 2004, or 1974? I think that most "mainstream" music is precisely "a slight riff on stuff [written] a long time ago." You have to go outside of the mainstream to find music and artists that are experimenting with novel sounds, just like you did in decades past.

As you say, there's been an explosion of independent creativity, thanks to the Internet. There's no reason for anyone who is interested in music to listen to the same old mainstream dreck.

No kidding. This admission feels like a professional food critic whining that McDonalds isn’t available on DoorDash. This music isn’t my cup of tea, but this guy sounds like a real poser.

They've already been beaten to the punch by BYD and their multiple cars under $20k. They even have a small hatchback for less than $10k!

https://electrek.co/2024/03/06/byd-launches-cheaper-seagull-...

So much fun, but so much harder than paper targets. They move!

Cities aren’t loud, cars are loud. Noise pollution is a real problem, but most people aren’t willing to do anything about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

This wasn't a problem when students rode school busses instead of being individually chauffeured.

Alternatively, Paris solved this problem by closing the nearby streets to cars, so the students can safely walk to school.

Why not both?

Libby / Overdrive for ebooks are a racket. The publishers sell ‘disposable’ licenses that expire after something like only 20 uses or a few years, whichever comes first. Support your local library, but don’t support greedy publishers.

When you hover over the graphs, they get 'brighter'.

Here it is from Justice.gov as well: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline

If this seems familiar, this seems to be largely republishing a Fediverse thread that was originally posted back in November.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38240861

Cities are populated by people, not cars. As point A and point B become closer, people are less likely to drive.

If your mailbox is attached to your house, you can lean out your front door to get your mail. If your mailbox is at the end of your 20 foot driveway, you take a few steps to get your mail. If you live on a farm, and your mailbox is down a several hundred yard driveway, you might hop in your side-by-side UTV. If your mail goes to a Post Office Box in town, you might hop in your truck and pick it up while running errands.

You can't assume that the number of cars is a constant though. As point A and point B become farther apart, car usage goes up. When they become closer together, car usage scales down.

Severance is much better than either of those.

Even as a driver, if you think about the second-order effects of getting more (other) people out of their cars, it becomes obvious that it would improve traffic for you. An enlightened self-interested driver would want to increase investment in alternatives to driving, since that is the only proven solution for congestion.

As a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k

This is an artificial hill covered in artificial trees illuminated by artificial lights, sealed in glass so they can maintain an artificially habitable atmosphere.

In other countries, you can just read outside on a real hill, under real trees, in the light of the real sun, breathing in non-polluted air.