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The issue isn't purely house vs apartment. It's a symptom of our neighborhood design.

Not Just Bikes has a really good video on why suburbia (usually single family housing) is often worse for children than denser environments.

https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw

There are people who use social media without the desire to be "seen" or recommended to random people via an algorithm.

But beyond that the difference is that with the Arkansas law, users don't have the _choice_ to remain anonymous. With verification, a user can simply sacrifice broader reach to maintain that anonymity.

> the bike seat cuts off circulation in point where a lot of blood vessels pass through, riding has been linked to cancer

Even if this is true (I'm skeptical without seeing a source), you're more than free to mount whatever style of seat you want on your bike. No one's stopping you.

> Along with the more common city riding hazards like car passangers opening doors, falling over and you breaking bones, getting run over, or even directly breathing in exhaust fumes from trucks.

Great point. Those are all excellent reasons for further reducing the numbers of cars on our streets in lieu of bikes and walking.

As long as there's a system to whitelist specified numbers of ahead of time to be free, I think it would work out. Companies would just tell customers ahead of time what number they'd be calling from

It's actually the opposite.

The issue with this argument is that denser environments are actually able to serve _more_ businesses -- mom-and-pop markets and niche stores are able to survive. Right now I live a 5 minute walk from two separate grocery stores/markets, a 15 minute walk to 5 others, and a 15 minute bike ride to a number of foreign culture (e.g. Indian, Chinese, Hispanic) stores. More than half of these are family-owned. And that's _just_ for groceries.

Every time I visit home in Phoenix I'm reminded of how awful the alternative is: nothing is in walking distance and everything is a corporate big box store. Very few small specialty stores and almost zero family-owned corner stores exist.

> Dilbert is rather politically banal, and the comic itself has never been accused of being racist (to my knowledge).

That's not accurate. This chain of events caused quite a stir:

[1] https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/151970000309827174...

[2] https://www.dilbert.com/strip/2022-05-02

Adams doesn't shy away from incorporating his personal views into his comic.

I'd recommend reading the book "There Are No Accidents", if you haven't already. Really goes into detail on this.

There's a book called "There Are No Accidents" that goes into depth discussing this fallacy that you should read.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/02/15/excerpt-there-are-no-...

Of course there are other reasons to avoid a purely cash-free society, but couldn't the Swiss government just limit the transaction rates/fees like the the EU?

> caps interchange fees at 0.2% of the transaction value for consumer debit cards and at 0.3% for consumer credit cards;

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/fees-for-...

Houston has "zoning but we're not calling it zoning" zoning laws

https://youtu.be/TaU1UH_3B5k

The auto industry mounted an oppressive PR campaign to convince the public that streets are for cars, not people. For example, by inventing the word "jaywalking" [1].

The way things are going, something very similar is going to happen with self-driving cars. For example: forcing pedestrians wear beacons for easier detection by self-driving vehicles [2].

I'd rather we go the other direction, instead, and revert to walkable, livable cities.

[1] https://marker.medium.com/the-invention-of-jaywalking-afd48f...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2021/11/06/bidens-1...

> iirc previously due to crime too

"White flight" was definitely about more than just crime

The process is a feedback loop though. People drive because everything is so spread out. The corner stores die because people don't walk past anymore. Rinse and repeat.

Electric cargo bikes are the last bastion of hope here. https://youtu.be/rQhzEnWCgHA

Only one of those is valid: a sales tax affects electric and ICE vehicles equally. The gas tax _is_ the excise tax (unless you have another example?).

But yes, the gas tax is exactly what the prior commenter is looking for. It's just far, far too low. US Federal gas tax, last raised in 1993, is 18.4¢/gal. Compare this with Europe, where the average is ~$2.47/gal [1].

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/gas-taxes-in-europe-2022/#:~:text=....

I see this in some Rust crates, as you can implement traits for built-in, primitive types.

For instance, the `embedded_time` crate lets you do

    200.microseconds()
    5.Hz()

https://docs.rs/embedded-time/latest/embedded_time/

Underground bins are a potential solution. This is what The Netherlands use: https://youtu.be/0JtoSafhvLM

An even better analogy would be a mailing list, instead of directly emailing/cc-ing recipients. Definitively not "private messaging".

If I delete my email account, and/or remove it from the list, there's no expectation that my prior emails are deleted for any of the other list subscribers.

The mailing list archive isn't pruned of my account and everything I ever sent will still be visible.

Wikipedia's editing policy is to only include the birthname in the article if the individual was famous/well-known with it prior to changing it -- otherwise it's considered a privacy issue.

Rachel Levine is listed as an explicit example of this in their guidelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Gend...

If it's just parental complaint, surely every state would have "banned" books? I find it unlikely that no parent in all of California complained (to who?) about a book.

Agreed. The value is in being able to know _what_ to search in conjunction with knowing _how_ to compose the amalgamated resources together to derive a solution to the question at hand -- all in a timely manner.

Simply knowing a generic fact (e.g. "the Civil War began in 1861" or "the atomic mass of Oxygen is 15.999u") is not sufficient. One needs to know how to use that information.

No he mentioned an iOS 12 feature which has the exact same name (Continuity Camera) as an upcoming iOS 16 feature.

His app uses the iOS 12 feature

Having the change implemented from start-to-finish demonstrates a finished and thorough design. It also allows review to happen with the complete change at the forefront of the reviewers' minds.

Kicking the completion of the implementation of a change you've started landing to an unspecified future date indicates poor engineering rigor imo. It's just begging for the change to perpetually be half-migrated and never finished.

Something I often use stacked diffs for is deprecation -> removal flows.

1. Deprecate old feature + add opt-in support for replacement 2. Make replacement default with opt-out for old pattern 3. Completely remove old feature and the opt-out functionality

I can write the entire stack of diffs upfront, have them individually reviewed but still linked, and ensure they're merged in the correct order.

The bottleneck for merging isn't in the review process, but in the deprecation. It wouldn't make sense to land all three of these changes as fast as review/merge would allow; that would skip the deprecation period.