Indeed. Just 2 days ago I was talking to someone who was annoyed by people taking measures: "See, in China they're already seeing infections going down! No point in taking all these measures!" Without apparently realizing the reason why they're going down is extreme is precisely those extreme measures.
This. I used to have a longish commute (about 1h door to door) but I took Caltrain, and that time was never wasted. I could work, connect with friends, or just unwind. The few times when I did that by car I ended exhausted. Throw in a weekly 3h bike ride to work to stay fit and it was quite excellent.
"Q: Can I provide my own wood?
A: In most cases we can handle your wood. We do require all shipments to be clean, free of parasites and pass all standard customs inspections."
This reminds me I once wrote a hyper-exponential graph processing algorithm, in the range of O(2^2^n), and I still believe it was the right choice because: 1) It was much easier to understand than a faster alternative, and 2) I could mathematically guarantee that the largest value of n was something like 8 or 9, so you could argue that it was in fact a constant time operation.
It also serves as an incentive, if you have a small yard or even some potted plants, that the city will deliver compost every month for resident to collect.
That's a genius approach, and one that I think would be pretty reasonable to most folks. Fairly often I don't put out the gray trash bin because it's not even half full, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
What's the point of driving to X if you know you can't get to X by car? The 'adjacent community' traffic surplus idea is bogus. At most you'll generate some short term need for added parking space in adjacent regions.
You're putting words in my mouth. We stopped selling lead gasoline. We mandated seat belts, anti-block breaks, airbags and more. Nobody asked to retrofit every car on the road, but that's not a valid excuse.
State provided speed limits by city block can be stored in a chip the size of a lentil, and easily updated over the air. No need to broadcast anyone's location.
It took a bunch of old NIMBYs to have scooter companies install speed limits within certain locations. We have the technology to have cars automatically limit speeds to the maximum allowed on the given road. We choose not to. Instead people keep getting killed.
This is not pie in the sky science fiction to drool about. We could do it now. We could do it 5 years ago.
Lots of people, especially young and fresh out of school, want to get in. So there's no need to pay well or improve conditions, plus young folks tend to have plenty of energy and motivation, and no kids or spouses waiting for them at home. It happens a lot in media and entertainment (movies, theater, games...). I've heard it being referred to as "the Tower records effect".
The key point to me was that since earth is spinning about 28 times faster than the moon rotates around us, the drag force equalizes the frequencies by making earth spin slower, and the moon rotate faster, thus further away from us. Eventually they'd be in equilibrium, spinning in lockstep.
Your comment made me go on a total tangent considering whether the Moon with eventually fall on us if we harvest enough tidal energy due to gravitational drag. But interestingly enough, the opposite is true, tidal drag is actually moving the moon further away from us, and slowing down the Earth's spinning.
You don't have to make it explicit that you're targeting a specific group. If there is a correlation between groups that tend to drive less, and the groups that you don't want to vote, all you have to do is to require a driver license and that imposes an extra burden on the people that you don't want to vote, whereas populations that tend to drive, they already have a driver license and need no farther work to exercise their right to vote. It's so happens that poor people, communities of color, and the elderly tend to drive less.
In Spain everybody has a mandatory ID, and it is very easy and cheap or even free to get it. In that context it makes sense to require an ID. In the US, for cultural reasons, there is a lot of reluctance toward a national ID.
In the US there is no such a thing as a universal ID. The closest thing is the state drivers license, and statistically poor communities tend to drive less for various reasons, so for them it is an extra hassle to go get a driver license OR EQUIVALENT ID just for the purpose of voting. The policy is not racist on his face, but a minimal context awareness is enough to understand the ultimate purpose.
The phrase "in area of India covering 132 villages" seems to imply that it's a compact region, and if that's the case the suspicion of cherry picking would lose foundation.
I bet a big part of the success of Baremetrics is their live demo with real data. It's much easier to convince someone if you're willing to bare your inner workings to the point of sharing revenue data. I guess it applies at many levels.
In much of rural Spain, the Land Rover has been the car of choice for farmers and goat herders, for decades. Not the fancy version you usually see in the US, but the "Santana Cazorla" which was a much more bare bones one produced in Linares, at the heart of olive oil country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santana_Motor
If you're in the SF bay area, I strongly recommend Golden Gate Gardening [https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gate-Gardening-3rd-Year-Round/...] because it's approachable if you read it from the beginning, but comprehensive and highly detailed in the various aspects of this diverse region. Nothing more frustrating than growing a mandarin tree only to find out that the fruit will likely not be too sweet!