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matchbok··on Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up
That's how it was in the 90s... please look at real estate date today :)

Cities generate the tax base and subsidize the rest. This is shown in every case. It's not good or bad, just a reality of how density works.

matchbok··on Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up
Have you.... even lived in a city? You see miles of idling cars in cities... do you think those are city residents sitting in cars? Those cars are suburban commuters. People in cities don't own cars. You know that right? The whole point of living in a city is to avoid wasting hours of your life every day sitting in a car. What a depressing existence that is. And even so, the miles and miles of highway are an order of magnitude more - you just don't experience it the same way so it's hard to compare. Think about it.

It's not really debated that the carbon emissions of suburban life is an order of magnitude more than urban life. They just aren't comparable.

matchbok··on Why doesn't flutter.dev use flutter as their front end?
Flutter's days are numbered - iOS continues to grow. More and more companies won't bother with Android given how poorly Google has managed that OS.
matchbok··on Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass
It's quite amazing how poorly designed Android really is. Every single part of that OS is poorly architected and have horrible APIs. What a shame.
matchbok··on Redfin cuts 13% of staff, shuts down home-flipping business
So the government has the right to take your money to spend it building housing for someone else? "Housing is a human right" is a lazy, armchair argument that demonstrates a lack of understanding of the housing market.
matchbok··on My next Mac might be the last
What do you use the dock for? CMD-Tab is all you need.

I do feel like the yearning for tiled windows or things like that are the result of trying to make OS X into Windows. Mac has Expose and virtual desktops - you don't need tiled windows.

matchbok··on Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere
You do understand that sprawl and suburbia (and car infrastructure) takes away from nature, not adds to it, right? We have paved over a huge portion of the country and that beautiful nature you so claim to enjoy.
matchbok··on One Texas company is helping to raise rents across the country
Uh, building more would certainly work, as it would make those empty units stand empty for longer, forcing the owners to lower rent. That's... how it works.
matchbok··on Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere
Is this a parody?
matchbok··on Mailchimp Slams Door for Crypto Content Without Warning
I suggest you stop reading conspiracy books. Crypto isn't failing (and has no future) because of some shady conspiracy. It's failing because it's a bad idea that wastes energy. It's usage as a currency will never, ever happen. It's just fundamentally flawed.
matchbok··on Mailchimp Slams Door for Crypto Content Without Warning
Glad to see this silly crypto fad fade away. 0% utility, waste of energy, and has no possibility of every being used as a currency for anything. People will look back on this era and wonder what the heck people were thinking.
matchbok··on When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders
Certainly many people enjoy that type of life. The frustrating part is the one-size-fits-all zoning that has made it difficult to build anything but that type of community. It's illegal to build car-free apartments in many places because car owners think they should be able to drive and park everywhere.
matchbok··on Is Google Wallet the Same as Google Pay?
It really is amazing how poorly organized these things are at Google. 5+ name transitions, deprecations, broken features, logins, etc. What are the leaders at Google doing all day?
matchbok··on Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling
The constant iteration and revolution of basic front-end web dev makes me happy to be a mobile dev.
matchbok··on Flutter 3
It's easier. Start with iOS.
matchbok··on Flutter 3
Kind of crazy all this effort is being put into just recreating something that has been around, and works fine, for 20 years. What a waste of resources.
matchbok··on Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason
This is laughably incorrect. USA prison population peaked in 2008. Dogma sucks.
matchbok··on Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
Those purchases are less than .5% of the market.

Don't let NIMBYs think that that is the problem. We need more housing.

matchbok··on Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
Are you a housing planner? Do you have a degree in economics/market studies?

Also, building apartments has a huge environmental impact? Ok?.... So does rural sprawl? So does... everything? There is nothing inherently more damaging about those.

Beauty of a city? Cities are cities because of apartments. And you want.. fewer of them? Perhaps you would enjoy the suburbs more?

matchbok··on FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows for Beef
The virtue signaling is strong here. Humans have been eating animals forever. It played a large part in our evolution. It's a normal part of life. Wringing hands over it helps nobody.
matchbok··on FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows for Beef
They are animals. Do you weep for the bugs and rabbits that are killed when wheat is harvested?
matchbok··on Why America can’t build quickly anymore
There is no more room for roads - transit is the only alternative.
matchbok··on Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination
I’m sad that you support discrimination.
matchbok··on Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter
Again, lipstick on a pig.
matchbok··on Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter
Please don't use or support Flutter. Its entire existence is to replace the web and force more ads to people. Do your research.
matchbok··on New data shows Americans more miserable than we've been in half a century
Rent control has never worked. And never will.

Corporate ownership of SFHs is so small to not matter. The house you live in shouldn't be an investment.

matchbok··on Google Camera randomly changes some QR code URLs on Android 12
Android's dev team really does surprise me with how bad they are at building an OS. Every single part of the platform is a disaster.
matchbok··on High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching
In absolutely no way does any beef sold in stores contain artificial color.
matchbok··on Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually
Flutter. Remember, it exists so Google can ram more ads and tracking down our throats (and eventually replace HTML and an open web).

Don't use it.

matchbok··on Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15
Huh? That makes no sense.

The Swift API is

    init?(from pasteBoard: NSPasteboard)
Which should autocomplete/hint while writing code. The documentation is in the type, not littered within the function name. Much more easier to read and write. The "pasteboard" is still very much in the function declaration.

Compared to the obj-C version:

    + (NSURL *)URLFromPasteboard:(NSPasteboard *)pasteBoard;
Not sure why they insist on no spacing, or sane formatting, for Obj-c. I still can't read most Obj-c - it's horribly designed.
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