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outlier posted:I think this article could be summarized "lol, engineers syndrome" but anyway: Mind boggling that not one former employee quoted in the article called their project the F-35Mini
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I'm in Albany, and for years lived and worked in different parts of the Tel Aviv metro area. I can see how what you're describing is sub-optimal, but increased public transport investment sounds like it could help with that. You can definitely see how more investment (like, adding 10 more metro lines) would improve the situation. But that is true of so many things - if only they received more money, higher priority, etc, things could be better. The public health system needs more money desperately (that trainwreck deserves its own thread, omg). Education needs more money. Transportation needs more money. There are so many priorities but there is only so much money to go around. I think technology could actually help a lot here, appropos to the unicorn thread. One of the big problems with bus crowding here in Santiago is that there is no adherence to scheduling. Waiting at a stop where a bus is supposed to pass every 5 minutes, for instance, you might see 1 in 20 minutes and it's so full that people are falling out the doors. Then a little later, 4 arrive stacked up at the stop and one is packed, one is sparse, and the other two are almost empty. If people had access to an app that tracked the buses on a route as they moved, with an indicator of fullness, they could feel confident waiting a bit and crowding wouldn't be as bad. And if managers had access to the same data, they might be able to (though they wouldn't, because culture is a hell of a thing) lean on the drivers and dispatchers to keep things on schedule.
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BarbarianElephant posted:Hookr. TinderPool, for when you want to share expenses.
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Wallet posted:There is an app that tracks buses, sort of like this, where I live. There is no capacity indicator, but all of the buses have GPS and are tracked on something that looks like Google maps. As far as I can tell, it has done absolutely nothing to make them more timely, except let me know how late they will be, or occasionally how inexplicably early they left. That would most likely be the case here, too. But at least you'd know you could pass on taking the first human meat mold that pulls up because three more are a minute behind it. =(
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The Snoo posted:if I see two (or more!!) buses together, they often pass each other several times. Depends on how they are done. Here in Santiago there are many that are regular traffic lanes that were just repainted and marked bus only. That works as well as you'd expect - when people need to turn right they use the lanes, and when traffic is heavy it's a free for all. In other places there are lanes that are physically blocked off so they can't be merged into and drivers usually don't use them, but they cause other issues like being unable to turn left or right off a main street for a long stretch downtown. I think you really have to design everything around dedicated bus lanes from the start or they can be a mess.
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Vodos posted:Local governments are starting to subsidize Uber rides instead of investing in infrastructure It's probably not a terrible idea? It probably makes a lot of sense, for the patients and the health system, to send a non-emergency medical case to the hospital for $50 by Uber instead of $500 by ambulance.
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Dec 12, 2016 18:24
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OwlFancier posted:You probably shouldn't be allowed to. Why not?
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OwlFancier posted:I mean, I think the more pertinent question would be, why should you? You are doing something. You are putting your money at risk. For that you (hopefully) earn a return. Why shouldn't you be able to do that?
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Dec 12, 2016 19:57
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OwlFancier posted:If you want to do that you can go to a casino. I see no reason to involve the wider economy in it. Because projects need to get funded, is a big one. Because without secondary markets, shares in a venture are illiquid and a ton more risky. Because without limited liability distributed ownership a lot of what we take for granted, in terms of good things about modern society, could not exist. OwlFancier posted:Also no that isn't doing something, you are not producing anything. That definitely explains why people will pay for the ability to use someone else's money - it is without value.
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Dec 12, 2016 20:10
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OwlFancier posted:The money is valuable but you are not. You are not producing anything of value, you are simply agreeing to release previously created value, probably created by someone else. You are like a precious time capsule full of posts from the late 19th century.
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Dec 12, 2016 20:21
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OwlFancier posted:I'll stop posting from the 19th century when the 19th century stops being correct. The 19th century has never BEEN correct. You're waiting for the Marxist rapture that will prove you right but honestly you'd have better odds pinning your hopes on the Christian one.
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OwlFancier posted:You're welcome at any time to write a defence of what vital function private individuals commanding economy-destabilizing amounts of capital serves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p69XxYjfx-k edit for content: (don't probate me plz. =() This is similar to the valuation chat in the thread. Lacking a crystal ball that can tell us the future of a nascient company, letting investors decide which risks to take with their capital is a pretty ok method of funding projects. wateroverfire fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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