chrismealy

Shared space doesn't really work except for places with very little traffic, and there only if the streets are small enough to make driving difficult and unpleasant. The Dutch model of providing safe, separated spaces for cycling and walking is a proven success.

King County Metro (Seattle area) is very highly rated.

I thought Fagles was good too but that is just electric.

If nice places for people are too expensive, make more nice places for people. But instead we make more nice places for cars.

The real problem is when half your friends are priced out of the city and have to move away.

What else are rich people going to do with their money? Buy bonds at 1%?

I know a guy who ruptured his spleen from hitting the water at a water park (he was very overweight at the time). It happens.

Unless the oceans had a low rate of return, then you would kill all the fish as quickly as possible and invest the proceeds in higher-returning assets.

The space station is just in low earth orbit. Radiation is a lot worse in real space.

People don't want to accept the truth about humans in space.

Same for me, but it was sugar instead of gluten.

What kind of therapy?

I saw the headline on HN and knew right away someone had rewritten it. Too obvious guys.

A fun game to play with any Tyler Cowen article is to ask, "How is he playing dumb this time?" You'll always win.

Sure, valuations are high, but what else are rich people going to do with their money? Buy bonds? All that money has to go somewhere.

I strongly considered moving to the Netherlands because it's so much better for kids than America, but I decided it was better to be near family, and I worried that my stress in moving would be bad for the kids. I am not sure I made the right decision.

None of this early academic education is necessary. In Finland, which consistently has top scores in reading and math, kids don't start school until they're seven, and at that point they're only expected to be able to turn text rightside up.

(And before anybody jumps to the "homogenous society" explanation, Finland used to have mediocre schools before they put a lot of effort and money into them in the 70s and 80s.)

A Harvard MBA once told me that going from zero to ten is a 1000% increase. I was not impressed.

Also, George W Bush.

You don't have to worry about because it'll never work.

It sounds impossible but it actually happened - just acknowledging the stress I was under made the pain go away (it's not like you have to solve anything). I think it only took about four days. The crazy thing is it was actually visible. The throbbing swollen veins in my forearms receded. I was receptive to the idea because the pain was the worst the summer my dad was dying in a hospice and I wasn't working at all.

The bummer is there's no way to know if it's stress or not, but it doesn't hurt to give it a try.

I read about three chapters of this and it cured my wrist pain. Never would have believed it possible if it hadn't happened to me.

It's true. When nice places for people get too crowded and expensive the obvious solution is to make more nice places for people. Sadly America only makes more nice places for cars.

You have to drive everywhere because everything is so far apart to make room for all the roads and parking and setbacks to avoid the problems created by all the cars.

The future belongs to bikes. With safe and smooth infrastructure it's the most efficient and healthiest way to get around. It's not a coincidence that Dutch kids are the happiest in the world.

Somebody didn't read the article.

Pollan's point is that there's more to nutrition than carbs and protein. It was already established that the green revolution (which ultimately was about turning fossil fuels into food) resulted in food with more carbs and less everything else. Global warming apparently is doing the same.

If your only income is qualified dividends you can make about $90,000/year and pay zero taxes.

Books like that mostly just narrow their vision to exclude anything that's not in harmony with the libertarian view. More woefully incomplete than wrong.

Intro is taught assuming perfect markets, with caveats. You are one of the rare outstanding students who remembers the caveats! This book's approach is to introduce a general model of strategic interactions, and then discusses perfect competition as a special case (much later in the book). This is big part of what makes the book more realistic than the conventional approach.