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qwertyX99on How Japan Won Its ‘Traffic War’

NIMBY drivers

qwertyX99on How Japan Won Its ‘Traffic War’

Car-centric city design is a terrible mistake done by many countries. Fortunately there is a growing awareness of the negative externalites cars and car-centric urban design brings to our health, society and environment. I found youtube's https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes an excellent eye-opener

qwertyX99on The quiet cost of family caregiving

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externalities_of_automobiles

qwertyX99on I accidentally discovered one of the most egregious pharma scams imaginable

The vast majority of new drugs in the US research was funded by the taxpayer.

Innovation comes mostly from the public sector, not private sector. This applies equally to technology.

Private-led innovation is hyped by these industries PR departments. DARPA, NASA, NIH don't have a PR department.

References: 1/ Overall, NIH funding contributed to research associated with every new drug approved from 2010-2019, totaling $187 billion." (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3731819) Search Mariana Mazzucato talks, books on innovation, example: https://www.noemamag.com/big-pharma-is-hurting-drug-innovati...

2/ "Apple Didn’t Build Your iPhone; Your Taxes Did": https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/the-entrepreneurial-sta...

3/ 97%-99% of Astrazenneca covid vaccine research was public+charity funded( ref https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34937701/ )

qwertyX99on Joint Address by MI5 and FBI Heads Regarding China

Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Destruction. You have lost your moral ground to speak. Yes FBI and MI5 are included, your are part of the western intelligence alliance. Yes China is a baddy, but you have lost your credibility, I am not sure if you will ever get it back.

qwertyX99on Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux

Scary.

qwertyX99on Dutch Lawmakers Propose to Make Work from Home a Legal Right

WFH should be the default for jobs that can be done from home. If employer claims that work-in-the-office is more productive, then make them put their "money where their mouth is": commute time is (paid) work time, commute cost is paid.

qwertyX99on Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you face as a parent?

I meant play outside unsupervised like in the old days. Why don't parents allow them outside (unsupervised)? One big reason is due to cars(also due to over-hyped media stories about kidnapping). Think about it, would you let your kids play outside? If you dont have kids, trust me you wouldn't. Not to mention its not even legal anymore, social services get called if they see a 10 year old outside alone (UK where I live)

qwertyX99on Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you face as a parent?

ELectronics is not the problem. Its a symptom of kids not being able to play outside (If streets were filled with kids like they used to in the old days, do you think your child would prefer the ipad?) Kids cant play outside because the outside is filled with 2 tons killer machines i.e cars r/fuckcars r/bancars

qwertyX99on Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you face as a parent?

Childcare + car-centric urban planning robbed their safe space for play and socializing: Childcare is unreliable, very expensive, patchy, and time-consuming to sort out. School starts at 9am and finishes at 3pm. This is incompatible with working hours. Also, tt would help parents who WFH if kids could play outside (like I used to when I was a kid). They can't because car-centric street designs took their space. Children are an after-thought whose needs don't fit into modern society.

qwertyX99on Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)

check out r/fuckcars, this is not-so-hidden costs of car-centric urban planning