It’s not so bad if you are in fact walking most places and spending less time in a car. True it’s better than commuting somewhere far, but if you compare to living without a car in an urban core, it’s unlikely your footprint is smaller. Especially if you now live in a 3,500 square foot detached single story home that consumes a lot of heating energy, whereas in a city you’d have say 1,500 square feet with two shared walls and a shared ceiling/floor (basically you have a larger footprint based on insulation and exposed surface area).
The problem is most US towns and suburbs are not set up to be core walkable, dense places, where you don’t even need a car to get home. There are exceptions (I can think of some Hudson Valley towns on train stations, where their core has mixed use multi-story attached housing), but that’s not the norm and is generally discouraged via zoning.
Totally true. And as I think about this more, I'm not thinking enough about other impacts of that sprawl: Sure, I'm not driving as much, but that's because I'm getting a lot of things delivered to me, so SOMEONE is driving around a lot on my behalf (and I'm having to pay for it too).
Although with package deliveries, the impact is amortized by all the packages so the impact is probably less than if I had driven to the store, this isn't true of grocery and food deliveries. Those are about as inefficient as would be if I did that driving myself.
The approach of thinking about suburbs/city/etc will all have to account for the new hybrid lifestyle of remote work now – where people are living in remote areas but still not driving that much either.
Goods have to be shipped farther to reach you. You have to drive more than you might if you lived in a dense city (or dense town, but the US doesn't really have such a thing—hell we barely even have dense cities, really) even without the commute. You require far more installed and maintained pavement to maintain your quality of life. Utility runs are longer, so, more ongoing maintenance costs, which means more fuel use and more use of materials (so, also more fuel, ultimately). And so on.
Less-dense housing strongly tends to be less-green than denser housing, commute or no commute. The differences are extreme enough that yeah, it's pretty close to being that cut and dry.
It depends. Most people commuting to the office aren't living in a high-density downtown, anyways - they are trading a suburban home in the outskirts of the metro for a suburban home further out in the metro. The carbon footprint of the home is similar, the carbon footprint of their car will probably go down, as they only need to drive to the store/school/for social visits, as opposed to that, plus to work.
Their hot-desk monthly membership is around $300 without discounts. Not cheap but probably cheaper than most dedicated office rents.
Depends. The one thing that WeWord did was locate itself in the better, more desirable, more visible business districts.
If you don't mind having a Sam Spade-style office, you can rent one far cheaper than that. I almost leased one in Seattle's Chinatown for $100/month, but ended up getting a free sub-lease from a friend with extra room at his company in a downtown skyscraper.
It's not Electron, but it does use a fair bit of web views, or at least did in the past (there might have been talks of some of it being moved back to native code). Either way, it feels like an Electron app, and not even a good one. It's a piece of shit.
Why would someone be forced into changing their entire operating system to get an update to an app?
I just checked since I own multiple macs. It's true, they're going away from webviews, but their new native app ui is broken! When you go Browse, click the first big image and then press the back button in the top left corner, the white navigation bar space at the top disappears, causing the content below it to visibly jump up.
>Why would someone be forced into changing their entire operating system to get an update to an app?
...probably some APIs used that don't work on older OS's, and/or why bother supporting old Macs when the old app still works fine? I don't think it's a big deal.
Cool to see terminusdb is majority written in Prolog (Have fond memories of writing Prolog in Uni). Is this the most prominent open source Prolog project
"For a corporation of its scale, Binance discloses little public information. It says it does not have a headquarters and does not identify which entity controls its main exchange..."
I don't see the point of giving them the benefit of the doubt. Their outfit is clearly designed to avoid the kind of regulation that would discourage money laundering.
> For one thing, there are autos all over Paris, so at least in principle it ought to be possible to build in ways that are both highly attractive and allow for cars.
The presence of cars does not mean it was built for cars. The most important difference between pre-war and post-war neighborhoods is that one was built FOR cars
How did the author miss the point of cars so much?
> One common explanation for the decline of urban and neighborhood beauty is the rise of the automobile, which makes it harder to develop such places. Surely cars and traffic can ruin many an attractive scene. Still, this is not even close to a full answer. For one thing, there are autos all over Paris, so at least in principle it ought to be possible to build in ways that are both highly attractive and allow for cars.
The problem with cars isn't how they look, it's how they lead to communities where people don't share space, can't walk from place to place, encapsulate once open spaces, and separate everyone. Plus they pollute and kill people. In cities built before cars, like Paris, people share space and interact. You can walk to the produce vendor, tailor, etc without parking in giant lots around box stores.
In the suburban neighborhoods built around cars I live by there are still many people walking around, kids playing and riding bikes, people growing gardens, lots of trees, and lots of friendly neighbors. Also if you choose to live in a smaller city (say < 500k?) the air quality can be quite fantastic. The quality of suburban life imo is a lot better than what people on HN tend to make it out to be. HN is rather hyperbolic.
also not to mention that Paris is one of the forerunners when it comes to actually getting rid of them again. In some European cities driving is more like trench warfare, trying to drive through parts of Rome at peak hours is quite an experience.
One tool that I don't think gets enough love is the "git-fixup" add-on. It looks at your commit log and recommends relevant commits to fix-up based on your staged files.
If you are using fixup commits in your PR review process it's essential.
