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New comment by chrismealy in "‘Shared Space’ Design: Road Signs Suck. What If We Got Rid of Them All?"

chrismealy — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:10:51 +0000

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.

New comment by chrismealy in "Can Nashville Pull Off a $5.2B Transit Makeover?"

chrismealy — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 02:40:26 +0000

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

New comment by chrismealy in "The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ into English"

chrismealy — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 23:36:48 +0000

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

New comment by chrismealy in "Saving San Francisco goes deeper than “build more housing”"

chrismealy — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:05:26 +0000

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

New comment by chrismealy in "“How Amazon Took Seattle's Soul”"

chrismealy — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:46:37 +0000

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

Rent is the answer

chrismealy — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 03:23:17 +0000

Article URL: https://thelongandshort.org/growth/rent-uk-housing-crisis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15496663

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by chrismealy in "Everything Is Crazy and the Markets Aren’t Freaking Out"

chrismealy — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 01:56:11 +0000

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

New comment by chrismealy in "I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived"

chrismealy — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:57:53 +0000

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.

New comment by chrismealy in "The Toxic Saga of the Tsukiji Fish Market"

chrismealy — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 01:29:40 +0000

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.

New comment by chrismealy in "On the devastating effects of a year in space"

chrismealy — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:45:39 +0000

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

New comment by chrismealy in "On the devastating effects of a year in space"

chrismealy — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:44:02 +0000

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

New comment by chrismealy in "Productive on six hours of sleep? You’re deluding yourself, expert says"

chrismealy — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 03:25:41 +0000

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

Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

chrismealy — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 02:00:34 +0000

Article URL: http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/10/does-even-mark-zuckerberg-know-what-facebook-is.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15381219

Points: 177

# Comments: 83

Cryptos Fear Credit

chrismealy — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 13:51:55 +0000

Article URL: http://www.perrymehrling.com/2017/09/cryptos-fear-credit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15377789

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by chrismealy in "Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine"

chrismealy — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 13:44:02 +0000

What kind of therapy?

New comment by chrismealy in "How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality"

chrismealy — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:05:47 +0000

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

New comment by chrismealy in "London's Uber Ban Is a Big Brexit Mistake"

chrismealy — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 03:39:29 +0000

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

New comment by chrismealy in "The Stock Market Has Been Magical. It Can’t Last"

chrismealy — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 06:30:40 +0000

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.

New comment by chrismealy in "The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids (2016)"

chrismealy — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:14:03 +0000

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.

New comment by chrismealy in "The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids (2016)"

chrismealy — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:07:53 +0000

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.)