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maxldn commented on NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months airqualitynews.com/cars-f... · Posted by u/pseudolus

rayiner · 11 days ago

The point is that the MTA is deeply in the red even though it still charges significant fares. Meanwhile, systems like the London Tube manage to recover at least their operating costs without charging fares that are much if at all higher.

maxldn · 11 days ago

According to a quick search the nyc subway is $2.90 rising to $3 next year. This is comparable to, but slightly less than a zone 1 off peak ticket in London at £2.70. Most journeys are more expensive (on the train, busses are pretty cheap here)

maxldn commented on Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3 kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insigh... · Posted by u/ivankra

appreciatorBus · 19 days ago

I totally get that it’s an understandable political strategy. I just think it’s in defensible as anything but a political strategy, and that it will ultimately make life worse for more people versus simply treating assets as assets, including homes. If homeowners do not wish their homes to be treated as assets, then they could simply forgo the right to profits, but I suspect they will not do that.

maxldn · 18 days ago

While I don’t disagree, I think it’s worth noting that the Netherlands has a pretty good level of social housing. Not perfect, but I think it’s 26% based on the stats link in the parent. Also rent controls. Although these also tend to reward people who have been in the system longer (which _might_ be by design, but that’s just like my opinion)

maxldn commented on Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3 kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insigh... · Posted by u/ivankra

ivankra · 19 days ago

For real estate, yes, but it's a quite different type of asset with a stable value that (mostly) only goes up.

What about stocks or crypto (the assets this new law targets)? They can have wild value fluctuations in a year. If your crypto or startup's options have +1M paper gain this year and turn worthless the next year, is it fair to ask people to cough up some 300-500k of real cash in tax?

maxldn · 18 days ago

Maybe? You can deduct losses. If you have to sell a little of your crypto while the price is high to pay your taxes, then what have you lost after it goes to zero? At least the tax office get something out of it in tat case.

maxldn commented on Things I don't like in configuration languages medv.io/blog/things-i-don... · Posted by u/birdculture

scuff3d · a month ago

I don't get why so many people hate XML. I'd rather us it than YAML.

maxldn · a month ago

I’ve often wondered the same. The op doesn’t go far beyond:

> The era of XML is in the past.

Which is about as deep as it seems to get. My suspicion is that the reason people don’t like it is because it’s a bit of a pain to work with in JavaScript

maxldn commented on A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/binning

stuckinhell · a month ago

She threw molotov cockatails I don't think it's similar at all.

she was lucky she wasn't imprisoned or executed

maxldn · a month ago

Why do you keep saying she wasn’t imprisoned? She was imprisoned in a convent and then in a mental institution.

Edit: clarification

maxldn commented on A New Form Factor for Drones: Vertical and Coaxial core77.com/posts/135952/A... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

bluesounddirect · 9 months ago

there is something odd about that site . scroll it starts playing a video. scroll past another point it does it again . scammy !

maxldn · 9 months ago

I guess they decided that auto play video wasn’t _quite_ irritating enough

maxldn commented on What should I expect from moving tech jobs from USA to Europe? · Posted by u/tech_lizzard

scarface_74 · 10 months ago

So everyone lives in these idyllic places close to parks in all of the Netherlands or the EU or is that a choice people make just like in the US?

After my youngest graduated high school and we became empty nesters, we were in fact looking for that smaller place, walkable area, where we could easily get to gyms, restaurants, a park, etc.

We decided to change our entire city to a place in Florida with better weather and no state income taxes. Those places do exist in the US just like I am sure that most people who live in the EU don’t live in the idyllic places you describe.

maxldn · 10 months ago

I’d say that it’s pretty normal in the Netherlands to be very close to a park. It’s a very densely populated country. In Amsterdam specifically I think they consciously decided a few hundred years ago the parks should be everywhere. It’s hard to generalise about the EU as it’s pretty large and diverse, but most of the places I’ve been, 3 miles would be a long way to go in a city. I would expect to come across several parks of varying sizes, shops, schools, etc. In the countryside there are fewer facilities generally, but less need for parks.

maxldn commented on What should I expect from moving tech jobs from USA to Europe? · Posted by u/tech_lizzard

scarface_74 · 10 months ago

When I did live in the burbs of Atlanta GA- both the south side and the north side, there were also public parks, bike trails etc within 3 miles of my home.

All of the things you mentioned are right there in suburbia. We rarely went “in town” for anything and I remember having a conversation with some relatives that said it had been years since they actually been to Atlanta proper and they lived in the burbs.

Of course you can find places in most major cities that are walkable and around parks and lakes. We briefly looked at moving to this suburb of Orlando

https://www.zillow.com/orlando-fl/lake-eola-park_att/

https://www.orlando.gov/Parks-the-Environment/Directory/Lake...

If we had decided to stay in Atlanta, we were looking at places close to Piedmont Park

https://www.zillow.com/atlanta-ga/piedmont-park_att/

You don’t have to move to Europe. Right now the original poster was comparing Seattle of all places as far as affordability. That’s one of the most expensive cities in the US and the weather is always awful. I actually turned down a chance to even interview for a job there because I knew I would never want to live in Seattle and the compensation difference wouldn’t have been worth it.

maxldn · 10 months ago

Three miles is quite a long way though. From central Amsterdam, for example, it’s basically as far as the ring road and contains all the main parks

maxldn commented on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement anildash.com//2024/02/06/... · Posted by u/Tomte

caoilte · 2 years ago

The BBC is another bad actor in this space (although increasingly irrelevant). Their decision to "hide" most of their RSS feeds whilst still labeling their proprietary app subscribe links podcasts was unethical.

I see hope in the Patreon model. I don't mind paying a monthly subscription for a specific show if I get a locked down RSS link.

maxldn · 2 years ago

I'm trying to understand what you mean by this. Their podcasts still show up in e.g. Apple Podcasts and Pocketcasts. If you look at the 'podcasts' page for e.g. '13 Minutes to the Moon'[1] (which I hadn't realized there was a third season of), there is a (small) link to the rss[2]

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads [2]: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/w13xttx2.rss