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The complexity is also what allows loopholes to exist for rich people.

Only if you define "good life" as having a big house with a big yard.

This "middle class life" really isn't middle class if a top 10% income can't afford it.

That person could probably be making 500k+ at a FANG with less variance in the stock component.

Even if the money is lit on fire, the reduction in cars entering the city will be a huge benefit.

Looks like autocorrect got to them:

> the cheating involved multiple suspects and occurred on the Azure Roll to Win Electronic Craps table

It's actually Aruze: https://aruzegaming.com/table-games/roll-to-win-craps/

There are not nearly enough homes yet.

> These 12 cities alone say they will need a total of more than 250,000 new homes built over the next five or 10 years to meet demand from current residents who are inadequately housed and future residents who will move to Metro Vancouver.

https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/many-new-homes...

There is a reason, but it is not geology. https://www.6sqft.com/the-bedrock-myth-the-evolution-of-the-...

Skyscrapers are very expensive to build. What would actually help is allowing ~10 story buildings everywhere in the five boroughs with a fast and simple permitting process.

Even if it could run forever, just keeping it running isn't good enough. If you never make any improvements, your users are going to go to a different service that does.

> input for an Apple TV and maybe 2 more hdmi plugs

Add more input ports than you think anybody could ever want, and I'm in.

Why would the casino need that, when they can have anybody who wins arrested?

Indeed the police and courts exist mostly to help rich people keep their money.

> If Americans want room to drive and get places and park

A whole lot of Americans don't want that. You can tell by how much more expensive it is to live in walkable city centers than in suburbs.

You can learn everything most devs need to know about Kafka in a couple hours. I can't imagine why companies would ever hire based on current knowledge rather than problem solving skills and ability to learn.

Not sure how large you mean, but for <=3 kids: walking, metro, bus, cargo bike, taxi. I'm in NYC, and I'll take a 10 minute walk to the supermarket with my kids over a 10 minute drive any day.

I don't think that's common. Our pediatrician, who is part of a US major hospital, never mentioned this and basically said "introduce new foods on days without much going on in case you need to go to the ER."

Yes, but sadly still better than 99% of the US.

A whole lot of people who can afford to live anywhere in the world and choose to raise their kids in NYC disagree with you.

That basically never happens with strangers on the street. If you're worried about that, pay more attention to teachers ("nearly 9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct") and your partner ("of the girls living with a stepfather, 3.7% reported sexual experiences with him")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse#United_Stat...

> If you work at a FAANG you can afford to live anywhere, including in places that would give you a short commute to work.

Not necessarily. If you're an E4 with kids, good luck paying $150k a year for a 3br apartment in walking distance of Facebook's NYC office.

Business owners are notoriously terrible at understanding how street usage affects their business. https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-over-bike-lanes-needs...

> I’m also an Urbanism nerd and don’t want to see cities revert to the 70s-era trend, which is clearly and noticeably happening, destroying decades of progress on livability.

There's more demand than ever before to live in NYC, as evidenced by record high rent prices. Cities don't need to be about offices.

They're a logical and predictable outcome of zoning laws that make the most efficient and desirable forms of apartments illegal.

> It’s a high risk, high reward business with tons of uncertainty.

What's the high reward side of that for a typical dev? Do you get a percent of the game sales or something?

Yikes. I could understand it if the limit was like $250k per year, but $900 per week is nuts.

Really hoping this kind of tech to ends up in window AC+heat units soon for those of us in apartments.

I don't know details about Germany, but you can't just look at national population trends. In the US for example, the problem is made worse by a trend of people moving from rural areas into cities.

And re the "huge margins" the relationship between supply and demand isn't linear. If you have 10% more households than homes, bidding wars will drive prices up way more than 10%.

> our bylaws are based on the US Constitution

The same constitution that consistently puts a the party that gets fewer votes into power? If I were to every start a business, that's the last place I'd look for inspiration.

As it turns out, the best villages have neither lawns nor garages.