Diagram?

I'm not saying this is inevitable btw. Just that it can be a tricky problem. Our homelessness strategy makes it difficult to provide any ungated services, whether it's buses or libraries or parks or sidewalk benches or...

They abandoned the experiment when bus drivers revolted at being forced to constantly enforce the terms of use, often in tense situations with perceived danger.

It's always been very low. We've always charged less than most systems. Ridership has fallen but I'm not sure that's super related.

I'm also not sure if they count the negotiated fares (e.g. 50k members of the UT community with free fares) in the numerator.

Possibly, but CapMetro (Austin, TX) has a 6% FRR and has frequent routes, stops with shelters, etc.

Austin, TX implemented free fares in the 80s and it turned into a similar problem that libraries have today: providing air conditioning makes it valuable space for people without homes,. creating conflicts between bus-as-mobile-shelter and bus-as-transportation.

Zoning is the primary one and we often use it as a stand-in for some of the non-zoning constraints like building code, opaque and expensive permitting, extra fees, etc.

I grew up in a three story SFH in a streetcar suburb. Two story limit feels insane.

It's also setting up some huge cognitive dissonance. There are a lot of sincere religious folks who believe in conservative values that don't include sexual harassment but vote Republican on the basis of abortion.

Forgetting the contradictions, the idea of limiting to two stories is soooo nuts

If shipments of solar panels were disrupted, the ones we're currently using would still provide energy. China can't gate the fuel because it falls all over the world every day.

I've typically imagined funded IZ as granting the city an option to subsidize / means-test certain units. If the city doesn't provide funds, then they won't exercise their option.

ANTHONY!!!!!

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That's pretty common. Something like this?
www.kltv.com/2026/04/19/1...

Like, it's pretty common for wars to have multiple allied factions, only one of whom signs the ceasefire. Then you've gotta wait and see if the other faction will abide by it.

With so much of Iranian leadership killed, Iran may be functioning a bit like allied but disagreeing factions.

I don't have examples but my impression is this is relatively common. It's just that we expect wars involving a hegemon to be different.

Yeah I can see how there can be some cognitive dissonance between living in one of the richest places on the planet and realizing your future is very insecure.

There's a certain logic to the idea that private companies should insure against random risks hitting a few houses at a time and the government is the only backstop against full systems collapse.

When the devastation hits, I don't really trust Jake from state farm.

And the water table being a foot underground?

It has never been a mystery why Jews are overrepresented among lawyers and judges

So it's true!

I'm not super up on it: what does Sharia law say regarding filling potholes?

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Is the argument that Claude Code lowers the barriers to entry and increases competitive pricing in software?

The flip side is the simple "Claude Code will make developing software more productive."

Is most of your immigration domestic or foreign?

Lots of schools are still leaning in on tech in schools. My district does 1:1 Chromebooks starting in Kinder

I think they're gonna be super concerned about security.

Suburban contradictions: two shots taken from the same point, rotated 90°: water fowl hunting in a marshy creek, the loading dock behind the Wal-Mart.

One thing I've been thinking about: Claude code is great. Mythos is so far superior to a person it isn't comparable. ChatGPT has helped prove mathematical conjectures that have been outstanding for decades.

But it still struggles at some things competent adults or even children find easy.

I think people see how imperfect LLMs are for things people are good at and assume they must be even worse for coding, something most people find hard