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An American company providing American services via American government funding with a founder who can't leave the next American presidents beach house if he tried undermines American foreign policy.

If i wanted to control a country and couldn't get my hands on their banking system i guess their communication systems would do...

I just dont see it somehow.


Be angry they don't subsidise and/or encourage competition in the domestic market instead of where they do then.

Tons of people stuck with 2005 tier connects at x10 the price is just sad.


Depends where.

Surrey, sure, applications and planning will set you back a decade and half a billion before you break ground.

Lam Dong on the other hand....


From a UK perspective its where all the BMW drivers ended up; Universal bellends, a danger to be around.

I'm sure most the country at large don't know/care about X.com/Election stuff.


> mixed income public housing

Maybe its just my country and the way we do things but these words dont make sense in this order. What do you mean by public housing?


Public housing is housing owned and managed by the government. It could be the same copy paste apartment blocks but owned by your city or state government. Despite public housing always being connected to affordable housing, it does not have to be affordable housing to be public housing.


I'm talking about publicly subsidized housing construction, along the lines of Singapore model[1].

Public housing in the US is stigmatized because there's a focus on the deliberately ghettoized, designed-to-fail low income housing that was built in the 20th century. This is held up as the definition of public housing, but there are other version of it that were and are successful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore


A high percentage of public housing is not the only solution to limit rent prices: any non-market housing is often enough to keep the prices down, although public housing is the most proeminent across the world, associative housing work very well, and can be taken from existing stock (friends of mine inherited 4 appartments and let them be rented by an association, a sort of 20 years free lease where the only obligation for the association is to take care of the renovations and keeping the appartments appliances up to date).


Singapore also has "draconian" laws, so it may not be as easy to replicate.


Vienna has great public housing and is probably closer to the US culturally in some ways.


100%, Vienna would be my other example of how to do it right.

The US 'attempt' to do public housing is like your child, being told to wash the dishes, simply smashes all the dishes and says that this chore is impossible because look, all the dishes got broken. Meanwhile the kids next door have built an entire dishwashing machine in the time your child spent complaining it wasn't possible.


Which housing related laws are "draconian"?


I'm not one for the US Politics but i distinctly remember this being a keystone Trump policy last time around.

Why would it change just a couple of years later?



1. A TikTok investor was a major campaign donor

2. Your party gets to be the party that helped the youth with their little toy. Courting the next generation is important. Especially for the party that is associated with older people.

3. He wanted fame and credit for the deal before, and he won’t get it now. He even suggested that he be paid a fee in exchange. He gets nothing for this.

4. Four years later nothing bad happened thanks to TikTok. It was certainly a concern that the liberal youth would use it to organize or whatever. But his party is back in power so it clearly wasn’t a political threat.


Odd way of phrasing your question but my general thought is your <10 server, no IT staff MSP customers aren't the focus of this conversation or most of the userbase here.


How's your HyperLoop coming along?


Which city are you driving through at 80kph?

I want to move there.


I wouldn't, that sounds like a pedestrian nightmare (and I'm not even talking about the noise)


> and I'm not even talking about the noise

Or the pollution from tire/paint/asphalt.


Trains in Berlin's public transport go up to 90km/h and don't wait at traffic lights. I bet there's plenty cities with faster public transport, but probably few that can provide near perfect last-mile coverage in the entire metro area. If you want to go fast especially during rush hour, that's an option.


Whenever I've tried picking two random points in Berlin on Google Maps, averaged over all the point pairs I chose, public transportation takes an average of about 50 minutes regardless of physical distance.

If both ends happen to be right by the same line then you can do better, of course — connections and stop distributions are what drag things back to that value.

My old apartment and employer were 8 km apart*, Google says 48 minutes by public transit, 28 minutes by car, 30 minutes cycling, for average speeds of 10/17/16 km/h respectively.

Public transport has a huge cost advantage, it lets me learn the language during my commute, and it's a huge space saver relative to personal cars, but it's nowhere near as fast as you'd expect from the peak speed.

* by foot, or 7 km as the crow flies.


You can take I-95 through Philadelphia at around 100kph when there's no rush hour traffic.


"I will keep house prices rising" is an even better one, although its often funny that every party (in my country at least) wants to send that message but can't say it openly.

The simple fact is homeowners are a large voting block often with the most ability to vote. Gotta keep them happy or its electoral suicide.


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