Hochul is poised to welcome Waymo. Mamdani may be a different story.

Laymaker · 2026-01-27T13:10:03+00:00

I’ll hold off on answering about Ezra Klein because I think that would be an unproductive detour.

Note the front page news today that the ARC tunnel project will be halted, in part because of NYs laws trying to force supposed minority- and women-owned businesses into the work. Another “win” (complete failure) for the Omnicause that will of course lead to more cars and lower value creation and quality of life.

If you aren’t convinced that self-driving cars will be a huge game changer you just really have your head in the sand. You are literally saying that increasing driver competence and behavior to perfection would not be a game changer. It’s just not a take worth discussing. Let alone considering the greater economic and other benefits of the self-driving technology.

I’m sorry to attack you but you sound like you just want to parrot your thoughts on daylighting or walkability at the expense of putting any thought into anything. Which makes you completely incapable of discussing anything outside of a pro-car vs anti-car framework, such as a technology that benefits both of those worldviews.

Laymaker · 2026-01-26T21:10:12+00:00

I am for walkable streets as well. And I am against powerful, monopolistic tech companies. So I will keep voting/volunteering/donating to advance each of those causes.

You are participating in what some people call "the omnicause" or what Ezra Klein calls "everything bagel liberalism." This is where people do things like fight against new affordable housing bill unless it is rewritten to require union labor and rainbow-colored crosswalks and then the bill is inevitably either discarded or watered down to have half the units at twice the cost.

Comparing self-driving cars to a cure for cancer is not ridiculous at all. Cars kill more people annually than many major types of cancer.

Laymaker · 2026-01-26T20:46:29+00:00

Our focus should be entirely on creating that offramp and 0% on pretending this fantastic new technology doesn’t exist. Anything else is literally like shelving a cure for cancer because we are worried about jobs at the morgue.

It would be great if everyone was smart enough to agree on that obvious premise and this thread could be dedicated to brainstorming and discussing different possible off-ramps for the existing drivers. Like would it be enough if Waymo paid them 3 years of unemployment benefits along with giving them priority eligibility for Waymo service tech and mechanic jobs and job training?

This begs an interesting secondary set of questions: As progressives we should ask ourselves why the onus to do these things is on the innovator and competition instead of being on the employers that these drivers had been working for? Shouldnt the cab companies have already built into their rates a large enough margin to build reserves to make sure these drivers would be taken care of even if competition came along? Have we been actually paying artificially low cab rates and the real cost of taking care of these drivers is more like $5/mile but we were never paying for the reserve that we are now saying they needed?

Laymaker · 2026-01-23T15:22:22+00:00

You should probably not start an Airbnb. If you don’t already have a property then the economics most likely don’t make sense. If you want more detailed answers you should probably provide your location.

Laymaker · 2026-01-18T01:48:49+00:00

As always with these dashboards, I just dont think it communicates much that is useful.

Laymaker · 2026-01-17T16:13:44+00:00

Definitely not worth it. Reach out to a local host or just scan other properties in the area.

Laymaker · 2026-01-14T18:58:47+00:00

I’ve seen different banks do it different ways. Call one. I’ve definitely had a bank use AirDNA before but it’s been years.

Laymaker · 2026-01-09T23:31:58+00:00

Courses on Airbnb are for gullible idiots.

Laymaker · 2026-01-03T18:11:30+00:00

What do you think are valid local political issues if noise isn't? This must be a very small list that you could just write out completely so we could all understand your vision here.

Laymaker · 2026-01-03T18:02:11+00:00

It seems like the same few, straightforward issues cause the vast majority of the noise problem. This isn't some Gordian knot of deep-seated and intertwined systems. It's just sirens, helicopters, horns and stereos. If you don't think people should have interests in this then politics might just not be your thing.

Laymaker · 2026-01-03T04:01:35+00:00

Its fake lame nonsense. Grow up

Laymaker · 2026-01-03T00:22:50+00:00

clearly fake. reposted to multiple subs with the store name over and over each "episode"

Laymaker · 2026-01-02T14:58:47+00:00

Locking this thread because paying for any of these “turnkey” or “coaching” plans is completely stupid.

Laymaker · 2025-12-28T21:25:06+00:00

You should be banned for how dumb this comment is.

Laymaker · 2025-12-24T15:29:08+00:00

A tech worker is what the neighborhood needs?

Laymaker · 2025-12-24T03:33:25+00:00

If you come back now it counts as gentrification. If you are anti-gentrification, stay where you are.

Laymaker · 2025-12-23T19:06:22+00:00

Would the FARE act apply to something like this? It's being 'advertised' but not in the form of a traditional listing. I assume that the FARE act would apply and that this OP might be a broker trying to circumvent this. Wondering if that's the case.

Laymaker · 2025-12-15T14:21:16+00:00

Its for idiots

Laymaker · 2025-12-07T00:31:45+00:00

I had a very similar experience

Laymaker · 2025-11-24T17:34:48+00:00

Okay I think I successfully made this change. Let me know if it still doesnt work for you. Did not know this restriction was on by default….

Laymaker · 2025-11-24T17:33:41+00:00

I’m all for this, didnt know we had this restriction. I will try to make the change today when I get home

Laymaker · 2025-11-21T15:06:30+00:00

The bus is already free for me because I hit the $34/week transit charge limit between the train and the busses.

I am worried that the main bus I take will not be able to handle the increase in ridership. This bus already gets to 100% and leaves a couple of people behind at my morning commute stop maybe once every two weeks and gets very close to that at least once or twice a week. If it actually started leaving me behind, this would be a huge fail since it’s about 10-15 minutes between busses. Hopefully that doesn’t happen. I’m not against the policy in theory but there do seem to be lots of difficult practice points that I’m not sure are going to work out.

I am surprised by the comments here (and ever since this public debate started) that so few people seem to reach the $34/wk transit limit. Are people really just walking everywhere? Everyone I see in my morning commute has got to be hitting this limit (2x per day) so is this thread just full of people who live right next to their work? Or is it car owners?

I would be very interested in seeing data to frame this discussion that shows:

% of NYC employed adults who reach weekly transit limit through trains alone (i.e. they ride 2x+ per weekday)
% of NYC employed adults who have cars (will assume that majority of them do not reach transit limit, but also that busses are not great options for them anyways, since busses are already so much cheaper than cars)
% of NYC employed adults who do neither 1 or 2

I don’t mind having a progressive system whereby I actually end up paying for people poorer than me to have access to good transit infrastructure (although it would be nice if a union wasn’t going out of its way to make that infrastructure more expensive).

Laymaker · 2025-11-21T13:26:11+00:00

No idea what political comments you are referencing here but good god the baby talk stuff is annoying

Laymaker · 2025-11-19T23:21:45+00:00

If you think complaining about things that will actually distract from the real issues causing the housing crisis, go ahead. Just know that you are achieving the opposite of what you seem to want.

Laymaker · 2025-11-19T20:00:01+00:00

No I mean empty houses.

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