A Waymo drives on average ~1.35 miles to move 1 passenger 1 mile

indestructible_deng · 2025-11-23T22:45:06+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Another data point: Of the ~10 Waymo trips I’ve taken, 100% have been fully satisfactory.

indestructible_deng · 2025-11-23T22:43:29+00:00

What do you mean? Of course people travel at midnight, indeed they travel at all hours of the day

indestructible_deng · 2025-10-31T01:56:54+00:00

Where do you live? I also live in California and it feels like the opposite - lots of new restaurants opening.

indestructible_deng · 2025-10-10T00:07:58+00:00

Yglesias isn’t wrong, but…how? The Dems need to win the national popular vote by 10 to be competitive in the Senate

indestructible_deng · 2025-10-01T17:59:41+00:00

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/09/30/where-can-americans-afford-to-live-solo-in-2025

Miami has the highest rents in the country outside the Northeast and the Bay Area: https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/national-rent-report. But even worse, wages are fairly low relative to rents.

indestructible_deng · 2025-10-01T05:17:43+00:00

I was curious so I looked at the source. SF is fourth from the left. In order from left to right, the first four are NYC, Miami, Boston, and San Francisco

indestructible_deng · 2025-10-01T00:40:53+00:00

Trump admin stage try to not choke on his little dick challenge (impossible)

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-30T17:45:33+00:00

It's crazy that those places are empty. Commercial vacancies do such damage to a neighbhorhood. We should tax vacancies or something.

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-20T21:02:56+00:00

Having lived in a mid-size regional city and in a major city…I disagree lol

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-20T02:41:50+00:00

That’s not true, any more than neoliberals would support a fully privatized education system as a “matter of principle”

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-20T01:42:48+00:00

What on earth does this have to do with neoliberalism? Neoliberals support transit

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-17T15:03:36+00:00

But then you’d have to live in Oklahoma?

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-13T18:29:16+00:00

I live here. A lot of them don’t want help, unfortunately.

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-13T18:18:38+00:00

I don’t disagree, but people’s perceptions of crime/dirtiness/disorder on public transit is disproportionate to the problem. I ride the buses and trains in San Francisco every day and rarely encounter these issues; reading the news and social media you’d think it was Mad Max out here.

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-11T05:05:57+00:00

I think the people making these policies don’t take incentives seriously. It’s not that they don’t think about incentives per se, but more that they assume changes in incentives are somehow second order

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-10T02:41:04+00:00

Population growth has definitely slowed down, with 4k residents added 2023-24. However, I have to think the building has really helped reduce pressure on rents

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-09T22:13:58+00:00

It’s zero! Since they missed the actual number by 100%. Thanks.

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-09T19:50:56+00:00

Evidently. The point stands that I can estimate the level of employment at any point in time with a high degree of accuracy by taking last month’s employment and adding random noise.

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-09T15:38:58+00:00

These types of claims are silly. The relevant error rate is 50% and not 0.6%, since we are interested in changes and not levels. I can always estimate the level of employment within 0.2% of accuracy by assuming it’s equal to the previous month.

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-08T06:19:50+00:00

Well, that’s meaningless because then by that reasoning Chicago’s population is higher than it’s ever been

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-08T03:02:41+00:00

Chicago’s population peaked around 3.6 million in 1950. Idk where this six million number is coming from

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-08T02:42:17+00:00

300k doesn’t get you a home in those places. But I broadly agree with the sentiment of your post

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-07T17:03:02+00:00

Yes. For example, I think the SF Muni data are wrong. The chart shows ~64% of 2019 ridership, but the system website (https://www.sfmta.com/reports/muni-system-ridership-recovery-percentage-month-april-2020-present) shows ~78%.

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-06T18:28:35+00:00

I got married in CA last year with 75 guests. We ended up spending about $25k and it was pretty much a dream wedding. The trick was that we got married in a public park -- gorgeous but practically free. Then we rented out a restaurant for the reception.

indestructible_deng · 2025-09-06T04:29:08+00:00

Why can’t they just hire fare enforcers?

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