Even in the US, every major city has overnight bus services. I live in Seattle and have taken the half hourly to hourly bus home at 3am before. It's wild to me that Tokyo has none.
I will say that there are businesses that has stepped out to fill this void: there are numerable “Internet/manga cafes”, that have private rooms where you have reclining chairs where you can nap; you can just rent a karaoke room for a couple of hours, some onsens have overnight options (including the same reclining chairs etc) - if you just want to have a semi-private space to nap, there are plenty of options.
My day job is OpenTripPlanner work, so I absolutely love to see this. I've long thought about what a RAPTOR engine would look like written in Rust. So cool that you've done it. You should share this in the OTP Gitter chat if you haven't already, the people there would love to see it. I wonder if this would be small enough to run on a phone? I have thought about offline trip planning on a phone, but running OTP is out of the question as a graph can be gigabytes and take minutes to load.
It's after midnight here so take this with a grain of salt but the generated timetable for the puget sound is taking up about 40 MiB on-disk and the server process is using 100k of RAM I think. Most of the timetable is zero-copy so it can be memory mapped on a platform that supports it. So yes, I think it would run on a phone. See also mobroute, which powers Transito
Depends heavily on the city too. I think this kind of thing is more accepted in NYC and LA with big immigrant communities from countries with more informal economies, but in Seattle it gets shut down quickly.
Most editors will do, Xcode is mostly needed for iOS / macOS development if you want to submit to the App Store or work with a lot of Apple frameworks.
Have you used it recently, on an M series Mac? I used to feel the same, it was sluggish and crashed frequently. It's become usable now, even pleasant to use. Also it's great they support Vim keybindings now out-of-the-box.
beware for large apps, if you don't have heavily splitted your app with dynamic imports, vitejs is frustratingly slow by loading each ESM module separately. Seems that rspac has others interesting tradeoffs.
We have encountered that problem too. As far as I learnt from various sources that is caused by circular imports in some cases, and by using index files that re-export your modules in other.
It hasn't been maintained for ages, so at some point you'll want to use some new dependency and find out that you can't. And it's very slow, too, if I recall correctly.
Not OP, but we had issues with SASS that made it difficult to upgrade. It didn't like the M1 architecture when trying to upgrade from Node 12 to Node 18, where as swapping it out for Vite just worked. Given CRA is deprecated, it made sense to move away. I followed a guide[0] which covered most of the things I needed to change and the remaining issues just involved following the build errors.
We also saw much-improved build times, which was a welcome change.
So, am I to understand that prime beach real estate is to be taxed the same as a plot in a desert or swamp? There is clearly a lot of trouble with taxing land, because an inherent part of its value is what you can do with it. People pay premium for land that is useful and desireable. The structures placed on land and the values thereof are proportional to this desirability and economic utility.
Furthermore, it might be necessary to use land for farming or warehouses when it is more profitably used for residential structures. A free market might eventually sort out higher food prices that can cover the taxes, but I think we can all agree that it's better to not arbitrarily increase taxes on a necessity like food.
> So, am I to understand that prime beach real estate is to be taxed the same as a plot in a desert or swamp?
Why would that be the case? A beachfront plot would likely have a higher value than a plot in a desert or swamp, so the tax levied on the beachfront plot’s value would, of course, be higher. It’s a tax on the land’s value, not a tax on the size of the plot.
The value of land is largely subjective. It is based on demand, among other things. If the government assigns arbitrarily high or low value to land based on hypothetical worlds where the land could be used for high rises, factories, or whatever as opposed to what economics has proven is the best actual use of the land and its best estimated price, that is just a terrible version of the same thing we have now.
Assessors observe market activity. The 'purchase price' when you buy land is based on the highest and best potential use of land. The "Land Value Tax" merely appropriates this observed value for public expense (and potential dividend distribution).
The fact that you compared 'prime real estate' to swampland or desert demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of ad valorem taxation and land rent generally. While the rate should be the same (ideally as close to 100% as we can get without causing issues) the actual -value- would be dramatically different.
Under your hypothetical question, the desert and/or swampland could very well have 0 rental value, which means the tax would collect 0 from these locations. 100% of $0 = 0.
That's just not true. The most exported high speed train is the Siemens Velaro which has motors along the whole train. And multiple units are very common in regional and suburban trains, S Bahn style services.
Also, a lot of older people don't want big houses, and having easy access to amenities and socialization is more important than having extra empty bedrooms.
I will get downvoted for this comment: Size of living area does seem to be highly influenced by gender. I hear many more men say they would be happy living in a smaller place. I never once heard that from a woman under 50. (After the kids are gone, they may wish to downsize.)
Let me be the first one then - I am fully content on living in a 40-60m2 space with my partner and two cats. Considering we never lived in anything bigger this size is perfect for us, easy to clean and still enough space to live.
