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Product designer focused on transportation and the public realm. You’ve probably seen my work if you’ve taken transit in NYC!
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If it could be nestled right up against the Triboro, I think psychologically the bridge over the park becomes much easier to swallow. Don't think the el along Hoyt is an issue given that it's already a loud, hostile environment – if anything, an opportunity to fix some of that.
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You should ALWAYS rank all the leading candidates but one. If it’s Adams v Cuomo in the last round you better believe I have an opinion so it’s on my ballot.
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Why Brannan over Levine?
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I’m always saying this
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Affordability ✅
Solid answers on housing and shifting his mindset on private development ✅
He does not own a car and takes the subway every day.
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By who?
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Always backing away from from an easy layup, love it
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What exactly needs finishing here? It appears to be blocking - perfectly usable lane?
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Since the primary uses ranked choice voting, you can choose up to five candidates. You also can leave some blank, as Adrienne Adams said she did in 2021, when she ranked three. Here's how RCV played out in that election:
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Reading your own article, you report he did answer directly, you just call it “a line he’s been using” for some reason.
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Hell yeah
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The final round numbers don’t seem to be budging though
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Even as someone who thought that was a dumb post, it really couldn't be clearer that that isn't the point he's trying to make, or even accidentally making.
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Sorry the problem is that 156 of your 40,000 followers say they wouldn't follow you over here?
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No one relevant to this conversation is stating a blanket view that all regulations are problematic, so this is an irrelevant point to make.
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The "regulations" involved in zoning and blocking transit were for the most part explicitly to regulate the "harm" of minority families moving in near white ones. Those regulations should be a boogeyman.
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As everyone knows, the eyeline of a cyclist is approximately 20 feet in the air
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You posted specifically to start a fight and are acting surprised people took the bait?
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Oh I know, and the advice to rank 5 is obviously good advice, but the person I'm replying to seemed to start out with a lot more specific of an opinion and settled down on this one, and I'm checking if I missed something.
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I would strongly disagree that that was general knowledge among most voters. It was clear to those of us paying attention to polling.
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Again, theory vs practice: most voters don’t have that information, and “just rank whoever you like best” is much easier to understand and execute. “It’s time for some game theory” is overwhelming, seems difficult, and might result in undervoting as people throw up their hands on getting it right.
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This is a difference between how you would ideally have people vote in a simulation versus how you should encourage people to vote in the real world where people are not engaged, don’t have all the info, etc.
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Yes, if you have all the information to know what will happen for any given scenario. It’s very easy to do this after the election has happened. Voters don’t have this information ahead of time and can only guess.
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But the state of the race and people’s voting intentions are not independent variables so a successful implementation of this strategy would change the state of the race, becoming an ouroboros. It would only work around the margins, if you guess correctly, not great properties of a winning strategy.
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But you don’t have this information! That’s the point of ranked choice is that you don’t need to game out a vote based upon unknowable info.
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So is your argument really just that we should be reminding people to rank 5 candidates who aren’t Cuomo rather than just saying “don’t rank Cuomo”?
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I’m going to assume you’re misunderstanding the housing supply argument rather than willfully misrepresenting it and let you know that no one is arguing this. They’re arguing that if you build more new housing, people in the old housing won’t get pushed out as more, wealthier people move in.
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“Trickle down housing” is a thing people made up to strawman the very straightforward fact that building new housing reduces competition pressure for old housing.
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What, the part where it hasn’t fixed everything yet? I can’t say it seems disqualifying that a downward trend from an all-time high would necessarily have to pass through other high levels before it got down to lower levels.