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Comment Federation is the right implementation (Score 2) 27

I've been a spamgourmet user for 25 years, and it's been perfect but... Email as designed is fundamentally designed for a friendlier universe and thus easily exploited. To fix this email should deliver ONLY a secure link to its payload that is hosted by the sender. If I send you and email, in your email (or sms or any other delivery protocol) you get a notification: "Fishdan has sent you a message. To read it click fishdan.com/mail?recipient=you@youraddress.com&secretpin=19700101&othersexritything1=foo&othersecuritything2=bar&clientsecurity=&mysecurityclientid=918273123012 etc etc You could even have a thing where if I want to send you a more secure email I require your browser to have a JWT (or whatever) that you only get by answering a second email. Etc etc. Contentlink is evaluated by your email client AND your browser for safety. IF it's an official certification it gets a better trust rating etc. has to match the send of the email and your email reader assigns a trust rating to it that you see when opening the email and again when following the content link.

Comment Causes: (Score 5, Insightful) 588

1 - Proposition 13. An anti-tax measure that may have been necessary at the time, but went way too far to the point where Bay Area cities are incentivized to approve more business developments but less housing because of the amount of revenue they bring in. The result is a massive jobs-housing imbalance as cities gain more jobs but not enough housing to keep up, resulting in long commutes from out of town.

2 - A strong NIMBY lobby. Established residents are vocal in their opposition to more housing in "their" town. Councils feel pressured to resist new developments.

3 - Induced demand. Caltrans has an unbelievably wasteful policy of widening highways in the hope that it'll alleviate traffic congestion despite a mountain of evidence that this does not work and that more highway lanes just causes more traffic as people move out to cheaper suburbs to get a bigger house for the same price and a (temporarily) reasonable commute time. By the time everyone has the same idea, highways are jammed again.

4 - Anti-transit sentiment. Roads are less efficient than rails, but it's a lot easier to get funding for them.

5 - Single-use-zoning. Putting daily needs out of walking distance of each other forces nearly everyone to drive throughout the day. The result is massive car ownership and demands for more facilities to accommodate private cars.

6 - Fragmented local government. It's very hard to get region-wide transit developments done when each city is only focused on its own interests.

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