Omar Diab

Cofounder/CTO at Breeze, formerly Cofounder & Head of Engineering at Tofu (sold), @everydotorg. Love me a walkable city.

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@DKThomp @samuelmoyn I haven’t read the book yet but listened to the podcast - how about age cohort specific elections, or at large slots for age cohorts? Like, hold a ranked choice election, a candidate is chosen by the electorate as a whole + another candidate chosen with weighted voting.

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@bswud Within an hour you can get to Hachioji by Chuo and Keio Lines; Yokohama by Shonan Shinjuku Line; Omiya and further by Saikyo Line; Chiba by Sobu Line; Isehara by Odakyu Line; and more. Development around stations makes for an insane amount of land in striking distance of the core

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@bswud The ultimate version of this is Tokyo with its 130+ train lines, most of the central ones having express train service. 1 hour commute distance to Shinjuku probably encompasses 25-30 million people mostly in single family homes and small apartment buildings.

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@bswud While it’s possible to achieve a functional system with roads, it takes huge infrastructure (unsustainable if you ask @StrongTowns ), crippling traffic daily, higher traffic deaths, eliminates vibrant city cores; none of those places are particularly pleasant places to be, IMO.

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@bswud The train version of induced demand is miserable packed commutes. This gets more to an issue of state capacity to produce abundant transport, or to price public transport so highly that it regulates usage (not a popular approach) but the phenomenon exists nonetheless.

[Prakash Sanker @PrakashSanker3]

1/ I got tired of seeing great ideas die before they even launched.
Building an MVP should be easy in 2025. But it’s still slow, expensive, and frustrating. I’ve been there. So I decided to fix it. Here’s why I built [https://t.co/kQU1avs23f].

🧵👇

[Prakash Sanker @PrakashSanker3]

I'm building something new! https://t.co/TYW53UAnMR

Check out why

https://t.co/zJEk5FXmDf

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@JNotlad @broseph_stalin No, you trust it because it’s open source and you can try it yourself

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@IAmmBotman @sam_d_1995 Have you ever rode a train that isn’t a shitty American train? The reason your impression of transit sucks is because it’s true, your transit sucks. Nobody else in the world has this problem.

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@nikitabase @neondatabase Cross region replicas!

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@samuelstroschei @lixCCS And relatedly, is inlang/parachute/etc still a thing your company cares about or is i18n not the focus anymore and it’s all about change control?

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@samuelstroschei @lixCCS I came to know of lix from the inlang project - congrats on the launch but I don’t think I understand what this is actually doing that other version control systems don’t do - is it that it’s in browser and has plugins for understanding/visualizing changes in arbitrary files?

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@daguilarcanabal @Noahpinion For the record hot pot can be lit

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@Noahpinion I grew up with wealthy parents, but they were immigrants who don't drink sparkling water, so I thought it was gross too the first time I tried it in college. But it's grown on me...

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@Noahpinion My objections to polyamory aren’t qualms about its morality, but rather that it is very practically and emotionally difficult to pull off. Take it from someone who’s tried it.

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@bswud I live in Tokyo—transit companies deriving revenue from real estate holdings def works and is great, though I wonder what else is at play here. For one, retail lot sizes are way tinier than in the USA, so there are more interesting, cheaply run tiny shops, cafes, & restaurants.

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@bswud Isn’t part of the reason the stores are so interesting, that they have to be to survive? I do want great stores to thrive but I don’t want to subsidize the continued existence of bad ones. Shopping malls in the USA aren’t exactly known for having interesting stores.

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@Noahpinion It misses one important thing though, which is that the extensive rail network creates a lot more commute distance land to work with.

[Omar Diab @therealomardiab]

@ArmandDoma @Muhammad_Speaks I don’t get what violent conflict in a far away land has to do with local policy dysfunction RE incentivizing scalable infrastructure, except for the fact that Palestinians do indeed prefer to live in houses, much like Americans do.