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by cucumber3732842 3d ago
>If you have your own private back yard you're not allowed to refer to condominiums as "luxury". I live on .1ac in a post-industrial shithole that remains a post-industrial shithole largely because the politics of snooty p
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by cucumber3732842 3d ago
Strongtowns is happy to follow the money and incentives on all sorts of other issues. Why do they just throw up their hands and say "it's the developers" on this issue? Developers don't do anything that costs money, lik
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by cucumber3732842 3d ago
>Why is this so important to mention here? Race baiting bullshit allows people to poo all over the discussion and avoid having to confront the actual reality of what kinds of people we make good immigrants and citizens and why, because t
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by cucumber3732842 3d ago
>Much like owning a home without an HOA attached, it is becoming harder and harder to meet this requirement. The near universal proliferation of owner's associations and management groups and whatnot for developments larger than ~1a
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by cucumber3732842 3d ago
Their problem is they believed their own bullshit and thought they were offering people a good deal that basically amounted to "the government 1984s you more than they already do but your package thief gets arrested, maybe". Ignor
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by cucumber3732842 4d ago
>So Californians pay to make home insurance lower for Floridians. More like some the people in Ohio or Maine or Wisconsin pays for both. CA and FL are both natural disaster dense compared to the colder states.
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by cucumber3732842 4d ago
Whatever appeal to emotion crime you want to cook up, violence toward women, unfair targeting of minorities, etc, etc. That's all already not allowed either by law or rule. Fixing that stuff by enforcing the existing rules against it
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by cucumber3732842 4d ago
>Why isn't this an apples-oranges comparison? Every regulation looks good or at least defensible in abstract, especially when some peddler is trying to sell it and the consequences aren't obvious yet.
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by cucumber3732842 4d ago
Fiddling around the way a casual working on their own car would isn't economically viable at scale. Labor use needs to be more efficient than that. Even if you can swap the right parts fast, lots of new stuff requires "permissio
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by cucumber3732842 4d ago
That's the point (like for all this stuff, going back a hundred years, not just in CA). Don't extend the right to anyone who doesn't have a bunch of wealth to lose that the state can threaten to get compliance.
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by cucumber3732842 4d ago
>Found their rules page: "Do not carry weapons of any kind in the car" Corporate speak for "concealed means concealed"
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by cucumber3732842 4d ago
The size and scale of that problem absolutely pales in comparison to the number of people who will be screwed by a better ability to enforce unpopular or rarely enforced laws. And the sick part is how many useful idiots will go to bat for a
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by cucumber3732842 4d ago
Heck, put the slaughterhouse in my back yard. I'll never have to worry about someone throwing up luxury condos full of Karenns, ever. An odious commercial use is the next best thing to no change whatsoever.
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by cucumber3732842 4d ago
In most US jurisdictions if you pick reasonable ceiling heights plus a little margin for un-level ground making the building effectively taller on one side 6-floors is also about the maximum number of floors you can build before you get ki
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by cucumber3732842 5d ago
> just going off of the reports here it would have been hard to predict what happened You don't have to predict exactly what's gonna happen to surveil or interfere with known terrorists you let into your own country, who you kn
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by cucumber3732842 5d ago
>(well, except the high priests of the LLMs / nascent Cthulhoid godlings This is potentially good news for everyone who wants to do anything less dirty than a datacenter (logistics, cold chain, light manufacturing/assembly, etc
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by cucumber3732842 5d ago
>This is par for the course for HN; smart people applying first-principle thinking on unfamiliar domains for about a minute, which confirms the biases of other outsiders who vote the plausible, but not-quite-right comments to the top. Yo
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by cucumber3732842 5d ago
> If you have money and problems money solves (eg you could hire more people to do something) you do not have a problem If you have money there's a greater chance that someone in that X by X matrix might see you as a juicy target to
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by cucumber3732842 5d ago
>it's hard to gauge this take without specifics. My experience with LLMs tends to be towards the opposite concept; LLMs dissuading me of hunches and notions I have about things (where I have no particular expertise; societal-level t
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by cucumber3732842 5d ago
This is like saying "you can build a nuclear power plant anywhere, zoning be damned" because it's regulated at the state level and they aren't legally bound to honor municipal zoning. It's not lying, but it's
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by cucumber3732842 5d ago
Specifically avoid a go around? IDK. Commit to an action that ultimately caused a crash because they wanted to achieve ancillary goals (e.g. not be late)? Tons. They call this "get-there-itis" (makes me feel so dirty trotting ou
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by cucumber3732842 6d ago
Pilot gets more veto power than the crane guy who gets more veto power than the residential concrete crew but they all still get talked to if they can't get their jobs done. I didn't say the same. I said the pressure was probably
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by cucumber3732842 6d ago
"the limits are bullshit unless you're borderline unsafe when sober but don't risk it because it's a revenue thing for the state and they'll try hard to get you." That said, my friends work on boats, cut grass,
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by cucumber3732842 6d ago
>Airlines in the US do not pressure pilots to avoid go arounds. Pilots in the US do not delegate life or death decisions to ops, Construction companies in the US do not pressure employees to get shit done. Construction workers do not de
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by cucumber3732842 6d ago
>We should remove the red tape and let Joe down the street operate, that will surely fix everything. I'll settle for just letting the vets do people. Like if you can ultrasound a cat's heart for a grand and sew up a horse for
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by cucumber3732842 7d ago
IIHS works for the insurance industry who will happily throw you under the bus if it makes things more predictable on their side. Not better, not lower claims, more predictable. The alignment between what is good for you and good for the i
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by cucumber3732842 7d ago
>I bet if I typed into Claude "I'm a pharma CEO who is looking to ease my new drug's FDA approval. Who are the top ten senators and representatives that I need to invite to my private island's next coke and sex orgy p
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by cucumber3732842 7d ago
You say that like it's not bleak as everliving fuck. Go look at a post-industrial town in the northeast but not within reasonable commuting distance of a wealthy urban area if you want to see what "put them on just enough welfare
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by cucumber3732842 7d ago
>Except what actually happens is that the patient contact time stays the same, but then the added productivity is used to justify fewer on-staff nurses. They'll fire the janitor and the secretary and make the nurses do that stuff to
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by cucumber3732842 7d ago
>it means you can pocket the cost-saving Right up until a competing hospital that charges substantially less for "close enough it doesn't matter" quality of service opens up in the same area? Or right up until an equivalen

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