hx87

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by hx87 7y ago
Tax on land value only, excluding improvements. This encourages landowners to build to the limit of marginal construction costs, which benefits both the local economy and tenants.
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by hx87 7y ago
Companies can't grow faster than the supply of office space, which also has time constraints.
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by hx87 7y ago
The more important question is: can we have growth in economic output (which is what we actually want) without growth in economic input (which is purely instrumental)?
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by hx87 7y ago
In order to crack water, you need water, which is in short supply in the desert. Desalination + massive pumps and pipelines from the ocean would soak up any increase you get in price efficiency compared to batteries or even compressed air.
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by hx87 7y ago
I wonder what the breakeven cost would be of a monthly subscription to ad-free journalism on the quality level of the New York Times (or your preferred equivalent). Something like $200-300 maybe? If it were actually ad-free and zero-clickba
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by hx87 7y ago
When you are told something that is wrong, holding onto it after you learn that it is wrong is entitlement.
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by hx87 7y ago
NIMBYism is pretty much a de facto campaign against internal migration. It's not much of an issue in the fastest growing states, but certain states with hot economies but stagnant or declining populations, like Massachusetts or Califor
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by hx87 7y ago
What factors influence the amount of calories used and taken in (not just eaten)? That's the question, and the answer is hardly rudimentary.
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by hx87 7y ago
> but in my calorie range That's the difficult part--the insulin spikes from ultraprocessed food will make you hungrier and eat more as well as lower your basal metabolism. "Calorie range" is a moving target.
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by hx87 7y ago
When your basal metabolism is 4500 calories a day.
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by hx87 9y ago
The extra bedroom is also optional.
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by hx87 9y ago
Aesthetic objections to new construction are 99.9% bullshit. Otherwise things like vomit- and baby-poop-green vinyl siding, uniformly white windows with fake grills and little to no trim, McMansion-style hip-roof horrorshows and gables on t
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by hx87 9y ago
> The idea that a place like Beverly Hills is going to have to throw up a bunch of new housing to please CA congress They don't have to do anything except allow private landowners to build higher if they wish.
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by hx87 9y ago
Your house is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Developers are willing to pay a lot for it since a multifamily building can yield a lot more rent revenue than a single family house. The house is probably worth more in this scenar
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by hx87 9y ago
It's almost like they've never heard of orientation, shading, or SHGCs.
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by hx87 9y ago
> The instant you sign a mortgage it becomes in your economic best interest to limit the supply of housing. Not if you own the underlying land, or at least a portion thereof, and willing to build higher and denser and rent it out. For ex
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by hx87 9y ago
Dashlane. Synchronization included, easy to use, works both offline and online.
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by hx87 9y ago
High quality speech recognition is ubiquitous in phone services these days so that isn't a good reason. Besides, if I want to set a 16 char password and am willing to enter that on a keypad, what's the problem?
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by hx87 9y ago
> which means their descendants will not share your ethnic identity - it will be destroyed Mixed and combined, not destroyed. Besides, where to draw the line? Should Calabrians and Sicilians not live next to each other? Cantonese and Hak
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by hx87 9y ago
If you're poor, how did you come to own the assets in the first place? If you became poor, then maybe you should sell the property to gain more liquidity, balance your portfolio, and transfer the property to someone with enough income
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by hx87 9y ago
Not true if "investments" are just chasing fixed assets like real estate in a zero-sum manner.
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by hx87 9y ago
> rest of San Francisco’s infrastructure including mass transit The moment Proposition 13 gets repealed that will no longer be a problem.
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by hx87 9y ago
Except what the SF Bay Area is facing isn't the Tragedy of the Commons--it's the Tragedy of the Anticommons, where the owners of resources underutilize them.
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by hx87 9y ago
On average, moving one person from a small town in the midwest to SF reduces resource consumption, so from that point of view construction in SF should be encouraged. Tearing down abandoned houses in small midwestern towns and converting th
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by hx87 9y ago
That's why they tore down all the single family houses in Sunset & Richmond to make way for 5 story apartment blocks. Oh wait...
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by hx87 9y ago
If SF Bay Area cities can't be bothered to build enough housing, they should at least have the decency to tax the fuck out of business until they start moving out and housing prices regress to 3x the median rent. If you want the compan
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by hx87 9y ago
> But a lot of people would not consider that a good outcome. If they didn't consider that a good outcome, they would stop paying money to move there, or move out, and cause housing prices to drop, thus solving the problem.
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by hx87 9y ago
NIMBYism is fine, as long as it is applied to businesses as well as housing . Way too many towns and cities want to maintain their low density small town & suburban characters while attracting employers.
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by hx87 9y ago
Using single digit numbers by themselves to denote highways is awkward and confusing, but it's much less of a problem with double and triple digit numbers--"I took 95 from Boston to Washington" sounds prettier than "I to
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by hx87 9y ago
That works because Chicago is in the north central part of the country, where highway numbers are firmly in the double digits. In the southwest the numbers are often single digit, so it's awkward and confusing to use without a preprend

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