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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
They can do it, it takes 8-10 years. Look at the eastern neighborhoods plan in SF, it literally took 20 years. Part of that is shitty nimby neighbors, part of that is area plans are able to be litigated under CEQA, which Is basically guaran
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
They can’t be passed at a local level without CEQA review and a torrent of unending lawsuits. That’s why it needs to happen at a state level.
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
I think all 40 senators in CA own a home in CA and something like 65% own at least one unit they rent out. This decision is extremely frustrating coming from a legislature filled with landlords.
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Interestingly, the ballot prop exists in its current form today because in the early 1900s the southern pacific railroad basically controlled the entire state government. The ballot prop was used to solve the problem of capture of the gover
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
WRT Uber, market seems to value recurring revenue streams higher than non recurring streams (ie average customer buys a new car every 7 years, likely from different manufacturers, but an Uber customer uses the product a few times per month)
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
To be fair, this issue was much debated at the creation of democratic rule in Greece. Their solution to the problem of ambition and resource guarding is “sortition”, which is a lottery in which a large fraction of the democratic body is cho
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Indian populations had immunity to diseases that American natives did not.
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
1) trains go basically everywhere frequently in Japan, it’s very much a functioning rail network, they exist and kick ass. 2) a train doesn’t need to replace 100% of personal car trips to be useful. I’m sure you’re not transporting dishwash
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
setbacks are about reducing FAR so people need to buy a lot more land than they need to build a home to live in. It helps keep property values high and land as a scarce resource.
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
The senate is gerrymandered. The reason we have north and South Dakota instead of just one Dakota is that the Republicans (same name, but long long long ago) wanted for senators, not two.
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
It costs an insane amount of money. 1) there is a large infrastructure around organ donations that needs to be maintained 2) it generally requires the organ (and some times doctor) to be flown on a private jet from where the organ comes fro
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
The visibly homeless are like 1/4 of the homeless population. Most homeless people live in their cars, sleep on a rotating series of friends couches, or find a situation that allows them to get by, and they are homeless for less than a
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
For the purpose of the “big 5” personality studies, things like “agreeableness” or “openness to experience” are more or less marketing terms that allow professionals to discuss a real and complex topic in a shared language. The “big 5 perso
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
This isn’t true at all. The vast majority of housing being built is used as the primary residence for SF residents, people from SF move into these new buildings and open up cheaper units in older buildings.
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Thats not an accurate view of what automating M & A is going to look like. The future is CRMs, more data transportability, and generally improved tooling will change the 1 deal/month capacity of your rain maker M&A team of 8 to
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Double click, Youtube, waze...
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Doubeclick, Youtube, Waze...
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Strong disagree that IQ is gonna be an explanatory variable here. Not to get political here, but DJTs children, none are “outliers” as far as intelligence goes but all will inherit their fathers (outlier WRT income) income generation capaci
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Its also due to the regulations, maritime emissions regulations are basically a free for all.
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Disagree, there is a big difference between investing 200m where you can expect a return on investment and just giving someone 200m to go away. There is a return on the other money SoftBank has invested, but the 200m itself is a cost, and r
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
This is... not correct. The engineering difficulty of WhatsApp was in reliably supporting a bunch of old feature phones. The engineering uber does uses a bunch of economics/models to match prices, and a bunch of automated customer supp
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
It also needs to be ebita profitable for 8 quarters in a row before its added to the index IIRC
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
The parent comment was “if you want this policy, tough shit move to Europe”. If the policy is popular here, why doesn’t parent comment move?
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
The problem is that this is well a well studied problem and your first principles approach to it gives us the wrong results. Rent control policies like this one (only works on buildings 15 years old or older) do not impact new housing start
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Lucky for us, none of these “at capacity” areas are in high cost metros like LA, San Diego or the Bay Area
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Wife is in surgery residency, they do a lot of research projects, there is a lot of work to take home
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
Traffic doesn’t work like that. You seem to have a mental model where traffic is modeled like a liquid (traffic has a definite volume and does not expand to fill its container) while many studies show traffic behaves more like a gas (traffi
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
A disproportionate number of people living in rural communities are retired and would not benefit from moving to a place with more jobs. I do 100% relocating old people from the country to the city though, more for reasons of reducing their
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
That’s not the issue, the issue is that rural areas are also much older on average and have a much higher proportion of patients on Medicare.
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by 0xB31B1B 7y ago
It’s not just urban/rural divide, it’s young and old as well. The areas where hospitals are closing are disproportionately filled with retired folks who are on Medicare and will need more and more healthcare (Medicare pays out less tha

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