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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
I don't know if I'm clear, here are some analogies: Chemical plant contaminated nearby housing development, some homeowners sell at a discounted rate to investors who hope to profit after a successful cleanup. Pension funds buy Ar
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
Rent control in San Francisco only applies to property that was built before rent control laws was passed (1979). So any building that was built at that time (a majority of the city's housing stock) has had an owner lose a lot of money
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
I think rent control is not very relevant to this discussion of poverty. Most cities in the US do not have rent control. This includes high-rent cities like Boston and Seattle. Getting rid of rent control in SF would decrease market rates,
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
>They contribute to the issue of renters being unable to buy. But on the other hand, they give renters a good deal. Buying at a high price:rent ratio means a low cap rate, which makes for a bad investment. So the landlord is essentially
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
Investors who rent out their properties might change the price:rent ratio, but they don't contribute to the housing shortage.
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
The examples in the article are atypical because they are monopolies. Restaurants are typical because they are not monopolies. Academic research about a typical case is high-quality evidence.
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
The article describes how PE works badly in a limited set on industries (monopolies), but uses expansive language and doesn't properly caveat it's argument that PE is bad in general. Parent uses restaurants as an example of a more
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
>meaning freestanding homes that have a yard, not condos/apartments; such homes actually appear to be so rare within city limits that you'd have difficulty getting them no matter how much money you were willing to spend I'
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
I have a phone with a headphone jack, and I'm using Bluetooth headphones for hours every day. The headphone battery lasts a lot longer than the phone. In the past few years even audiophile brands have been releasing blueooth models and
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
I agree that two ports would make me a lot less annoyed by the change, especially when you can keep an adapter around for one of the ports. But from experience, designs where the charging and audio ports are on opposing ends are pretty anno
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
I think users would be happier day-to-day with a larger battery, but in the ATT showroom they are more likely to go for the thinner phone with a small battery and no headphone jack.
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
At least for most headphones with some kind of band, there is a lot of room for a battery.
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
This doesn't seem remotely true, if you compare the regulations tech has been subject to with those applied to other industries (or tech in Europe). Can you give some examples of anti-tech activities you are referring to, in case I am
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
Which, not coincidentally, is also what the companies stashing profits overseas hope to accomplish through future changes in the tax law.
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
Unless the parent commenter was the one who did that lobbying, the argument stands.
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by 1anh2kqowg 10y ago
>(In SF or NYC, you probably can't obtain a comparable living situation, but a 2500 sq ft apartment apparently runs around $15k/mo, meaning you'd have to make almost $1M/yr to barely afford one) I'm not sure wher