BirdieNZ

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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
Land value tax.
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
The same problem exists in other games, like Ultima Online and FFXIV. There's a solution for this, which was used in EVE Online: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/digital-real-estate-a... It works in real lif
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
I can't speak for everywhere in the world, but in New Zealand it has usually been possible to cover total costs with rent. It's not possible right now due to higher interest rates. I believe this is common in many other countries
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
I lean towards renting out housing at market rent in my city to be unethical, so I refuse on ethical grounds to become a landlord. In the long term if the opportunity (e.g. money) arises I would like to build housing charging at-cost rent,
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
If you think of it in share market terms, it's a 4.2% dividend from a stock with a long-term price growth rate of ~7%. Not only that but you can use leverage (e.g. like a margin trader) in the form of a mortgage. In the USA, you can ev
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by BirdieNZ 2y ago
No, even in 2024. I'm in New Zealand; there are a handful of big tech companies here, and they all offer compensation approximately the same (maybe on the upper end) as other New Zealand tech companies. There aren't that many remo
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
You can't make more of unique locations. Dirt isn't the issue, it's location. Times Square doesn't use that much "land", but it's a unique, non-commodity location. Sprawl in NYC wouldn't create more T
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
It's hard to think of many businesses that require lower capital investment and maintenance than a car wash. The ones I see in my city that look like land banking are a big plot with asphalt covering it (don't even need to mow law
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
For land assessment, many countries or municipalities assess it regularly. In my country (New Zealand), most city councils re-assess land value and improvements value every three years (and charge council rates based on them).
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
I definitely agree with this, and have seen in play out in both directions both for myself and many others before. Now, writing down your goals concretely along with timelines helps you achieve them, but something about telling others befor
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
This feels like missing the point; of course CFR is in tension with speed of delivery! It's to stop gaming the metrics. If you don't have CFR to balance the lead time for changes and deployment frequency then you can make a pipeli
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
(This is not contrary to you, I think): See https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/the-auckland-myth-th... Let's start by defining "cheaper" as "cheaper rent" specifically. Rent will only decr
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Developers aren't a cartel, but they respond to incentives just like anyone else. https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/upzoning-predictions... For one example of how upzoning alone doesn't result in develo
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
I'm basing the reasons for why people don't want development in their neighbourhood off real-world observations; I didn't intend to be uncharitable, just realistic. To be honest, I toned back the reasoning quite a bit from so
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Agglomeration effects mean that any city that tries to split up offices away from the city cores would end up "losing" compared to cities which allow offices and industries to cluster together freely.
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
485m² of land in one of the highest-income urban areas in the world is for rich people only, yeah.
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Upzoning increases land prices. It only results in a decrease in per-unit average house prices if it is accompanied with development (more housing units per square metre of land). Upzoning doesn't guarantee increased development as dev
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
laughs in cities skylines 2
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
I'm not gonna argue with your choices in life, and I might make the same ones if I had a family that goes through 12 gallons of milk a week, but it's not impossible to pull that off with fewer cars and a smaller garage. Scenario
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
> This is not wage inequality because these are not equal things. More productive employees are not equal to less productive ones. Productive men are not equal to less productive (article's words not mien) women. If 2 different thin
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
(Good) baristas dial in their grind size multiple times a day due to environmental changes like humidity, and I daresay the decor of a coffee shop is designed to motivate appetite. Not sure if that completely answers your questions but they
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
What's the issue with hexagonal architecture?
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Sure, but that has nothing to do with what I said. There will be many HN users who are earning as much or more as Apple engineers, even if many are earning much less, so assuming that someone here would definitely jump at an Apple offer is
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
There are literally hundreds of thousands of software engineers employed at companies that are of similar prestige and pay as Apple, and many of them will be on HN. If you're getting paid $500k at Netflix/Google/Meta, why wor
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
> Side note : that's one of the reason I think I may have ADHD, I still have the reminder to take an appointment with a psychologist on my phone.... Set many alarms, right now, to book that appointment. If you don't have ADHD o
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
I've seen this but producing Python scripts that you run in Blender, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x60zHw_z4NM (but I saw something marginally more impressive, not sure where though!)
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Is this an imputed rent tax? That sounds like a good thing to me, not a bad thing. It has a similar effect to land value taxes or government-owned land leases, which are some of the most effective ways to reduce rampant property speculation
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
The even better variation on this is land taxes (see Henry George's Progress and Poverty, or the summary here: https://gameofrent.com ). There are heaps of advantages to this approach, like no capital flight (can't take
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
You are correct, and my memory failed me: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876754/ People with autism are highly likely to have comorbid ADHD. People with ADHD are more likely than normal to have
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
ADHD and autism are comorbid in one direction (people with autism are more likely than the general population to have ADHD, but people with ADHD are not more likely than the general population to have autism).

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