BirdieNZ

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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
This is the case for renters everywhere.
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Lots of countries value land and improvements separately (e.g. New Zealand, Australia, Denmark) for council rates (property tax essentially). Here in New Zealand, there are several companies that provide valuation services to local councils
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
I don't think it's been shown to actually increase displacement and instability, in municipalities with a land value tax. It's theoretically the case, because now everyone is renting from either a landlord or the city/
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Gentrification, which displaces renters (rents become too expensive for existing tenants so they need to leave the area), will start displacing some land owners as well. LVT would increase due to land value increasing, and the current land
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
You can build lots of housing in remote locations, sure, but people have to want to live there. Even existing cities can have massive surplus of housing if people don't want to live there anymore (see Detroit for an example). Most peop
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Land supply in desirable locations cannot be increased; you can zone for increased density in those locations, but developers are not incentivised to release new supply as quickly as possible (as that would reduce prices). See for example
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
On what data do you base that claim? Roads are enormously expensive to build and maintain, and often even small towns in some countries have railway.
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
The original Landlord's Game has two rulesets, and it switches to the Georgist ruleset when enough players agree (I think > half). The first ruleset is similar to modern Monopoly, but when enough players agree to switch because they
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Land value taxes have existed and do exist around the world (along with variations on the theme, such as leasehold land that is leased from the government for a long time). They don't result in the behaviour you describe. Most land val
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Arguably it's a good description because it automatically filters out audiences who don't know what it means; if you're building a distributed system and looking at different consensus algorithms then it's a simple and c
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
> One ex-Microsoft manager, now a senior Manager at Atlassian, called that 'hand holding'. Which senior manager is this, out of interest?
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
The current CTO and engineering leaders or the previous crop?
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
> society is largely set up to favor neurotypicals at the expense of those with ADHD. As someone with diagnosed ADHD, I think this misrepresents ADHD. There's no form of society in which ADHD is an advantage; in a hunter-gatherer so
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
> I think it's fair to say there is a difference of at least $100 between your rent and mortgage payment. In my country the rent has usually been more expensive than the cost to service a mortgage (particularly taking into account o
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
> There is also comorbidity, if I'm not mistaken. Last I checked, it's uni-directional; if you have autism, you are more likely than the general population to have ADHD, but not the other way around.
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Yes, but so is Change Failure Rate (and a good team will use feature flagging anyway for gradual rollouts, so you don't roll out a DDoSing broken feature to 100% of users, just a tiny subset).
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
There's a combination of factors, of which some are: - Holding cost of land is near 0 in most cities, so you can use it extremely unproductively without any issues. There's a Christmas tree farm in a central suburb in my city; it
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Who are these people who can't comprehend SFH car preferences? I'm pretty pro-urban-density and pro-transit/walking/cycling, but I definitely understand why people prefer SFH and cars and low density. Heck, I don't
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Get just a little smaller, and dedicate a (grade-separated) lane to them, and you have bicycles in a bike lane.
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Rising tenant incomes. As incomes increase, landlords are able to increase rents proportionally. This is only true where demand outstrips supply, but that's the case in most developed cities in the West, as well as many other cities. T
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
(Usually) rents are already as high as they can be, in aggregate. In other words, the market cannot bear a higher cost for the good, so an increase in cost has to be eaten by the landlord. This is actually very easy to see in countries with
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
Taxing land doesn't increase rent; it's an inelastic good with greater demand than supply. See Ricardo's Law of Rent, Henry George, or basically any analysis of land tax (or indeed, taxing any monopoly good). The incidence of
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by BirdieNZ 3y ago
How is saying "there's a one in three chance that such-and-such an event occurs" classified as "plenty wrong" in your view, if the event occurs?
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by BirdieNZ 4y ago
Just take this a step further, bring "local" all the way down to "the person who owns the land". Let the locals decide what to do on the land they own. If they want an apartment, or a store, or a giant mansion in the mid
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by BirdieNZ 4y ago
Your reasoning sounds a little over-binary; both things can be simultaneously true: 1: Attractive people will find dating and securing a relationship easier than unattractive people 2: Physically unattractive people can still be very succes
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by BirdieNZ 4y ago
Isn't an 11% chance to be hiring a really good to incredible employee good signal? I don't think you can have the same chance when hiring from most small companies, not based on company reputation alone.
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by BirdieNZ 4y ago
I'm not a gambling man but if I was I would put a very large amount of my net worth on a bet that no trades will be automated in 5 years time. Not a single one.
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by BirdieNZ 4y ago
Not sure if this is satire, but most places lose money on public transit (at least, the ticket fares don't cover operating and capital costs). A few places make money off public transit, such as Hong Kong's MTR, because they own t
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by BirdieNZ 4y ago
It's the opposite; it increases the percentage of owner occupiers. It reduces landlord/renters; see for example https://gameofrent.com/content/can-lvt-be-passed-on-to-tenan... or https://www.prospe
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by BirdieNZ 4y ago
How much are you willing to pay for the basic necessities of life, life land, shelter, food, water? If the providers of those necessities possess a monopoly, either natural or through regulatory capture, humans will pay whatever they have t

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