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by Decade 7y ago
Happily, some legislators understand the crisis. While SB-827 and SB-50 were drawing fire from the NIMBYs, other pro-housing bills passed into law, including SB-167 (sue more suburbs for denying housing permits), SB-828 (double the expected
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by Decade 7y ago
For me, a chunk of text would go missing because it interprets fast typing as double, triple, quadruple tapping. Which means the text is selected and then promptly overwritten. The solution is to be deliberate about typing slowly on the scr
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by Decade 7y ago
The example of Tokyo is showing that even if the population decreases, the urban center can keep growing for a while because of the benefits of urbanization. On top of that, I anticipate growing displacement due to climate change. This is
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by Decade 7y ago
You would imagine so, but every permit that does not have a state-level override (for example, SB-35 of 2017) is subject to discretion of the Planning Commission. Which is an unelected commission with members appointed by the mayor or the B
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by Decade 7y ago
Sadly, the racist Supreme Court under former President Taft ruled that the city does have pretty much unrestricted ability to interfere with what people do in their homes and businesses, as a police power. Euclid v. Ambler (1926) https:&#x
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by Decade 7y ago
It’s getting more difficult to run 32-bit x86. The main Arch Linux dropped official support in 2017, Ubuntu dropped it in 2018, Fedora in 2019. Mint is good for old hardware, but they intend to drop 32-bit in 2020. There are LTS releases co
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by Decade 7y ago
More density near transit is not a foregone result. It has to be through political will. This is the YIMBY movement. The peninsula would absolutely be more attractive for Stripe employees. But as I said, the peninsula is building a tiny fra
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by Decade 7y ago
Yes, bankruptcy court. If they are liable for another fire before they get out of bankruptcy, then the victims of the new fire will be paid before existing victims, creditors, and shareholders. https://twitter.com/jared_elli
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by Decade 7y ago
> That's a rather uncharitable characterization. SF is just trying to tie jobs to adequate housing construction. I’m a San Francisco native. I’ve learned to be uncharitable when it comes to the Board of Supervisors. They are masters
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by Decade 7y ago
Permit streamlining (in order to make affordable and supportive housing more tractable), increasing regional transit cooperation, these are projects of sub-groups of YIMBY Action. https://yimbyaction.org/join/
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by Decade 7y ago
This absolutely is bad for San Francisco. South San Francisco is building lots and lots of offices, but not building nearly as many homes. While San Francisco is harmfully negligent at building homes, it is at least building more than its (
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by Decade 7y ago
South City is also one of the worst cities in the Bay Area in building offices and rejecting homes. The long-term view is that we need more homes near jobs. What are you doing to get South City to build more homes?
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by Decade 7y ago
What a completely unexpected consequence of the restrictions on office space, spearheaded by John Elberling of TODCO. /s He is now trying to make office space even more restricted, and his allies are working to reduce office space alte
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by Decade 7y ago
Depending on how you define “major” (I just saw a Twitter status arguing that San Francisco does not get “ truly big” earthquakes because it’s a transform boundary and not a subduction zone), New York has a bunch of faults and does get sig
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by Decade 7y ago
My phone got the alert half an hour after the advertised alert window (advertised: 5:15 to 5:45, actual: 6:15), so that’s not great.
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by Decade 7y ago
OS X was never a great Unix (other than paying to get the official trademark that one time), and it’s becoming even less of a Unix over time. FreeBSD is OK, but very lacking in manpower. Every time I install a desktop package these days, I
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by Decade 7y ago
As a San Francisco native, it has always astonished me that people would want to start tech companies here. The city government is just so hostile. Kevin Erdmann wrote an interesting thesis about this. In the past, American cities were buil
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by Decade 7y ago
This legislation has only been introduced. It will take months before it is passed into law, and in the meanwhile you can protest at its hearing dates, whenever they get scheduled, and lobby your local Supervisor to defeat it. I do put its
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by Decade 7y ago
This seems to be the flip side of designing things to be no more durable than necessary. With the highly regulated exception of cars, the profit motive is driving companies to use the least amount of material, whether it’s a washing machine
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by Decade 7y ago
It’s not about whether the electorate would vote for him. It’s that the Constitution of the United States of America forbids anyone other than natural-born citizens from becoming President. In theory, you can have natural-born citizens with
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by Decade 7y ago
People tried. The regulators catch up and fine away all the profits and force the owner to revert the property back to what the law allows. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-sues-landlord-over... https:&#
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by Decade 7y ago
Building more homes is a “necessary but not sufficient” condition. @buss is also campaigning for more funding for affordable housing, but all the funding in the world is not worth squat if it’s not legal to build the homes.
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by Decade 7y ago
It’s working poorly. All the school districts near me have chronic teacher shortages, and there’s tremendous teacher turnover. Occasionally a teacher will go homeless before leaving for a district with lower cost of living. A prominent neig
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by Decade 7y ago
It has long been impractical to appear completely anti-development. The Housing Accountability Act of 1982 makes outright refusal against California law. Instead, NIMBYs have adopted the CIA’s tools for sabotage. https://www.cia.
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by Decade 7y ago
No homes for the homeless. The city government’s budget for 2019–2020 is $12 billion, including $300 million on homelessness. A lot of that money goes toward programs to prevent people from becoming homeless, though we don’t quite know th
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by Decade 7y ago
It is not about using taxes to push people out. The feudal nature of Prop 13 is a problem, but people eventually leave anyway. Once the owner leaves, the new owner should be able to bring it to its full potential by building apartments and
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by Decade 7y ago
This makes it not just unnatural but an injustice. The sleepy suburb gets the commercial revenue from having a major tech firm, and then most of the workers leave and the residentialists get to keep the revenue for their city services. The
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by Decade 7y ago
My big problem is not merely keeping their own land under-developed, but that there is a huge overlap between these squatters and NIMBYism to prevent me from using the land to its potential, even if I manage to buy property from one of th
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by Decade 7y ago
There are not enough taxpaying residents to make roads work, either. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/4/30/my-city-has-ma...
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by Decade 8y ago
Expanding housing causing expanding demand is not rarely discussed. It is implicit to a lot of NIMBYism here. The issue is to be always responsive to needs. Every place that has become unaffordable, started as a place that was affordable bu

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