LargeWu

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by LargeWu 1y ago
85,000 new H1B's. But there are multiples of that already in the US who already hold visas. So, the actual number is in the hundreds of thousands, enough to make a serious impact on supply of labor in the tech sector.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
>> Want a playground or dog park? That's the government's responsibility? Maybe Yes, this is how it works pretty much everywhere else. Even my rural hometown with <1500 people has an elected park board that is responsible
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by LargeWu 1y ago
25 years is wild. No wonder HOA's have a reputation for boards with power trips.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
In the absence of an HOA, what you're describing as "shared facilities for a group of private individuals" would be commonly considered a private club. The difference is most private clubs that are not HOA's are not tied
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by LargeWu 1y ago
If the house is covered by an HOA, it's typically not optional. And in some areas it's very difficult to find housing not part of an HOA. I think somebody mentioned elsewhere in this thread that all new housing in Phoenix requires
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by LargeWu 1y ago
"someone needs to assess and allocate costs which isn't always obvious" In most places, this is called the city government. Ultimately this feels like the "low tax area" myth is getting exposed. You still need to pa
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by LargeWu 1y ago
HOA's are ultimately run by the homeowners themselves. It's right there in the name. If the HOA is such a problem, elect different people to the board and change the rules.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
I know you're kidding, but the TPM I work with is basically a stenographer. If we ask him "why" on a requirement, 60% chance the answer is "I don't know, but the customer wants it"
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by LargeWu 1y ago
AccuWeather has lobbied hard to privatize weather data. However, I'm not sure who would be collecting that data if the government stopped collecting it for them.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
It was a surge of demand, driven by the availability of cheap money.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Sure, because demand went through the roof. And demand is currently high again. So either we need fewer people, or more dwellings.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
IDK, I think there's clearly arguments to be made against so-called "late stage capitalism", where capital is directed towards efforts that extract value rather than create it, and shareholder theory that prioritizes short te
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by LargeWu 1y ago
It seems to be driving largely by anti-capitalist sentiment rather than understanding of economic fundamentals.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
I think that what they're saying is because inflation numbers are typically presented as an annual number (3.3%), when you hear a number like 0.9% it sounds lower to somebody who is not economically literate. "Prices increased 0.9
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by LargeWu 1y ago
He was also a cheater, taking bespoke steroid cocktails, so there's that.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
I don't disagree with that. I think economic power getting concentrated in a relatively small number of hands is unequivocally bad. That said, the Abundance argument for building more housing is that in many local housing markets, the
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Nothing in your assertion addresses the actual merits of the abundance mindset as described in Klein and Thompson's book. If you want to argue that Andreesen is co-opting or manipulating those ideas for his own ends, that's someth
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Maybe I'm missing context but this would be the exact opposite of the Abundance agenda. If your point is that Andreesen advocates for abundance policies, but then also opposes them in classic NIMBY fashion when it affects him, well, th
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by LargeWu 1y ago
This is a purely ad-hominem attack.
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Unfortunately this is the type of magical thinking that gets passed off as serious policy analysis based on nothing but anti-capitalist dogma. There is no evidence to support these conclusions, and in fact plenty of evidence that it would w
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Increasingly, we're seeing home services companies like plumbing and HVAC owned by private equity. This is how you end up paying $300 an hour for the plumber (plus a $300 service fee just for showing up). The technician isn't gett
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by LargeWu 1y ago
The main reasons that international cash comes in is either speculation or offshoring money. If the housing supply actually matched demand, the housing market becomes unattractive for speculation. If foreigners are buying houses just to par
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by LargeWu 1y ago
You seem to be guilty of Fish Tank Thinking here yourself. Housing costs are not divorced from the laws of supply and demand. Raising wages creates increased demand for housing, but you still need the supply! Raising wages without increasin
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by LargeWu 1y ago
It's dogmatic among the left that "market based solutions are bad". And because Abundance embraces market solutions, it must therefore be bad too. Basically, all the arguments I've seen against Abundance tend either towa
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by LargeWu 1y ago
I like to say the market is undefeated thoughout history. You can add regulations or limitations that incentivize the market one way or another to achieve social goals, but these distortions add up. And when there are too many distortions i
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by LargeWu 1y ago
"Abundance" directly addresses climate change in the book. The scenario it describes is that we need to electrify at a pace far beyond what we're doing today in order to find off climate change, but large scale clean energy p
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by LargeWu 1y ago
This is a bad-faith description of the abundance movement. The central thesis of the abundance movement is this: Every time we make a regulation, we are making a tradeoff. In the case of housing, an example would be "zoning only for si
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by LargeWu 1y ago
"Upzoning increases land value. Developers build profitable market rate houses there" Unless you are upzoning ONLY in low-income neighborhoods, this doesn't add up. The assumption is that upzoning makes development more attra
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Abundance YIMBYism in housing decreases gentrification. Gentrification happens when the only housing that is affordable is in low-income neighborhoods. If there is plenty of housing supply throughout a city, the demand for those low-income
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by LargeWu 1y ago
Fair enough, "used to" is probably not the right qualifier. Still, those guys back in the 30's had to be pretty inventive to make some of the stuff they did with very limited technology. Not to disparage people working with p

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