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811.
by abalone 8y ago
> ”don't build anything” Every one of your comments contains blatant misrepresentations and devolves into YIMBY talking points. I have clearly represented the study as supporting building. The issue is how much emphasis on BMR and
812.
by abalone 8y ago
> You can transport grocery shopping with ease How exactly? Do you use a backpack? Or somehow stow them on the scooter?
813.
by abalone 8y ago
And what about “We want less traffic. Build more roads.” Macroeconomics rarely have such simple solutions. I didn’t pin it on YIMBYs solely. I said they would do better to take seriously what minority and low income housing advocates are sa
814.
by abalone 8y ago
It doesn’t. Poster was saying study doesn’t show local displacement due to development. That’s flat out wrong. It shows one neighborhood with displacement where development “contributed to the ongoing transformation of the neighborhood.” Th
815.
by abalone 8y ago
That’s not how induced demand works even in the classic example of traffic congestion. So you’re not really in a position to lecture on “economic reality”. YIMBYs sometimes argue that we can solve the affordability crisis by simply building
816.
by abalone 8y ago
This is also exactly what I'm talking about. YIMBY is in such denial about this, some choose to believe that low income housing activists must be some sort of plants under the control of rich, home-owning puppetmasters. There's ju
817.
by abalone 8y ago
> The paper doesn't say that market rate development has a negative effect on displacement at the local level. Again, simply incorrect and a miscomprehension of the study: "These two block groups illustrate the complex relati
818.
by abalone 8y ago
If by me you mean low-income renters.. then probably #10, where the bona fide for-profit developer explicitly opposes affordable housing fees. You offer no support for your assertion that BMR requirements of any kind are unprofitable.
819.
by abalone 8y ago
It is frustrating when developers and activists can't come to an agreement. But some projects have gone through. Jane Kim successfully negotiated 40% BMR in a few cases.[1] The developers are not in the poor house as a result. [1] htt
820.
by abalone 8y ago
> You quoted the hypothesis and not the results. You're simply wrong. As cited, "What we find largely confirms this regional versus local argument". And again, the study emphasizes the need for subsidized housing and &
821.
by abalone 8y ago
Glad you brought that up. The bay area's unique geography (and/or inadequate regional mass transit to match it) make this a much greater problem here. There was a really great map that I'm trying to find again, comparing how
822.
by abalone 8y ago
You misinterpreted the summary. Reading the actual study, it confirms induced demand: "At the local, neighborhood scale, however, new luxury buildings could change the perception of a neighborhood and send signals to the market that su
823.
by abalone 8y ago
See, that's exactly what I mean. First, it's kind of condescending and dismissive, like low-income housing activists don't actually represent the populations they live with and fight for. Second, you're misinterpreting t
824.
by abalone 8y ago
> ...local regulations used by homeowners to block new development. If the YIMBYs want to win they need to realize their opponents are not just homeowners. Low-income renters have issues with them too. YIMBYs are generally in some form
825.
by abalone 8y ago
> And, besides, the reason why [my studio is] likely to go to another tech worker is that there isn't enough housing. Thank you for conceding that your studio is going to go to another tech worker. There goes the (non-academic) ar
826.
by abalone 8y ago
Your arguments are extremely disingenuous. You know that rent-controlled units reset to market when vacated. A barista or a teacher is not going to move into your studio. It's probably going to go to another tech worker. You dismiss Ti
827.
by abalone 8y ago
> High-end condos don't generate jobs. They provide housing for the jobs that are already here and the new ones that are being created every day. You completely missed the point. You are simply not taking into account the service
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by abalone 8y ago
> you'd have to double prices before I changed my consumption of locally produced services other than uber much at all. So you’d pay $26 per cocktail and $68 for a pork chop, but $15 is too expensive for an Uber. I find that hard
829.
by abalone 8y ago
That’s a nice thought, but obviously you would see massive price hikes at restaurants and stores, and it’s likely that consumers would patronize them less. Macroeconomics rarely have such simple solutions. SF already leads the nation in rai
830.
by abalone 8y ago
You conflated housing construction with market-rate housing. And it’s not true. SFTU simply notes that for every market rate unit you need 0.25 BMR units simply to accommodate the resulting job creation (retail, restaurant, public service,
831.
by abalone 8y ago
I believe you are misrepresenting that letter when you say it "endorsed CA YIMBY's work." To quote it, "We note that some affordable housing and tenants' rights organizations have expressed concerns over SB 827. Rec
832.
by abalone 8y ago
They do; you just don't hear about them if you mainly get your news from pro-YIMBY sources, which love to misrepresent their opposition as exclusively old, white NIMBYs. In fact it is CA YIMBY that is mostly white. The DSA has a detail
833.
by abalone 8y ago
EDIT: I apologize, yes, that's YIMBY Action not CA YIMBY in the video. So there was shouting down minority speakers at the protest, but from a different YIMBY group. ----- Yes, here is video of CA YIMBY shouting down minority affordabl
834.
by abalone 8y ago
Great question. It only feels one-sided if you're getting most of your information from HN and the tech community. CA YIMBY wants you to believe that their opposition consists entirely of old, white NIMBYs opposed to development. Tha
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by abalone 8y ago
> Our current restrictive policies disproportionately hurt poorer, younger, and (frequently) non-white[4] people. There is massive opposition within the poorer, non-white bay area community to the political group that Stripe is funding
836.
by abalone 8y ago
Without turning this into a long tangent subthread.. could you point to some support for this? The comparisons I've seen are more nuanced.[1] [1] https://blog.takipi.com/the-ultimate-json-library-json-simpl...
837.
by abalone 8y ago
That's not really a fair summary. The issue is that less mature language have lots of other issues that come along with the good. Just in this article they noted immature libraries, difficulties with async that kept them from migrating
838.
by abalone 8y ago
Their old Nodejs system. Java GC tuning is more robust and well understood. So I'm wondering if it was truly a case of "Java GC is going to be a nightmare, let's take on a very early stage language with lots of unknown risks
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by abalone 8y ago
> We chose Rust for this rewrite because it combines best-in-class speed with low resource usage while still offering the safety of standard server languages. Low resource usage was particularly important to us because some of the perfo
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by abalone 9y ago
> We've had 30-40 years of the most open trade regime in human history This is a totally false history. The Reagan administration "granted more import relief to U.S. industry than any of his predecessors in more than half a c

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