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by bpt3 1y ago
Baltimore is a terrible example if you want to talk about underutilized land. The city literally can't give away vacant homes because of how badly the city is run. If supply exceeds demand so much that the equilibrium price is below $0
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by bpt3 1y ago
You're missing the point, which is that adding a superlative in front of a concept you don't like doesn't make it more important or the problem more severe. And your reductionist take on wealth distribution isn't even wo
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by bpt3 1y ago
As I understand it (having it explained to me by Georgists and doing a fair amount of research myself), the value of the land is determined by "best and highest use". That is such a nebulous term that can be manipulated in so many
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by bpt3 1y ago
Georgism is a nice idea in theory, but will never work in practice (a characteristic it shares with communism, not coincidentally). If someone comes along and overimproves their land near me (or overpays for a lot), does that mean the entir
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by bpt3 1y ago
That works in a functioning community. In a place like Baltimore, the city ends up owning the blight, and are generally not capable of effectively cleaning it up (due to their general mismanagement that causes an environment where blight is
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by bpt3 1y ago
More like they can't stop making unforced errors. Why they would hire someone with known ties to a major adversary right after taking billions from the US government is beyond me.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Then the company should fire him for these actions (assuming they weren't aware), and probably at least some portion of the board for botching the hire. The questions Cotton asks are valid, and the legislative branch of the government,
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by bpt3 1y ago
This is what happens when your company becomes a state related entity. They should be able to tell Trump to pound sand, but can't given the state of the company. That doesn't mean that the CEO will have to resign, but they can&#x2
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by bpt3 1y ago
Turbo greed isn't a thing. And if you think there's a monopoly in residential real estate ownership, you have an absurdly broad definition of the term. Instead of trying to manipulate a market through yet another layer of regulat
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by bpt3 1y ago
> 20% of market capture does not cause homelessness Right, which is why trying to link the two is misleading at best. > there are many valid arguments that treating housing as an investment isn't a stairway to ending homelessness
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by bpt3 1y ago
I've been seeing this (calls for bans of accounts who aren't in lockstep with liberal/progressive ideals) more frequently here recently. Why?
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by bpt3 1y ago
Please point me to the brief documenting that those landlords are making 25 - 50% profit. And I see you showed your true colors with your second comment. I'm sure if the revolution you're praying for actually comes, you'll de
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by bpt3 1y ago
To spell it out, they seem to be completely ignoring that those rental properties are not vacant. Instead, they house people, just like they would if they were owner occupied.
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by bpt3 1y ago
> But, when it comes down to it if EVERYTHING is getting more expensive that looking at on variable in one market can't be the crux of the issue. Everything isn't getting more expensive. For example, housing prices and rents ha
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by bpt3 1y ago
20% of CA residents are homeless? Citation please!
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by bpt3 1y ago
By "banning the use of homes as investment" I assume you mean renting them out. You realize people live in those rental homes, correct? Also, why is it desirable to force all renters to live in an apartment (assuming those are not
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by bpt3 1y ago
> First, when you have a renter, your payment is the "mortgage + tax liability + chunk of profit usually 25-50%" You think landlords make 25 - 50% profit on a SFH rental unit? You're so comically wrong that there's no
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by bpt3 1y ago
2021 called, it would like its performative talking points back. Build more housing, and "predatory" landlords will have more competition. The endless restrictions on residential construction are the root cause, not your envy of w
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by bpt3 1y ago
Then why is almost every metric of housing affordability highly correlated to housing availability? Or maybe I am misunderstanding what "issue" you're referring to?
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by bpt3 1y ago
Saying that they aren't worse than an incompetent human isn't a ringing endorsement.
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by bpt3 1y ago
I thought the idea was that AI would make us collectively better off, not flood the zone with technical debt as if thousands of newly minted CS/bootcamp graduates were unleashed without any supervision. LLMs are still stochastic parrot
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by bpt3 1y ago
It's making everyone faster. That means that good developers are more productive, and bad developers create more work for everyone else at an very rapid pace.
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by bpt3 1y ago
I did read it, but anyone who didn't isn't missing anything. To summarize, LLM agents are not the silver bullet those promoting them suggest they are. The headline is all that was needed.
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by bpt3 1y ago
They are using them, just in a curated and deliberate way. I use it similar to the parent poster when I am working with an unfamiliar API, in that I will ask for simple examples of functionality that I can easily verify are correct and then
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by bpt3 1y ago
It's not surprising to me that it struggles with a language where there aren't billions of lines of code available to use as training data. I wonder if that's all it is, or if the lack of context you mention is a more fundame
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by bpt3 1y ago
You realize that a certain "institution" would have died out much slower (if at all) in the US if what you said was accurate? I think that's the only example needed to prove that direct democracy is not a desirable form of go
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by bpt3 1y ago
They certainly were not infallible, but the question is whether they were unwavering advocates for democracy. All of the restrictions they put in place, such as the electoral college and who was able to vote at all, along with the writings
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by bpt3 1y ago
Hoppe is far too extreme for my tastes and did not seem too interested in rigorously supporting his (distasteful to put it mildly) preconceived notions, but yes direct democracy is undesirable for a number of reasons IMO. See Squid Game as
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by bpt3 1y ago
The founding fathers and many others would disagree. Based on human history, your assessment of the average human's level of integrity and reasoning is irrationally optimistic. Also, I assume you meant to say "Direct democracy is
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by bpt3 1y ago
That's not what Thiel said, and not what the parent poster said. How familiar are you with the writings of the founding fathers? The ones who very intentionally avoided creating a system based on direct democracy?

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