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by bpt3 6mo ago
Until most kids are about 12 - 14 years old, they're learning much more basic concepts than you're describing. I don't think anyone is trying to take intro to computer science out of high schools or preventing an advanced stu
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by bpt3 6mo ago
My alternative to higher levels of government deciding to overrule local preferences is that people move to "the sticks", get roommates, or compensate current residents for the decrease in their quality of living that comes with i
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by bpt3 6mo ago
Why is the cost in 2010 the maximum limit for affordability? Chinese household income has (supposedly) increased significantly over that time.
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by bpt3 6mo ago
> Half-agree: zoning restrictions and non-essential building regulations are a de-facto government handout to existing property owners. The government represents existing property owners, so they are effectively a handout to themselves f
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by bpt3 6mo ago
I'm not going to downvote you, but all of your preferred solutions are exactly the problem. Everyone who thinks more oversight and "support" will fix the problem has their own specific bogeyman responsible for higher housing
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by bpt3 6mo ago
> the place where there is leverage is in taking high-demand areas historically zoned for single-unit and opening them up to the market to build higher density housing. And if the current residents don't want to open up, then what?
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by bpt3 6mo ago
> 80% of the US population would disagree. It really seems like you’re applying what you like to the entire population and then assuming that anything else is rubbish. I live by choice in what would be considered an urban area by the US
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by bpt3 6mo ago
No, I'm saying that the assumption shouldn't be that everyone wants to live in an urban core, that everyone should live in one, or that it is righteous to advocate for everyone to do so. Specifically, most government planners seem
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by bpt3 6mo ago
Housing prices represent a tradeoff between affordability and desirability in most cases (with a major aspect of desirability being access to desirable employment). It's not hard at all to compare property prices in NYC to Alabama usin
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by bpt3 6mo ago
They are definitely pandering to central planning supporters, and I don't think the author had to be prodded to support this position given her primary job chasing grants.
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by bpt3 6mo ago
IMO, this is largely because the government's job is to stay out of the way, and people who hold elected office in areas where this is a problem (the Northeast Corridor and West coast generally), mostly have a certain something in comm
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by bpt3 6mo ago
#2 - #4 are really just specific ways of accomplishing #1. Most people don't want to live in dense urban cores, so #5 and #6 can easily backfire and stunt progress on #1. Just let people decide what to build where, both as individuals
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by bpt3 7mo ago
It's not. Most developers are pretty bad at their job, and already can't review code very effectively. They just create even more slop currently, which will be the case until someone realizes they aren't needed to produce slo
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Loads of natural resources, no local military threats, and historically a government that stayed out of the way and allowed individuals to reap the rewards of their efforts. The first is almost impossible to screw up, though we're real
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by bpt3 7mo ago
You just described Github Sponsors, Tidelift, and a couple other less well known competitors. It's a business opportunity, but not a great one from what I can tell.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
The suburbanites pay for that maintenance, and there are many other costs to city living that urbanites like to ignore (significantly higher expenses on emergency and social services for example). It's not nearly as straightforward as
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by bpt3 7mo ago
https://www.ibm.com/opensource/community-involvement/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-...
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by bpt3 7mo ago
This article conflates multiple issues: Paying for hosting costs seems straightforward. Sonatype has decided to host Maven Central and treat it effectively as a marketing expense, and they are free to change that if they want. Same for the
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Almost 100% of it. If Sonatype or the PSF want to start charging the major cloud providers for bandwidth because they can't be bothered to cache the content, that's not unreasonable but any associated costs will be passed along to
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by bpt3 7mo ago
What does this have to do with kids having phones during school?
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by bpt3 7mo ago
More meaningless words that can be defined as needed by you to support your rather bizarre agenda. Numerous peer reviewed articles published in reputable journals have reported that there are advantages to banning cell phones in the classro
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by bpt3 7mo ago
I'd link to some of the many studies published by reputable sources, but I suspect you'll brush them aside with your caveats
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Absolutely not in the case of the DC metro area, on both the MD and VA sides. Those counties subsidize DC proper in various ways, along with the less populated portions of their own states, and because the median household income is so high
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by bpt3 7mo ago
It's not a moral panic. There are loads of studies indicating that disconnected classrooms produce better outcomes for students. I'm not sure what argument there is for allowing all students unfettered access to their phones, but
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Until someone gets the zoning board to wave a magic wand and change the allowable uses of the property, and then it's a lot more valuable. This happens all the time, and is a major reason why people will sit on land for extended period
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by bpt3 7mo ago
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by bpt3 7mo ago
It's really not. What happens if everyone takes this declaration at face value and decides to be unemployed? Who pays for all the services that every person is entitled to?
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by bpt3 7mo ago
> No land owner will suddenly become a developer to build an apartment block. No one is suggesting this. > A plot owner can sell land to a developer or form a joint venture with developer putting in their land as starting capital (muc
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by bpt3 7mo ago
People want to live in those areas because of the lower density. Remove that and they become much less desirable.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
So if I declare a right to immortality, then no one dies? It's almost like those words are the product of useless bureaucrats, rather than an actual right.

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