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by ceras 10y ago
As someone who is currently planning to buy in Manhattan, $650k for a 1br in Yorkville sounds about right. Quick Streeteasy eyeballing around 86 suggests the maintenance need not be $1500 either -- you either get a fancy elevator building a
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by ceras 10y ago
> When the economy was growing like crazy in the 80s, Japan had the most expensive real estate on the planet, and the same zoning they do now. Are you sure? From Financial Times[1]: > During the 1980s Japan had a spectacular speculati
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by ceras 10y ago
To add some more context: Japan defines a zoning "scaffold" at the national level, but it's extremely simple (8 pages with colorful diagrams) and highly permissive [1]. It defines a handful of zones cities can use across thei
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by ceras 10y ago
Are you from outside the US? I've never heard this attitude in the US, but have heard it multiple times from people from other countries (often the UK). Here in the US I've heard families earning from $30k to $200k, working jobs f
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by ceras 10y ago
I find this surprising. I've lived in the Bay Area and NYC, and by chance most of my friends in both were immigrants from various Chinese-speaking places. Nobody ever complained about the Chinese restaurants we went to, and some would
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by ceras 10y ago
There are even high levels of NIMBYism in downtown Manhattan neighborhoods like the East Village. My understanding of the problem is some people really dislike change, and those same people disproportionately vote in local elections and att
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by ceras 10y ago
Anyone interested in this idea should check out the Fed Up campaign: http://whatrecovery.org
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by ceras 11y ago
3rd ave in Manhattan for one.
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by ceras 11y ago
This sounds really cool. I'm visiting Seoul soon and would love to try this -- do you remember how you found this group?
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by ceras 11y ago
New York City construction rates are extremely low. It only seems high because high density means you're always close to development, just like you always hear ambulance sirens even though heart attacks aren't more common. Many Ma
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by ceras 11y ago
Thanks for the response! I'm not familiar with Vancouver -- is this what you're describing? https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2821477,-123.1245358,3a,75y,... If so I think we largely agree on SF's ideal fu
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by ceras 11y ago
Sounds like we have different philosophies on dealing with political hurdles and managing cars as SF gets denser, so I won't further my argument. But I'm curious if you have sources for claims (1), (5), and (6), since they don&#x2
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by ceras 11y ago
I agree there's been way too much pandering to NIMBYism. But this is politics, and as much as we'd all like to we can't just ignore them: they vote too, so we have to convince them to vote for what we want. Lucky for us, I be
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by ceras 11y ago
Sure, I agree it'd be great to pick a hub and fill it with high-rise buildings. But I'd advocate a multi-pronged approach; high-rises at hubs, low- and mid-rises elsewhere. Consider the following: (1) Skyscrapers are very expensiv
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by ceras 11y ago
>20 stories is what a lot of SF residents fear from new construction. "Manhattanization" was a big fear there. As a political compromise, consider low-rise (~5-7 story) buildings. This is what most of Paris and some of the tren
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by ceras 11y ago
Why do you think social skills aren't heavily influenced by environment and experience? I'm curious because my intuition is the opposite: that it's mostly based on experience and practice. I only have in support anecdotes,
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by ceras 11y ago
I'm about 100 pages in, and the concepts seem very sensible so far. It boils down to methodically keeping track of your to-do's in one list, not in your head, so you don't have those distracting "oh right I need to do X&
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by ceras 11y ago
My guess is for the same reasons as other high school topic: so you can understand how the world around you works, and so you can get a taste of what you might want to study full time in college and feel prepared for it. To emphasize the se
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by ceras 11y ago
This is what my group does and I'm very happy with it. Half the team loves the social chat, while the other half of us safely ignore it.
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by ceras 11y ago
Do you happen to have any evidence for #2? I work at one of those companies and picked up coding in college, and so did at least a few of my coworkers. I really have no idea how common it is and would love to know.
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by ceras 11y ago
Looks like the comments here are all over the place on how much of an impact it has, but I'll give you my perspective as a hispanic in the US. Race is intimately tied with culture, which impacts your upbringing and interests. People fo
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by ceras 11y ago
Depending on how you define it, the NY metro area extends into NJ, CT, and PA. I still don't think it surpasses Russia, but it does surpass the vast majority of countries, including Spain: http://www.usmayors.org/metroe
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by ceras 11y ago
What makes the Barclay's Center Target different than other Targets? I went just last week and found it the same as any other Target I've been to in the US (clothes, cleaning supplies, home goods, electronics, toys, non-fresh food
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by ceras 11y ago
I'm disappointed that this article excluded big groups making measurable improvements to "other people"'s lives, like The Gates Foundation and charities recommended by GiveWell (which include GiveDirectly, Against Malari
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by ceras 11y ago
Blatantly, hoping that the riders aren't paying attention. I took an Uber in NYC that tried this: while driving toward my location that was only 5 more blocks away on the same street, he turned right, then left, then left, then right (
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by ceras 11y ago
> The data and cell reception really is now as good or better than AT&T and Verizon This varies tremendously by area. Have you seen a source that shows this to be true overall, or is this just in your area? IME as a happy T-Mobile us
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by ceras 11y ago
It's not quite fair to compare raw distance. Instead, consider comparing number of businesses or people within the East Village 25-30minute radius vs. the Maryland 20-30mile radius. I don't know about your area, but as a current
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by ceras 11y ago
This doesn't reflect the content of any econ course I've taken, nor the views of any of my econ professors. There's a ton of study in economics about the types of effective roles government can play when dealing with positive
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by ceras 11y ago
If you're trying to do as much good as possible for the world, and you don't think government taxes are used for much good, taking advantage of legal tax write-offs is really important to achieve your goal.
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by ceras 11y ago
It's sadly not a very sexy issue, but there are few ways to clearly have a large impact on US well-being than reforming land-use regulations. Several European countries have similar problems. Unfortunately implementing the solution is

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