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by cheriot 5y ago
Because relaxed zoning increases the price of land and decreases the price of interior space. In the most expensive cities, it's the value of land that's going up. The houses themselves are often the same structures that housed th
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by cheriot 5y ago
> Upzoning might increase land value but often decreases property value. Is there an example of where that happened? A developer building an apartment building can pay more than an owner occupant. The complaints from wealthy neighborhood
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by cheriot 5y ago
Agree that voting blocks with influence are a big part of it. I don't think it's rational self-interest, though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784347
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by cheriot 5y ago
People living in urban areas have fewer kids than rural families. Malthusianism has long since been debunked.
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by cheriot 5y ago
This. The people with influence in both parties benefit from the status quo, enjoy their privilege, and only want things to change from a distance.
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by cheriot 5y ago
That's only true in relatively small areas. Most places resisting home construction are full of homeowners. The political impact is larger in SF/LA because they give left cover to homeowners, but even that's not a thing in mo
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by cheriot 5y ago
Owners of SFHs tend to be the most stiff resistance despite the fact that upzoning increases the value of their land. This is a culture war first and foremost. It's racism, classism, and fear of the unknown.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Agreed C isn't an ergonomic one. A better one would need manual memory management, though, to avoid running an additional gc. In contrast to the target languages, it would need at least as much type information. I haven't worked w
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by cheriot 5y ago
For many languages isn't that the FFI to C?
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by cheriot 5y ago
This smells like lead gen for a consulting shop.
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by cheriot 5y ago
I don't think this is a tale to emulate. Everything that failed has been built hundreds of times before. None of the "businesses" started with talking to customers.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Can any of these ETL frameworks kick off an ETL script without a rewrite? Something that would handle scheduling, retries, emit metrics around those actions, but let me use my own tools for the actual data manipulation.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Pharmaceutical companies used all inclusive "conferences" to influence doctors to prescribe more opioids. It was effective enough to be banned. > Accepting a free trip to a drug-company-sponsored conference guided doctors to wr
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by cheriot 5y ago
My observations from school are similar. I'm a big fan of the value of a computer science education, but most of that came from choosing the harder electives. There were people graduating that did the minimum and... let's say &qu
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by cheriot 5y ago
> create clear objective measures that cannot be gamed There is no perfect world where nothing can be gamed. We have a respected institution in the BLS and setting an impossible bar only promotes misinformation by discrediting what'
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by cheriot 5y ago
That suspicion should motivate people to educate themselves before pushing conspiracies. Public debate needs a core set of facts to reason about the world so politicizing BLS numbers is... really bad.
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by cheriot 5y ago
Those municipalities chose to change when they zone for and permit more offices. The need for more housing is the other shoe dropping.
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by cheriot 5y ago
It's a conversation about residential zones. The point of zoning should be to channel market demand not suppress it, but the current state of America makes me question if that's possible. Perhaps a system where price per square fo
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by cheriot 5y ago
Are you equating home ownership with single family neighborhoods? That's... wildly inaccurate.
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by cheriot 5y ago
> Anyone in the suburbs can move to the city if they want to In the most prosperous cities there's an entire conversation around displacement because costs are too high for people to live where they group up. So no, not everyone can
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by cheriot 5y ago
Pandemic aside, total employment in SF has been increasing as fast as offices can be constructed.
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by cheriot 5y ago
The whole conversation around displacement is people being pushed away from where they grew up. It’s just not reasonable to say, “the houses I saw growing up cannot change”
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by cheriot 5y ago
That's the argument people fall back on to defend zoning: we have to separate industrial use from where people live! It does not follow that we need to regulate the number of kitchens and locations of doors in a house. Because kitchens
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by cheriot 5y ago
Thanks!
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by cheriot 5y ago
> If they can't, then that should encourage employers to look elsewhere and move. It doesn't. That's why the most prosperous American cities have the longest commutes and least affordable housing. If a metro area decided t
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by cheriot 5y ago
No, zoning laws are forcing your preferences on other people. They need to be significantly relaxed if not removed entirely. How about everyone can build the type of house they want on their own land.
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by cheriot 5y ago
It's loaded for a reason: people are using the law to force their preference on others and ruining lives. There will always be single family detached housing, but making them the only legal thing drives up prices and commute times to i
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by cheriot 5y ago
Not really. In practice, there's a small area for apartment complexes and then a huge area for single family exclusive housing. In places without strict zoning, there's a whole spectrum of things https://missingmiddleho
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by cheriot 5y ago
Do the people you're complaining about not exist in other countries? Who are you referring to?
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by cheriot 5y ago
Who is telling you your preference is wrong? The problem is when people use the law to force their own preference on others. In residential zoning, that takes the form of forcing people into single family homes that would prefer walkable ur

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