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by cuuupid 7mo ago
A home costs 10-20x more than a car, you are being incredibly disingenuous by boiling them both down to “major purchase.”
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
It's amazing how much of leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
This is not a program, it is a term used by the HUD and very explicitly does not relate to income levels. That is the point I keep making, when the modern (<5y) left keeps touting “affordable housing” they are misusing the term simply be
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
Some background: DC has one of the most prolific automated traffic camera systems in the world and violations bring in $250M+ annually. The only US city with higher ticket revenue is NYC at $300M+, but the NYC metro has more than 3x the pop
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DC Traffic Camera Ban Passes a Committee Vote in the House(washingtonian.com)
5 points by cuuupid 7mo ago|1 comments
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
For nearly every homebuyer, a home is the largest purchase they will ever make and the bulk of their net worth. It needs to be a good long term investment that at least reasonably paces with inflation, otherwise you are losing money by buyi
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
There is no "progressive" definition, income level is not at all part of the definition. Per the universal legal definition of 'affordable housing,' if a home costs $1B but is occupied by Elon Musk, it would still be aff
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
If you live in a magical fairy world where supply and demand are fixed, sure. In the real world, prices going down 10% leads to a surge in demand, and so you can fill more of your units. This leads to either equal or increased revenue, for
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
You are quite literally debating what the definition should be, because this is _not_ the existing definition of affordable housing, it is legally what OP is saying. "Affordable housing" is just when the household spends <= 30%
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
This is actually how you start a city though, you build a suburb and wait for it to grow into a city. This takes a really really long time so it's better to build near existing cities. We don't observe this phenomenon occurring of
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
Affordable housing = housing that regular people can afford The only silly thing here is that "low income housing" got rebranded as "affordable housing" and absolutely everything else got rebranded as "luxury homes&
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
It's not necessarily prices falling here but the profitability of [demand] at [price]. Like if prices fall 10% but demand rises 20%, you would want to build more housing. This is the beauty of the free market because it guarantees thre
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
They wanted someone knowledgeable about GDPR to explain it to them as they didn't understand it. I was a freshman in undergrad who had no knowledge of it other than some stuff I saw on LinkedIn, just had a bunch of LinkedIn connections
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
That's not what this was about at all, literally just needed GDPR explained to them
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
I mean Spotify sucks but Electron is a desktop framework, not what their iPhone app is built with, and you can queue by swiping right on their official app.
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
> Not criticizing FedRAMP Think it's very important to criticize FedRAMP. The FedRAMP board is extremely slow moving and continuously disregards industry feedback. As a result, FedRAMP is essentially a Palantir tax, where nearly eve
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
This is just the latest in a series of vibe-coding caused bugs, Spotify famously claimed their best devs were no longer writing any of their own code: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-de
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
You're being disingenuous, but yes, if you believe the US is not inherently better than China you are fellating the most well documented modern authoritarian state, which was borne from the largest genocide in history, and has decades
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
Some years ago I, an American citizen and resident, studied abroad briefly and was asked by the House of Lords to speak to them about what GDPR (a UK law!) was, how it worked, and the impact it could have. Further than ejecting nobles, they
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
I, a developer, have never heard of Proton. Googling Proton, I only find Protonmail, and googling "Linux Proton," Valve's Proton is not even the first result. If you are not terminally online keeping up with Linux distro disc
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
Saying the US is not a better country on terms of freedom and goodness?
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
This is explicitly not what they have done, not how government contractors ever interpret this designation, nor something they could do even if they wanted to do. It is also common corporate doctrine to use a subsidiary for government contr
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
It's entirely fake, sure Palantir uses Claude, but it takes about 10 minutes to pull all their federal contracts and realize the little involvement they have in the kill chain is preliminary
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
If a majority of the Americans believed America was not generally the "good guys" it would be a sign of a failed democracy. Similarly normal for the population of any country that has net negative externalities from America to vie
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
It's more likely they will continue expansionist policy in Asia which counters several American diplomatic goals: 1. Democracy and freedom worldwide 2. Economic access+prosperity with Asia 3. Pro-American sentiment (Not in order of imp
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
There is nothing unconstitutional about the first paragraph of your criticism. What is unconstitutional is restricting your ability to write this criticism, which is not breached. You _could_ argue that this is a flaw in the constitution, a
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
While this suit has a weak basis, what you’re saying is not at all how government contracting and procurement works. > The government has near-absolute discretion over whom it contracts with, Not at all the case, procurement is dictated
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
Palantir famously sued the army and won, now accounting for the majority of their USG revenue. So, this is not necessarily a bad strategy. Key differentiator though is Palantir’s suit was based primarily on Congressional acts and explicit c
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
The US has been remotely striking targets for 20+ years and famously racked up a high casualty count on drone strikes during the Obama admin. The (incorrect) assumption you’re making here is that the US not only is using AI for later stage
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by cuuupid 7mo ago
Statistically nobody is reading the article, probably just the headline, so this has had its intended effect. Which to say is likely not political at all, just ragebait to encourage interactions. HN is no less immune to this tactic than Twi

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