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by davidw 2y ago
It's quite a big book. Henry Grabar's book, mentioned elsewhere, is apparently more approachable.
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by davidw 2y ago
Part of what it allows is more housing (something that places like San Fran fail miserably at) because it's not constrained by having to provide 1.5 spots per bedroom or whatever arbitrary number. And more housing is what is needed t
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by davidw 2y ago
I'm a nearly 50 year old dude and cars are awful because I have kids and want to leave them a better city and planet. They are massive sources of CO2 right now. Even electric cars produce a lot of particulate matter from tires. They
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by davidw 2y ago
People are the "big rocks" in cities. Housing and businesses for people is more important than storing automobiles. If there's not enough free street parking, charge more. That's part of what Shoup talked about.
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by davidw 2y ago
This is a great example of a specific problem with a specific solution that people use as an excuse to try and impose blanket, one-size-fits-all city-wide rules for automobile storage.
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by davidw 2y ago
The high costs are because an area is desirable, not because it's dense. Density is how you do something to mitigate the high costs of a place like NYC. Imagine if you chopped off the upper half of all buildings there, what prices woul
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by davidw 2y ago
As the other poster notes, I was being sarcastic. People pay a ton of money to live in denser cities like NY, London and Paris.
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by davidw 2y ago
Malls usually have huge, empty parking lots, so it sounds like it's a win: More people got a home to live in that costs less, and some formerly squandered land was better utilized. And if you start doing other things like legalizing co
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by davidw 2y ago
This is clearly why people pay less for housing in locales like New York or San Francisco with very efficient land use than, say, rural Oklahoma.
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by davidw 2y ago
Nothing about zoning is supposed to be set in stone. And "change" is like squeezing a balloon. If you stop it in one way, it bulges out in other ways: unaffordable housing for instance. Change still happened, just different from a
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by davidw 2y ago
Part of what Shoup talks about that gets less attention is actually managing parking when it gets scarce. Your reasoning about creating your own parking spot on your own property is correct. In terms of the street parking, there are various
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by davidw 2y ago
Housing as an investment is driven by scarcity. Commit to making housing abundant and it starts being a much less interesting investment.
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by davidw 2y ago
Oregon has a severe housing shortage: https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/28/oregon-needs-to-build... That is the root cause of homelessness: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything
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by davidw 2y ago
Oregon eliminated burdensome parking regulations in most larger cities and: it's fine. Many home builders still add parking to new projects because there is market demand for it - and they are also competing for tenants or buyers again
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by davidw 2y ago
The problem is that it's not just them putting in the risk: it's everyone else around them.
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by davidw 2y ago
We'll see what happens when push comes to shove.
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by davidw 2y ago
I don't think the Constitution is going to be something they pay a lot of attention to, going forward, if they get their way.
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by davidw 2y ago
That would require someone to do journalism.
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by davidw 2y ago
The tree canopy looks to be pretty thick to make out any settlements, at least for my eyes.
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by davidw 2y ago
I don't get the downvotes. This is a rational point of view for an individual. The problem is higher up, where the incentives align to make it rational. It'd be better if people could stay longer and still grow their compensation.
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by davidw 2y ago
Path on North Sentinel island: https://www.google.com/maps/@11.5920005,92.2195112,225a,35y,...
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by davidw 2y ago
Maybe someone will hide a copy of HN in a durable format in a cave and someone will rediscover it one day.
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by davidw 2y ago
When they're not doing white supremacy https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-po...
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by davidw 2y ago
If you get in touch with me (email or Blue Sky DM) I would be happy to think about how to share what I have so far, although it's not much at all.
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by davidw 2y ago
I was actually just looking at the calls the web site makes to a back end and using that.
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by davidw 2y ago
I've been fiddling around with the Albertsons API for fun. It's kind of neat to see a whole year's worth of purchases in nicely formatted JSON. I have half an idea to create something like a personal inflation tracker, but I&
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by davidw 2y ago
The press trying to coddle authoritarians is the way you get the next purge and the purge after that.
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by davidw 2y ago
If this were happening in another country, outfits like CNN would be writing things like "Regime purges security forces it deems disloyal" https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-junta-establishes-h...
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by davidw 2y ago
TBH, I think it's more of a 'manager' attitude. A lot of actual "hacker" type people are very much in the "rough consensus and working code" category where you see what works by doing it.
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by davidw 2y ago
This piece sums it up pretty well: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/trump-musk-federa... The world as we knew it is gone and we're not going back.

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