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by davidw 2y ago
It's a trend because housing is scarce. Some of these companies come right out and say this stuff in their SEC filings. They're telling you that they will lose money if more housing comes online.
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by davidw 2y ago
The claim that "supply and demand" somehow do not apply to housing as they do most goods is an extraordinary one, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Once again, yes, RealPage might be able to push things a fe
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by davidw 2y ago
There absolutely is a housing shortage in the places people want to live. That's why prices are high. The economics here are pretty basic ones of supply and demand. > And for a moment, let's just say we agree and the supply is
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by davidw 2y ago
Yes, that's part of it, but I think it goes beyond that, having observed these people close up for several years. I think for some, it's a real fear of change. Others are closet classists/racists who do not want 'those p
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by davidw 2y ago
"Investor owned homes" also includes an absolute ton of housing where someone owns a second house and rents it out.
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by davidw 2y ago
See, this is what I mean. These people are doing it all on their own, of their own volition. There is no big bad bogeyman behind them. They're just NIMBYs. They are that way for a variety of reasons, which is an interesting topic on it
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by davidw 2y ago
Someday, someone is going to do research into the psychology of all this. People will turn to anything besides looking at the lack of housing supply and the local politics that cause that shortage. RealPage! Blackrock! Foreign buyers! Mea
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by davidw 2y ago
There were some cool mosaics we saw last summer in Ostia Antica. I can't recommend that place enough. Where Rome is crowded and super busy, Ostia Antica was relatively calm and low-stress. We had plenty of time to wander around and che
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by davidw 2y ago
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-... has some great data about homelessness. It's mostly correlated with high housing costs. West Virginia has a huge opioid problem for instance, but low
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by davidw 2y ago
Or we could actually build slower, safer streets that are that way by design, rather than relying on signs. And where roads need to be fast and move a lot of cars, separate them out from other uses.
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by davidw 2y ago
It's also separating things out. We need larger, faster roads to get from city to city - that's kind of inevitable. But the way you design those is to completely separate out bikes and pedestrians from them, and also limit access
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Traffic deaths are quite literally one of the two leading causes of death of children in the United States, so in this case, yeah, actually thinking of the children makes some sense.
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Looks like where I live, deaths are more closely associated with big, wide, fast roads. It's ironic that drivers get frustrated by smaller, narrower streets as not feeling very safe, but that uncomfortable feeling 1) slows people down
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by davidw 2y ago
I hope she's ok.
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by davidw 2y ago
Tcl was, or is, a nice way to add a language that's very flexible and customizable to a larger system. It's pretty easy to create your own DSL's with it.
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Why an Nvidia Engineer Quit at the Start of the AI Boom(nymag.com)
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by davidw 2y ago
If it's a dude peeing in it, it'd splash a bit.
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by davidw 2y ago
IDK... given how dumb people can be: Reward: some water you can easily get elsewhere. Risk: someone like a security guard or employee peed in it at some point because they're a jerk.
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by davidw 2y ago
Nitrogen is apparently pretty dangerous too because, from what I understand, your body doesn't feel like it's not "getting enough air" like it does with high CO2 concentrations? Something like that, I don't recall t
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by davidw 2y ago
I got a light case of CO poisoning from using a grill outdoors in a space that I guess wasn't really well ventilated. Threw up in the middle of the night (wasn't the food, everyone else was fine and so was I the very next day). I
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by davidw 2y ago
Cycling journalism doesn't pay well and has suffered in recent years. Escape Collective is a group trying to 'go their own way' to provide high quality reporting on their own terms. So it makes sense for them to paywall it; i
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by davidw 2y ago
I wonder if that's the sort of ruling that just got thrown out by the Supreme Court in favor of having courts decide.
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by davidw 2y ago
"I was in favour of space exploration until I realised what it'd mean for date time libraries" https://x.com/joe_jag/status/510048646482894848?lang=en
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by davidw 2y ago
Yeah, some of the modern nutrition stuff like gels work really well. I did a 115 mile road bike ride on Sunday and kept eating gels and... I'm not going to say I was super fresh or anything by the end of that, but I was still feeling p
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by davidw 2y ago
You just have to drum up some flimsy excuse that sounds official, I guess.
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by davidw 2y ago
That is what you are defending when you defend this decision, which along with everything else was drawn out to the last possible moment so as to kick the can until after the election.
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by davidw 2y ago
I believe in freedom and democracy. I don't believe in mobs attacking the Capitol or "find me some votes" or minority rule or massive roundups and detention camps or any of that.
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by davidw 2y ago
> Authoritarianism is when the appointed judges vote 6-4 for an interpretation which at worst is an extension of existing principle. Comrade, in the United States, we have 9 supreme court justices.
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I'm mad because authoritarianism and its supporters are bad, full stop.
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by davidw 2y ago
The ruling was based on what we call "calvinball", where they just make shit up that suits their own views.

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