evanlivingston

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by evanlivingston 7y ago
Really? @tcrowe appears to be a troll. https://github.com/tcrowe
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
It is perhaps better when thinking about sustainability to not think it terms of "what brands can I consume" but instead "what thing can I avoid consuming altogether"
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Acronym, the dark money group behind the Iowa caucuses app meltdown(vox.com)
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
Because large commercial interests have increased power in city, state and national politics. Rent control? Screw it! Background checks for rental units? Mandatory. If there is a monopoly on housing there's the potential for some prett
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
I believe prices would fall a small amount and then foreign and domestic investors would swoop in buy them all up, much like what's happening in Vancouver, BC.
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
As another sibling said it's fairly usual in the US for put down between 3.5%-5% for a house. Additionally, There are a ton of assistance programs for low-income people to get cash grants or loan assistance. If the only way to purchase
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
Almost no one in the US has the cash to purchase a home. How would eliminating mortgages not dramatically shift land ownership to the wealthy and turn everyone into renters?
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
Tesla has an long uphill battle trying to get it's factory built in Berlin. I also feel they're probably underestimating the seriousness with which Germans take their worker's rights.
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
I was just thinking the same thing. 26 upvotes on my sibling comment.
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
Please please plese, please, please don't make me install an app.
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
That second article talks a whole lot about how tritium can't hurt humans but then says that keeping the contaminated water in tanks poses a risk to humans...
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
Why would that be better?
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
Do you think people have a right to photocopy an entire book from the library? What about part of a book? What if I copy a paragraph by hand into my notebook. Where is the line? Also, companies are forced to serve people all the time. That
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
This is a really strange comment to unpack. On one hand, housing supply and people without homes are related, at least nominatively. So semantically it feels as if you're making a point. On the other hand, I can't identify any log
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
What if they provide the product at a lower price?
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by evanlivingston 7y ago
Why is it wrong?
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
Exactly.
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
The end product that consumes the resource may be different but the availability of the resource my community needs to sustain life is compromised when it's arbitraged.
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
https://www.airbnb.com/s/Bensonhurst--Brooklyn--NY--United-S...
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
If it were not the case that the resource was being shipped off and sold for more that would mean I could stay in an AirBnB for the same price as a pay for rent, which I can't.
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
No, I don't think it's simply a supply problem. As much as it pains me to use a reductionist metaphor, I'm going to. Suppose my community has a finite amount of resource X available to us that we need to live and and we only
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
Guests may have loved it, but did the neighbors love it? Did the people looking for long-term rental housing who found it difficult to find long-term rentals love it? Did the people looking to get into home-ownership only to find that resid
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
Meh, nah. You can vote to further validate the legitimacy of an existing power structure. But voting, by itself, doesn't necessarily function as an act that reorganizes power structures. As an obtuse example, does voting in Russia or V
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
While I agree the typical American lifestyle is hugely consumerist, by numerous measures Americans do not have the largest economical footprint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ecologica...
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
If you enjoy chris' videos, and you enjoy the zen of watching someone make things, check out this channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FkqjV8SU5I8FCHXQSQe9Q
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
However, automobiles require significantly more resources and energy to produce.
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
And I believe less consumption of fossil fuel
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
I think not a lot.
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
Right, I'm agreeing with you. Portland has increased housing substantially without preserving affordability.
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by evanlivingston 8y ago
Or conversely, look at Portland for an example a place where keeping up with housing demand has not translated into preserving a quantity of affordable housing. Abstracted supply and demand alone does not result in ensuring housing at vario

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