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by grafmax 1y ago
https://archive.ph/mTmBP
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Effects of upzoning are mixed: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/Zoning%20C... Median rent as a portion of median income driving homelessness: https://wp-tid.zillowstatic.com&#
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It looks like rent stayed the same there. It didn’t decrease.
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There are many factors contributing to the housing crisis, not just zoning regulations. That’s why upzoning often coincides with higher prices, rising homelessness, and increased investor ownership. We are best served by implementing effect
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> an example where upzoning has resulted in reduced housing prices I found an argument in your paper but no such examples .
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And yet zoning is just one factor in housing supply. Even successfully implementing upzoning laws can find markets with higher prices, rates of homelessness, and investor ownership of housing - because many factors influence these outcomes
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Many of the reports are not sensationalized, but based on the companies’ own reporting of water usage. Water is preferred for cooling the dense data centers needed for AI - other methods are inadequate. And 2/3rds of new data centers i
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> The point of tax and spend/redistribute is to provide services and goods, not eliminate inequality. At a high level, reducing inequality reduces relative power differential among members of society. Wealth inequality is its own ev
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> wealth does get redistributed for those who have less income Wealth inequality continues to increase. These measures are insufficient. The best effect that YIMBY can have on housing is to put a slight downward pressure on prices. Price
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Not just bills. These data centers, a major driver of new energy use, are contributing to climate change. Sadly it seems to be another way for large companies to offload externalities onto the public.
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Remarkable that investor-owned multi-family housing is left out of these analyses. Surely that contributes to housing supply and should factor into any such analysis of pricing power among investors. For example, about 44% of California ho
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On the other hand totally insulating kids isn’t a solution either because then one day they potentially find themselves in the real world with inadequate skills for navigating a toxic environment.
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The World Bank is not an NGO. It’s owned and run by 189 governments. It’s not a private organization.
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Being willing to use any means necessary means to fight your enemies - building software to support mass surveillance, genocide, and concentration camps - means you’re no longer fighting for moral principles - you’re fighting for power. I
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I think family is a worthwhile value, and I like remote work, but I become skeptical with this politicization around family. Often it’s a code word for Christian, hetero, cisgender, divesting women of economic power, and/or censorship.
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Ancient Babylon and other parts of the ancient world would regularly cancel non-commercial debts - effectively a wealth transfer from the wealthy to the workers, preventing the rise of an oligarchic class. However, once an oligarchy is in p
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Unfortunately we are in the process of dismantling democracy at home as well.
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Global North corporations actively lobbied for China’s membership in the WTO because expanding the labor pool would lead to higher profits at the expense of the working class, and they were right. This has created a cascading effect: rising
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No I mean small-d democratic rights which Trump has been eroding as he consolidates power - retaliating against free speech, deploying federal forces against protestors, suspension of due process, concentration camps, and undermining the i
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Poverty is the underlying driver of most crime. Poverty, in turn, is the result of wealth hoarding by the ruling class. Authoritarian intervention can lower crime at the expense of democratic rights. (Let’s not kid ourselves, the NG will n
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Even if you believe that the ordering the National Guard to DC is going to address homelessness in some positive way, Trump doesn’t care about that. Mobilizing troops to DC is the latest step in his efforts to dismantle democratic governmen
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You need to consider all the users of the LLM, not a specific target. Such attacks are broad not targeted, a bit like open source library attacks. Such attacks formerly seemed improbable but are now widespread.
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https://archive.is/t1On8
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LLMs read the web through a second vector as well - their training data. Simply separating security concerns in MCP is insufficient to block these attacks.
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Living standards have risen due to productivity gains being distributed across society. Factors such as wise policy and labor unions contributed to this effect. These factors are largely absent today. Productivity gains have flowed mostly
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> Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions. From Altman’s blog, 2013. https://blog.samaltman.com/successful-people
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Inflation is typically better for the wealthy. Cost of living goes up. This hits you if you are a worker. But if you’re wealthy this is a small dent in your budget at best. On the contrary, you hold many assets, which generally appreciate w
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Unfortunately our society’s structure is such that only a small number of people can ever be wealthy. They do this by belonging to the ownership class. There is not enough room there for everyone, because owners make money simply through ow
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The point is that workers have far less money to save. Therefore when stocks go up due to increased productivity, even workers who have enough money to save still don’t benefit, in absolute terms, as much as owners.
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Right, ability to buy stock is predicated on having the money to do it, after paying for basic necessities. People who work for a living have less money than those who don’t. So when stock prices rise, even workers who can save see less abs

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