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by hx87 10y ago
> If companies only built Lamborghinis and Ferarris, cars would never be affordable for regular people. The question is then /why/ would companies only build Lamborghinis and Ferraris when there is such a huge market for Hondas
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by hx87 10y ago
Unless the property tax is a land value tax, wouldn't the additional tax revenue from higher density construction pay for that automatically?
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by hx87 10y ago
Supply would be /less/ limited if it were less difficult to get a project approved, so you'd see more non-luxury apartments.
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by hx87 10y ago
Not to mention if you're actually on a cell phone it's "HEY YOU JUST CLICKED ON A LINK, BUT SINCE YOUR PHONE IS SO SLOW AND MY SITE IS SO BLOATED, BY THE TIME YOUR CLICK WAS REGISTERED SOME OTHER CONTENT LOADED IN THAT LOCATI
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by hx87 10y ago
If I were 6'4" (193cm) or taller, I'd take the Tesla for $92 any day. Even my current 5'8" (172cm) self would hesitate taking a Toyota Camry taxi due to the lack of leg and knee room, which is why I almost always av
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the trolls are still human, albeit employed by organizations. With that in mind, I wonder if it's possible to create sites that are nothing but trollbait (i.e. articles supporting/critical of Russia) to soak u
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by hx87 10y ago
Which articles are you reading? I have yet to see a single article where that has happened.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Communications is a natural monopoly At the backbone level, perhaps, but for historical reasons cable and phone companies were separate, and thus we have both Comcast and Verizon providing last-mile communication services. I already ha
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by hx87 10y ago
To put it in US terms, I don't want Comcast and Verizon to split up the market into their own monopolistic fiefdoms. I want them to compete hard in an open market for my business.
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by hx87 10y ago
About as expensive as a high end luxury gasoline drivetrain, I assume. A replacement short block alone on my Lexus LS is $23k.
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by hx87 10y ago
> For whatever reason the majority of PC manufacturers just suck at making batteries They just suck at making battery cooling systems (e.g. all-plastic cases) or neglect to include one altogether. If there is one thing those all-metal Ma
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by hx87 10y ago
If the driver can charge >2.3x more for a Tesla per mile, which isn't all that ridiculous (considering the prison-grade vinyl seats, constantly yakking ad screens and near-criminal lack of legroom in Camrys with plexiglas dividers),
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by hx87 10y ago
In my experience at least, living without "lovers" is vastly easier than living without "friends".
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by hx87 10y ago
Where do you live? 15-year and 30-year fixed rate mortgage loans are available pretty much everywhere in North America.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Old growth wood is just plain stronger than the type of wood you'd find in modern buildings. That's true only if you discount engineered wood products, which are superior in strength to even the best of old growth lumber. For
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by hx87 10y ago
If the market collapses, you're screwed anyway, but at least your index fund is diversified (I hope) and liquid, whereas your house is the most undiverse and illiquid asset you can buy.
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by hx87 10y ago
If renting is cheaper than buying right now, a better question is whether rent will increase faster over the next five years than an index fund portfolio funded with the difference.
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by hx87 10y ago
People walking away from houses wasn't the problem. People walking away from houses they were underwater on was the problem. Besides, if you were underwater and could still afford the payments there is no reason to walk away. I am curr
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by hx87 10y ago
All of those features are here to stay, especially the latter three since they're mostly a function of having lots of space. One feature that will date badly is the bland white/beige/peace/flesh/etc paint palette; i
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by hx87 10y ago
Most of these houses, and most McMansions, would look and function much better if they just rid of two features: 1) Gables that don't terminate a wing of the house 2) Massive hip roofs #1 makes no sense from either an aesthetic or func
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by hx87 10y ago
If the materials in a house can be easily recycled, sure, but I suspect that most of the timber, drywall, and plywood will eventually end up in a landfill somewhere. Environmentally, its usually a better deal to upgrade rather than rebuild.
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by hx87 10y ago
The interiors from the '70s and '80s were far worse than the structures themselves. Whoever though that shag carpeting (i.e. mold food) in bathrooms (i.e. the wettest room in the house) was a great idea?
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by hx87 10y ago
"Cardboard tacked onto scaffolding" is plenty strong, especially in an earthquake when brick and tile tend to crumble into dust due to excessive rigidity. Remember, skyscrapers are built using the same "cardboard tacked onto
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by hx87 10y ago
Trying and failing horribly, which is arguably worse than not trying at all. It's sad, really, because aping traditional style isn't difficult at all unless you're trying to tack on as much bling as possible. There are plenty
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by hx87 10y ago
It wouldn't, since each layer of glazing reduces the amount of solar energy that arrives inside the window, and energy loss from buildings is an overwhelmingly convective and conductive phenomenon.
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by hx87 10y ago
HOAs are great in theory, but in practice they're staffed by people with no sense of aesthetics whatsoever, and too often define "aesthetically inappropriate" as "different from my house". Thus overcomplicated monst
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by hx87 10y ago
If HOAs truly cared about aesthetics, there would be no market for asphalt shingles.
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by hx87 10y ago
I grew up in a tony suburb. Sure, the average kid who lived in one wasn't obese (although their parents are another matter), but for every McMansion there are 1000 people who work in the Walmarts, Home Depots, and AutoZones, and obesit
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by hx87 10y ago
The suburbs that are gaining people are becoming more urban-like, or at least more old-school-small-town-like, since the newcomers expect urban amenities such as bike and pedestrian friendly streets.
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by hx87 10y ago
> You'd have to be very wealthy to afford the lumber quality For engineering purposes, you don't, since plywood and OSB are far more dimensionally consistent than the best of old growth lumber. Aesthetically, old growth wood is

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