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by irq11 9y ago
360 vision doesn’t change physics, and even the best vision system doesn’t help you when a child darts ten feet in front of your car. If you don’t anticipate the possible movement, you will be too slow. I have very little faith that we ar
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by irq11 9y ago
Was I supposed to flag the parent comment? Perhaps instead of attacking well-meaning people for observing problems, you should focus on solving the problem.
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by irq11 9y ago
That isn’t what happens at all. For all non-shitty programs (1), grad schools waive tuition for students regardless of grant funding. When a student gets a grant, it pays his/her salary, not tuition. (1) shitty programs make the studen
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by irq11 9y ago
on the weekend, HN is overrun with nationalist/conservative trolls.
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by irq11 9y ago
So, your logic is that it’s fine to tax tuition waivers as income, because the schools should be paying more? How does that work? This is a dubious tactic adopted by a sleazy political party to ram a bill through congress by taxing liter
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by irq11 9y ago
the difference is that the novice is nearly always combining models and code written and trained by the expert.
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by irq11 9y ago
You can’t evaluate it as a percentage of all housing . By that standard, even new construction is a “tiny” percentage of the whole. SF doesn’t have much infill development left. That’s the point. Arguing about what people did in the past i
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by irq11 9y ago
https://my.paragon-re.com/Docs/General/SixtyFortyImages/Hous... Lots of legal housing has been demolished or merged over the past five years. It happens all the time , you just don’t hear about it on pro-dev
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by irq11 9y ago
Nobody “calling me out” has provided any evidence, so I’m not sure what you’ve been reading, but OK: https://my.paragon-re.com/Docs/General/SixtyFortyImages/Hous... By my math, that’s 769 legal units removed
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by irq11 9y ago
The “simulation” is garbage. I’ve pointed out one limitation, but there are many others. For example: rental markets are not auctions. Landlords set prices, and renters pay them, or do not. What happens when you replace 150 SROs with market
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by irq11 9y ago
“Almost all new housing is built on warehouses, parking lots, gas stations, and so on.” That may have been true, but the city’s own analysis shows it isn’t true anymore, and it certainly won’t be true by the time we’ve built enough to lower
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by irq11 9y ago
Not “subsidized”...affordable. A landlord has 3 older units that rent for $x. She wishes to redevelop the property to create 6 new units that rent for $3x. Net result is that 3 units have been created, but 3 people have been displaced. Like
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by irq11 9y ago
There are essentially no development projects in SF that don’t involve demolishing existing housing. While I grant you that some such projects have (ridiculous) community resistance, these still aren’t the norm. In most places in SF, the re
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by irq11 9y ago
No, you can’t. You displace people, who then have to look for housing. Moreover, there are hard floors on new construction rent. It’s not linear, and the “simulation” isn’t even remotely accurate. If you replaced every low income unit in SF
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by irq11 9y ago
This just in: woman who has staked her career on a pro-housing political platform announces that market-rate redevelopment is good for everyone. The question is not “will adding N market-rate units help?” because that’s trivial. Of course
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by irq11 9y ago
”If you take this approach, you'd better be a programming god, because you're going to be the guy who was too good to knock out a simple coding problem. Every off-by-one error you commit on the job will raise an eyebrow. People w
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by irq11 9y ago
”This goes back to my original point regarding capital controls: previously discreetly tolerated, their violation is now openly acknowledged. If you stroll through Hong Kong you'll find invoicing services being openly advertised.” Li
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by irq11 9y ago
”A lawyer in those jurisdictions writes an invoice for $50 million and the Chinese firm “pays” it. Bitcoin is irrelevant to Chinese capital controls.” ...all of which is easily traceable by the government. Do enough of it, and you’ll even
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by irq11 9y ago
Other countries don’t have the free/easy relationship to credit that we do. In many places, if you want to get a small, revolving line of credit it’s considered perfectly normal to spend weeks validating your identity, including one
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by irq11 9y ago
Reduce demand. Tax the tech industry to encourage it to relocate anywhere else in the 99.99% of America it doesn't currently occupy. Also, for good measure: eliminate the mortgage deduction, and tax short-term capital gains on property
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by irq11 9y ago
As long as other cars (or humans, or animals...) are on the road, robot cars will face these scenarios. The OP's scenario is contrived to make a clear example, but it happens regularly when you're driving: you're forced to ma
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by irq11 9y ago
There's no ethical question here. You either see that it's a gnome, or you see that it's a child. Humans may or may not be less situationally aware overall, but we have the gnome question down cold. Cars don't. They see
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by irq11 9y ago
Sure, but it's clear that privacy and quiet are amongst the most important qualities in an office, yet companies continue to strain to find "creative" new ways of avoiding private offices. Call me cynical, but it's obvio
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by irq11 9y ago
I know for a fact that dropbox, and all other large tech companies, spend a fortune on office buildouts. Offices don't add significant construction expense; it's purely a matter of how many people you can cram in per square foot.
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by irq11 9y ago
Yeah, that was great until the airlines made those $150+ "upgrade" seats. It's not as if tickets have been getting cheaper, to compensate, either. It's gotten to the point that I simply refuse to fly domestic unless I am
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by irq11 9y ago
So? Your argument is that it's affordable? Or that they could build enough to make it affordable? Both are laughably wrong.
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by irq11 9y ago
Careful. You're getting perilously close to the hackernews shibboleth on development policy. Remember: if housing is expensive, it must be because there aren't enough skyscrapers. There can be no other logical explanation.
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by irq11 9y ago
We could also make it socially important to spread the tech industry across the US, instead of trying to cram everything in the eastern third of San Francisco.
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by irq11 9y ago
or maybe you overpaid for your apartment. it's not uncommon in cities on the west coast for prices to irrationally exceed the possible rental income.
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by irq11 9y ago
Your segment of the market is almost certainly a small one. In many cities where I've stayed in AirBnBs, whole-unit rentals dominated the listings, and these were always in touristy parts of town. As you'd expect, the "prof

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