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by jlhawn 1y ago
this isn't necessarily true. While it generates less direct revenue, it increases nearby land value in two ways: 1) business activity which would have taken place on that parcel "overflows" to nearby parcels, ie, the demand
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by jlhawn 1y ago
The camera systems are also superior from an infrastructure maintenance perspective. You can update them with new capabilities or do re-striping without tearing up the pavement.
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by jlhawn 1y ago
Yep... If I didn't mask while at work and home, I'd probably be annoying my family and coworkers with state and local land use politics issues all the time.
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by jlhawn 1y ago
One of the issues that AC Transit (SF East Bay bus agency) has is that it purchased a lot of Hydrogen Fuel Cell busses which have issues which dramatically impact their reliability. It's also very expensive technology. There's a d
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by jlhawn 1y ago
surveys show that if you ask most people what happens to the price of X when the number of X available increases, people correctly understand that the price falls and vice versa. There are some things though, particularly housing, where mor
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by jlhawn 1y ago
This comment is one of the things I refer to in my top-level comment. People have just enough of an education in economics and an understanding of personal finance and budgeting to be dangerous. They conflate economics with federal budget p
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by jlhawn 1y ago
I mostly think economics education is fine... most high school graduates in the US come out with a good basic understanding of supply/demand and labor/capital basic inputs to businesses, etc. But that doesn't mean that people
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by jlhawn 1y ago
This goes back to my top-level comment: the assessment of your property should not be based on sales of nearby property but on observed rental values. Just because your neighbor has sold their plot and the new owner has the intent to buil
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by jlhawn 1y ago
I found some more to nitpick, from the section on "LVT implicitly taxes improvements on nearby land": > For instance, if a developer owns multiple adjacent parcels and decides to build housing or infrastructure on one of them,
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by jlhawn 1y ago
> ... These assessments would require intricate and subjective valuations that are very difficult to quantify accurately. I continue to believe that "full cash value" assessments which try to ascertain the market purchase price
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by jlhawn 1y ago
A quick and dirty version: docker -H host1 image save IMAGE | docker -H host2 image load note: this isn't efficient at all (no compression or layer caching)!
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by jlhawn 1y ago
The outage was global. For my team specifically, a global Identity and Access Management outage meant that our internal service accounts could not refresh their short-lived access tokens and so different parts of our infrastructure began to
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by jlhawn 1y ago
okay, for now I'll just continue to live in a tent in some Berkeley NIMBY's backyard for $50/week while I pick up whatever small time gig-app contract jobs I can. You've convinced me to look at the bigger picture. Our ge
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by jlhawn 1y ago
If I were a centibillionaire and I really thought Georgism was a good idea, I would make it my life's work to prove it out by using my vast net-worth to buy land in existing urban areas and actually implement it at a large scale. But i
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by jlhawn 1y ago
How much work do you think it would be to also have a separate xattr which has a human-readable description of the file contents? I wonder if it that might already be an intermediate product of some of the embedding tools, like "arbitr
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by jlhawn 1y ago
I understand that LLMs aren't involved in generating the embeddings and adding the xattrs. I was just wondering what the value add of this is if there's no other background process (like mds on macOS) which is using it to build a
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by jlhawn 1y ago
If I understand correctly, this is attaching metadata to files in a format that LLMs (or any tool that can understand the semantic embedding vector) can leverage to understand what a file is without having to actually read the contents of t
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by jlhawn 2y ago
> One could argue, as many have, that some of this increase in housing cost is offset by decreased costs in other expenditures such as food or technology. A Georgist perspective on this would be that it's the decreased costs in othe
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by jlhawn 2y ago
yeah but one of the reasons why land value for single family homes is even higher is due to the zoning constraints which cause what I like to call "land value spillover" effects. Land value in suburbs an hour from a city center is
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by jlhawn 2y ago
Higher location values are supposed to lead to more intensive land use (more dwelling units per acre) but we don’t tax land enough for this to work properly. I’d still consider a housing market without land value tax to be fundamentally bro
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by jlhawn 2y ago
A new construction unit is always going to be priced higher than a similar sized and located unit that is older. This should not be surprising. The claim that housing supply advocates make about affordability is not that new units will be
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by jlhawn 2y ago
> Gentrification actually only affects a very small percentage of people who end up refusing to sell and holding out until they cannot afford anymore. In California, gentrification almost never affects long time homeowners. Once you pay
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by jlhawn 2y ago
> If they were people would have moved, or somewhere would have ended up being a lot better. sorry, I am not going to bother reading the rest of your comment before writing this reply because reading this part stopped me immediately. Gen
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by jlhawn 2y ago
would you rather live in poverty or be wealthy enough to afford one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Los Angeles? lol A better comparison might be: would you rather live in a 4,000 sqft mcmansion in Santa Clarita or a modest 1200 sqft
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by jlhawn 2y ago
this is actually just several different comments I made on Bluesky yesterday about this paper, but I combined them into one comment here so that's maybe why it's a little weird. https://bsky.app/profile/josh.h
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by jlhawn 2y ago
home ownership is directly tied to rental affordability, as the rental market is always going to be the alternative. Even if people aren't perfectly rational agents, everyone has their own subjective present value function or heuristic
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by jlhawn 2y ago
From the abstract: > These results challenge the prevailing view of local housing and labor markets and suggest that easing housing supply constraints may not yield the anticipated improvements in housing affordability. If their finding
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by jlhawn 2y ago
This paper primarily considers house prices and quantities in terms of single-family homes. They use data sources like the single-family repeat-sales index and the median home value from the American Community Survey, which mostly tracks si
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by jlhawn 2y ago
Land value tax didn't destroy the British Liberal Party in the early 1900s. The flawed neoclassical economic consensus (capital vs labor) did. The Labour Party absorbed most of the ex-Liberal voters and then became the Conservatives&#x
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by jlhawn 2y ago
This critique assumes that because land parcels are not perfectly fungible, it is impossible to determine unimproved land values with sufficient accuracy for taxation. However, this is an overstatement, and several counterpoints undermine t

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