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by jlhawn 2y ago
that function name `copyItemAtPath_toPath_error_` sounds like it was ported directly from objective-c!
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by jlhawn 2y ago
My favorite theory is that it's related to zoning, permitting, and the urban built environment. What happened in the early '70s is that many of the US's major cities saw broad downzoning which compounded the effect of urban f
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by jlhawn 2y ago
> ... who owned the land ... they didn't use the word "owned", only "occupied". The indigenous groups probably didn't even have anything like our modern concept of land "ownership" and would think
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by jlhawn 2y ago
The main idea behind the popular book _The Happiest Baby on the Block_ is that true cause of colic (inconsolable crying by newborns) is "The Missing Fourth Trimester". During the first 3-4 months after full term, the best methods
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by jlhawn 2y ago
As a self-identified pro-housing (ie, YIMBY) advocate, I am not opposed to the California Forever plan. However, I very much doubt that it will end up being the type of community they are claiming it will be. I expect it will end up being a
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by jlhawn 3y ago
So you think the congestion fee should be means-tested (or, more accurately, affluence-tested)? How might such a system work? Have the DMVs from the metro area (NY, NJ, CT) link registered vehicle owners with their taxable income last year
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by jlhawn 3y ago
When I read the title, I thought it was a new operating system-level containerization image format for filesystem layers and runtime config. But it looks like "container format" is a more general term for a collection of multiple
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by jlhawn 3y ago
Recently in the SF Bay Area, there's been a lot of displeasure by transit activists that object to VTA's BART to San Jose extension (it's being built by VTA not BART) who had the choice between two tunneling options: 1. Two s
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by jlhawn 3y ago
Here I was thinking you were talking about elevated rail and putting trains back on the lower deck of the bay bridge... but no, you're talking about freeway expansion in the core Bay Area? Not gonna happen.
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by jlhawn 3y ago
It seems they'll do anything but tax land values
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by jlhawn 3y ago
Imagine if Apple behaved this way for mac OS. A significant number of Mac users I know: - do not use the Mac App Store for anything other than first-party apps like keynote, et al - Use chrome or firefox as their default web browser - downl
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by jlhawn 3y ago
I've been playing a lot of Baldur's Gate 3 lately and this kind of reminds me of when you have to roll a d20 in a skill check. Early in the game there are skill checks with a difficultly class of 2 (need to roll a 2 or higher to s
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by jlhawn 3y ago
that's an argument which works for capital goods (like livestock) but not for what Henry George considered to be natural opportunities of fixed supply like lithium ore (and land in general). Henry George, if he were still alive today,
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by jlhawn 3y ago
There are construction defect laws in California which, infamously, only apply to multi-family buildings and exempt single-family homes. There's a 10-year window after certification of occupancy where the builder is liable for any cons
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by jlhawn 3y ago
it would increase the tax rate on land to be much higher. In the most extreme case, the annual tax on land value would so high that vacant land could be purchased for close to zero purchase price because the holding cost of the tax is high
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by jlhawn 3y ago
also fire suppression system (sprinklers) and pressurized stairwells are mandated.
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by jlhawn 3y ago
Can I build a 6-story, multi-family, point access block apartment building with this system?
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by jlhawn 3y ago
The high speed rail authority is not only tasked with building and operating the final high speed rail route but also has had to deal with land use politics of dozens of jurisdictions along the alignment. HSR has no at-grade crossings which
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by jlhawn 3y ago
I'm glad to hear that you're in the camp of "Capitalism has failed to build badly needed housing" because it seems like so many anti-capitalists are in the camp of "Capitalism has built enough housing".
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by jlhawn 3y ago
I have zero problem paying for ad-free... but what I do have a problem with is that I have no ad-free only option. You have no choice but to also pay for their music streaming service for $14 per month when other, subjectively better musi
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by jlhawn 3y ago
Just let me pay for youtube premium without bundling a music streaming subscription please. $14 per month for no ads is not worth it when I already pay $11 per month for my preferred music streaming service.
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by jlhawn 3y ago
> Previous studies have estimated this “enhanced” rock weathering could store 215 billion tons of carbon dioxide over the next 75 years if spread across croplands globally. This is an average rate of 2.8 Billion tons of CO2 per year. We
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by jlhawn 3y ago
Hey! Have you met Ted Gwartney? He's great. I have the pleasure of serving with him on the board of Common Ground California.
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by jlhawn 3y ago
Land Value Taxes are different. Nobody produces land so taxing it doesn't add to production costs and there is no deadweight loss. The economic burden of the tax falls only upon the land owner (in their role as a land owner) and cannot
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by jlhawn 3y ago
More available because increasing the holding cost of underutilized land means owners would be marginally pressured to sell. More affordable because the tax increases the holding cost of land which is factored into a buyer's purchase b
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by jlhawn 3y ago
For anyone who think "oh this is just California's Proposition 13 but with a time limit"... not exactly. The tax rate in California is 1% of assessed value where assessed value can't grow more than 2% or the rate of infl
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by jlhawn 3y ago
I have thought about this for years. If your land value increases dramatically over a short period of time, _theoretically_ you should be able to use this as an opportunity to take advantage of that increase by constructing more housing or
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by jlhawn 3y ago
We're all Quaternionerds now.
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by jlhawn 3y ago
I don't think this is true. Demand and Agglomeration effects will always increase land/location value. The question is whether or not there is an increase in land value per capita . When you limit density then only those most wil
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by jlhawn 3y ago
It's a mine. The hill is the cargo.

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