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by jvm 9y ago
"it just means putting thinga undesirable to have in a residential area farther away from residential areas" Infamously, at least in the Bay Area, the "undesirable things" in question are typically new neighbors.
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by jvm 9y ago
Looking at RBS spreads here: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/interest-rates/lookup-bond-... …looks like the market expects 1.57% inflation over the next 10 years, so these bonds are expected to beat inflation han
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by jvm 9y ago
I usually enjoy priceonomics posts, but this analysis is disappointing. The sharing economy is a way of deploying labor and capital. So the operating question is, is it a good way of doing so on net? In some sense the market is spoken in th
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by jvm 9y ago
I ran into this issue and ended up using Affinity Designer. I was pleasantly surprised, it's actually quite comparable to Adobe Illustrator. It's not open source but at $50 much more reasonable than Adobe.
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by jvm 9y ago
China is 175th in GDP per ton of emissions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_... US is 80th, not great but there's really no comparison to Chian. For rich country comparison, UK is 22nd
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by jvm 10y ago
> In other words, the premodern world was indeed a place where most people didn't venture beyond their own village. According to this thesis[1], 40–50% of Romans were born outside the city, that sounds like quite widespread mobility
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by jvm 10y ago
Montreal.
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by jvm 10y ago
> Snapchat is a unique case because they've insisted on shoving their growing workforce into a bunch of small bungalows, retail spaces and storefronts--including Nikki's, a beloved neighborhood bar--scattered throughout Venice
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by jvm 10y ago
Rognlie also makes important critiques of Piketty's argument.[1] Piketty makes strong claims resting on declining labor share of capital. This is true, but is driven largely by an increase in owner-occupied rents in real estate, which
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by jvm 10y ago
> that reassessment is capped so when the market goes crazy people aren't driven out of their homes By definition, the people who would be "driven out" have seen their home values wildly appreciate and they have by that to
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by jvm 10y ago
The claim is that Section 8 vouchers aren't better than public housing, I wonder how either would compare to the equivalent benefit granted through e.g. food stamps or cash. I was also under the impression that vouchers were cheaper to
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by jvm 10y ago
If you find this difficult you might want to try out Stripe Atlas. > With Stripe Atlas, entrepreneurs can easily incorporate a U.S. company, set up a U.S. bank account, and start accepting payments with Stripe. https://stripe.
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by jvm 10y ago
> Director #1 decides it would be cool to have a single unified messaging/video app that works across all platforms; Director #2 decides it would be cool to have a messaging app that's perfectly customized for mobile phones and
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by jvm 10y ago
> One of the reasons cities have sprawled is because their development has been entrusted to, well, developers This is specifically the opposite of the case. Developers would happily build New York and San Francisco up into the stratosph
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by jvm 10y ago
I agree with the pessimism that we are unlikely to completely solve the problem with these measures, although I believe that is for political economy reasons and not because it's impossible. However I also don't think we should le
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by jvm 10y ago
I think it's very possible that the very reason it's not popular is there's minimal incentive for a firm to market that option; the margins just aren't there.
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by jvm 10y ago
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by jvm 10y ago
> An amazon affiliate link to a 2.5 star book It's rated 2.5 stars because he was attacked by the Breitbart brigade.[1] [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/andrew-breitbart-fa...
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by jvm 10y ago
> First group don't want new houses and dilute value of their property Increasing as-of-right development opportunities can potentially actually increase land values. Definitely bad for condo owners though.
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by jvm 10y ago
There is a grave danger that Tesla's precocious push of autonomous features could result in a PR disaster for self-driving technology if it actually ends up killing someone. We shouldn't have this in the wild until we're sure
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by jvm 10y ago
It seems pretty clear that China would like their standard of living to be higher, and in fact it is rising at almost unprecedented rates [1] which have been sustained for over a decade. I'm sure they could do an even better job but I&
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by jvm 10y ago
> I guess I'm just surprised Uber doesn't do the same (actually, I'm not, given their C-suite's history of being all-around dicks). I've never heard of this in the valley, it's standard practice to not allow
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by jvm 10y ago
More on the slow-moving train wreck here [1]: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/07/berlins-brand-new-ren... TL;DR they're also placing tight ceilings on new development. [1] This article is supportive
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by jvm 10y ago
The dynamic is a little different than in most other cities. What's really happening here is that cheap rent is a kind of entitlement in Berlin: rent controls extend across tenants so getting an apartment is really about persuading a
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by jvm 10y ago
This is a pretty good resource: http://marketurbanism.com/2015/11/05/how-land-use-regulation...
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by jvm 10y ago
To be fair, people who have actually used Hololens tend to be pretty impressed.
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by jvm 10y ago
I completely agree that development creates negative externalities which are legitimate complaints for neighbors. However, restrictions on development create a regressive tax in the form of high rents, which is, as the article describes, di
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by jvm 11y ago
Can we do away with these absurd foreign ownership laws yet? Why would we want to discourage people from investing in our country?
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by jvm 11y ago
Surely you have never tried to operate an i3 at 80 MPH, I can assure you it has at most 50 miles range at that speed.
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by jvm 11y ago
> Both cars will start at $30,000 or less after federal tax credits of $7,500 are applied. And both go at least 200 miles on a fully charged battery. The Bolt is a five-passenger hatchback that boasts cargo space and more legroom for rea

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