lukas099

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by lukas099 3y ago
> So, do city planners look at “artists” as a revenue stream? Absolutely, especially if you include tourism, which you should. Look at Asheville, NC.
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by lukas099 3y ago
It's hard to imagine a socialist solution working in the context of the United States of America, though. The more viable solution in this context is allowing the free market to build abundant housing.
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by lukas099 3y ago
So your saying that even more people are being housed? I guess we need more Section 8!
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by lukas099 3y ago
Austin is nowhere near its potential for infill development, though.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> rent control A displacement-prevention measure, not a housing affordability measure > allowing more housing to be built That's what they are doing, building houses, and you are pushing against it. You may not like the houses, b
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by lukas099 3y ago
I'm starting to think that sometimes the biggest, strongest developers actually support and benefit from the policies that make it harder for mom and pop developers to build.
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by lukas099 3y ago
That is essentially what these are. Edit: and to answer your question, nothing. People should be allowed to build and live in those too.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Philly is an old city. It probably already had townhomes everywhere, and would benefit from allowing further stages of density.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Of course they are present . That doesn't mean the market is supplying them in anywhere near the quantity demanded.
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by lukas099 3y ago
This is one of the main rhetorical techniques that 'progressive'-type nimbys use to suppress housing. "This new housing isn't good enough . We should treat our homeless better than this." Completely failing to se
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by lukas099 3y ago
Why isn't it cheese? That seems like someone redefining cheese to gatekeep it out.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> When a critical mass of the dramatic personae are doping, it is impossible to say what would have happened in a world where everyone was clean. Obviously true, since a wide variety of responses will occur for any medical intervention,
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by lukas099 3y ago
If there are more jobs, workers have more leverage to negotiate higher wages.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Only if had argued that every single event with a low probability should be discounted every single time, which I didn't.
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by lukas099 3y ago
I would not consider my having a trunk as being an edge case as I use it weekly. Back seat less so, but still quite often. But if I didn't, I probably wouldn't choose a car that had them (assuming such options were available)
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by lukas099 3y ago
Maybe edge case wasn't technically the right term, but I did indeed mean a low-frequency event (as it's used in the article). Sorry for the confusion.
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by lukas099 3y ago
From my perspective, your example of a yearly month-long vacation to a personal vacation home is unthinkably extravagent, and anyone in that situation is rich enough not to worry about the inefficiencies I am talking about (from a personal
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by lukas099 3y ago
> It's not obvious that buying the frequent item and renting the infrequent item is the reasonable thing to for all situations and contexts. Owning something means taking on the liabilities of storage, maintenance, and depreciation.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Most people I know don't eat day to day in the dining room. They do probably use it for various hobbies, which kind of shows how little it is used for its intended purpose. They would be better off making it primarily the hobby room.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Exactly my point
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by lukas099 3y ago
Let's say you're into fly fishing, so instead of a dining room you have a room for making lures, which you do every day. You can still have those parties and utilize that room; in fact, that room will look a lot more interesting,
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by lukas099 3y ago
Yeah those points make sense and I hadn't thought of them.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> you're equating your opinion on this to health advice No I'm not, I'm using health as an example of a general principle. Anyways, as I've said up-thread, the 'kind of annoying' thing is referring to the fe
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by lukas099 3y ago
No, the correct analogy would be paying for, maintaining, and storing enough servers for Black Friday year round when the option existg to rent them on Black Friday for 1% the cost.
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by lukas099 3y ago
It's not that I didn't have frequent gatherings, it's that they were at different places and involved things other than candlelight dinners.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Actually it's the opposite. The costs people can't recognize are the massive opportunity costs of having rooms that they don't use 99% of the time . (DISCLAIMER: I am not talking about the people who do use them! Don&#x2
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by lukas099 3y ago
You wouldn't withdraw $500 per year, you would leave it invested and spend $500 that you already have liquid from elsewhere. But it's beside the point. The point is that opportunity costs must be accounted for.
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by lukas099 3y ago
> I know a group, where 8 people + a dungeon master meet weekly/bi-weekly to play DnD. The (bi)weekly social engagement that is an important part of their social life is not an edge case though.
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by lukas099 3y ago
It is crazy how hard people try to read straw men into what other people say sometimes.
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by lukas099 3y ago
There are some suburbs like this, it's just not the norm of how we build anymore. And sometimes the walk is not long, but is not very pleasant.

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