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by matchbok 7y ago
Car ownership, if you're not acclimated to it, is absurd. Coming from outside the area, I rely on the city to massively subsidize my car parking that takes up tons of space for a vehicle that is used for about an hour a day. The rest o
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by matchbok 7y ago
> Building new luxury housing raises the price for all preexisting nearby housing Based on this logic we should ban all new housing construction and ignore basic things like population growth. Hint: It's only "luxury" beca
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by matchbok 7y ago
It's hard to take school seriously if you have to work 3 jobs to provide for your child.
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by matchbok 7y ago
That's... not how it works.
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by matchbok 7y ago
No, it doesn't. You don't own or have a right to anything other than your house. The arrogance here is astounding. The average person in your generation does not have what you have and it's not because they are lazy (even if
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by matchbok 7y ago
Do you own any other buildings other than your home? Why do you feel entitled to make a claim on others private property?
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by matchbok 7y ago
This is what happens when boomer NIMBYs oppose new housing. They got theirs and are making sure nobody else can join the party.
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by matchbok 7y ago
Let's not let facts get in the way of a good internet outrage session!
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by matchbok 7y ago
Short-term rental shares much more (99%) in common with hotels than long-term renting. The benefits you get from a short-term place only exist because the externalities are paid by other renters in the building, the police, the government,
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by matchbok 7y ago
You know that most homesteads were subsidized by the government, right?
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by matchbok 7y ago
What % of single mothers are willing to own a gun? The vast majority of them do not want that in their homes. This whole "wild west" mentality of gun ownership is both frightening and sad. Violent crime is at historic lows. And wh
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by matchbok 7y ago
> Weapons are the ultimate form of equality ...only if everyone is willing to carry? The lack of understanding here is astounding. The claim of lax gun laws promotes safety has been debunked hundreds of times. The average person does not
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by matchbok 7y ago
"pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps" is not, and has never been, a real thing.
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by matchbok 7y ago
Very true. We'll see how things evolve over the next few years!
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by matchbok 7y ago
I grew up poor with mostly cheap food. And yet things like parental responsibility were still possible.
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by matchbok 7y ago
Another instance of Android copying and iOS feature poorly. What exactly is Google even working on these days?
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by matchbok 7y ago
That may have been true 10 years ago. In DC, the nicer neighborhoods have some of the best (top 400) elementary schools in the country. This is driven primarily by wealthy younger couples choosing to stay in the city rather than leave for t
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by matchbok 7y ago
I think the devs at Slack have run out of things to do. "Hey Jim, instead of a single email inbox with threaded travel requests, we are gonna throw them all in a single chat room with no organization or queuing system. Be sure to check
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by matchbok 7y ago
For most people in cities using ride-share/taxi is much cheaper than owning car. What I pay for rides a month is just a monthly parking pass.
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by matchbok 7y ago
I mean, that's just the cost of construction in the US, sadly. I'm not sure what the alternative is - not build it and allow more sprawl?
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by matchbok 7y ago
Sustainable how?
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by matchbok 7y ago
This is all fair, as someone who just started the DC housing search. In a perfect world the metro would have 3+ new lines to augment what we already have and infill the city. Perhaps the Purple Line is a good start.
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by matchbok 7y ago
The argument that building new buildings "displaces" people is nonsense. In fact, I'd argue that more people are displaced by not building, due to supply constraints. Wealthy people will always be able to outbid others, a
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by matchbok 7y ago
Simply not true, at all.
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by matchbok 7y ago
Happy to see, it's a wonderfully designed language that's a joy to write. Super powerful enums, pattern matching, etc.
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by matchbok 7y ago
Last time I checked no job was mandatory in this country. If a job is unionized, don't take it. Sounds pretty simple to me.
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by matchbok 7y ago
You aren't following. Before that law if a worker saw a company that was unionized they had every right to not take that job. If the job decided to unionize while he/she was employed, that worker also had the right to leave. There
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by matchbok 7y ago
The biggest bargaining chip a renter has is the ability to leave. If the housing market is functioning correctly then renters should have the upper hand and these issues don't matter. Nobody is "kicked" out because nobody has
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by matchbok 7y ago
Can't come soon enough. The syntax is a head scratcher. I don't understand why anyone could have possibly thought [[[[]]]] was a good idea! Don't get me started on the closure or variable syntax. Oof.
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by matchbok 7y ago
We can't go to a program like the UK that's works out to be cheaper in the long run because our current half-assed program costs more? Not following the logic here. We already "pay" for the people we don't explicitl

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