mistursinistur

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by mistursinistur 2y ago
> 2/3 of households own their own homes 1. "Household" is not the right unit of analysis, since a household is defined as the set of people in an existing home. Some of these include adults who would like to move out, crea
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by mistursinistur 2y ago
FWIW I've seen noticeably better results on (1) and (4) extracting JSON from images via Claude, although (2) and (3) still take effort.
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by mistursinistur 5y ago
I'm building wooden benches for bus and light rail stops in my neighborhood. Lots of riders are elderly and find themselves sitting on the curb, feet in the gutter, as they wait for transit. Studies suggest that perceived wait time inc
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by mistursinistur 6y ago
Silly to say without evidence that preventing some people from doing their jobs somehow creates more jobs for other people. H1-B visa holders aren't competing with workers in the retail services industry!
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by mistursinistur 7y ago
All transit projects in San Francisco are actually combined sewer, power, and water projects with transit branding. Better Market Street's budget incorporates all these components: https://www.sfcta.org/projects/be
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by mistursinistur 7y ago
I love using Gitlab SCM, but I'm surprised that Gitlab CI is described as "Lovable" while major bug fixes are gated for months on an uncertain future feature release: "Job marked as success when job terminate midway in K
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by mistursinistur 7y ago
Rent controlled duplexes are already protected by the regulations that were violated here. You can't remove rent-controlled units without a permit! Obviously some onlookers don't understand current laws and don't understand
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by mistursinistur 8y ago
Like notacoward's post below, this one misses the point. The shaming is not about how good or bad or complex you are. Some people have determined that Facebook is an organization that's producing some bad results. Socially shaming
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by mistursinistur 8y ago
This misses the point of completely. This shaming is not about how good or bad you are. Some people have determined that Facebook is an organization that's producing bad results. Socially shaming employees, removing the status they mig
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by mistursinistur 8y ago
This key graf at the end describes why it's a bad demo that may cost taxpayers a lot of money: "The result is that the tunnel would have negative value to the region. As a transportation service based on how Musk wishes to constru
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by mistursinistur 8y ago
Upzoning might seem like an obvious preference for tech companies and sometimes they act on this preference. It's useful to remember, though, that they have countervailing short-term preferences for single-family zoning. Tech companies
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by mistursinistur 8y ago
Why does policy need to be "fair" to investors? New government policies move asset values (including real estate values!) in both directions all the time. Investors -- including homeowners -- are not entitled to an investment that
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by mistursinistur 8y ago
> I bought my first house in Berkeley > rented out 2 remaining rooms > buy a house in south SF > my mom and I bought a 3 unit run-down place in Oakland and fixed it up > rental income coming in around 13k / month > Lo
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by mistursinistur 9y ago
What's the evidence that speculation is driving price increases in California?
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by mistursinistur 9y ago
Hey, no need to make this about "self-actualization" or "a matrix" (?). The point here (and the moral imperative IMO) is to exert any influence you have over bad actors. Open source contributors have demonstrated that li
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by mistursinistur 9y ago
"People in Bakersfield aren't going to take the HSR to LA, at least not in enough numbers to justify connecting Bakersfield" This is a pretty vague and evidence-free claim! Note that thousands of people commute from Bakersfie
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by mistursinistur 9y ago
HSR and "more airports" are not substitutes. Airports don't address the need for capacity on trips shorter than the SF-LA route (e.g. Fresno-SJ or Bakersfield-LA). Rail lines do address this kind of infill transportation. Mor
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by mistursinistur 11y ago
"Iran - then and now" series are often misleading. They cherry-pick extreme examples from non-representative slices of the population. We've all seen photos of the stylish, 1970s Iranian 1%, but not of pervasive poverty and d
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by mistursinistur 11y ago
> Optimal readability is attained with 60-70 characters. This is due to human psychology Actually this claim is disputed: http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLeng...
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by mistursinistur 12y ago
Nope. Any really large government data is not text -- it's mostly in older open binary formats (e.g. weather data in GRIB from NOAA) or expensive proprietary binary formats (e.g. healthcare data in SAS from CMS).