mjmahone17

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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Handouts are great and make our community better! I like taking handouts, and I love when the community, through guaranteed services, provides help taking care of my family. I love the government handouts that pay for road maintenance right
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Adding more shoulder space induces higher speeds, unless you also add obstructions in the widened shoulder. If it feels like your car is not squeezed, the natural inclination is to drive faster. You need to resist that inclination to stay w
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
> New York ain’t cheap even with high density housing. This wasn’t true in the 50s. Sure a single family townhome in the West Village will always be expensive, but it was possible for people to own 3-bedroom apartments within a 20 minute
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Ideally the list price should include all expected costs. So a menu item should have taxes and the expected 20% or whatever tip (and any other fees) built in. Then the receipt can break things out and charge less per line item + add in tota
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
It’s not so bad if you are in fact walking most places and spending less time in a car. True it’s better than commuting somewhere far, but if you compare to living without a car in an urban core, it’s unlikely your footprint is smaller. Esp
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
A big chunk of why is the % of floor area that is used for housing versus “support”. Basically a single stair layout gives you 90-95% floor efficiency, and a double stair is closer to 80-85%. People don’t rent common spaces like stairs, so
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Not OP but I do. If I had a plate of steamed or roasted broccoli available on demand at any time, I would eat it like most people do chips. Broccoli tastes great, but requires a lot more prep than “junk food” to get there. I eat junk food m
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Isn’t this a disincentive to densifying the land? It seems like the tax should occur at least on any sale, not just when redevelopment happens. A single family home near transit is far more valuable than a single family home away from trans
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
In the US even zoning to allow 5 story, 25 foot wide row homes to be built everywhere residential housing is allowed would make it easier to develop a lot of housing quickly and cheaply. It’s cheaper to build 1,000 units all at once than 2
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
I think in this case it’s delivering “across the street” from the delivery address, not the restaurant address. Basically the fraudster is asking to deliver to a location other than where they actually live, because they don’t want to be tr
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
In the US states tend to have the most power. The federal government can coax states by offering more money (for instance, funding 90% of highway projects), but can’t usually force states to take any specific action. There are exceptions bu
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Unless the laws are bad, if property taxes are going up to the point you can’t afford them, why wouldn’t you rent out enough of your high value property to pay them, and live in the rest? That might mean building an ADU or a multi-family un
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Yeah I don’t see what’s wrong with your (in my mind) utopic vision. Everyone who wants to live in a mass of humanity 1000 ft tall should be able to afford to live in that mass, and we should be researching ways to make it more and more affo
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
The other thing people who own land can do: take out a mortgage to build more homes on their land, live in one and either sell the subdivided land/co-op/condo units or rent them to others. The only people who can be “driven out” a
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Seattle has mediocre transit. The buses are fine, but they’re inherently limited in how fast their average speeds can be. Seattle could greatly increase transit usage by: - expanding the subway/light rail network. - provide more than t
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
On the other hand: if you own property, you could take a loan out in order to turn your single family home into a rent-collecting multi-unit house. That’s what people did all the time before zoning laws, and it’s a reasonable way for a reti
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Property taxes discourage existing inventory from being taken off the market in order to speculate via property holding, at the expense of also discouraging new building. Land value tax discourages holding vacant or under-built property, at
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Wouldn’t reducing the number of cows increase total food supply? I’m not saying that NL should reduce their cow supply, but your logic seems flawed. Even for dairy production, cows consume a lot more calories than they provide on the other
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Yes? The longer something is public for, the less it is “yours”: people start making it their own, whether through remixes and recreations or just stories they want to create. It is good for society to allow ideas that have permeated public
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
I wonder with NEPA if we could do “existing negative impact” studies, i.e. if this is not built, how will the environment be affected? And if the answer is “on net the status quo is worse environmentally” then permitting can proceed without
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Ground to air heat pumps could increase efficiency for air conditioning (which in hot and humid states is probably the largest line item for electric usage). Part of the problem here is the install cost means you likely want to share the gr
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
I wonder if a lower cost service like VPNs could reasonably create an “endowed” account: basically pay enough up front that when invested, the returns on the up front cost are about the same as the monthly cost. If you’d need to make €60&#x
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Right, sprinklers instead of multiple egress would make sense (or even allowing builds with either a ton of egress or sprinklers). But as it exists today, if the codes require both, it just adds cost for very little marginal safety benefit.
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
To be fair part of the cost of housing is that Single Residence Occupancy is pretty much illegal to build anywhere, except as hotels. We could reasonably allow hotels to be converted into SROs with communal kitchens (or room + board with st
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Why would unions reduce the growth of jobs? By default unions want more workers, by ensuring things like 40 hour weeks and overtime pay (to encourage companies to hire more people). I could see if some unions want to limit membership in cas
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
You probably should not wait: it will be 2 years of testing according to the announcement, and if you’re doing a retrofit most the cost of installation will be installing the transfer lines inside, mounting the unit, etc (opening walls and
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Phoenix area schools all are required to provide busses for junior high and high school kids that live more than 2.5 miles away. That is generally a walkable distance, even in the May and August heat. I know, as from middle school on I did
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
Manhattan has fewer residents today than it did in 1920. It also has much less building happening, and rents are higher now than they were in 1920 for the same square footage. Some of that is we don’t allow people to live in new boarding ho
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
The flip side is it prevents aggregating all damages into a single class claim. If everyone who had a claim actually arbitrated every time, it would be much more expensive for companies to handle than settling an entire class of claims all
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by mjmahone17 4y ago
You (and those like you) have informally recreated boarding houses. It’s a shame that Single Room Occupancy is basically illegal to build in any major US city: most cities require building “single family units” that must have their own bath

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