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by paconbork 6y ago
My perspective is probably a bit different than most, but for me it's that SV just seems like wasted potential. Like here's this place where the high-paying jobs are attracting the most talented people from around the world and yo
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by paconbork 6y ago
Opposing the construction of anything besides single-family housing for one
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by paconbork 6y ago
Luckily, earthquake-resistant structures have come a long way since then. For example, Tokyo is home to the second-tallest structure in the world, and they're not exactly unfamiliar with earthquakes
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by paconbork 6y ago
> an 80-story apartment tower If this is financially viable, that land must be worth a ton. Retiree should sell the property and stop monopolizing such valuable land. They'll have plenty of funds to use to move elsewhere > a supe
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by paconbork 6y ago
> the needs of genes of prolific breeders who use women’s bodies as vessels I believe you mean the needs of actual human beings born of such people, to whom the God-given rights of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and yes, the co
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by paconbork 6y ago
Can't Walmart already do this? Property assessors already estimate the value of your property and the value of the land plays a part.
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by paconbork 6y ago
As a counterpoint, Manhattan has plenty of charming street-level shops in an area where multi-story apartment buildings are the only reasonable thing to build.
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by paconbork 6y ago
In which case you should sell your property and make bank on what Walmart would be willing to pay for it. (If you wouldn't make bank then your taxes wouldn't be prohibitively high)
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by paconbork 6y ago
>They abandon their properties, which have already declined in value, because the tax is more than the newly lowered cost of buying space in one of the tall buildings. If we hit the saturation point for tall apartment buildings, the land
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by paconbork 6y ago
Moving bungalows away from the city center allows that land to be used for denser housing, lowering commute times. The exact opposite of NIMBY-enforced suburbanism
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by paconbork 6y ago
If someone is hoarding land on which a 40 story apartment building would be profitable, yes, they should be taxed for it
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by paconbork 6y ago
Charming bakery with five stories of apartments above it > charming bakery by itself
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by paconbork 6y ago
It's not too different to what's happening now in low density neighborhoods because single-family houses are not an efficient use of million-dollar lots. In the current system, an empty lot is taxed less than a house, which is tax
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by paconbork 6y ago
Sounds somewhat like the Transitive Grace Period Public License, where derivative works must be open sourced a year after deployment
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by paconbork 6y ago
Out of principle I trust Google more than Yelp as they're less incentivized to extort small businesses. Also companies that cripple their mobile site (while having a functional desktop site) to force an app download deserve everything
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by paconbork 6y ago
That's just because introducing a new tax opens a new avenue for taxes to increase in the future. Even if it's not significant now, the infrastructure will be in place to increase taxes later (after all, the first income tax was a
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by paconbork 6y ago
Meh, if the tech workers lived in the city it would just be "gentrification". There's no winning.
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by paconbork 6y ago
Businesses are incentivized to not include taxes in the price since there's no laws against it, everyone else does it, and it lets them advertise better prices then they actually have. Personally, the practice really irks me and my sma
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by paconbork 6y ago
A for-profit company isn't going to spend millions and millions on something that doesn't benefit them. Something can make a company money and be generally good for others as well. If they get some good PR while making money and m
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by paconbork 6y ago
>getting good students to go to mediocre high schools sounds like an excellent way to improve the average quality of schools I think there's also a lot of value in giving the local students some peers that are more serious about edu
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by paconbork 6y ago
A $50M company that gives $1M in dividends is worth $49M. It would need ~12% growth to be worth $55M. A company deciding to issue dividends does not change the net worth of any shareholder (it can actually have a negative effect due to tax
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by paconbork 6y ago
Another interesting detail is the mandatory twice-a-week testing for anybody who will be on campus (and of course, mandatory facemasks). If you're going to have people on campus that's probably the safest way to do it
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by paconbork 6y ago
Heck, you could even sign a message saying you own the DMs with the private key that corresponds to the address that all the hacked accounts posted if you wanted to sell them / use them for blackmail
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by paconbork 6y ago
What changed after NAFTA, if you don't mind my asking?
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by paconbork 7y ago
The problem is that having a large body of grad students increases your research output, allowing you to get more grants and raise the prestige of your institution at a relatively low cost. Universities are incentivized to admit more grad s
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by paconbork 7y ago
I assume they would need to accept whatever rides come their way under such a scheme, as otherwise they could just idle and collect money Edit: From the proposal: "drivers would earn a minimum of approximately $21 per hour while on a t