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by phmqk76 3y ago
The author’s thesis is to give every family (not person) $750 a month, and that eliminates all benefits including Medicaid. This isn’t a serious proposal, it’s Paul Ryan-style dismantling the social safety net rebranded as UBI. Just more We
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Offering free services, especially while burning through VC cash, as a tactic to gain market share, and then discontinuing the free service when you’re ready to make money, should be considered an antitrust violation. It warps the market, k
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by phmqk76 3y ago
How about, platforms that publish misinformation should be financially liable for the ill effects of the misinformation. How did we build a tech ecosystem wherein tech companies get the exclusive right to run ads against the content on thei
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by phmqk76 3y ago
If you actually had experience living or working in Manhattan, you’d see that it has the infrastructure to enable density - namely, the country’s most intricate and heavily-used subway and transit system, by a mile. (17x the ridership compa
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Maybe I’m an outlier, but I blow right past their limits on any reasonably-priced tier. I use my search bar for all sorts of inquiries, serious and frivolous, including basic addition and subtraction. I tried it for a month and found that m
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by phmqk76 3y ago
And yet housing has outpaced wages exponentially for decades - that's the appropriate comparison, not the stock market or inflation with a broader index.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Nope. It would be a massive pressure-relief valve on inflation, so much of which is in housing expenses, not just post-COVID, but for decades.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
We used to build cities in America. Our grandparents' generation got brand new roads, brand new houses, brand new schools, etc. There is a concept of being at capacity, and there are areas that have reached that capacity, where the roa
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by phmqk76 3y ago
The second quote isn't entirely related to the first. "Sufficient housing stock to tank prices" is an enormous amount of housing, the likes of which are not contemplated by traditional builders, who are out to build high prof
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by phmqk76 3y ago
I agree with you - that's why I propose public corporations as lenders of last resort to create incentives outside of the traditional market forces that would help create this housing stock that industry insiders would rather not.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Maybe be a little less pedantic and engage in good faith - of course by "red hot" I meant that sellers can name their price, with sales still often going above asking in many regions across the US. Prices shot up like a rocket shi
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Seriously. So many people have a low-information understanding of the housing market, and think that homebuilders somehow aren't rational actors. Why would people who make their money building houses be into lowering their profit margi
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Repeat after me - the private housing sector is not going to build sufficient housing stock to tank prices in... the private housing sector. The housing market is red hot right now, and yet builders are loathe to invest in a major way, fear
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Cue the legal action in 3... 2... 1... Unity's public statements have been that they are zero fee, that developers can count on license agreement as of when they engage Unity, etc. They've induced a reliance upon having a no-fee (
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by phmqk76 3y ago
It’s impressive for what it is. But after noodling around with UTM and Fusion, I subscribed to Parallels, and it’s on a whole different level. I used it years and years ago to emulate x86 on PowerPC Macs, and it’s the gold standard. Night a
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by phmqk76 3y ago
We don’t need government run housing arrangements. What we need are market regulations, like rent control, that work. Having the government as an available lender, to ensure capital access for developers, isn’t control, it’s working the lev
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by phmqk76 3y ago
You’re misunderstanding my point, and your history is off. Rent control did not follow NYC to its housing crisis, NYC went through an extremely dark period of underinvestment and crime from the 1970s to the early 1990s, independent of housi
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by phmqk76 3y ago
You can’t, though. The price you seek to rent the units for dictates your profit margins, which impacts the financing sought. If you’re taking out a 10% construction loan and are building into your business plan $3,000 a month for your two
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by phmqk76 3y ago
That’s a bit of a non sequitur, isn’t it? NYC was confronted with a problem of rapidly rising rents, and instead of handwringing and eliminating zoning and engineering huge tax breaks, they enacted rent control. Why don’t we have the courag
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Dumb, dumb, dumb. Building more =/= Cancel Zoning. And guess what? When WWII ended and people flooded into NYC, rents began to rise rapidly. You know what NYC did in 1947? Rent control. That year, there were 2 million rent controlled u
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by phmqk76 3y ago
You spent far longer refuting this misinformation than the guy who spread it. And therein lies the problem - it’s easy to shitpost, to drop a bomb and move on. I appreciate your effort.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
People said the same thing about gay people. Hell, millions of Americans still feel the same way about gay people. But the rest of us are decent enough to offer kindness and acceptance, while ignorant people like you suffer verbal diarrhea.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
That’s a great line!
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This is the GOP plan - to dismantle public education in the name of “protecting children”, to voucherize education and break it apart, so that religious fundamentalists can use your tax dollars to teach their kids that evolution and gay peo
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by phmqk76 3y ago
How does that work? Last time I checked, we fetishized working class Trump voters who happily march cast their lot with a fascist, explaining away their hateful and anti-democratic actions as simple rebellion against NAFTA or fentanyl. I do
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by phmqk76 3y ago
No. Right wingers wrap themselves up in religious fundamentalism, it’s their stated goal. Not the left. You could disagree with how San Francisco handles math education (I certainly do), but don’t blame religious fundamentalism.
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Yeah, that’s not how education works, Elf…
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by phmqk76 3y ago
Threads has been out for… one full day? Maybe the histrionics are premature? Maybe the everyone-has-an-opinion-and-is-therefore-a-pundit motif can take one day off to let a new product breathe?
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by phmqk76 3y ago
The “Twitter Files” was a giant nothingburger fraudulently peddled as some sort of exposé by bad faith actors. Ultimately, these platforms want to have it all - the sole right to sell ads against content, while having no liability over that
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by phmqk76 4y ago
Google search results went from great to passable to atrocious over the last fifteen years. Part of that is their refusal to maintain an index of older content, in an effort to trim costs. There are searches that I used to make ten years ag

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