pickovven

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by pickovven 4y ago
If only there was a way to reduce the return to landlords...
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by pickovven 4y ago
There's a difference between building housing and being a landlord.
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by pickovven 4y ago
It's absurd to frame this as some sort of luxury consumption decision. Sure, that might be true for like beach front properties but we're talking about virtually every major city in the country. People grow up and have social conn
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by pickovven 4y ago
Oh so you'll always sell your house for the same price you bought it for and never do anything wild like take out a home equity loan?
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by pickovven 4y ago
The current state of things are that most property rights are abolished. Why do all my neighbors get to decide if my property has 10 or 20 units on it?
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by pickovven 4y ago
Your point would be more compelling if people weren't specifically blocking additional housing so their investment appreciates.
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by pickovven 4y ago
Individual owners are also investors. Do people think they're just reselling their houses for the price they bought them at?
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by pickovven 4y ago
I find articles like this - and the fact they make the front page of HN - pretty illustrative of how "misinformation" is nowhere close to our biggest media problem. Misinformation is downstream from retrograde political views and
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by pickovven 4y ago
Not exactly the same, but emissions dropped pretty dramatically after the 2008 crash.
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by pickovven 4y ago
A decent outcome here would be if Glassdoor revealed all employers that attempt to go after former employees with alerts like the current one on the Zuru page.
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by pickovven 4y ago
You don't need zoning to control pollution.
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by pickovven 4y ago
Technology can definitely solve some political problems, at least in a very narrow sense. If you don't believe this, ask yourself what happened after the printing press was invented, or the steam engine. That's not the same as say
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by pickovven 4y ago
When someone complains about politics infiltrating a space but is unwilling to name the specific politics, suggesting it's a general principle, they very likely have a problem with the specific politics. They see social costs in voicin
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by pickovven 4y ago
In many places green roofs are primarily about reducing rainwater runoff, which causes pollution. However in hot areas like LA, they also reduce building temperatures which reduces energy consumption. Lawns don't reduce building temp