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by pjlegato 10y ago
One way is to eliminate property taxes altogether and shift revenue to sales tax, payroll tax, VAT, or other non-property tax sources.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Mainly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Construction workers already cannot remotely afford to compete in the Santa Clara / SV housing market, and they haven't been able to for a very long time. Construction work is also short-term and temporary in character. That is no
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by pjlegato 10y ago
As elsewhere in the bay area, many residents of SV want the physical structure of their neighborhood to be forever frozen in amber as it was circa 1960, and they've enacted robust zoning laws to that effect. Silicon Valley was a quaint
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by pjlegato 10y ago
"Third world country" is not shorthand for "poor, backwards land." It means a country that was not aligned with either the United States (first world) or the Soviet Union (second world) during the Cold War.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The whole article is full of interviews with Indians who are all complaining about how extremely dangerous it is to drive in India.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It also says the new Supreme Court orders (not guidelines) are being widely ignored, and so they are now running a state-by-state campaign to get laws passed that match the orders.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I doubt it. It won't fix the fundamental problem of moving lots of people to where they want to go in the city. You can only do that by making the area undesirable to go to for whatever reason (probably not a good option), or by provid
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Have you seen Pixie? It meets many of the goals you describe: https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I believe it's not an in- versus out-group issue as such. The issue is that the number of locals is a tiny fraction of the number of outsiders passing through, leading to a vast increase in traffic on the formerly quiet street. When on
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Grids don't help much. Take a look at Google Maps' traffic report of Los Angeles' perfect grid layout during rush hour: the entire grid is usually solid red, almost every day. Like most other plans for ameliorating heavy traf
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by pjlegato 10y ago
That's why they usually couple it with some sort of a cash payoff / severance package for playing nice.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The wealthy would still get bribed, and a lot more than the pittance that the populace would get.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Use of the word "learnings" is itself a strong indicator of the bullshit complex at work.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
> Let's get on with Basic Income Won't that just cause all the amoral people in politics to begin promising to raise the basic income more than the next politician will, reducing all policymaking to a race to bribe the populace
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by pjlegato 10y ago
How will any basic income scheme avoid the problem where all politics and policymaking will then reduce to "promises to increase the basic income"?
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Obviously Sanders uses a different definition for "socialist" than you do. What makes your definition correct and his wrong? An appeal to authority fallacy? He can produce just as many "authorities" with equally fancy cr
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Sanders has described himself as a "socialist" on numerous occasions. In any case, bickering over the validity of different schemes of leftist political ontology was not the point. The point is that OP's belief that criticizi
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by pjlegato 10y ago
So the solution is that the US should abolish the minimum wage and make it possible to cheaply bribe your way out of following regulations, so that middle class people can afford servants again?
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Bernie Sanders seems to be quite popular as an openly socialist presidential candidate, so it cannot be said that it is practically taboo to discuss the supposed shortcomings of capitalism in the US.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The problem to be solved here is not just software. How do you beat the economies of scale that standard designs have achieved? For most applications, the end user gets vastly more computing power per dollar spent when they buy an off the
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by pjlegato 10y ago
There's nothing inherently wrong with adverbs. They're just a tool. Like all tools, they can certainly be misused and inappropriately applied by people who don't know how or when to use them. That doesn't mean they'
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Non-compete agreements are illegal in California. He was probably waiting for his stock options to vest.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
There is tons of this in SF, notably the huge number of illegally built "in-law apartments," where someone converts their garage or basement into a seperate dwelling unit without permits.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Sounds like we could have a fascinating discussion about this over a few beers. My email is in my profile; send me a note and I'll buy you one!
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Storms are not common in San Francisco, but they do happen occasionally. We usually get at least one or two good thunderstorms with high wind every winter. There was a big one in February that eroded away a huge chunk of beach: http:/
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I agree that most people don't conceptualize it in quite those terms, but the choice really is: * Allow new higher density development, accept that your neighborhood will be under construction for years and then will look vastly differ
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by pjlegato 10y ago
San Francisco itself is a counterpoint. It's still the densest area of the US outside of Manhattan, despite decades of anti-development NIMBY housing policy. Both the population and the average rent are rising every year. The old Victo
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Landmark status for a tree is rather unusual even in San Francisco. I don't know what would happen if this specific tree were damaged by a storm. My guess is they'd allow its removal and require that it be replaced by another one,
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by pjlegato 10y ago
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the San Francisco city government was run by pro-development Republicans who built some admittedly rather monstrous looking concrete slab modernist skyscrapers downtown. (Contrary to popular belief, it was then

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