planetguy

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by planetguy 14y ago
Why should renters be "immune" from the fact that the property they occupy is suddenly worth a lot more? This is the gamble you take when you choose to rent rather than buy. Besides, price booms are the natural result of demand outstripping
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by planetguy 14y ago
Well, ultimately the problem is that San Francisco is a small area where a lot of people want to live, and they're willing to pay a premium to live there. You can fiddle around with the supply side of this "problem" if you like (which will
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by planetguy 14y ago
That's the stated justification. The real reason is that politicians of certain stripes enjoy redistributing wealth from the landlord class to the tenant class and getting rewarded with votes for it, so the stated reason is disingenuous any
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by planetguy 14y ago
I think you're confusing what you'd like to be true with what actually is true. >Gandhi's great insight was that nonviolent resistance is more effective than violent resistance. Except: that isn't true. Or rather, it's true only in
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by planetguy 14y ago
That's a fabulous line, I'm going to remember that one.
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by planetguy 14y ago
I hope they plan to raise the average bus quality too; riding Muni is less like public transport and more like a homeless shelter. I couldn't imagine doing it every day.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Also, remember that East Bay near BART is closer to South of Market than most of San Francisco city is, time-wise Depends what part of the East Bay, of course. West Oakland is the closest BART station, but it is in some serious ghetto.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Instead of a subway line, would it be possible to close off one of San Francisco's many east-west streets (Geary if you like, probably a couple north-south of there would be better) and run a light rail line (using Muni Metro or similar car
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by planetguy 14y ago
You'd want it just as an interface for Mathematica or similar programs. I did a bit of googling and can't find anything that exists.
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by planetguy 14y ago
I wouldn't, I'd buy a new car and a trip to Bermuda. That is to say: I seriously don't see any need for new note-taking software. If I want to take a note, I'll write it on paper. Or use one of MacOS's stickies. Or email it to myself. There
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by planetguy 14y ago
On the other hand it would also be nice to have an equivalent site, BadNYCTenants, so that deadbeat tenants could be easily tracked and blacklisted.
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by planetguy 14y ago
I'm confused as to how auctioning rentals would distort the market. All a landlord needs is one tenant who is willing to pay $N a week. An auction is just an efficient way of finding the appropriate value of N . There are other issues wh
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by planetguy 14y ago
Really? I thought the font for "Scrolls" and the art up the top look a bit amateurish. Presumably well in line with the aesthetic of the game, but not worthy of any kind of positive commentary.
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by planetguy 14y ago
An iPod Touch has been $200 for years, and it's just a small iPad. I don't believe that stretching it out a bit can cost all that much.
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by planetguy 14y ago
The Tea Party is a libertarian movement. Or at least, it started out as one. I'm a pragmatic libertarian, which I suppose makes me a conservative.
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by planetguy 14y ago
>This is particularly stupid because apparently the site only had links to copyright infringement I'm not convinced that there's a difference, legally or ethically, though it would be interesting to see it play out in a court of law.
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by planetguy 14y ago
> for a non-serious crime A non-serious crime? C'mon, anytime you're making hundreds of thousands of pounds by doing something illegal you're into reasonably serious crime territory. You can argue that the law should be changed if you
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by planetguy 14y ago
So it's a bunch of video lectures covering material combined with exercises you can do to check your own reasoning? Congratulations, you've invented the textbook. In video form! Don't get me wrong, a textbook is a nice useful resource, but
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by planetguy 14y ago
I think that those agitating for meaningful copyright reform and against silly copyright infringement cases aren't doing themselves a favour when they start agitating in favour of the actual, honest-to-god, in-it-for-the-money large-scale
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by planetguy 14y ago
No, because there's no extradition treaty between the US and Iran. Extradition treaties only get set up between countries with a reasonable sort of trust in the fairness of each others' legal systems. Extradition between the UK and US is us
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by planetguy 14y ago
So isn't this a fairly huge flaw showing up in this management style, if the cats can't even herd themselves well enough to produce a long-promised sequel to the company's biggest franchise? It doesn't matter that much, of course, if Valv
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by planetguy 14y ago
And of course there always is a single boss even if this fact is hidden; in the case of Valve it's presumably gaben, who owns the majority of the company and must presumably be the final arbiter of everything that happens. I can only as
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by planetguy 14y ago
OK, so who cleans the toilets and empties the garbage? Contractors, presumably -- easier to get non-employees to do this than to incorporate menial staff into your oh-so-flat structure. Reminds me of the way ancient Rome ensured that all ci
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by planetguy 14y ago
The periodic cancellation of all debts thing was one bit that I found fascinating and wished had been expanded upon. I mean, what actually happened historically after that? I mean, did the credit market dry up overnight? Once the preceden
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by planetguy 14y ago
Yeah, I also went to Amazon looking for the definitive negative review, but I have yet to find it. I'd forget the argument-from-authority, though, and just say that Graeber went into this project with some kind of irrational antipathy towar
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by planetguy 14y ago
Dave, Dave, don't be so defensive! I mean, I spend time googling for my name too, but I manage to resist the temptation to throw myself into any discussion of my work, it just comes across badly. I mean, I did go and buy a copy of your book
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by planetguy 14y ago
Ehh, the miles which I get by using my credit card wind up being worth about 2%, so you'd have to convince me that each five-dollar burger raises my insurance premium by more than ten cents.
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by planetguy 14y ago
I mean, you don't often hear people saying, "Oh, you bought a Camry instead of a Civic? You're a fucking idiot!" Actually, you pretty much do, in a lot of places. Mind you the segmentation is less Toyota vs Honda and more American vs Japa
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by planetguy 14y ago
Nah, the cure for this angst is not to care so much about whatever consumer electronics you're using. My phone is a bit crappy. There are definitely better ones on the market. But I don't care, it does the job. There are better TVs than
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by planetguy 14y ago
Sure, just because you don't want a type of warfare doesn't mean you're not going to engage in it. This happens to be the kind of warfare which doesn't "escalate" as such -- certain countries will continue to attack US systems at exactly

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