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by rcpt 3y ago
> basically dead. It should be properly dead.
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by rcpt 3y ago
I feel like there's a humblebrag bias in these responses.
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by rcpt 3y ago
Right. Price to rent ratios in California means that when you buy the only thing you get is a bet on real estate. New landlords are cash flow negative by wide margins. Wild speculation with no fundamentals isn't attractive to big firms
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by rcpt 3y ago
Demand would go way down if the government would stop favoring real estate investment with ridiculous tax incentives. Mortgage interest deduction 30 year fixed rate mortgage Opportunity zones 1031 exchanges Deprecation deduction The list go
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by rcpt 3y ago
Prop 13 distorts incentives. It's why we have private country clubs in the middle of Los Angeles, dilapidated shacks on Google's global HQ, and surface parking lots in San Francisco proper. It's also why California has the hi
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by rcpt 3y ago
Yes you're right. Undoing Prop 13 wouldn't mean instant Land Value Tax. But Ill still maintain that Prop 13 is pretty close to a polar opposite of Land Value Taxation
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by rcpt 3y ago
Why do you think that the people posting about housing online don't vote?
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by rcpt 3y ago
If drugs and mental health were the reason for homelessness then nobody in the Midwest would live in a house
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by rcpt 3y ago
I'm a little bit skeptical that we could destroy our business clusters and remain equally competitive on the world stage. Seems a lot easier to tax land.
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by rcpt 3y ago
Luckily a San Franciscan figured it all out over one hundred years ago: > THE GREAT PROBLEM IS SOLVED. We are able to explain social phenomena that have appalled philanthropists and perplexed statesmen all over the civilized world. We ha
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by rcpt 3y ago
AirBnB disregards zoning laws to repurpose residential housing as hotels. It's a completely different thing from new workers moving in to a city.
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by rcpt 3y ago
I don't understand why this is flagged. It's an academic paper. Surely we can handle the content.
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by rcpt 3y ago
I think "pronouns" is ok but, yeah, "AI bros" is enough to get a pass from me to. Holier-than-thou name calling is still name calling.
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by rcpt 3y ago
No the California Tax Postponement Program does that https://www.prop13.wtf/2023/05/08/california-tax-postponemen...
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by rcpt 3y ago
What's real disappointing is that this is an IEEE publication. Everything I've published in IEEE had to go through a lot review but I guess if I had instead put together some bad charts and worded it as blog spam I'd be in th
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by rcpt 3y ago
That doesn't work unless the price of everything else is also fixed at 2%. This isn't a controversial point. Jerry Brown dedicated his entire career to this. The California budget is incredibly unstable because of Prop 13.
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by rcpt 3y ago
Right. If revenue came from the land then it couldn't leave so easily.
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by rcpt 3y ago
No it's directly related to Prop 13. Without that law we could rely on stable property taxes for public services and infrastructure. But instead we shift the burden of taxation to unstable sources and now here we are https:/&#x2F
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by rcpt 3y ago
Yeah. I assume teslas are using the lane following thing most of the time.
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by rcpt 3y ago
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealin
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by rcpt 3y ago
Water rights haven't changed
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by rcpt 3y ago
How much for a billboard on I-5 that says "60% of the state's water for 2% of the economy"
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by rcpt 3y ago
Every once in a while there's a real challenge. Rental e-bikes and e-scooters currently. The problem is that these are crippled by regulations that only apply to the new transportation modes. In Los Angeles we put GPS speed limiters an
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by rcpt 3y ago
> not-entirely-upper-class > unpopular No matter if it's Bonny Doon or Felton it will be unpopular with the people living in the woods. The alternative is that the rest of us pay for their chosen lifestyle. The vast majority of p
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by rcpt 3y ago
> wipe out at least half I'm not sure if I've ever seen a situation where all the code for a company gets written and then the engineers just pack up and leave. Typically the more code you write the more code you plan to write.
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by rcpt 3y ago
> will be no indication of what was written by AI I feel like companies will start using watermarking to avoid the AI dumping GPL into their codebase.
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by rcpt 3y ago
This isn't the suburbs. This is exurban sprawl deep into the redwoods.
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by rcpt 3y ago
Right. LA Times has a good write up, Rebuild, Reburn https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-27/rebuild-...
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by rcpt 3y ago
I left a comment on his post (I think, substack commenting is a bit confusing)
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by rcpt 3y ago
wrt to the NYT specifically, it was an intentional top down decision https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1588231892792328192 Context: https://web.archive.org/web/20221104205605/https:&#

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