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751.
by rcpt 4y ago
I never understood why the person who owns a $1.8M asset is poor and the person who is obligated to pay a $1.8M mortgage is rich in these conversations
752.
by rcpt 4y ago
Where I live in Los Angeles we have honest to god oil derricks right in the middle of residential neighborhoods and on school campuses. If zoning can't stop that but is preventing duplexes then it's clearly not doing any of the go
753.
by rcpt 4y ago
> people can communally decide How big is this community? Who decides that?
754.
by rcpt 4y ago
It's not their first rodeo https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
755.
by rcpt 4y ago
Because of Prop 13 and the various extensions passed by HJTA (eg Prop 218) the state needs to come up with increasingly bananas schemes to fund public services. In a sane place we'd simply adjust property taxes but that's not poss
756.
by rcpt 4y ago
I assume you've never heard about Prop 13?
757.
by rcpt 4y ago
We have ceded far too much power to the morning people.
758.
by rcpt 4y ago
Ya but stuff like fzf and .bashrc it's just easier to use what everyone else has
759.
by rcpt 4y ago
I was very happy with zsh and fish when I was at small companies or grad school. Now I work at Google where there are tons of shared bash commands and scripts. It's so easy to simply copy/paste something that works into your shell
760.
by rcpt 4y ago
Yes but I don't think it'll affect residential.
761.
by rcpt 4y ago
We have some refineries right up against homes in Wilmington and the bad parts of Long Beach. In either case, the fact that zoning laws aren't stopping this but are taken as seriously as laws of physics when it comes to apartments show
762.
by rcpt 4y ago
As long as Prop 13 is on the books we're pretty fucked but yes this is huge
763.
by rcpt 4y ago
If 100% of owners don't want to sell or build then nothing changes with this law. But trying to control what your neighbors do? Sorry but property rights end at the property line.
764.
by rcpt 4y ago
Home owners, not developers, get all the profits in real estate. https://oregoneconomicanalysis.com/2021/03/16/who-benefits-f...
765.
by rcpt 4y ago
It's the variance. If you're already 5x leveraged into a single asset in a single location whose value is wholly outside of your control you don't need the extra risk of redevelopment
766.
by rcpt 4y ago
> you can't built a chemical processing plant in a residential neighborhood, obviously Actually we have oil derricks in the middle of residential neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
767.
by rcpt 4y ago
I don't know either but would not be surprised if for some non-fire reason they were plugging in a hose. I don't know why firetrucks show up on medical 911 calls or why fire departments run the lifeguards. But they do all those no
768.
by rcpt 4y ago
From what I can tell here there wasn't even a fire.
769.
by rcpt 4y ago
Was there actually a fire? > fire hoses on the ground in the area of active firefighting It sounds like there wasn't.
770.
by rcpt 4y ago
"ordinary software" also gets people killed and injured
771.
by rcpt 4y ago
"No drive list" is the default. Without a current license you should not be driving.
772.
by rcpt 4y ago
Use LaTeX because if the hiring manager has a PhD they'll instantly recognize res.cls and put you at the top of the pile
773.
by rcpt 4y ago
Yeah. The way I understand it is that most users would prefer natural opiates but they're getting more and more expensive while synthetics are cheaper than ever. And, because the market is unregulated, even if you try to buy heroin you
774.
by rcpt 4y ago
Would this be solved by legalizing and regulating opiates?
775.
by rcpt 4y ago
You're already married it's ok to admit that you peed in your wetsuit while walking to the car.
776.
by rcpt 4y ago
Apostol's Calculus changed my life when I was 18
777.
by rcpt 4y ago
> Old "tools" like vintage watches, cameras, etc are pretty cool. Yes definitely. I just purchased a Tektronix 2232 to mess around with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYqE_F2USAM My plan is to try making oscil
778.
by rcpt 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax It would eliminate most of the speculation in housing and give strong incentives to build more. Building more would allow more people to move into job centers which would
779.
by rcpt 4y ago
My friends who worked there say that the job was great but living in a remote science outpost made dating unbelievably difficult
780.
by rcpt 4y ago
> dislodge the stubborn housing bubble. God I wish we could just do a Land Value Tax and be done with it. It wouldn't hurt the economy and might even create more work.

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