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by ridaj 6y ago
Media in the US is a competitive field, so if a newspaper (NYT or other) withholds information that another media also has access to, then another media will likely publish the story anyway. In the US it's ok to republish facts that we
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by ridaj 6y ago
San Francisco proper, perhaps. But the giant sprawl around it, not so much Source: https://www.urbandisplacement.org/policy-tools/bay-area
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Eh, maybe. Not sure how Ellis Act works. If the alternative is living month to month I'd take that...
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It's a fair point. In practice, why is it that so many housing markets seem to be broken? Is there a way to fix them, or only mitigation?
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Housing insecurity is the problem in both cases. I was fortunately able to relocate, but surely some of the homeless population in San Fransisco was forced out of where they lived after a period of housing insecurity as well.
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Same. On year 1 out might be even, but all it takes is a couple years of strong property price rise (while your rent stays more or less pegged to what it was) to change the calculus in favor of staying under rent control.
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> But the result of rent control is that when places open up, there is a massive excess of demand. I would challenge the notion that the problems of housing demand exceeding supply are all tied back to rent control. Zoning plays a big ro
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I'll have to check them out. I somehow doubt that Americans will trust their governments to build housing to their liking. It'd take some serious image turnaround for middle class Americans to be attracted to the notion of governm
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> It's perhaps worth considering these as forces to be balanced, rather than one extreme or the other being maximally desirable. +1 > There's a strong argument that the kind of risk, stress, and precariousness you rightly an
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Oh I'm all good where I am. Just pointing out what it does to the character of a neighborhood to have long-term renters stick around for the long haul. In rent-controlled markets, in my experience it's not unusual for long-term re
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I'm not saying rent control is an unalloyed good and yes it probably does put a cap on growth rate (though not cause economies to "stagnate", evidenced by many economically strong locales with pervasive rent control). Just po
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Tangentially related... I like that data is presented, but I find it rather short term oriented. I have lived in market rate neighborhoods and have known the angst of lease renewal, each year wondering whether I was going to be able to affo
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by ridaj 6y ago
There are more reasons than just cost to do just for signed in users on a given domain. - Privacy (expected for consumers, debatable for domains). - Willingness to pay (if your stuff is worth protecting, might as well charge for it). - Deco
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I think this is what people mean when they say "pain is inevitable, suffering is optional".
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Sounds like $40k spent to learn a lot of the useful stuff you'd learn in a basic MBA program. Probably a better deal than the MBA :-)
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Yes and for this reason I now only sell on Craigslist even just for nominal amounts. The point of separating from stuff is for it to be more useful to other people, it's not great if it's just going to sit in a hoarder's hous
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by ridaj 6y ago
It's sort of interesting but I don't really understand the issue they seem to have with using protein isolate rather than the dregs of boiled peas. Maybe it's because isolate rings like a chemical name? It's especially f
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Everyone thinks they're the good guy. Even the guy breaking into Congress with weapons and zip ties. Even Sarah Palin claiming this is all an antifa setup to make Trumpists look bad. I'll go further (Edit: is this what's caus
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Your argument would hold more weight if you could show us how to deescalate one person down from "Hang Mike Pence" to "ok yeah I was wrong actually Biden won"; until then, the question is back on you - how do you even de
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I'm sure this will go well with their customers /s
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Why suspect HFTs over other potential interfering applications? Could be anything, and unless I missed something, TFA doesn't show any evidence that the usage is HFT-motivated
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Also mitigated by the concern researchers should probably have for selling exploits to "bad guys", and the associated liabilities, criminal and otherwise
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As I understand it, private and unlisted videos are often used as a draft mode for videos that eventually become public. Uploaders want to check everything, make sure all the transcoding is done, etc before flipping a video to public. Addit
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by ridaj 6y ago
There will be pressure to add backdoors, but even without them it's not a complete loss — police methods used since time immemorial are able to get information on private groups (undercover infiltration, confidential informants, plea b
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Also, false equivalencies are stubborn... A powerful political figure (the effing outgoing prez) whips up a crowd to invade Congress (not just any federal property) while a critical session is in progress, with armed nut jobs announcing the
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Beware the naked teenager invasion of congress
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The endgame is private, end-to-end encrypted group chats. Whatsapp is probably used just as much for insurrection planning but it's all dark to Facebook; they don't have to moderate it, because they have no visibility over it. Cou
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Not without due process.
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Re what exactly, hcq?
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And also saved lives? Perfectionism is also perhaps what's stood in the way of generalized hcq treatment which has since been shown to be harmful, and every other well-intentioned quackery out there... It's hard not to see this as

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