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by scoofy 1y ago
I appreciate the response. Also in good faith. My entire point is that housing is an ecosystem. To say that "homelessness" is somehow independent of this housing ecosystem is to focus on the blemish, not the disease. If we literal
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by scoofy 1y ago
>Not sure anyone said this It's literally what the person I was responding to said: >>But here in California every state law deregulating real estate development has been abused by developers to build more $2M-$3M houses. >
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by scoofy 1y ago
It's not just about homelessness though, sure the article is, but the crisis is not. It's about standard of living and making sure we are building a future where people have better lives than the previous generations. We need hous
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by scoofy 1y ago
I don't think building high-end housing will completely solve homelessness, no, but it is a non-trivial improvement especially when it comes to tax revenues that can be used to build public housing. We only build high-end housing i
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by scoofy 1y ago
I mean vacancy taxes will help, but the only reason why “investment properties” even exist is because of the intentional, artificial housing shortage. Houses are deteriorating assets that only gain their wealth because of the land value app
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by scoofy 1y ago
West Virginia is literally the demonstration that this sentiment is completely wrong. They have a higher drug abuse rate than California, but effectively do not have homelessness at any rate that we do… because you can get a place to live f
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by scoofy 1y ago
Yes it does. Every new home adds supply and lowers the price of homes along the demand curve. Not to mention increasing the tax base to fund public housing.
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by scoofy 1y ago
This type of reductionist take is unhelpful no matter who is making it. We can have a bunch of free states, with whites and blacks fighting for abolition as far back as the founding, and a bunch of slave states fighting for slavery. Trying
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by scoofy 1y ago
I mean, I don't disagree with you there. Even within academic philosophy circles, you'll get groans when one sect is discussing things with another sect. Lord knows ancient philosophy academics and analytic philosophy academics ar
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by scoofy 1y ago
It's weird that "being interested in philosophy" is like... a movement. My background is in philosophy, but the rationalist vs nonrationalist debate seems like an undergraduate class dispute. My old roommate worked for Op
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by scoofy 1y ago
I'm not complaining really, just think it's a explanation that describes the downward sticky nature of companies that can't seem to justify their valuations. I agree that the median investor feels that way, I just think tha
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by scoofy 1y ago
Investing in a proportional index fund moves the market as a whole, but does not move the individual stocks in relative rank. Aside from short term frictional liquidity issues, it just makes the stocks' relative movements exaggerated.
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by scoofy 1y ago
Was a Wave user too. I thought it was very cool.
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by scoofy 1y ago
It really is wild that investments are driven by the marginal investor, not the median investor. 99% of us can think that Tesla is trash, but 1% of world investors is an absolute ton of capital.
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by scoofy 1y ago
To be fair, buying puts is probably the safest way for OP to take a short position.
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by scoofy 1y ago
This essay is about state actors and the future of warfare, not terrorists.
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by scoofy 1y ago
This model doesn’t account for the fact that hunger and satiety are chemical processes, not physical processes. It’s like saying people who want to stay awake when they are tired should just keep their eyes open.
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by scoofy 1y ago
We are living through the baby boomer going-out-of-business fire sale right now, and it's just so deeply depressing. I have an entire theory of the ideological reasons why the parties are in a political realignment, but none of it real
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by scoofy 1y ago
I mean, sure, this should be considered effectively trivial, but it's just click-bait. Look, I have too many degrees in my failed attempt to become a philosophy academic to just skip leaving a comment here. Apologies for the wall of
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by scoofy 1y ago
I think the goal hear is to "both sides" the concept of insurrection to neuter the January 6th criticism of his administration. The protesters here, at least in some cases, are doing their protests explicitly to prevent the govern
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by scoofy 1y ago
Gambling should not be trivially easy to participate in. That's the real problem. If we're pretending it's entertainment, then it shouldn't matter that winners get shut down... because it's just supposed to be fun.
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The point is that race is a bad proxy for ethnicity. We should expect the environmental factors to also mirror ethnic clustering.
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It just reductionist nonsense. The idea that valuing technical excellence is a masculine trait is just absurd. The idea that valuing social impact is a feminine trait is also nonsense. Yes, we could have an aggregate noticeable difference,
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We are in the midst of a major political party realignment. When that happens, both parties are split and elections basically create a broken legislature. When that happens, people start daydreaming: "what if my political group didn&#x
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Drones are surprisingly loud. I’ve been at some golf events where they were doing drone photography and it was a constant distraction from the tranquility.
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by scoofy 1y ago
I mean... it's pretty objectively obvious. We have the right tools and expertise, it's just that our electorate can't see the walkable city past losing their free street parking for their third car. It's always, "bu
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Yea, I loved the relationships in NYC, just not the grind. Everyone was trying to "make it" everything was expensive while at the same time there is garbage juice on the street in 90º heat. I'd go see my friends shows, but ne
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I've never felt more connected to people than in NYC. I knew my neighbors, I had a huge social network, I just didn't like the NYC that much. I honestly blame residential zoning. The place we would get to know our neighbors was at
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by scoofy 1y ago
Unfortunately, it is if you really believe it.
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by scoofy 1y ago
The Republican party is, in fact, a coalition. When parts of that coalition become alienated enough, and that is very much happening right now , then we have a chance to coordinate with our coalition. You sound like you don't know any

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