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by scoofy 2y ago
I immediately assumed: > to watch trivially profitable videos ad-free I know I'm cynical, but any time there is anything vague in a plan, I just assume it will be as asymmetric as possible. I assume this will allow for a ratchet
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New ballot measure to ban the hidden fees at restaurants in SF(sfclearprices.org)
5 points by scoofy 2y ago|2 comments
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by scoofy 2y ago
Transparent Restaurant Pricing Act California banned junk fees. Then the legislature changed its mind and passed a carve-out for restaurants. We’re trying to stop it, and we need your help. Petition circulation begins Saturday, March 1, 202
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by scoofy 2y ago
Except that everything changes all the time, because time marches on. Instead of changing the buildings, we've changed the cost of living. We can no longer be a "come as you are" city, because nobody can afford it anymore, wh
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by scoofy 2y ago
Yeah, NIMBY means "Not In My Backyard" implying that we want that thing, just elsewhere . I don't think anyone in this situation actually wants the drones whizzing around when there is little actual benefit in the first pl
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by scoofy 2y ago
7% is historical for S&P500, but that's with 3% average inflation. His point is that 5% real returns are, in fact, generous.
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by scoofy 2y ago
The point is San Francisco has tons of land (with houses already built on it) that is desirable but not allow for redevelopment.
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by scoofy 2y ago
I mean, I simply disagree. The progressive and socialist left's solutions to 'the housing theory of everything' narrative have pretty much failed wherever they have been implemented, especially in the United States. That do
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by scoofy 2y ago
I mean, I think it's worse than that. I grew up in Austin, and still have family there. The fact that a lefty like me is regularly siding with state Republicans against local Democrats on housing policy is legitimately insane. Austin
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by scoofy 2y ago
What do you think we've been doing? I've spent literally two decades of my life advocating policies to try to prevent this from happening... the left is blind to their decadence and the right has gone insane.
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by scoofy 2y ago
Grief is a good way to put it. I know everyone is reinforcing their priors, and mine has been the "Housing Theory of Everything" for the last decade -- and longer than that if you count my mid-2000's (admittedly naive) urban-
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by scoofy 2y ago
You cite the categorical imperative, that shows up in the Critique of Practical Reason, which I would happily suggest folks interested in philosophy. To actually sit down an read the first Critique, though, you'll probably need to kn
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by scoofy 2y ago
I've actually read close to 20 here. The only one I'd put desperately in that category is the Critique of Pure Reason. Seriously, nobody should be reading that book. Just read a summary or take a class. It is the type of brutal de
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by scoofy 2y ago
The same concept, at a minimum, would need to be extended to units . This is what I mean by assuming it’s arbitrary. It’s just redundant to say that, yes, obviously you need an incremental increase in units, sqft’s, footprint, vertical foo
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by scoofy 2y ago
There are various ways to do it, but I genuinely think uniform is better. Low density residential likely prefers, and naturally supports, low density retail.
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by scoofy 2y ago
This is a general argument assuming units being arbitrary. Units should be effectively arbitrary, but every town will have different rules.
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by scoofy 2y ago
This is why incrementalism is always the best method of development. Spread out the pain so everyone only suffers a little. Spread out the development across different architectural eras. Spread out density to the point where you have dimin
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by scoofy 2y ago
Lol… yea, definitely the people who’ve moved here to make a better life for themselves and not the native population doing whatever they can to try an preserve a 1970’s nostalgic lifestyle without thinking about how their own children would
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by scoofy 2y ago
The concept that we would have "men philosophers" and "women philosophers", or "bachelor philosophers" and "married philosophers", and that their philosophical theories would be tainted by their sex o
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by scoofy 2y ago
The problem with MBA’s is that they don’t value what decent men and women bring to the table. I’d rather pay double for an honest mechanic. Asymmetric information requires a ton of resources to protect against, or you can just know the pers
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by scoofy 2y ago
The fact that they changed behavior is immaterial to whether they improved or damaged the environment on net. You look at California’s sprawl in the face of climate change, and you have to condemn a significant amount of the cliched 70’s
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by scoofy 2y ago
Have you every heard of CEQA? You can be an environmentalist (I am) and realize that much of the 'environmentalist movement' is self-serving nonsense; e.g., plastic recycling. It doesn't mean you don't care... it just me
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by scoofy 2y ago
You look at the history of the sierra club. They went from an organization fighting dams and the army corp, to a group fighting neighborhood development and densification in Marin county.
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by scoofy 2y ago
You sound like someone who hasn’t been to dozens of city council meetings where the vast majority of liberal urban dwellers would rather remove all transportation alternatives if it would make it easier for them to park their second car in
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by scoofy 2y ago
The environmental movement was in large part, wealthy people trying to block development in their own neighborhoods. Much of that environmental movement created the sprawl we live with today.
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by scoofy 2y ago
What would you have us do? People voted for this. I’ve hated every minute of this, but they obviously have the authority here. Apart from legal challenges, this very much seems like a “we voted to make our country nontrivially worse off in
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by scoofy 2y ago
This is exactly why I started my blog about golf. I was starting https://golfcourse.wiki and I read a bunch by Jimmy Wales, and he focused on his own credibility and openness being a linchpin to wikipedia. I thought I might as w
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by scoofy 2y ago
This sentiment is exactly what David Lynch explores over, and over, and over: Why are some people willing to be so evil. I think we tell ourselves it’s environment or inequity or education… but the older I get, the more I think there is a
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by scoofy 2y ago
I suspect that bird-human contact is as much a concern, if not more so than bird-bird contact.
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by scoofy 2y ago
CTRL+F: "Tim Wu" I'm shocked and dismayed that this book is not more prominent. The book opened my eyes not only to the fact that these companies would become enshitty, but why they weren't in the first place.

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