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by shuckles 4y ago
Do you know if the petro state per capita figures include the migrant/indentured workers employed there?
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by shuckles 4y ago
Meta is an instructive example of how this might apply to large companies: those which show little income after frivolous expenses may see their valuation tank, impacting total employee compensation which depends on high prices. These compa
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by shuckles 4y ago
No, apartments are very popular with Americans. The few that are allowed to be built are very expensive.
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by shuckles 4y ago
I don’t think Singapore has run out of (re-)developable land. It has lots of low rise homes that have very low land value tax assessments. In any case, I agree their current situation is better than ours, but my point that the HDB model can
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by shuckles 4y ago
HDBs are high quality and safe. I don’t think most Americans would object to owning their own apartment if the builder and operator happened to be a government agency.
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by shuckles 4y ago
The various preferences for heterosexual, married couples with kids wouldn’t be popular either.
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by shuckles 4y ago
The HDB system's outcomes aren't great if not paired with abundant supply. Singapore market rents are growing fast, HDBs have all sorts of unsavory (to Americans) queueing and prioritization rules, and there are plenty of rent see
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by shuckles 4y ago
ByteDance almost certainly does many tens of billions of revenue a year.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Why is everyone trying to infer net new births from fertility rates? We have the exact data: https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Forecasting/Demographi... People can live longer, and natural population incr
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by shuckles 4y ago
Since your data is wrong, I can only imagine you’re going to change your mind right?
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by shuckles 4y ago
There was not a single year in 2010-2019 where California had more deaths than births.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Your link 404s, and fertility rates are not measures of net new natural population growth. If everyone lives longer, you can still have more births than deaths with sub replacement fertility. In any case, the California Department of Financ
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by shuckles 4y ago
You are wrong. San Francisco does not even build enough homes to match natural population growth. Neither do most cities on the Peninsula.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Apple runs famously lean. Given they out-execute most of their competitors with a fraction of the headcount, maybe they’re onto something.
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by shuckles 4y ago
To be fair, within living memory the restrictions went as far as to say what ethnicities could buy the house. The march of progress is slow.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Yes I agree the people who cannot stand anything besides detached density controlled development should move to less productive and jobs rich regions of the country.
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by shuckles 4y ago
I like the part of the post where the author cites a page with 8-9 job ads as a “hiring spree” and a bunch of posts by a single author, Jen Simmons, as evidence of a huge reallocation of talent.
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by shuckles 4y ago
This is one of the most strange recurring theories. Companies are valued based on the recurring cashflows they generate from operating activities. A large technology company could have a _huge_ one-time write down of their real estate asset
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by shuckles 4y ago
Yeah the UC has the great blessing of not being subject to local zoning and the great curse of being a public project subject to CEQA no matter what.
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by shuckles 4y ago
You are making something of an induced demand argument that basic services for people who can't care for themselves will generate more such people. Fortunately, most people of sound mind understand that living in a former Motel 6 is no
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by shuckles 4y ago
Yes it is: private projects are only subject to CEQA if permits are discretionary cf https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21723 . In San Francisco and some neighboring cities, every permit is discretionary either directly or th
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by shuckles 4y ago
There are many reasons it would be good for there to be a fallback zoning set by the state if a city is missing a housing element. For example, in that case builders could propose zoning compliance projects which have less legal ambiguity,
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by shuckles 4y ago
Exempting infill housing from CEQA is on the YIMBY agenda. That said, CEQA only applies to discretionary decisions, so if permitting residential development is a ministerial decision (i.e. anyone who meets certain criteria is approved), the
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by shuckles 4y ago
Why is it nonsense for the state to fund shelter programs by buying out non-viable businesses (empty motels at the height of the pandemic), bailing out both business owners and building shelter capacity at much lower cost than building it n
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by shuckles 4y ago
False. The only basis for not granting pretrial release is if "[the release] will not reasonably assure the appearance of the person as required or will endanger the safety of any other person or the community", and even still the
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by shuckles 4y ago
My phrasing was ambiguous but I was requesting examples of IPFS use cases. Libgen hosts on IPFS, but it’s a centralized host.
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by shuckles 4y ago
Besides Libgen which, as far as I can tell, is mostly keeping data on IPFS via centralized servers paid for by ICO money, what are the most used products of PL?
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by shuckles 4y ago
Can you point me to a configured system with 1.5TB of ECC RAM sold at retail today for "a few thousand bucks"?
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by shuckles 4y ago
That’s a tautology since you described a subset.
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by shuckles 4y ago
There are a myriad of ways Houston does control land use beyond zoning such as minimum parking requirements and private covenants.

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