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by shuckles 7y ago
I find responses like this fairly patronizing. I think it’s preferable to not respond at all or substitute a link to an article like Kim Mai’s (in)famous TechCrunch piece instead of this veritable shrug. Edit: After seeing your profile, I f
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by shuckles 7y ago
I feel like we’re talking past each other. In the section about labor costs, it cites at least the following: 1. Slow uptake of skills, lower productivity. Related to recession. 2. Hard to get bids due to uncertain approval process. Entirel
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by shuckles 7y ago
You have more reason to be "genuinely confused" than the parent, who I was responding to.
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by shuckles 7y ago
Starting a comment with a put down like the parent did is not well-received by the community.
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by shuckles 7y ago
It also includes operation of the water district which other cities split out.
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by shuckles 7y ago
For starters, it's never OK for a city with pension plans like San Francisco to reject growth, since that growth was factored in when determining ability to pay those pensions. SF is able to tread water with its pensions while Oakland
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by shuckles 7y ago
You need to argue the counterfactual. You can build housing and have rents increase because demand was still greater than supply. None of your links show that rents increased more than they would have without building housing.
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by shuckles 7y ago
In a free market, a developer could demolish a SFH to build a tall building with lots of micro units so that low income workers could live near where they work with relative dignity.
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by shuckles 7y ago
Regulation, in particular rules on sourcing along with uncertainty of permit timelines, are a driver for labor expenses: https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/San_Francisco_Cons... Intuitively, how is it that Seatt
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by shuckles 8y ago
This is true in theory but in practice often hard to get approved. For example, in San Francisco you can never apply for a pass through on buildings occupied by the elderly or disabled even if that tenant sublets to non-protected people. In
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by shuckles 8y ago
Where did I say that was my position? My comment was purely an accounting claim; there is little opportunity for spin.
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by shuckles 8y ago
The trust fund is an accounting fiction that doesn't hold any economically productive assets. Congress spent social security's surplus in the general budget and issued special obligation bonds in return that accumulate "inter
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by shuckles 8y ago
Heads up: the link to the investors page (notion.so/investors) 404s.
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by shuckles 9y ago
“push notifications can reach your users regardless of whether your website or Safari is open“ https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ne...