vrganj

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by vrganj 5d ago
I'm sure it does, to some extent that is <100%. But the real limit in a city is land. If we want to use it efficiently, we should check what we want to optimize use of that resource for. IMO, in Berlin the most lacking thing is the
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by vrganj 5d ago
Well, that's what a democracy should be used to decide, since people might have different things they want to optimize for. Personally, I believe Berlin has more issues with a lack of affordable housing than with a lack of luxury condo
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by vrganj 5d ago
Yes. The market is a great optimizer, sure, but the question is always what do you actually want to optimize for? And that might not always be the same optimization function as a market.
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by vrganj 5d ago
You're losing track of your own argument. You just decried expropriation because they would chill private development. I just demonstrated why that is not an issue, since public development produces better results anyways. The chilling
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by vrganj 5d ago
You talk as if there wasn't a historic example just next door for how well government buildout of apartments could work. The City of Vienna was a place of misery and slums before their socialist party built out enormous amounts of high
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by vrganj 5d ago
Yeah like that ugly drab city of ... Vienna?? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/10/the-soc...
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by vrganj 5d ago
The fix is for the city to be the builder, like it is in Vienna. The City of Vienna is the largest landlord in Europe. It is also the only major European capital without a rent cost crisis.
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by vrganj 5d ago
I don't know what you're trying to achieve by comparing it to the total. It's not about the proportion of empty houses to full ones, it's about the proportion of empty houses and people with no house. The full ones are a
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by vrganj 6d ago
Yup. All this talk of personal responsibility in these types of situations is nothing but a perfidious form of victim blaming. "The crack addict should've known better, it's not the dealer's fault they came back for more
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by vrganj 6d ago
But we're not building an AI society - to what end? We're building tools to serve the human society.
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German Hospitals Prepare for War, Drones and Mass Casualties(bloomberg.com)
8 points by vrganj 7d ago|5 comments
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by vrganj 8d ago
Why should they give a shit what some foreign despots agree to?
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Euro-Office receives desktop app(heise.de)
1 points by vrganj 8d ago|0 comments
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by vrganj 8d ago
It means everyone is looking for an alternative to the man in the white house and Europe is the only credible player to rally around.
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Australia and New Zealand could follow Canada into associated EU membership(euronews.com)
8 points by vrganj 8d ago|4 comments
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by vrganj 9d ago
"No Russian leader could stand idly by in the face of steps toward NATO membership for Ukraine. That would be a hostile act toward Russia" https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-future-in-nato-prec... edit since
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by vrganj 9d ago
As an Austrian, I agree with this German :-)
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Carney embraces a proposal for Canada to become the EU's first associate member(apnews.com)
5 points by vrganj 9d ago|0 comments
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by vrganj 9d ago
Not the EU. The brotherly nation bordering them, just like Putin did. It's not my suggestion either [0] and I'm not the only one worried about it. [1] Putin's invasion didn't happen without years of prep work. Things lik
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by vrganj 9d ago
Everything is bluster until it happens. Putin was blustering about hostile acts by Ukraine for years.
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by vrganj 9d ago
"No Russian leader could stand idly by in the face of steps toward NATO membership for Ukraine. That would be a hostile act toward Russia" https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-future-in-nato-prec... The White
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Trump suggests EU allowing Canada as associate member could be a 'hostile act'(apnews.com)
12 points by vrganj 9d ago|7 comments
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by vrganj 10d ago
> US laws, including the Cloud Act, have created concerns across the market that American authorities could seek access to customer data. The CLOUD Act is becoming a bigger and bigger deal here in Europe. It definitely kills deals.
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by vrganj 10d ago
Apples, Oranges etc once again. Of course NATO is a completely different kind of organization from the EU. The Catholic Church has more members than NATO, too, but it's a completely nonsensical comparison. The EU doesn't have some
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by vrganj 10d ago
CUSMA is just a trade deal, not a full-on organization like the EU. If we're doing a trade deal measuring contest, I will just point out that the EU has the world's largest free trade network, including Canada (already), South Kor
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by vrganj 10d ago
That already exists: https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-cou... This is about much more than that.
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by vrganj 10d ago
You think the wings of the US are a larger league than the EU? The EU has built the world's largest trade zone, from Mercosur to South Korea, Japan and India to Canada. I believe they are currently outmaneuvering the rest of the world
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by vrganj 10d ago
Britain, too, is European. They were even a part of the EU at one point ;)
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by vrganj 10d ago
I live here. I talk to older people. They tell me about the horrors of WW2 and how glad they are the EU succeeded as a peace project. Before the EU, we had centuries of cruelties between what are now members of the same block. It might be g
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by vrganj 10d ago
Who knows, maybe after all the doom and gloom the EU might just win by default because the other world powers have become so unattractive the rest of the world rallies around them?

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