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by xapata 5y ago
People forget that houses depreciate. It's the land that appreciates.
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by xapata 5y ago
Speculators will eventually mark to market and sell or rent their empty houses. It might take a while, but it's a big country. Housing is illiquid on a small scale, but is a fairly efficient market on the national level. Except for
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by xapata 5y ago
Then it's even easier to move. If the polity doesn't want to zone for more housing, they've chosen to expel people who can't pay more than $X for rent. They'll feel the pain when there's no one around to make
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by xapata 5y ago
What's causing the increased demand: births, immigration, or increased wealth? The pair of Venice and Downtown LA are not closed system. If people are immigrating to those places, then they've left somewhere else, which experien
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by xapata 5y ago
Suppliers will build more until the market clears. If prices are rising, that's a signal to suppliers to keep building. They won't stop until prices fall.
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by xapata 5y ago
I have little sympathy for people that are "forced" to sell their homes for a large capital gain. They can move to where it's cheap and live large. Maybe my perspective as an immigrant is unusual, but I'm a big fan of
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by xapata 5y ago
> more luxury housing can make an area more desirable Depends how big the "area" is that you're thinking about. The effect of increasing housing supply is well-studied. Demand can only grow as fast as the population does
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by xapata 5y ago
The taxi drivers have Square. They just choose not to use it to avoid the processing fee. Also, cash payers are more likely to round up for a tip.
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by xapata 5y ago
Interesting. That algorithm problem should be short-lived, I hope.
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by xapata 5y ago
Why would a taxi be any better?
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by xapata 5y ago
> incentivizing developers to build affordable housing But that's unnecessary. If developers build more luxury housing, that'll reduce the price of existing housing, such that it becomes affordable.
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by xapata 5y ago
In some countries, taxis are so often criminal that tourists are warned to avoid them. In some less extreme places, drivers simply never use the meter and the passengers must negotiate every ride. Uber and its competitors have been wonder
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by xapata 5y ago
Yeah, my company paid the premium for car service because taxi dispatch was too unreliable.
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by xapata 5y ago
Indeed. I wish we had more data to analyze good ways to survive this crisis. Sadly, the predominant result seems to be reversion to dictatorship.
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by xapata 5y ago
If I recall, this was announced at a Meetup event. Halfway through, amidst the giggles, there was an awkward moment when the hosts realized some of the audience thought it was a real service.
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by xapata 5y ago
> ... everybody has a pretty good memory for when they get shafted. Not just humans. Chimpanzees demonstrate jealousy or a sense of fairness in experiment. I'm pretty sure I've seen dogs show it, too.
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by xapata 5y ago
You could have asked for benchmarks without saying, "Yaaawn." I think the author would be more likely to volunteer to improve the code if it were encouraged rather than yawned at.
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by xapata 5y ago
Roommates in a bigger apartment or house is quite reasonable. 1-bedroom apartments are more than half the price of 2-bedroom apartments, so some efficiencies can be had by sharing a kitchen.
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by xapata 5y ago
What's wrong with roommates?
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by xapata 5y ago
You can offer to settle, which is similar. A "settled in full" note goes on your credit report.
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by xapata 5y ago
It didn't sound like an excuse to me, but a distinction between slavery and something else. Not all exploitation is slavery.
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by xapata 5y ago
No, I think slavery is significantly different.
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by xapata 5y ago
Slave labor? Surely the ratio of Chinese laborers who feel enslaved is low enough that it's inappropriate to describe Chinese labor on the whole as slave labor.
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by xapata 5y ago
Wages are prices. A wage is the price of labor. When wages increase, inflation is happening, by definition.
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by xapata 5y ago
F-strings are the reason I upgraded all my projects.
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by xapata 5y ago
They announced pausing, but didn't pause.
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by xapata 5y ago
Good stage presence, but the backup singers should have been more dynamic.
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by xapata 5y ago
I suspect humans are far more malleable than they realize, and personalities change quickly with different contexts. For example, I am sure many Ukrainians who are now enlisting would have said they'd never kill another human.
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by xapata 5y ago
> if I can’t say that to people making poverty wages and being trapped, I can’t say they to prison guards, either Indeed. I think the same for everyone. Poverty is not an excuse for brutality.
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by xapata 5y ago
> ... deal with a lot of stress ... have something better you're moving to ... Thus the ethical argument. They'd rather keep doing what they're doing than pick the stress and uncertainty of moving.

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