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by xvedejas 7y ago
When will people stop looking for scapegoats and start finding solutions? Needlessly high rents are an economics problem, and there's a lot of evidence that a combination of expanding housing supply and imposing a Land Value Tax would
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by xvedejas 7y ago
These pseudo-events are almost necessary in our first-past-the-post system, to build consensus among two wings and avoid the spoiler effect. With its air of legitimacy it creates a schelling point (or two) so that a bunch of strangers can c
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by xvedejas 7y ago
"Privatized and expected to make a profit" reads a lot more like Japanese transit to me, than it sounds like any American system I'm familiar with. I'm inclined to understand France as moving in a different (perhaps bett
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I see "arse" used on occasion here in the US as a way to make "ass" sound milder. It's like using "darn" instead of "damn", munging the pronunciation. In either case, the cultural exchange goes b
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by xvedejas 7y ago
LVT doesn't have to be progressive to make land hoarding unprofitable. It just needs to be appropriately proportional to land value.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
No. I went to news.google.com and searched "judge says". While the article above was one of the top results, all the other of the top ten results were stories in various parts of the US, with "judge says" used in the sam
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Adults only pass on half of their genes during reproduction. I imagine at least in the case of in vitro fertilization there's a fair amount you can do to make sure the harmful genes aren't the ones passed along, so long as the par
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Are you referring to the vote of officials to ban cars on much of Market street? As far as I know, there was no measure passed by residents to ban cars on streets east of 10th, so your comment is misleading. That would be a very large area,
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by xvedejas 7y ago
The Orange Box came out and was a big hit when I was still a kid, now in my 20s I certainly remember the series fondly. Not that I have a lot of spare time either.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
At least 3 significant digits, since we know the exact year; but given we seem to know the exact day you could probably claim it's more like 5 significant digits (500.00 years).
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by xvedejas 7y ago
It's not coincidental that the adaptation wasn't lost. Mutation and genetic drift may be thought of as a random process, but natural selection is much less so.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I don't intuitively see why a double word square would be harder to construct than a single word square. After all, if you allow the words to be different, surely there are more options / more degrees of freedom to complete the sq
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Mountains in the rain shadow of other mountains? Or under an ice cap?
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Japan has great high speed rail, without cutting corners and even with much weaker eminent domain powers. There are other factors at play here. Why is building rail infrastructure 5x more expensive in the US than it is in continental Europe
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by xvedejas 7y ago
This is why ICLR will be held in Ethiopia next year. It's a known problem in the ML research community.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
If you want to be geographically technical about it, Stripe is not a Silicon Valley company, but rather a company in a nearby city called San Francisco. Both Stripe and WeWork do seem to follow the "silicon valley model", however.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
A Carbon tax would also disproportionately help the poor, especially the global poor, so it's not fair to call it regressive without finding a way to put some numbers on both the costs and benefits. Besides, the money gained from a car
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Should it not be the other way around, turn housing into more of a commodity? We have no shortage of most commodities, for example foods, because typically the higher the demand for the commodities, the more is made. Those markets benefit f
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Jobs are often desirable. I suppose it's down to the individual to decide whether they care more to 1. optimize for avoiding the most undesirable situations or 2. optimize for total average desirability of where they live. My question
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I think the solution is a land value tax. This would take the value out of excluding others from land. There are known solutions to this known problem, it's the political class to blame.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I'm a big fan of the co-living movement, and that's why it's exciting to see it mainstreamed by corporations. I hope they're successful and we see more options for people to live with one another. I live in a group house
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Glen Park, a neighborhood near multiple rapid transit lines, has an even lower 40ft limit for the commercial area near the BART station.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I think the issue might be that plenty of people live in SJ relative to the amount of housing available, and so it's expensive just like SF, but it's far less developed / more sprawling, so there's less slack in the syst
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Like SF, most buildings in SJ are much, much shorter than the tallest existing buildings in the respective city.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I'm young and have also been turned down often due to whiteboard interviews. What surprises me is that you were only rejected twice in a few months. I had to go through many, many more rejections than that much quicker than that before
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by xvedejas 7y ago
The distinction between "supercomputer" and "enterprise cloud" is nearly meaningless now that a cloud compute instance is considered in the top 500 fastest super computers: https://medium.com/descarteslab
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by xvedejas 7y ago
Muni already has a fare system for low-income riders.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
I live on the other side of the mission, so YMMV. Though I would suggest that surge pricing is one of ridesharing's strengths, and public transit could learn from it.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
In my case, since nobody else has replied with public transit: SF has a really great bus system that, if you're traveling along any of the frequent lines with bus lanes, is usually the same speed as an uber once you factor in the wait.
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by xvedejas 7y ago
My guess is that you can put the bar for "wealthy" as high as necessary to get any percentage you want. Illustrating by reductio ad absurdum, you can make the argument that 100% of "wealthy" parents have no wealthy child

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