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by xvedejas 1y ago
If your land can be treated as an asset, then we don't really have LVT yet. The goal of LVT is to tax land to the point where it is no longer an appreciating asset (and, not too much that it becomes a liability)
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by xvedejas 1y ago
I don't think people living in cities want this, and so it's probably not going to happen. At least not in my city, which only has about two freeways, and people keep talking about tearing more of them down. I live half a mile awa
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by xvedejas 1y ago
That would be a lot more land devoted to freeways, and the associated maintenance cost. But beside that, the bottle necks are mostly not the number of highways, but rather the number of exits near the urban center. I'm skeptical that t
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by xvedejas 1y ago
Roads don't scale well regardless of whether the cars are self-driving. Once you get enough cars on the same highway, there's an inflection point where speeds drop quickly. This only gets worse as you increase the radius of viable
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by xvedejas 1y ago
Right now the derive macro requires `T` be `Clone`, but what we actually want to require is only that each field is clone, including those that are generic over `T`. eg `Arc<T>` is `Clone` even though `T` isn't, so the correct re
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by xvedejas 1y ago
When something is an acid, it dissociates into both a positive ion H+ and negative ion (rest of the molecule) HA ⇌ H+ + A-
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by xvedejas 1y ago
Safe rust is a safe language. Yes, it is built upon unsafe rust. But I still consider Python to be a memory safe language despite it being built on C. I can still trust that my Python code doesn't contain such memory errors. Safe Rust
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by xvedejas 1y ago
Surely the reduction in vehicle count is more than enough to cancel this out, but a moving vehicle does emit more exhaust and tire dust per unit of time than does a vehicle idling. For the environmental improvements it's more about the
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by xvedejas 1y ago
I wonder whether pedestrian collisions will be slightly more deadly, since one effect is that traffic flows faster than before. Great for drivers but probably more dangerous for the jaywalking new yorker.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
I'm personally most worried about increases in general income levels being soaked up by real estate holders. It's what we've seen happen in the SF bay area rents in response to tech fortunes. I don't see UBI actually inc
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by xvedejas 2y ago
The supply and demand curves are not straight lines. There is not one unit price that consumers value a good at, that's why the marginal price that a consumer will pay depends on the quantity produced. The first most eager buyers would
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Interesting, I had thought they were generally illegal to keep as pets, but I see now that that's only in some locations.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Land that is far away from developed land will tend to have lower land values, so farmland would not be so highly taxed under LVT. It's mostly land that benefits from being close to development that would be taxed higher.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
My friends in the geological sciences have told me there will be a big earthquake, but it will be capped at around magnitude 8.0; the faults here are not capable of a 9.0. Buildings in SF have been constructed or retrofit for modern earthqu
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Well, I desired and moved to SF exactly because it's the closest thing to a dense urban jungle that I could find in California. I even dream of moving to a denser part of the city one day, once I can reasonably afford it, but those par
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Even sub-psychedelic doses of tryptamines is known to have an effect on certain migraines and cluster headaches: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptan
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by xvedejas 2y ago
This is entirely untrue. You are responding to a poster who has provided high-quality sources by just saying "nuh-uh".
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by xvedejas 2y ago
People do have to walk from their cars too (for any city I've been to)
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by xvedejas 2y ago
I'm of the opinion that it depends on density. You could build a subway line in some US cities of 1M and nobody would ride it; you could build a subway line in a city of 50k and everyone would ride it. It depends on whether there is de
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by xvedejas 2y ago
Is this maybe short-sighted? Wages for one particular role go down when the labor pool is larger, for sure. But how many new companies could exist given cheaper skilled labor, working on new products? I feel like growing the economy like th
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by xvedejas 2y ago
If my company has decided to replace me with someone cheaper, and they can't get an H1B, then they'll go for someone overseas, right? At least for tech jobs, it seems likely. With the H1Bs, income taxes are paid in the US, and the
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by xvedejas 2y ago
> Taxi/Uber toll is passed directly onto he rider. Only partially right? Tax incidence depends on the price elasticity of demand and price elasticity of supply.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
This is also how it works in San Francisco (SFMTA Muni buses)
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by xvedejas 2y ago
It's possible to die of "protein poisoning" but you really have to be in a survival situation with no sources of fat. Hunters and trappers are known to have died this way when only lean meat was available in far northern wint
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by xvedejas 2y ago
My prior post is choosing not to compare the two at all. In isolation, it is easier for California to handle fewer roads than it currently does.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
I imagine that all states would have more trouble managing more roads than they currently do, and less trouble managing fewer roads than they currently do.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
I'd like to see California consider reducing the total mileage of roads and focus on having a smaller amount of higher quality paved surfaces. My neighborhood street does not need to be 60ft wide, and our freeways do not need more lane
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by xvedejas 2y ago
So when interviewing, perhaps I should skip more places that say citizenship required on the req, to avoid wasting my time?
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by xvedejas 2y ago
I don't mean temporary shelter. But I agree there is a subset of the homeless population that have more problems than just homelessness. It may be impossible to solve their homelessness without solving other problems first.
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by xvedejas 2y ago
I think the author agrees but is dismayed that these organizations don't "solve" homelessness. I'll offer the suggestion that it might be _even better_ to donate that money towards somehow providing housing.

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