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by yonran 9y ago
Note that both the citylab article and pedestrianobservations are from the same author, Alon Levy. I also liked his article ( https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/02/10/why-we-cant... ) summarizing best p
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by yonran 9y ago
SB 827 upzones for apartments half a mile around every major transit stop https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... SB 828 would double the amount of zoning capacity that each city is required to
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by yonran 9y ago
I wish Google would just adopt spot prices like AWS EC2, where you can look at the 3-month spot price history to estimate cost and to discover combinations of availability zone and instance type with extra capacity. GCE’s preemptible instan
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by yonran 9y ago
I think I agree with your argument that we should discourage foreign speculators, but I would go further by adding that we should discourage domestic speculation as well, so I think I disagree with your apparent argument that you deserve yo
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by yonran 9y ago
Ed Lee advocated for the right housing policies. As mayor, he created the Affordable Housing Trust Fund after California ended Redevelopment and created several efforts to increase the housing supply, including the Public Land for Housing p
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by yonran 9y ago
It’s common to see large disparities; from looking at a random street (Betlin Ave, Cupertino) there is a house with an assessed value of $67k while Zillow estimates its value at $1.7M. Assuming that inflation is ≥2% per year yet property va
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by yonran 9y ago
There are a lot of “…but first, the revolution” socialists who oppose private housing on the grounds that it won’t create a more affordable city (described by Sonja Trauss https://medium.com/@LocalPolitics/but-first-the
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by yonran 9y ago
What you describe is California’s Proposition 13. It does essentially the opposite of the Land Value Tax that the parent is advocating. The acquisition value system and 1% cap ensure that land investors (rather than local governments) captu
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by yonran 9y ago
I think “overeducated, underemployed hipsters” would cover activists of many different political stripes. But I disagree that upzoning is desired mainly by people who want to live here due to their urban identity. Many of the people who sta
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by yonran 9y ago
The Proposition 13 tax assessment can be inherited. If you have at least as many houses as family members, then your family benefits indefinitely from supply restrictions and Proposition 13. See the Legislative Analyst’s Office Report on th
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by yonran 9y ago
Speaking of the SF Bay Area, we are subdivided into small interconnected towns who have the incentive to underbuild housing ( https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/ ). It is ironic to tell service w
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by yonran 9y ago
The laundromat owner in the article recently explained ( https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sfbarentersfed/u898cgma8jE/7... ) that the duration of the lease is a big determinant of whether it’s sustainable. I
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by yonran 9y ago
What are the limits to what rights you can waive under the ToS of a website or app? If a website says you waive fair use, first amendment right, and your right to use your computer as you see fit for as long as you are using the website, wh
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by yonran 9y ago
You can get involved in regional planning (such as Plan Bay Area and the RHNA) and support state bills (such as Scott Wiener’s SB-35) that put more power in regional commissions that have more equal representation. Some Berkeley NIMBYs actu
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It can actually be more democratic to remove local zoning authority, if stakeholders are disenfranchised from the cities that they work in. See https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/a-th...
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Indeed, none of the new buildings that Homeshare advertises displaced any residences. It’s a common misconception that construction in San Francisco displaces housing. It was true during Redevelopment, but it is not the case with the past
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by yonran 10y ago
That so-called “luxury” apartments end up getting rented to students and entry-level workers (even if they have to share) should be celebrated, not mocked or viewed with suspicion. Hopefully, it will be a sign that developers will start to
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by yonran 10y ago
In San Francisco, the occupancy limits for existing buildings is contained in SF Housing Code §503[1]: bedroom must have 70 sq. ft. of superficial floor area for the first 2 people, plus 50 sq. ft. for each additional person. The subdivided
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The paper itself: “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Raj Chetty, David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang. Graphs are in the back. http://www.equality
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There already is a law[1] that prevents downzoning: the Housing Element law. Every 7 years, local governments are required to create a document (the Housing Element) that demonstrates that they have zoned enough housing for their share of t
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by yonran 10y ago
The book Left Coast City ( https://www.amazon.com/Left-Coast-City-Progressive-Francisco... ) describes the characters of the anti-highrise “growth wars” of the 1980s. In short, San Francisco’s 1980s-era progressives believe t
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The Governor’s budget trailer bill says that if a developer sets aside a certain fraction of the units for inclusionary housing and the proposal complies with the local zoning code, then the locality must approve it deterministically and qu
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You are confused; the 48hills article is referring to a different bill[1] (affordable housing bonus) than the Governor’s budget trailer bill that Sam Altman is referring to[2]. The Governor’s bill requires that localities deterministically
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by yonran 11y ago
I believe your parent post was referring to household usage (which determines infrastructure needs in a city), while you are referring to economy-wide usage. Energy usage per household seems to be essentially flat for the past 40 years acco
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by yonran 11y ago
If you distribute OpenJDK, then only the modules that are “derived from or based on” OpenJDK are required to be GPLv2[+CE] (the Classpath Exception allows you to link the library with an independent closed-source library). So I think it wou
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by yonran 11y ago
The chip+signature card is pretty annoying when traveling. While visiting New Zealand (where local cards are all chip+PIN) with a U.S. chip+signature card, the majority of clerks actually request to see the card and visually inspect the sig
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Note that the Internet Archive’s founder Brewster Kahle was one of the strongest critics of the creative class-action settlement which would have allowed Google as a one-off to publish the out-of-print orphan works that it scanned. If the l
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by yonran 11y ago
If it were just linear like AWS ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9567761 ), then an NTP client pointed to a smearing NTP server will have an immediate 12ppm drift discontinuity (NTP continually models the hardware clock
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What is the motivation for the Solicitor General to put out such a brief? Is he required for some reason to make statements about matters he does not understand? This brief repeatedly claims that programmer familiarity was the sole reason f
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What does the DOM do when it receives a surrogate half from Javascript? I thought that the DOM APIs (e.g. createTextNode, innerHTML setter, setAttribute, HTMLInputElement.value setter, document.write) would all strip out the lone surrogate

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