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by yonran 2y ago
According to Brownstone’s planning application for 12 Mint Plz https://sfplanninggis.org/pim/?tab=Planning+Applications&sea... , the proposed use is Residential (which is Principally Permitted) rather than Hotel (wh
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by yonran 2y ago
I think someone should investigate why it took a year to permit this change of use from Credit Union to Residential Group Housing, which should be Principally Permitted in the Use District C-3-G of the address at 12 Mint Plz. According to t
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by yonran 2y ago
Probably if the pods had a solid door, then each pod would be considered a room under San Francisco’s interpretation of the fire code and would require a separate fire sprinkler, like the WeWork phone booths https://sfstandard.co
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by yonran 2y ago
Here is a paper describing google3 https://research.google/pubs/why-google-stores-billions-of-l... , which includes the policy that “To prevent dependency conflicts, as outlined earlier, it is important that only one ve
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by yonran 2y ago
> that's not a fair overview of the amicus brief, there are good points there about the process of notifying orphan works rights holders and about the risk of a monopolistic position What I meant by “jealous” is that the Internet Ar
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by yonran 2y ago
> Dan Clancy, the Google engineering lead on the project who helped design the settlement, thinks that it was a particular brand of objector—not Google’s competitors but “sympathetic entities” you’d think would be in favor of it, like li
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by yonran 2y ago
Cool. Reminds me of a similar program to convert python3 code to python2, which similarly converts the typing into spaces to preserve row and column numbers: https://github.com/abarker/strip-hints .
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by yonran 2y ago
So how do you think that airport security will adjust to the widespread knowledge that you can hide an explosive alongside the battery?
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by yonran 2y ago
To make beneficiaries whole is perhaps the worst reason to keep a monopolistic system. In the case of taxi medallions in San Francisco, they are technically still owned by the city and the medallion should never have had any private value t
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by yonran 2y ago
> As an example in support of this, healthcare is barely price-regulated and hardly run by the government in America, and is thus extortionate. They are supply-regulated by governments. According to Niskanen Center, the high cost of heal
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by yonran 2y ago
Fair enough, utility regulations fix prices except in the opposite direction. Without zoning, landowners could not act as a cartel since that would violate antitrust laws, whereas without utility regulation, a natural monopoly could set pri
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by yonran 2y ago
It’s ironic that in response to a question about price fixing, failuser brought up other companies that were formed to circumvent government price fixing, and in his examples the governments doing the price fixing were supposedly the good
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by yonran 2y ago
I’m saying that government regulations that fix prices should be scrutinized and repealed if they reduce opportunity for ordinary people. Such as zoning codes that price out the poor.
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by yonran 2y ago
Can you give examples of the topic at hand, price fixing, that are justified? There are a handful of progressive forms of price fixing (e.g. minimum wage laws), but many others should be added to the Niskanen Center’s list of bad regulation
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by yonran 2y ago
> Yes, that's kind of the main difference between government functions and private companies Perhaps that should change. Or at least it’s a reason to scrutinize and repeal laws that are used for price fixing. > Are you saying the
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by yonran 2y ago
Ironically for a question about antitrust price fixing you just named two incumbent government-sanctioned cartels (zoning and taxi medallions) that restrict supply and keep prices high. They would be illegal if private companies made them.
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by yonran 2y ago
The FTC Guidelines for Collaborations Among Competitors https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/dealings... says it’s illegal to share “competitively sensitive variables”, not just any data.
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by yonran 2y ago
There wasn’t much of a bubble. The price bubble that people cited is mostly explained by exclusionary zoning driving up rents in Closed Access cities (e.g. New York, San Francisco, Boston) and migration from those cities to Contagion cities
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by yonran 2y ago
The tragedy is even sadder when you find out that the foreclosure crisis and Great Recession were self-inflicted by the Federal Reserve and CFPB after 2007, not the inevitable result of reckless borrowers. Kevin Erdmann has been studying th
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by yonran 2y ago
I don’t think this ordinance is useful ( https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6789588... ). The headline is that it bans “price collusion” which is already illegal under the Sherman Antitrust Act. But it is sl
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by yonran 2y ago
I think the best person who explains housing trends is Kevin Erdmann. This article provides an overview of his conceptual model for why prices fell nationwide in the Great Recession (people with bad credit were prohibited from getting a mor
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by yonran 2y ago
The problem is not that rents are too low and sales prices are too high, which might make it appropriate to punish renting a unit and force landlords to sell. The problem is too few of both rental and ownership units.
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by yonran 2y ago
It is counterproductive to shame an employer for hiring hundreds of thousands of low-income workers who would likely be on government assistance regardless of Amazon. By all means, we can regulate companies to ensure that working conditions
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by yonran 2y ago
Note that the section you quoted was unanimously amended to only apply to SF city-owned devices ( https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/o0286-19.pdf ). To see the current version of the surveillance ordinance s
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by yonran 2y ago
It sounds like you disagreed with the parent comment but then you demonstrated his point. You can build a new home, but the zoning code should have allowed you to build many homes instead of just one.
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by yonran 2y ago
> Thank Scott Weiner for the builder’s remedy. Scott Wiener did not create the builder’s remedy; it was created in 1990 and rediscovered by Chris Elmendorf https://twitter.com/CSElmendorf/status/1474286606982934
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by yonran 2y ago
The real scope of the project is a mind-boggling $600 million to track the light rail trains inside and outside the tunnels and to control the trains inside the tunnels. Divided by the 250 light rail vehicles (apparently does not include hi
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by yonran 2y ago
They do use 3.5 inch disks; this is a misstatement: “SFMTA's train control system relies every morning on 5 inch floppy disks.” The SFMTA Board presentation justifying the >$600M upgrade shows a photo of the real 3.5 inch floppy dis
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by yonran 2y ago
I believe that the article is about this RFP for “Contract No. SFMTA-2022-40 FTA” to upgrade the Communications-Based Train Control System (CBTC) or Advanced Train Control System (ATCS). The resolution to create the RFP for the supplier was
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by yonran 3y ago
A few wealthy people try to get involved, but there is a strong segment of the electorate and press who are extremely skeptical of wealth (other than their own house). Ron Conway has been portrayed as a boogeyman for many years for his cont

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