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by yonran 3y ago
> all those "new tech" people hate new tech in their own areas Unfortunately, the recent generation of tech workers have not been represented in local politics. As far as I know, none of the supervisors or mayors in recent me
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by yonran 3y ago
I see now that you are making the distinction between single-family homes, which are primarily owner-occupied, and multifamily homes, which are primarily rental, and you are saying that the shift of some single-family homes to rental is a b
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by yonran 3y ago
Again, the article is about rents being too high. If you force investors to sell existing housing stock to owner-occupiers, what direction do rents go? Up. If you are anti-rental property investor, then you are also anti-renter. Instead of
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by yonran 3y ago
I’m surprised by all the anti-landlord talk in this forum. If we “increase in property taxes for home which are not the primary residence”, or prohibit “own[ing] more than one property in which they do not reside”, these are policies that g
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by yonran 3y ago
What is the value that Google derives from third-party contractor middlemen (vs. hiring directly)? Is it the ability to give workers the choice of more pay but fewer benefits? Is it the ability to have on-demand workers that can be laid off
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by yonran 3y ago
According to the CBC building code, a high-rise building is a building whose top floor is more than 75 feet above the ground floor, so about 8 stories or higher ( https://up.codes/viewer/california/ca-building-code-
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by yonran 3y ago
> As an aside, standard search engines were no help in my research into the Fn key’s first appearance. ChatGPT scored a win, however, by identifying the PowerBook G3 Series on its first try—yes, I confirmed it with keyboard photos Alas,
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by yonran 3y ago
Every plan should be on the table to provide more safe, affordable, community-oriented housing than is available today. Artificial light and ventilation in bedrooms are routine (e.g., every skyscraper in the winter) and should not have been
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by yonran 3y ago
> you don’t need to be economic illiterate to think something fishy will happen It’s not the city’s job to make good things illegal because they are too good to pencil out. But by “economic illiteracy”, I was referring to tenant groups’
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by yonran 3y ago
SB 330 defines “Equivalent size” as same number of bedrooms. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
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by yonran 3y ago
> will it be rent control with new rent price baseline? It would be a new baseline, but at a rent that would be calculated to be affordable to the tenant’s income: “The developer agrees to provide … right of first refusal … at an afforda
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by yonran 3y ago
The stupid thing is that the groups that reflexively oppose private housing in San Francisco (namely REP Coalition, CCHO, SFTU) chose “don’t demolish rent controlled housing” as their rallying cry for why they are calling to oppose this ord
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by yonran 3y ago
> I don't really see how naming the specific individual improved the argument I disagree. Good articles should make specific propositions about specific exemplars. The alternative is to make generalities that are hard to falsify.
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by yonran 3y ago
Radiolab also covered Persistent Surveillance Systems but noted that the Baltimore program was ruled unconstitutional because the police had the ability to track everyone even when not suspected of a crime. https://radiolab.org&#
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by yonran 3y ago
1031 exchange by itself only defers taxes (which can be helpful for cash flow purposes). People combine it with the stepped up basis loophole to avoid taxes completely. As for Proposition 13/58 inheritance, note that Proposition 19 (20
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by yonran 3y ago
> and their second-class ADU "owners" who live in the fancy shed behind their home The primary home is not upper class; it’s the worse of the two units. It just becomes two houses without backyards. I’ve seen such houses for sa
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by yonran 3y ago
I wish reporters highlighted the stepped up basis tax loophole that causes the bizarre behavior, rather than claiming that grandmothers just can’t “afford” to sell. Many grandmothers would “afford” to sell their house if there were no tax b
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by yonran 3y ago
Yeah, it’s unlikely that San Francisco’s current majority at the Board of Supervisors would opt in to this program. Both because they are hostile to housing in general and because they have a special aversion to condominiums (which they lik
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by yonran 3y ago
This is straight out of FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan’s original article Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado... . Amazon is willing to match any competitor’s price in order
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by yonran 3y ago
And for old devices, letsencrypt should force nameConstraints to be a critical extension so that old devices will just fail to accept it so that it won't be used “rogue”ly.
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by yonran 3y ago
Someone posted an example of a self-driving Cruise car that appeared to run a red light https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/14wyyzw/just_... . Although in that example, technically the self-dri
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by yonran 3y ago
I listened to the Sam Harris interview (the free part). I was disappointed that Marc Andreessen seemed to misunderstand the AI safety concerns of the alignment problem (undesirable subgoals of AI) and does not acknowledge the possibility th
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by yonran 3y ago
> The laws for building new homes haven't changed much in a few decades Not exactly true; the local ADU ordinance was added 2015-2017 (207(c)(4) https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest&#x
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by yonran 3y ago
No, you get to profit from increasing supply.
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by yonran 3y ago
I think a price control scheme could be a useful component of an anti-inflation program if designed well. For example, in housing, you could cap the capital gains when an owner sells a property (e.g., in California, cap the sales price to t
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by yonran 3y ago
> His argument is that feeling safe is as important, if not more important from a policymaking perspective I’ll set aside his smear that opponents of crime come from suburbs and his strawman that those who oppose crime only want “more
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by yonran 3y ago
The top part of Joe Eskenazi’s earlier article https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-crazy-bob-mobilecoi... was good (where he reported evidence that the Bob Lee killing was not a robbery), but I agree with Gar
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by yonran 4y ago
See also this article from 4 days ago on Jo Boaler who uses San Francisco as a model for the rest of California https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35319345 https://twitter.com/stephaniemlee/status&#x2
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by yonran 4y ago
Here is Tyler Cowan’s take which I think clarifies things in terms of the 3 factors of production (land, labor, capital). Even if the LLMs themselves are not monopolized by a few companies, land and capital may still become more expensive r
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by yonran 4y ago
I disagree with this bitching that rich states are “subsidizing” the poor “handout” states through federal progressive taxes. This is how progressive taxation is supposed to work, and it would be clearly insensitive and arguably incorrect

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