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by yonran 8y ago
I disagree with your premise. There are people on the margin who decide to drive or not because of the traffic (or who are forced to queue unexpectedly). If the roads and parking garages had infinite capacity, then there would be hundreds
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by yonran 8y ago
Yes, and in my opinion those are both valid assumptions to make. 1. You’re right, congestion pricing forces drivers to reveal the marginal price for time. In a congested road, what makes the marginal driver decide not to drive at a specific
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by yonran 8y ago
I think Emily Badger sort of misses the point. A scarcity tax is completely different from a user benefit fee for road maintenance. For public goods, it’s a good thing for the government to subsidize the fixed costs of the public good. Bu
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by yonran 8y ago
Oops. I linked to some other book with a similar name. This is the correct book: https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Alms-Economic-History-Prince...
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by yonran 8y ago
This matches some of Greg Clark’s descriptions of a preindustrial Malthusian economy in A Farewell to Alms ( https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Arms-Ernest-Hemingway/dp/068... or see his lecture https://w
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by yonran 8y ago
> Yet in capitalist America...? Restrictive zoning is the prohibition of creating housing capital, so it’s ironic and incorrect to blame capitalism for the housing shortages in restrictive metros such as the Bay Area. Landlordism or re
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by yonran 8y ago
It’s not the inequality of capital ownership that is the problem. It’s the inequality of land ownership (specifically zoned housing capacity). A few thousand hundred-millionaires hardly hurt people any more than a few thousand millionaires.
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by yonran 8y ago
The article (and Sidewalk’s blog post https://medium.com/sidewalk-toronto/sidewalk-toronto-project... ) has few details, so everyone is only responding to the suggestion that tax increment will be paid to Sidewalk Labs.
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by yonran 8y ago
> What you're proposing would institute CL as a de facto utility in perpetuity with an API that innovated at the rate of the old Ma Bell. I don’t think so. For one thing, requiring established networks to be interoperable can enable
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by yonran 8y ago
We could go back to the world where the AIM vs. MSN Messenger Chat Wars were legal ( https://nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/ ). But reverse engineering APIs required an adversary with deep pockets, s
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by yonran 8y ago
The moat that each tech company owns is its network. Rather than trust-busting these companies up into their different businesses, I think it would promote more competition to impose network interoperability requirements once the network is
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by yonran 8y ago
It’s true that the current income tax has shortcomings due to the mobility of capital owners. I think it would promote competition to focus more on wealth taxes on immobile assets (on e.g. land, patents, spectrum, and ownership of networks)
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by yonran 8y ago
Investment in housing and low interest rates would actually spur new construction and thus reduce rents if the housing supply were more elastic. It is the fact that supply is inelastic in a few cities that makes investment harmful for hom
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by yonran 8y ago
> Zoning exists for a reason. People don't want short term rentals Zoning exists to separate industry from residential and also to separate middle-class households (people who can afford to use their home only for consumption, whose
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by yonran 8y ago
While the state of California and some cities have been making it legal to construct accessory dwelling units, cities commonly prohibit short-term rentals in these accessory dwelling units. (Reference: Berkeley’s BMC 23C.22.020.D [1], and S
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by yonran 8y ago
> It's fundamentally _odd_ to me that people are looking at rental costs. I think it was good that he focused on rent instead of for-sale price. The sale price includes other factors (property taxes, interest rates, expectation of r
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by yonran 8y ago
It sounds like the big box stores themselves are validating the Strong Towns interpretation that towns have invested far too much public infrastructure compared to the property value of the big box stores ( https://www.strongtowns
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by yonran 8y ago
Is there anywhere you can get a good blower fan for the purpose of filtering the air, instead of a box fan that has a lot of space around the blades?
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by yonran 8y ago
Chrome’s auto-update forces you to trust the author of any extension you install for as long as you use the extension. Google’s “Trustworthy by default” effort doesn’t change this model since it still provides no guarantees. This works for
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by yonran 8y ago
Rather than blaming the company Airbnb for a city’s ills, it may be more helpful to examine why it has popular support in the first place, while family-only zoning is declining in popularity. Short-term rentals in residences were already il
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by yonran 8y ago
One of Chrome Web Store’s terms is that a developer is not allowed to publish an extension that “knowingly violates a third party’s terms of service.”[1] So even if the author has the 1st Amendment right to publish the extension on his own
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by yonran 8y ago
Yes, the limit on increase of assessed value helps the elderly. All the other property investors (such as grandchildren and corporations) are just happy to reap the benefits. In other words, the design does not target the elderly.
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by yonran 8y ago
There’s no insurmountable conflict between stability and efficiency. Just as landlords offer 10-year leases to commercial tenants who desire stability, the government can offer 10-year (or longer) insurance products against the risk of incr
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by yonran 8y ago
A proper tax relief program for the elderly would actually target the elderly, as many states do. Proposition 13 does not target the elderly. It gives tax breaks to all property investors, including corporations and (due to Proposition 58)
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by yonran 8y ago
If you want to blame state law for not setting aside enough low-income housing, it seems to me that the original sin was the zoning powers that the state conferred to local governments a hundred years ago. SB 827 itself would have taken ba
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by yonran 9y ago
One factor that may limit the deployment is San Francisco’s permit requirement, which specifies that stationless bike share companies must commit to a “service area” which must have at least 3 bikes per square mile all day, and 20% of bikes
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by yonran 9y ago
Now you’re asking normative questions instead of the positive question I responded to above. So I can give my opinion, but of course you are free to disagree. > That proposition exists as a protection from homeowners being screwed by the
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by yonran 9y ago
California’s Proposition 13 (1978) is the anti-Land Value Tax. Instead of taxing away the land rent and encouraging improvements, it does the opposite by protecting private land rent and taxing turnover and improvements. • Under Proposition
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by yonran 9y ago
From talking to SF Planning Department, my understanding is that a school district can own housing and use it for employee housing, but another entity (such as the Mayor’s Office of Housing) can’t rent only to a specific profession.
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by yonran 9y ago
In America, the Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment requires that property owners must be compensated when their property is seized for public purposes, so any seizures still come out of the government’s budget. States are supposed to raise

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