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by zamfi 4y ago
> You don't have to be in NY, SF, or wherever to experience the trendy culture. It is pervasive everywhere. You don’t, which is why I said: > or even different parts of the same city But while it is present almost everywhere, it
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by zamfi 4y ago
What you’re observing isn’t a lack of counter-culture, it’s a lack of monolithic culture , though. In different parts of the country, or even different parts of the same city, the dominant culture is different. Living a “glorified lifestyl
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O...kay? No one's saying to "give up" here -- I'm just saying a local leadership post is not typically the position of influence you're implying: an elected representative who is consistently pushing an agenda that&
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No, the only way you can truly fight these issues is by convincing parents not only that these issues matter, but that the conventional thinking is wrong. You won't be able to do that from a school or township board. Get on a school
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Of course they do, but very few have been built since zoning really took off in the 1970s. It's been noted many times that a large fraction of buildings in many cities could not be built today, because they violate zoning.
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NYC is the only city on your list that isn’t absolutely dominated by single family homes. What they all have in common are strong zoning and neighborhood preservation laws that prevent density growth. NYC has its own special problems, but
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That’s a convenient narrative, and the answer is “yes, where possible” — but replacing a single family home with a duplex is theoretically possibly anywhere, and would be extremely profitable — but is practically impossible (for the reasons
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by zamfi 4y ago
> - giving up the quality of your nice neighbourhood because a giant complex was built next door > - giving up much of the capital appreciation in your house because it appreciated > Both would be be highly unpopular for the majori
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Hmm. Doesn't "solid state" imply "no moving parts"? Their diagram shows a vibrating diaphragm...
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I don't have an answer but English LOVES preposition-attached verbs. You can use lent and borrowed in both directions (I lent X to him; he lent X to me -- I borrowed X from him; he borrowed X from me) so the main difference is not in w
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Not just unimportable — they’re things where we’ve actively created artificial scarcity!
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Pretty sure there aren’t images, and you received, but were unimpressed, by the outcome.
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Oh if only you were right — plenty of renters also vote to maintain zoning, fearing that their neighborhoods will otherwise change for the worse, and rent control guarantees they can’t afford to move. Sure, land is limited. But housing is n
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by zamfi 4y ago
> By being a land lord, you are preventing people from buying and building equity. Instead their hard earned money goes right into your pocket. What? This is like arguing that someone who owns a car and is a taxi driver is “preventing pe
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by zamfi 4y ago
If you think housing is nuts, wait until you hear about childcare! That said, you turned on the prior poster for basically saying “set a budget” — that’s not “glamorizing the hustle” that’s “live with intention”. Sure, millennials and gen-z
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by zamfi 4y ago
Considering how many middle-class and upper-middle-class folks live paycheck-to-paycheck too, I don't think it an "unaffordability problem" -- it's a "missing social safety net" problem. Many will always live p
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by zamfi 4y ago
Yes...but this study wasn't about any of that, so I'm not sure I see the relevance?
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It's quite possible that switching to honey, which is often (though not always) higher in fructose than table sugar & corn syrup, reduces total glycemic load without the downsides of the non-caloric sweeteners.
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Rents. /s (maybe?)
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Yes I didn't make any claims about this fact. My post was in response to the prior poster's claim that US exceptionalism here doesn't have a clear rationale, and that one might expect some sort of "reversion to the mean&
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To be clear it has serious downsides too, and is heavily subsidized by taxpayers.
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Maybe it only works in the US equity markets , but that's not "only works in the US" -- the S&P 500's companies are: not all based in the US, and in total derive only 75% of their revenues from outside the US. For r
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by zamfi 4y ago
Don't worry, there's no shortage of ways to prevent getting to 16 or 32 billion people. First among those is that very few countries have birth rates that exceed replacement rates! And the others are on a very strong trend to foll
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by zamfi 4y ago
> But for education, I fear that students will be discouraged (or tempted to cheat) when they are learning to code with exercises that can be solved with a simple online query. Is it cheating when kids learning to read have books read to
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> Well, good luck enjoying anything when you're surrounded by environmental feedback that points to its futility. You're only surrounded by this feedback if you already buy in to the ideology that if you're not The Best™ a
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This guy's actions are just not particularly defensible. He ordered not just oysters, but the whole meal by the sounds of it, with people he had just met and whose financial situation he was (presumably) unaware of. Expecting a split
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(2015) — but presumably not that much has changed?
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There are hundreds of "use AI to help you draft text" apps out there, and it really feels like a "feature, not product" category of thing. So I'm glad to see a larger player like Notion integrate this feature. That
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by zamfi 4y ago
Your overall point, about limited supply / increasing demand, is not wrong. However — > For example, the number of UC campuses in California should have doubled as the population doubled. Maybe. But the number of students at UC camp
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by zamfi 4y ago
No but perhaps the negative externalities of water overextraction should start to get priced in.

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