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by zamfi 5y ago
That condo prices are staying flat is fantastic news. Now we just need to build condos that are appropriate for all stages of life -- not just young singlehood and coupledom. Building up will not solve the "not enough SFH/townhome
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by zamfi 5y ago
Stock. Or, other skin in the game.
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Being well intentioned is a bloody good start. This sadly depends a lot on the community. Being well-intentioned but misinformed in fundamental ways can cause a lot of harm.
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by zamfi 5y ago
I think the GP here means test drive the particular vehicle you're buying, not just some other vehicle of the same make & model (and possibly, but possibly not, trim level). With Tesla, the most you can do is refuse delivery, but
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by zamfi 5y ago
Interesting, though I think this misses the whole story. (In particular, BART at peak hours was dangerously congested, though I won't argue with data showing that other uses declined enough that the average was below zero.) But perhaps
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by zamfi 5y ago
You don’t say where you’re from, but pre-Covid, BART’s usage had gotten so high that planners were trying to figure out how to squeeze more trains into limited headways so that the downtown track platforms didn’t become unsafe from overcrow
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by zamfi 5y ago
This is a suggestive study, but far from conclusive on its own. Given the popular zeitgeist around egg consumption, it’s quite likely that those who eat eggs are also more likely to engage in other riskier or unhealthful activities. This st
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by zamfi 5y ago
*aphorism
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by zamfi 5y ago
Unfortunately, for SB9, this is only true for you , not a developer -- it requires that the owner retain one of the units as a primary residence. That will make it much less applicable. Definitely a step in the right direction though!
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Not quite Prop 13 but you can't have high increases in property values, and simultaneously have affordable housing. Sure you can, you just also need to build new housing. The key is that the new housing has to be higher density th
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by zamfi 5y ago
> buy a townhouse in a Brooklyn This is not equivalent to “buy homes” — this is like saying they wait until 40 to buy a car because the Honda Civic they drove in their 20s doesn’t count, they need a BMW.
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by zamfi 5y ago
I think you missed my point, as it’s not about the amount of money. Unless your claim is that 61% of Americans simply cannot move to a location with cheaper rent, or eat less expensive food, my point is that nondiscretionary spending also c
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by zamfi 5y ago
Or: your friends and colleagues have never lived in poverty and don't fear it as much as they fear losing the other trappings you mention.
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by zamfi 5y ago
My point is that people's non-discretionary spending can grow to meet income, rendering "paycheck to paycheck" kind of meaningless. The family of 4 making $150k and spending not-cheapest-option $40k on childcare and not-cheap
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by zamfi 5y ago
This measure strikes me as less informative than a measure of how much of Americans' spending is discretionary (i.e., not on "essentials" like rent, food, utilities, internet, transportation, clothing, etc.). One tricky piece
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by zamfi 5y ago
> cost of housing combined with manufacturing outsourcing I think these are two separate issues. > business school grads saving into their 40s to buy homes For example, on this -- surely, if anything, manufacturing outsourcing has onl
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by zamfi 5y ago
I'm not sure the OP was making this claim exactly -- I think they just meant for any particular interest (like running Plan 9 on some old hardware) there were probably only a few hundred people around who shared that particular inter
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by zamfi 5y ago
…who is giving them too much credit exactly? Doesn’t seem to be this piece?
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by zamfi 5y ago
Presumably they'd buy with an installment plan or debt financed over time. I.e., you buy $3000 worth of goods, but pay $200/mo for 30 months ($6k total). You sell for $2000 cash (not on installment). So far, you've paid $200
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by zamfi 5y ago
“Time” only makes sense as a currency in the opportunity cost sense. Those 16 hours will pass whether you’re reading Moby Dick or not. I don’t think it’s just time but also, as you allude to a bit, the extra effort, mental or physical.
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by zamfi 5y ago
*UP, not Up This is about Union Pacific, the railroad.
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by zamfi 5y ago
Sure, the author is trying to make an argument about people by showing what happens in systems of simplified agents. That doesn’t change the fact that the polygons are not people. Crash test dummies are also not people, despite usefully sta
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by zamfi 5y ago
Bias is the mathematical term for consistent behavior in one direction of an engineered system. The polygons are not people, they are trivial mathematical agents with explicit bias, they do not have preferences. It is absolutely deliberate
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by zamfi 5y ago
I'm fairly certain they're using a mathematical meaning for bias. Yes, all preference in this case is "bias" because it affects the system in a consistent way. If you're an engineer, you're probably already fam
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by zamfi 5y ago
Hmm. Honestly, I think neither of these is the right takeaway? My takeaway is "if people want some degree of diversity, and take individual actions based on what seem like reasonable heuristics, say, a mild desire for diversity but a s
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by zamfi 5y ago
There is another fantastic explanation (an “exploitable explanation”) by Nicky Case of this same phenomenon here: https://ncase.me/polygons/ Interactive, web-based, explained. Highly recommended.
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by zamfi 5y ago
if you know the separator, you can use `cut` -- not an unzip per se (doesn't give you the full separated lists, without calling it multiple times anyway) but approximately equal to the awk line
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by zamfi 5y ago
> There have been lots of technology x replacing a manual process with the promise that "now instead of doing y, the person is now free to explore more leisurely pursuits." Yeah, the "free to explore more leisurely pursuit
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by zamfi 5y ago
> No, aluminum melts at 1.55 times the melting point of lead I guess it depends on your definition of "double" -- Al @ 1221°F / 660°C vs. Pb @ 621.5°F / 327°C, but sure, in Kelvin it's 1.55 thanks to the higher b
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by zamfi 5y ago
I seem to recall from the time that the Wachowskis originally planned the Matrix storyline as a trilogy, but then they were forced into making a single movie, and so took all the fantastic parts of the whole trilogy and crammed it into one

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