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by zamfi 6y ago
> Most of America is not being gentrified, rents are just rising. Peoria has a 50%+ homeownership rate. Most of the people voting locally are not facing rising rents, let alone rents at all. > There is plenty of evidence for that. You
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by zamfi 6y ago
> This is a very SFBA thing to say. I'm not sure how it's a very SFBA thing to point out that the people who have a voice in local politics are the people who haven't been displaced? > Poor and working people have mobil
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Nope. Look who overwhelmingly applies pressure to local governments everywhere -- it's not the marginalized and poor! This is not an SFBA phenomenon, it's almost a natural law.
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It absolutely has ads, for a few weeks every year, for itself.
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by zamfi 6y ago
Yes, on the one hand you could bet on the power of a bunch of individuals the system serves well-enough (after all, they're still here!) to apply political pressure to some set of local governments (though, note that rent control is st
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by zamfi 6y ago
I guess? But > I advocate a combination of strong rent control, aggressively subsidized housing and consistent growth (especially vertically) where possible. That assumes rational actors in local government , which strikes me as even mo
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Rising rents due to speculation or just plain landlord greed Well, you'd need both, not just one: landlord greed has a cap, average rents can't be much more than the cost of buying, though there will always be some folks wh
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by zamfi 6y ago
Yeah, you're right that there are a number of SFBA-specific factors that don't apply elsewhere. But people aren't really making the rent control argument about Peoria, IL. Any place that caps both rents and housing supply thr
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by zamfi 6y ago
I take a very SFBA perspective here, but... > Without it they would have been displaced even earlier This is mostly hypothetical. In functioning housing markets that don't manipulate prices or limit new construction through policy,
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> For that purpose, it has done very well as a policy. Well...for those who are not actually displaced, yes. But the ones that are displaced are often essentially banished by a dysfunctional housing market. Rent control is not target
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This is one of the most reasoned explanations of the key problem where development meets rent control that I've ever read. If you turned it into a longer piece that explored the monetary and non-monetary incentives on all sides I would
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> They would have to pass tax increases to fund that Or reallocate money previously allocated to libraries, social workers, community colleges, public transportation, etc. etc.
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I am happy to entertain evidence on all sides of the sleep training debate, and I would love to know whether it is long-term harmful or beneficial. And to be clear, I’m actually not making a claim either way about harms around sleep trainin
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by zamfi 6y ago
> And anything that deviates from what we have adapted to over millions of years is likely to be a bad idea That would include agriculture, urbanism, clothing, and living outside of Africa. Are you fighting those too? Times change, the w
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> You address it by claiming that sleep training doesn't mean ignoring a crying baby, which is clearly false and not worth responding to. Crying is pretty much the only consistent part of infancy, and if "crying for hours until
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by zamfi 6y ago
I know what a euphemism is, I am telling you that the two are not equivalent -- "sleep training" in the form of, e.g., Karp, is not the same as "cry it out", does not involve what you say, and this is not a euphemism. Th
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by zamfi 6y ago
I assumed that it happened once per bath, but this is very context- and parent-dependent too. If you don't perceive of a 1-minute absence as a problem, presumably you are much more likely to step out of the bathroom.
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> Putting them down to sleep away from you and then expecting them to suck it up and deal with it when they get distressed is one of the most idiotic things that I hear otherwise intelligent people say This is exactly the kind of "c
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It's not like that. Everyone knows the risk of a speeding ticket comes with speeding. Not everyone knows that it takes 20 seconds for a baby to drown in a bathtub. > I'm perfectly fine with the size of the drowning risk that co
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by zamfi 6y ago
> In my experience, "sleep training" is just a more palatable euphemism for "cry it out". My view is that however you slice it, you are conditioning the baby that no one will respond to its distress. You claim to be d
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by zamfi 6y ago
> That situation is choice, pure and simple. You appear to be some sort of web or database developer, or possibly a system administrator. You can afford to support a family. I think characterizing mothers (or perhaps all parents?) who ch
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by zamfi 6y ago
Why would this be the case? The money they're getting is coming from CCIV's assets (which don't change based on the market price) and the new PIPE.
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The former may require the latter.
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Panic is great if you need to run or fight. Neither is much use on a plane with an engine on fire.
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> That needs to be done once, by the app's authors. Except...it also needs FDA approval as a diagnostic, etc., which is probably easier said than done. Obviously it's easier to distribute an app than lateral flow tests -- but t
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by zamfi 6y ago
Yes, the finding is definitely interesting because it suggests that we could make this available very broadly (i.e., anyone with an appropriate Apple Watch) without needing to ship a bunch of hardware. But the limitations are worth noting:
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by zamfi 6y ago
> But seriously, a test I don't have easy access to is not an alternative. Do you have access to the custom Apple Watch app they used here? I don't either. Health authorities could make either of these available to the general
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by zamfi 6y ago
> If I’m currently faced with the choices of taking a homemade vaccine or not taking a homemade vaccine, the latter is clearly the less dangerous course of action. I think that’s the spirit of the comment to which we were all replying, a
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Even if most civilizations would stop, a single aggressive one would quickly dominate. Would this affect their model, though? If either of the two civilizations dominates, rather than both being obliterated through mutual destruction,
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Underneath this post is the assumption that the author is so much smarter than everybody else because they are Rational with a capital R and can therefore harness the power of science to make a vaccine I didn't get this from the p

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