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by zamfi 7y ago
Only when they get it right. Years ago, I got an “amended” return from NYS where they claimed I’d lived in Yonkers at the time. Took way too many hours of my time to clear that up.
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by zamfi 7y ago
I appreciate the data here, but this is a pretty weak argument. It’s not clear how an extra year of ownership between sales would cause home prices to skyrocket, especially compared with the dramatic imbalance between new development and in
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by zamfi 7y ago
> NYS gets an honorable mention for NYC/Yonkers taxes. At least these are collected by a single entity, the NYS tax folks!
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by zamfi 7y ago
It’s worth reading rcpt’s links in a sibling comment, but this analysis ignores a) geographic distributions within California of Prop 13 effects, b) the differences in demographics and population growth between those states, c) in Californi
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by zamfi 7y ago
> But that only applies to houses that are now zoned to allow them to be replaced with condos. Literally what I’m talking about and what is often fought against. But really any development constrain, zoning or not, has this effect. And:
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by zamfi 7y ago
> But if housing costs go down, somebody has to be getting less money, and it's the people who live in the place that isn't rezone I think you may have missed my point: housing costs go down, but the cost of existing establishe
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by zamfi 7y ago
(Re-posting here, because too many people think this.) I hear this argument a lot, but it completely ignores the fact that development can allow more housing and continue to increase the value of existing housing. The key is that more housi
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by zamfi 7y ago
> It's political suicide to do anything that would hurt the valuations of homes. If you are an older individual with your home making up a bulk of your retirement nest egg, you aren't going to vote for policies that make homes
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Wishing to see new development first happen at the low end before saturating the high end Development is basically not happening at any end, low-, high-, or middle-! This is also not the fault of Netflix, et al.
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by zamfi 7y ago
(2012)
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by zamfi 7y ago
Lots of people take Caltrain to commute, and commute trains are often standing room only. But almost no one takes Caltrain at non-commute hours.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Transit reacts to changes in transportation demand, it doesn't set demand. How do you envision BART would profit from underused directions? Put out ads encouraging people to take these routes for fun? BART could encourage commerc
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by zamfi 7y ago
> You're putting the cart before the horse. I'm not, let me explain. > More commuters creates more ticket revenue, which gives BART more resources to expand capacity. They're not going to expand capacity until there&#x2
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by zamfi 7y ago
> We squander the capacity of our main commuter railroad (BART) Out of curiosity, do you ride Bart at commute hours? At 5pm, the platforms at Embarcadero and Montgomery are dangerously packed. I didn’t think there is much excess capacity
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by zamfi 7y ago
> We have the tracks, we have the train... the train just does not go this route on weekends. This is the easy one to fix — when there is demand, they can just run more trains. Much harder is the transbay commute at rush hours. There is
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by zamfi 7y ago
It could mean nothing, or it could not. But a small effect size alone doesn’t tell you this, and you are correct that there are many factors — that is exactly the point of this study, to tease apart which other factors are causative. Of c
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by zamfi 7y ago
That alone doesn't make it "not a study"; it's a study of other studies, not a study with new data.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Isn't this essentially nothing? Essentially nothing: for an individual? Yes. For a population? No. You or I may not care about a 0.62% increased CVD rate for ourselves over 30 years, but that does translate to 6,200 extra possibly
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by zamfi 7y ago
That is indeed one sense of the word factoid, but in common North American usage it also can mean “small or trivial piece of information”, which is the sense I believe the parent poster is using.
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by zamfi 7y ago
Agreed. I didn't say the theory was invalid, just that it has limits!
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Also..why should everyone feel like owning a home is a right? You can always rent. Or, if you want to buy, buy a condo!
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by zamfi 7y ago
I think you missed the central point of this paper. It's true that there is an offsetting factor of building energy use vs. VMT, but the reality remains that denser environments, with jobs near residents, emit less per capita -- as tha
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by zamfi 7y ago
> As long as the nature of punishment is a fine, it can be modeled and a cost-benefit analysis can be performed. If the forecasted economic benefit exceeds the cost, then the action should be taken, or so the theory goes. The theory has
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by zamfi 7y ago
> planned-obsolescence business model Are you kidding? Why would you stick with TriCorder v17.3 when the new sensor suite in TriCorder v18 can deter hypercalcemia with twice the accuracy!?
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by zamfi 7y ago
No realistic scenario involves only some states doing this while others don’t, though it’s worth pointing out that Maine and Nebraska are not winner-take-all. You may find the national interstate popular vote compact interesting. [1] Basica
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by zamfi 7y ago
Revenue isn't earnings. A $100B market cap for a fast-growing company with ~$0 profit is definitely not "on the cheap side". But I agree that a $100B market cap for a company with ~$13B in profit is quite pessimistic. VW&#x27
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by zamfi 7y ago
Surprisingly, the tariffs aren’t equal: 10% on EU imports, 2.5% on US imports. It’s not a ton, but it’s not nothing. Why not just hire Germans, then? Frankly, Musk empirically isn’t the type to list on experts in manufacturing — he ignored
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by zamfi 7y ago
The counter-example to this is train tracks. (There are minimum standards for roads, too.)
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by zamfi 7y ago
Tariffs. Cars built in the EU are much cheaper to EU buyers than those made in China.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> which the machine needs help with because it doesn't have money How long does it take to mine 1¢ worth of bitcoin? Or, is there anything else a machine can do in a relatively short timeframe that’s worth 1¢ to someone else? t2.mic

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