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by zbrozek 4y ago
Which is annoying me right now as I remodel my home, because I would prefer my bedroom be a windowless cave. I would have two egresses without the window. Why must I have a third?
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Actual research suggests the effect is tiny. "At the median owner-occupancy rate zip code, we find that a 1% increase in Airbnb listings leads to a 0.018% increase in rents and a 0.026% increase in house prices." https:/&#x2
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It's not a zero-sum game. You can have both, but you need to build enough to have it. Regulating the use of a thing is a mark of market failure. How would you feel if the government told you that you could only use a pencil for writing
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by zbrozek 4y ago
What is their countertop height? I'm about to remodel a kitchen.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Maybe so, but can you show any data that it's a significant or meaningful problem and not a visible scapegoat? The data I found (above) makes clear that deleting the short-term rental market would not even dent the housing shortage pro
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The United States is short O(10M) housing units[0], primarily due to anti-construction policies. Airbnb has O(100k) listings[1] in the US. Banning short-term rentals is a 1% solution. That's a policy distraction, not a useful lever to
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I want low-bug-density software I buy once and don't receive updates for until I pay again.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It's creating liquidity, just not the kind you value. It's liquidity of short term housing rather than long term housing.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
That last point - that housing is too expensive - is not something that airbnb causes or can fix. That's a supply side problem and the solution is housing construction. It may marginally exacerbate the symptom by providing liquidity.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I'm 6'3" and would love to be shorter. I think the ideal height is "just barely tall enough to reach the top cabinet in the kitchen". 5'10" is probably what I'd choose?
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Having more than one copy of a device is quite common. Think USB to serial adapters or test equipment or license tokens.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Good grief, this is why I have to do that stupid dance every time I want to play a controller game. Good to know, thank you.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I also moved a lot of my ordering to Arrow and Mouser, primarily because I dislike the marketplace concept.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I don't understand the hate towards market rate housing. Want the market price to come down? Build more supply. We're so far short of healthy levels of stock, however, that there's no relief in sight with merely-modest pro-ho
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Look at the tabs in the spreadsheet, you don't want the first one. The land cost scales down with density. The unit permitting cost is fixed regardless of size.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I'm in 94022 (served by PG&E) and in July 2022 there was a 13% chance I would lose power on any given day. I had more than 40 total hours of down time that month.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Dean Preston, by way of example.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Regulatory expense is the single largest line item for building a home, with places like Fremont pushing just the permit fees alone north of $140k. https://citiesassociation.org/documents/constraints-survey-d...
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The laws being passed aren't enough. They have a bunch of caveats (SB-9, for example, has a long list of disqualifiers) that limit the utility of any particular bill and making actually using it difficult. The builder's remedy has
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Such measures will improve some stock and eliminate some stock, but won't produce new stock. So they drive up housing prices.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I use this for city council meetings to figure out who said what. It's not easy, but it's better than nothing. YouTube doesn't appear to do so well with multiple speakers.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It's the same thing as replacing "homeless" with "experiencing homelessness". It's not saying anything different, but communication efficacy isn't the point.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It's absolutely a slippery slope. Once you've established the mechanism to harass people over trash cans, next it's the color of their house, the shape of their windows, where they park their cars on their own property, if th
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by zbrozek 4y ago
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-big-nepa-roundup
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I already did. But I still have a gas car and I still have excess production in the summer.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I'd love to have a small scale synthesis setup that I can use to store my excess production of solar electricity in the summer. I waste many MWh curtailing solar production. Some napkin math suggests I throw away enough photovoltaic en
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I didn't follow the car replacement schedule line. Why would a suburbanite replace cars every three years vs six for a block dweller? Both of those seem extremely short to me.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
https://www.chiltrix.com/heat-exchanger-tanks/DHW80.pdf
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Sewage treatment plants are not residential construction.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
This is precisely what impact fees are for when applying for building permits.

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