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by zbrozek 3y ago
I'd tend to assume folks would want to live in Reno rather than the open desert. Here's Reno's zoning code: https://www.reno.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/89797/638167... Article 3 spells out
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It's a shame that we encourage some forms of economic activity (creating jobs) but discourage another (building homes so that those jobholders have a place to live). Supply-side housing constraint drives rent growth, and places that bu
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It's long past time to remove that regulatory friction. Instead, it's spread to other drugs. My wife got a cold last week and sent me off to get some other non-pseudo drug. Despite being on the shelf, unlocked, it triggered a driv
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by zbrozek 3y ago
From 7-9 PM, the time in question, my marginal cost is $0.43662. See the tariff specification: https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED... It's just really, really high compared
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It is ridiculous. But when I'm away from solar, I'm extremely frugal with energy because it's so expensive here. It's a matter of feeling ripped off, not whether or not one can afford it. Rates here feel like buying wate
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It kind of is. Most places just adopt the IBC and make a few amendments.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
In my townhouse in Sunnyvale the lights are off, despite that I'm home right now. Sitting in the dark is better than paying PG&E's ridiculous rates. I wish it were easier to install solar here.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Rent control does not produce units. You get units by reducing barriers and costs to construction. One avenue is stronger property rights. Don't let local governments and randos have an opportunity to make demands or issue denials. It
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Thank you so much for writing this up!
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I crave screenshots especially when the UI is very complicated. Documentation that tells me to engage the encabulator is hard to use when I don't know what the icon looks like or where it is or if there's a menu entry or how deepl
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Please say more about what service you bought and what data product you got. I would be interested in doing the same.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I can't tell the difference between the source track and the "moderate compression" sample. My lack of ability here might partially explain why I've never cared for music.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
My 20-something year old dishwasher has a delayed start option that I use to run it in the middle of the day. It's great. No app required.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Why do you do that swap? I dislike tucking my thumb to copy and paste, but could imagine someone with different hand geometry having different preferences.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It's just demand. We don't call increases in demand 'induced demand' unless we're trying to throw shade on the thing being demanded. The classical case is road use. Add lanes to highways and folks will utilize the c
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I almost always select Germany when asked for my region.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I got my first mac through work this year and I hate the UI. It's very nice that it doesn't come with as much bloat (but it does still come it, e.g., Apple news, music, etc). I absolutely hate the window management. Inconsistent b
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by zbrozek 3y ago
At least here in California, I'd be worried that it could get instituted with token or no reduction in other taxes. Otherwise it seems to make a lot of sense, particularly with regard to removing disincentives for development.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Huh. The first video causes my Framework 13 AMD running Firefox on Windows to reset.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It's plenty hard to build a SFH in California. Getting a 10-plex permitted is like getting an Olympic medal.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Yet we end up with a state that wants more housing and general law cities which do their best to block housing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by zbrozek 3y ago
The regular false positives are so annoying that I sometimes fantasize about removing the camera, then remind myself that it's a leased vehicle and that I only have to endure it for ten more months. Some folks don't mind getting d
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I regularly drive down a gently curving 25 mph road. Every single time I do, the collision warning comes on because it thinks I'm going to go straight and not follow the road. It's so repeatable that I pause my podcasts in anticip
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by zbrozek 3y ago
AT&T is offering 18/1 DSL in my neighborhood in 94022. Comcast offers nothing. Pretty sure this goalpost movement isn't going to convince either of them to offer service.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Are there consistently available regional inflation metrics?
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I look forward to direct synthesis solid state microwave ovens. I want to actually get power control.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
In a functional market where demand signal drives production the value of a thing declines as it ages. Japan has this figured out. Tokyo is relatively affordable because it is possible to build just about any form of housing anywhere. Furth
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by zbrozek 3y ago
By making more supply (housing units) available in greater variety, at lower cost, and more quickly we can drive down their price and make it possible to satisfy more demand. Unfortunately a lot of folks think that housing doesn't foll
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by zbrozek 3y ago
People need a place to live that's close-enough to where they work. Folks highly value shelter as a means of improving their chances of survival. Yet we broadly refuse to dismantle a century of ever-tightening restrictions on what can
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Definitely not the land of the free, that's for sure. Zoning and the use of police powers generally seem to have almost no limits.

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