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by zjaffee 8y ago
Venice to Downtown is 25 minutes if you make the drive after 8:30-9pm, where on the weekends it can be the same the entire day. It does suck when you have a concert you want to get to that starts at 8, but you do get used to it. Note that t
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by zjaffee 8y ago
LA is considered the least affordable city in the country (incomes are much lower than they are in NYC), but in nominal terms it's still true that you get more in LA than NYC.
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It blows my mind that Silverlake is attractive to former New Yorkers in the way that it is. It's far less walkable than the nearby neighborhoods that are just as trendy from Los Feliz to Highland Park.
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MDR isn't a neighborhood in LA either, it's technically an unincorporated part of LA county.
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At this stage, LA would be better off by "cramming more people" in, largely as a way to reduce car dependence and fund transit initiatives. Namely, the city would benefit a ton if it rezoned land in downtown to allow for a similar
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Weather, accessibility of diverse food options (this exists in new york too, but you'd need to go to queens), housing that is cheaper on a price per square foot basis (units are still expensive, but they tend to be larger), larger geog
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It's important to not forget that half of the land in Los Angeles is the Santa Monica Mountains (hollywood hills, ect), and the San Fernando Valley. Now, there are still neighborhoods in central areas that don't have much multifam
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The chronically street homeless, are very different, and far more visible than those who experience homelessness and housing insecurity that have the mental stability to either find someone to stay with temporarily or take advantage of shel
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You could easily make an argument that lack of proper zoning in California has resulted in people moving elsewhere and that invokes the interstate commerce clause.
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Because people there still view homes as a worthy investment, their housing bubble never collapsed even though home values are some of the least affordable in the world (even when rent is considered affordable).
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The counterfeit detection problem is one of the hardest problems that exists, fake branded products is much easier to solve, but at least in the world of fashion, the only proven way to detect fakes has been through leveraging teams of expe
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Make sure to vote tomorrow then, whatever you believe politically doesn't matter outside of the fact that Cuomo is very much a child of that same sort of machine politics that has run New York for the last 200 if not more years.
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Manhattan experienced population decline from the 1920s through the 1970s, where while not all of that was people leaving the city, it always involved the annexation of new cheap land.
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As someone who supports some aspects of YIMBYism almost entirely because I like very dense cities, I still think it's important to make note of the major negatives of density. Namely, what happens to overbuilt places during periods of
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The problem here is that land is a scarce resource that can only be redeveloped once it is put back on the market. It's not like other consumer goods where there aren't really many resource constraints. In turn, something needs to
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Can you think of a place that became more affordable after the fact and created more value, because I struggle to think of one. Virtually every city in America that is considered affordable has either experienced large amounts of population
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The problem is more that we are far better at building housing than we are at improving transportation and other infrastructure that needs to scale with population such as schools. Additionally, adding park space in already crowded neighbor
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Inflow is greater than outflow but it primarily comes from births and international immigration. Additionally domestic migration into California is certainly still happening, but it's very likely the case that it involves the filtering
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The US also has radically cheaper groceries than virtually any other developed country.
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It's because they can charge a huge amount for their service, where there is relatively low costs of operations compared to other enterprise products. It's amazing how they are able to charge as much as a product like slack.
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Honestly I think that's just a result of the fact that enterprise software is a sales driven business much more than it is a product oriented one. Additionally, especially in backend tech products, migrating can require a sizable numbe
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Because no one would make music, movies, or television anymore if DCMA didn't exist? I just don't believe that to be true.
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I think something very different needs to happen. Commodity monopolies are different than platform monopolies. Additionally, I can't think of an example where any retail monopoly has been broken up. I am still unsure if breaking these
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The reason why food stamps work and wealth transfers don't is that increasing food production to match the demand that food stamps add isn't all that difficult, especially given that so much food already goes to waste. A direct tr
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It's really interesting, they have a much higher percentage of people who smoke, but the number of cigarettes they smoke a day is far less than even in the united states.
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I'm also talking about the area around washington square park. The majority of the streets only allow one side of parking at any given time (with opposite side of the street parking for cleaning), where the streets are one way. Should
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True protected bike lanes with signaling priority that you see in cities like Seattle would be near impossible to implement in manhattan given that on all the wider crosstown streets downtown, there are major bus routes running along them t
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Are you sure about this? Maybe this is true on avenues, but at least with the new york I know well (grew up in greenwich village), the streets are very narrow (one parking lane and one driving lane is already tricky), with avenues sometimes
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by zjaffee 8y ago
There is a doable solution, and that would be implementing a system where all major throughways have BRT with proper right of ways (and not the kind where other cars can just enter the bus lane). Yes this will lead to more congested streets
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I think there's a 4th factor which is under looked by your comment and it's that the way in which ride sharing is taking away revenue from the MTA. While this is likely caused by the system constantly being under construction and

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