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by zjaffee 7y ago
One of the biggest costs of new rental construction is financing costs (on a 30 year loan it's often half of the cost). Given that it's cheaper for the government to borrow money than the private sector you can have the government
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There's a reason why it's taking so long for Amazon to get FAA approval for drone delivery and this is exactly why. There are people in important places asking these sorts of questions already. My guess personally, is that drone d
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HDInsite is built by hortonworks which was acquired by cloudera.
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I agree with everything you've said until the last part. Google is only marginally better than fb when it comes to some of these issues of privacy. The issue people have with facebook is that it has a reputation for being a pressure co
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Tokyo is able to solve affordability with massive economies of scale around prefabricated buildings (that include multifamily buildings). To develop a comparable economy of scale, the US would need to significantly relax zoning rules and de
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This is a fundamental problem with our society at large and market economies in general. Companies find it easier to deal with the consequences of a resulting regional housing crisis near their headquarters than they do to invest in second
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Notice how I said in my comment that it would not make manhattan affordable, I never said it wouldn't make the broader region more affordable.
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It's because there is a conflict of desires that exist within cities. People want cities with thriving economies, jobs with rising wages, world class amenities and institutions. However, they also want the amenities that are only avail
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Upzoning would not make a place like manhattan more affordable, there have been studies ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2018035pap... ) that evaluate what up to a 20% increase in housing sup
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This number is both old and in nominal terms. A person making 50k USD in China is likely richer than a person in the US making 100k USD in the US. http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/771271476908686029/Segal.pdf sugge
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by zjaffee 7y ago
Apache Iceberg is probably the closest product to what databricks is open sourcing, but none of these products are everything that's needed for datalake management. What these products do is make it as easy to use decoupled storage and
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by zjaffee 7y ago
The person above you was correct and they are real things that are called microaggressions. A micro aggression is defined as "A statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination
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Think for a moment about how big of an impact 4g had, and 3g before it. As others mentioned above about the law that states that any new computing resource will eventually get filled, there are plenty of areas where this is worthwhile. The
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Universal college education is still a great idea, even if it lowers the value of an individuals degree across the broader society. A world where more people can make meaningful contributions to the development of new technologies, providin
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Ubers have been shown to increase vehicle miles driven, which in turn means a decline in the use of public transit. Historically the big tax on cars was an 18% tax on parking in NYC, but considering that more and more people are taking Uber
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by zjaffee 8y ago
This isn't about choosing where to live, and as a matter of fact Zurich does have very strong tenant protections and rent controls. This is about if you've lived somewhere 20 years, and the neighborhood changes, where you were a p
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The kind that come in, buy up property and evict every tenant living in said building, followed by raising prices such that no one who lived in the area previously could afford it. This isn't about outsiders who move to a neighborhood
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I'm not saying that the housing would need to go to those who work in the office, if anything it should be a part of the broader open market. I'm also not saying that the office needs to match the housing supply of it's offic
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I never said it should have to be at a fixed price, and you could ask the same question for why does a person own property that they don't live in. Landlordism and rent seeking is an inherently immoral thing that we allow to exist in o
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I have to absolutely disagree with the point you're making about mongodb never being something an experienced developers should use. An experience developer understands when the goal is to deliver something as fast as possible vs build
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I believe we need explicit housing mandates in the way we have parking mandates. Except this time, we'll be creating a more universal public good. Just as how parking requirements make it much easier to find parking in high density and
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I probably wasn't clear on this, but I'm referring more towards the broader neighborhood a person lives in. At least currently, rent control and land ownership is the only clear way to prevent outsiders from coming in and disrupti
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This will sound counterintuitive but you absolutely have to mandate housing. Compare this to parking requirements, if we want an abundant housing supply we need to distort the market price of housing the same way we did for parking. Require
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The west village isn't primed for tall buildings (they can certainly be taller than they currently are) and is much denser than most people think it is, since the brownstones are often multifamily. But more than anything else, streets
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Manhattan is expensive because of wealth inequality. Every year you see a huge number of neighboring apartments get merged together to have a single bigger unit, where huge numbers of people still can never afford to live there. I'd al
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How is this any different than if a person owned their home, how many people sell their house should they take a job further away. Rent control generally only contributes significant savings if you've lived somewhere a long time.
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Rent control tacked to region wide inflation levels is still good policy even if it's bad economics. People should have an inherent right to place, if they didn't the immigration and native rights debates around the world would be
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How ownership has a very similar effect as rent control, especially in California where prop 13 exists. Should we abolish home ownership and have everyone buy into a single rental market such that prices wouldn't be distorted beyond w
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Product advertising isn't necessarily better than search or social advertising, it's just different. It's unlikely that amazon will be competitive with FB on political advertising, advertising for events, local advertising, e
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Advertising is often a form of propaganda that leads us to inadvertently allow the issues of hunger, disease and war to continue. Advertisers basically say whatever they want to us skirting on the edge of any existing regulation to get ahea

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