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by zjp 2y ago
I saw what was deleted out of this. ;)
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by zjp 2y ago
I recommend against Grammarly because I like when I see peoples' idiosyncrasies and it's little fuckups that move language forward.
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by zjp 2y ago
I felt much sharper before I had COVID last December and I still don't feel like I've fully recovered from the fog.
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by zjp 3y ago
In New York of all places. One of the main advantages of having good public transit should be the ability to yank peoples' licenses away without worrying it will put them out of work!
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by zjp 3y ago
The NIMBYism here is, at this point, an intentional plan to price people out. We basically hate that we have to have open borders with the rest of the US.
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by zjp 3y ago
What I like about Emacs is that there are a lot of opportunities to automate away little things. For example, you can make it update copyright years automatically or define a template that will be automatically inserted into all files of a
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by zjp 3y ago
Well, it either outs you as a non-San Franciscan or a poor one, since that's the native demographic that's historically called it 'Frisco'. Really, the frisco should be 'San Fran'.
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by zjp 3y ago
Maybe I'm just too ignorant to know the pattern that determines whether I need to specify 'dev' and 'version' on a package or some random trailing '1' or '0', but the first linux distro with a se
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by zjp 3y ago
Long-term renting is just not recognized as legitimate housing in America. We are all temporarily embarrassed homeowners.
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by zjp 3y ago
No, I wouldn't get behind it either. The median income (individual but I'd be fine with household) in an area should be enough to buy a starter home in that area. Until then, the area is underbuilt. The Bay Area pretending an apoc
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by zjp 3y ago
Well, in 1920 to live in Midtown you would have had to be able to drop $3m ($55m inflation adjusted) for a ground-level mansion and now you can get an apartment there for under $1m, so I would say the cost has dropped precipitously over the
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by zjp 3y ago
IMO, when we reach those limits if rents still don't tick downwards because the demand exceeds the market's ability to respond to it we're just going to go through another even more insufferable version of the argument I orig
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by zjp 3y ago
"You're not allowed to build an apartment complex out of paper" regulations are not the main thing driving costs today. "You're not allowed to build an apartment at all" regulations are. End height and density
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by zjp 3y ago
But should incentivizing your behavior be a _policy goal_. I think not. Cities are mainly engines of wealth creation with concentrated opportunity. We should expand the supply of apartments in city centers so that they can remain so. They s
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by zjp 3y ago
Just one more subsidy bro I promise it'll work this time
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by zjp 3y ago
This is true, mostly. I suspect SF and NYC NIMBYs know full well the legal limits of building in their respective cities.
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by zjp 3y ago
(50% of the city is zoned for single family and the rest has height and density limits) "The market will not solve the housing crisis!" It's the 'stop hitting yourself' of housing policy.
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by zjp 3y ago
"Hey man, sorry you got priced out of New York but we've got a nice shack in the Dakotas removed from your whole social structure ready for you."
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by zjp 3y ago
It was a huge mistake to let "we overbuilt" become the dominant narrative about the subprime mortgage crisis, so named because it was a crisis of giving unlendable people mortgages.
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by zjp 3y ago
I agree, for most people the system is a bootloader for Chrome. But this article is about one guy's disappointment he can't hold the whole system in his head anymore, and I'm just saying the user never cared about that in the
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by zjp 3y ago
We would all do well to remember we make things for users. The system is complex so that the user doesn't have to deal with it, and if we want Linux to get more than its current (pathetic) desktop market share, this is the way things w
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by zjp 3y ago
I guess they're tired of having to pay people more just so the peninsula's NIMBY landed gentry can extract it all.
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by zjp 3y ago
Somebody at a planning meeting for an apartment building in Nopa was arguing that it would go against the working-class history of the neighborhood (homes sell for >$1M there now btw). People here are in deep denial about SF being a worl
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by zjp 3y ago
7000 listings seems small for a place that has nearly 1 million people in it.
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by zjp 4y ago
I'm sure I'll flip back to AI pessimism, but I'm on the upswing of my anxiety cycle so: when you think about software engineering do you imagine yourself as a sailmaker or a ship designer?
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by zjp 4y ago
America can't even win a culture war with itself... I don't think college-aged leftists have ever fully comprehended what Pax Sinica means for them: work. Just watch "American Factory", the documentary Obama made on Netf
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by zjp 4y ago
As frumper says, there was a recent attempt to remove Prop 13 for commercial properties, but it narrowly failed because the argument was that the reform movement was coming for homeowners next.
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by zjp 4y ago
In California the problem is mostly that over time if you've held property it's become insanely cheap to be a landlord. Prop 13 applies to every parcel in the state. Even Florida tackles this more sensibly. A person's primary
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by zjp 4y ago
If you were interviewing me as a junior I wouldn't have known any of it, but because I was about to take the classes that cover that stuff as electives in my senior year, not because my CS program was deficient. Remember that the colle
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by zjp 4y ago
Do you trust our government to respond to AI unemployment in a quick, effective, and fair manner?

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