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lemming934

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  • We Can Fix the Housing Crisis by Looking at How We Raised the Legal Drinking Age

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  • something like 15,000 empty houses right now

    This statistic is meaningless because many of the cities with excess housing are in places with no jobs

    building brand new single family homes doesn’t empower the working class, it empowers landlords

    This is incorrect. The important statistic to look at is vacancy rate In almost all the major cities in the US vacency rates are well below the tenant empowering 8% and many are below the 5% rate where tenant have a fighting chance. We absolutely need more housing. I'd prefer duplexes, triplexes, row houses and apartments for urbanist reasons, but the idea that building more houses empowers landlords over the proletariat is ridiculous.

  • We Can Fix the Housing Crisis by Looking at How We Raised the Legal Drinking Age

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  • That is not an example of market capitalism. It's an example of regulatory capture by homeowners: capitalist developers would like to build more housing, but homeowners cause the local government to block this.

    With housing, we are in an unusual circumstance where both less government intervention (let people build more housing) and more government intervention (build public housing) would be better than the status quo.

  • This country needs some fuckin' reform.

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  • In Amsterdam the mode share for all trips is like 30% for biking and for walking and like 20% for driving and for transit

  • Landlords are scum.

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  • I mean the policy in question was to tax second homes at 10,000%

    Presumably that includes houses an organization wants to rent out. It's hard to imagine that this policy wouldnt make it very difficult to rent

  • Landlords are scum.

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  • Because it's good for people to be able to rent a house, and we already subside home ownership enough in the US

  • Biden to call for 5% cap on annual rent increases, as he tries to show plans to tame inflation

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  • They did this in California and Oregon, then the schools went to shit.

    Also, property taxes are a good way to encourage density, which is necessary to fight climate change

  • Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools?

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  • In the US you sometimes hear that phones in class are necessary to see if your kids are OK in a school shooting scenario.

    I think this isn't a good argument, since school shootings are rare, and it's unclear if each student having a phone would do more harm than good in that kind of situation.

  • Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools?

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  • I don't see the connection between neurodivergence and phones

  • Electric Aviation is already better than you think - Volts with David Roberts

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  • Short haul flights should probably be high speed train rides anyway

  • Men, are you physically affectionate with other male friends? (eg, hugging, snuggling, playful wrestling, etc). If you aren't, do you wish it was more socially acceptable if it isn't in your culture?

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  • Snuggling -- never. And this doesn't apply only to men, it applies to women whom I don't find attractive as well.

    What about nonhuman animals? Do you dislike cuddly dogs?

  • If you were offered knowledge of exactly when and how you'll die, would you take it? Why or why not?

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  • Yes, so I can probably plan for it.

  • What are two songs you like that describe opposite situations?

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  • I Love Louis Cole - Thundercat feat. Louis Cole

    Louis Cole Sucks - Scary Goldings feat. Louis Cole

  • Google Messages' text editing feature is live for beta users, and it could come to you soon

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  • I found Google messages to be unreliable: refusing to send a SMS if the Internet connection is bad. The signal that the message failed to send is a single hollow checkmark.

    I switched to fossify messages, which just sends SMSs or MMSs and doesn't create its own flawed messaging protocol

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  • Github

  • Are there any things in Linux that need to be started over from scratch?

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  • How would virtual environment software, like conda, work without $PATH?

  • Are there any things in Linux that need to be started over from scratch?

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  • The goal of the zig language is to allow people to write optimal software in a simple and explicit language.

    It's advantage over c is that they improved some features to make things easier to read and write. For example, arrays have a length and don't decay to pointers, defer, no preprocessor macros, no makefile, first class testing support, first class error handling, type inference, large standard library. I have found zig far easier to learn than c, (dispite the fact that zig is still evolving and there are less learning resources than c)

    It's advantage over rust is that it's simpler. Ive never played around with rust, but people have said that the language is more complex than zig. Here's an article the zig people wrote about this: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future

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  • But it's somewhat wasteful to build an entire industrial plant that's only run at 10% capacity

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    The most cost effective measure to beat climate change is building bike infrastructure

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  • My issue with degrowth is that it's incompatible with capitalist society. Capitalism only works if the economy is growing. If the economy is stagnant, a win for your neighbor is a loss for you. It would be difficult to build a community under these conditions.

    I know I'm on .ml and capitalism has a bad name around here. But I think is clear that markets can improve peoples lives, and alternatives are difficult to implement.

    Turning fuckcars into an anticapitalist movement is unnecessary and unhelpful in my opinion. I just want to be able to bike around my city safely.

  • Just 2 people.

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  • I think OP believes every town in the US has twice as many homeless people as churches, it doesnt need to be exactly 1 church and 2 homeless people.

    But either way, that's probably not true. Since homeless people tend to be in larger cities.

    But then again, lots of people become homless in the suburbs and then move to the city to get the social services. If churches in the suburbs housed a few people as they become homeless, it would probably help. It's better to keep people in their communities so they have a better chance of returning to housefullness.

    But probably not that much, since homelessness rates are strongly correlated with housing prices, so expensive cities create more homelessness than cheap suburbs.