Not_mikey @ Not_mikey @slrpnk.net

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Your missing another big part and that's unions are hamstrung down there. A lot of places in the Midwest offer similar advantages, ports aren't as good but you can still ship a lot on the great lakes, but they won't go there because they're afraid of unions.

Isn't this normal for tech companies? The IPO is typically the pay day event for most employees paid in stock where you can finally cash in. Doesn't matter where you think the companies going, most people would rather buy a house then stay on the tech stock roller coaster.

What makes you think their gonna start now after it's been going for more than two years and there even having trouble conscripting in western Ukraine ?

If they've ran out of volunteers in the more nationalist west how are they going to find them in the occupied territories where patriotism to Ukraine has always been lower?

That claim is heresy and you could be burned at the stake for spreading those lies

I feel like trump never really supported Israel. It's never been one of his big campaign issues and his isolationist tendencies push him away from it. He likes netanyahu like he likes the Saudis because they kiss his ass, but like all the sycophants who surround him he'll abandon them as soon as they start being a liability, and this war, even with his base, is starting to become a liability.

He's the opposite of Biden in that way, Trump had no particular attachment to Israel and would probably be fine if it stopped but his party is pulling him into a hard-line approach. Meanwhile Biden has been a passionate Zionist his whole political career and is being pulled by the left in the party to a call for ceasefire.

It's on the non stick coating for a lot of pans and can easily flake off and be ingested if you damage it by using metal utensils. This is why you should never use metal on nonstick.

The spirit of it still exists in temu ads. Turn off your ad blocker for a minute and you'll be inundated with cheap plastic things that you think are great ideas and you'll use once and forget about.

Trump defrauded rich investors as well, one of the big cases against him right now is about him using a Forbes article to lie about his net worth to get loans.

Where did you get this from? Yeah KiB means 1024 and KB is 1000 but that's not a difference between metric and imperial, judging from the Wikipedia article it seems it was just a matter of using 1024 for technical purposes and 1000 for marketing / simplicity. If anything the article says the metric systems(SI) rule of kilo meaning 1000 means KB is metric.

If anything this shows some of the weakness of metric and it's use of base 10. Yeah it works great in science and some math when we're usually talking in base 10, but that's not the only base you can use. In base 2 some of the imperial measurements are easier to deal with and convert between then metric for example

1 liter = 1111101000 ml 1 gallon = 10000000 fl oz

1 kg = 1111101000 g 1 pound = 10000 oz

The reverse of the above metric conversions, and all base 10 negative exponents, is a repeating number in binary which has to be truncated and leads to inaccurate calculations.

Systems of measure are arbitrary, there's no superior logical one because different systems of measure work better in different systems of math.

No one can "clear them out", even if the u.s. army came in and killed every last cartel member, the demand for drugs would still remain and a new cartel would pop up as soon as the u.s. leaves. It would basically be Afghanistan all over again, a bunch of people will die, trillions of dollars will be spent only to have it all go to waste as soon as we leave.

Violence can't solve the underlying social issues causing these groups to form.

Fighting them is gonna cause way more bus loads to die then just leaving them be. The cartels aren't evil psychopaths who kill for fun, they know violence is bad for business. The only downside to leaving them alone is they'll send more drugs to the u.s which isn't Mexico's problem.

That's the thing, you don't need to get all those top engineers in a room to investigate something, a team of product managers can do that perfectly fine and tell you it's not possible.

I think it's a bit disingenuous to compare Austin building rates to SF and NYC. Austin is far less built up then those other two cities so there's still a lot of easy gains to be made. Turning two single family homes into a 3 story 10 unit apartment complex is relatively cheap, has a high profit potential and multiplies the housing stock by 5. The problem comes when you run out of cheap single family houses on large lots and have to start turning the town houses and three story apartments into high rises. That is significantly more capital intensive, requires way more permitting and inspections, as it should, and has less potential for gains in housing and profit.

This isn't to fully excuse those cities as they could definitely be building more housing. Just saying their success isn't only due to them getting the government out of the way and letting developers build. Building 9x more housing is easier when your 9x less dense already. San Diego has no excuse though.

Yes, if rail were so good all the families and normal people who value there lives could take it, meanwhile the interstate could go turn into no speed limit chaos where all the rich people with huge egos and small dicks can crash their Porsches into each other without killing an innocent person whose just trying to get to work.

I read it as homeless people, not actually a crime but people associate the two so much that an increase in one "must" mean an increase in the other.

Sweet, I'm sure this won't be used by AIPAC to sue all the tech companies for causing October 7th somehow like unrwa and force them to shutdown or suppress all talk on Palestine. People hearing about a genocide happening might radicalize them, maybe we could get away with allowing discussion but better safe then sorry, to the banned words list it goes.

This isn't going to end in the tech companies hiring a team of skilled moderators who understand the nuance between passion and radical intention trying to preserve a safe space for political discussion, that costs money. This is going to end up with a dictionary of banned and suppressed words.

Judge hasn't ruled yet, this was just them saying the case has some merit and won't be dismissed. This will go to trial, after which the judge will make their ruling.

It's not about the actual level or rigor of education, just the perception. Unless the employer back in China studied in a German school they probably won't know the difference and think it's like any other western education. It's more about name recognition and the ivy's are "known" as the best and that sort of association probably boosts the perception of all U.S. schools. If anything students will want to go to the school with less rigor and that's easier if an employers not going to know the difference.

Also English remains the lingua franca and the u.s. is china's largest trading partner. There's probably more demand for workers who can talk to and relate to English speaking clients then Germans. so if not the u.s. they'll probably end up going to Britain , like the girl in the article, or Australia or Canada.

Thank you for your response and for being civil. I still think development should be a negotiation between the government and developers but your argument has pulled me more to the developers side. I still don't trust them because fundamentally developers don't care about housing affordability, the environment or neighborhood culture but people do and the only way for those voices to be heard is through the government. The government does have it's excesses and those should be eliminated but to say that we should always side with the developers and let them decide everything will not end well.

The case for this is induced demand which contrary to what you said is a thing. The study that the other article references doesn't deny induced demands existence, in fact it has a chart proving that more high income people migrated to the area then the control, it just says that this doesn't counteract the downward pressure on rent the increase in supply caused. It does blunt the effect though, and raises the question can we increase the supply without inducing demand, maybe with policies that make it so only low to middle income people can rent there. The study is also just comparing building a market rate building vs no building, more relevant to prop c though would be a market rate building vs an affordable housing building.

The study is also an average of over 100 different cities and San Francisco is not an average city. The real estate market is uniquely speculative, SF is ranked 3rd world wide behind new York and London for real estate investment, no link but this is from "pictures of a gone city" p. 211, I'd also recommend his entire chapter on the housing crisis if you want a more in depth empirical explanation of the progressive take on the housing crisis. The city also has the one of the highest income and one of the highest inequality in the country. So there's a lot more of those rich people moving in and a lot more investors buying property to sit on as shown by the high vacancy rate, that the author of the article mentions, probably not as much as they're hypothetical, but enough to further blunt the impact the increase in supply a new building creates.

Yes any new building will probably reduce rent in the area but that doesn't mean we should build any building. Certain buildings are going to bring down rents faster and land is limited. Affordable housing projects are competing for the same land/empty office space as luxury housing projects and if those affordable housing projects have no advantage from the government then luxury housing projects will win every time since they can outbid. Like the author said it's a matter of efficiency, not simply whether something will go up or down.

All of this requires a balancing act between making sure housing is built and making sure it's the best to suit the communities needs. Falling into a dichotomy and always siding with one or the other is what the author warns against, it's not just nimby or yimby.

Also would like to hear more of your opinion on public housing. That is probably what the author and most progressives have an issue with yimbyism. You seem to be against it because government hasn't been building but that's mostly due to lack of support due to past sabotaged projects. If the yimby movement backed public housing and lended more support then that would help to solve the issue.

To sexual assault victims?

This money isn't going to the Israeli state/military or Hamas, it's going to independent groups helping victims.