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"An economic boom should not be a bad thing"

You're right, but the reality is it has been a bad thing for many people. As long as they're being outmaneuvered by homeowners and landlords, having the boom simply end would work just as well as winning the housing supply fight. Few people are going to miss tech elites if they leave.

Because if "tech elites" actually are leaving, then the increase in demand will have been proven to be transient

Surely many developers would have made the bet anyway, at least in 2010-2019, but going forward it'll be worth considering whether building housing for people who are likely to leave en masse is worth the risk.

That, I agree with. San Francisco should have built more housing to accommodate the growth. Though if people are leaving already, I can also see why developers might have been reluctant to bet too big on new construction.

Maybe it is a tough call, because the guy shitting on the sidewalk isn't living in your previous apartment at twice the price.

I think many people prefer petty crime to tech elites. With the upward pressure on rents over the last 10 years, even having your bike stolen every few weeks is cheaper than getting evicted and/or having to find a market rate dwelling.

Of course, it's better to have neither exploding costs nor petty crime, but at the end of the day, dealing with petty crime is more affordable.

EDIT: Getting downvoted to oblivion but I'm not wrong.

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/12/21001080/san-francisco-sf-r...

"In 2010, a two-bedroom SF apartment on Craigslist averaged $2,893 (per historic data compiled in 2016 by Eric Fischer), or $3,396 after inflation. At the end of 2019, similar units on the same site sit at a median of $4,300, up 26.6 percent."

It would have taken a lot of petty crime to amount to that $12K per year in inflation-adjusted (i.e. real) increase.

If you're working on the content and the looks at the same time, and you don't 100% know where the project is going, it's helpful to consider them as a combined unit, so you can alter and/or discard that unit without delving into separate CSS and HTML trees. (Or, worse, not being sure what HTML or CSS you should alter or throw away when its corresponding CSS or HTML ends up in the garbage).

Separate content and presentation is a great final outcome, but when a project is in flux as it's being built, it's a burden.

EDIT: Moreover, it's not just that the "ship has sailed long ago"; the ship was attacked and sunk. Frameworks that combine CSS and HTML aren't doing so out of neglect; they're aggressively rejecting the separate looks/content paradigm.

Isn't the real question "what are the odds of the lottery being random if this suspicious sequence comes up so soon"? I.e. given a specific sequence, how many weeks should you expect to wait before you see it? In the extreme if you would expect to see 1,2,3,4,5,6 after 500,000 weeks, but you see it in the first week, then probably the lottery is not random, right?

It's strange that getting promoted is such a universal goal. Many or most people who start on the promotion ladder get stuck in the miserable middle. There's surprisingly little reflection on whether or not the extra money is worth the extra hassle, or at what point one should avoid further promotion.

The incompetent leadership, contagious disease, and false beliefs described in the first paragraph are par for the course in human history.

The author opened with a list of things that seem impervious to the ramping complexity, instead of vulnerable to it.

Many creative people got their first public attention on MySpace. Soundcloud never quite matched it. Facebook and Twitter are rat races.

A re-run of MySpace, at scale, would be a benefit to the world. I hope this takes off like a rocket (without losing its spirit.)

I nearly got whiplash when the author moved the threshold from "giving a shit" to "deeply obsessed".

Does Pocket work for Medium and/or Twitter? I'm not too concerned about indexing my entire base of knowledge, but I do often locally save a bunch of articles to maybe read on the weekend when I have some time.

Saving Medium blogs and Twitter threads locally just doesn't work, so I've pretty much stopped reading Medium and treat Twitter as purely ephemeral.