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treesruleon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

All of those things as far as I can tell can rise with wage increases as they will get more use? Except for Fixed Tariffs

treesruleon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

So I think your observations can be broadly true and also that if you caught the people who are chronically homeless as they were falling out of being homed they would seem way less insane and their problems would be far more tractable

treesruleon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

They invested a lot of money which is good and all of the programs they put it into seem like they will help, but I think their zoning reforms wern't strong enough to truely increase supply enough

treesruleon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

one way this can hold everyones wages have increased so other inputs can also increase

treesruleon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/08/th...

This isn't exactly what i've claimed but its in the ballpark (sorry at work will try later to try and find something more specific)

treesruleon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

There is some evidence that increasing minimum wage increases the prices of goods for minimum wage workers so that their rising wages don't actually give them more buying power, also we can just not make it illegal to build new housing in places where there is already housing but ymmv.

treesruleon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

I don't think this is super true, I think people become the random guy yelling at trees rather than some guy who works at the Duane Reade because homelessness causes you to go insane

treesruleon Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down

Some states (montana Minnisota although the later is less likely to succeed imo) have started doing this at a state wide level, I think Cali has a particularly uphill battle since the housing situation is already bad and the headwind that we really will never be able to change: prop-13. (I think all the other things that are preventing new housing CEQA, SFZ poor public infrastructure can all be changed if we do it right but I don't see prop-13 ever changing even if we get these taken care of)

treesruleon Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow

Other people have linked good articles, but a good way to think about it is in Japan and West Virginia they have almost no homelessness and in both those places its very easy to rent a studio for under 300$ a month. Even for someone addicted to drugs you can see how its possible to manage 300$ a month (or for say a charity or city organization to come up with the money) without solving the underlying issues.

treesruleon Apple Rankings

You don't understand Nevermind wasn't actually all that good Bandwagonesque BY Teenage Fanclub was actually better and more instrumental into turning the early 90s into an audio experience.

treesruleon Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community

I can track down the actualy post if you want I don't recall there being a specific announcment, but the logic goes something like this most people who use proxy are referring to fake magic cards printed to look like real ones and therefore talking about proxies how to make copies etc will lead to people cheating or stealing.

For what its worth i used the term proxy for a decade almost exclusively to mean a cheap paper copy of a magic card (or even just writing the word on a sheet of paper and sticking it in a sleeve over a land) and I find this restriction wrong-headed.

treesruleon LaMDA is not sentient

This sentence translates to "lol u mad bro"

That is I think you are trying to defend someone indefensible position (a google engineer taking a kinda normal ai chatbot conversation and claiming that the AI is alive) by ignoring the core issue and focusing on instead an ansilary issue. I find the misdirection uncompelling. I obviously could be wrong here and you could genuinely be wondering why this person would be mad.

treesruleon Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community

The magic the gathering subreddit has to moderate out the word "proxy" or risk getting banned. seems plausable like there are just a lot of speicfic rules you gotta follow to be a subreddit

treesruleon If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed

I wonder if there are other things we'd do with land if the price of land came down

Maybe we'd see more communes (or charter cities)? I know for a fact there are people constantly looking for places to buy and if things were cheap enough they'd jump on it.

treesruleon AirPods don't “just work”

I still just my ath M50xs for everything, its lovely, but its very annoying to use with my newer phone

treesruleon Diving into BoardGameGeek

I don't know that I buy your narrative, but I'd sure like to see price vrs rating (while controlling for other thigns ofc)

treesruleon Reddit rejects moderators' call for harsh measures against Covid misinformation

My hot take about this is that banning this stuff before it spread would have tamped down on all the stupidity going around, but once people know about it doesn't really make a difference to ban it.

treesruleon Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

> Being competent (top 20%)

What sort of toxic exceptionalism led you to think that only 20% of workers are suitable for their jobs....

treesruleon Amazon warehouse injuries '80% higher' than competitors, report claims

Thanks

treesruleon Amazon warehouse injuries '80% higher' than competitors, report claims

is it worth getting the new edition of this book (its like 25$ more for me)

treesruleon Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave

Is this how it works in the non-tech parts of amazon?

treesruleon On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness

> having a romantic and sexual relationship is not a requirement for a happy life.

I don't have the all data off hand (see some citations below) but I believe they say married men live longer, commit less crimes and are happier. So yes in some sense, can you be happy if you are not married however, is it almost certainly harder. I assume you would find similar data for not having a romantic parter. You, a human, are not an island and almost certainly would benefit from close personal and romantic connections.

I would say that there is a way of expressing this towards your partner -- especially too early in a relationship -- that can be very draining.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sampson/files/2006_crimino...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/marriage-and-mens...

https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-marriage-really-make-us-heal...

treesruleon Lambda School agrees to end deceptive educational financing practices

yeah sorry, I would bet you are right in the strict legal sense, I guess its a dumb cop out but I meant in the colloquial sense.

treesruleon Lambda School agrees to end deceptive educational financing practices

> While the referenced cases aren't good, not their mistakes alone

Check notes: "notify students that the bankruptcy dischargeability provision language is not accurate"

Just to be clear this isn't a "mistake" this is fraud.

treesruleon Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market

Yeah, just to be clear, I was specifically talking about land-use regulations. I don't know anything about how stringent material requirements are for building houses, but i'd wager we have some dumb ones on the books in the US.

treesruleon Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market

Joe Wiesenthal on twitter sometimes has some good anti-anti-fait shtick. https://twitter.com/TheStalwart

treesruleon Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market

thanks!

treesruleon Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market

See here for example:

Basically anyone can just maliciously sue if they don't like a development and force a length environmental review process.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/signature-...

Also just as an aside, I'm in favor of large, expensive intervention for both climate change and the environment in general but Environmental review at least in California is basically worth nothing compare to investing a billion dollars in solar cell research or building a nuclear power plant.