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New comment by greenie_beans in "Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)"

greenie_beans — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:29:47 +0000

fwiw, we get bad hurricanes more than that and also the mid-south is the new tornado alley. there was a very bad ice storm this past winter. natural disasters happen everywhere. and it's hot AF in july and august, like so hot that you stay inside all day.

New comment by greenie_beans in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

greenie_beans — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:34:20 +0000

also indisputable that market forces cause developers to not build because the ROI is not there or it's too risky

Curating Crime and Punishment: What 10 Images Reveal About American Justice

greenie_beans — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:29:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/06/crime-punishment-america-photos-archive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204498

Points: 2

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New comment by greenie_beans in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

greenie_beans — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:16:11 +0000

you are correct that we need to increase supply, and socialized housing creates more supply. great idea

Dirty Energy and the Lost Promise of the TVA

greenie_beans — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:25:32 +0000

Article URL: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/04/dirty-energy-and-the-lost-promise-of-the-tva/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101851

Points: 6

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New comment by greenie_beans in "Claude Opus 5"

greenie_beans — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:46:23 +0000

the writing style is so bad. cryptic sorta smart sentences that beat around the bush. say what you are trying to say!

New comment by greenie_beans in "Who Is America's Homer?"

greenie_beans — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:01:35 +0000

no talk about the only american writer with the guts to try to be like homer? the battlefield where the moon says i love you by frank stanford. obscure just like homer was in his time.

also, no mention in these comments about william faulkner?

though, i would bet money that "the american homer" will be somebody most readers have never heard of.

it's definitely not twain or hemingway, like everybody is saying. if you think it's twain, then it is faulkner, who was the first white writer to not write a one dimensional black character.

and no talk about toni morrison?? zora neale hurston??? do y'all read american literature?

New comment by greenie_beans in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

greenie_beans — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:26:44 +0000

why are we talking about bernie sanders in the context of new york state? he's a US senator from vermont. this is state-level politics, not federal, in the state of new york, not vermont. and he's not mentioned once in this article?

My debut novel was a flop

greenie_beans — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:42:10 +0000

Article URL: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/p/my-debut-novel-was-a-flop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845705

Points: 3

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New comment by greenie_beans in "98% Isn't Much"

greenie_beans — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:01:06 +0000

> 98% is great for exceptionally good things, like dramatically increasing someone’s quality of life, but very low for basic expectations, like a baby surviving a babysitter taking care of them.

this is your brain on data science. so absurd that i laughed out loud when i read "like a baby surviving a babysitter taking care of them" like what is that phrase doing in this sentence and argument

New comment by greenie_beans in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

greenie_beans — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:14:50 +0000

would you like to argue about this?

New comment by greenie_beans in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

greenie_beans — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:14:37 +0000

i would like to point out the irony that people are arguing about this in the comments.

my life has gotten so much better when i actively don't engage in arguments. especially when i know i'm right.

of course it's easier said than done but growth is a long road.

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:48:03 +0000

YIMBYs will point to a chart of new multifamily builds and conveniently not look at the building starts before the regulations were moved and then certainly not think about what was happening in the economy during that time.

a market with regulations: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

crazy that there were more houses being built pre-GFC when all those burdensome regulations were so suffocating and it never rebounded

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:32:19 +0000

i never hear YIMBYs talk about this: https://yonahfreemark.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Freemar...

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:10:17 +0000

i said "a SFH" not a neighborhood development with nice and fake numbers, and a scenario totally disconnected from reality. if costs that much to build in an area that shouldn't have a structure then that's on you.

thankfully we have regulations that disincentive those projects. there are plenty of other spots to build especially in the denser areas

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:09:45 +0000

idk you definitely need a lot of money to build a building, i didn't realize that was up for debate. also we are not talking about code regulations, we're talking about local regulations

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:08:52 +0000

yeah i don't think NYC people are gonna leave SF for NYC. those are two totally different cities with different experiences and different culture. you can live an urban lifestyle in all 50 states btw

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:25:35 +0000

yeah for sure and i didn't say that isn't a cost. i said it's a small part of the cost, almost negligible compared to the cost to actually build

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:24:59 +0000

it most certainly is not going to cost me $100k in engineering to design a SFH in arguably one of the most regulatory burdened states in the US: vermont

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:33:37 +0000

housing is expensive everywhere, not just in SF and NYC. def expensive in Austin. how do the zoning laws in SF make NYC more expensive?