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New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:08:41 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTKwL7eW-1Q

New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:05:44 +0000

IDK that this is a new argument? LMK though if you want a more full response

New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:05:03 +0000

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

New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:50:59 +0000

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

New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:49:32 +0000

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

New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:47:17 +0000

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

New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:46:35 +0000

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)

New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:16:43 +0000

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.

New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:14:54 +0000

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

New comment by treesrule in "Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down"

treesrule — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:03:39 +0000

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)

New comment by treesrule in "Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"

treesrule — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:48:13 +0000

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.

New comment by treesrule in "Apple Rankings"

treesrule — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:21:57 +0000

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.

New comment by treesrule in "Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community"

treesrule — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:39:41 +0000

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.

New comment by treesrule in "LaMDA is not sentient"

treesrule — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:30:55 +0000

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.

New comment by treesrule in "Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community"

treesrule — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:26:39 +0000

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

New comment by treesrule in "If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed"

treesrule — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:01:03 +0000

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.

New comment by treesrule in "AirPods don't “just work”"

treesrule — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:29:44 +0000

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

New comment by treesrule in "Diving into BoardGameGeek"

treesrule — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:51:20 +0000

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)

New comment by treesrule in "Reddit rejects moderators' call for harsh measures against Covid misinformation"

treesrule — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:44:15 +0000

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.

New comment by treesrule in "Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work"

treesrule — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:24:50 +0000

> Being competent (top 20%)

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