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Tax on land value only, excluding improvements. This encourages landowners to build to the limit of marginal construction costs, which benefits both the local economy and tenants.

Companies can't grow faster than the supply of office space, which also has time constraints.

The more important question is: can we have growth in economic output (which is what we actually want) without growth in economic input (which is purely instrumental)?

In order to crack water, you need water, which is in short supply in the desert. Desalination + massive pumps and pipelines from the ocean would soak up any increase you get in pri…

I wonder what the breakeven cost would be of a monthly subscription to ad-free journalism on the quality level of the New York Times (or your preferred equivalent). Something like …

When you are told something that is wrong, holding onto it after you learn that it is wrong is entitlement.

NIMBYism is pretty much a de facto campaign against internal migration. It's not much of an issue in the fastest growing states, but certain states with hot economies but stagnant …

What factors influence the amount of calories used and taken in (not just eaten)? That's the question, and the answer is hardly rudimentary.

> but in my calorie range That's the difficult part--the insulin spikes from ultraprocessed food will make you hungrier and eat more as well as lower your basal metabolism. "Calori…

When your basal metabolism is 4500 calories a day.

The extra bedroom is also optional.

Aesthetic objections to new construction are 99.9% bullshit. Otherwise things like vomit- and baby-poop-green vinyl siding, uniformly white windows with fake grills and little to n…

> The idea that a place like Beverly Hills is going to have to throw up a bunch of new housing to please CA congress They don't have to do anything except allow private landowners …

Your house is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Developers are willing to pay a lot for it since a multifamily building can yield a lot more rent revenue than a single f…

It's almost like they've never heard of orientation, shading, or SHGCs.

> The instant you sign a mortgage it becomes in your economic best interest to limit the supply of housing. Not if you own the underlying land, or at least a portion thereof, and w…

Dashlane. Synchronization included, easy to use, works both offline and online.

High quality speech recognition is ubiquitous in phone services these days so that isn't a good reason. Besides, if I want to set a 16 char password and am willing to enter that on…

> which means their descendants will not share your ethnic identity - it will be destroyed Mixed and combined, not destroyed. Besides, where to draw the line? Should Calabrians and…

If you're poor, how did you come to own the assets in the first place? If you became poor, then maybe you should sell the property to gain more liquidity, balance your portfolio, a…

Not true if "investments" are just chasing fixed assets like real estate in a zero-sum manner.

> rest of San Francisco’s infrastructure including mass transit The moment Proposition 13 gets repealed that will no longer be a problem.

Except what the SF Bay Area is facing isn't the Tragedy of the Commons--it's the Tragedy of the Anticommons, where the owners of resources underutilize them.

On average, moving one person from a small town in the midwest to SF reduces resource consumption, so from that point of view construction in SF should be encouraged. Tearing down …

That's why they tore down all the single family houses in Sunset & Richmond to make way for 5 story apartment blocks. Oh wait...