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Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by arijun » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 4:43 AM UTC

Aboutplants wrote: post #16

kevitivity wrote: post #11

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What specific policies do you disagree with out of curiosity

I'm not from NYC (nor do I have the same difficulty seeing past politics that gp seems to have), so I didn't research this stuff so closely. But from what I saw, it seemed that a lot of his policies seemed populist.

- Rent freezes do not seem to work. When he ran on that position I did look up briefly to see if there was any recent publications that reversed the previous consensus that they don't work, but didn't find much.

- State run stores are pretty bad at their jobs. Someone on here mentioned state run liquor stores as an example of where state run stores work, but in my experience, they are the opposite. I suspect that the store will work well for the first several years, while there is a lot of media attention on it, but when it falls from the foreground, the oversight will slacken and it will go the way of many other of these projects.

- I am not an expert but I suspect the wealth tax won't work the way they hope.

On the other hand, the attention that he's bringing to issues that were previously swept under the rug (like transportation) is great, and the way he energizes the populace is amazing.

Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by thoughtpeddler » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 5:09 AM UTC

The meta on this post is that the minimalist blog design by iamwillwang.com is itself really cool. Great work!

Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by inigyou » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 5:28 AM UTC

markdown wrote: post #46

ewwe wrote: post #3

Mamdani+ his team are genius at PR

In an age where cameras are everywhere, all one has to do for good PR is good.

Only if you own the camera system, otherwise they won't publish the video of you doing good

Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by inigyou » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 5:29 AM UTC

arijun wrote: post #51

Aboutplants wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What specific policies do you disagree with out of curiosity

I'm not from NYC (nor do I have the same difficulty seeing past politics that gp seems to have), so I didn't research this stuff so closely. But from what I saw, it seemed that a lot of his policies seemed populist. - Rent freezes do not seem to work. When he ran on that position I did look up briefly to see if there was any recent publications that reversed the previous consensus that they don't work, but didn't fin…

So far everything they're doing is working out how they said it would

Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by inigyou » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 5:30 AM UTC

livinglist wrote: post #18

kevitivity wrote: post #11

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At this point I care more about decency than politics.

Decency is politics

Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by inigyou » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

GauntletWizard wrote: post #8

The problem with these short pithy urls is that their lifetime is limited - there's only so many initiative names and they're going to collide and be removed and replaced. Cool uris don't change[1]. Short, readable uris are great but they should be merely redirecs, and the mapping should be version controlled and exposed to the public as an immutable history. [1] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

The internet isn't an append-only archive. It changes quite frequently in fact. Sorry dawg.

Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by chromehearts » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

hackernud3s wrote: post #48

ewwe wrote: post #3

Mamdani+ his team are genius at PR

It's an url shortener. I implemented 3 of these this year and nobody is calling me a genius.

Because a genius would have only needed to implement a single one this year

Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by Geezus_42 » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 5:42 AM UTC

arijun wrote: post #51

Aboutplants wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What specific policies do you disagree with out of curiosity

I'm not from NYC (nor do I have the same difficulty seeing past politics that gp seems to have), so I didn't research this stuff so closely. But from what I saw, it seemed that a lot of his policies seemed populist. - Rent freezes do not seem to work. When he ran on that position I did look up briefly to see if there was any recent publications that reversed the previous consensus that they don't work, but didn't fin…

If you don't live in NYC then your opinion of their mayor doesn't really matter does it?

Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by penguin_booze » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 6:08 AM UTC

fny wrote: post #49

jancsika wrote: post #44

> click-to-cancel combat-antisemitism EndStreetHarassment jingle knicks knicksgame3 rental-ripoff Summer I'd like to believe that the diversity, equity, and inclusion of Scheme, Pascal, and C stdlib naming conventions here is intentional.

Flame wars. City council will soon debate two vs four spaces between traffic cones.

I will not stand and watch tabs getting discriminated!

Re: Zohran and the Short Link

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Post by slopinthebag » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 6:17 AM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #34

slopinthebag wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You didn't even specify which link had the errors; 'the first one I managed to make work' is something known only to you. Complaining about a problem while not providing any hints on how to reproduce it is not a great way to win friends and influence people.

Okay well I don't care about "winning friends" and "influencing people" on the internet.