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Kharvok commented on A reason for high housing prices: restrictive land-use regulations strongtowns.org/journal/2... · Posted by u/jseliger

rcme · 2 years ago

Why don’t we try removing all the insane tax incentives first, e.g. 1031 exchange, and then see what happens? There are so many incentives for investment in real estate. Even if more housing was built, investors would snap up the properties and keep prices high. I don’t understand how you can complain about high prices while investor demand is massively subsidized.

Kharvok · 2 years ago

Without these incentives housing supply would be even lower. The incentives are designed to encourage the creation of additional housing units. Without liquidity in the space new housing creation would stagnate.

Kharvok commented on EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/frankjr

Kharvok · 2 years ago

Electric cars are still far too small for taller than average families to drive. Until there's a viable SUV alternative for 4 6ft+ adults to fit comfortably I don't think electric will take off in the US.

Kharvok commented on Lawsuits Block Thousands of Seattle Homes, $39M for Affordable Housing theurbanist.org/2023/02/2... · Posted by u/jseliger

deanCommie · 3 years ago

Irrespective of any economic or legal incentives or factors here, this comes down fundamentally to a lack of social trust in north america.

It doesn't happen the same way anywhere else in the world like it does in US&Canada.

People don't care about other people. "I got mine, ** yours."

It's a problem without an easy solution.

Kharvok · 3 years ago

How can you build social trust when there is no commonality with your neighbor? Without some commonality of principles how can I trust that any social contract would be recognized or understood. How do people flourish in that environment?

Kharvok commented on Lawsuits Block Thousands of Seattle Homes, $39M for Affordable Housing theurbanist.org/2023/02/2... · Posted by u/jseliger

Kharvok · 3 years ago

This is an important check to developer greed. You have to be able to maintain quality of life with new development.

Kharvok commented on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? · Posted by u/devoutsalsa

Kharvok · 3 years ago

Some of my teams were fully remote about eight weeks in 2020, while others have been remote the entire time. I don't believe in full RTO, just hybrid.

1. The last few years have demonstrated that projects with teams that are primarily remote require a higher degree of project overhead staffing. I think this is most evident with very small teams. For example, it's fairly easy for a small internal tool team to coordinate their work without a project manager, design, or business analyst if they are in close phyiscal proximity. The struggle is when you distance that team from larger products/project. Even in the minimal case creating visibility for that small team into larger workstreams requires overhead itself. With the macro environment and with leaders being forced to tighten the belt, this is less and less possible. All communication has to be structured fully remotely. That structure requires management.

2. I've found about 20% of people have the ability to maintain a professional work environment at home. I'm constantly seeing in meetings where highly compensated employees are providing childcare during working hours. I'm all for flexibility, but it becomes a distraction.

3.Junior employees have little to no ability to develop skills from seniors. I have hired entire classes of employees in software engineering roles that started in a fully remote environment, realized they weren't learning anything, and then came to work in a hybrid setting.

Kharvok commented on What happened when the San Francisco Bay Area rejected growth bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

danny_codes · 3 years ago

Wow this really exemplifies American urban planning.

If only Americans could fathom infill density and public transit as the solution to scaling population centers.

While it's tempting to blame NIMBYism for this, I think it's a more general reflection of America's backwards relationship with urban development.

Hopefully we'll see a cultural reversion back to sanity with respect to urban planning in my lifetime. It would be so lovely to achieve the same convenience and economic potential properly designed cities have enjoyed for decades.

Kharvok · 3 years ago

What does the adoption of public transportation look like in non-homogenous vs homogenous populations?

Kharvok commented on The ethics of reclining airplane seats lesswrong.com/posts/fo4LY... · Posted by u/gnomespaceship

shkkmo · 3 years ago

So many things are biased in favor of tall people, I have no problem with them having to pay more for a larger seat rather than externalizing those costs onto everyone else.

Kharvok · 3 years ago

I'm 6'10. What is built in my favor?

Kharvok commented on The ethics of reclining airplane seats lesswrong.com/posts/fo4LY... · Posted by u/gnomespaceship

Kharvok · 3 years ago

Airline seat ergo contours pitch people forward if they are over 6'3 in height. Reclining is the only way to sit up straight.

Kharvok commented on Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?” · Posted by u/dopamean

Kharvok · 3 years ago

I have first hand experience interviewing developers via Zoom who are trying to mime the audio from a speakerphone on their end with someone answering questions.