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pitaj commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy

asta123 · a month ago

In Australia most of the narrative on the housing affordability crisis is around lack of supply and nimbyism. In the meantime Melbourne has dropped to 4th most expensive city in the country and becoming more affordable. Most likely reason - land tax change in that state which is turning off accumulating multiple properties through investment and investors turning to other states where prices are still going up. So, while supply is relevant, I would say it is investor demand that is driving prices up.

pitaj · a month ago

This reverses causation. Investors are involved because prices are going up, not the other way around.

"Investors buying up housing" is a common explanation alongside "short term rentals taking over" but neither make up a large enough portion of the demand to explain prices.

pitaj commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy

grafmax · a month ago

Abundance YIMBYism has many shortcomings. It doesn't address the risk of gentrification and displacement, the slow and unproven trickle-down effect of market-rate housing, or the critical need for direct public housing to serve low-income communities. Journalistic ideologues deserve little praise for dismantling the weakest counterarguments of their opponents while ignoring core criticisms.

pitaj · a month ago

> the slow and unproven trickle-down effect of market-rate housing

Slow and unproven? Supply and demand is the most reliable law of economics. Cities like Austin that are building market rate housing are actively seeing affordability improve.

Furthermore, even if it wasn't sufficient, abundance YIMBYism would still be helpful and necessary.

pitaj commented on Font-size-adjust Is Useful matklad.github.io/2025/07... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

mananaysiempre · a month ago

This is an incidental annoyance, but I have to ask somewhere: why have we decided that the FOUC (“flash of unstyled content”) caused by laying out the page twice, once without and once with the fonts, is such a dire problem that it’s worth blocking the page’s first usable render behind a ~1MB resource? If memory serves, that decision is from before the twilight of the Web of documents, a time when div soup and inline styles (now replaced by Tailwind) were widely frowned upon.

Why is it OK to leave a user on a slow or high-latency connection staring at a blank skeleton of a page, as though written in invisible ink, for several seconds? I still remember using Opera because it had a toggle for “cached images only”. What happened?

pitaj · a month ago

I think the best solution for this is to just not use webfonts, and in fact use the system font instead.

pitaj commented on EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

weinzierl · a month ago

"[..] next day two new ones prop up selling the product from the same factory."

So you mean basically like Amazon?

pitaj · a month ago

They literally mention Amazon in their comment

pitaj commented on ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/geox

bryanlarsen · a month ago

With a small tweak it would have the opposite effect. Just mandate that employers must add what they previously paid in health insurance to people's salary. So it would look like significant pay raises to a substantial portion of the populace. I bet that would be popular.

pitaj · a month ago

I don't know if you would even need to mandate it. Stop mandating it, and start taxing all benefits as income, and you remove the biggest incentive for employers for pay for them.

pitaj commented on ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/geox

jasonthorsness · a month ago

Does “ACA health insurance” classification used here include everyone who buys insurance on their own who are not employed by a large-enough company or on Medicare/medicaid?

The job-based insurance system in USA is so bogus.

pitaj · a month ago

Yep the biggest problem with the ACA was that it doubled down on health insurance as a benefit of employment, when it should have taken steps to transition everyone off of employer provided plans.

pitaj commented on Weird Expressions in Rust wakunguma.com/blog/rust-w... · Posted by u/lukastyrychtr

munificent · 2 months ago

Does anyone know why `union` isn't a reserved word in Rust?

Most contextual keywords in other languages come from either:

1. Features that were added after the language was in wide use and can't add keywords without breaking existing code.

2. Features where the word is particularly useful elsewhere, so would be painful to reserve (like `get` and `set` in Dart).

But neither of those seem to apply to Rust. As far as I know, it's always had ML-style unions, and "union" doesn't seem to be a particularly useful identifier otherwise.

Why isn't `union` fully reserved?

pitaj · 2 months ago

It's a common operation on sets, so would make `HashSet::union` [1] and friends less obvious, for no real benefit.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/collections/struct.Hash...

pitaj commented on Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM theverge.com/news/692045/... · Posted by u/microsoftedging

Night_Thastus · 2 months ago

It's complete garbage and not worth buying. It's so cut down it's nearly useless outside of web browsing and very light games. The price is also effectively lie, it's going to be hard to get it for less than $300. Once we get some proper 3rd party test data in I'd be shocked if it's 5% better than a 4050 in raster without the use of fake frames.

pitaj · 2 months ago

Agreed. Anybody buying this would be better off spending that money on a used card like a 2070 or 3060, and might even save a buck.

pitaj commented on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work nytimes.com/2025/05/25/bu... · Posted by u/milkshakes

lightedman · 3 months ago

"The fact that they used the auto industry as an example is funny, because the Toyota way and six sigma came out of that industry."

It's even funnier when you consider that Toyota has learned how bad of an idea lean manufacturing/6-Sig/5S can be thanks to the pandemic - they're moving away from it in some degrees, now.

pitaj · 3 months ago

JIT is totally independent from 6-sig.

pitaj commented on Is TfL losing the battle against heat on the Victoria line? swlondoner.co.uk/news/160... · Posted by u/zeristor

cherryteastain · 3 months ago

> tunnel ventilation installations, chiller systems pumping chilled air into mid-tunnel shafts and regenerative braking to reduce heat generated by trains breaking

The hoops TfL jumps through just to not extend AC to the rolling stock in more lines are baffling. At least we finally got some AC in the new Piccadilly rolling stock.

pitaj · 3 months ago

AC will only make the problem worse in the long term. Picadilly got AC because it has above-ground sections.

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