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Comment on We’re seniors. It’s not our responsibility to fix the housing supply. in ~society
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Comment on We’re seniors. It’s not our responsibility to fix the housing supply. in ~society
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentThe people building housing don't really care about the price of the land they build on. They can take a 1 million dollar piece of land and build a 1 million dollar house, and sell it for 2...The people building housing don't really care about the price of the land they build on. They can take a 1 million dollar piece of land and build a 1 million dollar house, and sell it for 2 million. Or they can take a $500,000 piece of land, build a 1 million dollar house, and sell it for 1.5 million. The profit is the same, and the latter option actually requires less capital investment.
If you restrict housing supply so that no new houses can be built except for where houses already exist, it doesn't really change the value of the house itself. What changes is the value of the land the house is on, and the only person that benefits is the landowner.
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Comment on We’re seniors. It’s not our responsibility to fix the housing supply. in ~society
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentAnywhere where housing prices are falling you'd expect houses to be sitting empty to some degree. If there were no houses sitting empty, there'd be no reason for anyone to lower prices. That's not...Anywhere where housing prices are falling you'd expect houses to be sitting empty to some degree. If there were no houses sitting empty, there'd be no reason for anyone to lower prices.
That's not some crazy, horrible thing, its literally what is required for houses to ever go down in price
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Comment on We’re seniors. It’s not our responsibility to fix the housing supply. in ~society
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentIf corps were able to build apartment buildings for rent we wouldn't even have this problem. Cheap housing is cheap housing, regardless of if it is an apartment or a condo. Maybe condos are...Massive corps building apartment buildings for rental instead of condos for purchase
If corps were able to build apartment buildings for rent we wouldn't even have this problem. Cheap housing is cheap housing, regardless of if it is an apartment or a condo. Maybe condos are slightly better, but getting any form of housing is better than the alternative of building nothing, which is the state of many American cities right now.
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Comment on We’re seniors. It’s not our responsibility to fix the housing supply. in ~society
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentSometimes they are, sometimes they are not. States such as Texas have various State-level regulations which prevent cities from establishing too many zoning laws. On a completely unrelated note,...people are allowed to advocate for the zoning laws that govern where they live.
Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not. States such as Texas have various State-level regulations which prevent cities from establishing too many zoning laws.
On a completely unrelated note, rent in Austin is falling faster than anywhere else in the country, and housing is being built at the fastest rate of any large metro in the country. I'm sure all 3 of these facts are completely unrelated and we can draw no lessons from them when discussing housing policy in other areas.
If you allow homeowners to create laws which benefit themselves and prevent the majority of non-homeowners from ever being able to own a home, you will never solve this problem. And until now I've never heard it argued that people have an inalienable right to ban affordable housing being built in their general vicnity.
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Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech
Kitahara_Kazusa Link Parenthttps://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52693-how-have-britons-reacted-to-age-verification?utm_source=website_article&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=52693 Bro I don't know. But at least 45% of...Bro I don't know. But at least 45% of the population will say they think the OSA is ineffective and then says they support it anyway, assuming that literally everyone who thinks it is effective also supports it.
This law is probably going to stick around for a while, and I wouldn't be surprised if the EU tries to copy it.
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Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentThe British generally support the OSA. This is despite a very small minority thinking it will be effective, so its not like there's some misconception that it is actually helping. British people...The British generally support the OSA. This is despite a very small minority thinking it will be effective, so its not like there's some misconception that it is actually helping. British people just support the legislation anyway.
Waiting for the British public to get outraged about this and demand change is just wishful thinking.
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Comment on Starship was doomed from the beginning in ~space
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentStarship is a rocket designed to deliver payloads to orbit. That is it's primary purpose, if it can do that it is a success. The whole orbital refueling leading to moon or mars missions is a nice...Starship is a rocket designed to deliver payloads to orbit. That is it's primary purpose, if it can do that it is a success.
The whole orbital refueling leading to moon or mars missions is a nice idea, but even if that goes absolutely nowhere it doesn't prevent Starship from being successful in its basic mission
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 3 in ~sports.american_football
Kitahara_Kazusa LinkGiving up 31 points to the Bears lmao, I guess maybe it wasn't the smartest decision to pick a fight with your top defensive player?Giving up 31 points to the Bears lmao, I guess maybe it wasn't the smartest decision to pick a fight with your top defensive player?
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentI mean, there's really only 3 routes, A/B/E. Endings C/D/E are obviously not the same, but they're part of the same route, there's a reason you'll never see a review with someone stopping and...I mean, there's really only 3 routes, A/B/E. Endings C/D/E are obviously not the same, but they're part of the same route, there's a reason you'll never see a review with someone stopping and ending D and not going further.
I also think a lot of the appeal of the game is running around and enjoying the atmosphere of the world while you're doing sidequests. If you're spending the entirety of route B just blitzing through it since you've played it before, and not taking the time to enjoy the world and explore the new sidequests, you probably weren't enjoying the game that much anyway. But the game is built to offer more to the people who really like it, not to have the widest possible appeal, that's going to have downsides.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentIf the game did require 20 hours of playing to get 2 hours of new content, you might have a point. There is some repetition in route B, but all of the boss fights are different and there's a new...The idea of putting another 20 hours into this game to get 2 hours of new content is just not for me.
If the game did require 20 hours of playing to get 2 hours of new content, you might have a point.
There is some repetition in route B, but all of the boss fights are different and there's a new set of side quests, plus its a bit shorter due to some events that happen. The route C is entirely different.
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Comment on Tiny co-living spaces are popping up across New York. Local communities see them as ‘harbingers of gentrification’. in ~life
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentYes, increasing supply of one type of house by reducing supply of another type of house would reduce supply of something, and could make that more expensive. This is irrelevant because the article...Yes, increasing supply of one type of house by reducing supply of another type of house would reduce supply of something, and could make that more expensive.
This is irrelevant because the article is talking about a jazz bar being converted into housing. Last I checked, most people don't live in jazz bars.
Additionally, we are talking about New York City, this isn't some suburb where single family housing is the norm. Even if it was being converted into apartments, this would be affecting a very tiny minority of people who frankly should just live somewhere else anyway.
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Comment on Tiny co-living spaces are popping up across New York. Local communities see them as ‘harbingers of gentrification’. in ~life
Kitahara_Kazusa (edited )Link ParentYes, when certain areas become less profitable to build in, developers might end up building in other areas instead. That's a pretty straightforward observation, and it does not show that more...Yes, when certain areas become less profitable to build in, developers might end up building in other areas instead. That's a pretty straightforward observation, and it does not show that more building makes prices go up. There's also various other factors that tend to prevent housing from being built which have nothing to do with market forces, such as zoning laws.
When you compare the list of cities that build the most housing to the list of cities where rent is falling the fastest, things line up pretty well.
Austin has seen the nation’s sharpest decline among large metros – the metro-wide median rent has fallen 6.6 percent in the last 12 months and is down 18% from its 2022 peak. The Austin metro is also significant for permitting new homes at the fastest pace of any large metro in the country, indicating the impact of new supply on softening rents. Austin is not alone in exhibiting this trend; among the ten metros with sharpest year-over-year rent declines, many also rank among the highest in terms of multifamily permitting activity (e.g. Denver, Phoenix, San Antonio, Salt Lake City, Raleigh, and Dallas)
https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/national-rent-data
If you just keep building more, gentrification will be less of an issue. If you build less, it becomes more of an issue. The rich people who want to move to a city will have the money to do it regardless of the price, if you don't build more houses for everyone else to move in that just makes it worse.
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Comment on Tiny co-living spaces are popping up across New York. Local communities see them as ‘harbingers of gentrification’. in ~life
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentIncreasing supply of housing is never going to drive up prices. That is the opposite of how things work.Increasing supply of housing is never going to drive up prices. That is the opposite of how things work.
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Comment on Your phone already has social credit. We just lie about it. in ~finance
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentThe credit system is fair in that it allows people to get loans at rates that compensate banks for the risk they are taking by giving the loan. It does not make up for other unfairnesses in...The credit system is fair in that it allows people to get loans at rates that compensate banks for the risk they are taking by giving the loan.
It does not make up for other unfairnesses in society which may cause someone to not be able to pay back a loan, but that's kind of outside of the scope of what a credit score is trying to solve.
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Comment on Your phone already has social credit. We just lie about it. in ~finance
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentIn that situation, where a company has tried to steal from you, why would being locked out of their services in the future be a bad thing? You're no longer allowed to fall for a scam, that should...This is far from just walking out without paying the bill. It is providing evidence that you have been scammed or stolen from.
In that situation, where a company has tried to steal from you, why would being locked out of their services in the future be a bad thing? You're no longer allowed to fall for a scam, that should protect you.
Its still not a 'disagreement', it is one of you thinking the other has stolen money from them. I guess you could frame that as a disagreement about which one of you is the thief, but its not a disagreement in the context of this converstation
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Comment on Your phone already has social credit. We just lie about it. in ~finance
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentIf someone has bad social credit with Amazon, they can use Walmart (which does have delivery now). If they have bad social credit with Uber, they can use Lyft. Having a bad credit score is harder...You are assuming that computers never make a mistake. If someone has bad social credit, that's because they're a bad person.
If someone has bad social credit with Amazon, they can use Walmart (which does have delivery now). If they have bad social credit with Uber, they can use Lyft. Having a bad credit score is harder to avoid, but credit scores are based on pretty transparent metrics (even if the exact formula is not public), and in general are pretty fair. If you pay your loans it goes up, if you don't it goes down, that's not exactly something with 'cracks' in it.
There could be a hypothetical case where a social credit system did go too far, that's what everyone was thinking China would end up doing, but it seems like in reality, in both China and the West things haven't ended up going that bad.
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Comment on Your phone already has social credit. We just lie about it. in ~finance
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentA chargeback is not 'disagreeing with your service provider', it is taking their money. Like walking out of a restaurant without paying the bill, obviously the restaurant doesn't want you to come...Pretty much every major company will nuke you from their service if you do a chargeback, justified or not.
A chargeback is not 'disagreeing with your service provider', it is taking their money. Like walking out of a restaurant without paying the bill, obviously the restaurant doesn't want you to come back. That's not what is being discussed here
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Comment on Reddit announces new limits on moderating large subreddits and for moderators to remove content sitewide in ~tech
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentThe limit is 5 big subs, not 1. Additionally, between account sharing and alt accounts, I'm not sure what impact this will have. Reddit is getting better at detecting alts, but ban evasion is...The limit is 5 big subs, not 1.
Additionally, between account sharing and alt accounts, I'm not sure what impact this will have. Reddit is getting better at detecting alts, but ban evasion is still possible.
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Comment on Reddit announces new limits on moderating large subreddits and for moderators to remove content sitewide in ~tech
Kitahara_Kazusa Link ParentThis is what the description of the feature says: 'Mods of communities you participate in and redditors whose profile posts you engage with can still see your full profile for moderation' It...This is what the description of the feature says:
'Mods of communities you participate in and redditors whose profile posts you engage with can still see your full profile for moderation'
It doesn't say 'can see your posts within their subreddit' it says 'they can see your full profile'
Any of those reasons you list will cause houses to sit empty, which will then cause prices to go down. They won't just pre-emptively go down