- IncreasePostsNotably, we had the marshal fire here 4 years ago and recently Xcel settled for $680M for their role in the fire. So they're probably pretty keen not to be on the hook again
- He may have only committed suicide once he knew they were closing in.
- There may be evidence, but there may not be a peer reviewed study of the evidence.
- The problem is he has such a sweet deal, he needs to use the apartment even though he would rather someone else have the apartment. I don't think the goal of rent control is to trap people in a city so they can't leave.
There aren't really that many high rises full of empty apartments bought by oligarchs for money laundering in NY. And even when there are - how much land does it actually take up? At the Central Park Tower for example, 180 oligarchs can launder their money in a 200'x200' plot of land. You'll walk by it in less than a minute without really clocking it.
I do also complain about airbnb units :)
- Even the article from 1996 is $10/day | $300/mo which would easily afford you a room in a cheaper neighborhood back then (I'll have to trust the HUD reports from 1996 since I was a child at that point with no direct experience)
- The problem is people don't "just" want cheap housing - they want the character of the area to remain the same. But, those two things are frequently incompatible.
- When I first moved to NYC, my neighbor was a 70 year old single man who absolutely hated living in NY at that point in his life, but couldn't leave because his rent was so cheap(I was paying $1500 for a studio and he was paying $300 for a 1BR) - he literally could not afford to move even to a cheap area. It certainly would have been better for him if he could just swap apartments with someone living outside the city who wanted to move in, but that would be illegal.
I think rent control advocates focus on people who might be lucky enough to get a rent controlled apartment, but it is much harder to think about what happens to all the people who want to move to a city but can't because no housing stock is available.
- Affordable is a stretch. When they went out of business in 2014, they were charging $30/night - $900/mo. You could definitely get actual rooms in NY or even a studio apartment for that much. Yes, it will be way out in the Bronx or Queens, in not a great neighborhood, but it is certainly better than a 4x6' room with a plank in it and just a knee wall between you and a number of strangers. Obviously for a lot of people coming up with $900 at once for a deposit or whatever could be the hard part, but these rooms were more of the equivalent of pay day loans than an actual value.
- Why wouldn't you just rent a truck for those few times a year when you would like one?
- When has "ripe for abuse" stopped anything from happening?
Cell phones are ripe for abuse...do you carry one?
- Okay, sounds good?
- Do any real* societies have health care systems where everyone who needs cancer treatment gets the best available?
* by real, I mean large societies that aren't propped up by some bizarre economic quirk...eg maybe the sultan of brunei can personally pay for everyone bruneian citizen to get the best cancer treatment. But that's not a scalable solution
- Who says that?
Every conversation I've seen is despite how many serious organizations with talented people, the "uhhh how do you cool it?" Is brought up immediately
- Curacao has been a country that is part of the kingdom of the Netherlands since 2010.
- Pretty sure military aged males aren't allowed to just leave Russia at this point without prior approval. And sometimes are forcibly conscripted on the street
- It's more about knowing the tricks to get llms to give you the output you want.
However, there's no reason to think any trick would be relevant even in a year. As llms get better, why wouldn't we just have them auto rewrite prompts using appropriate prompt engineering tricks?
- Is any YouTube bad for their child's development? Or just spending large amounts of time on it with no adult supervision?
- They prevent their kids from having unlimited time with YouTube. Does YouTube ever suggest that kids should be able to use it asich as they want?
- But humans aren't more productive for the most part. What had made people more productive is, for the most part, mechanization, computerization, and other tech tree improvements.
Even though everyone didn't get rich from the industrial revolution, ultimately people led easier lives, more stuff, and less work.