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Mini-thread on the Vancouver vacancy tax (and resulting study). The tax is Vancouver's 2017 empty homes tax; the study from CD Howe looks at its impact. The study claims the tax had large impacts on vacancies and minimal impacts on prices. As I'll discuss, I think there are problems with the study.

But isn’t it there to a lesser degree? They’ve already left the Eden analogue in the Silmarillion, they’ve brought sin into the world with the kinslaying, they will never see the light of the two trees again. The “long defeat” begins around when the Silmarils are stolen and never stops for the elves

This is not a priority for anyone who actually rides metro, every year the transit rider survey shows the same thing: Angelenos want transit that is safer, cleaner, and more frequent. Your proposal is slopulist nonsense.

absolutely, John Mathieson shot six movies with him and was pretty blunt in describing Scott as lazy now rushing to get through everything in one multi-camera take and relying on CGI to fill in the blanks and cover up any issues. Somewhat funny he keeps basically remaking early films but much worse.

yeah, some of the crew talking about Ridley Scott's differences in shooting style even between Gladiator and Gladiator II are very revealing

But if you marinate boiled eggs in soy/mirin? Immediately makes the jump to top tier egg IMO

Campism is only one of many red-brown vectors. Others include: - labor protectionism leading to anti-immigrant hatred - woo-to-conspiracism - related but different, anti-empiricism - authoritarianisms - related but different, accelerationism - GENDER, interacting with every other item

yeah that's right. here's my national service take. we're not gonna be conscripting eighteen year olds. we're gonna conscript the olds. when you retire you gotta do two years washing windows

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Covered by the K Line North planned stop. But yes, private transit and (pre-SB 79) zoning laws are at the very edge of readable into the law: escholarship.org/uc/item/7g41...

Based on the article’s description it sounds like the city is paying for the subsidy and maybe providing the land for free or heavily discounted rather than developer paying IZ fee

We need a term for the rhetorical practice of inventing a theoretical marginalized person who would be harmed by a broadly-beneficial policy that you dislike because it would inconvenience you.

But often adding a lot of “community participation” at the expense of things like officer training and due process

Oh Yeah! I always previously found Eddie Redmayne annoying but was quite impressed by his performance in it. thought it captured the pace and hunt dynamic of the original pretty well.

Did you watch the recent miniseries remake?

I still think about his pigeon tweets at regular intervals

I looked into this a bit for my book, and while AAA's methodology is proprietary and not publicly available, I think they might actually be underestimating the total cost by excluding second-order expenses like parking.

The city's rendering of the Wilshire street closure west of MacArthur Park

housing charts are my coping mechanism