skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rent controls work if and only if there's sufficient authority and incentives to motivate developers to grow housing inventory vertically (skyscrapers) and/or horizontally (sprawl + public transport) just enough to not have a glut while aiming to approximate the desired rent-controlled price(s) such that there's less arbitrage, gaming, property owner loss and/or exploitation. (In effect, rent-controlling with structural market policies, while providing rent controls as a secondary guaranty layer to protect renters, especially vulnerable populations.) Housing is one of the more inelastic markets because everyone needs it, and so even minor constraints in supply can rapidly lead to price spikes.
It depends on the region, but most of the US doesn't have too much of a problem.

There is always pushback from locals (understandable), but there has been billions in transmission built in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and West Texas regions to name a few areas. A lot of this is to help with the existing (ageing) infrastructure as well as helping make sure the ~22GW of currently built wind capacity can actually serve load and not be curtailed 24/7. In fact, a lot of that wind wouldn't have been built without the necessary transmission. Keep in mind that there is greater than a ~2:1 return on investment from these projects (difference in production cost in a year with the projects there and then not there) if I recall correctly.

The Western Interconnect of the US seems to favor using RAS and phase-shifting transformers in order to avoid as many transmission projects. A Remedial Action Scheme is basically an automated system that keeps certain catastrophic events from happening when a certain triggering event happens. Phase shifting transformers can help push back on certain interregional flows. I think this makes more sense in the Western Interconnect as it isn't as much of a dense network as the Eastern Interconnect. You have dense load centers in Denver, California, and Oregon/Washington with a dessert and mountain range in the middle (forms a donut). It is very rural over the vast majority of the distance, so I imagine transmission is pretty expensive and harder to justify. They do have interregional planning groups in the West though.
> It seems like the US has become what the USSR was

The USSR was the thing that executed my great grand parents for being liberals (he was a doctor) when they invaded Budapest.
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I am not sure why you are being voted down. The existence of slavery in the 21st C. does not get the attention it should.
In [current year], arguably every US citizen should have some form of photo ID. It's pretty useful for a lot more than just voting. For example, more and more banks / financial institutions are using automated systems + a picture of your photo ID in order to confirm your identity when opening up a bank account, etc.

Seems like we should focus on making sure poor/minorities have easy/free access to IDs, rather than keeping the voting process lax.
Both the word “pixel” and the word “voxel” are commonly used in both of these different senses. I believe the word “voxel” was created to be explicitly a 3D analog of a 2D “pixel”.

For example, you can also have “pixel art”, drawings made up of little squares, which only loosely have to do with pixels as samples for a raster image or physical camera detector elements or physical display elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art
According to Mercer, who conducts -
'The quality of living survey is conducted to help governments and major companies place employees on international assignments. The survey also identifies those cities with the highest personal safety ranking based upon internal stability, crime, effectiveness of law enforcement and relationships with other countries. In this case, Luxembourg is top, followed by Bern, Helsinki and Zürich, all equally placed at number 2.'

'Countries with cities commonly ranked in the top 50 include Austria, Switzerland, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Australia, Sweden and the United States. Vienna (Austria) has been ranked first for ten consecutive years.'

I mean, sure, Germany has more cities on the list than the US; but Germany isn't the EU. Most of the EU has zero cities in the top 50.
(Not OP) Woah, thanks for the detailed answer and your perspective on this thread.

I'm very guilty of thinking "don't we have enough approximations to brute force some solutions to problems in some parts of biology yet?" and your comment have helped provide some context that these are _hard_ problems and we are still gathering information to form better models in a lot of cases.

If you dont mind me asking, where so you work? (Happy to take it to a private channel as well if you prefer )
If there were sufficient authority and incentives to motivate developers to grow housing inventory, rent control wouldn't be advocated for in the first place.
Efficient markets are great for people that have the money to participate in the market. If you do not have resources, an efficient market will ensure you will have a very hard time gaining resources.
I mean, if you present rent control as something that just happens in isolation, as the last policy ever, then sure, it wouldn't work. Otherwise you might have to confront the idea that government might, say, establish rent control _and_ build houses. Shocking.
Went to rent a mailbox at the UPS Store. My drivers license and passport weren't enough identification. I needed something additional. The owner suggested I get a library card and then he could rent me the mailbox. What did the library accept as identification? My drivers license. That was all. Seemed like a weird little bit of bureaucratic red tape that accomplished pretty much nothing.
The cities listed as having rent control are Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Paris. And you can add New York. When one thinks of failed cities, these do not come to mind.

In fact, one could do worse than being more like them. And clearly rent control does not kill a city or economy or quality of life.

And actually, a list of the most miserable cities is going to be overwhelmingly rent control free.

Edit: for clarification, I am claiming there is _no_ evidence for a causal relationship between the presence or absence of rent control. Any inferred relationship is entirely conjectural and completely unsupported by evidence: cities obviously prosper perfectly well with rent control.
The implication is that you avoid self implication.

So you're telling me, if you are ever wrongfully arrested or detained, you are going to be dimwitted enough to talk freely to the cops like they're your good buddies? Because it sounds like you are just that dimwitted and naive.
Nice work, cool idea, congratulations on launching!
As someone who just moved to the bay area for the summer, I think rent control has worked pretty well, I've met multiple Uber drivers who would have had their lives upturned due to rising rents if not for rent control.

The don't build tall building policies however...
Sure you don't need much 'info' to create a corporation. But if said corporation has any income/employees the reporting and maintenance requirements are far greater than maintaining a library card.
I think this general sort of approach is highly flawed due to the difficulty you'd find in allocating and expecting new property demand. I, personally, would love to see a working command economy and look forward to the day we can actually accomplish one though technology... but we're not quite there yet.

In the mean time... I have difficulty pointing out specific reasons this always fails due to the weird involvement of racism in public housing in the US tainting my primary experience of such a system, but I believe it does have flaws even if implemented in a manner that isn't intentionally trying to ghettoize portions of a city.
It's pretty circular reasoning to argue against methods for detecting voter fraud on the basis that we haven't detected voter fraud.

If there is voter fraud, it might go away if we got reliable detection. Fraud is less likely when being caught is certain, and it is far more likely when being caught is about as likely as getting hit by lightening.

Even if there isn't voter fraud, the mere fact that people are worried about it is undermining trust in our elections. That needs to be fixed, and the only way to fix it is to have a means to prove that there is no voter fraud.
> Add more curves and it gets even better!

Honestly, I think it looks better before adding more curves. :|
ITT: Things that aren't IoT
I wish I could read the second link, but not interested in bypassing their income (and not interested enough to pay them :) ) I'd like to know their research.

I had to sign up with my address, and I have to prove my identity when I vote. That all seems perfectly reasonable to me. Even a low-tech ink mark used by some places seems perfectly fine. The law is full of tradeoffs, and I think proving you have voted only once and where you are allowed to vote is perfectly legitimate.
Very unlikely that China, Russia, or US (and its allied countries) would misidentify a nuclear attack. There are massive surveillance resources dedicated toward atmospheric sampling, etc. etc. and a non-nuclear explosion would be correctly identified as such in very short order.

On top of that, even a 30-meter asteroid impact would release more energy on impact than a typical nuclear warhead. A 250-meter asteroid might release more energy than ALL nuclear weapons used in the world to date.
wait, you can just poke them away?
How much information do you need to vote?
> To form a company in any state in the U.S., it is not necessary to identify or provide any information about the person(s) who will be ultimately be controlling the company. In some cases it isn’t even necessary to provide information about who will be managing the company and, where some information about managers (i.e. officers or directors) is required, it is very limited.

That's actually great!
Yep. Typically the the role of credit facilities is supplied by a different class of app, eg. Klarna, Kredivo, Akulaku. Though the wallets are now providing their own, eg Alipays Check Later, Gojek & Ovos Paylater.
> I agree with your examples but I think a piece of software is different because users expect it to change over time.

A delightful assertion that is the precise opposite of TFA's entire point.
On the other side: I live in a country where you can only raise the rent by the rate of inflation, so not a whole lot.

However, if you do renovations, you can raise the rent to whatever you want. So what happens is that home-owners re-paint the interior every 2-3 years, and set the rent to match the market. I have friends who have gotten the notice of renovations (you can break/complete a contract if it's for renovation), and then 3 months later gotten the option of renting the same space - but only with a 30%-50% markup.

Only difference? Fresh coat of painting.
Great advice, thanks.

Especially the last is comforting to hear.
It just changes what you have to sell from being a monthly lease to a monthly lease with an option to extend for as long as you want. It's still a free market.
> "Today, it's basically a political and economics challenge, to convince enough people it would be worth while to spend the time and effort to do it."

There's a quote by (I believe) Winston Churchill - which I can't seem to find atm - that goes something along the lines of:

Winning a war/battle is relatively easy. It's convincing them to let you fight that's far more difficult.
If the scope of potential damage were limited to the assets owned by said corporation, perhaps.

In reality, a corporation so isolated would have no reason to exist.
I dispute this. China has always been a communist country. Once Mao took over, he made the country a single party system and treated the whole country and its people as an extension of the military.

China took this kind of social-government structure and paired it with a central director, persistently and steadily marching towards a self-sustainable future, at the expense of the freedom and prosperity of its people. Chinese had difficult time buying in the world economy due to a surpressed currency. The gains were seized by its government.

The power was more centered on its government and its government delivered, but not without losses. Famine, environmental waste, and loss of property were all ways through which they learned.

All in all, China took the world's developments and owned them. They stuck with poverty and low income to keep their efficiency super high.

The only free markets that exist are in employment systems. Everything else is state chartered, controlled, or influenced.
I don't think this will get you all of the wind power in Texas as the panhandle of Texas has at least one major utility participating in the SPP market as well which is next door.
Great, I'll get my kids corporations for their 7th birthday.
> Sometimes, you cannot build more housing, or denser housing ... If you turned San Francisco into Manhattan, and still had unquenched demand for housing while still maximizing every square meter of three dimensional space within desired geo bounds, what then?

Using Manhattan as your example of maximum possible density is... odd. Kowloon City [1] had much higher density and had the disadvantage of poverty.

I'm not saying that we should turn all residential areas into facsimiles of Kowloon City, but there is a ton of space between what currently exists - even in Manhattan - and that. I'm deeply skeptical that any place in the US or Europe has reached the limits of building more housing and is forced to look at other options.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
Are you sure the choice is binary?
How was that relevant to the conversation?
I think you just summed up politics for me, and why it seems more divided than it should be.
Never say never.

This type of policies depend on many factors and while they may not work in some circumstance (time and place) they can be more effective in others. The problem is recognizing when that is AND re-evaluating the situation. The latter I feel is almost never done.

For regulations like this it's important to put in the law text that requires a full re-evaluation of its efficacy and roll back when there are more drawbacks than benefits, just because the policy worked at one time it doesn't mean it will continue to be effective forever.
So rent control is cheating? Let's keep prices low without allowing supply to grow to meet demand by zoning for larger buildings and cheaper dwellings.
Why should developers be incentivized to grow housing inventory over independent owners? Large scale developers already have quite a lot of assets to distribute as needed - I do agree that onerous construction impediments should be lowered (those sourced from NIMBYism - not general sustainability and environment concerned) and those impediments - or outright blocks - are responsible for a lot of the housing crises we can observe today.
It's a problem caused by 20 years of monetary stimulus and 40 years of complete freedom by central banks and governments to manage the money supply. Monetary policy has bid up leveraged assets like real estate many times over. Supply follows money, not people, and money has been concentrated in the hands of fewer people. Any intelligent conversation about this needs to include monetary policy.

When people live in little piggy banks....
Junk food is not "real" food
Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, and a handful of villages nearby them. Also some roadside farmer stalls in between. I'm sure the quality and variety vary, but the sample I saw was impressive.
Apple was also one of the first companies to solder in the RAM so it couldn’t be upgraded. I miss being able to make my laptop significantly faster without upgrading it completely.
It means, at a minimum, to support two versions.
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As a thought exercise, free markets exist on the basis of everyone behaving like a rational actor, working in their own self-interest which results in the market becoming more and more optimized. Mind you, I'm talking pure free market theory.

This means if you were to consider renters, land owners etc within a free market, the rational option is to take actions which improve their lot. This may be short term solutions, but it's the result of people behaving in their own rational self-interest. If a city has 50+% of people renting; then they will take action to lower the costs of renting. Similarly, if a city has a large amount of people owning property, then people will take action to increase the value of their property.

The only action to stop this would be...government intervention. Which means then the government is responsible for regulating the market against the whims of the people it's supposed to represent. In the case of renting and home ownership, I don't think a free market can ever truly exist.
You want to make real estate cheaper by making it less desirable to investors.

But if you made it less desirable to investors, they'd build less of it -- and you'd make the housing supply worse.
Lots of modern houses aren't built to function very well in temperature extremes. Windows are too small, don't open wide enough or at all, interior blocks too much airflow, insulation and sealing's too good. Certainly they don't give a damn about which way they're oriented when they plop 'em down, or which rooms are facing which way, or any of that. They're much worse to be in when it's very hot with no AC than an older house. And I write from experience you'll end up on the porch some nights even in those older houses, which ain't exactly fun or restful if you're not used to it and need to get up the next day and at least try to be productive.

Hell, modern interior woodwork and wooden furniture's not meant to take the heat either, for the most part. No tolerances for it, no attention to grain and such.
> The black liberation group MOVE was founded in 1972 [...] members of MOVE all [...] preached [...] revolution and a return to nature.

Preach revolution and pose as a victim of police brutality ...

> when police tried to evict them from their house. A firefight erupted, killing one police officer and injuring several more on both sides.

Oh right, they were just cop killers

> MOVE members boarded up the windows, built a fortified rooftop bunker and broadcasted profanity-laced political lectures with bullhorns at all hours, drawing complaints from neighbors. Members continued to rack up violations from contempt of court to illegal possession of firearms, to the point where they were considered a terrorist organization by the mayor and police commissioner.

> Arriving with arrest warrants for four residents of the house, the police ordered them to come out peacefully. Before long, shooting began.

How exactly was that story supposed to end ?

> The Mayor's failure to call a halt to the operation on May 12, when he knew that children were in the house, was grossly negligent and clearly risked the lives of those children.

What kind of person does this kind of things with their children in the house ?

If I were to transform a house into an armed bunker I would most definitely not take my children there.

Exposing children to such violence ... How is there on earth an excuse for that ?
reminds me of other reading from today. You can get a US National (healthcare) Provider Identifier (NPI) without any verification:

> @Aetna @Cigna @UHC 27/ Medicare officials declined to be interviewed about Williams. But in a statement, they acknowledged that the agency doesn’t verify whether an NPI applicant is a medical provider or has a criminal history.

https://twitter.com/marshall_allen/status/115224361495057612...

> @Aetna @Cigna @UHC 16/ He kept getting new NPIs. For every application, Williams also obtained a new employer identification number, used for tax purposes.

But he never hid who he was, using his real name, address and phone number on the applications.

Medicare gave him 20 NPIs!
https://twitter.com/marshall_allen/status/115224148431540633...

edited: provided the NPI meaning.
> My thoughts on this are old school. Like 1700's old school.
A person's right to vote exists with or without documentation. A piece of paper, an entry in a ledger, or a row in a database has no bearing on whether that right exists, or should be exercised.

How do we ensure non-citizens aren’t voting? We accept many visitors - refugees, H1B, tourists, F1/I-20, etc. None are granted voting rights.
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As a business, what do you hide from your customers?
Example: We are offering unlimited storage or data transfer.

But we don't tell customers that we are throttling them.
I like your thought framework but only as it exists within the electorate system. Without that system, a single city in a single state can jeopardize the entire system.
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I was actually taught to write the "double-storey" 'a' (but not the 'g', although I later taught myself to do it in order to reduce ambiguity), so I suspect it could largely be something regional. I was also taught to write serifs and slash zeros, which felt unnecessary at first but it definitely helps readability, especially with letters like 1Il.

I've also received comments that my writing looks like an actual font, so I tried finding one on the font identification sites, but none of them are really a close match; a good description of it would be "calligraphic version of Times New Roman".
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Viability? That's a moral slippery slope if I ever saw one.
Yep, it's "the noise."
There really isn't any difficulty in allocating resources.

I'm talking about eliminating real estate investors, not property ownership by end-users. There would still be a fine market economy but it would be much less common for someone to be buying real estate they weren't intending to use themselves.

Command economies are ridiculous because human nature. They aren't stable because they involve a small number of people being in control of resource allocation and the benefits for "cheating" and making those decisions to benefit yourself and your goals make it far too likely that the power will be abused.
An easier way to think of it is just as a matrix where each vertex is connected to n other vertices. The reason an n-cube is used specifically is because the bits correspond to spatial coordinates, which obviously require a uniform structure (like a cube if we're talking 3D) in order to make sense.

This[0] article might help though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-cube
I tried it. Slightly better than frozen. Also, while I was excited to hear about their new, eco-friendly pizza box, my pizza arrived inside a single-use, large mylar bubble wrap sleeve. It would take a lot for me to try them again.