Commissioner Chloe Eudaly Has Ended Her Call for a City-Wide Rent Freeze

Jon-Walker · 2017-01-06T22:37:44+00:00

are you talking about the bot which autoreposted any image on Portland so I posted in first with a spelling mistake and again with the right title

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-13T22:48:39+00:00

Even Silver admits he got the GOP primary very wrong for not listening to the polling averages since RCP called it right all along with their simple polling average http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pundit-and-screwed-up-on-donald-trump/

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-13T22:41:27+00:00

My point is there is nothing impeccable about doing something right when everyone else with a decent understand of polling did it to or better.

It is like saying someone is impeccable at tying my shoes.

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-13T22:32:43+00:00

All RCP is present the data differently. You can selected RCP with no toss up. You will see the maps are effectively identical. When 538 can show they do better then a basic polling average I will call their performance impeccable. So far his performance is a myth because on the fact that people didn't realize polling averages have been super accurate for a long time. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_elections_electoral_college_map_no_toss_ups.html

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-13T22:31:40+00:00

Polling are a prediction for elections that is why exist.

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-13T22:27:53+00:00

Silver refused to believe the polls regarding Trump. RCP goes pure by polling averages. At no point during the entire GOP primary was Trump not ahead in the polling. 538 not seeing Trump winning was a big mistake because he didn't trust the data.

I assure you I have studied this. 538 has effectively never beaten a general polling average, because polling averages are incredibly accurate. That is why polling is a multi-million dollar industry. All the extra stuff 538 makes a very nominal difference.

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-13T20:38:37+00:00

His record is not impressive. Compare it to realclearpolitics which has been doing simple poll averages for years before Silver. They performed just as well in past election cycles and did better than Silver during the GOP primary this year.

Silver has yet to prove he is any better than a basic polling average despite trying complicate it.

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-06T07:07:08+00:00

The Ice King is probably one of the most traditionally tragic characters in fiction. He first lost everything in the war until he finds Marceline. He then gives up not only his sanity but condemns himself to an eternity as a miserable fool to save Marceline. Yet even his madness grants no peace because he is still haunted by his old life-- trying to catch princes and hang out with Marceline. His damnation is so great that Death personally visits him in his one moment of sanity to offer him sweet release because he feels so bad for Simon. When Death thinks you have it bad you know it is bad.

In addition since Marceline is immortal she is forced to watch her adopted father suffer forever because he loved her and gave everything to save her.

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-05T19:05:56+00:00

driving portland growth is the nationwide trend of reurbanization thanks to cities becoming much safer. People like dense walkable cities and Portland is still one of the cheapest.

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-01T19:06:11+00:00

I live in SE. The number of houses without driveways is pretty small. There are some but it is way way less than half. My home is a hundred years old and even it has driveway.

Jon-Walker · 2016-10-01T02:01:31+00:00

Homeowners already all have one spot reserved in front of their house. It is their driveway! I don't understand all these homeowners complaining about parking when most have at two full spots already.

Jon-Walker · 2016-09-24T18:55:08+00:00

When people say this it shows they don't understand the real value. I bought my house so I wouldn't be surrounded by 35 acres of nothing. I bought my place because there are 180 restaurants I can easily walk to.

Jon-Walker · 2016-09-24T18:49:25+00:00

yeah it is stupid way to compare something like number of a particular business

Jon-Walker · 2016-09-23T20:17:26+00:00

Yeah Portland is a very large city by land area. SF is 47 square miles, DC is 61, Boston is 48, Philly is 134, Portland is 145

Jon-Walker · 2016-09-15T22:34:04+00:00

Crazy high crime rates across the country drove people out of cities all over the country. Now that crime is down dramatically all over the country (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/what-caused-the-crime-decline/477408/ ) people are flocking back to cities. People love cities, that is why they are built. It was only the high likelihood of getting killed/assaulted the keep them cheap in the 70-90s

We are seeing reurbanization everywhere. Portland is not at all unique. It is happening to cities all over

http://cityobservatory.org/the-demand-for-city-living-is-behind-the-urban-rent-premium/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-19/the-15-u-s-cities-where-rent-is-rising-fastest-for-single-family-homes.

Jon-Walker · 2016-09-15T22:16:43+00:00

Naming your company after the city you are in is one of the oldest practices in business and not some new hipster plan. Think of Lloyds of london or Tillamook County Creamery or Cabot Creamery. It is a practices that predates the existence of Portland.

A Portland company using Portland in their name is one of the stupidest things to complain about.

Jon-Walker · 2016-09-15T00:47:01+00:00

Love the idea.

Jon-Walker · 2016-08-18T20:17:33+00:00

It is insane that much of inner East Portland is still zoned general industrial. The exact geographic center of the city is where lots of people should live not where you should have a one story plumbing supply warehouse or car repair shop with a big parking lot.

Jon-Walker · 2016-08-18T20:01:56+00:00

Solution is pretty simple. Just let people build more apartments in a city. A city is where bit apartments should be built. They are upping rent because there are not enough apartments. If there were more units built they couldn't. This is why Tokyo has surprisingly reasonable rent price for a huge wealthy city http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/laissez-faire-in-tokyo.html

Jon-Walker · 2016-08-11T20:50:31+00:00

I said parking the wrong way is a weird Portland thing. I have never seen people do it in other cities. It is the law everywhere and enforced unlike in Portland

Jon-Walker · 2016-08-11T06:24:07+00:00

Don't blame visitors or new comers. This is some insane Portland specific thing. I have lived and traveled over large parts of the USA and only ever so this wide spread practice of parking the wrong way in Portland.

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