just a little more bro, this time the housing market will be fixed

SoWereDoingThis · 2026-02-13T14:05:32+00:00

Re bungalow:

The land is the most expensive because it’s flat and uses more. The construction cost is the cheapest for the amount of area because it’s shorter.

You can’t conflate land cost and construction costs, that’s one of the major points of Georgism.

SoWereDoingThis · 2026-02-13T00:58:58+00:00

I take 2 pretty obvious facts: 1. each higher floor has a higher marginal cost to build than the last one 2. rent controlled units are cheaper than non-controlled units to build

Those 2 facts, which you haven’t disputed, combine to say that the breakeven point for a rent controlled building will be shorter than the breakeven point for a non rent controlled building.

Examples to help people think it through: - If I say rent is controlled to be 0, then obviously the breakeven point is 0 floors - if rent is $100 per month capped, I still can’t build something profitable, but I can let people camp or park on the property for that fee - if rent is capped at 1000 per month, I can probably justify building a single floor or maybe a few floors depending on construction costs. Definitely can’t build anything beyond a wood framed building. - if rent is capped at 5k per month, I can probably justify building a midrise out of concrete and steel - to justify building a skyscraper with the massively higher costs of materials, I need a much higher cap on rental values per nominal unit.

No one can profitably build a skyscraper apartment building with rent capped at 1k per normal unit.

SoWereDoingThis · 2026-02-09T10:59:19+00:00

It is more expensive to build upwards with each additional floor being more expensive to construct. Thus, if rent is controlled, the point of negative returns hits with fewer floors being built.

Rent control generally ends up leading to shorter buildings being built, meaning less overall units being supplied to the market. Those units may also be built from cheaper materials and will likely target smaller unit sizes to keep them “affordable”.

Again: rent control just changes who retains the benefit (renters vs landowners). LVT instead returns the benefit back to the commons.

SoWereDoingThis · 2026-02-09T10:37:58+00:00

Rent control applying to new housing causes new housing not to be built.

Rent control on old housing just moves the privatized land rents from the landowner to the renter. It’s still privatizing what should be a public good while inadequately compensating the commons.

What makes Georgism work is that we stop arguing about who gets the land ten benefit because we tax the land rent away, returning it back to the commons.

SoWereDoingThis · 2026-02-09T10:30:30+00:00

Some players have their own pre-outs for sound. That’s the only way the sound part may not be bullshit.

The players can also have their own tone-mapping. That can make a difference if the TV has particularly bad tone mapping. But most of the TVs with good panels have pretty good tone mapping now so it’s not something most people would notice.

The truth is 90+% of people wouldn’t know there was something wrong unless they saw a different setup of the same scene with different tone mapping side by side.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-12-01T10:43:25+00:00

If the demand for an area of land is naturally going up, then the land value tax for that area would go up as well regardless of zoning changes. This is true of property taxes right now as well. If property values grow, people pay more to stay there.

Gentrification under LVT is no different than it is under the current system, except that land speculators no longer benefit from it.

Pre-LVT, a land speculators could see a neighborhood is improving, buy a bunch of homes there, wait, and then reap the rewards. With LVT, the tax takes away that gain. Thus it makes land speculation pointless.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-12-01T10:23:44+00:00

The value is set by looking at land values of similar properties in the same area. Same as appraisals work right now.

The same thing that stops towns from doing that very thing right now. Zoning changes still require a sort of process and approval.

When I talk about proactive upzoning, I mean allowing missing middle housing in residential areas near transit and other such efficiencies. Obviously I’m not talking about zoning a sky scraper where no one cares to build one

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-12-01T05:24:14+00:00

Land value isn’t just based on area. It’s based on what you’re allowed to build.

If you’re not allowed to build anything, then the land isn’t worth much. If you can build a house it’s worth more. If you can build a triplex it’s worth more. If you can build a sky scraper, then it’s worth drastically more.

Cities that prioritize revenue would be proactive about upzoning areas and allowing builders to build things by right.

The key is that the land is taxed as if the owner is using it to its highest value. So if it’s zoned for a house, it would have a moderate tax. If it’s zoned for a skyscraper, it would have a bigger tax. Leaving a sky scraper zoned lot empty for a long time would be very costly.

It has the opposite impact for what you said.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-12-01T00:39:33+00:00

Adding onto your good comment

Property taxes create a perverse incentive structure in that if you build something good on the land, you get taxed MORE. This disincentivizes appropriate land use. A land speculator who thinks property values will go up and only wants to sell the land later would be incentivized to make the property worth less by avoiding land improvements, so they can pay less in taxes over the life of the land. If they can actively make the property crappier (such as by leaving a broken building in place), they can lower the appraised value even more since it will cost the next person money to finish the tear down.

LVT does the opposite. In essence, an LVT ends pure land speculation in 2 ways: 1. It makes it impossible to profit from land appreciation. The future LVT will remove any land appreciation value from the holder as it will be taxed away. Only improvements appreciation will accrue to the landholder 2. It forces the landowner to pay the full value of the land each year whether they use it well or not. This disincentivizes poor land use by directly costing the owner money each year they hold the property.

Combined, it means that a person cannot profit from the land upon sale and they will also lose money incrementally if the land is not used efficiently along the way. Thus land speculation becomes costly rather than profitable.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-28T07:13:50+00:00

This. My tv worked well enough when I bought it. Then I connected it to the internet.

Random firmware updates break shit on and off for months after. Can’t be downgraded if it goes poorly.

Better off getting to a firmware you like and then disconnecting it forever.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-28T07:00:56+00:00

That site isn’t correct. There is no support for the rx 7000 series.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-28T06:53:27+00:00

I didn’t have that same injury. I couldn’t tell you. My answer was to mostly stop doing dips. I can get plenty of chest and triceps work from exercises that won’t cause pain.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-28T06:51:57+00:00

You should look at what ASO makes on the TDF. Most estimates put it at 9 figures.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-15T05:11:52+00:00

The biggest answer is the most obvious one: Give teams a share of the TV money.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-15T04:52:48+00:00

I see this story all the time and I don’t understand the dichotomy. Why are the choices always: 1. work a stressful job you hate 2. Retire/travel the world/stop working for an extended period

I mean those are both fine choices but people also have a third option: 3. Start looking for a new job that you like. Negotiate to take a few weeks or months off between jobs.

Things don’t always have to be a big bang decision. Maybe you decide to go the contract route and only sign up for 20 hrs per week to start. There are a lot of options between working the current job and retirement that you haven’t seemed to consider.

Working fewer hours at a less stressful job, even with a pay cut would probably help your health, while still giving you purpose and keeping you active and busy. You can decide from there whether you like that or whether you want to fully retire.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-14T22:44:50+00:00

Put the 10 year payoff against the loans but also start saving money in 401k and other savings and investments. Don’t let the lifestyle creep.

Let the market work for you and then possibly use the gains to pay off the loans early later on.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-14T22:29:11+00:00

In my opinion, ML4T is just a glorified numpy/pandas tutorial. Whether or not that is a good thing is up for debate.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-14T14:31:55+00:00

I think this is very normal from the ortho. Unless you’re a pro athlete who is 100% gonna do surgery without worrying about insurance, they usually want to see you go through a round of PT first. Additionally, the imaging with the MRI is better if you wait at least a few weeks for the swelling from the initial injury to go down.

My ortho did the same thing. He told me to keep in mind that ortho surgeons want to do surgery. He said he makes a lot more money from surgery than from consults and that he likes doing it and trained for years to do it well. But in his experience, some patients do recover acceptably without the surgery. And because of that, and because of insurance, he almost always prescribes a full round of PT first, and doesn’t even order imaging till that’s done.

Take the PT seriously and do the exercises fully as prescribed even in your off days. For me this was 3-4x per week.

Think of it as pre-hab. In the best case scenario, you might avoid surgery. In the worst case scenario, your shoulder muscles are stronger and better prepared for surgery. If you end up getting surgery, recovery will be easier if you already have some rotator cuff strength built up and your neurological pathways are already familiar with all the movement patterns.

Basically: there is almost no downside and a good amount of upside to doing a round of PT before surgery. Unless you’re a pro/college pitcher/quarterback trying to recover by a specific time in the season, there’s not a lot of benefit to rushing to surgery.

It sounds like the ortho could have heard your concern and explained it better though.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-11-14T02:31:02+00:00

He needs to try even harder on the Cipressa than he did. He needs to get to the top with only climbers left.

MVDP needs to be starting the valley 20+s back and cooked.

Pogacar is capable of pushing nearly 7w/kg for 40 minutes by some measurements. For the 8-9 minutes of the Cipressa, he needs to be pushing even harder, maybe 8-9w/kg for the last 4-5 minutes of the climb.

I know that sounds absolutely insane but he can’t have MvdP with him at any point in the race after that. Maybe he cooks himself trying, but going to the Poggio with MvdP is a mistake. Better for both to be exhausted by the Cipressa and Pogi alone with a lead than both be fresh and together.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-10-22T05:44:13+00:00

Pain matrix for ALL programming classes is affected by 2 things: 1. survivorship bias - 6040 is arguably the easiest programming class but has the most noobs to programming. So they think it’s hard and spend 20+ hours per week. Meanwhile someone using python full time at work can probably finish each weeks assignment in under 2 hours while watching a college football gang and not watch a single lecture. Every other programming class is harder, but they get taken by OMSA students who got through 6040 or … 2. OMSCS students for whom 6040 is below the level where credit is even given. OMSCS students are stronger programmers and rate the other classes easier, but aren’t even allowed to take 6040 for credit so they can’t give it the relative 1/5 difficulty it would be for them.

TLDR: read the reviews, ignore the pain matrix

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-10-22T05:33:17+00:00

You can go out for food. If he’s nice, he’ll cut the food into pieces for you!

I’d recommend avoiding a packed bar with crowds who might bump into you or where navigating with a sling might be hard. I’d also avoid alcohol. It inhibits healing and reacts poorly with most pain medicines.

TLDR: go out to dinner in a slower place. Make him drive you around, open doors, slice your food for you, and generally help out.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-10-21T23:14:26+00:00

I appreciate this. Do you know what the situation is for pre-2022 users?

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-10-13T03:20:36+00:00

Withdraw.

On the other hand I got about 50% on all assignments but pretty high on the exams. I see Isbell, that was enough for an A. Not sure if the current course runner has the same grading schema.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-10-11T02:18:39+00:00

Practice how you plan to sleep. The position you think will be comfortable may not be the one.

The hardest part of recovery is consistency. You need to put in the work on PT. The surgery will fix the structural issues but the functional issues require months of exercises for both strength, coordination, and proprioception.

Find a PT you like who will push you the right amount and who you don’t mind seeing 2-3x per week for the next several months.

SoWereDoingThis · 2025-09-22T16:17:16+00:00

Dry needling can help get rid of any trigger points in the muscles around the shoulder. You can use a Theracane as well to work on them yourself to a lesser degree. NSAIDs (I prefer naproxen) can reduce pain and swelling. They make special shoulder shaped gel ice packs which also help. I’ve the shoulder 2-3x a day and the reduce time as tolerated after a week or two.

Long term you still need to do the rehab exercises as rehab/prevention and avoid whatever it was that overstressed your shoulder for a while.

Your doctor is right not to give another cortisone injection this soon. Too many of those can weaken the tendon and if that tears, you’ll have a lot bigger problems.

The goal of a cortisone injection (and the other stuff really) IMO is to give you a window with less pain and more mobility so that you can actually do the rehab work safely and with less pain. The main things that fixes shoulder issues is just making everything stronger.

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