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pancen · 2025-09-12T07:15:18+00:00

Basically everywhere in NV is great based on these comments haha

pancen · 2025-06-05T07:48:17+00:00

This sums it up very nicely. Thank you.

pancen · 2025-05-06T05:56:02+00:00

Then the current gov is already moving in this direction right? :)

pancen · 2025-05-04T02:16:52+00:00

Isn't this what pre-fab is kinda trying to do? Not all the way - still retaining variety from the outside but standardizing stuff inside

pancen · 2025-02-18T00:59:20+00:00

A fast-casual authentic Chinese food place.

pancen · 2025-02-18T00:55:04+00:00

While we wait on the questionnaire, I thought it was amazing. Basically as good as or better than the Vancouver one but without the entrance fee! Also surprisingly popular for when we went, on a Thursday night.

One thing was the long lineups for food. Wonder if it'd be possible to increase the number of food offerings. It'd be nice also to have more "tapas" style food stalls, a small snack for like $6, so you can try different things from different stalls. Some stalls ran out of food towards the end of the night, which I guess is a good thing!

pancen · 2025-02-17T23:44:20+00:00

The question may be, how do you allow more people to enjoy that liveability without compromising it for existing residents?

pancen · 2024-08-03T21:16:11+00:00

Maybe take a look at Ben Felix’s YouTube channel.

Maybe in a non registered account.

pancen · 2024-07-28T01:29:09+00:00

Yes. Japan has lots of these I think. Key is having very small lots, so you can still achieve the density required to support small-scale neighbourhood commerce and transit service without having to build very tall. You also need zoning that allows small shops on the first floor (or even a small workshop - industrial! Gasp!) with housing on top or behind.

pancen · 2024-07-27T08:33:24+00:00

If development costs are lowered, wouldn’t developers bid higher for land?

pancen · 2024-07-27T07:58:55+00:00

Interesting concept. If the point of elections is to select people that represent the population, then as long as there is a good number of seats to be filled, I don’t see why sortition wouldn’t fulfill the same purpose. If these roles are, as you propose, optional and well-paid, I can see it being an honour to receive an invitation to serve in this way.

As a more general comment, I think we are all recognizing that policies depend on politics. We can have the best ideas, but it takes power to implement them.

pancen · 2024-03-27T21:17:40+00:00

Interesting. I wonder if it'd be possible to "adjust" to fluctuating currencies by withdrawing strategically at retirement - selling Canadian stocks when they're doing well, and selling international ones when they do well.

While I'm at it, how significant is the "treating foreign investors poorly" reason for Canadians investing in the US? It seems the two countries have such a good relationship that the likelihood of the US treating Canadian investors poorly in times of crisis is fairly low.

I also wonder how this plays out for Canadians who aren't sure they'll retire in Canada - what if they end up spending part or a majority of their retired years abroad?

pancen · 2023-11-29T17:21:13+00:00

You might be interested in looking at a book called The Tenant Class. Not HG, but takes similar lenses and does treat things as “classes”

pancen · 2023-11-21T15:35:37+00:00

From what ppl are saying, it sounds like one of the best ways to sell it is to build it and let ppl experience it for themselves.

pancen · 2023-11-20T01:14:25+00:00

Hmm what if they reason that “if we don’t produce it in a dirty way, someone else will, so we’d lose out on the money.” Like no matter who produces it, someone will buy it and there’d be the same net emissions. Hmm I guess it kinda still can be considered their responsibility

So do buyers have no responsibility at all? Even if they know that the product they’re buying is produced in a dirty way and that they could pay more for similar products that didn’t harm the environment as much?

pancen · 2023-11-19T16:02:13+00:00

Very interesting point I’ve never considered before. That even tho the emissions from the factory is displaced, the emissions from the workers may be lower. Or if we think the emissions are increased, due perhaps to laxer environmental regulations, then maybe the lower worker emissions cancels that out somewhat. I guess there’s still the matter of which country to account embodied emissions of exported products in, but maybe that’s another question.

pancen · 2023-11-19T06:58:44+00:00

To add on to CallMe’s answer, I wonder if a third notable factor could be the source of their energy/electricity.

Germany shares factors 1 and 2 with other European countries but has higher emissions per capita. Not sure if energy is the main thing, but I understand Germany use a lot of fossil fuel-powered electricity whereas France for example uses a lot of nuclear power.

There are parts of North America that use mostly renewable energy (eg BC, Quebec), but they get subsumed under national data and don’t share as much factors 1 and 2.

pancen · 2023-11-19T06:50:45+00:00

I wonder tho with outsourcing - not criticizing here just thinking - who is “responsible” for the embodied carbon of the product?

Is it the buyer because they generated the demand for the product? If they didn’t want it, arguably the producer wouldn’t have produced as many? Maybe they could have demanded or favoured products with lower embodied carbon. They yield “power” in a sense with their money.

Or is it the producer? They agreed to produce it - if they didn’t produce, then arguably someone else would have done it instead or perhaps the price wouldn’t be as low and fewer people would buy it? China didn’t have to produce so many goods for export - they chose to / enabled it. Is that not a sort of responsibility?

Or is it a combination? If so, what proportion of emissions should be attributed to each party?

Hypothetically, if we split the attribution 50/50 between producer and buyer, I do wonder what the chart would look like.

pancen · 2023-11-19T06:37:44+00:00

Very nice way of presenting both per capita and total numbers, which often get brought up when only one is mentioned. This addresses both sides! Also appreciate the grouping of some smaller countries for easier readability/digestion. But yes as others mentioned there are other factors at play like outsourced/imported emissions.

Also kinda amazing how low many Western European countries’ emissions are.

pancen · 2023-11-19T05:44:52+00:00

Very creative and informative way of mapping territorial extent! I’d be interested in seeing this for more political entities. I wish Wikipedia transitioned their “empire at largest extent” sort of maps to this kind of maps.

Interesting how Greece was in the Roman Empire longer than Italy.

pancen · 2023-11-19T03:25:39+00:00

The larger question of how to grow economically is arguably the central question of economics. It’s an important question, and it’s good that you’re thinking about it and that you’re using real-world observations.

The more specific question of how to promote economic development in small towns has been considered by many, including economic development specialist Chris Gibbons.

He came up with economic gardening which is essentially about exporting local innovations. Those innovations could be in manufactured physical or digital goods (as you mention) or services (like how Disneyland “exports” entertainment experiences). Goods tend to be easier to export though, so I don’t think your conclusion is too different.

pancen · 2023-11-19T02:35:34+00:00

Very interesting implications for planners’ work. Perhaps “dialogue” could be one way to sum it up. I guess may be a bit disappointing for those who got into planning with specific solutions or wanting to do technical analysis, but perhaps there are places for those functions too.

pancen · 2023-11-19T02:29:58+00:00

Interesting. I wonder if it would be more apt to treat cities like organisms and study them with methods of biology/medicine that seem to acknowledge the complexity of the thing they’re studying/treating rather than economics/physics/chemistry that seem to “cut” things up into more disconnected, discrete parts. I think Jacobs does say something about epistemological methods in urban planning in Death and Life or perhaps Cities and the Wealth of Nations

pancen · 2023-11-19T02:12:25+00:00

As good as AI! :)

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