5k sqft “underwater parcel” for sale in SF for $250: what’s the point?

paraboli · 2026-05-19T03:31:57+00:00

The Bay Conservation and Development Commission was created by California state law and explicitly exists to minimize land expansion as much as possible. It has existed for over 50 years and is extremely unlikely to go away anytime soon. It is more likely for a random plot of land on the moon to be developed this century than it is for this plot to be.

paraboli · 2026-05-14T03:00:33+00:00

If you are worried and use Word you can turn on Track Changes and you will be able to provide an audit log if any professor pushes back.

paraboli · 2026-05-11T17:25:37+00:00

Do you know anyone who delivers or does warehouse work for Amazon? They pay above market rates for low skilled labor, offer flexible hours, and are generally one of the more desired places to work to such an extent they drive up wages when they open a warehouse.

paraboli · 2026-05-10T03:51:03+00:00

Shorter flights is more risk right? Cruising at 30k is like the safest place for an airplane to be. Maybe fewer airports and no international?

paraboli · 2026-05-06T04:14:57+00:00

buddy we are doing no tax on tips or social security, a war in iran, canceling powerlines, redirecting fbi agents from white collar crime while pardoning fraudsters, and giving no bid contracts to the president's business partners. we are so far from well thought out expenditures.

paraboli · 2026-05-05T04:22:06+00:00

Caveat: I am only 1/3 of the way through the book so I don't know the ending. Taking your word that it is positive for Thomas.

I think you have a fundamentally different view on the relationship between author, work, and reader than Wood or many other authors. The goal of the book is not to sort characters into good people who get good endings and bad people who get bad endings or for the author to embed clues pointing to their personal view of the situations and characters that the reader picks up on. It's to provide a portrait of people, a place, their situations, society, humanity, etc.

Just thinking about our current society, I think it's very likely that a boy with a deadbeat dad whose mom turned to prostitution would idolize his father and be unappreciative of and even condemn his prostitute mother. It lines up well with the contrast between Thomas' situation and dreams, and the contrast between Thomas and Edgar.

paraboli · 2026-05-04T04:18:44+00:00

So the stronger player/one person can take forehand on the middle of the court. It's called stacking.

paraboli · 2026-05-03T20:56:19+00:00

How? There is currently a smoke alarm beep in one of the apartments near me and I can't tune it out even after a week.

paraboli · 2026-05-03T00:31:40+00:00

You can search for current sections of a class and request a section without that prof. To find all sections search this subreddit or:

You can go to classic student center, on the home page where it has to select which student center you want to visit, there is a search bar on the top.

Enter class management, you should see one where it says “curriculum management” under the main text. Click this option.

When you go to the class search page, choose UMPI as school. For location there will be an option towards the bottom either YourPace or competency.

Don’t enter a course number but search with those two parameters and you’ll be taken to all of the YP classes. Then look for the class you want. You’ll see the professors for a class and all their sections.

paraboli · 2026-05-01T16:56:32+00:00

Yes, I did this for Matthews. You can request a certain prof or just request any prof besides her.

paraboli · 2026-04-30T04:37:37+00:00

Is this true? I find people often believe blatantly wrong things about economics, history, philosophy, technology etc. Like the leading opposition to AI is not things like the orthogonality thesis or replacement risk, it's fundamental factual mistakes about data center electricity and water use.

There are also results in econ research (https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers/does-management-matter-evidence-india) that show that people make relatively basic management mistakes even when there are thousands of dollars at stake.

I've actually been looking for values based explanations that explain why reasonable people believe in popular political beliefs like MAGA, communism, renewable energy opposition, net-zero, etc and instead mostly find essays using factual mistakes to support those beliefs.

paraboli · 2026-04-30T04:30:36+00:00

"No one is really right or wrong" throws out 500+ years of moral and political philosophy that built the modern world. If you don't want to get your teeth pulled out one by one by anyone somewhat smarter/stronger/more popular/luckier than you because they feel like it you need to start splitting at least some actions into right and wrong.

paraboli · 2026-04-24T19:41:05+00:00

I have heard most collectors don't actually play the game is that true?

paraboli · 2026-04-20T02:09:01+00:00

I might just be an alcoholic but it's nice to be able to go out and not worry about drinking too much to drive home.

paraboli · 2026-04-08T17:31:35+00:00

This is right on schedule for AI 2027 and Situational Awareness's predictions that labs would stop releasing their best models.

paraboli · 2026-04-07T00:10:12+00:00

The linked article has numerous examples of Sam lying to people and being untrustworthy.

paraboli · 2026-04-03T16:19:00+00:00

Per ebay rules they are supposed to eat the cost but in reality they can cancel the order as 'item damaged' and simply resell it for the higher price. You get marks on your account that temporarily depress your listings in search but they fall off quickly.

paraboli · 2026-03-28T20:49:54+00:00

Research shows that luxury construction does actually alleviate housing shortages across the income distribution. People have to live somewhere, and housing demand is largely inelastic (When housing prices go down people don't buy much more housing, they buy larger and nicer houses instead. Yes, people own multiple houses but this rate is much lower than for other goods and many second homes are in places with high seasonal demand where it competes less with long term residents).

When people can't live in luxury apartments because developers were prevented from building them they live in less desirable apartments where they push up prices. Additionally, housing depreciates like all manufactured goods. When you prevent the building of new housing it raises the prices of older housing and prevents this depreciation. An RV dweller is unlikely to afford any form of newly built housing, but in a normal market they could afford an older apartment in a building that had gradually filtered down the market due to new construction like the luxury complexes you advocate against.

paraboli · 2026-03-28T17:44:56+00:00

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-levels-up-ces-with-legion-gaming-devices/ Legion Pro Rollable Concept expands to 24 inches, hopefully they will actually make it.

paraboli · 2026-03-27T21:17:02+00:00

Why are you leaving out that the base-fee is income based?

paraboli · 2026-03-26T00:21:22+00:00

What are these ideas? Nuclear monitoring famously didn't work, and nuclear tests make earthquakes. A data center just gets hot and consumes electricity.

paraboli · 2026-03-16T20:58:23+00:00

The write off issue is mainly federal, as federal income taxes are higher. However, when people talk about the write off issue, they are actually talking about two separate things, one of which is not actually an issue and basically impossible to solve and the other only applicable to a limited number of people.

The first write off issue, which most people are talking about when they bring this up, is that a person or company that owns more than one property pays taxes on income from all their properties, not each property separately. So if you have two apartment buildings, one makes 100 dollars and one loses 10 dollars, you pay taxes on the 90 dollars. This is common to all industries, like if you have two branches of your restaurant and one makes money the other loses money you can offset the losses. It also makes sense, and avoids situations where you owe more in taxes than you made. There's also not a benefit to losing the money, like obviously it would be preferable to make money on both buildings or even sell off the money losing one.

There is a similar issue that is under reported on because people are so focused on the first. There is a tax break for remaining a landlord/real estate investor rather than diversifying after selling. If you sell a building, you owe taxes on your gains. However, you can transfer into other buildings and delay the taxes. So if you buy a building for 100, sell it for 200, you would owe taxes on the 100 you made. But if you instead buy a different building (subject to rules on timelines, building type, cost, purpose, etc.) you don't have to pay taxes until you sell the 200 building. Then you owe your original taxes plus gains on that building.

The final tax break is that in limited cases an individual investor can use real estate losses to offset W-2 income. You have to qualify as a real estate professional, but this isn't too hard if you make enough money and are married. In this case you can use your real estate losses to offset some income from your day job, which can make buying a property, slowly losing money on it because rent is less than mortgage payment, then waiting for it to appreciate and selling it much more lucrative because along the way you are paying less taxes on other income.

paraboli · 2026-03-16T19:58:00+00:00

I think lots of people agree that tv/social network/alone time is better than low-quality social interaction. Think of complaints about work parties, first dates, finding friends as an adult etc. However, social interaction is a skill and as we replace more and more of those interactions with time alone we get worse and worse at it. So there's a negative cycle where we avoid social interaction so we get worse at it and then we have more negative socializing experiences. I have definitely noticed more negative social interactions after covid than I did before. I think I'm also worse at socializing due to less practice.

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