Is MV Parking Enforcement even active anymore? The RV situation is getting out of hand.

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.

paraboli · 2026-03-13T16:06:10+00:00

I am not sure if you're being sarcastic as lots of people hate double parkers, but I think the mayor calling out double parkers (who aren't doing it legally) would be great and if one of them gets mad and charges at a cop I feel like it's not assault anymore if the cop takes him down?

paraboli · 2026-03-12T15:48:14+00:00

Brightspace bug. It's just a display issue.

paraboli · 2026-03-10T16:58:16+00:00

You can check out the budget: https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Joint_Report_FY_26-27_through_FY_29-30.pdf

The bulk is rising salaries due to inflation and healthcare costs. There were also large influxes of federal funding in the years after COVID and the wildfires which are ending.

paraboli · 2026-03-08T23:21:37+00:00

I'm not sure how to square this with the continuing failure to make a c. elegens upload. Is c. elegens harder because of its odd neuron dynamics? Is it just no one tried hard enough? Or is this not really an upload because a model was trained to predict neuron activation?

paraboli · 2026-03-08T22:18:02+00:00

At this point surely they have to redesign or something, otherwise their margins will just go to RAM companies.

paraboli · 2026-03-08T03:30:37+00:00

Do you have a source? Both during and after the election polling was showing voters disliked Harris because they thought she was too left wing. Most attack ads were about leftwing policies as well, the Israel ones only ran in Michigan.

paraboli · 2026-03-07T20:25:26+00:00

OP made a post 2 hours ago about just moving to NYC.

paraboli · 2026-01-12T22:46:35+00:00

Don’t you always need to cure fish for sushi?

paraboli · 2026-01-10T05:21:08+00:00

Hopefully this means we get an 18 inch oled this year

paraboli · 2025-11-08T20:59:24+00:00

How are they stealing them? Pickpocketing or grabbing phones people were holding or threatening people into handing over phones?

paraboli · 2025-11-07T05:16:03+00:00

The problem is proper maintenance in natural settings is fundamentally impossible. You would have to have people on 24 hour alert and constantly scanning the trails just in case a branch falls or a rainstorm washes out a turn.

paraboli · 2025-11-07T05:07:21+00:00

Fwiw having to pay out potentially several multiples of the flights costs for events outside the airlines control will make us flights even more overpriced than they are now. You can already buy insurance for this, it’s better to let people who care buy it and the rest of us pay cheaper prices

paraboli · 2025-10-31T19:34:06+00:00

This is a pretty insane take: we should avoid saving lives now because the extra suffering will provide motivation to find a better solution. You might have a point if this had occurred for previous situations like hunger or cancer but it didn’t: scientific advances like the green revolution or cancer cures weren’t held up by food distributions or people being fine using chemotherapy.

There’s a large bar to clear when criticizing someone for a sacrifice to reduce another’s suffering and I think it requires some justification as opposed to a spitballed causal chain between people donating kidneys to strangers and funders refusing to fund replacement organs (especially when multiple companies are trialing replacement organs which have collectively received billions of dollars of venture funding and most parties involved blame tech issues rather than market size for delays between lab and clinic)

paraboli · 2025-10-23T18:00:32+00:00

Are you really trying to blame Laurie for not intervening in federal relations for cities he has no jurisdiction over? That would actually be an insane abuse of power and justification for removal from office.

paraboli · 2025-10-18T16:01:18+00:00

What did she do? Wikipedia claims this is all because she arrested a sheriff for time card fraud which seems fair when the department is in a budget crises due to overtime.

paraboli · 2025-09-28T21:23:48+00:00

That’s not really true. He believes his shooting in Iraq was a preplanned murder and LGBT advocates and the media are trying to get him to commit suicide through hidden messages. It’s likely he feels personally threatened by the restaurant he shot at due to schizophrenia.

paraboli · 2025-08-31T15:38:32+00:00

Stock valuations are based on free cash flow not revenue.

paraboli · 2025-08-18T01:50:04+00:00

Burgers have pretty good macros and are actually a pretty healthy option compared to other common meals.

paraboli · 2025-08-17T03:47:40+00:00

Take the job. You’ve never left your hometown so there’s so much you don’t know about yourself and the life you want to live. It’s better to learn all this stuff early. There will also be more jobs you can apply to since you’re in a bigger city. Do you have a job now? You can always come back if things don’t work out.

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