StrangeSox

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 13, 2016 -> 09:01 AM) Congrats Balta!

Business Insider looking at trumps new favorite thing, graphs on cue cards. Also speaks directly to the home ownership rate discussion. http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trum...wnership-rate-1

These are amazing, Donald Trump quotes as spoken by Zapp Brannigan https://twitter.com/TheBillyWest ( https://twitter.com/TheBillyWest/status/763531951827357696 https://twitter.com/TheBillyWest/status/763...src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/TheBillyWest/status/763...src=twsrc%5Etfw

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 12, 2016 -> 01:31 PM) You've posted a few times about ground game advantage and I think Ohio is going to be where we learn a lot about that. IIRC didn't Trump tend to slightly under perform his polling in the primaries while Cruz, who worked really hard to establish a ground game, tended to over perform? I know that was the story in Iowa for sure, but I think it held up elsewhere as well.

Trump touts child care programs, but they're for guests only

wow back-to-back called off OT goals in the womens soccer match

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 12, 2016 -> 10:56 AM) Based on polling as of today, Clinton currently has 1023 ways to win. Trump has 1. (scroll down to the bottom)

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 11, 2016 -> 06:29 PM) I'd like to see Trump buy the Sox because he would build a new stadium and get the Cubs to pay for it. lmao

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 12, 2016 -> 11:40 AM) Totally. DC/LA the worst. Again, Chicago is very reasonable but still has them, Chicago did probably the worst in Wicker Park. Did not know about Portland. There was some Netflix documentary I watched that touched on it several years back, but I can't remember the name of it now. The people who own the farmland right on the border of the "no more buildings" line are uber-pissed because their property is only worth a tiny fraction of what it would be because no developers are interested in it. Environmentally, this is great as long as you can still meet your housing stock. I was in Portland recently and checked out home prices out of curiosity. Seemed comparable or maybe a little bit higher than Chicago but definitely cheaper than Seattle or pretty much anywhere in the non-terrible parts of California. edit: it may have been this http://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/maki...place/portland/ In googling for that, I also came across this somewhat recent article on Portland's city planning and trying to strike that balance. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/realesta...ver-sprawl.html

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 12, 2016 -> 11:24 AM) Gotcha. This spiral seems 98% due to education funding through prop taxes. As hard as it is to convince people building is good for the country, telling locals to stop funding their schools so much is probably harder/not as much fun. California also gets the added weird effects of Prop 13 where those people who bought houses in Palo Alto in the 70's that are now worth $2M+ are probably only paying a couple hundred in property taxes. The new owners would get a new evaluation and their taxes would be more in line with what you'd expect for a house of that value.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 12, 2016 -> 11:18 AM) That's more of a product of building in an era of the car than their policy of sprawl. They let people build, and the demand for single family homes was a driving factor for that. The good news is that houston and Dallas are attracting more people now that want to live in urban areas and they are not restricting that. What you would see in places like Washington DC and LA are parking space requirements, which have become a key driver in useless space and a reduction of housing units. The market in Chicago/LA/NYC would dictate less parking space requirements, but they are regulating more because incumbents have cars and care about parking. In Houston, they don't have to build any. Your assumption is that their sprawl is because of their policy. But realistically, I have yet to see a movement of regulating density and anti-sprawl. More regulation would likely have led to more sprawl in those areas. For example: DC If DC had same ability to build as Houston, you'd have far, far less sprawl. I don't know if you follow Atrios/eschatonblog but oh man does he hate parking spaces requirements. Portland has pretty strong anti-sprawl legislation.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 12, 2016 -> 11:04 AM) Productivity and home ownership. I think I posted an article on this in here, but a blogger did a calculation that showed san francisco would require 200,000 new units to push its home prices down to 60% of where they are now (I forgot why they chose that number but it was to target some comparable median). Chicago, to be sure, does a much better job. But of the high productivity areas of the country (New York, Seattle, San Fran, LA) the deference to community sentiment on what is allowed to build is way too onerous and it is killing future generations. Texas has had a huge leg up in just letting people build. This is, of course, how things were when the cities like Chicago, New Yorka nd San Fran were becoming cities. It's amazing how ridiculous peoples ideas of the drivers of housing costs are. And people are way too accepting of them increasing "well if you want to live here you have to pay for it". But, to first point, san francisco productivity for developers has been largely caught up by other areas. At one point are you going to keep accepting 40% of your pay getting sucked up into literal rent when you could live elsewhere and get paid same? What does Texas's sprawl look like, though? Aren't cities like Houston and Dallas known for being nearly 100% car-dependent with horrific traffic? Not that SF or LA traffic is really great, but I don't know if that's really the model of the future for both environmental reasons and if younger people even want that.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 12, 2016 -> 10:52 AM) This post: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...-palo-alto.html Palo Alto is an extreme, but...man it drives me crazy. What's the proposed solution? More high rises? I'm in and around they bay area frequently, and homes are already packed in really tightly.

The scoring system changed in 2006 IIRC

Scotland wind turbines cover all its electricity needs for a day

I don't particularly which I've explained dozens of times.

It's awesome that my furnace blower motor decided to crap out when it's 105 with the heat index. Currently 91 in my bedroom.

For people who are considering Gary Johnson, what is it about his platform that you find interesting? I know there's going to be a lot of "he's not Trump or Clinton" votes for him this year, so this is more of a question for people who are voting for Johnson because they actually like him rather than protest votes.

I am aware of that. It's just that when you dive into libertarian corners of the internet, it's not too long before you start finding people making 'interesting' arguments regarding consent and the age of consent laws. Not accusing raBBit of that, just poking fun at what I see to be a pretty nutty ideology when you get down to its bedrock. raBBit left some important parts out of his version of the rape allegations against Assange, which is why I made the libertarians and consent joke originally. One of the women claimed that she awoke to Assange having unprotected sex with her, something she had refused to do previously.

But they don't actually do that. They just dump data out there with no regard for curation or protecting anyone. They barely ever done anything useful, and they certainly aren't a journalistic enterprise and more of just a data dump. Plus that still doesn't address them clearly being in the tank for Russia.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 11, 2016 -> 02:10 PM) A rampant liberal succumbing to ad hominem instead of speaking on the topic at hand color me shocked. Yes, I realize your behavior has made me a hypocrite. lol learn to take a joke

That's not relevant to wl being reckless with the information they get, pretty clearly in the tank for Russia and generally ranging from useless to harmful to innocent people

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 10, 2016 -> 12:35 PM) Young liberals and chauvinists have made a point of trying to change the definition of rape. A libertarian with interesting thoughts on consent color me shocked