@InlandCaGuy i feel like steyer is the only good candidate. the elected dems are just too locked in their really not good enough ways, even if mahan is obviously the best of them
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@ryananderson3
Statistics PhD student, tech strategy guy, Schur complement enjoyer
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@InlandCaGuy this sounded good overall, but a few things – why are we paying for ballot measures for affordable housing at all? who on earth is opposed to a "no encampment zone", with or without the interim housing site? why are you paying $600k/unit for $300k/unit apartments?
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This cinches it - I'm going to vote for him. Steyer and Becerra can't talk this long on any issue without blaming Trump or corporations or raising a dubious solution. He has real experience in CA, with CA problems. Not perfect on policy and isn't going to win but it's a primary
Ezra Klein@ezraklein
Here's @MattMahanSJ, on the lessons — both politics and policy — of trying to cut unsheltered homelessness in San Jose to zero
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@aarmlovi this is reductive – obviously there was still a way of financing them, even if it wasn't a jumbo loan. i believe construction of apartments in late roman republic (at least) had a really robust system of financing that kind of looked like joint stock equity
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I swear the FinTwit people think FDR built a time machine & sent FHA mortgages back in time to build the world's great megacities
Rome did not have a subsidized loan program. London, Beijing, Mumbai did not have a loan program
When buildings make money they get built
🍤Nicky Panzareḍḍa🌴@Panzaredda
Anyone written the paper or book on how these things were financed back then?
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@CohenSite why "all permitting fees refunded" and not just "permit granted"? jeez man. i was pretty easily locked in to her before debate but now everyone just seems awful
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Nithya's small business policy had dropped. Highlights include:
- Comprehensive permitting & inspection reform
- Rapid response for maintenance, infrastructure, sanitation and homeless outreach in commercial corridors
- Tenant improvement grants & a "vacant to vibrant" program to fill vacant storefronts (modeled after SF)
- Stoping predatory ADA lawsuits
- Working with the state to reform worker's comp insurance
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@oceana_roll this was supposed to be done for the world cup! it's a disaster!!
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LA only making improvements to the city because of the Olympics is so bleak. I’m happy it’s happening but come on.
Inside Los Angeles@InsideAngelino
LAX peoplemover testing! Can’t wait until it opens!
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@RisaSher @Susan_Shelley it says it happened at the whole foods, do you see something different elsewhere?
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@Susan_Shelley That incident in venice was nowhere near Whole Foods so I don't know what nonsense you're speaking about.
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A stabbing at Whole Foods could be a red-pill moment in Los Angeles. Remember when a murder in Beverly Hills marked the end of liberal support for liberal darling L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon?
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Westside Current@WestsideCurrent
A 51-year-old man was stabbed at the Whole Foods near Lincoln and Rose on Saturday evening, said LAPD. Police said the suspect was taken into custody. The incident marks the third reported stabbing or edged-weapon attack in Venice since Thursday morning. westsidecurrent.com/crime/man-stab…
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zev yaroslavsky attempted to throttle LA to death for years and only barely failed. cannot believe he gets to celebrate stuff like this. his failson daughter being on the council is insult to injury
lej@_lej44
Zev Yaroslavsky being at celebration is rich, he is literally one of the main reasons the D line arrived years late. He cannot be allowed to worm away from his legacy of halting subway expansion for years:
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@Brad_Setser @mattyglesias doesn't modigliani miller say that it shouldn't matter for the valuation? they're just preferring to capitalize via debt because of their relatively freer access to debt markets
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@mattyglesias theory is that "private" holders don't have to worry about the extra volatility in the stock price that can come with more leverage. Tis an intrinsic part of the model as you know; early "PE" firms were rebranded leveraged buyout firms
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I’m always torn between feeling that the private equity industry is unfairly maligned and feeling that if I’m going to defend them they ought to be paying me large sums of money first, because whoever they *are* paying to defend them isn’t doing a very good job.
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@W_B_Rick It does stink when your first rounders 1) start to hate basketball, 2) forget how to shoot, and 3) have an near fatal allergic reaction to fuckin sesame seeds, chronologically. Moral victories are for minor league coaches, but this series did feel good, after all that
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@StatisticUrban For 1000 years if you had asked anyone between Baghdad and Xian what the greatest cities in the world were they would’ve said Rayy no doubt. And now an interesting footnote
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I suspect NYC is old enough, rich enough, great enough by now to be immortal.
Not immune to rise and fall, but immortal all the same. The great cities outlast their empires: Damascus, Paris, London, Baghdad, Beijing.
Save for the true end, there will always be a New York City.
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this is highly speculated on my parnet but i wonder how much of the flow of talent/capital/etc into finance (and then tech) that we often attribute to neoliberalism, reagan-era-and-beyond tax and regulatory changes etc etc is due to restricting growth in the "physical economy"
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@schneider i have to fight people on facebook about how wonderful the truly protected bike lanes are. easiest way to love life in LA is bike commute to work
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At this point Santa Monica feels like another planet compared to LA
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@mjwymbs @BillSimmons X \sim N, P(X = k) = \phi(X+0.5) - \phi(X - 0.5) is kinda crazy lol. Just binomial it
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@BillSimmons It's really not that crazy of an unlikely stat. If you had replayed Lebron's career 10 times with these 27/7/7 averages he has 2 careers where this never happens.
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@adavidsouthard l'innommable is so insanely brutal. idk about "book of disquiet" as a novel
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@humantransit i'm surprised they don't work in los angeles. newport beach - long beach - manhattan beach - santa monica seems like a pretty good route
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The reason ferries don’t play a bigger role in urban transport isn’t technology. It’s geometry. Technology never changes geometry.
See my piece on this in the first reply.
NYC New Liberals 🌐@NYCNewLiberals
"Flying" electric boats are quiet, emission-free and cheap to run (the C-8’s cost per nautical mile is about 5% of that of a conventional speedboat). Their proponents believe they could reshape urban transport by shifting traffic from clogged roads to underused waterways.
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@Psxudo @DedicationHoops that says if KD on and Amen off teams are 100% from 3 lmao
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