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Zoning limits

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

California's bill to reduce zoning limits on housing was defeated, so there will continue to be little housing construction in the cities that need it most.

Unless a city has a lot of vacant land, there is no way to build more housing units except to demolish some buildings and replace them with bigger buildings. However, the law can put requirements about how this is done — for instance, the requirement to include at least as many low-income units as were demolished. The law could even assure the old tenants of returning at the same rents they paid before. But there needs to be more housing space.

Ban face recognition

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

Don't restrict scraping — ban face recognition!

Precogs fail

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

*Chicago [thugs]' predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results.*

It did no good, while embodying racial bias.

Climatic selection

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

Antisocialism — also known as propertarianism, but calling itself "libertarianism" — has foundered because its philosophy cannot permit any way to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

14 years of fraud

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

Wells Fargo bank and its executives have suffered greatly for 14 years of frauds.