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exploded mummy posted:join us in two weeks for when a senator drives down a sidewalk and running down people an masse didnt a kennedy on ambien already basically do this?
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Significant Ant posted:I wonder how many black people live in this neighborhood nah thats a north/south division. in austin all the brown people were redlined to east of interstate 35 so the east-west divisions are the racial ones. this is just old white people who hate change vs young white people who want to live in a dense and walkable neighborhood. you wouldn’t use a gate to keep brown people out when you already have an interstate highway doing a great job. the more west you go the whiter it gets, until you finally at the very end get to the neighborhood where i grew up and its the whitest of all (westlake).
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Dec 26, 2017 09:06
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atomicthumbs posted:https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/944934106676252672 when i was in high school they put up a fence that blocked the quickest route to our physics classroom to try to help the grass grow. a friend of mine cut it down with a sawzall in the middle of the night *four separate times* and they eventually stopped trying to put it back up. the physics teacher would take parts of the fence wreckage and put it in his backpack as a joke attempt to frame him for it because he talked about it all the time at school but no one actually punished him but it was a running joke among the students and teachers for years, thats how white the neighborhood i grew up in was. one time the westlake (local) pd found my brother and some friends setting fire to a washing machine in the middle of a the street on residential cul de sac and the police just laughed and told them to get lost because the county sheriff had also got a call about the fire and was on the way too, and wouldn’t just laugh it off. you cant get much whiter than that, when the local cops tell you to go away because the real cops are coming too.
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Dec 26, 2017 09:39
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Those are for commons fees. None of them have any enforcement power over what you do with your property beyond attaching a lien if you don't pay your commons fees. They can't tell you how to mow your lawn or what color to paint your house. around here they can foreclose on you if you dont pay fees and fines, and force sale. sucks but you agree to it when you move in. Babies Getting Rabies posted:where the hell do you live that the city doesn’t pay for public pools, landscaping all over the city and other public services? my city has several public pools, some of them with large olympic-sized swimming pools and of course they are heavily subsidized and ultimately paid for by raising taxes. they are great. tickets are generally around 4 bucks, half that for children and people receiving welfare. public schools regularly go there so every child can learn to swim for free. many new construction neighborhoods start off outside the city paying for their own private pool and landscaping through an HOA or a MUD. then when the city annexes them in the future the city and the hoa have to work out of the hoa stays around and pays for the pool and it remains private, or if they give the pool to the city and allow public access in echange for not footing the whole bill through just that neighborhoods hoa. this doesnt affect existing public infrastructure like city pools not inside the original area the hoa covered.
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Dec 27, 2017 21:27
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Greatbacon posted:My uncle complains about the college kids who moved into the house from his and all the cars parked on the street that come with it. His primary agitation is that now he has to pay attention when he backs out of the driveway in his F350. my four friends who live in a 3500 sqft mcmansion in the burbs have six cars and 2 motorcycles. the neighbors probably hate them.
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Dec 27, 2017 22:21
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meatpotato posted:why on earth would the tax code protect landlords from the market price that is crazy if it didnt then they wouldnt be out there creating jobs! fishmech posted:Sounds pretty dumb. If someone wants to build a proper 50 story residential or office skyscraper I don't think it should have to have token storefronts/token condos actually mixed use is good and requiring it makes your city better to live in.
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Dec 28, 2017 16:19
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fishmech posted:Hmm no it sounds like you're from some sort of overgrown suburb where sticking a retail shop on a 2 story building makes a difference. actually it makes it a lot more desirable as office or residence
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Dec 28, 2017 16:33
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i live in a 44 story building and there are a bunch of 30-40 floor buildings within a block. all of then have ground floor retail and the ones built in the 1980s that dont are busy remodeling their giant 1980s atria into retail or a parking lot for food trucks or whatever. mixed use is good and makes an area more walkable and more desirable.
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Dec 28, 2017 16:39
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fishmech posted:That's the key. Most. There's plenty of buildings that don't bother to have any and are strictly single purpose. It's hardly harmful to not have it. office buildings without ground floor retail contribute to dead streets without pedestrians. no one wants to live near an office building that offers nothing for its neighbors. thats how you end up with dead cbds and inner cities where no one wants to be.
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Dec 28, 2017 18:26
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fishmech posted:You're talking about your garbage suburb. This isn't true in actual cities. i am in the cbd of a city with two million people right now, and i have lived in manhattan. the areas without ground floor retail or use after office hours are the areas that no one wants to go to after office hours are over. encouraging and requiring ground floor retail is good.
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Dec 29, 2017 16:24
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Butt posted:"Come to Austin! We hope to have an economy as good as Cleveland some day!' gdp per capita of austin: 58,108 gdp per capita of pittsburgh: 59,289 that's a 2% difference, its almost like pittsburgh's population is 15% bigger and that leads to a 15% gdp or something.
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Dec 29, 2017 17:15
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fishmech posted:huh well i guess that makes sense. their sales floor people are also really helpful with getting you what you need when you only have a vague idea of it like they hooked me up with an obscure power cable type for an old cassette deck just recently The more buildings have ground floor retail and other things, the better it is to live and work in that area, which is why it should be encouraged. I don't think you need to have it in every building and I never said that it should be required in every building - you seem to have trouble with reading comprehension.
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Dec 29, 2017 18:30
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fishmech posted:
i would absolutely avoid walking down that street late at night if there was an alternative within a block or so that had more pedestrian traffic. do you see how this makes that area less desirable now?
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Dec 29, 2017 18:36
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fishmech posted:uh, you said: if you read carefully i didnt say every building should have ground floor retail, because it obviously depends on the situation. manhattan is not a city that needs to encourage pedestrian culture, so it wouldnt make sense there. many other cities that grew a lot from 1950-1990 may have had laws discouraging mixed use development that they’re trying to reverse. requiring it in every building in a whole city is an extreme case that probably doesnt make sense, but thats what zoning is *for*. encouraging land use that is desirable and discouraging land use that is bad for the city as a whole. there are plenty of places where requiring retail in new commercial or residential buildings makes a city better, and adding zoning requirements for it in some areas is probably a great tool for that. fishmech posted:that area is so "less desirable" that the average condo sale in that block and the other nearby blocks that are pretty much the same is on the order of $750k-$1 mil for a 1 bedroom. lmao i have lived in manhattan, as i have already mentioned. you dont beed to explain to me that apartments in manhattan are expensive. most parts of manhattan have plenty of ground floor retail within a block and plenty of outside of business hours usage, so they arent good examples of areas where requiring or encouraging it would be a high priority. this seems obvious but here we are. EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Dec 29, 2017 |
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Dec 29, 2017 19:54
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I saw the starkest poverty I've ever seen in my life when I worked in DFW. how so? homeless people or poor suburbs? dallas and houston both have huge areas of poor suburbs because they love to build exurbs to keep prices down.
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Dec 29, 2017 20:06
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fishmech posted:also lol calling it "encouraging pedestrian culture" like you're some sort of space alien. if you get involved with city planning even offer stakeholder input for city planning you may encounter unfamiliar phrases. dont let it frighten you.
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Dec 29, 2017 20:41
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fishmech posted:"i don't think buildings should have to have it but i think it should be required" lmao there are plenty of places where requiring it makes perfect sense. why don’t you try re-reading my earlier post more carefully. i lived in chelsea, on 25th street between 7th and 8th ave. nice neighborhood with lots of desirable ground floor shops and places to eat. go down to the financial district and it sucks. new york may not want to make the financial district a pedestrian friendly place after hrs, and thats fine, but lots of other cities have neighborhoods that they’d like to make more pedestrian friendly and requiring ground floor retail, or at least offering incentives, makes a lot of sense in many many places. this is the whole purpose of zoning, encouraging one type of development over another. lots of cities exist outside of manhattan. if you are only familiar with that one city, maybe you should travel more and see some other cities. then you might recognize that they dont all have the same needs, right now that seems to be confusing you.
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Dec 29, 2017 20:54
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:this was a thing that surprised me when I visited a friend in Austin a few months ago. he was straight up living in the suburbs with a 30 minute commute to downtown but was still somehow in the city limits of Austin. annexing surrounding areas is one thing that texas does well, so you dont end up with tiny cities with many different municipal governments that have to cooperate to get anything done on a larger scale, it does result in some pretty far out suburbs technically being part of the city, but it also rolls their tax revenue into the city budget.
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Dec 29, 2017 21:00
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fishmech posted:its a dumb solution that doesn't work and just gets you a bunch of empty retail storefronts eyesoring up the place that's funny, i thought austin, a city that prioritizes mixed use development, had record commercial occupancy and record numbers of people moving there each day. but you're probably right and that's all making it a less attractive place to live.
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Dec 30, 2017 02:50
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when i look up my salary on glassdoor it looks like the same job in the bay area pays p much the same, mostly within 1-2%. maybe it is different for web stuff.
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Dec 30, 2017 18:57
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:unless you work in a high-demand white collar job, wages don't vary that much across the country. median incomes in nyc are only about 15% higher than the national average, despite a much higher cost of living. i am doing computer hardware design. seems like a p bay area type job.
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Dec 30, 2017 22:37
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:A CMU spinoff did this to me. They asked me what I currently make. When I said that my current salary wasn't relevant, only what I was worth to them, I was told that they only pay 3% over current salary, no exceptions. I laughed at them and hung up. just say current +25% or so and laugh all the way to the bank.
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Dec 30, 2017 22:50
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:ok so that will mostly work, except that 99% of the purpose of a "background check" is HR's attempt to prevent you from doing this. i have repeatedly had to provide W2s and poo poo to "background check" companies. they are shameless about salary verification. i don't think i have ever provided actual proof of income, guess i have been lucky. i know my former employers aren't going to help competitors do salary research so if someone actually asked for a W-2 I'd probably stop talking to them right there.
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Dec 31, 2017 07:22
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ArmZ posted:lol if anyone asks you for a w2 and you give it to them yeah if people want to see your tax records they need a specific form to request them from the IRS. I am 100% sure I have never given anyone permission to see that except my CPA. Maybe an old employer would say something, but that seems really dumb for a company to do, so I doubt it.
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Dec 31, 2017 18:56
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JawnV6 posted:lmao @ the intel guy claiming his back salary has never been posted, dude equifax dumped your secrets could be. just looked back at the packet they sent me and it didnt have any salary info, did have criminal background check from every address in the last decade tho. i guess maybe they didnt send it to me, idk. i somehow wasnt in the leaks recently either.
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Jan 2, 2018 23:47
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hifi posted:you've never had a car with frameless windows? The automatic window dropping only happens on some newer cars with frameless windows.
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Jan 3, 2018 16:54
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the UAE has to try really hard to get the rich natives to be cops and they have lambos and poo poo
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Jan 4, 2018 19:08
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haveblue posted:is this a euphemism you are thinking of the amazon treasure *trail*
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Jan 4, 2018 22:12
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as a white guy my dick is more pink than white  a white dick would look like some kind of ghost dick, imho.
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Jan 5, 2018 19:02
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this video made my cats 😡 angry 😤
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Jan 6, 2018 22:16
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Sagebrush posted:they want to be this person actually dash cams are good for insurance claims if you dont drive like a jerk. mine came in handy. they didnt ask for it but when i said i had it the inaurance companies just shut up and paid out.
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Jan 6, 2018 22:31
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cis autodrag posted:Belgium is the best francophone country because no one was a dick to me there. Paris was rude as hell. mrs kwinkles and i went to paris and no one was rude to us. they did stop us from trying to french at them and switch to english pretty quickly but i don't remember anyone being actually rude.
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Jan 7, 2018 19:59
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ride the subway in paris for a bit and you can really see how there were race riots though! get out of the nice part of town for a second and the ethnic makeup really changes. austin is p white and still has a lot of racial and economic segregation because of redlining but paris was 100x more obvious about it.
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Jan 7, 2018 20:01
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lancemantis posted:I know a guy that takes his family to Paris annually and has been staying in an apartment for the trip since before that was the cool thing; I’m pretty sure, judging from social media about it, that he’s a Francophile and it’s basically him cosplaying being a cosmopolitan Parisian every year to be fair doesn't being a french cosplayer just mean that he eats a bunch of cheese and wine? sounds like a good rear end week to me.
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Jan 8, 2018 15:38
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The most yospos data acquisition accessory: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/with-ingestible-pill-you-can-track-fart-development-in-real-time-on-your-phone/    
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FMguru posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17B_uFF4cA get ready for mercedes that are mad at their dads
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