Sid Kapur
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ML engineer, interested in housing/econ/history stuff
NYC (via DFW, AUS, OAK)
Joined June 2015
I hope @BenAllenCA @SenBlakespear @SenDaveCortese @Senator_Hurtado @MoniqueLimonCA @SenEloiseReyes @SenSusanRubio be brave and vote yes on SB 79 so that California can have a chance at ending its housing crisis.
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Whoa, Portantino (CA Senate Approps chair from June 2018 to March 2024) is no longer in the legislature! End of an era.
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Wow, I used to have really bad takes on double-loaded buildings vs. PABs 5 years ago.
@oranv American stumpies probably have a lot more rooms with windows than Japanese high lot cover apartments on small lots. Probably less wasted circulation space and less money spent on elevators as well.
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The great 2010s-ish indie-ish music graph. (Figured I should post this before my music taste becomes horribly outdated)
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@moseskagan It's super fucked up but police love killing dogs. It's like firefighters and breaking windows – a perk fo the job to them.
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@slucy . and the firefighter was visibly disappointed when I would not let him break the door to turn it off; once some NYPD officers told me they hate how quick FDNY is to break down doors that the police could open much more daintily).
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Very on-brand for @MarketUrbanism to include a reference to firefighters' love for kicking down doors in the elevators study.
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Did the California fire hazard severity zone maps change recently? I thought Pacific Palisades and Echo Park/Silver Lake used to be in the fire zone.
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Guy who calls Sunset Park "the Sunset" and Staten Island "the Richmond".
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Idk why chatbots print the output one word at a time. It's impossible to read when the text is moving. One paragraph at a time, or padding the bottom so you can scroll down and the text doesn't move would be much more useful. TTFT doesn't matter if you can't read the first token.
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Apparently the "son of outer borough real estate developer -> major federal government figure" pipeline has existed for a while. Henry Morgenthau Sr. (FDR's Treasury Secretary's dad) was a garden apartment developer in the Bronx!.(from The New York Approach by Joel Schwartz)
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"It's 0.499999999989 my fault, but I just like to play the victim".-"Stick Season" by William Kahan.
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London Breed just tweeted the phrase "p(dev)". Congrats @s_damerdji!.
I’m excited to see what the talented staff at the Planning Department returns in response to my letter, and this renewed call to recalculate our zoning plan based on the actual probability of where development will actually occur.
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Should I go to Dallas for the longer totality (almost 4 min), or Denton/Tarrant County for shorter totality (closer to 2 min) but less cloud cover?.
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Pretty cool that Mark Levine (smart technocratic Manhattan borough president) reads Dwarkesh Patel's blog.
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Also wow this site is totally busted. When you try to attach more than 1 image on desktop, it looks like the images failed to upload but then when you click "Post" all of them show up.
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