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You need to separate land value and house value.

When regulations are reduced to allow more density, the value of the land goes up because its productivity increases. The land can do more now, e.g. hold 10 apartments vs 1 house. The same land generates more rent so developers are willing to pay more for that land.

Meanwhile, the value of housing units goes down due to increased competition among sellers/landlords.

Consider two zoning changes.

1) You are a homeowner and more units are allowed on your parcel, e.g. single-family -> duplex. That increases your land value.

2) You are a homeowner and there is more density around you, but not on your parcel, e.g. apartments are allowed nearby but not on your street. Your land value does not increase. Your home value decreases due to increased competition. (Of course, there may be long term effects like the increased density actually leading to economic windfalls in the area, increasing its desirability, and then increasing your home value.)


Same here. “Do you want the one useful tip related to this topic that most people miss? It’s quite surprising.”

If it were so useful, just tell me in the first place! If you say “Yes” then it’s usually just a regurgitation of your prior conversation, not actually new information.

This immediately smelled of engagement bait as soon as the pattern started recently. It’s omnipresent and annoying.


Yes, ChatGPT just recently started to add these engagement phrased follow-ups; “If you want, I can also show you one very common sign people miss that tells you…”

You can tell it not to do this in your personalized context.

The model doesn’t always obey it, but 80% of the time it’s worked for me.


Same here, that literally just changed my life


Also shout out to https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ for converting email subscriptions to RSS feeds


I don't use it personally but have heard good things! Thanks for mentioning it.


It’s been awhile since I’ve played Minecraft, but when I built large redstone projects before, I built out each circuit manually and then used mods to copy/paste it within the game.


And nowadays you can use Axiom, which is a much better experience than WorldEdit (WE still has its uses though!)

https://modrinth.com/mod/axiom


There are mods that let you copy/paste sections of blocks.


LLMs are making open source programs both more viable and more valuable.

I have many programs I use that I wish were a little different, but even if they were open source, it would take a while to acquaint myself with the source code organization to make these changes. LLMs, on the other hand, are pretty good at small self-contained changes like tweaks or new minor features.

This makes it easier to modify open source programs, but also means that if a program isn't open source, I can't make these changes at all. Before, I wasn't going to make the change anyway, but now that I actually can, the ability to make changes (i.e. the program is open source) becomes much more important.


So you’re just storing bunch of forks of open source projects with some AI-generated changes applied to them?


I was taught in high school that during the Cold War, there were maps with the US centered and USSR divided on either side to imply American unity in the face of opposition.

Example: https://ebay.us/m/tN1UfJ


The maps were common, but there was nothing anti-USSR about them, and they go way back before the Cold War.

It's long been practice for maps to be centered on the country/continent they're produced in. American world maps centered on the Americas, British world maps centered on Greenwich, Chinese world maps centered on East Asia.

These days we've mostly standardized on the more "neutral" choice of having the edges in the middle of the Pacific because that minimizes the land getting split up, but there are also Asian maps that split in the middle of the Atlantic, since Greenland's population is low.


In China, world maps have China more centered with America to the right. Some pics I took recently: https://gist.github.com/olalonde/d293e54c46143c3dd905da4c0eb...



Indeed, user embedded pictures can fire GET requests while can not make POST requests. But this is not a problem if you don't allow users to embed pictures, or you authenticate the GET request somehow. Anyway GET requests are just fine.


The same would have worked with a POST endpoint.

The story url only would have to point to a web page that creates the upvote post request via JS.


That runs into CORS protections though.

CORS is a lot less strict around GET as it is supposed to be safe.


Nope, it would not have been prevented by CORS.

CORS prevents reading from a resource, not from sending the request.

If you find that surprising, think about that the JS could also have for example created a form with the vote page as the target and clicked on the submit button. All completely unrelated to CORS.


> CORS prevents reading from a resource

CORS does nothing of the sort. It does the exact opposite – it’s explicitly designed to allow reading a resource, where the SOP would ordinarily deny it.


Even mdn calls it "violating the CORS security rules" instead of SOP rules: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/COR...

Anyway, this is lame low effort trolling for some unknown purpose. Stop it.


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