Except many cities are at the point of needing to build up, which is significantly more costly to build. That drives the entry level rates up, which requires higher wages.
Unionizing, fighting for a higher minimum wage, shared common costs reductions (like a national drug plan), etc. Things that increase wages or decrease the average cost to those least able to afford it.
I agree that zoning is one tool to help. Toronto is in desperate need of a reality check on that front. The problem with not increasing wages at the same time is that you won't get affordable housing, you'll get slums. As you say, the value of the old stock won't increase and inflation will quickly make it uneconomical for those owners to invest money back into their property. Landlords begin doing less in terms of upgrades, maintenance, etc. to keep it profitable for them and decay sets in. By increasing wages at the same time as opening up new stock you allow everything to shift up and the worst of the worst get gentrified. It's also necessary because as you add vertical spaces (high rises) the costs get higher. Increasing minimum wage increases the buying power of those at the bottom - allowing them to afford the increased costs.
In a global economy there are limits to transferable professions. A janitor and teacher are needed locally to perform their duties.
The other thing to consider is that as Google grows it's workforce that is adding money into the community. Typically in these situations the trades become high demand professions as everyone is spending their wealth on things like home improvements. Those contractors can then raise their rates, etc.
There is short term upheaval to gentrification - no question. The alternative though is that instead of renewal you get decay. If everyone is just getting by no one will put in the money into home improvements, contractors don't get enough work, they don't buy building materials, and the economy stagnates as less and less money flows through it. It's not an easy process but it's one that gets repeated constantly with very predictable results. Each neighbourhood is on roughly a 60 cycle. The renewal that is happening now will decay and become the low income areas of 40 years from now - by 50-60 years some other renewal will come through and repeat the process (hopefully).
One man's gentrification is another man's urban renewal.
To me they're fighting the wrong battle - they should be fighting for higher wages so that as gentrification occurs they're not pushed into ghettos but move laterally, maintaining their standard of living.
"AI" being jammed into things now is probably lame, awkward, and of very limited use. Much like computers were back in the punch card days with devices that. Less than 100 years later we've got computers in our pocket. We are in the early days of AI - we'll look back on it decades from now as we do with things like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This article is just another example of someone who can't see past their nose to the road ahead and the million different branching paths this technology could take.
Seriously, I'm thinking I should create a network of fake profiles and get myself recruited. There's nothing illegal about providing false intelligence to foreign agencies for compensation right?
That's true, it doesn't compress linearly. However, for a 300Mbps HEVC/H.265 you'd be looking at a ~2.25GB per minute. You could get it smaller but the bitrate/quality will suffer immensely.
The link shows sales tax too if you bothered to look.
If you want to delve into that minutia then the US has some of the highest taxes in the world due to most of the services being offloaded to municipalities. Property taxes there are insane in comparison. Because the cities are doing the work it's far more costly than if the state/feds provided it due to overlapping bureaucracies
As to the "less every year", it's different from year to year as priorities change. Just because the things you may use seem "less" does not mean other more important things aren't being covered elsewhere.
This is just nucking futs that this is news in the US.
It's standard here to have up to 17 weeks pregnancy leave and up to 63 weeks of parental leave (by either parent). It's all unpaid with employment insurance covering 52 weeks of it.
The incentive is that copyright owners want this as a mechanism to control piracy. Make the files so big that it will be cost-prohibitive for anyone but those with the monopolies to serve it up.
I can't see users going for those though but for far simpler concerns. Usability starts to tank as resolutions go up. At 720p a file can be skimmed no problem, at 1080p there's a noticeable delay in processing, at 4k it's like mud.
It represents a bigger problem though. If an email provider can unilaterally make such a massive change to privacy rights then is it safe to use any provider? If we have to use home servers to maintain privacy, who do we entrust to guard us from spam/phishing/data loss?
For that matter what is to stop the yahoos at Yahoo from charging for forwarding services?
Not a moron here and still using Yahoo mail. Not as a primary email but simply due to momentum. The account existed long before gmail did and the number of accounts tied to it are countless. Gmail became my personal email while Yahoo became the one I gave out to 3rd parties for account creation purposes.
How does one even start to unwind a 15+ year old account tied to hundreds of services? The moment I saw their privacy policy change I wanted to cut and run but unless I am going to scour every forum/business/etc that I ever signed up with, I'm stuck.
While he may not know what he's talking about entirely, he's not wrong about the shitty updates.
YouTube was updated to a depreciated set of functions, making it run well on Chrome but nothing else. Google Maps became significantly slower/less user-friendly and somehow big commercial locations seem to be popping up on unrelated searches while mom & pops only show up if you zoom in to basically their location.
It was an early implementation of UEFI that had the short memory bug. Other OS' wouldn't install as a result. The best I can do is run Linux off USB but I was gifted another laptop (someone's hand me down) that was actually pretty decent so I never bothe
Oh well if it's happening 5 years later it's so much better than if it's happening this year/sarcasm
As to the OS becoming unusable - this is from personal experience with the OS utterly failing when the store decided it no longer wanted to function. Numerous attempts at clean installs were made and MS refused to support the issue because it was an OEM version. It's still not working to this day.
People just roll with this shit without thinking about the millions in software licences that are forever lost. The store is so integrated into windows services now that the entire OS is likely to become unusable (well, more unusable).
Store shutdowns like this should require DRM removed from anything sold at the very least.
Sorry, cheese cake is disgusting. The apple pie lobby on the other hand wants you to know how good apples are for you and in pie form it's nothing but happiness.
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Do a google image search on each term - you'll see the difference (hint: it's not the substance of what they're doing, it's the perception)
Except many cities are at the point of needing to build up, which is significantly more costly to build. That drives the entry level rates up, which requires higher wages.
Unionizing, fighting for a higher minimum wage, shared common costs reductions (like a national drug plan), etc. Things that increase wages or decrease the average cost to those least able to afford it.
I agree that zoning is one tool to help. Toronto is in desperate need of a reality check on that front. The problem with not increasing wages at the same time is that you won't get affordable housing, you'll get slums. As you say, the value of the old stock won't increase and inflation will quickly make it uneconomical for those owners to invest money back into their property. Landlords begin doing less in terms of upgrades, maintenance, etc. to keep it profitable for them and decay sets in. By increasing wages at the same time as opening up new stock you allow everything to shift up and the worst of the worst get gentrified. It's also necessary because as you add vertical spaces (high rises) the costs get higher. Increasing minimum wage increases the buying power of those at the bottom - allowing them to afford the increased costs.
Minimum wage increases, unions, etc.
In a global economy there are limits to transferable professions. A janitor and teacher are needed locally to perform their duties.
The other thing to consider is that as Google grows it's workforce that is adding money into the community. Typically in these situations the trades become high demand professions as everyone is spending their wealth on things like home improvements. Those contractors can then raise their rates, etc.
There is short term upheaval to gentrification - no question. The alternative though is that instead of renewal you get decay. If everyone is just getting by no one will put in the money into home improvements, contractors don't get enough work, they don't buy building materials, and the economy stagnates as less and less money flows through it. It's not an easy process but it's one that gets repeated constantly with very predictable results. Each neighbourhood is on roughly a 60 cycle. The renewal that is happening now will decay and become the low income areas of 40 years from now - by 50-60 years some other renewal will come through and repeat the process (hopefully).
One man's gentrification is another man's urban renewal.
To me they're fighting the wrong battle - they should be fighting for higher wages so that as gentrification occurs they're not pushed into ghettos but move laterally, maintaining their standard of living.
The thing no one can consider is time.
"AI" being jammed into things now is probably lame, awkward, and of very limited use. Much like computers were back in the punch card days with devices that. Less than 100 years later we've got computers in our pocket. We are in the early days of AI - we'll look back on it decades from now as we do with things like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This article is just another example of someone who can't see past their nose to the road ahead and the million different branching paths this technology could take.
The numbers were in US$ so that had already been accounted for.
Basically the takeaway is Americans pay 6% more tax and instead of things that make their lives better they get a giant military complex.
Seriously, I'm thinking I should create a network of fake profiles and get myself recruited. There's nothing illegal about providing false intelligence to foreign agencies for compensation right?
Interesting. Thanks for that link.
I looked up the US rate to compare... 48%
https://www.thebalance.com/cur...
That's true, it doesn't compress linearly. However, for a 300Mbps HEVC/H.265 you'd be looking at a ~2.25GB per minute. You could get it smaller but the bitrate/quality will suffer immensely.
The link shows sales tax too if you bothered to look.
If you want to delve into that minutia then the US has some of the highest taxes in the world due to most of the services being offloaded to municipalities. Property taxes there are insane in comparison. Because the cities are doing the work it's far more costly than if the state/feds provided it due to overlapping bureaucracies
Data sources vary depending on the methodology. I grabbed mine from https://tradingeconomics.com/c...
Your 43% is way off - https://tradingeconomics.com/c...
As to the "less every year", it's different from year to year as priorities change. Just because the things you may use seem "less" does not mean other more important things aren't being covered elsewhere.
GDP Per Capita (USD):
Canada - 51,315.89
US - 53,128.54
We're gettin'er done and enjoying the benefits along the way.
This is just nucking futs that this is news in the US.
It's standard here to have up to 17 weeks pregnancy leave and up to 63 weeks of parental leave (by either parent). It's all unpaid with employment insurance covering 52 weeks of it.
12 weeks is an insult to parents.
The incentive is that copyright owners want this as a mechanism to control piracy. Make the files so big that it will be cost-prohibitive for anyone but those with the monopolies to serve it up.
I can't see users going for those though but for far simpler concerns. Usability starts to tank as resolutions go up. At 720p a file can be skimmed no problem, at 1080p there's a noticeable delay in processing, at 4k it's like mud.
It represents a bigger problem though. If an email provider can unilaterally make such a massive change to privacy rights then is it safe to use any provider? If we have to use home servers to maintain privacy, who do we entrust to guard us from spam/phishing/data loss?
For that matter what is to stop the yahoos at Yahoo from charging for forwarding services?
Not a moron here and still using Yahoo mail. Not as a primary email but simply due to momentum. The account existed long before gmail did and the number of accounts tied to it are countless. Gmail became my personal email while Yahoo became the one I gave out to 3rd parties for account creation purposes.
How does one even start to unwind a 15+ year old account tied to hundreds of services? The moment I saw their privacy policy change I wanted to cut and run but unless I am going to scour every forum/business/etc that I ever signed up with, I'm stuck.
If they were smart they'd hook in real radio stations and not worry about losing licenses.
While he may not know what he's talking about entirely, he's not wrong about the shitty updates.
YouTube was updated to a depreciated set of functions, making it run well on Chrome but nothing else. Google Maps became significantly slower/less user-friendly and somehow big commercial locations seem to be popping up on unrelated searches while mom & pops only show up if you zoom in to basically their location.
It was an early implementation of UEFI that had the short memory bug. Other OS' wouldn't install as a result. The best I can do is run Linux off USB but I was gifted another laptop (someone's hand me down) that was actually pretty decent so I never bothe
Oh well if it's happening 5 years later it's so much better than if it's happening this year /sarcasm
As to the OS becoming unusable - this is from personal experience with the OS utterly failing when the store decided it no longer wanted to function. Numerous attempts at clean installs were made and MS refused to support the issue because it was an OEM version. It's still not working to this day.
People just roll with this shit without thinking about the millions in software licences that are forever lost. The store is so integrated into windows services now that the entire OS is likely to become unusable (well, more unusable).
Store shutdowns like this should require DRM removed from anything sold at the very least.
Sorry, cheese cake is disgusting. The apple pie lobby on the other hand wants you to know how good apples are for you and in pie form it's nothing but happiness.
Eat this, don't eat that, blah blah.
Eat what makes you feel good and die when you die. The worry and stress of trying to "eat healthy" will make whatever years you do have miserable.