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At least, that's certainly how it looks to me. There may be some restrictions based on the "fair rate of return" wording, but it's not clear to me how those would be interpreted in courts (or what other pieces of California law they would invoke).
There are different sorts of things called "rent control" in different places (consider old NYC "rent controlled" vs "rent stabilized" where the latter is like SF's "rent control") -- but yes, this allows cities to regulate initial rents.
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Not sure which "one" and "other" you mean, but:
Prop 10 allows cities to set *initial* rents. So a city that wants to block rental housing could just say that one bedroom apartments rent for $500/month, etc., which would make it no longer worthwhile to build rental buildings.
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The "I can pronounce that bit but have no idea what it means" and "I have some idea of what that other bit means but no idea how to pronounce it" problem.
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I've been thinking this week about Proposition 10, the statewide initiative on California's November ballot to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. I just published medium.com/@ldavidbaron/mixe… explaining why I've decided I'm against it.
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An argument I heard about Prop 10 (Costa-Hawkins repeal) is that cities like San Francisco could have (but haven't) moved their 1979 rent control threshold up to 1995, so are unlikely to do so after repeal. Now I wonder if that's legal per leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f… 1954.52 (a)(2)?
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If only we could get the law to require that goverments consider the specific, adverse impacts of *denying* housing (rather than only think about the harm caused by *approving* it).
On my Surface Book (Windows 10) my image is pixelated across multiple videoconferencing tools (in-browser and not). Seems like a regression from driver updates that I was given on August 21/22, although the updates are mostly labeled as much older. Anybody else seeing this?
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I'll also be at this Browser Contributor Day event, which is starting online in... about 20 minutes.
Did you know that @digitarald will be joining @thisdotmedia's Browser #contributordays on behalf of @firefox on August 24th? Join online at 1pm PDT for the amazing browser discussions! buff.ly/2OagnIx
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Maybe this is a good time to pressure stores that sell the National Enquirer to stop doing so?
Adult film stars, tabloids and “story brokers”: How the National Enquirer helped Donald Trump's fixer keep scandals off the front page nyti.ms/2PypTpR
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You should design the diacritic system like Hangul, though, where the shape of the diacritic gives you an indication of what sort of box you're talking about.
Böx would be about fragmentation.
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You should see how small SSD is now (and has been for a while). This is 22mm × 80mm: amazon.com/dp/B073SB2MXT/
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I hope that in the future, I will again be able to hope that the US President is competent and effective at achieving their goals.
That requires believing the President wants what is best for the country and the world, rather than for themself.
That's not this President.
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Or putting it another way, today's actual majority represents 44% of the population, and today's actual minority represents 56% of the population.
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The actual numbers today (using 2017 census population numbers) are that the 49 Democrats & Independents in the Senate represent 363,971,955 people and the 51 Republicans represent 286,078,457 people.
(This adds to 2x population of US minus DC, since 2 senators per person.)
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It is at least related to Firefox changes, although I don't know for sure if it's a Firefox bug or a Slack bug; filed bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
I realize this could be a regression in Firefox nightly related to bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu… .
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