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The post is by @bhology; it just has a picture of me (at my standing desk) at the start of it.
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You're referring to this part of Hong Kong?
(photo of 19 Mount Austin Road, The Peak, Hong Kong, which I took on 2013-11-16)
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Well, you can blame the SOFA coordinated area plan, Phase I, for creating the DHS zoning (Detached Houses on Small Lots).
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Super-fancy furnished basements (with windows) are all the rage in new Palo Alto construction because they don't count against the 0.45 FAR limit.
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Some of the new super-expensive SFHs don't even look like McMansions. Have a look at 905waverley.com/ and 909waverley.com/ which are 5BR/5.5bath houses with an additional studio (+1bath) in-law unit on top of the garage.
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Or, really, I should say, $3.8M is what some realtor optimistically thinks the teardown value of the parcel is. It's probably less, especially now.
If you've walked around that neighborhood (which I have), you'd know that many older houses there get torn down and redeveloped into something bigger. $3.8M is the teardown value of that parcel; it would probably be the same if there were a shack on it.
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I don't think it's primarily statistical -- I think it's tied to the ideas that:
* presidents normally lead big changes at the start of their presidency
* presidents with less experience at big-time politics have stumbled at the start and not gotten what they want (e.g. Clinton)
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My top reason to be optimistic about a @JoeBiden presidency:
The last two Democratic presidents with comparable experience relevant to the presidency (e.g., senior positions in US congress or executive branch, or large state governor):
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I'd expect a higher portion (than in almost anywhere outside China) of the baseline pollution in Hubei to be from electricity and heating, though.
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In Japan they're doing contact tracing and contacts are told that nobody in their *household* is allowed to leave the house (at all) for two weeks. I presume this means that they have a support system sufficient to provide food and necessities for those households. Does the US?
Even Castro Street in Mountain View is borderline unpleasant. And that's with traffic calming *and* a lot of plants. I'd say European cities are better models...
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Presumably any parcel has some probability of being redeveloped in a time period given a current use, current zoning, and current market... and I think that probability is generally relatively low for any given RHNA cycle...
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Based on railjournal.com/passenger/hi… I thought it was only a restriction on routes where rail took 2.5 hours or less. So presumably they'd still be able to fly Paris-Nice, Paris-Toulouse, etc., as they have been.
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Did anybody else go to check if this is *actually* what the Google Trends graph look like?
It basically does match: trends.google.com/trends/exp…
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