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Or another analogy: here's a parcel of land in suburban Palo Alto, not particularly near anything. It just sold for $3.8M (presumably for teardown) and the lot is 9147 ft². That might hold (optimistically) 34 spaces, or $111K/space for surface parking.
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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Around what parking costs if you don't subsidize it. Palo Alto's proposed new downtown parking garage would have cost a tad over $100K/space to build, and that ignores the cost of the land: paloaltoonline.com/news/2019…
When it's surface parking, fewer spaces on the valuable land.
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In Palo Alto, the replacements for the $30M teardowns are structured a bit differently, thanks to zoning laws that limit floor area quite strictly but don't count basements...
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Looking at the numbers more closely (for the first time in a while), I realize California's statewide COVID-19 trend graphs are overwhelmingly about southern California, which both has the bulk of the population and higher per-capita COVID-19 cases.
4/ California managed the pandemic as well as any state.
Today, California is at the highest average number of new cases in the pandemic.
Not just the highest: Very high.
Average new cases:
• Today: 2,700
• May 8, start of reopening: 1,700
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though also seems a bit scary in that it seems like it would mean not picking up future updates (in newer git versions) to that directory
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The bit at the end of marc.info/?l=git&m=158872063… seems useful for changing the default locally.
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Oh, I guess "repository old enough" isn't the issue -- if you make a gh-pages branch you can still use gh-pages, but it seems like the only options are gh-pages or master. I guess I'll make yet more gh-pages branches even though I'd rather not use that name either...
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Another problem I just ran into -- seems like GitHub pages only works on the "master" branch (unless it's a repository old enough to have been from the "gh-pages" era?). Changing the repository's default branch doesn't let you run Github Pages off that branch.
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Yeah, I understood, I'm just wondering about doing more, and also configuring git so I don't have an extra step every time I make a new repo...
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Has anybody requested that git allow configuring the default? (What was the reaction?)
As I understand it, currently the name "master" is hardcoded in the C code for what happens when you create a new repository. Changing that default would would have a larger effect...
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Also, I don't think "general fund" is a useful unit of analysis for understanding breakdown of spending or revenue. Some proposition dedicating a particular sizeable tax to a particular function shouldn't make either that function or that tax disappear from budget analysis.
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They're also hard to compare because the governmental entities (state, city, county, school district, port authority, etc.) that handle a particular function vary from place to place.
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Maybe it even makes sense to look at the planning department that way, though it requires deciding which of planning fees are for planning's operations and which are for running city services.
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City budgets are hard to make sense of because they tend to include things that are like businesses fully within the budget (e.g. SF hospitals or airport, Palo Alto utilities) rather than accounting for them as a separate business and counting just the subsidy or profit.
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For what it's worth, they stopped including the items sometime between May 23 and May 31 of 2015... and I've been annoyed about it for nearly five years.
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Yeah, but it may well be an interop bug where in other browsers the canvas image data are stored in sRGB whereas we were trying to store them in device colorspace. Difference seems hard to detect without raw access to the image data (small blending differences, rounding).
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