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> He is freezing rents only for select controlled units

45% of apartments in NYC


Rent-controlled units account for less than 1%. Rent-stabilized units for less than 25%.


Over 50% of rented units in New York are regulated somehow. 34% “rent stabilised pre-74”, 8% “rent stabilized post-73”, 1% rent controlled, 7% public housing, 2% other


Please add a "reverse y-axis" option for mouselook!


A land value tax would be a more efficient way to fairly distribute the benefits of land.


Sure, but progressive land tax to discourage large ownership.


Meanwhile, there are plenty of disciplines in which practitioners would never seriously consider posing this question.


I’m a physicist and I can tell you that physics is not one of them, we consider this question all the time


Yeah, I regularly see (and attend) talks on reproducibility, repeatability, and replicability. It’s a problem in some areas, but not exactly hidden away. It is openly discussed and people are actively seeking solutions.


I would argue the most serious of disciplines ask themselves this question constantly. This is because a serious discipline will be pushing the boundary of human knowledge and that necessarily comes with a boatload of failure and uncertainty.


To which disciplines are you referring?


It’s a very fair question - why all the downvotes?

- Never heard of the replication crisis in science? [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis]

This “quickness to put the knives out” is an unfortunate - but very prevalent - response pattern in HN.

Hypothesis: could it be a protection mechanism against the discomfort of cognitive dissonance?

- Why so or why not so?


Its getting downvoted because its using weasel words to make a non-falsifiable statement, which is annoying rhetorically. Depending on which side you are on, you can either claim there are other fields the opponent just haven't thought of, or you can claim that a specific mentioned field isn't a "real" field (e.g. flat earthers would fit, but i don't think that is the sort of thing that is meant)

By definition, the replication crisis wouldn't apply, since it is a crisis because people in those fields are asking the question. Hence those fields would not qualify for the grandparents point.


The downvotes are because the comment is not contributing to the topic at hand. It tries to derail the topic by saying the same applies to other unrelated things. And then it also fails to materialize that unrelated claim by not mentioning which other fields they are referring to or giving any evidence for the claim.


It's a modern HN thing, back in the day downvoting was reserved for really obviously off topic stuff, like spam. Now people use downvoting like on reddit, as an "I'm angry and I disagree" button


Back in 2008, pg said:

> Downvoting has always been used to express disagreement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347


Aren't we better off if valuable, unpopular opinions are freely expressed?

Otherwise there's a bias to only say what's popular.


He's wrong, also it's pg...


your comment is just unfounded Whataboutism


I wonder whether this applies to actual donors.


They should rename it KSD.


“It turned out there was value in putting a bunch of smart kids in the same room: They feel empowered to make each other smarter.”

It’s too bad this is no longer in fashion with the educational establishment.


This is also an important step not to skip:

>the pipeline for the high school’s math team must begin long before students reach high school, so Mr. Frazer searches for prospects in elementary school and steers them to accelerated math classes in middle school.

>“You wouldn’t grab a kid in ninth grade who’s never played football and expect him to be a great high-school football player,” he said. “For most of these kids, this is their football.”


"I don’t have time or energy to study for and take the GRE right now."

Good luck with compilers...


Fair enough. I had an older model of the GRE in mind, when there were only 1 or 2 in-person test sessions per year, so taking the GRE in spring 2022 would mean I couldn't start classes until fall 2023.

It looks like the GRE is now available online, 24/7/365, so I could probably study and take it in the next month or two. There were a cluster of Fall 2022 application deadlines at the beginning of May, but if I decide to apply for Spring 2022, a GRE might be worthwhile to give my application package a boost.

Thanks for the note!


100% yes for Chrome in iPadOS. It seems like it wants to register some type of selection event rather than a tap.


This assumption strikes me as ageist.


Look at that, he's younger than I thought. In my head he was in his 60s, where "transition from leadership to 'consulting leadership' at a major company" sounds like a step towards a quieter life.


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