A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle's housing affordability

Re:A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle'... by CalRobert on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:50AM (#16941691)

Because it imposes costs on others for your own benefit. It's rational, but it's still selfish.

If you don't want me to live next door, buy the land. As it stands now you can forbid me from living on land you don't own.

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Re:A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle'... by gaius on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:55AM (#16941736)

I can forbid you from polluting upstream of a section of river I own (hypothetically, I don’t own any). That’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

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Re:A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle'... by ambicapter on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:02PM (#16941802)

And this is similar how?

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Re:A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle'... by gaius on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:26PM (#16942014)

We’ve established there are ways and reasons for people to influence what happens on nearby land they don’t own themselves. Now we are merely quibbling over the details.

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Re:A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle'... by CalRobert on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:33PM (#16942603)

People need homes. They don't need to pollute

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Re:A group of techies is using data skills to alter Seattle'... by gaius on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:39PM (#16942640)

But we are not just talking about “homes” but “homes in a specific neighbourhood” and you can easily say they don’t “need” to live there in particular.

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