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 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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