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  1. 1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

    Good real world example of pass-through charges incurred by businesses.  When you artificially raise their cost structure (fixed or variable), guess what - they don't just eat it.  Whether it's taxes, MW, or capex, it filters down to the consumer and ultimately readjusts the baseline.  

    Either way "they" don't pay it.  We do.  

    almost NO company has absolute pricing power to push cost through the end consumers especially in industries where end customers are very price sensitive (e.g. fast food)

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  2. 29 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Friend of mine in the restaurant industry says he's getting all the applicants they can handle. They all show up to the interview and then never actually take the job. To get unemployment benefits, they have to go to three interviews a week or something like that. Completely working the system. 

    the interview / apply for UE is based on the honor system. you dont have to do shit but the state agencies have the right to audit that you were actively applying and looking for a job

  3. 49 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:


    The talent density is not strong. It barely exists. There’s a reason why San Antonio’s homegrown Rackspace, about a decade ago, announced they’d hire 5,000 tech positions locally and then had to move nearly every vacancy to Austin. There was no one to even fill them. They were even bussing staff down from Austin to SA daily to work positions that had to be onsite.

    i believed this until very recently. my view is in the past 2-3 years has changed a lot for the city.

    the joke is that SA is closer to Austin than Houston is to itself. so even if SA struggles, i think proximity will drive positives for SA

  4. 1 minute ago, bluto said:


    He essentially had no where to go BUT up from 2016 in those categories right?

    i have a hypothesis that Ds were betting the racism, sexism, etc would compel women and minorities to vote D. 2020 election showed that many people just ignored that and didn't drive behavior voters to pull the lever for D. 

  5. 3 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    It’s more complicated than that. Multiple factors have combined to limit inventory plus people are moving here in large volumes. Many real estates markets around the country are stressed with Austin being among the worst due to the big inflow. 

    This. I’m shocked at home much our rental homes are going. 

  6. 46 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    So here is my simplistic but not too unicorns and butterflies solution:

    - Set up what amounts to a detention or deportation center ("halfway house" type thing) - comfortable but by no means an apartment.
    - Contract and buy a shitton of cheap(er) land 15-20 miles outside of downtown.
    - Get strong but cheap construction to erect a giant shed-like structure that can hold a couple thousand (or multiple smaller structures) along with infrastructure (plumbing, etc., maybe a community shower/sink/cooking area or 2 or 10).
    - Purchase bulk equipment like cots, blankets, etc. and very cheap separators or whatever (although not necessary).  A/C and big central heat would far too much to provide, but certainly things can be made comfortable enough and if the weather extremes are severe, well, that's a relatively rare contingency to be worked through.  Possibly some good insulation would greatly reduce heat in the summer (I have some foam stuff that is on the hottest side of my house and that stuff is amazing!!  Certainly a reasonable price could be negotiated for stuff like this.
    - Purchase some rudimentary climate control (fans for summer, possibly a few large heating units for winter).
    - Work with organizations (tax writeoffs, etc.) to send medical and educational resources (i.e. have classes, training, etc.) at classrooms.
    - Work with local employers to establish bottom of the barrel employment if possible - even if not able to self-sustain, it's work for a resume).
    - Fund a rotating staff to watch/provide security/administrate/instruct and mentor.. part of this team are employment specialists who can partner with organizations in town to hire halfway type help (cleaning, Mickie D's, whatever).

    The goal of a place like this is to purposely set up a humane but not permanent place to shelter and get basic needs met.  In this type of place a homeless person who really wants to get out will demonstrate at least some initiative (even with some guidance at first if needed); they would be edified but also meant to know that the goal is to get out of here.  Meantime they'll be as comfortable as can be until they get a leg up.

    People who snark or are bad shits can get evicted and thrown into a vehicle that will provide a bus ticket and drop them off (or jail, which I know is too overcrowded as it is, so that one will take some working out).  There would also be medical issues for a lot of them (drug rehab, psych help) but if you get as far as these ideas, you're at least halfway to solving that problem).

    Rather than focus on getting these folks nice comfy homes without working on their habits (which take on average about 28 days to change permanently), which will lead to failure.. focus on the ascension out of borderline living and getting the skills to re-emerge as a productive person.

    Yes there is some naivete to this and I'm sure a lot of problems would pop up.  But it's gotta be better than spending gabillions to buy old places where residents don't want them, throwing them into a place 50 at a time and spreading out the ability and $ to help.  

    Don't take this too literally, but we don't have 25 little trash dumps in Austin, we have one huge landfill in TravCo where our shit is taken and dumped (but to some degree cultivated).  Quit trying to jump 5 steps with these folks to get them as "gee, just one of the neighbors".  Provide them shelter and hygene, a little training, then they can go look for their own residence when they have a little push up.  Security would be easier if APD could come to one location (reducing exponentially the amt. of manpower needed).  And centralizing this type of center would bring resources much more easily to them, rather than have to scatter out.

    With maybe 3-4K of people in question it's a lot, but it's finite.  This is what I would propose, even through what I'm sure would be a lot of problems.  But it's a start.  And for the amount of $ already wasted on this by our Idiot 8 or 9 (giving credit to a few councilmembers like Tovo who seems to have her head on relatively straight), it seems like a better idea at least to me.  

    The End.

    my solution.

     

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  7. On 4/16/2021 at 9:56 PM, nnm said:

    Had to move her car tonight. 

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    I wish I had this problem. The SO refuses to learn to drive so her Lyft bill is just out of control. 
     

    she did not grow up in Texas but now living here still refuses to learn to drive....fml 

  8. 15 minutes ago, Chapo said:

    I spent 2008-2018 in HCMC, Bangkok, Jakarta, Singapore, and KL. 

    What's your budget? Are you planning to live the expat lifestyle or are you the backpacker type? What are you planning to get out of this?

    Probably rent a hotel suite or Airbnb for a month. Looking at condos that are 3 bedrooms size for 2 people. Definitely just living elsewhere as expats and work remotely. We are renting out our house while gone so will actually make money given the cost arbitrage. 
     

    purely like the ideal of living in a new city / country but still need to work. Thankfully, we have jobs that allow this flexibility. 
     

    we have some personal obligations to be in Asia (family) so want to be close to them by flight too. 

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