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Sid Kapur

@sidkap_

ML engineer, interested in housing/econ/history stuff

Whoa, Portantino (CA Senate Approps chair from June 2018 to March 2024) is no longer in the legislature! End of an era

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Did Berkeley's missing middle ordinance pass yet? @IDoTheThinking @TribTowerViews


Wow, I used to have really bad takes on double-loaded buildings vs. PABs 5 years ago

American stumpies probably have a lot more rooms with windows than Japanese high lot cover apartments on small lots. Probably less wasted circulation space and less money spent on elevators as well



The great 2010s-ish indie-ish music graph (Figured I should post this before my music taste becomes horribly outdated)

sidkap_'s tweet image. The great 2010s-ish indie-ish music graph

(Figured I should post this before my music taste becomes horribly outdated)

Did the California fire hazard severity zone maps change recently? I thought Pacific Palisades and Echo Park/Silver Lake used to be in the fire zone calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappvie…

sidkap_'s tweet image. Did the California fire hazard severity zone maps change recently? I thought Pacific Palisades and Echo Park/Silver Lake used to be in the fire zone
calfire-forestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappvie…

Guy who calls Sunset Park "the Sunset" and Staten Island "the Richmond"


Idk why chatbots print the output one word at a time. It's impossible to read when the text is moving. One paragraph at a time, or padding the bottom so you can scroll down and the text doesn't move would be much more useful. TTFT doesn't matter if you can't read the first token


Apparently the "son of outer borough real estate developer -> major federal government figure" pipeline has existed for a while. Henry Morgenthau Sr. (FDR's Treasury Secretary's dad) was a garden apartment developer in the Bronx! (from The New York Approach by Joel Schwartz)

sidkap_'s tweet image. Apparently the "son of outer borough real estate developer -> major federal government figure" pipeline has existed for a while. Henry Morgenthau Sr. (FDR's Treasury Secretary's dad) was a garden apartment developer in the Bronx!
(from The New York Approach by Joel Schwartz)

"It's 0.499999999989 my fault, but I just like to play the victim" -"Stick Season" by William Kahan


Did the Austin lot size reform bill pass?


London Breed just tweeted the phrase "p(dev)". Congrats @s_damerdji!

I’m excited to see what the talented staff at the Planning Department returns in response to my letter, and this renewed call to recalculate our zoning plan based on the actual probability of where development will actually occur.



Should I go to Dallas for the longer totality (almost 4 min), or Denton/Tarrant County for shorter totality (closer to 2 min) but less cloud cover? pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/

sidkap_'s tweet image. Should I go to Dallas for the longer totality (almost 4 min), or Denton/Tarrant County for shorter totality (closer to 2 min) but less cloud cover?
pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/

Pretty cool that Mark Levine (smart technocratic Manhattan borough president) reads Dwarkesh Patel's blog dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling…

sidkap_'s tweet image. Pretty cool that Mark Levine (smart technocratic Manhattan borough president) reads Dwarkesh Patel's blog
dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling…

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