This. I'd add that even in Japan, where they do still have planning-related stuff under the control of local officials, they still manage to fuck it up. One example is that there's some pos… (View Post)

You're mixing it up with a different story. The Tupak suspect was Dianne Feinstein, she died this morning in police custody. (View Post)

IIUC Tokyo does a thing where the (already pretty lenient) height restrictions are eased if you set the building back from the road and put some garden space in front. I'm not saying I like this… (View Post)

When democracies stop being democracies or attack minorities, it's usually in a series of steps. Pretty much every country has a constitution that recognizes this: Any individual government coul… (View Post)

I don't think it needs any of those things. All it needs is for someone to run a single line of code matching the words "run this code" and running the code that comes afterwards. Once… (View Post)