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by Decade 9y ago
What psychopath sells PCs with a 5400 rpm hard drive as the main drive?
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by Decade 9y ago
The housing crisis is much, much, much older than the 2008 crisis. The underbuilding has been going on for as long as almost everybody can remember. https://twitter.com/enf/status/764614550750494721
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by Decade 9y ago
Except that demolishing a rent-controlled apartment is practically illegal. And in response to the state law requiring ADUs to be legalized in single-family homes, the Board of Supervisors wrote a law requiring ADUs in most single-family ho
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by Decade 9y ago
Don’t count on it. https://alamedasun.com/news/appeal-costa-hawkins-rent-contro...
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by Decade 9y ago
If that’s what people want, then why do we need laws to ban the alternatives almost everywhere? https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2013/1/14/its-so-much-mo...
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by Decade 9y ago
> 2010-Apple tier hardware built for CentOS Librem? https://puri.sm
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by Decade 9y ago
Correction: The headline figure is the motor’s maximum power rating. I tried an electric bike with a 350W hub motor, and on a moderate hill it did not have enough torque to move. Power = Work ÷ Time, Work = Force × Distance; 0 distance ⇒
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by Decade 9y ago
> I don't think it's the bike. I think that there are a lot of cyclists who are simply not candidates for e-bikes because riding under their own power is part of the attraction. You should not be asking why bicyclists are not r
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by Decade 9y ago
> > But if you are cycling to work every day and deal with strong wind, elevation differences, maintaining 20-25 km/h is going to be tough. > That is true when you're riding uphill and/or into a headwind, but that sh
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by Decade 9y ago
> But many voters believe what we should preserve is the single-family home, built environment > Do you believe this is an honest characterization of their core goal? Yes. I can quote Rothstein about racist motivations[0] or Marohn
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by Decade 9y ago
Right. I remembered that Adobe bought Macromedia, but I thought the acqui-kill was earlier. I was getting the story of Macromedia mixed up with Aldus. And actually, Flash came from FutureWave Software, before Macromedia acquired that compan
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by Decade 9y ago
> > It is not a regression if that way of life was not sustainable. > Yes it is. It's literally a regression. It’s not a regression. It’s an advance in way of life. In the past, if you wanted to move fast, you had to own the c
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by Decade 9y ago
We should collectively redefine what we are trying to preserve. You recognize that increasing density allows more people to live there without encroaching on the wilderness. As a bonus, increasing density also makes walkable neighborhoods m
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by Decade 9y ago
Point by point: > How is adding more supply going to fix this? Adding supply helps because we now have a situation in California where there are many more jobs than homes for people to live. Conservatives keep saying people should work h
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by Decade 9y ago
Producing the report is tied to funding. If they don’t produce the report, then the city is ineligible for certain housing and infrastructure funds from the state or federal governments, or it gets fewer points in its applications for funds
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by Decade 9y ago
In this era of ridiculously low voter participation, I don’t see the elections as being a great source of legitimacy. Housing is even worse. Many of the people I interact with are immigrants, so they are blamed for the high prices, but they
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by Decade 9y ago
About 10% vacancy seems to be a healthy amount. If that were over the entire city, and not only in new developments, then people would have much more freedom to move. And then prices would go down. 100% occupancy is bad, because it means th
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by Decade 9y ago
In my recollection, Java was pushed into browsers as part of Sun’s Write Once Run Anywhere strategy. Browser makers went along because it was the era when everybody wanted to be a platform for plugins. Then Microsoft tried to control the de
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by Decade 9y ago
It is not a regression if that way of life was not sustainable. http://www.businessinsider.com/strong-towns-growth-ponzi-sch... But most urbanists and community groups aren’t interested in the big-picture finances. They’re
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by Decade 9y ago
I am not concerned with wishes, as much as inevitabilities. Getting a car seems attractive because it gives you control over your movements. But with enough congestion, it becomes unattractive, because now your movements are constricted by
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by Decade 9y ago
No, even starting text-processing commands in the terminal was oddly slow. Once the programs were running, they seemed fine.
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by Decade 9y ago
I don’t think either Linux or MacOS X was ever tuned well for PPC, even when consumer PPC hardware was available. MacOS X feels nice once you get above version 10.2 and above 1.5 GHz, but it never felt as snappy as MacOS 9 on 300 MHz. I alw
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by Decade 9y ago
It would be nice if the public officials actually cared about education, and weren’t using the position as a sinecure until a position with real power opens up. https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/who-are-all-thes
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by Decade 9y ago
The core problem is the large number of options. When USB-C was announced and I saw the pin-outs, my immediate thought was, “This is going to be a support nightmare.” I should have written that down, so I could point at it as proof of my ge
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by Decade 9y ago
There were tax implications. Paying the top executives a gazillion dollars wasn’t attractive because that was also a gazillion dollars given to Uncle Sam. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15161755 Another change since t
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by Decade 9y ago
Oh, I’m pretty sure that the cost of regulation is well over 50%.[0] Maybe if you consider a development that actually succeeds (as opposed to bought and then not developed, so the cost of regulation is 100% and there is no additional hou
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by Decade 9y ago
I admit that “supply and demand” is not the cause of the housing crisis. It merely explains the high price of housing (with minor contributions from a bunch of other factors[0][1]). I feel that supply and demand is most useful as an intuiti
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by Decade 9y ago
#sigh# Clearly the joke was not funny if it had to be explained. For decades, Richard Stallman has been calling it GNU/Linux, because the OS “aside from the kernel” was GNU, and Linux is the kernel. https://www.gnu.org/
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by Decade 9y ago
Details. In practice, few applications do interesting things when binding to multiple IP addresses. It’s like a special case of single IP address. Perhaps I should phrase it, there is no fundamental reason why IP addresses are associated wi
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by Decade 9y ago
The housing crisis is much MUCH older than the tech boom. From your privileged position, with lots of income relative to normal Americans, there wasn’t a crisis until you couldn’t afford San Francisco. My parents are poor, so I watched

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