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by Decade 10y ago
That would be nice, but I don’t see how it would end well. Their value is based on the intrinsic scarcity of homes in desirable locations. For existing land owners, either they sell out to developers and allow the land to realize its econom
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I am assuming that Tesla is pressuring other car makers to make high-mileage electric cars at affordable prices, and they will pay for worldwide battery production to increase dramatically. They may not build their own Gigafactories, but I
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Your car stays the same. Unless you're replacing your car all the time, you're not enjoying these higher efficiencies. Existing battery-electric vehicles become cleaner as their electricity supply becomes cleaner.
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So instead of known lower maintenance costs with unknown high cost in the future, especially given the Tesla Gigafactory, you chose known high maintenance costs (brakes, oil, transmission) and less certain future fuel costs. Charging is an
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by Decade 10y ago
The environment is not just total carbon emissions. It is also where you burn fossil fuels. This is why I'm so enthusiastic about Uber and Lyft in cities: The drivers have an incentive to use well-maintained vehicles instead of smogg
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by Decade 10y ago
A huge factor in their popularity is their free certificate, and now Let’s Encrypt is operational. StartCom’s free certificate always seemed like a gateway to their paid offerings, because it is so limited and awkward to use. The Let’s Encr
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by Decade 10y ago
My two brothers and I grew up with our parents in rented 2-bedroom in-laws, and we stayed in San Francisco the whole time. In two of the places, technically, one bedroom was not a real “bedroom” because they did not have windows, but we liv
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by Decade 10y ago
I do not claim that working-class people have too much power. I claim that unions, under the impression that they are working for the people, actually are their own form of oppression. The capitalists control the capital, the union bosses
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That has huge issues with equity. Especially a transportation-based tax. Right now, the major US cities are having an affordability crisis. Bad decisions have led to a housing shortage, and many residents (NIMBY, really) are convinced that
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Not the bus that roars past my window at midnight every night.
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But the public sector unionization rate is more like 36%, and unions have an outsized economic impact. They aren’t the primary cause of our issues, but they have their share. Whether it’s teacher unions that make sure teachers can’t get pro
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by Decade 10y ago
Well, it is zero sum, but the actual limits are unimaginably vast. Though, there is a very high energy barrier to exploiting the resources of the entire universe. Let’s at least get to Mars, first. There’s the matter of supply and demand. N
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And what a mixed blessing that turned out to be. On the one hand, we had a few decades of unprecedented sharing of prosperity. Those times have ended. On the other hand, the unions have become their own sclerotic system of oppression. The g
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by Decade 10y ago
Amazon is an egregiously bad actor, here. Through AWS, they shape the near future of computing, and they fill it with RFC 1918 non-interoperable address blocks and limited public address space. The path of least resistance on AWS is IPv4-on
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by Decade 10y ago
Ink is very expensive per page, but the ink printing process takes much less electricity, generates much less ozone, than xerographic printers. And the printers are substantially lighter. Depending on your situation, an inkjet printer could
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Yes, it is true that higher wages lead to fewer jobs, all else being equal, especially in the presence of free trade. The difference here is that corporations are not people. I don't care if they starve, as long as the people have some
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by Decade 10y ago
See, this is a problem with democratic decision making. Individually, you are just looking out for your own interests. Collectively, you are inadvertently choosing horrendous alternatives. In areas like San Francisco and San Jose, there is
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by Decade 10y ago
It depends on where you use the car. If you have free parking everywhere, that is effectively a government subsidy of urban sprawl and traffic. More crowded places charge for parking. In San Francisco, parking downtown is like $20 per day.
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by Decade 10y ago
> "I wish we had put that car on the road and not Tesla," confided a senior engineer at Porsche. "We have to earn money at the end of the day though." Yes, after 100 years of polluting the planet with gasoline- and di
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by Decade 10y ago
Yes, this sheer human irrationality is an impediment to sensible progress. I know, and you know, that a car just does not make sense mathematically. You can Uber/Lyft whenever it’s too difficult to walk. But emotionally, and I feel it
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by Decade 10y ago
I want AOO to die because it has the brand recognition. Frankly, AOO is slower, less stable, less secure, less pretty, and overall a worse product than LibreOffice. LibreOffice should have been the successor to OOo, and it offends me that m
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by Decade 10y ago
These high prices are definitely not in tech’s interest. The way I see it, tech is the only way I can live here independently. Lucky that my brothers and I have the inclination for it. But even we have difficulty finding housing in this mar
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This article leaves out the people, and that makes it a weak rote-Libertarian rant. Very disappointing. The politicians wouldn’t have power without local support. In San Francisco, the power is centered in individual neighborhoods. Especial
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I suppose there would be: San Francisco Housing Action Coalition http://www.sfhac.org/ San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association http://www.spur.org And there are smaller efforts such as: GrowSF htt
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X-Window from the 80s… Are you trying to give us PTSD flashbacks? Let’s see how many of these words sound familiar: Xinerama, Zaphod, XRandR. Not to mention network transparency. So slow, so fragile, so never ever going to support audio or
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by Decade 10y ago
Rieder's argument against having children seems incredibly egocentric to me. Our children will inherit a hellhole, and he doesn't want to subject them to it. Might as well kill yourself while you're at it. The issue is that w
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by Decade 10y ago
I consider the bicycle market to be totally a lemon market, so why not get the cheapest lemon, sometimes. The most irritating part is the lack of standardization. Every bike needs its own cassette remover and its own bottom bracket and its
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by Decade 10y ago
There’s computers, I guess. A $300 laptop is perfectly fine for normal computing. An entry-level MacBook Air actually not irritating to use is about $900. If you want a full-sized 15″ MacBook Pro, that’s $2,000 at a minimum. The range is hi
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by Decade 10y ago
Often, it’s because “advanced” countries have “advanced” consumer protection laws. A collectivo would be illegal here because it doesn’t have a hydraulic lift to pick up wheelchair-bound passengers.
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Activities become more expensive. They require more sophisticated tools and pretty much need their own computer to do homework every evening, they “need” a phone and a data plan to stay connected and do group projects, there are extracurric

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