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by abalone 7y ago
Ah, thank you for the sourcing. I shall read them but I was wondering if you have a response to this critical analysis, "Seattle — A Cautionary Tale for Supply-Side Housing Advocates."[1] It notes how Seattle is often cited by der
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by abalone 7y ago
Actually your source says "A lack of construction workers is a legacy of the 2008 recession, when many people left the industry as development froze." I.e. a meltdown of the unregulated market was a major factor in the shortage
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by abalone 7y ago
See, this is what I mean. I posted sources that literally interviewed developers and researched the causes for construction delays on approved projects -- "project was approved in late 2016 as construction costs were escalating more
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by abalone 7y ago
Do you have sources for these claims? I feel this narrative is often repeated on HN and it becomes kind of an echo chamber. Then I read in the SF Chronicle that there’s permitted and approved projects that developers are not moving forward
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by abalone 7y ago
> If we'd spent that time developing smarter languages and compilers (Rust is a start, but not an end) we'd be better off as developers and as people. What about Swift? Automatic Reference Counting avoids the typical problems
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by abalone 7y ago
> Driver was obviously over confident I wouldn’t assume that. Videos of this exact scenario prove that the reaction time required is on the order of a few seconds. Everything Tesla says here exaggerates driver culpability, like saying
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by abalone 7y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe PayPal micropayments requires the customer to have a PayPal account linked to their bank account (ACH). So, considerably less convenient than using a card.
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by abalone 7y ago
You could say that about a lot of companies. Stripe is far from a dominant “titan” in the processing industry which is something like $2T in global volume. As in Trillion.
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by abalone 7y ago
> Do people use debit cards online? Yes. Debit is actually more popular than credit for online transactions, according to one survey.[1] > Should they? Kind of an orthogonal question. The fact is people use them and there’s an opp
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by abalone 7y ago
False. Regulated e-commerce card-not-present debit interchange (i.e. online transactions) is 0.05% + $0.22.[1] Kind of mind blowing, right? [1] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/documents
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by abalone 7y ago
False. More Americans use debit than credit for everyday purchases.[1] [1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/credit-debit-su...
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by abalone 7y ago
Request for startup: If you want to disrupt payments, do a gateway that captures U.S. major debit transactions and handles them at 0.1% + $.30 (still a healthy margin) and redirects the rest to a higher-fee processor. Little known fact: Maj
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by abalone 7y ago
I appreciate your work on making HN a welcoming, supportive community. You’ve given a great deal of thoughtful attention to the feelings of folks who may be contributing from different cultural contexts, which is admirable. My argument is w
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by abalone 7y ago
You make fair points but at the same time are avoiding the larger question. What are the criteria guiding the decision? You've mentioned only one, the intent of the poster -- or more specifically the most charitably possible intent.
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by abalone 7y ago
To follow your logic, if someone posted an article with the word “negro” in the title, without other racist content, would you let it stand unedited because maybe they’re from one of the cultures where that word carries no mal-intent? You m
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by abalone 7y ago
Agreed about the JC comment but as for the title, sexist biases in other cultures shouldn’t be accepted here just because the sexism is well-intentioned, which it often is. Likely the young woman was gender referenced to emphasize the “surp
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by abalone 7y ago
Agreed, while the HN link is in some ways more descriptive than the literal title, it’s doubtful that a male 17 year old would be described as a diminutive “schoolboy” or even gender referenced at all. @dang suggest we swap “school girl” fo
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by abalone 7y ago
Dumb question maybe but why is Bootstrap (from Twitter) not on this list? What are the inclusion criteria?
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by abalone 7y ago
Thank you, this is pretty, but it is also non-standard UI so it's not what I mean by a "native looking" app. I understand Flutter has some native-looking widgets so I'm curious how they work out in practice.
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by abalone 7y ago
> But I do take issue with the claim that we "might lose between 50% and 70% of the global population" because of reduced sea ice as overly simplistic extrapolation [1]. I’m sorry, are you familiar with their computer models?
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by abalone 7y ago
So, Model Y?
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by abalone 7y ago
You made up the “which is not related to this particular incident” part (which is why you couldn’t quote it). They said they couldn’t point to an “obvious” cause in this case, which you eagerly mischaracterized as meaning “it has nothing to
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by abalone 7y ago
Ah, thanks for the links. So jitteriness is a known issue. FWIW I doubt it’s that Google doesn’t care about iOS.. it’s kind of the raison d’être for Flutter, no? Probably has more to do with it being really hard to reinvent a drawing layer
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by abalone 7y ago
I just checked out a couple of Flutter’s showcase apps on iOS. The scrolling in the Hamilton app was atrociously stuttery, just really broken. This is on an iPhone X. Then I opened it again and it was fine. Seems like it was doing some init
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by abalone 7y ago
From the article that you allegedly read: “But the sensitivity of this colony to shifting sea-ice trends does illustrate, says the team, the impact that future warming in Antarctica could have on emperor penguins in particular.” “Research s
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by abalone 7y ago
> Losing one breeding attempt is not that big a deal - despite all the apparent "OMG, think of the penguins". If this event becomes more common as a result of climate change then that is another matter. The article literally
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by abalone 7y ago
> they are horribly miscalculating at what German people expect from a car. Can you be more specific? What are Teslas lacking for the German market?
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by abalone 7y ago
I for one was not familiar with the fact that over half the world’s population of this species may die off by the end of the century due to climate change. Science and computers are essential to understanding these complex and urgent effect
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by abalone 7y ago
> No panic, no disaster. “Research suggests the species might lose anywhere between 50% and 70% of its global population by the end of this century, if sea-ice is reduced to the extent that computer models envisage.”
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by abalone 8y ago
Apple has a LOT of servers. They just don’t sell them (well, they do). But they care a lot about it; they hired the Netty team to work on fundamental server software stacks (which we know because it’s open source). If ARM servers mean more

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