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by abalone 8y ago
It’s saying for every 2.5L of seawater only 1L of freshwater is recovered and the rest is brine, which also includes chemical byproducts. Why is this ratio so bad? What would it take to recover more water and produce more concentrated waste
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by abalone 8y ago
This does not affect E2E encrypted data like iMessage. Apple doesn’t have those keys to give.[1] [1] https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....
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by abalone 8y ago
Source? iMessage is E2E encrypted so no, Apple did not share that part (or other encrypted data like keychain). They’ve actually gone pretty far in protecting their E2E encryption from adversarial clouds.
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by abalone 8y ago
You're saying the opposite though: you said some referendums are in fact "different", specifically "re-dos" are "bullshit". That is inconsistent with democratic principles that regularly subject major deci
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by abalone 8y ago
> Some elections right here in the US are decided by as few as a dozen votes This is a basic "false equivalence" logical fallacy.
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by abalone 8y ago
> the size of the voting margin is somewhat irrelevant in a properly functioning democracy Literally, no. The size of the margin is a direct factor in many democratic processes and determines how resilient the decision is to subsequent
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by abalone 8y ago
They wouldn’t need to. They already partner with IBM for that stuff.
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by abalone 8y ago
Nope, it’s less optimistic. The 4K of permanent units are funded by 50% the budget over 8 years; you’re suggesting 100% allocated to 5.6K units over the same time, a 30% worse bang for buck. And you’ve cut the homeless out of the picture. T
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by abalone 8y ago
Apple low key does some cool server projects with a Java bent. They've contributed to Netty (well, they hired core developers).[1] They've been basically put them to work reimplementing it in Swift.[2] It's open and out there
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by abalone 8y ago
> And all that to raise a paltry $300 million a year, enough to build ~700 subsidized housing units You cite no source and are grossly misinformed about prop C. It will build housing for 4k homeless with just half the budget and the re
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by abalone 8y ago
Tip 1, which most people know: To quickly disable Face/TouchID you can squeeze left and right side buttons together (any combo) for two seconds to bring up the power off display. Tip 2, which probably most people don't know: If yo
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by abalone 8y ago
> The "worldwide demand for SF tech worker housing" is actually limited. No evidence, just an "actually."
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by abalone 8y ago
This has been downvoted so let me expand on this. I am not judging Electron so please relax. The Steve Jobs quip about painting the back of the fence sought to explain why the Apple II and Mac teams cared so much about the inside of the box
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by abalone 8y ago
Say what you will about Electron apps that use excessive resources and lack native touches, but they are definitely not “as close to painting the back of the fence as it gets.” That Jobs-ism was specifically about caring about the internals
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by abalone 8y ago
Any idea what tool might have been used to create the diagrams?
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by abalone 8y ago
This line of reasoning is too simplistic. You have to look at the economic effects of the other 36,080 new high income earners, who will create new service industry jobs and thus place more pressure on afffordable housing. The BMR percentag
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by abalone 8y ago
Because then chefs would be even worse off because half would lose their jobs? A better solution is to provide them affordable housing.
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by abalone 8y ago
Even Walmart cannot afford to open and staff a store in SF. Paying restaurant workers a 2-3x living wage is a fine idea except that it would raise the price of a pork chop to $45 and close the restaurant. Darn macroeconomics!
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by abalone 8y ago
Nah, closures are up and openings are down all across the city due to higher costs.[1] You may have lived here 25 years but that’s no substitute for hard data. [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/2017-wasn
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by abalone 8y ago
“Percentage vs quantity” is explicitly a dichotomy and you misrepresent what affordable housing activists are comfortable with. We can agree that height limits are an opportunity to negotiate for affordable housing. I’d further suggest we p
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by abalone 8y ago
Prop C baby! Although definitely not “trivial” to pass or implement. Took Marc Benioff to pour in millions and own Jack Dorsey on his own website which was awesome. And a lot of grassroots activism too. That targeted homelessness, the most
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by abalone 8y ago
This is a false dichotomy. I call BS on your “fine with zero development” claim based on your “experience.” The most development in SF has happened in Jane Kim’s district who is a leading affordable housing activist. Under inelastic pricing
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by abalone 8y ago
You’re forgetting the all important factor of tech-boom fueled demand. Pretty major omission there. Also, means testing is not the only way of providing service industry housing. In SF what cooks and servers are left are hanging on to rent
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by abalone 8y ago
I mean I don’t want to sound too discouraging but this is the problem with “plausible sounding” armchair urbanism. 1% of the surface area of SF is over one hundred city blocks of 33 story residential skyscrapers. And as you note, that’s n
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by abalone 8y ago
I think we’re saying some of the same things, but I’d argue the term “pent up” is not really the best fit for the condition of price inelasticity. That usually is the result of some extraordinary event. Boomtown economics qualify. We’re cre
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by abalone 8y ago
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
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by abalone 8y ago
There’s no paradox. Rent is a necessity, given that you want to live in and get your career going in SF. Restaurants are a luxury. Thus there are those who will spend as much as possible on rent (esp. if they think it will help them earn mo
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by abalone 8y ago
Is this not obvious? Seriously, this question always comes up in these discussions. The answer is it’s a macroeconomic problem: SF restaurants have already increased prices to $34 for a pork chop and $13 for a cocktail (Nopa.. which I attes
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by abalone 8y ago
Happy to be proven otherwise.
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by abalone 8y ago
Having >10K karma on here and knowing people involved in this restaurant and the SF scene in general.. I can make these observations: 1. The vast majority of people on HN are in complete denial about the impact of a massive sudden influx

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