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by anamax 5y ago
BTW, you do know that typical suburb lots are closer to 1/8 than 1/4 acre, right? (Atherton and Greenwich are NOT typical.) > The suburbs encircled the places worth caring about. How do suburbs keep SF from thriving? Apart fro
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by anamax 5y ago
Most car engines can be retrofitted to use carburetors. (You plug the in-cylinder injector holes.) Note that diesel engines were made with rather low-tech.
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by anamax 5y ago
> An urban scene is strengthened by people and culture. Not so fast. Rome wasn't strengthened by the Visigoths. More to your argument, while London is arguably unchanged by the addition of 1k or even 10k people, it is changed by th
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by anamax 5y ago
Note that "{place} is not good because of too many people" happens at different numbers for different people. Some people think that YV already has too many people while others would be happy with 1M people. That said, it's n
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by anamax 5y ago
If Musk has competent financial planners, he has assets with various amounts of liquidity, including pre-arranged lines of credit. It would probably take him a while to get more than his supposed net-worth. However, getting $10-15B might b
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by anamax 5y ago
Except that I left out a "should". While it would be good if malloc(0) always returned a pointer, you can't rely on malloc(0) returning NULL just for errors. There's not even a guarantee that malloc(0) does the same thi
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by anamax 5y ago
When malloc returns NULL, it's saying that there was some error. However, IIRC the only malloc error is ENOMEM. It's unclear why malloc(0) would run into that. (If malloc(0) did run into an ENOMEM, then NULL would be required, b
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by anamax 5y ago
"because" was the wrong word as {place} isn't good just because there aren't too many people. ("not too many" is necessary, not sufficient.) However, "{place} won't be a good place to live if there a
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by anamax 5y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1433123220643717120?lang...
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by anamax 5y ago
> So it is not only time-based now. (it was said this was for tax reasons) You're about to find out exactly what terms you are on with the founders. The easy way to find out if it's really for tax reasons is to find out whether
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by anamax 5y ago
"It's the poor use of land right now that I believe is the main driver of poor affordability of housing." The assumption that everyone who wants to live in {place} should be able to do so is interesting. It's quite likel
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by anamax 5y ago
I was unclear. While some states did have high-risk pools, other states had "can't turn down" rules much like Obamacare. Can you identify the "can't turn down" states by looking for the predicted health outcom
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by anamax 5y ago
> But yes, ultimately the (U.S.) government is not able to tell businesses what content to moderate (or not moderate) because that would be a first amendment violation And yet, the US Govt has done exactly that and Twitter et al fell rig
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by anamax 5y ago
> Obamacare did away with "preexisting condition", and the mandate was meant to replace it. The Obamacare "fix" already existed in several states. You believe that such a policy has certain consequence - can you iden
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by anamax 5y ago
> The goal in the US Constitution is to prevent the government from abridging people's right to free speech. Twitter is not the government. How about when the US Govt asks Twitter to "lean" on certain viewpoints? Does the
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by anamax 5y ago
The means, not the intent, produce the ends.
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by anamax 5y ago
FWIW, there is a precedent regarding shopping malls and the like. They are clearly private property, yet they must provide access for political activity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...
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by anamax 5y ago
You haven't said who you want to talk with and why. If you haven't talked with customers or users, you don't know whether you have a product or some code and a way to run it. The difference is that a product is something tha
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by anamax 5y ago
It's actually pretty easy in the US. There are special protections for illegal immigrants so it's reasonably easy to invent a family of them to collect benefits. In addition, various US govts or even agencies within the same govt,
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by anamax 5y ago
> >People like to live in single family homes and live next to single family homes. > Then those people should buy a single family home and the single family homes around them and keep them that way. And when they do (as an upstrea
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by anamax 5y ago
I agree that almost every startup investor claims to add more than money. I'm a bit more negative - I think that most investors add less than money, that "help" from most investors is, at best, a waste of time, and all too of
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by anamax 5y ago
I remember being told that hosing out an Element would ruin the electrics, that they aren't sealed. Rust too eh.
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by anamax 5y ago
Johnson is just following the scientist (Neil Ferguson).
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by anamax 5y ago
We're not just ignorant about covid-19. We're ignorant about all coronaviruses and flus in general. It's not exactly surprising that they've been killing 35-75k Americans every year for decades. This is despite spendin
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by anamax 5y ago
It's interesting that you don't say what you have to offer an early tech startup other than money. I mention that because the best startups are in a position to get more than money from investors. If all you have is money, you&#x2
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by anamax 5y ago
From the article: "The differences in life expectancy were correlated with health behaviors and local area characteristics." "Health behaviors (rates of current smoking, obesity [defined as body mass index {calculated as weig
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by anamax 5y ago
Yes, medical folk wanted to get masks for medical folk (some of whom even know how to wear them) but "they didn't want a panic" is self-deception. They may have wanted that effect but that was not the likely result of such a
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by anamax 5y ago
> I don't care what they think about me. Fair enough. > I just feel bad that they might lack respect Might? You certainly don't respect them.
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by anamax 5y ago
How cute - you think that "long covid" is something specific to covid-19. One thing that covid-19 has shown is that the public health community hasn't bothered to work on flu since the 1940s, even though it kills 35-75k Ameri
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by anamax 5y ago
Zurich to Paris (489km) is shorter than San Francisco to Los Angeles (559km). Europeans think that 100km is a long way while Americans think that 100 years is a long time.

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