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by bjackman 5y ago
I have actually thought about this a lot. I think the answer to your actual question (why not?) is obvious: people with the capital+skills to start this up do not have a solid profit motive. People who would benefit from it don't have
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by bjackman 5y ago
Demand for _homes_ is sticky. Demand for property ownership is not at all! It is influenced by speculation and rent-seeking. We can easily cripple both those things and reduce housing cost. (Edit: I do agree with your conclusion though. We
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by bjackman 5y ago
A lot of comments in this thread about corporate buy-to-let seem reasonable, but only under the nihilistic assumption that prices cannot fall and home ownership must be perennially out of reach for the median earner. What about instead of s
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by bjackman 5y ago
I recently switched back to Firefox mobile (I couldn't remember why I switched to Chrome in the first place) because I was sick of using the web without ad blockers. A few months in I'm really happy with it. Main tip is: I found t
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by bjackman 5y ago
I'm not an expert here but I read their argument as they don't expect this lending to be regulated as "investment" because the capital is not in theory at risk. So it's more like a savings account than an investment
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by bjackman 5y ago
Me too, I had zero gamedev experience but found the documentation really good and the tooling and data model pretty accessible! I didn't like GDScript - even with the bolted-on type checker it felt way too loosey-goosey[1]. But I had t
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by bjackman 5y ago
Your comment nicely addresses the local network restriction, but the article already expresses understanding of this. Why the extra-stringent multicast thing?
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by bjackman 5y ago
Funnily enough my partner (native German speaker - there's only one word for this in German) recently mentioned "the street" and I corrected her saying "no this is not a street it's a road". When trying to expl
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by bjackman 5y ago
I think that the "share by communicating" thing has led some people to think that these goroutine labyrinths are somehow The Way with Go - that's certainly how I felt when I started out with it. I absolutely agree that once t
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by bjackman 5y ago
As a perpetually urban European, American surburbia does not look beautiful to me. It looks depressing and empty, disconnected. Dense cities have their own problems caused by different economic fuckery, but I'll still choose living in
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by bjackman 5y ago
Does anyone know of any designs for DIY passive desalinators? My mum has a house on an island that doesn't have a natural source of fresh water (except rain of course), and it just occurred to me that a desalinator would be a fun thing
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by bjackman 5y ago
FWIW Android (and surely iOS, although I don't know anything about that in particular) have had systems like this for a long time. Aside from all the task scheduler smarts in the kernel itself, there are all kinds of things that can be
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by bjackman 5y ago
Part of the reason for this lack of interest in the actual outcome is that state benefits are one of the main battlegrounds in the UK's culture war. A lot of the Tories' base comes from the ideological position that poorer people
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by bjackman 5y ago
I was once in a classroom in India attempting to teach English to Hindi speaking kids (I don't speak Hindi, but at that time I more or less knew the devanagari script). Someone told me a Hindi word and I wanted to write it on the black
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by bjackman 5y ago
> if you're good at phrasing your problem in the right way Check out https://sentient-lang.org/ , it's a whole programming language for expressing problems as SAT!
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by bjackman 6y ago
I like to listen to foreign radio stations on http://radio.garden . They speak languages I don't understand and (once you find a good station) play music I'll never hear again.
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by bjackman 6y ago
Neato. How is "spatial locality" defined? Just distance in the filesystem tree?
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by bjackman 6y ago
I don't think there's any reason to assume vapour from a pen resembles the droplets in your breath. In fact, that one of them is visible and the other is not should suggest that they might behave very differently.
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by bjackman 6y ago
Fixed point also has the advantage that you can do it quickly without needing a floating point unit in your CPU. That means you can do it on microcontrollers, and you can do it in the kernel without needing to save extra user context on ker
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by bjackman 6y ago
For some reason I often think about things like this in terms of NHS budgets. 18bn is, very roughly, 2 years of healthcare for London.
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EBPF Is Turing Complete(yawn.io)
2 points by bjackman 6y ago|0 comments
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by bjackman 7y ago
Beautiful! Strangely enough, when I was about 14 I used to make music using Reason 3. My friends and I would upload it to a shared MySpace. Two of them went on to become professional musicians, and a couple of years ago when browsing a foru
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by bjackman 7y ago
Those details about the Netherlands don't actually form an argument in my view, other than "look how much tax there is". And your additional arguments still just boil down to "we should not tax high levels of wealth&quot
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by bjackman 7y ago
I don't necessarily dispute that Europe is a worse environments for startups to succeed, I just don't see why taxing equity incentives has anything to do with that. And I think taxing equity incentives is fair.
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by bjackman 7y ago
Partly as a result of stock options in European companies, I'm the wealthiest person I know my age. So I feel I'm easily justified in saying this article reads like a ridiculous whinge and/or propaganda piece. The tax I'
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by bjackman 7y ago
I'm always on the close lookout for stuff like this because until recently I maintained some C code that really ought to use threads but can't afford the extra stacks/context switching. Here's my current view: - "Pr
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by bjackman 7y ago
It strikes me as bizarre dissonance to write a blog post sharing the work you have done to avoid sharing your work.
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by bjackman 7y ago
Amazing. One thing I'm not clear on is this: did they have to re-establish the brain activity -> muscle movements model for each patient? Because presumably that wouldn't have worked for a paralysed patient. In that case, the q
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by bjackman 7y ago
I wrote this after some manic bar discussions with non-techie friends, so the target audience is not really a HN crowd, but you may find it interesting anyway, in particular check out the stuff that it links to. Oh, also - I reached out to
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Pangrammatic Autograms(yawn.io)
3 points by bjackman 7y ago|1 comments

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