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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Will we be more wealthy if we lose the ability to create the most advanced chips? I think not. It's not hegemony for the sake of hegemony, but hegemony for the benefits of hegemony, which in our recent history have included technologic
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Why have we immediately reduced the conversation to the "economic" value of manufacturing? There is also a strategic geopolitical advantage to retaining domestic manufacturing, which is the most relevant part of this discussion. J
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
> (Disclaimer: my current implementation is not as fast as make for some things, because it's written in python. Eventually I'll rewrite it an C and it'll be very, very fast.) Lol. Whatever, python community... Anyway, I d
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Paul Vixie talks about DNS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxTdEEuyxHU
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
It's almost as if $7,500/month for a 2BR apartment is ridiculous, no matter where it is.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
And it all goes back to all entities paying their fair share of taxes to fund infrastructure, etc. As if there isn't enough money in San Francisco to build roads and trains! The city governments certainly don't have it, but it&#x2
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Market forces are real, but can be regulated to align with our priorities. It's not a matter of explaining "how the world works." The market works how we design it to work. If it is unregulated, it frequently reflects exploit
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I agree, but I also believe housing regulation and health care reform must accompany these things. Allowing these markets to buoy with the increase in everyone's income will negate the positive impact, having the effect of routing the
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Agreed, it doesn't provide an answer for lack of supply, and growth needs to be controlled to pace with things like public and private infrastructure, and even jobs. However, it doesn't justify the runaway inflation of the entire
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
> Even when there is a rental price cap, that tends to only work in the short term and exacerbates supply/demand problems long term. San Francisco, for example, implemented a rent control system in ~1980. Since then, only 40% of ren
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
It's not an example chosen at random. It's a real example.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I'm for regulation of the housing industry, but he's not wrong that public housing policy is a shit show. What he is wrong about is that landlords actually prefer it this way, because they prefer subsidies to pricing regulation.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
How can that be, exactly? If it's "extensively regulated", then why is it so expensive? Can you point to a relationship between capping the price and inflating it? They seem to be inversely related.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
> When I was young, I had roommates. I don’t think every working person should be able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment. Not everyone working minimum wage is doing it "when they were young." Do you really think it's a good
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Having worked a lot in a rental market with a very active housing subsidy program, I agree that the administration of such programs is an actual nightmare, but you really are missing the point I think. Start with the assumption that people
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Exactly. That said, a one-on-one type thing with someone you trust can be great.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Programming in the REPL is something I do all the time and generally enjoy, but I sometimes feel like the actual design of the program then becomes too focused around REPL usage. Too much abstraction can harm performance and waste time. The
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I don't think well in groups, because conversation is distracting. I think this applies to everyone when the subject matter is deeper than like, advertising or something superficially creative. The value of brainstorming is mainly the
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Perhaps--I really know nothing about it. However, if you allow yourself to simplify the problem, it seems there is really no physical difference from a food delivery and a ride. Pick up at one location, drop off at another--maybe with extra
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
You raise an interesting point. Maybe with uber the goal is to integrate delivery work force with ride work force to improve utilization of drivers/deliverers. Horizontal, but complimentary.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
> It's the lingua franca of data transfer. Fortunately, this is really only true at the application level. Space/line delimited byte strings and binary formats are used frequently at lower levels.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
This is a good example of how this overall topic gets reduced to "How much abstraction?" instead of "In what ways should something be abstracted?" Obviously an Add/Edit field are operating on the same record in a hy
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
It's like wearing clothing. If I wear a polo and dress pants, and I'm on the train at 8am, I'm going to white collar work. If I wear jeans at the same time and have my partner with me, I'm a middle class, middle aged, pr
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Oooo. So I think this is a terrible idea for most people, but something I would personally love. I'm a big fan of 3 monitors in a slight "wrapping" formation, but there are times when some event occurs on a screen which is li
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
That's a well-reasoned response which I can appreciate. But honestly, read my original post to which you replied. I said I shared the parent's disgust, but I don't think I'm really reveling in outrage or speaking in such
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I'm not trying to shut down the conversation. In this case it is the conversation. "Why do we defend and obsess over 3rd party business interests of corporate giants?" is the topic we are discussing. Keep up.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Oh yes, the fabled <20% marketshare. So where should I go from Apple if not into the waiting arms of Google/Android? Is that better? This isn't actually a conversation specifically about Apple if you recall. It is a conversatio
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
There are certainly shades of gray, but if I can speak on behalf of the post you are responding to, it seems their argument would be that it is a net negative, and that the "Good PR humanity" is relatively shallow in the end. Cons
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I couldn't agree more with this. "Drip feeding 'new emojis'" sent chills down my spine. The problem always seems to be the question, "How do you get a decentralized system to a reach critical mass of mainstream
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I mean, is a woman more qualified to judge whether a situation is an example of misogyny? Perhaps not, as a man could reach the same conclusion. But it's certainly more appropriate than leaving it to a group of men, or an industry that

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