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by cletus 5y ago
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and treat this like a genuine question. I say this because this argument has become so prominent in recent years as a means of defending the indefensible. It's often referred to as &quot
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by cletus 5y ago
Your question here seems genuine so I really hate that people use downvotes as "I don't agree with this person" rather than a comment simply being disingenuous, trolling, full of unsubstantiated claims or otherwise low-qualit
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by cletus 5y ago
Have you heard of Grenfell Tower?
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by cletus 5y ago
> The solution is increased enforcement of the laws that make these illegal. Great idea. Let's fine AirBnB $50,000 per unit per year they knowingly rent out in NYC where they know such things are illegal. Don't go after the use
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by cletus 5y ago
> The whole concept of residential property as an investment must go. Well, not this exactly. I mean when you rent a property, you're renting it from someone else who owns it. That's what residential property is. So there'
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by cletus 5y ago
I agree with all this. I'll further add that the landlord being there means they can't simply foist loud, unruly or unsafe temporary residents on an area where he or she does not have any skin in the game. That is, they have to su
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by cletus 5y ago
A common quote on HN (and one that I firmly believe in) is: > It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. This so applies to AirBnB. It's not salary per se but those th
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by cletus 5y ago
I worked with a guy who I distinctly remember saying: > You don't know how happy I was when I discovered the ticket machines in the (NYC) Subway took nickels.
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by cletus 5y ago
I don’t understand why the US seems so incapable of simple action that displaces a very minor special interest. In Australia we got rid of the one and two cent coins 30 years ago because the buying power of the ten cent piece then was less
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by cletus 5y ago
The Touch Bar makes me so angry. Why? Because it's a less reliable laptop with a worse keyboard that exists for no other reason than to raise the ASP (Average Selling Price) of Macs. That's it. Go back 5+ years and you had the (20
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by cletus 5y ago
That makes sense to me. With a big influencer/creator it's a one-way relationship to the audience. With a smaller influencer/creator, it can be more two-way. So, for example, I watch a variety of streamers on Twitch. On the l
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by cletus 5y ago
So let's differentiate between conflicts and noncompetes. Conflicts arise when you do work for someone else while employed by a company that may compromise your ability to effectively work for that company or may be detrimental to that
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by cletus 5y ago
Anyone interested in this topic should spend some time on Isaac Arthur's series about the Fermi Paradox. There's an episode on this called Hidden Aliens [1]. It's a flawed idea. If you assume that we live in an FTL universe s
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by cletus 5y ago
So two things spring to mind with this and any doom scenario or predictions: 1. People tend to exaggerate such doom. The reasons for this vary. A lot of the time it's unknowing. It could be as simple as assuming a constant function wil
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by cletus 5y ago
First let me say that I agree with raising the minimum wage and affording more people a "livable" wage. With that out of the way, let's start dispelling some myths. First, building houses inflation-adjusted actually hasn&#x27
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by cletus 5y ago
While I grant you minimum wage isn't livable almost anywhere in the US (in case that was your point), that's not really what I was talking about. So many people living paycheck-to-paycheck are living well beyond the minimum. Multi
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by cletus 5y ago
> Carpentry/home building is a natural fit, money season is summer not winter I understand your point (and it's a good one) but it lends itself to a different lifestyle, one that such a ski bum might not be interested in. That
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm a firm believer that everyone should have a skill they can use to support themselves. It doesn't really matter what that is as long as you can't be replaced easily by unskilled labour. So take the author. She wants to be
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by cletus 5y ago
I see it a little differently. As an analogy, I'm a big believer in caloric intake determining weight for most people. Consume more calories than you use and you will tend to gain weight. Consume less and you will tend to lose weight.
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by cletus 5y ago
The lesson we should really take here is the power of wishful thinking. People dearly want to believe in FTL travel. Without it, the Universe just seems so vast, empty and distant. The truth is it is and it isn't. It's only really
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by cletus 5y ago
Literally nobody wants taxis in the US. When I first moved to NYC Uber wasn't really a thing so had to take cabs at times. Even in Manhattan it sucked in so many ways. Examples include: - The stupid in-car advertising you had to turn o
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by cletus 5y ago
The complexity of the SQL spec is a fair point. Inconsistencies between implementations has some merit but in practice doesn't really matter (eg how often do you really replace your database?). A lot of the rest of it reads like the au
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by cletus 5y ago
Patents clearly kill innovation. Like, that shouldn't even be a question. Fun fact: when the US entered WWI they had to buy warplanes because they didn't have the capacity to build them. Why? The original steering patent related t
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by cletus 5y ago
This is really a testament to the impact of years of seemingly small advances. Example: when I was younger the 5 year survival rate for malignant melanoma was about 5%. Now? Significantly better [1]. [1]: https://www.google.com&#
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by cletus 5y ago
Wow, that's a really comprehensive, deep and dense collection of information. For anyone really interested in the science of this who doesn't necessarily want to digest the raw math, I highly suggest Isaac Arthur's Youtube ch
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by cletus 5y ago
That’s a good quote that I have used many times. Most used? Hard to say. What I find is that popularity is constantly changing. Example: we went through a good year or two of EVERY… SINGLE… TITLE… that ended in a question mark would have so
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by cletus 5y ago
So I can’t find it now but a few years ago I read an article talking about this. I think from the Atlantic but I’m not 100% sure. So the theme of the article was about the role good paying blue-collar jobs play on the social structure. Whe
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by cletus 5y ago
Compiling really is the Achilles heel of Rust I feel. This article really talks about the worst case. As others have noted, Haskell and other languages have this property too. Here’s another perspective on practical issues [1] that’s worth
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by cletus 5y ago
This sounds appealing but there are a couple of major problems. The first is that you have to get to a significant percentage of light speed for this to manifest itself. Even at 0.95c time is only traveling at 1/3 of normal speed [1].
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by cletus 5y ago
> What's the point of interstellar colonization? Ultimately it's to claim matter, which is the ultimate limiting factor in how long a civilization lives. For example, you talk about engrossing digital worlds. Well, those worlds

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