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by creer 3y ago
> most apartment rentals are covered by rent control For a rather loose definition of "most". Depends on type of building and when they were built or renovated.
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by creer 3y ago
Even assuming there are always people, institutions and countries eager to buy the new debt, the government must still pay the ongoing interest on the debt. The concern is when that interest becomes a significant part of the annual budget.
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by creer 3y ago
It is a big step. But the kid is now older and knows what programming overall is about. Less likely to get discouraged then. But sure, Lua will work. I agree though that debuggers are usually too complicated - print-based troubleshooting wi
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by creer 3y ago
Sure. But it's now easy to move on to the next bigger thing. A kid, club or school, can onboard with Scratch, and any laptop can also run python et al. By the time a kid notices all the cool stuff that seems possible and that they coul
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by creer 3y ago
Scratch is far better and deeper than most people think. It's also interesting because the developer interface forces thinking for yourself on things like how to manage complexity in your project, or how to get different modules to com
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by creer 3y ago
assaults
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by creer 3y ago
Same here for San Francisco
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by creer 3y ago
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier, 1974. Small-town freshman's refusal to sell candy for his manipulative school earns him the ire of headmaster and vengeance of underground student group, the Vigils. He is harassed, beaten, ostracized
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by creer 3y ago
It's like most things can be done right - If anyone just cared to! And when I run into something done right, it's so refreshing. But most things we interact with are done half-assedly, or are MVPs, or are deliberately made to a st
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by creer 3y ago
It depends whether your priority is a dynamic, lively, resilient economy which delivers technology advances including healthcare, internet and handheld super-computing. Or if it's levelling things by cutting heads. It's a policy c
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by creer 3y ago
Much of Europe sees businesses only as employment programs. They see the economy as managed or run by the state - it's the state that (believes it) drives the economy through employment law, tax rates, subsidies, "development prog
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by creer 3y ago
> 37% top US tax rate That's not true either. In California, you will also pay state income tax, most likely at 9.3% marginal rate - but possibly not too different in actual rate because the California thresholds are low. To continu
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by creer 3y ago
You are forgetting the owners of the company somewhere in there. Also that different forms of corporations do already exist (in the US), including not-for-profit, cooperative / worker-owned, mutual / member-owned, state-owned corp
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by creer 3y ago
Democracy doesn't mean that everything is micromanaged by elected officials. The legal system is. The legal system is the framework for non-profit and for-profit entities and individuals to live their life. We can certainly argue compe
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by creer 3y ago
If anything, it's surprising that it took them so long. They noticed fairly suddenly and recently. By contrast, let's say plastic scale model companies have had adult-oriented models for a long time. Adult oriented by their theme,
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by creer 3y ago
More interesting in the article is the view in American day to day corruption. Developers that "just use" builder's remedy legal provisions end up nowhere fast (and so whatever they end up building will just be even more expe
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by creer 3y ago
Notable also that a few places have chosen to evolve. Redwood City in particular has allowed the transformation of it's downtown. From "old and rundown" to much higher density with work and living density that actually feed a
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by creer 3y ago
"It's so crowded, nobody wants to live there!" Not to mention "so expensive, nobody wants to live there". But also, the headline is just slightly exaggerated. There is a lot of work possible between a sea of (very e
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Builder's remedy was supposed to 'Manhattanize' the Bay Area(mercurynews.com)
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by creer 3y ago
Any manufacturers in particular have highly compatible, inexpensive parts?
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by creer 3y ago
And besides all the other remarks, both earth's and the moon's orbits are something like ellipses. So that the ratio of apparent size of the moon to apparent size of the sun is not fixed either. See annular eclipse.
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by creer 3y ago
That has been the case forever. Geek Squad and Co cater to most people - who won' t attempt even the simplest repair themselves. After that, yeah, the incentives are poorly aligned for the customer - when the repair business is also on
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by creer 3y ago
Anything's possible. But the vendor can increase price or refuse a discount instantly. While that government client would require a years-long large and costly project to migrate - and their track record on completing such projects is
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by creer 3y ago
Ah... other articles spell it out in more detail: 1) It's any religious head covering and 2) it's "so long as their faces could be seen".
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by creer 3y ago
Not a space station but a chinese tracking and nominally spacecraft telecom antenna farm in Argentina.
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by creer 3y ago
Years ago, a conclusion of automatic translation projects seemed to be that these systems didn't need to understand much or anything about a new language to do a half decent job of translating it. All that was needed was a sufficient b
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by creer 3y ago
> Yet all the staff are Burmese, including the owner Ermmmm, seems all the staff are Burmese BECAUSE the owner is Burmese. Quite the red flag. Except if the owner being Burmese makes it hard to hire japanese employees - which is quite po
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by creer 3y ago
Do you have a few words (off the top of your head is fine) to express how that one works for you?
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by creer 3y ago
There is no ruling. The article spells it out as a "settlement subject to being approved by the judge in that case". Generally, that means this is the police dept (and city that funds it) giving up and paying some money now to avo
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by creer 3y ago
My impression is that in all these rulings, the humans doing the filings go out of their way to claim that the author was the AI or machine or animal ("machine" thereafter), or the owner of the patent or copyright is the machine,

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