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by davidw 1y ago
Years ago I worked for this company - at their office in Padova, Italy - and it was a great experience in terms of the people and tech. https://www.icare-world.com/us/
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by davidw 1y ago
That video could have been an article. He's literally reading out what's written in a pull request.
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by davidw 1y ago
My inclination is to look not at 'main street' but more niche things where people do care about the tech involved and care about it being an edge for the product or service, but it's all kind of not a big enough market for th
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by davidw 1y ago
I haven't followed it much, but didn't Linus have some self reflection and talk about toning things down a bit?
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by davidw 1y ago
It's all very bad, for sure, but doomerism is capitulation. https://www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-must-embrace-war-m... > This is the thing: dooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everythin
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by davidw 1y ago
I mean, Jimmy Kimmel won and Apple is way more powerful with far deeper pockets. This admin isn't all powerful, as much as they try and project that image. Apple and I think Google have a pretty big reservoir of good will among the pub
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by davidw 1y ago
It's the equivalent of posting on social media that you just saw some ice agents at such and such an address. Completely protected speech... At least it is unless the Roberts court shadow dockets it.
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by davidw 1y ago
Giving your lunch money to a bully all but guarantees they'll be back for more.
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by davidw 1y ago
"Do what we say or you get the tariffs". Straight up corrupt mob boss shit.
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by davidw 1y ago
I always wonder if there are people sitting around in China thinking "how about NOW?" with regards to Taiwan. "No, give the drunken wife beater more time to wreck the military"
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by davidw 1y ago
Working with local government is different everywhere and there are probably different groups that are more or less effective in different places. As above, happy to give you some basics if you want to write.
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by davidw 1y ago
There's some writing up at https://bendyimby.com/ but it's not really 'documenting my experiences'. What would you like to see/know? Feel free to write me an email, I'm more than happy to chat
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How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator(inc.com)
206 points by davidw 1y ago|223 comments
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by davidw 1y ago
I live in a city of 100K people, where there really aren't that many visible people with mental health issues or drug problems. I also go to a lot of city council meetings and hearings and observe local social media. It's the cars
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by davidw 1y ago
No, it's mostly just car-brain where people think that cities should be designed around cars cars and cars, and then if there's room left over, maybe some shops and homes. So they worry about a neighborhood shop taking up the pre
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by davidw 1y ago
Trying to re-legalize "neighborhood commercial" by right in the city I live in. Things like corner stores or small barber shops or coffee shops or converted restaurants. ACUs or Accessory Commercial Units, home conversions... diff
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by davidw 1y ago
'Greed!' as the answer to all questions is kind of lazy though. I hear this in housing politics: prices are high because of 'greed!'. Seems weird that people in San Francisco are so much greedier than people in Houston.
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by davidw 1y ago
The NIMBY/YIMBY divide really doesn't fall along traditional political lines. There are very progressive people who are raging NIMBYs, as well as very conservative NIMBYs. There are both progressive and conservative YIMBYs too.
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by davidw 1y ago
The governor of Oregon, Tina Kotek, has been very pro-housing. She liked my 'legalize housing' hoodie so much she wanted a photo with it: https://bsky.app/profile/tinakotek.bsky.social/post/3lkea36k.
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by davidw 1y ago
It's extremely clear. As is the cowardice and moral rot of the people in the majority in Congress and the Supreme Court who are supposed to be responsible for upholding the clear meaning of the Constitution.
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by davidw 1y ago
This is the emoluments clause: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emol
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by davidw 1y ago
If it didn't matter they wouldn't get so upset about you doing it. Never listen to anyone telling you that your voice doesn't matter. Like... here's a story about me getting a kind of boring corporate law (related to lim
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by davidw 1y ago
Hi random letters new account guy: The point is that 'merit' and the 'elite' in the US feel like they're an ocean apart right now in a lot of cases.
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by davidw 1y ago
The so-called 'elite' in the US, from politicians to journalists to venture capitalists and business leaders, are not looking all that great right now from my point of view, with a few exceptions.
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by davidw 1y ago
Maybe the other countries aren't rounding up engineers working on opening factories and detaining them in inhumane conditions.
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by davidw 1y ago
From the article: "Adding the water and sewer connection only cost another $5,000. " Building an ADU (aka Granny flat) can cost hundreds of thousands and take a long time to get done. So it's a way cheaper and easier option.
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by davidw 1y ago
In Portland, it's legal to live in an RV on someone's land as long as there is a proper sewer/electric/water hookup. This is beneficial because it makes for more dispersed RV living rather than concentrating everyone in
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by davidw 1y ago
These are always kind of fun to contemplate - in part because everyone immediately jumps in with ways that they are wrong. For instance where I live in Deschutes County, Oregon... physically, yeah, we are in that 'far west' region
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by davidw 1y ago
Sent you an email. Not sure you got it...
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by davidw 1y ago
An important point that emerged is also that the administration - at its discretion - can also waive the fee. Just more corruption and leverage to push companies to do their bidding. Just rancid stuff.

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