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by davidw 1y ago
I do a lot of that with my time, rather than money, but it won't pay the mortgage.
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by davidw 1y ago
So what's everyone think is a good place for their money to be? I'm pretty vexxed by this question. To me it seems obvious that a lot of what is happening is going to hurt, both short term (tariffs) and long term (destruction of t
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by davidw 1y ago
And nausea. Yuck.
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I remember logging in to IRC from the University of Oregon where I was taking an Italian class. I saw there was an #italy channel and it was full of people who were actually in Italy, which I found kind of mind boggling. This was 1993, wh
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All the President's Tech CEOs(wired.com)
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> unix-worthy work can you actually do on a phone They're more powerful than plenty of computers from not too long ago
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George Costanza is looking at those stamps and thinking he coulda been someone in the USSR
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Snacking on the chess pieces. Sadly, some of the malignant people around him are more cunning.
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by davidw 1y ago
It can be ok if everyone is clear, and accepts that you're not really an equal part of the team, but someone who gets tasks and does them relatively independently. That kind of thing can work ok for the right person at the right time.
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by davidw 1y ago
> That's one of the reason I prefer fully online shops, they'll usually have made peace with it and structured themselves in saner ways. There's also a 'tipping point'. If you have 9 out of 10 people in the offic
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by davidw 1y ago
I know some of the space race stuff was driven by cold war politics, but I think it was still pretty cool. Big, difficult goals can be inspiring.
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by davidw 1y ago
Sure, but my point is that there are people that reason like "such and such an elected official is bad, therefore everything they do is bad and will have drastic results", and that's not particularly informative even when I
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by davidw 1y ago
I have been enjoying Paul Krugman's writing, now that he's free from the shackles of the New York "both sides!" Times https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-beginning-to-smell-a-... He's obviou
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by davidw 1y ago
If it can produce something you can read in 20 minutes, it means there was a lot of... 'fluff' isn't quite the right word, but material that could be removed without losing meaning.
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by davidw 1y ago
I'm not a cheese snob at all, but having lived in Italy for a while, I definitely prefer the buffalo mozzarella to eat fresh. It's richer tasting, somehow.
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Big picture, what's the balance going to look like, going forward between what normal people can run on a fancy computer at home vs heavy duty systems hosted in big data centers that are the exclusive domain of Big Companies? This is s
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by davidw 1y ago
Mostly not, because they are all 100% on board. They have shown cabinet meetings where they all take turns effusively praising him in the most sickeningly sycophantic way, though.
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Just last week, the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was fired because the jobs numbers didn't look good and that upset the person in charge.
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How's it compare with Apache OFBiz and the things people are building on top of that?
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by davidw 1y ago
The housing market is anything but a free market. In a free market, a bunch of NIMBYs like these would not have been able to stop homes from being built: https://bendyimby.com/2024/04/16/the-hearing-and-the-ho
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by davidw 1y ago
My point was: would you actually want to live there? I'm sure it's fun to visit, but spend most of the year there?
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by davidw 1y ago
> Public housing You can't have Vienna style public housing without having Vienna style zoning codes and building codes. Most of the housing in Vienna would be illegal to build in like 99% of American cities.
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by davidw 1y ago
BTW, you can use 'xcancel' (or even post the Blue Sky links) if you don't want to give traffic to the guy reposting what's in the screenshot: https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post&
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by davidw 1y ago
Part of the reason we have 'not fast' is that along with some good things, we also did some bad things 'fast', like lots of paving over disproportionately minority parts of cities for freeways. It'd be interesting t
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They seem pretty ok with starving actual people too.
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Tons of the critics of the book haven't even read it, because large portions of it are about making the government work better, not just using market-based solutions for all our problems. Housing, though, could definitely use a bette
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by davidw 1y ago
I also included a far left example who got it. I should have kept going with the examples because there are also plenty of moderates who do not want to rock the boat. The governor of CT vetoed their big housing bill this year. It really doe
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by davidw 1y ago
Really? It's very small, isolated and while there is a ton of outdoor stuff, I don't think there's much else. There are tons of people who enjoy the urban amenities in places like NYC or San Francisco who would have fun for a
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by davidw 1y ago
I have been doing YIMBY stuff for around 8 years now, and it does not map nicely onto any kind of left-right narrative. There was one conservative dude who ran for city council here who was all about 'private property' and &#x27
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by davidw 1y ago
I care about fixing the housing shortage in the city I live in. I spend hundreds of hours as a volunteer, see a lot and read a lot. I'm pointing out what I see on the ground doing the work. And what I see is NIMBYs, not institutional i

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