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by davidw 1y ago
The population of Bozeman is still growing, albeit more slowly. It's not like people left. They just built a lot of housing, vacancy rates increased and prices dropped. Same thing happened in Austin, Texas, which is a much bigger city
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by davidw 1y ago
Building "luxury" apartments dropped rents in Bozeman, Montana, which is one of those cities that "everyone wants to move to" https://montanafreepress.org/2025/06/23/has-bozemans-rental-...
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by davidw 1y ago
I wish everyone who cares about the price of housing could go to a hearing like this one. Sadly, they happen in every community so if you're curious, you ought to go: https://bendyimby.com/2024/04/16/the-
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by davidw 1y ago
This argument always comes up when discussing a specific place. "Everyone would move to ________ because it is the best place in the spiral arm of the Milky Way", where ________ is Boulder, Bend, Austin, Portland, San Francisco, S
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by davidw 1y ago
> Even supports simulating multiple modes of transportation (ped, bicycle, car…) Anything serious needs to include those - what would Amsterdam look like if all those people stopped riding their bikes and got in cars? It'd be a disa
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Mapping Andreessen Horowitz's Controversial Cryptocurrency Investments(kumu.io)
5 points by davidw 1y ago|0 comments
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by davidw 1y ago
More than anything, I miss hacking on cool stuff without quite so much "corporate" involved. I grew up with the open source culture of the 90ies, when people were going to change the world. And they did! Things like Linux are ubi
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by davidw 1y ago
Right - the Willamette Valley in Oregon isn't that far from the coast, with predominant westerlies coming from over a very chilly ocean. But the Coast range is tall enough to block some of the chilly moisture from over there.
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by davidw 1y ago
I guess it makes sense that because of the shorter summer days and high humidity they don't see highs that are that extreme there. Still seems a bit unexpected if you're going by simpler mental models where "south == warmer&q
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by davidw 1y ago
Best we can do is stop measuring it, I guess.
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by davidw 1y ago
It's like Forth and CSS had some kind of hideous offspring.
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by davidw 1y ago
Or Andy Schleck https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fRWHIKE-aHM and I'm in the same boat. Or bike, as it were, what with hours of watching the Tour this month.
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by davidw 1y ago
It's like that joke someone posted on Twitter: "I was in favor of space exploration until I realized what it would mean for date/time libraries"
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by davidw 1y ago
Nitpick: Yglesias has never worked as a journalist at the NYT as far as I can tell. Did the shift occur as the result of tech companies and people accumulating a lot of power and maybe needing more investigation? Outfits like Amazon, Meta,
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by davidw 1y ago
Is there an AI angle? I think it's not going to get traction without adding some advanced AI features.
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by davidw 1y ago
A lot of people are about to find out with this admin, how things that were certainly imperfect can be so much worse. Building things is tough; tearing them down is relatively easy.
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by davidw 1y ago
Erlang isn't really that much lower level than Elixir. The Elixir syntax is just a bit different and they've improved a few things like string handling. Processes are still processes.
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by davidw 1y ago
That's pretty cool - what is it if you don't mind talking about it? How do you feel Elixir made it possible or easier. Or is it just something you happened to choose and you could have used Node or Rails or whatever else.
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by davidw 1y ago
Yeah, exactly, it's not a zero sum game.
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by davidw 1y ago
On balance, I think Strong Towns has done a lot of good, but in terms of organizing on the ground, I think the two large YIMBY organizations are better at equipping people to make change in their communities: * https://yimbyactio
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Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros(paulkrugman.substack.com)
7 points by davidw 1y ago|6 comments
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by davidw 1y ago
My first Linux computer was a laptop-ish sort of thing with 4 megs of RAM. Emacs was a bit too heavy duty, so I used Jed quite a bit.
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by davidw 1y ago
One of the things I've noticed about shopping carefully at the local supermarket (Albertsons, in Oregon) is that they very often use beef as a 'loss leader' to get people to shop there, so beef is often cheaper than it '
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by davidw 1y ago
https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap?lat=44.059&lon=-121.3... - I don't see that artifact or whatever it is on this radar view... I just wish we even had a radar where I live.
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by davidw 1y ago
But the possibility for selective enforcement against perceived enemies of the state is still present.
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by davidw 1y ago
By lowering their standards a lot.
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by davidw 1y ago
The guy who heads up the Defense department was (drunkenly?) texting out secret plans to a journalist.
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by davidw 1y ago
If you get involved with any of this on the ground, it's not really a 'both' question. It's the NIMBYism. Without that, you build enough for it to become not a very interesting investment and large-scale investors go fin
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by davidw 1y ago
There was already money in preventing it. In a link I posted elsewhere about a hearing, the same people raised nearly $8,000 to try and stop one apartment building from going up in their neighborhood. Not private equity, not 'tHe ChINe
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by davidw 1y ago
People want to blame The Bogeyman so bad, but the answer is usually right around the corner in their own neighborhoods: https://bendyimby.com/2024/04/16/the-hearing-and-the-housing... I wish everyone who care

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