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by davidw 2y ago
A few months back, the author of "Homelessness is a Housing Problem" gave a talk where I live and it's quite worth watching if you don't have time to read the book: https://youtu.be/W4rBe1fGPZU?si=xV2Ai78
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by davidw 2y ago
> It does not mention the opioid crisis. Places like West Virginia have way less homelessness than places with high housing costs like the west coast. Homelessness is a housing problem. Drugs make it worse, but are not the primary cause.
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by davidw 2y ago
Sounds like shoeshine boy time.
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by davidw 2y ago
Migrating north (or south, in the southern hemisphere). Which is going to increasingly collide with the man-made borders preventing people from doing so.
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by davidw 2y ago
Ideally, people would mostly be free to make their own choices as long as the externalities of those choices are priced in.
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by davidw 2y ago
As a 'housing theory of everything' guy, this has a lot of repercussions * It's bad for the environment. A lot of these people are moving to where they can afford housing and continuing to drive in to jobs. * Big commutes are
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by davidw 2y ago
Non-twitter source for those who do not use that site?
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by davidw 2y ago
If busses are from Glasgow and trains from Edinburgh, then that loop thing is indeed from Tahiti. https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/teslas-in-tunnels-i... https://san.com/cc/vegas-loop-faces
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by davidw 2y ago
Moving people around in automobiles underground is a fun Disney-esque ride, but not a serious transit system.
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by davidw 2y ago
It's really an apples to kiwis comparison. The California project is certainly worth studying for how far off the rails it's gone, but the LV stuff is a toy project that's not really going to solve any real transportation pro
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by davidw 2y ago
Me too. I'd love to find some space to work in that rekindles some of that. I love tech, it's a lot of fun, and you can do really cool things with it. But it kind of went from the people in that article who were "hackers&quot
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by davidw 2y ago
This is a pretty good take on what is likely to be an effort that mostly is in the interests of the extremely wealthy people running it, and is a reply to the posted article: https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-ha
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by davidw 2y ago
Fun times; I knew some of those people. Tech felt more nerdy and optimistic. It had its share of problems, but I miss some of the idealism.
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by davidw 2y ago
Cool, thanks! Always curious to hear if there's something new out there. I have always enjoyed using the BEAM ecosystem for concurrency, but Ruby has so much code and is great for "getting stuff done", so it's mostly wha
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by davidw 2y ago
I am not much of a video guy. Any kind of tl;dr?
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by davidw 2y ago
It's also the planet you land on in the M.U.L.E. game.
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by davidw 2y ago
He's high on Ketamine.
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by davidw 2y ago
> How do companies like McKinsey get away with this? Money. Any other questions?
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by davidw 2y ago
Now I'm envisioning a discount rack like my local Albertson's has, in Pompeii. "Panis Quadratis - L % off!"
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by davidw 2y ago
But what if the system is running and the new function takes different arguments or something? What if there is data loaded in the system, what happens to it? Simply loading new code is easy, ensuring the whole system works seems to require
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by davidw 2y ago
I seem to recall they get a mention in this book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-0813-6 It's a fun read, although it goes a bit off the rails at the end, crapping on Linux and open source.
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by davidw 2y ago
A decent percentage of the population thinks that the president of the US can control the weather. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-not-controlling-the-... The fact of the matter is that a lot of people have rot
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by davidw 2y ago
They rejected a plea deal. That almost never happens. He was 100% guilty of some things, but they wanted to drag out the whole process for publicity rather than to actually do some semblance of 'justice'. And some of these incomin
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by davidw 2y ago
My wife is Italian. It guessed Greek.
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by davidw 2y ago
It's never 0 or 100. But it does ebb and flow, and boy is it about to flow. Comparing one guy who was in the hot seat only because of his surname to the incoming shit storm is risible.
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by davidw 2y ago
"no consequences." This is basically going to be the United States for the immediate future, if you're connected to the right people. Downvote all you want, but we see it with our own eyes.
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by davidw 2y ago
Even the other companies basically just do his bidding. Remember when he 'shared' engineers around between different companies? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/elon-musk-has-pulled-more-th... These
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by davidw 2y ago
It seems like it's been a while since I've seen one of these language benchmark things. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... seems like the latest iteration of what used to be a pre
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by davidw 2y ago
> Humans are built to thrive in danger, chaos and instability. I think a good chunk of humans go insane in a safe and stable environment and resent the things that allow them to live mundane, safe lives -- technology, medicine and ration
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by davidw 2y ago
The good old days when you could just hook up some hacked up C code to the internet and pray you caught all the potential exploits.

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