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by davidw 2y ago
Sure, but "is building" could be very far from "is able to smoothly switch production if the main plants and some/many of the associated people are war casualties"
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by davidw 2y ago
They're pretty incredible machines for the price. I bought one a year and a half ago in an emergency, as the networking on my laptop died over the course of a few days and I needed something for browsing and email. I got the Linux de
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by davidw 2y ago
The geopolitical bit of all this is the real wild card. No one really knows what's going to happen there.
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by davidw 2y ago
That's a good question and it seems like it's difficult to separate from people's ideological ideas about whether they are good or bad. My hometown in Oregon had a cooperative, Burley, that made bike stuff like trailers and t
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by davidw 2y ago
What kinds of cool things are people doing with this?
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by davidw 2y ago
Reminds me a bit of this easter-eggish view on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tpm9ZqsvUvTfiHxe6
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by davidw 2y ago
Places with water (and therefore trees) tend to be already spoken for in most of the US. Alaska, maybe? But that's not temperate at all, and is not great for the solar aspect.
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by davidw 2y ago
You'd kind of expect someone to get fired for screwing up that badly.
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by davidw 2y ago
People evolved to live in a fairly small area of the world rather than flying to distant places with different amounts of sunshine than our ancestors likely dealt with in the areas where they spent generations.
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by davidw 2y ago
Yeah, I don't have anything of substance to say other than it's really cool to see someone doing something innovative in a niche I'd never really thought of.
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by davidw 2y ago
I didn't say anything about what art is; just that I don't want anything to do with depressing material when the real world contains plenty of depressing stuff.
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by davidw 2y ago
Anne Frank was a real person with a real story. It's not fiction. I think there is enough of that kind of anguish in the real world without inventing it. I'll happily read essays or opinion pieces about bad things that can happen.
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by davidw 2y ago
That's a great way of expressing it. I read the newspapers every day, and if you stop and consider what some other person or family is going through because of what's being reported, I don't know, I find there's pain apl
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by davidw 2y ago
Accurate but it can be really tough to find the good places. My experience is that most huge companies are not great. Too much bureaucracy. Startups can be a lot of fun, but the relentless pressure to grow, and grow fast can cause proble
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by davidw 2y ago
Yeah I live a few blocks from it and it's still open.
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by davidw 2y ago
Yep - it's a few blocks from where I live. It seems to attract a fair number of tourists.
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by davidw 2y ago
US housing problems, as much as someone wants to blame some bogeyman like immigrants or foreign buyers or institutional investors or RealPage, are mostly a factor of local, NIMBY-driven politics. Source: years of volunteer work.
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by davidw 2y ago
> siphon off These are people we are talking about, with agency, capable of making their own choices in life, not some inanimate "resource". If they want to come to the US, I'm a "grow the pie" guy.
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by davidw 2y ago
> It's satisfying to blame a big bad "them" for this, but the problem is "us" Yep. People want a bogeyman so bad , but time after time, I show up to hearings, read about efforts to build housing and the problem
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by davidw 2y ago
I came here to write the same thing. It absolutely does.
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by davidw 2y ago
This is correct. The big picture is supply and demand. RealPage won't let you charge LA rents in Houston, because Houston has a different mix of supply and demand that is better for tenants. That said: if this system lets landlords eke
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by davidw 2y ago
There are no NIMBYs on the moon, so maybe?
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by davidw 2y ago
1000's sounds like it's still Postgres territory?
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by davidw 2y ago
Good Vibrations used something else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-Theremin
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by davidw 2y ago
I think a lot of businesses kind of thrive on selling the dream. Like how much gear bought at REI is really pushed to the limit for outdoor pursuits vs worn around town? I love shopping there and looking around and daydreaming about being o
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by davidw 2y ago
Yeah, at this point I am not going back.
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by davidw 2y ago
I think it's kind of a natural reaction for people... they enjoyed Twitter and did not like what he's done with it, so some people are overly bitter.
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by davidw 2y ago
He's no saint, but it's a publicly traded company, which maybe gives it a few more guardrails than something private, I think. Not a lot, but something ? Compared to Twitter, Blue Sky and Mastodon it seems like the best thing goi
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by davidw 2y ago
I have been enjoying Threads lately. It's not perfect, but it feels about as close as possible to a sweet spot where 1) it's mainstream enough to get a variety of people 2) the company behind it is actively investing in it and imp
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by davidw 2y ago
> No one would mind if they were building new homes I get what you're saying - producing new homes is actually what we need and would be more beneficial compared to just buying up existing housing stock - but the same NIMBYs who I m

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