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by davidw 7mo ago
Seinfeld wasn't at all well known in Italy when I lived there, but WTR was.
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by davidw 7mo ago
NIMBYs exist throughout the US, even in states without Prop 13 or similar things. Some of them are even renters. No one is trying to conceal the problems with unfair tax systems - indeed, the people who spend time advocating for housing are
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by davidw 7mo ago
Well "Europeans on Twitter" are probably the kind of people who look at the owner of the site posting about a homeland for white people and that kind of thing and aren't bothered too much by it.
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by davidw 7mo ago
The problem in San Francisco is NIMBYism, where supposed 'socialists' try and stop purely below market rate housing because it's the wrong shape or size or something.
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by davidw 7mo ago
Unless you want to build more sprawl-oriented social housing, you'd still need, in most American cities, to reform zoning codes and building codes (single stair and elevator reform) to get Vienna style social housing. It's a &quot
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by davidw 7mo ago
Tech has never been perfect, but there was a time when it felt more hopeful and optimistic and about building cool stuff. There's always been give and take with the money side of things that's necessary to keep fueling the buildin
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by davidw 7mo ago
There's a Bigfoot trap in Oregon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot_trap I wonder if it gets a mention? It does get a mention in the recent Bruce Campbell movie https://www.ernieandemma.com/ -
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by davidw 7mo ago
In the episode, it's not what I'd call a southern accent.
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by davidw 7mo ago
It's important to be realistic and honest about the short term, but optimistic about the long term. If you give in to doom and get cynical, you won't accomplish anything, and you're just doing their work for them.
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by davidw 7mo ago
This is going to take a generation or two to fix. If we're lucky and work hard at it.
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by davidw 7mo ago
This is not a fully formed thought, so take it with a grain of salt: Keeping politics off of here is a good idea. Some things aren't really politics, but morals. Like, a discussion of different tax schemes or how much environmental reg
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by davidw 7mo ago
Now I'm imagining a procedural cop show where they bust an illegal helium dealer, and one of the cops takes a huff to gauge what they're dealing with, and then squeaks out "that's the good stuff".
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by davidw 7mo ago
I hope we get someone as good as he is when he retires. Waves from Bend.
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by davidw 7mo ago
Things don't change... until they do.
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by davidw 7mo ago
> There is no way the US Eppur si muove. These folks are not our best and brightest. https://www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-plan-to-unblock-strait-of-ho...
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by davidw 7mo ago
Corporate media in this moment is... not great. Figuring out what takes its place is a hard problem that no one seems to have cracked. I don't know if its replacement will be very profitable, but we all lose out when media isn't w
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by davidw 7mo ago
> You just can't say the latter part too loudly here because there's sufficient sympathy and affinity for it. I think you're right, and I find this revolting. Tech always had its weirdos, but mostly they were kind of ideal
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by davidw 7mo ago
As a 50 year old, I can recall a lengthy stretch of time in the US when lamenting the lack of a "white homeland" would not be considered "partisan", but extremely fringe speech that the mainstream would mostly shun.
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by davidw 7mo ago
Free software didn't really take off until a couple of things happened 1) personal computers got good enough to run Linux and BSD and 2) more people get connected to the internet. The 'good enough' part is the important one h
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by davidw 7mo ago
I don't begrudge the companies charging use their machine, but writing all the code and prose and everything else that the machine ingested was hard too.
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by davidw 7mo ago
Good question. It seems like most of the tech world is perfectly happy to be sharecroppers on the Big AI farms. I guess that's not quite the right analogy, since they're doing their own things with it; just that at the end of the
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by davidw 7mo ago
I mean, the competition isn't setting a high bar, between the guy complaining about 'white people not having a homeland' and the other guy peddling addictive stuff to teens and AI slop to their grandparents. That said, I have
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by davidw 7mo ago
I was enjoying having one social network not run by horrid people. Maybe it's time to go back to IRC or something.
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by davidw 7mo ago
> Is massive capital expenditure not also required to enforce the GPL? It's nowhere near the order of magnitude of the kind of spending they're sinking into LLM's. The FSF and other groups were reasonably successful at enf
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by davidw 7mo ago
At a certain point, I think we had reached a kind of equilibrium where some corporations were decent open source citizens. They understood that they could open source things like infrastructure or libraries and keep their 'crown jewels
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by davidw 7mo ago
> LLM as the main weapon LLM's - to date - seem to require massive capital expenditures to have the highest quality ones, which is a monumental shift in power towards mega corporations and away from the world of open source where yo
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by davidw 7mo ago
"Ok, but what if we could get the biggest possible magnifying glass to use on the ants?"
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by davidw 7mo ago
I agree with all that. And yet, here we are.
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by davidw 7mo ago
If LLM's are indeed a game changer professionally, you kind of need to pick one. Personally, I loathe seeing power shift towards mega corporations like that, away from being able to run your own computer with free software, but it feel
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by davidw 7mo ago
Now I wish I could try all of these.

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