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by dcosson 8y ago
Wait, you saw a young kid get hit by a car and you're worried about scooters littering the sidewalks? How are those related?
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by dcosson 8y ago
You don't need to compile vim for clipboard support these days. On Mac, `brew install vim`, on Ubuntu `apt-get install vim-gtk`. The latter I think comes with the gui version of vim but you don't have to use it, it also includes a
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by dcosson 8y ago
I only tried out Phabricator briefly, and it was pretty good. But the data model bothered me in how it introduces its own abstraction of patches on top of the git branch model. It seems redundant, and also seems like an SVN-inspired model t
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by dcosson 8y ago
Is the keyboard that bad that sticking with 2015 is worth it? For just about the same price the 2017's seem to have significantly faster SSD's by some benchmarks, a thinner form factor, slightly faster RAM and maybe a tiny perf bo
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by dcosson 8y ago
That's kind of the whole point. Is the city full and now only open to the wealthy and people who got lucky enough to buy houses > 5 years ago (or get locked into rent control > 5 years ago), or should it be allowed to grow to wel
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by dcosson 8y ago
> Similarly, most programming languages have support for datetimes with time zones They do, but in many languages they're easy to misuse, and I think this is an underappreciated part of the problem. I'd even argue that timezone
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by dcosson 8y ago
I can't follow this logic at all. When home prices go up, rents also go up. How is your mobility not affected when you can't afford rent and have to move out of the city? Or for the people whose rent goes above what they can affor
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by dcosson 8y ago
> Broadly speaking, rents are tied to incomes, house prices to the availability and cost of credit Mind citing a source for this? I've seen a situation where rents and house prices didn't both rise together. Maybe not precisely
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by dcosson 8y ago
It'll arguably end even worse if they keep going up though.
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by dcosson 8y ago
This is a silly framing. The real story seems to be that below $25 million, it’s not that you aren’t rich, just that you don’t really need customized, private asset management these days. Wonder if that’s due simply to inflation, compared t
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by dcosson 8y ago
What? If I sign up for a new credit card I won't come across the interest rate at all until I get to the fine-print legal contract. Sure, maybe it's in bold or something there, but it's still not upfront and obvious in the si
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by dcosson 8y ago
> why is so much of our economic policy centered around new and higher paying jobs in a certain area There are certainly hot spots in places like NY and SF, but it's not just one area. Lots of cities are growing. And it's not a
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by dcosson 8y ago
Huh. I had exactly the opposite experience, simple was mostly fine when I used it but the web experience of chase these days is also fine. A clear, simple UI for seeing statements and setting up credit card auto-pay, deposit checks in the a
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by dcosson 8y ago
I think you have this wrong. Moped type scooters match your description, the new wave of light electric scooters sits more between walking and bicycles. Compared to bicycles they’re smaller, so easier to maneuver in crowded spaces (not that
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by dcosson 8y ago
I think you dramatically underestimate how difficult that would be. What incentive does the city have to sit down with them and take them seriously? Inevitably some people will complain about the scooters, even if they're in the road a
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by dcosson 8y ago
There's a startup called Fundrise that makes it pretty easy to invest in REIT's. But for some reason, you have to commit your money for I believe 5 years without taking it out. I don't fully understand why or what the deal is
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by dcosson 8y ago
This is a cool app, but isn't the idea to integrate it somewhere you end up looking already, rather than have to think to look at it and click the shortcut? I have the same problem, I always cmd+tab between windows so I never see my de
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by dcosson 8y ago
There are studies like this one [0] that argue just about the entire increase in inequality in the past few decards (in Piketty's "r > g" sense) can be explained by increases in the housing market. It's interesting to
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by dcosson 8y ago
Wait, so you put out this launch announcement telling people they can early register .app domains. It links to a bunch of partners including Google Domains, but you have no idea whether I can actually register a domain there or not? Why pro
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by dcosson 8y ago
As with anything there is obviously some debate and disagreement. But growing inequality is basically the result of capital's share of income being higher than labor's share for the past several decades. When you look at where the
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by dcosson 8y ago
I don’t think it’s really that intractable. The traditional middle class lifestyle in the US for the past several decades involves getting married, probably having a few kids, and buying a 3 bedroom house to live in. Probably even in the to
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by dcosson 8y ago
From what I understand this is a hot topic in environmentalist organizations. Higher density areas do objectively have a lower carbon footprint per person. I believe this is true without even factoring in commutes, because even things like
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by dcosson 8y ago
It's not completely clear to me from reading the site - does this run a non-dockerized app build in kubernetes, or does it also work for building and deploying my app as a docker container itself? This usually requires things like bein
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by dcosson 8y ago
> Public parking exists for the benefit of the public at large This is the point under contention. I strongy disagree, I would very happily give up public parking for other uses of that space - more bike/scooter lanes that can be fu
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by dcosson 8y ago
Can I ask what kind of work do you usually do for startups? Are these companies that have minimal funding and no or very few full-time engineers, and you're building them a prototype to help them get off the ground? Or are you doing so
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by dcosson 9y ago
> It is not (necessarily) poor sleep hygiene which causes teens to stay up later, but their own biological processes. I'm genuinely curious about this, do you have links to evidence of this? You're asserting a certain causal or
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by dcosson 9y ago
Why is it any different than documenting open-source code for free, or answering a stack overflow question?
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by dcosson 9y ago
I use and like Postgres, but it's crazy to say there's never a scenario where putting data somewhere else makes sense. You just named two examples, Redis and Elasticsearch. It might be fair to say something like: if you have a gen
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by dcosson 9y ago
When stuff like this comes up it always seems so weird to me that with all the work that regulators put into this, why can't they at least scratch the surface of providing some specific examples? Of course there are legal documents, an
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by dcosson 9y ago
But how long ago did these slimebags abuse the system, and are we sure it's still a problem in the modern era? It seems a lot like the Uber/taxi fight - I imagine at some point somebody painted a car like a taxi and kidnapped some

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