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by dcposch 10y ago
I made a zoning map of SF yesterday. A lot of our city is sprawl, too: one house, one driveway, one garage per lot. https://dcpos.ch/yimby/zoning We can get two birds with a stone by building housing: make our city mor
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by dcposch 10y ago
It's becoming increasingly common. Personally I think esoteric pronouns like "ve" are a silly idea that won't catch on, but I like the idea of using "they" as a gender neutral way to refer to one or more people
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by dcposch 10y ago
Sort of. The Shuttle was reusable only in the loosest sense: - Most of the launch tankage was discarded after each flight - Boosters were basically rebuilt after each flight - Cost per pound to LEO wasn't remotely competitive with 60s
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by dcposch 10y ago
Im comparing China to other countries that were similarly poor in 1980-- much of the world, including the second biggest country, India. China did much better than them. I don't think any other society in history has lifted as many peo
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by dcposch 10y ago
That is incredibly depressing. Good chance you're right, but that doesnt mean we should give up. Politics is critical, and as technologists we can't just opt out and hope things will work out. We have to win these fights.
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by dcposch 10y ago
China is fascinating. On one hand... - China has done better than any other country on Earth at poverty reduction. Chinese policy since Deng Xiaoping lifted hundreds of millions of people out of subsistence poverty. Free markets were a big
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by dcposch 10y ago
Just a counterpoint: the 12" Macbook is really excellent. Build quality is impeccble. It feels amazing to travel with-- light enough to put into a small drawstring bag. On planes I keep it in the seat pocket in front of me. It feels li
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by dcposch 10y ago
The first half of what you said, everything about PGP usability, is on point. The second half--the federal government as centralized national PKI, generating everyone's private keys for them--is hilariously terrible. I can almost hear
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by dcposch 10y ago
I never said that the rule change would "guarantee" a Clinton win. I just said it would be more democratic.
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by dcposch 10y ago
> The lesson that a lot of anti-Trumpers appear to have taken away from this election is that the electoral college is bad because it lets people who don't live on the coasts have a say too No. Everyone should have an equal say. T
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by dcposch 10y ago
> Maybe deleting the native apps and using the webapps will raise the barrier to entry high enough that I'll only use them when there's actually something I want to do on them. That's worked pretty well for me. Also check
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by dcposch 10y ago
> This is entirely normal - the young like things to change, the old do not. This voting pattern well predates the internet. Makes no sense given the context. Clinton was absolutely not the change candidate in this election. Old people p
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by dcposch 10y ago
> Even if you don't intend to go racing, a manual is just a bit more interesting and keeps you paying attention the whole trip, in my experience at least. I drive an E36 M3, a car almost 20 years old. It's a musical instrument,
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by dcposch 10y ago
Yes, the corporate press was smug, hubristic, and often hilariously wrong. I think the best journalism came from people outside the normal news. Here are three nontraditional journalists who did excellent work: -- Nate Silver did the best m
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by dcposch 10y ago
> I don't understand how thick headed the mainstream media (MSM) seems to be in not getting it. This "upset" win of Trump (upset in the sense that it didn't play by the MSM's wishes) was not an isolated incident
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by dcposch 10y ago
> Dude looked humble-struck in the video today with Obama; almost worried about what he got himself into. I bet part of that was an emotion completely absent from Trump's public persona: shame. Trump started his political career cir
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by dcposch 10y ago
Appreciate the sentiment, but I think it's a false equivalence. I was in Amsterdam for a week in June and I'm in SF today. I love both cities, but the difference is palpable. The US is experiencing a wave of xenophobia and outrigh
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by dcposch 10y ago
I just moved into a sort of a co-op. It's run by residents and owned and maintained by a startup that's trying to create a lot of these kinda of spaces. Beyond "bringing back a collegial atmosphere", it looks and feels l
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by dcposch 10y ago
* Not a cofounder. YC was created by PG, Jessica Livingstone, and two other ppl who aren't Sam * Recently changed roles. Michael Siebel runs YC now, while Sam runs the parent organization YC Group
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by dcposch 10y ago
> Congress is not uniquely problematic because members of Congress have to raise money. Everyone has to raise money. Larry Lessig has had to raise money many times in his career. I bet Lessig has never spent four hours cold-calling wealt
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by dcposch 10y ago
Not just death, but the gradual loss of physical and mental capabilities you used to have. That feels scarier to me. Imagine you could chose to die on your 75th birthday, but in return keep your full 20-something health until then. I'd
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by dcposch 10y ago
Adelson is also a major Trump donor. He bought a newspaper in Las Vegas and used it to give Trump his first major paper endorsement. He's said a lot of things that, to me, sound shockingly bigoted. -- To an extent, all of us vote with
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by dcposch 10y ago
A Falcon 9 returning from past the Karman line at near hypersonic speed, flipping around, balancing itself like a pencil on a fingertip, and landing back at the launch pad isn't futuristic? We are living in a second golden age of aeros
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by dcposch 10y ago
As anonymous internet message boards go, /r/spacex is really impressive. They have a lot of highly informed space enthusiasts, both amateur and professional. Here's one time Reddit was actually able to help SpaceX (!) by rec
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by dcposch 10y ago
For fun a few months ago, I implemented BLAKE in JS. It's a state of the art hash function developed by djb. It was cool seeing how hashing works under the hood. I used UInt32Array for speed. It is still nowhere near native speed, but
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by dcposch 10y ago
Just because you found an example of a politician making it fairly far (but probably not even getting elected) without the support of the rich does not mean that money in politics isn't a problem. In America, there are two kinds of p
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by dcposch 10y ago
This is incredibly gracious of Lessig, to defend someone who treated him poorly. I donated to both his ill-fated Mayday PAC and his ill-fated presidential campaign last year. He is a selfless guy who is trying to address the root cause of U
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by dcposch 10y ago
> Clinton openly stated during the election she wants to take away your right to bare arms I'm pretty sure going sleeveless will still be legal in a Clinton presidency. Spelling aside, it's still incorrect. Nobody is proposing
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by dcposch 10y ago
> He is a libertarian I just find this impossible to reconcile with his support for Trump, the most authoritarian presidential candidate in a very long time and possibly ever. I think many of his supporters would actually agree with that
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> Heck these are the sort "clean code" practices which make your debug build run at 5 FPS No. Quake and Doom were both extremely performance optimized, and still had clean code. Avoiding commented-out or otherwise dead code; na

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