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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Honestly? not op but that seems easy.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
> And when there are other demographic groups—like immigrants—who are absolutely, verifiably and consistently reliable as tenants. I know someone with something like 120 units. Unassuming nice old lady that makes over a million a year. S
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Blood from a stone. Sure the landlord could theoretically go after them, but they would spend a bunch of money on legal fees for someone that will probably never pay it back.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Per a friend, they are told to use more contractors in the government. Its also not clear if the contractor is actually making more money. Government benefits are significantly better than most contractors will give (I will be all of them).
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I agree. streaming has ruined gaming communities. My idea is that every instance of a game should have randomized variables that make it impossible to find the optimal position generally.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
If we rephrased this to "When I reject my coworkers code even if it works" and give the same reasons there would be zero dissent. There is this weird idea that seems to come up with AI that any solution must be good and adequate.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
> It makes less sense in an era when tenure is better measured in months than years. Is this common though? Most places I have worked have had people with pretty long tenures. Maybe Silicon Valley during peak ZIRP where you could just ke
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Age of Empires II had a creative map editor, where you could "program" via triggers and effects. It wasn't as in depth as the blizzard games which you could write code, but was easier to use. You could make a trigger (ie. un
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Emperor: Battle for Dune is impossible to find nowadays. It was fun game though. Same with SW: Galactic Battlegrounds. Short of piracy, you can't get them.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
The rich only buy so many homes. Its close to a pigeon hole problem. If there are 10 houses and 11 people, the homes are going to go up in price until the 11th is homeless (or moving away to somewhere cheaper). If there are 100 people, its
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I bang on this drum a lot. We need Land Value Taxes to incentivize productive use of land, and we need to eliminate (or greatly reduce the burden of) Zoning (Japan has zoning but a great model that really allows building housing efficiently
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I really can't agree with this. Sure pure LoC is a bad metric. But there is a correlation between output and LoC. Outside of a very senior developer, maybe a Principal or Lead that is spending all day in architecture meetings and revi
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
The issue with trickle down economics is that there are: 1. Taxes on labor, lower taxes on wealth. 2. A lack of taxes on land and rent. 3. Strict controls on developing land. This turns housing into an asset class, punishes productive labor
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Wealth Taxes are an incredibly bad idea. So are Income Taxes. You don't tax productivity, since that disincentivizes productivity. Wealth Taxes punishes people for being successful and building wealth, but wealth is how you get the ca
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
This reminds me of [Steve Job's response about OpenDoc at a conference]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o ) where he points out that focus on the tech isn't as important as focus on the product. Companies
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I am on a 27" 4k screen and that website is very readable to me. Should the text all be in a single column in the center taking 10% of the screen like 99% of blogs now? Chronological or Alphabetical sorting would make more sense than i
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I work with a few models on servers, so not local, but self hosted with ollama. gemma-4, glm 4.7 flash, and qwen 3.6. glm is the best at coding agentically. But I still don't think any of them reach the levels of gpt 5.5 or opus 4.8.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Rent extraction is bad, since it hurts productivity. Ill admit I am an unabashed Georgist, but the book Progress and Poverty by Henry George is pretty accessible. But basically this: Capital and Capitalists are good, they have money, then l
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Swift and Rust were developed at similar times. I think of them more as having similar influences than borrowing from each other.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
From an Anarchist perspective isn't any state necessarily totalitarian? But I do believe there aught to be a strong, patriarchal, centralized state with strict laws and severe punishments. I think Singapore is close to an ideal.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I am the furthest thing from an Anarchist, but to deny that Anarchism influenced the ideas of Open Source Software is factually wrong.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Open Source comes out of Anarchist philosophy not Communist State owned type ideas. There is no direct ownership, its a project built as a common good, and owned by "the public". Its a community garden that people are free to plan
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I asked local qwen 3.6 what language my project was written in. It was a Java project, and it came back with C#. So I guess its pretty close.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I am not sure providers are entirely blameless. My daughter had an annual checkup, when we were asked if there were other issues, we asked about a bug bite. They charged us for a second emergency visit, what the hell is the point of an annu
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I am not familiar with this astro framework they used. But having built some sites using Pure HTML/JS back in the day, React, Angular, Vue, Rails ERB, Rails Hotwire, and HTMX. I think HTML first websites are absolutely the way to go. R
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Japan has less trading houses at increasingly high valuations to pump up their GDP.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
New front end frameworks came out every 3 months, but realistically no one was using anything that wasn't made by Facebook, Google, or Evan You.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
China isn't that cheap for labor. And if you think the guys in Z.ai or xiaoxiao aren't the exact same guys from Tsinghua, Peking, MIT, Stanford, CMU, etc. and pulling in amazing salaries you'd be wrong.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Cognito just supported multi-region? For identity this seems like a very high priority issue. I was at a company 10 years ago that we didn't use Cognito to build, and build our own AWS based identity because Cognito didn't have th
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Lets say they build 100 Data Centers in Oswego county. Per Capita income is only $20k and one of the poorest in new york state. There is a lot of space that is not used for anything. 100 Data Centers is going to provide some amount of jobs

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