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by ertian 4y ago
Try misusing the words 'ironic' or 'literal', and tell me it's not intrusive in real time...
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by ertian 5y ago
Not everything is just a "convenient boogeyman": some things actually do contribute more to housing costs. If you drive through any major American (or Canadian) city outside of the core downtown area...it's pretty clear _some
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by ertian 5y ago
This is very true. But: "Hey, guys, we're going to Seattle! What would you like to see?" "Let's go to Pike Place, I've heard a lot about that!" "Ehh...okay, but we'll have to stick to the inside
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by ertian 5y ago
I don't like American-style suburbs, I'm not defending cars over people. I think the lack of public transportation in the US is a tragedy. But "You must live in one of 100 identical walk-up 4-storey courtyard-facing brown bri
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by ertian 5y ago
It is. North American zoning certainly isn't ideal, IMHO. But a mix of superblocks, both dense and sparse mixed-zone housing, single family homes, and high rises would appeal to me. Just let people pick where they want to live. I also
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by ertian 5y ago
Yeah, I don't feel like this is something China lacks. Most of the cities I've been to were mixed-zoning (or, well, maybe just un-zoned?), such that you could go for a quick walk from most apartments and quickly find convenience s
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by ertian 5y ago
Many places do. It was very much the norm as cities were expanding rapidly in the 20th century. Something like 75+% of land in major metropolitan areas in North America are zoned for single-family housing only[1]. And of course that's
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by ertian 5y ago
It's not necessarily about 'Shock and Awe' attacks on Ukrainian targets, though. They're also allowing drone and aircraft attacks on their tanks, troops, and supply chains. You would expect the Russian air force to be se
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by ertian 5y ago
I think it's a bit of a pendulum. The enthusiasm and excitement for open source was largely driven by the locked-down environment of the time. Access to source and high-quality free software with source was an exhilarating novelty. But
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by ertian 5y ago
"I love you, and I love it when you do favors for me...but I don't love you quite enough to return the favors." Everybody loves benefiting from free software. Who wouldn't? But if you aren't willing to contribute, t
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by ertian 5y ago
I was setting up an encrypted-root system with ssh access to pass the passphrase, and got reading. It looks like an initrd image can connect to a VPN or set up a Tor hidden service these days. I didn't try it, though.
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by ertian 5y ago
Similar, but made with wood and nails, which makes way more sense for a knitting aid. Much cheaper and easier to produce. Also, the dodecahedrons are found in sizes ranging from "4 to 11 cm" in size (according to Wikipedia). That
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by ertian 5y ago
I believe these dodecahedrons come in a whole variety of sizes, and aren't particularly consistent (i.e. there's not 3 standard sizes, just a whole range). That undermines a lot of potential explanations.
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by ertian 5y ago
I've had the same experience, with ligatures applying in languages they weren't designed for. It struck me that the font is a strange place to make the decision about what character combinations should be combined. Something like
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by ertian 5y ago
It's a temporary state, until the PoS coin market cap gets too large to be attackable. Bitcoin's market cap is in the 1T range now, Ethereum is close to half that. Buffet couldn't do a thing against a PoS coin that large, and
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by ertian 5y ago
It's not (just) smug mockery. It's taking a post that might have made a big impression on people, and giving a deliberately silly variant to make it clear how the logic is incorrect. Just pointing out the faulty logic would'v
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by ertian 5y ago
Whether or not that's true, it's not a money grab.
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by ertian 5y ago
Yeah...but you have to lock up crypto assets, usually with a value significantly over the stablecoins you get in return. And if the value of your assets fall, they're liquidated and the loan is repaid. It's risky for the borrower,
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by ertian 5y ago
It's suggested in the article that it was probably a family.
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by ertian 5y ago
Well, you're kind of missing the economy of scale. If it ever became more popular, I'm sure the price would drop.
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by ertian 5y ago
Yes, town houses aka row houses are much better than traditional picket-fence houses. Also, though, cities in the east have far better public transit systems. Vancouver does well for the west coast, but it's system is dwarfed by those
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by ertian 5y ago
That's not a fix, though. Reducing the pain of a commute would mean more people would move out to the suburbs, which would grow, which would add to the traffic. People are apparently willing to drive 1 hour each way in a normal car, wh
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by ertian 5y ago
I used to work in a 5-storey office building in Sunnyvale, CA (special permission required to build it). I could look out the window and see 10 miles in every direction. It was a vast sea of aging 60s bungalows. Also the most expensive plac
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by ertian 5y ago
You really don't have that much construction in Vancouver. There's a ton downtown, and in spots here and there, but most of Vancouver proper is single-family dwellings. You complain about condos, but houses with yards are incompat
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by ertian 5y ago
I think the difference is faith in authority figures. People who trust those in authority will believe what they're told (quite correctly, in this case), but they won't understand the full argument--they're not authorities th
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by ertian 5y ago
He explicitly says that the 'framing' gets his emotions stirring.
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by ertian 5y ago
Yeah, largely as a result of their one-child policy, the cost of raising a child in China has gone through the roof. People poured everything into getting the very best for their child (and grandparents did the same). My definite impression
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by ertian 5y ago
So the LKML has been rotting from the head down for...30 years? If the result of that is Linux, maybe the rot isn't as bad as you fear. The cultural differences that cause distro forks are debates over free-vs-libre, what belongs in th
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by ertian 5y ago
Well...I like Linus just fine as kernel maintainer, but I remember a dozen times (over 2 decades, to be fair) when he was, uhh, very direct. It's often not as aggressive as people make out, but he can definitely get a bit mean when peo
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by ertian 5y ago
As others have pointed out, that's speculation. I have trouble understanding why it bothers people so much that Linus is rude sometimes. You don't have to interact with him if you don't want. You can even contribute to the ke

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