fennecfoxen

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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
I suspect that if the developer/landlord is out to capture all the value possible (as he is directly incentivized to do) having multiple floors just isn't going to be nearly enough.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Aaaaand we're back to the "serves-them-right" lowkey spiteful angle. I don't know, if I were a member in good standing of some Institution(TM) that is supposed to look out for me and work for my interests, and my governm
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Opinion: High density planned communities that try to take care of almost everything, like you describe, are a at serious risk of being insipid, mediocre, uninspiring, and worse. I think it’s something about the incentive structure, probabl
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> Should one live in a high tax high social safety net country while paying tax to a low tax low social safety net country or not paying tax at all? My friend, if these systems were just about aligning the incentives for workers and bene
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> Think of it as like a visa. Yes! A visa! Thank you! The strident heart and soul of the inhuman, inhumane, soulless bureaucracy. It is exactly like that. This isn't exactly something to be lauded or celebrated! Have you ever dealt
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
I used to have an email address with a three-letter username @eh.net, which was actually surprisingly annoying to use. If you ever gave the address to someone they'd be very confused at how short it is.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
A domain name is intended to represent something. It shows up in identifiers and addresses such as the Uniform Resource Locator and email addresses. It's better for basically-everyone-in-the-world if that representation and those addre
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
It’s more that a system should not allow a single fraud to shape its understanding and its policy. Assume fraud exists.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
WiFi? Eh. As an ever-so-modest upgrade to the cheap DIY, a Zwave or Zigbee system might be a better choice to integrate with a variety of other things (like thermostats and temperature/humidity sensors.)
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Brain neurons going into sleep mode eject some of the cell contents and shrink, which apparently also helps flush waste because the cerebrospinal fluid can flow better.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
The word “gender” comes from a Latin root involving “birth” and shows up in English in such verbs as “engender” which literally means “to beget offspring” (and idiomatically means “to cause”). If you were person speaking English before abou
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
That's new — but those are still $5000 models "designed for professional fleet use", a little on the steep side. I'd give it a little longer for that to percolate downmarket towards the likes of the Navimow which is arou
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Existing lawn robots still mostly rely on a buried cable to form a boundary-line. The next generation vision/lidar/gps systems are clearly in development but not commercially available in the US (the Segway NaviMow is available in
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
That's actual-devops. Grandparent poster has worked at firms which have abandoned all its lessons and just use it to mean something like "regular old ops teams, but they use software". So he's using the term like all the
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Ancient Rome, famed for its commerce, had a variety of capitalist features, though with significantly less productive use of invested capital, as one would expect of a pre-industrial society. Most people, however, would consider Roman slave
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Whitewashing the Civil War as grandparent post did was in error, but don’t let the evils of slavery blind you to the leadership’s more immediate, stated war goal: to preserve the Union. Freeing slaves was an ancillary matter at best. If the
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
To expand on this (and hopefully not mangle your original idea), the key feature that makes a capitalist economy efficient is the use of a price mechanism to distribute the hard problems of decision-making to people who are reasonably well-
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Not original poster, but Economics is about making decisions when your decisions have trade-offs because you have limited resources. Everything has a price, but the prices aren't always measured in a nice money-based price tag for your
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Borne, as in, 'carried', derivative of the verb 'to bear'
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
If that’s a regressive tax on the poor, then so are “groceries” and “housing”.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
You know what Florida has besides taxes? User fees. You can take a brand-new highway here and it'll be a toll road, which means you're the one paying for it, not unrelated taxpayers around the state. You can even finance the con
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
[UI confusion led me to think this was a reply in a nyc specific comment chain. It’s still relevant but less perfectly so.] You land-tax to make sure the most efficient buildings end up using the land. But the construction industry in towns
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
“a significant episode during which economic output falls”
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
We have a money-based economy. Not in the same sense as oil-based, but a lot of economic activity takes place because someone borrows money, uses it to buy something big, and then repays the lender over time. This is true of homes and renov
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> If you call it one, they will use it as cause for even more layoffs and price hikes Let’s go back to the Carter administration standard, then: The US economy is in a banana. Let’s hope it’s not a serious one.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
i don't get this perspective > Brexit, Trump, and the social and economic decline, perceived or real, that led to them are the most obvious events that signaled our latest attempts to kick apart Eden. like okay, those legit aren&#x2
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Indeed, there are a lot of engineering challenges related to the distance. Solar power is much, much dimmer at 900 AU -- that's like 20x Pluto distance -- so you'll need to bring something like an RTG. But your RTG will decay whil
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
You know what else isn't happy-times? When Wikipedia editors are trying to maintain things one way or another, and someone disagrees with what they've done, so they go off and write an article about how these terrible trolls hav
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
p4d.24xlarge is only $33/hr! And you get 400 Gbe so it should be quick to load.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
It sounds like you were just going to end up with a mediocre, compromised system anyway. "Light rail" is still bringing us things like the Santa Clara VTA system at best , and the Virginia Beach "Tide" at its worst. Lik

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