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by gbronner 5y ago
Peace. Not having an army sell you into slavery or burn/steal all of your possessions is a precursor for capital formation
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by gbronner 5y ago
We have automatic dishwashers now. During WW1, a relative of mine was sent from the city to help on a farm. After dinner, the family lined up all the platters and plates and put them outside, where a herd of hungry cats would lick them cle
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by gbronner 5y ago
First, if you are doing heavy work, like fixing roads, you usually can't do it all day. Neither can most draft animals. Second, the mid day meal was the big one, and there was usually a nap as well. People had to walk to work, and i
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by gbronner 5y ago
Not a duplicate -- this presents a far better overview of the benefits of this new dorm.
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Charlie Munger Revolutionary Dorm(news.ucsb.edu)
1 points by gbronner 5y ago|2 comments
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by gbronner 5y ago
Living like this is actually pretty common both at universities and as a young adult. You have private space, a shared kitchen/dining room, and the building has lounges and other public amenities. Your room is for sleep, and possibly
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by gbronner 5y ago
Do you have any idea how criminally expensive housing is in SB??? This will provide low-cost accommodations nicer than any Ivy league dorm I've ever seen and enable 4500 people/year (or roughly 15% of Goleta CA) to live on camp
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by gbronner 5y ago
As long as the ventilation is good, I don't care about the windows -- the idea is that you should use your bedroom for sleeping at night, and go socialize and learn about things elsewhere. I suspect that a lot of night-owl students wil
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by gbronner 5y ago
The goal is to get the students out of their bedrooms. There's plenty of common space, and lots of really nice places to go study and socialize out of your bedroom. This is intended to promote real-life socialization, which is the
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by gbronner 5y ago
Indeed, and if you have a community of people using them, you can be very productive. But those languages are astonishingly intimidating for new programmers -- reading from right to left, with implicit variables, different usage of brackets
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by gbronner 5y ago
Historically, most farmers did this themselves. I don't think anyone would care if you did a few a year. You can probably do them with/for your neighbors as long as you don't charge. Wouldn't go about setting it up a
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by gbronner 5y ago
So sad about Alan Krueger.
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by gbronner 5y ago
If you have a large freezer, buy one and slaughter it yourself. Several hundred pounds of nearly free meat, and not especially hard to process yourself. Various us states have published guides on how to do this
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by gbronner 5y ago
They should remove the ability to invest self-directed IRAs into options. This socializes the risk (i.e. someone with little or no supplementary retirement income is going to be a burden on the rest of us) while privatizing the gains.
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by gbronner 5y ago
Don't make K turns either.
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by gbronner 5y ago
Also, perfect traction control at each wheel. And the ability to do tank turns, or to get out of deep snow/sand
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by gbronner 5y ago
sadly, it isn't tough enough to support a snowplow. Because it would be the best snowplow vehicle you could buy if it was a bit tougher.
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by gbronner 5y ago
A number of orgs have perpetual site licenses, or so I've been told. It can solve many problems elegantly and with minimal code and development time. But it requires a core group of people who do almost nothing else.
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by gbronner 5y ago
This website is blocked by your network operator. Category is hate and racism. Wonder why....
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by gbronner 5y ago
According to DeWitt himself, the DeWitt clause came about because he figured out that Oracle had no query optimizer. However, the response of a lot of database vendors was to then include precomputed results for entire benchmarks, and also
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by gbronner 5y ago
One issue in SF is that the proportion of parents sending kids to public schools as a proportion of voters in these elections is very low. So you can run on a platform completely unrelated to education, win, and use it as a stepping stone
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by gbronner 5y ago
New construction was exempt from rent controls. So people built aggressively. But later, all of that new construction got regulated again, and construction has never picked up to that extent, due to the 'recapture'
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by gbronner 5y ago
You don't need to clip the oven latch. Relatively easy to rewire the motor that operates it to run manually. Not sure this helps anyone, bit less destructive than snips
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by gbronner 5y ago
The pandemic made it relatively cheaper to use rather than rent space. So some units are off the market and are in use as guest units/ extra bedroom/whatever
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by gbronner 5y ago
Average consumer has no idea how to organize and hire contractors for home improvements. House flippers who do this at scale add a fair amount of value, and also add value for the contractors
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by gbronner 5y ago
Now if only we could get kids from the cities in the Northeast to help remove deer from the suburbs...
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by gbronner 5y ago
Seems like the obvious thing to do is set up a large Bitcoin short position, buy a bunch of tethers, and publicly try to redeem them If tether has backing, you only lose the tether premium. Otherwise you lose all your tethers, but hopefully
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by gbronner 5y ago
How long before people record it and post it on social media? Cool experience for the first few people, but once everyone has been there, it is just a vomit comet to nowhere for the price of a car -- sort of like the world's most uncom
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by gbronner 5y ago
There are companies such as proportunity that will co-invest your downpayment as well
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by gbronner 5y ago
Thanks! I've personally advised/warned a couple startup founders trying different variations of this. All failed

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