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by gottorf 3y ago
The article is talking about British Columbia, which is laughably underpopulated, like all of Canada. BC has a population of 5.5 million, which is two million less than Hong Kong; and if you overlaid HK starting at the western edge of Vanco
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by gottorf 3y ago
> What's the cause, specifically? Home price gains that have far outstripped inflation or the average wage all have the same cause wherever it happens in any developed country. It's entirely self-inflicted, on one end by polici
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Welcome to the age of generational wealth and wealth transfer much like Europe a century ago. This inevitably happens as a society grows to the point where it values stability and maintenance over freedom and growth. The chaotic nature
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by gottorf 3y ago
Not the GP, but I guess that there isn't much of a predictive power of good or bad news that comes out of a company towards the movement of its stock price. Obviously the company and its stock price are not "completely" separ
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by gottorf 3y ago
To be fair, the GP said governments should fear their citizens, not that they do and always have done. It's an ideal end state, I guess.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> to assume good faith. To assume the government is sincerely invested in doing it's job of protecting citizens. Five thousand years of recorded human history should serve as adequate evidence against making this assumption. And we
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by gottorf 3y ago
> It didn't sound like a "true" free market. Very few things are in a "true" free market. But considering cars are (or should be, at any rate) substitutable goods, for most people, it should be pretty close to a
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by gottorf 3y ago
> complaining about price markups as economic illiteracy I mean, I hate dealer markups as much as the next person, but it is true. It's just supply and demand. Dealers wouldn't charge crazy markups if enough car buyers weren&#x
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by gottorf 3y ago
Be that as it may, your comment runs the risk of being contrary to the HN guidelines ("eschew flamebait"). It is interesting to see how different organizations eventually get subsumed by those more interested in the power and pres
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by gottorf 3y ago
> how they make cities less inhabitable Everyone says they would love to live in a walkable city, but for some reason, at least in the US, the biggest gainers in population over the recent decades have been all automobile-centric cities
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by gottorf 3y ago
> And In reality all of SOHO(Greenwich village, Chelsea, Fidi etc) the interior excluding the west side and east side high way could be 90% car free with high speed mass transit to bus/electric street cars you anywhere there could w
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Is this supposed to be a massive difference? I'm not sure how helpful it is to compare different cars. Here's a more apples-to-apples comparison: a 2023 Kia Niro (which is itself a conventional hybrid, with a gasoline engine
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by gottorf 3y ago
And yet, despite all that, the median person is much, much better off than prior to all the economic development.
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by gottorf 3y ago
I'm not sure how small you need it to be, but if you took an older regular cab half-ton with the shorter wheelbase (6' instead of 8' bed) and replaced the bed with one of those fold-down-side beds, it'll be relatively co
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by gottorf 3y ago
> It feels like the society collectively decided "no more new building" This, more than anything else, seems to be the problem in the developed West, at least when it comes to real estate prices and related cost of living issue
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by gottorf 3y ago
I didn't mean to imply that South Korea developed all on its own. (A good example of a country that tried to do that, with closed borders, is its northern neighbor.) Certainly, having the foremost superpower in its corner helped tremen
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by gottorf 3y ago
The usual line is 10,000lbs GVWR, which is met only by three-quarter-ton and heavier pickups (think F-250, Silverado 2500 HD, etc.), among vehicles that people actually drive on public roads. That lets manufacturers skip having an MPG estim
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by gottorf 3y ago
I can see enough overlap; just see the recent trend of "off-road capable" vehicles in all shapes and sizes. Many people with high-paying jobs in cities who never drive off the pavement spend extra money to buy e.g. a Crosstrek Wil
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by gottorf 3y ago
Well, I suppose they're related. A pancake truck with a big footprint but short sides might look weird.
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by gottorf 3y ago
To add some color: South Korea is somewhere between the size of Kentucky and Indiana (the 37th and 38th largest states), yet has over 51 million people, almost 15 million more than California, the most populous state. It has very few natura
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by gottorf 3y ago
Yeah, modern half-tons have gotten ridiculously tall. You have to be a giant to actually use the bed for loading things, since the floor of the bed is up to your chest these days. An actual work truck would look like this: https:/&#x2
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by gottorf 3y ago
The other place where `ANY(array)` is useful is when interfacing with Postgres from code, where you will quickly find that building a `IN (?)` query from an array is disgusting, if not impossible.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Also, in (South) Korea, depending upon the person's preference, they may choose to do family name first or last. It's crazy. I don't know why. (Can someone explain it to me?) In Korean, the family name comes first, then
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by gottorf 3y ago
Like many customary units, the ton (of cooling) is tied to historical accidents and I dare say is easier to imagine for a layperson; one could visualize the coolness rushing off a cubic-meter block of ice in a room, and how quickly it would
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by gottorf 3y ago
At the risk of sounding very much "kids these days", the concept of service seems to no longer be high on people's priorities. There's an art of making yourself better by making yourself small first and taking care of ot
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by gottorf 3y ago
> the companies have to prove beyond doubt the harmlessness. There must be a reasonable balance struck somewhere. One cannot prove a negative, after all, and if anything new must be proven beyond doubt that it has no short, medium, or lo
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by gottorf 3y ago
> I might possibly be slightly over-vindictive with brands At your rate, you might run out of brands to buy from ;-)
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by gottorf 3y ago
That doesn't mean any and all treatment at a border crossing is legal. Would you not object to an anal probe administered by CBP?
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by gottorf 3y ago
> So he lives in a thing that is freezing cold in winter and exceedingly hot in summer? > That's not going to work in several areas of the world. Trust me, this part of the world gets plenty hot in the summer, yet people make do
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by gottorf 3y ago
> given how past Australian governments outright sharted on nature protection or Aboriginal activists in favor of mining conglomerates, I'd classify the country as lawless as well Making human lives better means that you have to do

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