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by jjav 2y ago
The traditional way to solve this was to keep the protocol at a 0.x version until mature enough. "Enough", not absolutely perfect. (Of course this can be abused, like with gmail being "beta" over five years.) After you h
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Yes! My favorite RSS feed reader is mutt (and the email ecosystem around it like procmail). With email I already have infinitely flexible filtering, sorting, on-the-fly modification of headers and content, and a reader with best in class th
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by jjav 2y ago
> Cities are often cheaper to live in than suburban lifestyles Often? Where is it cheaper, for equivalent lifestyle, to live in a city? Never heard of that. Cities (unless decrepit) are always very expensive compared to the alternatives.
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> So if I bought my house in 1955, I might pay $100/year in property tax Ok it's fine to point out drawbacks of Prop 13, but making up stuff doesn't help. Prop 13 baseline assessment used 1976 values, so buying in 1955 doe
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Publishing server code provides no assurance of anything (although it is still nice, for other reasons) since nobody can know if what they (for any "they") run in production is the same as the public source. Open client code and d
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> when Musk advocates for a minimalist approach to moderation it suddenly becomes “fascist” There has been nothing minimalist in Musk's moderation, he's been banning people on twitter all along. His whole free speech thing turn
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> > I've never heard of anyone saying that the sun should be avoided at all costs, it's weird > Yeah that's because nobody says that. It can't be nobody since this very thread has people saying that! Agreed with
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> Similar things about other "old tools" from usenet to RSS, just imaging your bank offering an authenticated feed of every transaction, markets changes etc with push notifications as well. What a dream that would be! Agree wit
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> modern PERSONAL email tools The capitalized personal part there is so important! So few people today even realize what is possible, since they are captive in websites like gmail that have so very little functionality. email was always
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by jjav 2y ago
mutt is alive and well, it's all I use for email. At work I'm forced to use the unusable gmail website, ugh.
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by jjav 2y ago
> Ha, so it's spacious, not tiny and very little anymore... Playing gotcha word games is not the HN ethos. To clarify, you brought up spacious travel trailers: > most European caravans are sub 1500kg / 3300lb, even the more
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by jjav 2y ago
> Plus, if work vehicles became lighter, work trailers would be forced to as well. Try shopping for utility trailers. Anything affordable is very heavy steel & lumber. You can get light(er) trailers in aluminum but the price is much
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> given your example it's "want", not "need" Yes, how is this relevant? "Wants" are what drive humanity forward, not mere subsistence. > Quick googling tells me that most European caravans are sub 15
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Why bigger? Just the ones they use now, which the post I responded to suggested to junk them all. If that happened, then what?
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by jjav 2y ago
> Is there a name for this, when people come up with a plausible sounding scenario for crime driven disaster, but it does not actually have basis in real world? Movie plot threats: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archi
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>I would like these vehicles to be sent to the landfill immediately. So you'll never have anything delivered anymore nor have a contractor be able to show up and work on anything. How will that work with your plan?
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> what confuses me is why Americans (and increasingly, Kiwis) need a vehicle the size of a Dodge Ram rather than one the size of a 1990 HiLux ute Well depends what you need to do with, of course. A quick search suggests that this Toyota
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by jjav 2y ago
> Heavy vehicles such as pickup trucks should require a CDL Just note that looks can deceive on weight. A Ford Maverick pickup truck is under 3800lb. A Tesla Plaid Model X is over 5300lb!
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by jjav 2y ago
> can I interest you with an HYSA paying 5% Don't plan a retirement around a HYSA at 5% because those rates will go back down.
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> With a $2m+ net worth you could move to 90% of the country, retire and live off of the interest. Not really for most scenarios. For someone who is single and has no kids and plans to stay that way forever and is happy to live a very si
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> The fact that having to live a non >$2M net worth lifestyle would make your family unhappy sounds concerning. The phrase "$2M net worth lifestyle" does not mean anything. A 2M net worth could be a 1.5M house (which in the
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by jjav 2y ago
> Teacher shortage mostly happens in sparse communities not dense ones since it is easy to find teachers where lots of people live. Only in medium density cities. Once you get to very high cost of living areas, finding and keeping teache
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> Buying or selling a house is one. Who wakes up one day and decides they're buying a house today, without any prior planning?
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> Presumably double the density you also double the size of the school and double the teachers. It's not that easy. If you doubled the density, maybe there is nowhere left to go for the school to expand, or the land is now so expens
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> It quickly becomes clear that people will live wherever they are allowed to. Doesn't seem to be true. You can buy land in e.g. Nevada for less than $1000 per acre, but it sits empty because approximately nobody wants to live in th
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by jjav 2y ago
> it's that I don't care Ok. So hoefully you can see why people who like their homes and their town will rationally do everything possible to oppose a person who is an outsider and comes in saying they don't care about any
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by jjav 2y ago
> can you honestly say that “nuking the company” is a net positive? Yes of course it would be positive. On the short term, remove one incompetent high-risk company from the industry. But more importantly long term, it would do a lot to
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> Contrast that to programming. A single "<" instead of "<=" could be the difference between totally fine and billions of dollars of damages. Disagree. This is true purely at the coding level, yes. Anyone could
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> not getting health insurance from employer so budget $6k per year FYI when I took some time off, I had to pay ~$3500/month for health insurance for a family of three (and of course still pay deductibles and out of pocket costs). H
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Netflix does pay that well to compensate, but not Amazon.

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