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by jlhawn 3y ago
In the "Use as a `do` expression" section, the example which uses `run` does not need the `else` cases and could be simplified: function doWork() { const x = run(() => { if (foo()) return f(); if (bar()) ret
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by jlhawn 3y ago
This is a drawing app using P5.js Click the "</>" at the top to read the code. There's a popular "Let's Code" YouTube channel called The Coding Train that uses it. It's quite acccessible.
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by jlhawn 3y ago
What does it seem to think that "humanity's greatest problem" is exactly? What if you explicitly tell it that overpopulation is not a problem?
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by jlhawn 4y ago
Georgism?
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by jlhawn 4y ago
> In their updated policy, it appears they now won't remove any existing images, but projects who don't pay up will not be able to publish any new images This is not correct. It's the "organization" features whic
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by jlhawn 4y ago
The latest episode of the Odd Lots Podcast (Feb. 27, 2023) titled "Why We Don't Build More Apartments for Families" > On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, we explore the hidden incentives and regulations that deter bui
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by jlhawn 4y ago
> I'm surprised you're able to build Docker images faster than Docker using their code/libraries? It's not a code/library problem. Knowing what Buildkit options to use is the easy part. It's almost entirely
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by jlhawn 4y ago
You should check out Culdesac[1]. [1] https://culdesac.com/
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by jlhawn 4y ago
Yep, $1 Million+ homes in the largest job markets in the U.S. are hard to beat!
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by jlhawn 4y ago
But it understands your work habits! Also, it uses machine learning to understand your work habits! This makes you more productive by understanding your work habits.
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by jlhawn 4y ago
My comment was more about California, specifically, as that's what the original post was about. The state constitution uses the term "full cash value". I dislike the term "Assessed value" because so many people assu
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by jlhawn 4y ago
This is why, I think, property taxes should not be based on the "full cash value" of a property but instead be based on the rental value. The market selling price that we used today is a lot more volatile than rental value because
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by jlhawn 4y ago
"House-Price" is a terrible metric that only house sellers really care about. Everyone else is more concerned with monthly total housing costs. If house prices stayed the same and interest rates increased 2-3x that means monthly
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by jlhawn 4y ago
> As a result, other people want to move in > Their own charity and neighborliness spelled their doom is allowing more homes not possible? If not, then where’s that “neighborliness” now?
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by jlhawn 4y ago
In many California cities at least, you can connect all of the rent control measures in the late '70s to significant downzonings which occurred in the previous decade or so. I wonder if it could also be be considered a factor which con
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by jlhawn 4y ago
St. Paul's rent control does go pretty far. Personally, I think it's a mistake to have it apply to new construction. If you remember California Prop 21 from 2020, even that would have only allowed rent control on buildings which a
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by jlhawn 4y ago
YIMBY organizers still get a lot of criticism from its early days where they would show up to support housing wherever it was being built, and in the mid-2010s that typically meant low-income, minority neighborhoods that were already experi
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by jlhawn 5y ago
Land Value Tax would solve this.
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by jlhawn 5y ago
There isn't a shortage of 3500 sq.ft. single family homes in suburban or rural areas in the way that there is a shortage of apartments/condos in high-rent urban areas. There isn't much opposition to this kind of new developme
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by jlhawn 5y ago
I'm seeing a lot of "I could do this myself" in this thread. Okay. Then do it. Make your own password manager. Make your own browser and iOS/Android keyboard extensions for it. Make your own cloud backup/sync of you
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by jlhawn 5y ago
I hope you're not suggestion that we go back to a gold standard? I wouldn't mind certain capital controls though, specifically limits on credit money issued for purchase of land.
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by jlhawn 5y ago
Sorry, I went to sleep before seeing your reply. There could be a lot of reasons 'why' but the biggest reason for me is that land/location value usually has nothing to do with the actions of the individual owners. There exist
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by jlhawn 5y ago
The real horrendous injustice is that when you purchase real estate your payment includes a large unearned increment to the previous owner over what they paid for it. A system where you pay the previous owner only for the value of improveme
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by jlhawn 7y ago
The Georgist movement (or Single-Tax movement) had a lot of momentum at the beginning of the 20th century. Major political leaders like Winston Churchill, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Sun Yat-Sen were all Georgists. There are various reasons fo
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by jlhawn 7y ago
Even if land on Earth were infinite, there would still be differences in value based on location. Already there is desert land which can be used for free but urban land is far more valuable due to its proximity to desirable features. Econom
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by jlhawn 7y ago
I thought it was Uranium 235 which was the common weapons material, so I looked up Wikipedia [1]: > ... While it is thus possible to use uranium-233 as the fissile material of a nuclear weapon, speculation[8] aside, there is scant public
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by jlhawn 9y ago
I updated it with some comments explaining what's going on: https://play.golang.org/p/xEnlcwBX4CN
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by jlhawn 9y ago
I wrote a quick little program to sort of prove this to myself: https://play.golang.org/p/fITZrZgzTT7 While the average difference in time between one record and the next is 10, the weighted average over the entire dur
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by jlhawn 9y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, but it sounds like the question is not asking how to parse HTML with a regex, but how to match HTML open tags specifically. While you obviously can't match arbitrary HTML with a regex (beca
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by jlhawn 9y ago
Very cool experiment! A fork bomb spawns processes at an exponential rate, however it looks like this just creates a linear chain of Docker daemons? > Now wait patiently until your hd fills up. This is obviously slower than a fork bomb,

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