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by josho 4y ago
Oh 100 units are still built. But they are sold as condos targeting upper middle class as those are more profitable for builders to sell. And these are not affordable for many. We need policy that requires mixed units. Some for the affluent
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by josho 4y ago
I don’t necessarily see a problem with point 2. Renting a house often creates supply. The owner will create a basement suite or a nanny suite over the garage. If housing shortage was solved then that also kills the profit motive of renting
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by josho 4y ago
The employer also shouldn't take you up on the offer because now you are engaging in work without a contract, which opens up contract issues, probably breaks things like SOC compliance, etc. I like your accountability, but it's su
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by josho 4y ago
Oh it will be interesting. Assuming it is possible to commercialize this at scale then relatively overnight we'll some some of the following: * The middle-east no longer becomes a strategic region. Wealthy regimes see their income disa
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by josho 4y ago
> Solar and wind have massive environmental impacts Got a source for this? The only time I've seen this has been political talking points that had no backing.
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by josho 4y ago
Has your father taken this to his city councillor? If nobody reports the problem the city will think things are fine and nothing will change. Regardless I’m quite happy with my safe home. I know that it’s not going to kill me. In some regul
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by josho 4y ago
There's 2 signs of intelligence that I've seen. First, coming up with something new and novel, e.g. being the first to decide that we can move fast & break things. The second is knowing when to apply patterns, e.g. applying th
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by josho 4y ago
These were Russian citizens. How is it that they can be extradited to the US for breaking US law? So if in my country I make a program that is legal where I live, but illegal in the US then the US can come and steal me away? That’s more tha
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by josho 4y ago
Just a minor clarification, nobody is stealing. Rather they are infringing on the author’s copyright. The distinction is important. Stealing is taking something from someone else. Infringing copyright is a legal construct.
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by josho 4y ago
I don’t quite agree. Msft took a conservative approach to copyright to protect their own business. Meanwhile open source software has had an immeasurable benefit to society. My computer, tv, phone, light bulb, etc all benefit from OSS—runni
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by josho 4y ago
As an example to further illustrate your point, it is possible for a business to purchase key employee insurance. As an employee we do not have the same privilege.
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by josho 4y ago
Your example generates company pr value, employee morale, etc. Meanwhile there is no value being generated to Tesla by moving these engineers to some side project for another company.
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by josho 4y ago
Why? Are these possibly unsafe because consumer safety tests are not verified? Is this more likely to fail early in its lifecycle? I suppose I’m seeking to understand if the low prices are from cheaper manufacturing or if they’ve taken shor
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by josho 4y ago
The market requires an educated consumer. The article made it clear that these product changes are occurring unannounced. So of course I’m going to buy the cheaper 1000 sheet 2-ply toilet paper because according to the specs they are the sa
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by josho 4y ago
This is a good test. If we truly are a capitalist economy then we’ll see competition enter and new products that sell quality offerings. My prediction is that won’t happen. There’s been too much consolidation and efficiencies through scale
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by josho 4y ago
Fair point. The alternative however is to spend the same amount (or more) on an EV and have to rent a car for weekend trips.
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by josho 4y ago
Aren't both benefits? E.g. a malicious app mallocs a large buffer and just reads the memory looking for anything interesting? AND as you pointed out a non-malicious app that doesn't handle input. > It's only on-everywhere
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by josho 4y ago
Yes. This protects your data against a malicious app. Your proposal gives a malicious app a workaround to avoid this. Is there a reason you don’t want this on by default?
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by josho 4y ago
Another way of viewing this is Google intentionally lost money on Youtube for years in order to kill out competition. Now that competition has been eliminated and its network effects are firmly in place Google is has greatly degraded their
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by josho 4y ago
The difference is China is used as a bogey man. IMO it's a distraction from what's truly important--that all social media platforms are manipulating us. The part where one has Chinese lineage is irrelevant to the problem.
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by josho 4y ago
I think they are smart enough to avoid that. They’ll probably send invoices and some small percent may voluntarily pay to just make it stop quickly. Others will ignore, but their amount due will accumulate to a point that this company will
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by josho 4y ago
One way that we become twice as productive is to use half the labor. This is my fear that AI brings about—not huge gains for society, but huge gains for a small minority.
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by josho 4y ago
The incentives here are wrong. During the early phase of a company the goal is growth. Hire. Scale. Build. Win the land grab at all costs. Years later when growth has slowed it becomes important to transition to operational efficiency. For
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by josho 4y ago
The reason after you make a purchase you still see offers for the same product is because you are still statistically more likely to purchase a vacuum than average. What if the vacuum doesn’t work well, it’s too heavy, the package doesn’t a
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by josho 4y ago
My experience with the 13 Pro has been that heat dissipation on a sunny day is a challenge. The black screen seems to absorb all the sun's energy and the phone quickly has to go into lower power mode (e.g. dim the screen). So, the use
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by josho 4y ago
Thank you for this! I've been trying to make Link Local Addresses work ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address ). But, for tools like ping6 I have to specify the network interface like 'ping6 fe80::1
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by josho 4y ago
From a damage perspective the two couldn't be more different as well. Lost fishing gear is large bulky items that trap & kill sealife, damage habitat, etc. Whereas we aren't entirely sure what downsides micro-plastics have, I&
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by josho 4y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, in this case what Apple is rumoured to be planning is no different than what happens in retail today. For example, your grocer sells their 'end cap' shelving space (end of aisle--highly visible p
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by josho 4y ago
Disney has planned for this day, they have a defensive moat of trademarks around Mickey Mouse. The stylistic logos, the name, the outfit, etc. The big publishers won’t because they all have licensing agreements with some part of Disney that
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by josho 4y ago
> The legitimate reason it is reversed _now_ is that it is _now_ when the matter is before them in court. And it's in the court now because this is the first time in 50 years that we've had a court regressive enough to vote it

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