jrockway

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by jrockway 3y ago
Because of economies of scale, the incremental increase in tax revenue that a new resident provides is more money than it costs to have one more resident in the city.
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> Rent control fundamentally cannot work Rent control definitely works, because owners lock in the original price of the building with a fixed-rate mortgage. If you buy a building in 1960 to rent out, you can rent it out at 1960s prices
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by jrockway 3y ago
So if you're renting an apartment, you need someone to advertise that it's available, you need someone to pick up the phone and answer questions about it, and you need someone to unlock it and show it to prospective tenants. In m
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You will be happy to know that the big property management companies are willing to charge you an extra per-month fee to report your rent payment history to credit reporting agencies. To some extent, renting an apartment does take on some d
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I don't think this really has any relationship. You can open an account and never use it, and your credit score is just as good as someone who borrowed $10,000 at 30% APR and makes the minimum payment every month. Probably better, be
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by jrockway 3y ago
The iceberg is fine, but using ECS doesn't absolve you from needing to care about monitoring, affinity, audit logging, OS upgrades, authentication/IAM, etc. That's generally why organizations choose to have infrastructure te
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by jrockway 3y ago
I'm a big monorepo fan, but you run into that ownership problem. "It's slow to clone"; which team fixes that?
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by jrockway 3y ago
Why wouldn't you use Kubernetes? There are basically 3 classes of deployments: 1) We don't have any software, so we don't have a prod environment. 2) We have 1 team that makes 1 thing, so we just launch it out of systemd. 3)
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by jrockway 3y ago
I rented someone's condo circa 2004 that did this with the air conditioning. Hot summer day? Just warm air coming out of the AC. (It was the kind where the cooling is done centrally and you just have an air handler in your unit.) No
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think there's any obligation for people's financial trickery to be sustainable. Like, a new power pole costs (say) $1000 regardless of how many watts are going through the wires attached to it. Someone has to pay th
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by jrockway 3y ago
Emergency heat was under-installed. In the midwest, you have to have it, and it will suck down a ton of electricity for the handful of days a year you need it. Being entirely reliant on mini-splits without resistive emergency heating is a
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by jrockway 3y ago
The value comes from writing down what to work on in advance, and figuring out if it's really that value. A text file is just as good as Jira, but harder for multiple people to edit. The "better" issue trackers (Linear is th
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by jrockway 3y ago
I've never been a fan of making main.go one line. I create the logger, parse the flags, create objects from the flags, and call Run() or something. In the tests, you aren't ever going to do those things in the same way, so there
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I like that!
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Meh, some actual customer probably uses that as their email address. xXxreaperMainxXx69@gmail.com is probably a real address.
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I guess it's not a terrorist attack if nobody knows about it. Imagine you see the news "Poll site in the Bronx firebombed" right before you head out to vote. You're going to think twice about voting. But if you don&#x
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by jrockway 3y ago
I agree with this. My default approach to board games is basically to maximize victory points early. This usually works; when 4 people are playing a new game for the first time, I usually win. This doesn't really work when people kn
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by jrockway 3y ago
I still miss qmail's convention, which used a - instead. That worked flawlessly everywhere, circa early 2000s. (I still have some email handling rules for my domain that understand the - aliases I created.) I think that both conventio
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by jrockway 3y ago
I also get very few spam calls, but I ended up buying Verizon's thing that prevents spam calls. It is all a scam but before signing up I got a ton of spam. (What makes me sad is that I mostly use Google Voice; and that blocks spam pre
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by jrockway 3y ago
It depends on how much you care about coffee. If you care enough to freshly grind everyday, weigh the coffee, weigh the water, etc. then you probably just want a simple V60 pourover (or Chemex if you want something fancier). Aeropress is
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah. It would be nice to stare off into infinity as you're working. I don't think a computer needs to be involved, though, you need glasses that have an autofocus system. That's what progressive bifocals try to be; when y
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think Fortnite is just a marketing platform. They wouldn't have bothered suing Apple and Google over app stores if it were merely a loss leader to remind film execs that Unreal Engine is a thing.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't see how bifocals could possibly work in this; the display is always a constant distance away. What I bet they do is interpolate between your distance and close-up prescription to guess what prescription you need to view the co
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by jrockway 3y ago
I am not sure that I agree. Engineering is a world of tradeoffs. Juicero said "we are going to overbuild every component even if it means the company goes out of business". Welp. Most impressive to me is when every unnecessary
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by jrockway 3y ago
Classic example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_El_Reno_tornado This had wind speed measured by radar, but ultimately didn't hit any substantial structures, so they couldn't justify anything above EF3. T
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by jrockway 3y ago
That sounds about right. I love your doctor though.
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Yeah, but people want the big names, and the big names already have guaranteed income. You have to make a higher offer. I've decided I'm kind of "meh" on the whole salary cap thing. I want to see some star defensive li
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, attendees of DEFCON can hack Caesars even if someone else owns the projectors used for the Powerpoint presentations.
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by jrockway 3y ago
What are the politics? One of the richest and most profitable industries on Earth wants to have a conference where they show slide shows to each other. Really not much different than any other conference, and probably more ethical than mo
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by jrockway 3y ago
Well, how much do you think it will cost then?

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