kaashif

45 ms·

691.
by kaashif 4y ago
I was talking about both Tory leader candidates' statements promising restrictions on solar and wind e.g. https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/government/tory-leadershi... Those statements hopefully amount to nothin
692.
by kaashif 4y ago
Yeah, you're right that prices are also affected by regulation. I should've been more precise - the price the suppliers want to charge is only set by supply and demand. They'll charge whatever the market can bear. If the cap
693.
by kaashif 4y ago
Renewables and natural gas are two ways of producing the same product - electricity (let's ignore heating/cooking with gas for a second). The supply of energy is cut, demand remains the same, prices rise - this shouldn't be a
694.
by kaashif 4y ago
It's ridiculous that we're in this state of affairs. People using the power of the state to restrict what others can do on their own private property because "it's ugly". There are real reasons to block development,
695.
by kaashif 4y ago
I've never encountered this problem in real life, only on online forums, so I don't have any firsthand experience. Maybe if you just eat spicy food every day you'll eventually get used to it and not have that problem? I'
696.
by kaashif 4y ago
Although you're joking, I just want to say that avoiding needless work isn't laziness, it's efficiency. Maybe those are two sides of the same coin, but I could equally say people in the UK are being needlessly inefficient. No
697.
by kaashif 4y ago
> And no recoil, better accuracy during rapid fire. Good troll so far, but I think this puts it over the top.
698.
by kaashif 4y ago
I think it's likely you're right, although I haven't looked for any hard numbers. But anecdotally, I only speak English and I listen to lots of Finnish, Swedish, German, and Norwegian music. I don't know if Spotify just
699.
by kaashif 4y ago
> Stay in your concrete hellhole, and stop acting like you know what's best for everyone else. So the side advocating for upzoning (allowing people to build what they want on their own properties) is "acting like they know what
700.
by kaashif 4y ago
The great thing about markets is that we can both get what we want. You can get a remote job, and I can get an in-person job. I will continue to argue against any government regulations forcing the issue one way or another. But if companies
701.
by kaashif 4y ago
> To live the same lifestyle and have the same amount of disposable income as someone earning $170-230k in SF, you'd need to earn ¥12-18M or so in Tokyo. The same amount of disposable income, measured in dollars or yen without PPP a
702.
by kaashif 4y ago
Is this article actually just complete nonsense? I can just look at my wishlist to see how many books I want to buy that I haven't bought yet. Then when I want to read one, I buy it. Then I read it. I admit sometimes I hate a book so m
703.
by kaashif 4y ago
The problem with such taxes are that the proposed tax amounts are never actually high enough to account for the damage done. Should the tax be equivalent to the amount required to reverse the damage? This is assuming the damage is going to
704.
by kaashif 4y ago
Yeah, that's correct. But property tax also taxes improvements that the owner made themselves. This disincentivises improving land too much. The whole thing with Georgists and a land value tax is that it's specifically unearned we
705.
by kaashif 4y ago
Does NetBSD still really run on real VAXen? As I recall, there was a time when NetBSD current was broken on VAX, the cross compilation process had gone wrong and no-one noticed. Can't find a source, but I can find an email mentioning t
706.
by kaashif 4y ago
The phrase "Ponzi scheme" is misused so much it has become meaningless. A Ponzi scheme is a very specific type of fraud. Ever-increasing immigration to sustain a >1 worker-to-retiree ratio is more like a pyramid scheme, but one
707.
by kaashif 4y ago
I like the question 'Does "cause" exist?' because it exposes the fact that basic terms haven't been defined and axioms haven't been made clear. This kind of discussion can (and definitely has, in my opinion) de
708.
by kaashif 4y ago
> You are right, though I seldom find it a problem in practice. Although it's easy to to tell people that mutation is confusing and to avoid it, enforcing that is much easier if the compiler is on your side and will prevent mutation
709.
by kaashif 4y ago
If you have mutable members you can still absolutely do myRecord.member().methodThatMutates(). The only way to stop this is to remove the mutable methods from the interface entirely, which is what I'm complaining about.
710.
by kaashif 4y ago
I'll have you know all of my texts are encrypted with GPG. 90% of my time is spent copying and pastingl...help me.
711.
by kaashif 4y ago
> records/pure immutable data classes Example? As far as I know, Java has final, which means that particular reference can't be re-assigned, but the object referred to remains mutable. You have to resort to e.g. having separate
712.
by kaashif 4y ago
I'm pretty sure OpenBSD doesn't have the feature set to be good as a NAS. You lose most filesystem support in exchange for a bunch of stuff that probably doesn't matter all that much for a NAS. OpenBSD doesn't have ZFS a
713.
by kaashif 4y ago
I can't believe that either. At most I'd have written an angry blog post and never updated it. Don't know what keeps him going. A desire to see FreeBSD fix those defaults? Desire for OpenBSD to be recognised as having better
714.
by kaashif 4y ago
> Britain seems especially resistant to elevator music—again, based on a small sample size of responses to my queries. Some claim never to have heard music in an elevator in the UK, and I can’t say that surprises me. Seems accurate. I&#x
715.
by kaashif 4y ago
> Although QV is at its heart an intuitive process, many of us may be unfamiliar with what “quadratic” functions are. Having to speak about something we learned in algebra class as part of a voting process can risk being distracting from
716.
by kaashif 4y ago
You think it's a possibility that a large C project is bug free? Well, I guess theoretically that might be true...
717.
by kaashif 4y ago
At least it's intentional. From the README: > I don't have to give a shite if this little shite maker fails to make your shite work. This only makes sense if they know what "give a shite" means, I think.
718.
by kaashif 4y ago
> We as a society (and taxpayers) should not help people pay rip-offs The solution here appears to be that the government should not be involved with subsidising or backing student loans at all. Then you have a free choice - invest in st
719.
by kaashif 4y ago
> The GDPR outcome was largely good though. The issue with GDPR-style regulations with huge penalties is that it makes it harder for new entrants to the market to operate without fear of violating the law by accident. Big tech has no suc
720.
by kaashif 4y ago
> I hope US lawmakers retaliate appropriately. The US has already won (and indeed was always winning) in terms of tech companies. There's nothing to retaliate against!

More ›