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by lokar 1mo ago
what is it missing then?
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by lokar 1mo ago
How would that work? I thought the premise here is that you can fool the apple camera by taking a (very carefully aligned) picture of a still image (printed out). A depth map from the apple camera (again, signed) would show that the entire
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by lokar 1mo ago
I think some 19th century administrations could compete.
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by lokar 1mo ago
American politics has often been about pitting one group against another. Convincing them that others are benefiting at their expense, or that they will in the future.
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by lokar 1mo ago
Correct. The industry employs many many middle and lower income people in LA.
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by lokar 1mo ago
They (Ellison) don’t. They want to pressure state law enforcement to give them a pass.
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by lokar 1mo ago
They are threatening to move out of state if the laws are fairly enforced. This concerns workers in the film industry, and people in LA generally.
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by lokar 1mo ago
That’s not a great measure. The state was still growing very fast. The better metric would be state expenditure as a fraction of state gdp
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by lokar 1mo ago
I was clear that I don’t actually support prop13
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by lokar 1mo ago
I remember a segment on the national (PBS) news like 10 years ago (a drought year). Part of it was on a farm with a tree farmer. He was lamenting how cuts were forcing him to spend a lot on fuel to pump from the aquifer (destroying it!). W
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by lokar 1mo ago
I love how Google Maps directions for a trip like that (in the future) always estimate like 1h to 3h.
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by lokar 1mo ago
Prop13 was a big tax cut. The people behind it were minimal government conservative libertarians. And the state did slash spending in the years following. In particular funding for the university system was hit very hard.
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by lokar 1mo ago
I don’t think you read my comment very carefully
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by lokar 1mo ago
They can use data gathered from your network. Perhaps you have some other connected device with an account they can match to. Or a phone.
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by lokar 1mo ago
Block it on your router.
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by lokar 1mo ago
A family member lives near Pasadena. We asked if they wanted to go to a restaurant near Santa Monica. They sort of scoffed at the idea of going over to the west side unless it was really important.
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by lokar 1mo ago
It’s making a comeback
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by lokar 1mo ago
CA has droughts, but not water shortages. Most of the water goes to highly inefficient and low value farming.
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by lokar 1mo ago
I’m not sure why people are downvoting (without commenting), but I agree. The main selling point of prop13 was a real problem: rapidly increasing values were driving up taxes so fast that long time residents (of modest means) were being fo
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by lokar 1mo ago
True. I’m not sure which “faction” runs the company now, but I’d guess it’s not the engineering company.
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by lokar 1mo ago
More likely a contract, but the same question. And of course anyone can file a lawsuit…
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The bought it to squeeze it dry in its last few years. It’s one of their main business models. Buy declining companies with good customer bases, cut spending and raise prices.
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by lokar 1mo ago
And advertising eventually fucked up google (the company)
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They tend to be large complex enterprises outside tech. They don’t have the people (from the cto/cio down) to execute a migration well. They tend to have a very poor to mixed history with other tech migrations, and the risk here woul
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by lokar 1mo ago
Broadcom explained this all to investors at the time of the acquisition.
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I’d say it’s a good way to tell when you should have swept up a few days ago.
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There is a certain amount of government support for classical music in the US as well. Not enough to fully fund it.
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The outcome I want from art is to feel some emotion in common with the artist. Machines don’t have emotion.
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by lokar 1mo ago
> Top-tier symphonies world round are doing crossover concerts with pop artists And they have been for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Group_and_Orchest...
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by lokar 1mo ago
I think he agrees it is popular, but in comparison to contemporary styles of music it’s tiny (in skilled performers, listeners, funding and revenue). Right? Even in Europe.

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