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by mikem170 3y ago
FYI, Actual usable electricity generated by wind and solar are only a fraction of their stated capacity. Weather varies. Wind generated electricity was 35.6% of total installed wind generating capacity in the U.S. in 2022 (439,203.67 GWh fr
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> more intermingling of different types of property use than I'm used to seeing in the eastern US My experience in Houston was miles of big box stores lining the service roads parallel to I-10, and miles of single-family single-use
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This article [0] describes how Houston has lots of land-use regulations, they just try to avoid calling it by the word "zoning". They enforce deed restrictions saying what can be built where. There's density policies based on
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Is this a situation where a legal name change might help, changing your last name like someone does getting married or divorced?
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I agree that low fixed rate long term mortgages contribute to higher housing prices. And the reason 30 year fixed rate loans are common in the U.S. is because the government (taxpayers) backstop most of the loans. Bank wouldn't be stup
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Also people in most other countries economically comparable to the U.S. have variable rate or 5 year fixed rate mortgages. The U.S. government backstops most 30 year fixed rate mortgages. The banks don't wouldn't offer 30 rates so
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by mikem170 3y ago
Here's Theo's response on integrating safe languages into openbsd, circa 2017: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2 To summarize: He mentioned a lack base posix utilities in these langua
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I agree, at least partially. The U.S. had half the world's GDP at the end of WWII, most other advanced economies had their manufacturing base bombed to smithereens. The couple decades after the war were boom times in the U.S. And an an
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The American Dream ain't what it used to be... Post-WWII a guy without a high school education was able to get a job at the steel plant, buy a house, raise a family, buy a rental in Florida, and retire with a pension. The post-WWII U.S
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The parent you responded to mentioned that "Advertising in public places is privatizing the commons", and perhaps this is an objective way to look at it. Why should one profit-seeking entity get to put a billboard in the middle of
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But couldn't it also go the other way, where small local companies who don't need a legion of lawyers would have a competitive advantage over larger companies trying to operate across many jurisdictions? I assume this depends on t
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We can imagine situations where voters place more importance on things other than money, right? Like maybe the voters would prefer human police officers as opposed to armed drones, even if the drones were cheaper. Or maybe the voters don&#x
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Isn't this the definition of regulatory capture? Which usually comes first, the large companies or the regulations that only large companies could keep up with? The idea of the feds choosing poorly, or being corrupted, and deciding on
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Point taken. I can't edit my original post, but I'd be happy to apply this logic to any company, large or small. Company profits are not more important that voters.
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I don't have a lot of sympathy for the idea of making laws uniform for the convenience of large companies that operate across many jurisdictions. Besides the fact that the reduced cost of compliance you mention comes at the expense of
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The original post bemoaned the fact that the economy has become too concentrated to a handful of companies and is too protective of large corporations. I took this to mean that capitalism would better work as intended if UPS was not allowed
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> The Freedom To Innovate I'm not sure that innovation in finance has always been a good thing. Over the last 50 years we've seen increased levels of debt, increased college costs, increased housing prices, a bigger and more po
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Yeah, we are kind of missing the bigger picture. The article said there was a new Senate Sergeant at Arms after January 6, he offered representatives the phones, "to ensure a redundant and secure means of communication during a disrupt
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I agree with what you said that satellite phones would not have been useful the day of January 6, 2021. You weren't saying that they shouldn't get satellite phones, right? Or that a security review prompted by January 6 has nothin
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> They had every opportunity to improve the situation by having the nation guard present. I would assume that the circumstances around the deployment of National Guard are being looked at, also. The article didn't comment on this, t
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But what happened on January 6 was enough that representatives had to flee. The people responsible for security would want to address the possibility of something like this, or worse, occurring in the future. Why would they not respond to t
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> I have no idea what they are actually planning for. The article said: > The devices are part of a series of new security measures being offered to senators by the Senate Sergeant at Arms, who took over shortly after the assault on t
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I wasn't thinking of normal towns with a variety of people, but instead something more like oil rigs, or Alaska oil fields, or some military bases, where pretty much only workers are present, and they rotate in and out on a schedule. F
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How much do we want to subsidize people who choose to live in less populated areas? This will probably come up with roads and utilities at some point, also. Did we build a lot of infrastructure in less dense areas during boom times, similar
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> I don't understand your position. It could have been the case where the seniors were only given their rights because it was assumed there were 16.5 million acre-feet, and not 11 million. Or perhaps the juniors only agreed because
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I was curious, having spent a couple decades doing network config automation, and it appears there is quite a bit of overlap with what they are calling SDN-WAN now. It is my understanding that software defined networks in a data center loca
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They do this in Japan [0], apparently the entire country. I didn't know that they had a problem with sprawl. In denser places, like Tokyo, people don't need cars like in most U.S. cities, they live in walkable neighborhoods full o
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There are places that require you to have a parking spot for your car before you are allowed to register the car. There are no free parking spots, you park on your property or rent a spot from someone else. I'm not a fan of externaliti
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I've held a view similar to yours for a while, that the two parties are the same in many ways, more beholden to money and power than concerned about their constituents. But I'd point out that one real difference lately is the whol
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> Does Nostr have any mechanisms to ensure anonymity Your identity on the network is a public/private key pair. You don't have to associate your real name with your posts, if you don't want to. And you can have multiple ke

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