monknomo

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by monknomo 10y ago
I'm in government, and I spend 5-7hrs/week in various meetings
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by monknomo 10y ago
I think they are also buying the prestige of a cool place to loan to friends and the safety of a cool place to stay if wherever they are from has trouble
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by monknomo 10y ago
I see similar comments on all of these articles and I am really curious which UK/USA/Canada cities that artists and musicians and the like go to. I'm going to throw out Nashville as a thought for musicians, and maybe Pittsbur
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by monknomo 10y ago
The polite term is "enterprise"
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by monknomo 10y ago
I read about a Seattle law where non-code compliant rentals are forbidden from raising their rent. That might help
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by monknomo 10y ago
Euro-style telecoms do seem to be kicking US style telecom ass, from a consumer perspective. I know I'm jealous. I think it's hard to untangle foreign investment from local real estate prices without running into some of the US&#
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by monknomo 10y ago
I'm on board with central healthcare. I think the government excels at organizing people and distributing people and tasks across the country, but I'm pretty skeptical of their ability to handle inventory or do construction that
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by monknomo 10y ago
Huh, cool concept!
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by monknomo 10y ago
Hold up on my last line ^ Where do you get the soylent/electricity/housing/phone/internet from? Are you proposing that the government fire up soylent plants, buy power plants, build, own and maintain housing and become a
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by monknomo 10y ago
I used to be really excited about new gadgets, but I'm totally unmoved by a slightly thinner phone that does roughly the same thing my old one did. It isn't like 2000, where I would _need_ a new graphics card to play a new video g
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by monknomo 10y ago
Sure, I know lots of the big boxes do, but I was imagining something in a downtown area accessible to a car-less urbanite
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by monknomo 10y ago
Sure, variety is the spice of life, I just don't get it. It feels like a cynical marketing exercise to me, and I have some other personal issues probably tied up in millenial homeownership angst, but that's me, not the tiny homes.
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by monknomo 10y ago
That's even harder to do than vouchers. Instead of centrally managing certificates you have an entire country's worth of logistic problems. I can't even begin to imagine the government structure needed to buy store and cart
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by monknomo 10y ago
For cabins, composting toilets are a pain, but better than a pit toilet and more convenient than the nearest McDonalds
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by monknomo 10y ago
Who's your carrier?
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by monknomo 10y ago
I too have wondered at the tiny home thing. Regular single wide mobile homes are small, cheap and standardized, and they even have "communal living" in a park. I'm pretty sure it's just trying to tell bougie people tha
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by monknomo 10y ago
The guy in town running the (presumably) lucrative home tool rental store? Do these things exist in urban areas? Seems useful for apartment dwellers who don't have the space for anything more than a tiny toolkit anyhow
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by monknomo 10y ago
What about gold pressed latinum? Sure seems like money to me, and for a utopian money-free society the Federation folks always seem to have a few strips for the Ferengi
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by monknomo 10y ago
That's a pretty catchy way of phrasing what I was trying to get at. I'm pretty sure central planning is inherently coercive and tends to be more expensive than distributed planning. I also think distributed planning is generally
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by monknomo 10y ago
Of course, giving people money to buy these things is easier and probably cheaper than giving either the things themselves or special vouchers that the merchants for approved necessities can exchange for money. Someone has to administer al
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by monknomo 10y ago
So, hipsters and hipster hate has been around for at least 225 years?
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by monknomo 10y ago
I used to be like you, then I had a baby. Now I go to bed at 8 and get up between 4 and 5. A little human screaming and kicking you in the balls every morning is a power incentive to get up and do stuff. Turns out it isn't even that ba
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by monknomo 10y ago
Hard to say. It's entirely possible that there is no heavy equipment suitable for house moving and this is all just for cranes, dozers and telephone poles to roll houses on, not to mention barges and tugs. The ground is pretty soft,
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by monknomo 10y ago
depends on if there is still inflation. I'd say the Weimar Republic had a worsening economy, but when you need a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread, raises should probably be given, lest your employees become bakers...
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by monknomo 10y ago
Right, remember that houses in this neck of the woods are typically prefab houses that are shipped to Alaska, then shipped to the middle of nowhere, then assembled. It gets expensive really quickly. There are no hardware stores with buildin
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by monknomo 10y ago
I feel like specialized domains in general require devs with domain expertise. Maybe waterfall with unusually good specifications can use cog-like devs, but the few times I've seen that done it didn't turn out very well.
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by monknomo 10y ago
Not even a pile a gravel. A pile of frozen swamp ploughed higher and higher until it quit sinking, then sprinkled with gravel and topped with asphalt The Tok Cutoff is particularly bad these days
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by monknomo 10y ago
I for one, would find a lot of value in a mathematics encyclopedia slanted towards learning instead of mere technical correctness. Wikipedia's physics articles suffer from the same problem.
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by monknomo 10y ago
I'm not really familiar with the changing landscape of philosophy in the 19th century, or how that pertains to political development. I'm also not saying that regulations are a natural development. I am saying that regulations we
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by monknomo 10y ago
Sure, that's a given. But we're not exactly talking interchangeable widgets. Are you telling me that new towers in Manhattan really damage the value of the remaining single family houses on the island?

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