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by ng12 7y ago
> low interest rates means people can borrow more, so house prices go up. Sure, but they go up by the amount of money you saved on the mortgage, the net price is the same. The amount homebuyers can afford to pay doesn't change with
812.
by ng12 7y ago
It's closer to $6,600, and that's without spending a dollar on retirement or benefits. > Do people try not to commute? Spoken like someone who's never tried to commute in SF. Public transportation options are extremely lim
813.
by ng12 7y ago
$120,000 comes out to around $6k/mo. A mediocre studio in SF is pretty close to $3k.
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by ng12 7y ago
That was the neocon dream of the 90's -- let China into the world economy and the PRC will either fall or be forced to accept democracy. 30 years later it's pretty clear that was foolish.
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by ng12 7y ago
The house is literally falling apart, I had thought it was abandoned until I happened to see the sign the city installed. If it's history, it's already well past being preserved.
816.
by ng12 7y ago
Could you elaborate? Rendering perf is pretty much the least of my concerns, even on my apps which support IE10. Most "perf" problems I find are related to fetching and appropriately caching data.
817.
by ng12 7y ago
Because grokking 20 diffs across 5 files is a lot easier than grokking the entirety of those files and the context on which they live. If you assume the rest of the codebase meets some reasonable standard of quality the diff should be the
818.
by ng12 7y ago
> His point is that the index funds don't own the stocks at all What? Where did you see that? Not only do the index ETF issuers own the stock but I believe they are legally obligated to do so.
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by ng12 7y ago
> bind:group is not a "special string" but simply part of the API Right, but the difference is in the API design. React gives you a small set of tools to implement whatever functionality you need. Svelte gives you specially-cra
820.
by ng12 7y ago
That's not what I mean when I say "magic". Magic, to me, is having some special string in your template which is going to invoke some arbitrary logic to get something "just working". In this example, note how `group
821.
by ng12 7y ago
Too bad https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/1639 is still open :)
822.
by ng12 7y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Yes, there are some pitfalls to React Hooks (and, honestly, they're really slick but definitely require more cognitive overhead than React.Component) but he doesn't really describe how Svelte solves
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by ng12 7y ago
Legal marijuana puts the unscrupulous dealers out of business and allows law enforcement to target them directly.
824.
by ng12 7y ago
This is a casualty of state governments dragging their feet when it comes to legalization. You can get very "legit looking" THC cartridges very easily where I live (New York). They're Chinese-made copies of legit dispensary b
825.
by ng12 7y ago
Because going after Palantir is ultimately futile, even if they were to agree to cease all contracts with ICE very little would change. It is my suspicion that people who think otherwise are doing so out of a misunderstanding of what Palant
826.
by ng12 7y ago
If you click the timestamp you can respond inline. I never said Palantir is innocent. I didn't weigh in on the morality of it at all, in fact. My point is just that Palantir is just a data consulting company. I posted this comment in a
827.
by ng12 7y ago
Here's my take: if Palantir were to magically disappear tomorrow nothing would change. ICE would still exist, they would still collect this data, and they would find some other way to analyze it and put it to use -- potentially using t
828.
by ng12 7y ago
That's actually the intention: https://www.quora.com/Did-Palantirs-founders-consider-the-et...
829.
by ng12 7y ago
Wow, I would have never guessed that Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark, Hershey, Home Depot, and Walmart were all in on the mass surveillance business [1]. Anyways -- agree to disagree. My personal take is that once the mass surveillance has been c
830.
by ng12 7y ago
Again I'll ask -- what do you think Palantir is doing that makes them so different?
831.
by ng12 7y ago
I don't think you quite understand what Palantir does. It's not the imperious machine for evil you think it is -- the government builds all that stuff in-house.
832.
by ng12 7y ago
Take a good look at the screenshots in that link. It's a completely generic database -- you fill in some search fields and some data is returned, you can do a join, and then you can plop that data into a chart. Palantir isn't out
833.
by ng12 7y ago
What is a "mass surveillance solution"?
834.
by ng12 7y ago
It only feels disingenuous because you're not familiar with Palantir's business or offerings. You're not alone in this, most people who have strong opinions on Palantir have them based on lazy journalism from publications who
835.
by ng12 7y ago
That is _exactly_ my point. Using Tableu to track immigrants is really not much different from using Palantir to track them.
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by ng12 7y ago
> They make software specifically for tracking population They make software for modeling objects. A popular object to model is a person. As technologists we should be a little more immune to the FUD spread by Vice et al.
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by ng12 7y ago
If he builds you a shed for money he's in the shed-building business. I'm not sure why you're so intent on arguing semantics here. IBM will build you a system to analyze some data. So will Palantir. Two different firms that o
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by ng12 7y ago
> The morality of Palantir and their employees If the point you're making is that people who work for Palantir are morally akin to people working for the organizers of the Holocaust we'll have to agree to disagree.
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by ng12 7y ago
Punchcards weren't the problem, Nazis were the problem. Should we be focused on ensuring that every data analysis vendor, worldwide, refuses to sell to our government or should we be focused on ensuring our government doesn't do b
840.
by ng12 7y ago
Well I mean, the organizers of this job fair certainly seem to think there is.

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