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by pchristensen 5mo ago
The more density that gets built, the harder it is to improve streets. Construction of the interstates, Haussman's remaking of Paris, etc were immensely destructive, even if they enabled much more legible and prosperous development aft
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by pchristensen 5mo ago
> It never has. Your point is much more valid in a car-centric (or car-enabled) world. Back when most industrial inputs and outputs moved by rail, and labor moved on foot, there were noxious and dangerous industries very close to housing
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EV Stupidity Checklist(hypercritical.co)
118 points by pchristensen 5mo ago|137 comments
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by pchristensen 5mo ago
From what I understand, more air pollution and noise than a normal data center. A data center that's run off of grid power has about the same local environmental impact as a warehouse (but with basically no road traffic). The Colossi a
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by pchristensen 5mo ago
Won't the most efficient LLMs just learn about and use tools like this, instead of crunching all the tokens to do it themselves?
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by pchristensen 5mo ago
Impact and externalities.
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by pchristensen 5mo ago
Capabilities need to be practiced in order to be dependable.
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by pchristensen 5mo ago
UBI is an "entitlement". Just look at how well a certain slice of the powerful view other "entitlements" like Obamacare or Social Security. I like the idea of UBI, but the biggest problem with UBI is that it relies on th
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by pchristensen 5mo ago
The Fandango app has an option to check the seats at all the showings at a theater, so I assume AMC has something like that. There are ~600 AMC theaters in the US. Throw in some caching and you can maintain a fast, fairly fresh copy of thei
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by pchristensen 6mo ago
This is the rare time I wish HN had emoji reactions instead of just upvotes.
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by pchristensen 6mo ago
When it comes to kids, quantity has a quality all its own. Yes, there are better and worse ways to spend time with kids, but between engagement, enrichment, play, laundry, cooking, feeding, changing diapers, etc, there's just an immens
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by pchristensen 6mo ago
It was created by and for homeowners, but businesses aren't going to pass up a gift like that. It's actually worse for commercial property - building are owned by separate single purpose corporations, and if you want to sell the b
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by pchristensen 6mo ago
Low turnover, political and financial opposition to building, and structurally higher costs. It's a tangled mess. 1. People are disincentivized to move - the longer you've lived in a home, the larger the effective subsidy (vs aver
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by pchristensen 6mo ago
California has structural obstacles that don’t fit into partisan politics. Proposition 13 limits property tax collection, which warps housing development and many other factors. Also, California has high incomes, which means Californians pa
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by pchristensen 6mo ago
I'll have to check that out!
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by pchristensen 6mo ago
If you havent seen it, you owe it to yoiurself to read Mother Earth, Motherboard: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ A Neal Stephenson long read about undersea cables. So good!
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by pchristensen 7mo ago
The first words I said: "$3.5k is a lot of money..." There are tens of millions of top 10% income adults in America. So something can be both unaffordable to most people, and also easily accessible to very many people.
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by pchristensen 7mo ago
$3.5k is a lot of money, but not a ton by American hobby standards. It's easy to spend multiples, even orders of magnitude more than that on hobbies like fishing, wine, sports tickets, concerts, scuba, travel, being a foodie, golf, mar
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by pchristensen 7mo ago
Now go buy a t-shirt!
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by pchristensen 7mo ago
I'd be interested to see your list! Contact in bio if you don't want to post it here.
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by pchristensen 7mo ago
Sounds like pg is trying to justify an expensive new hobby :)
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Agentic Engineering Anti Patterns(simonwillison.net)
19 points by pchristensen 7mo ago|5 comments
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"All Lawful Use": More Than You Wanted to Know(astralcodexten.com)
47 points by pchristensen 8mo ago|3 comments
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by pchristensen 8mo ago
"The Biden Pardon immunizes everyone from future prosecution" He pardoned specific individuals that had already been targeted and attacked by Trump and conservative media, who were extremely likely to be persecuted by a po
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by pchristensen 8mo ago
They certainly liked the distraction, but the invasion of MN allowed them to 1) catch some illegal immigrants, 2) intimidate legal immigrants, encouraging them to "self deport", 3) flex their power and demonstrate the ability to c
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by pchristensen 8mo ago
There's a huge difference between "definitely won the election" and "a massive mandate for sweeping change".
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by pchristensen 8mo ago
A stand up audience from the 1950s shouldn't be reacting to jokes the same way a 2020s audience would.
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by pchristensen 8mo ago
Back when the Internet was America online and some CGI bin perl scripts, there were a lot of very lofty things said about the potential of the Internet in the future. I don’t remember any of them predicting the power of the tech would have
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by pchristensen 8mo ago
Nobody is right about everything, but tptacek's takes on software security are a good place to start.
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by pchristensen 8mo ago
Switching between vim <-> emacs <-> IDEs is way harder than swapping a USB (unless you already know how to use them).

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