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by pjlegato 10y ago
It's true that dealing with a ton of new residents requires a lot of infrastructural work on the part of local governments. I don't think anyone denies that. The issue is that it's not a choice between getting a lot of new re
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This has already happened in SF. You need a permit to install a new garage door on your house, including a review of how well it fits the neighborhood character (in the subjective opinion of the reviewer). Yes, the real estate developers an
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This is essentially what San Francisco does now: "fitting in with the neighborhood's character" is impossible to meet, unless you play the political game well enough.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This would address an important element of high Bay Area housing costs: the discretionary project veto by local authorities. This is the main reason why only super-high end luxury stuff gets built in San Francisco. In most parts of the US,
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I've read Wittgenstein, and I wasn't terribly impressed. Not everyone who disagrees with you is merely ignorant of the superior wisdom and knowledge you have attained.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
As I wrote above, it means that the role is permanent as far as anyone knows . It does not mean that you will permanently be doing that job. It means that, based on all available current information, the job will continue to exist foreve
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by pjlegato 10y ago
They produced incremental improvements of those CPUs. Sure, they got faster and had more cores, but there's not much in the past 20 years I'd call "innovation" on a fundamental level.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It is. The fact that many people use language incorrectly is beside the point.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
No, it means that the role will exist forever at that company, as far as anyone knows. It means the company has no plans to ever eliminate it. You may die or quit, but then someone else will be hired to do that job.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It's not accurate. "Permanent" means "something that lasts forever," not "something that lasts for a while, until it stops existing."
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Entering the US requires an initial contact address on the arrival form. Once in, you can then go stay whereever you like, without any further address registration update requirement. This is as opposed to Russia and China, where foreigners
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The United States has no such system. Neither residents nor foreign travelers are required to register their address with anyone when in the US.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
"Entrenched and permanent" is a bit exaggerated, as the governments of pervasive-surveillance East Germany and the Soviet Union discovered.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
That condition is quite normal in an empirical sense. It is how almost all civilizations in the world have been structured for almost all of history. The conditions of the past 200 years -- mass urbanization driven by the Industrial Revolut
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Moral theorizing is irrelevant. Trademark law is the only relevant factor here. The legal question under US trademark law is whether a reasonable consumer is likely to be confused by the name and erroneously infer that some sort of relation
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by pjlegato 10y ago
> Winning this war has as much to do with culture and marketing as algorithms and data structures. This is true enough. I'd go farther and say that winning depends almost entirely on culture and marketing. The annals of comput
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The entire "agile" methodology strikes me as a prominent example of a software engineering cargo cult. Yes, good projects have been executed successfully using agile methodology. No, this does not mean that using agile caused th
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Exactly. Texts are either free or extremely cheap for almost all cell phone plans sold in the US. Providers in many other countries are still attempting to engage in rent-seeking behavior by levying absurdly high fees to send texts (relativ
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The statistical evidence backs this up: pure electric vehicle sales in Japan are a tiny fraction of total vehicle sales -- less than 1% -- and sales are not growing significantly. The headline is linkbaity and meant to play on people's
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by pjlegato 10y ago
You can form a US corporation for approximately 100-200 per year in most states (California being a notable much more expensive exception.) There is no requirement that you actually live in the US or even visit. Stripe now has "US inco
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by pjlegato 10y ago
> SF where transit is decent Transit is abysmal in San Francisco. Muni is an utter disaster. The fact that it exists doesn't make it "decent." Cities with decent public transportation include Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Mos
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Mukbang: Watching People Eat on YouTube(arstechnica.com)
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by pjlegato 11y ago
When an article about software, encryption, the Internet, etc. appears in Newsweek, HN is eager to rip it apart and deconstruct the laughably naive way the author presents these complex systems. HN is quick to point out how the author'
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by pjlegato 11y ago
There is nothing in that article that suggests institutional review boards are not involved.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
That is exactly the nutrition advice that has been promoted in various government and school health programs for decades: eat what you like, just do X amount of exercise and you'll be fine. Calories in, calories out. The article goes i
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The theory says that as you do additional exercise, you get diminishing returns in terms of the number of calories you burn. As your exercise level increases, you have to do ever more exercise to burn the same number of calories, because th
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The point of the article is that the relationship between "amount of exercise you do" and "calories you burn" is probably not linear, as has traditionally been believed. According to the scientist's theory, you get
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The whole point of the article is that the traditional "calories in/calories out" model is wrong. "Based on the research, Pontzer has proposed a new model that upends the the old "calories in, calories out" ap
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I'd bet there is some exercise intensity threshold step function at work. The article says exercise is, "only around 10 to 30 percent [of total energy expenditure] depending on the person (and excluding professional athletes that
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by pjlegato 11y ago
How will you physically move the books? Many countries in your target market have unreliable and expensive postal systems, where packages are frequently "lost".

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