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by pyrale 11y ago
> History has a lot to say on this topic. [...] Society is much better off with some people helping the poor and law and order being maintained. What history has to say is that, at many points, society has failed to provide help for the
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by pyrale 11y ago
Welcome to the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
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by pyrale 11y ago
> If we generalise the "live where you work" to "stay where you spend most of your time, then it makes a lot of sense for the visitors to be housed in the centre. The thing is, it completely reverses the meaning of my poin
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by pyrale 11y ago
Right to live where you work seems to be a good one. The problem with AirBNB isn't about too many people living in an area like SF, it's about local population being displaced in favor of richer, temporary visitors. It's cert
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by pyrale 11y ago
Apparently you already get what you pay for.
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by pyrale 11y ago
Yes, they are. Great illustration of Conway's law.
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by pyrale 11y ago
Ook is open-sourced too, and terseness is always a problem when you intend to work in a group of people or over long durations. Maybe you're one of the happy few that spends more time writing code than reading it, but for an overwhelmi
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by pyrale 11y ago
Probably because Baumgartner did something new, not Eustace. When you talk about the Everest, Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay deserve a word for their performance, not the flock of execs which climb it each year.
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by pyrale 11y ago
In my opinion, it's less problematic to run a closed environment, than to run an "open" environment, only to swindle the people that you just invited in your backyard. The whole idea is that if you're going to let people
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by pyrale 11y ago
> Also note how fast you can break something. Pass an act in a month, fix its fallout in 20 years. I wouldn't blame it only on that bill. Airlines could have built a responsible pilot training system to address their needs while com
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by pyrale 11y ago
> Apple obviously has enormous power due to its profitability that gives it a competitive advantage. The law doesn't care about competitive advantage. It cares about making sure that your competitive dominance doesn't translate
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by pyrale 11y ago
Arguing that you broke the law in a very deliberate and public way doesn't sound like a very good defense. Neither does accusing the state attorneys of being malevolent, incompetents or crooks.
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by pyrale 11y ago
A call to regulate can be understood both as asking for new law, and asking for a better enforcement of existing law.
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by pyrale 11y ago
Betteridge's law is totally appropriate : His point was that people heading an article with a question intend to defend a position while not immediately associating with it. And that's totally what this article does.
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by pyrale 11y ago
> First of all, what psychopaths would leave a dying man, woman or child like that? Apparently, the same kind that would leave children living in a cardboard box in front of their job. Life as described in the article sucks, but it'
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by pyrale 11y ago
No, because the cost of building, maintaining and keep in a state of compliance a housing lot is superior to the increase in rent. Sleep dealing is a lucrative job. There are many factors explaining this : reduced access to law for the poor
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by pyrale 11y ago
This piece of code doesn't "solve" the problem, it's a crude bruteforce implementation. The problem is hard for a reason. Another way this code could be useful would be to showcase good readability practices, but it does