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by romed 8y ago
NYC is already an engineering office on a large scale. There are major services single-homed there with elite engineers and no competition from MTV.
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by romed 8y ago
You must live somewhere else. Here in California the landlords have rigged everything so that it's impossible to build. They are well-protected from new market entrants. In addition, we have statewide rent control for landlords, in th
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by romed 8y ago
Sure, but the point is that rent control removes the incentive that would otherwise exist for landlords to create scarcity.
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by romed 8y ago
The consensus exists only on the thin slice of debate that pertains to economics. Economists agree that rent control, all other things held equal, reduces housing supply. Nobody seriously debates. However there are moral and ethical and s
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by romed 8y ago
This attitude is why American cities aren’t real places. Yes, being forced to move far away, as in the Bay Area where we evict people from Oakland and expect them to live in Antoich, is highly disruptive to lives. It severs friendships, inc
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by romed 8y ago
No landlord in America will give you a nine-year lease on residential property. You need the power of law to step in and set those boundaries. Super nominal: greater than the rate of general inflation.
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by romed 8y ago
You don’t want to wreck individual lives just because you want efficient price-finding. Rent control that protects tenants from super-nominal price increases works fine in the presence of abundant supply and liquidity. You can see how succe
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by romed 8y ago
Great. So let’s have some academic papers on the front page instead of this junk.
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by romed 8y ago
You’re kidding right?
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by romed 8y ago
If you have an infinite spreading plane of cars moving all in the same direction at the same speed, and if nobody wants to join or leave this infinite plane of cars, and if none of the cars ever breaks down or runs out of energy, then this
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by romed 8y ago
This guy’s response to not being offered a job validated the decision.
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by romed 8y ago
Landlords have wide pricing power. They basically get all of the money. Rents rise until merchants make minimal margins. If the law says that wages have to go up, that depresses margins and therefore rents.
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by romed 8y ago
Minimum wage raises in America generally come out of the landlord's pocket, not the consumer's.
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by romed 8y ago
Northern Virginia was obviously the center of the rebellion. There are hundreds of confederate monuments all over that state. I don’t let them off the hook either.
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by romed 8y ago
Google embarked on a long mission to consolidate in the Bay Area and close small engineering offices. When Larry was the CEO he expressed his desire to have millions of engineers at Google, all in Mountain View. I can only attribute this st
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by romed 8y ago
There’s a statue of a confederate soldier right in front of the Arkansas Capitol in Little Rock. If you think it’s still standing because of the efforts of only .5% of the citizens of that state, that suggests that those few citizens wield
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by romed 8y ago
What I meant was the standard requires the null byte at the end of the string, which reduces by one the possible length of the string when stored inline. If the null byte wasn't mandatory, it would be possible to store slightly longer
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by romed 8y ago
A generalization of the people or a generalization of southern capitols? The OP specifically mentioned Raleigh, where the decision to keep the confederate monuments on the capitol was re-ratified as recently as a few weeks ago. It is by any
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by romed 8y ago
Yes, but also for a long time (8+ years).
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by romed 8y ago
Google does not have engineering in Atlanta.
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by romed 8y ago
C++11 mandatory null termination has the advantage that a call to data() or c_str() need not store the null byte. On the other hand, mandatory termination costs one additional store in some of the constructors, and burns one byte of the cap
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by romed 8y ago
Is there another part of the market where you apply this twisted reasoning? I thought 1992 was a pretty good year for Japanese sports cars. I think building new cars after 1992 should have been illegal. We can keep 1992 cars affordable t
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by romed 8y ago
Yes, it is. I feel like this hack is a wry nod to the old warez scene where multipart archives within archives were, for some reason, de rigueur.
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by romed 8y ago
I’d love to hear what people use these for. All I’ve seen on it are Microsoft press releases.
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by romed 8y ago
There are always daemons on the machines that aren’t under the control of the cluster scheduler (init or its equivalent, etc). The thing that exports the storage assets of the box can simply be one of those things.
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by romed 8y ago
To clarify, you could always do these things via the native RPC interface. They added these things to the SQL interface.
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by romed 8y ago
So they geographically replicated their mysql in order to survive such a partition and instead they destroyed their entire database and now have no reason to believe any of it is consistent at all.
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by romed 8y ago
It's interesting how big of a difference it makes when you allow local disk I/O, and you need to schedule around it. At Google they disintermediate storage and all (not really all) I/O goes to their cluster FS (Colossus, sort
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by romed 8y ago
Yeah it's really weird. Same for cgroup2 and all this other stuff. This is all established open software.
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by romed 8y ago
Mojave update trashed my Fusion Drive to the extent that plugging any other mac into my imac in target disk mode made the host mac instantly kernel panic. And I lost all my files obv.

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