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by sagarm 4y ago
I predict that with people who weren't interested in the amenities of the city and not contributing to the culture and community gone, SF will recover some of the culture it lost when high rents pushed all the creatives out. It'll
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by sagarm 4y ago
Palo Alto qualifies as a mega-city? What exactly do you consider a "city" as opposed to a mega city?
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by sagarm 4y ago
So which is it -- is SF a hell hole because it's too expensive or is it dying because real estate is getting cheaper? SF will be fine.
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by sagarm 4y ago
As long as I get to make 90% of streets in my city also dead ends to prevent through traffic, we're on the same page. I too want my neighborhood streets safe enough for kids to play in; the only reason they're not is through traff
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by sagarm 4y ago
No thanks, leaf blowers and other lawn care equipment is pretty damn noisy. That and the crushing car dependency.
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by sagarm 4y ago
Having a national ID and carrying it are two separate things. Many Americans already have a national ID (passport) and do not carry it. Conversely, the most common state ID (driver's license) is effectively mandatory to carry at all ti
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by sagarm 4y ago
Great, let's ban the cars doing the running over. Head injuries solved.
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by sagarm 4y ago
Sure your battery isn't swelling? The poor battery life and fact that the middle is bubbling...
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by sagarm 4y ago
I am a VI user but prefer to use emacs keybindings in bash. If I need to do significant editing, VIM is just a C-x C-e away.
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by sagarm 4y ago
Vectorization (auto or manual) can really help optimize bottlenecks like evaluating simple comparisons once you're out of easy algorithmic wins. It takes so much attention it's only worth doing in the most critical cases IMO. Auto
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by sagarm 4y ago
This is wrong. SUVs kill pedestrians by crushing their bones and organs and popping their skulls like watermelons when they end up under the wheels. With lower hoods pedestrians instead go over the hood, suffering relatively minor broken bo
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by sagarm 4y ago
Faster travel already costs more: walking, biking, mopeds, scooters, various grades of faster and more deadly motor vehicles, trains (not Amtrak), and planes. Really, speed governors should be required. If that's only politically possi
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by sagarm 4y ago
Where is the money supposed to come from? User fees already don't cover the cost of road maintenance.
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by sagarm 4y ago
SFO's airport security is actually run by a private firm: https://www.flysfo.com/about/airport-operations/safety-secur...
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by sagarm 4y ago
As the incident demonstrates, the authorities won't take care of the issue.
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by sagarm 4y ago
The market for RAM and NAND is very competitive, with costs rapidly declining over time. 32GB of DDR4 is just $70, and you can get slower 2TB NVMe drives for ~$120. These are a steal IMO. RAM/SSD upgrades for pre-built computers are ex
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by sagarm 4y ago
The doesn't seem like Apple's usual market.
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by sagarm 4y ago
Prop 15 would have made all business pay the same rate. If you think there should be a lower rate for minority owned or small businesses, that's fine, but a subsidy based on the age of your business is not good policy.
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by sagarm 4y ago
Also the feedback loop of the charging network good enough for X% => more EVs get bought => more charger demand => more chargers get built => charging network now good enough for X+Y%.
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by sagarm 4y ago
Before Chesa they blamed Prop 47. There's always some excuse.
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by sagarm 4y ago
Neovim has official appimage-based binaries that you can simply download, chmod, and execute. Just move it into your personal binaries directory and you're done.
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by sagarm 4y ago
Yeah, order of magnitude error. Sorry about that. The question is still reasonable, though, and I would guess the answer is that it's that a ton of infrastructure needs to be replaced and rural areas have always had unsustainable infra
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by sagarm 4y ago
$2k/yr to insure $350k is break even at one catastrophic insured event every 175 years. There are many properties that are expected to burn more frequently than that. > I am also paying California and federal taxes. This girl talks
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by sagarm 4y ago
> This is kind of a weird op-ed. It frames this as though the costs are all red marker, but the costs of rebuilding include labor and materials and help to reinvigorate local economies. I'm sure there is a net cost, but it has been
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by sagarm 4y ago
Drivers use the roads for purposes other than commuting as well; it's not selfish to cycle for transportation even if you're not going to work. The real issue is the complete lack of infrastructure available.
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by sagarm 4y ago
The sparksql dialect does allow the from clause to come first, actually.
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by sagarm 4y ago
> forced out by rapidly rising property taxes. "Forced out" meaning sell their multimillion dollar property for a massive mostly tax-free profit. Alternatively, they can spend their windfall by using their property as collatera
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by sagarm 4y ago
Substrait (substrait.io) is trying to be a backend independent plan representation. In practice, SQL dialects consist of a collection of functions in addition to standard operators. These functions have varying naming, functionality, and ed
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by sagarm 4y ago
I don't want to type or parse duplicate tags and angle brackets. It's nonsense for a human readable format. I work on low latency distributed systems where performance does matter. We use proto wire format mostly. Proto has its o
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by sagarm 4y ago
XML is inefficient to read and write by both computers and humans; might as well use JSON as your serialization format, it's at least more human readable.

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