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by scoofy 2y ago
Yea, this is exactly what I mean by economic warfare: >The people who own houses pass them down to their kids. Pass them to one of their kids , who will likely be 65 or older when they inherit it. That leaves about 45 years where these
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by scoofy 2y ago
I've been in SF for a long time and I remember when the YIMBY movement didn't exist, just 10 years ago, and Sonja Trauss was trolling SF by running for Board of Supervisors and saying all this shit out load knowing she'd lose
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by scoofy 2y ago
>On a purely numbers basis the older generation of homeowners far outnumber the young. The point is numbers of voters. There are more young voters now than older voters, this is why we are seeing things change at the state level. Now t
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by scoofy 2y ago
We have the tools, it's just going to be inter-generational warfare, and nobody really wants to say it out loud. The bigger the housing crisis gets, the more people are going to change things on the state level instead of the local lev
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by scoofy 2y ago
The problem here is talk is cheap. I've lived in SF and have heard a decade of talking heads prattling on about building housing, and then looking at the plans and they all end up being gobbledygook about "well if you do 20% Affor
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by scoofy 2y ago
I'm talking about the firms that develop AI. The entire point of the conversation is "why should countries care about businesses being in their country as opposed to elsewhere." The point is obvious that where businesses
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by scoofy 2y ago
Uhh... because nations should care about their economic output? And want to maximize that output all things being equal?
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'There is a real problem': legislators seek to prevent BART from unraveling(sfchronicle.com)
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by scoofy 2y ago
I mean, I do think we should want to win the race, the point is they want to keep all the money. You can literally just offer equity as compensation to "content providers" and we won't have any problems with liquidity issue
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by scoofy 2y ago
>What is the term "things we like" representing here? Generally, things that comport with the (by definition, arbitrary) axioms we've chosen to ground our world view.
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by scoofy 2y ago
I think many people, myself included, would argue that that's immoral. The fact that you don't want to pay for access to The New Yorker is fine, but it doesn't mean that we should facilitate your desire to not pay, and that
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by scoofy 2y ago
The may/must distinction in belief is a plausible cause for the power of propaganda. Human beings want to believe things they like and want to be skeptical of things they don't like. This was so obscenely obvious to me as I wa
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by scoofy 2y ago
Fair point...
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by scoofy 2y ago
Wait... is this really a thing? Do people think that they can actually have an LLM write code for anything but a simple program for them?
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by scoofy 2y ago
If only we had any actual privacy laws in the United States. I hate that I'm having my samples destroyed and removed from research. It feels wrong. But the idea that some company can quietly change the privacy terms on me is unacceptab
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by scoofy 2y ago
What's crazy is that I doubt the people who live in the area understand why it's so expensive there. It's right next to a pet hospital. Let me tell you, if you're taking you injured pet in and out of a vet clinic, you&
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by scoofy 2y ago
I mean, I think "ordinal" and "zordinal" would work.
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by scoofy 2y ago
In SF we have parking meters that adjust to meet demand. I paid $5 for an hour once, and was happy to pay that to get a spot right where I needed to be.
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by scoofy 2y ago
>It may not be very long before the big majority of web searches are via AI. If that happens, blocking AI will mean blocking most people too. If that happens a big majority of websites will go bankrupt and won't exist anymore to b
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by scoofy 2y ago
Many if not most websites are paid for by eyeballs not by get requests. A bot is a bot is a bot. Respect robots.txt or expect to have your IPs banned.
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by scoofy 2y ago
God... I literally just coded up three different honeypots for this exact problem on my site, https://golfcourse.wiki , because LLM scrapers are a constant problem. I added a stupid recaptcha to the sign up form after literall
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by scoofy 2y ago
Again, I'd be happy to.
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by scoofy 2y ago
Homes today in SF are worth about $1.5M. That's a non-trivial net worth when you actually look at American net worth by percentile.
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by scoofy 2y ago
Net worth calculators[^1] would put this woman at the 88th percentile of wealth in the US. Yes, I think that counts as wealthy. I obviously think it's mostly absurd if you think a woman who bought 50 years ago in SF has a house worth
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by scoofy 2y ago
I mean the problem with this argument is this: nobody in the affected areas who owns property is actually middle or lower class. Homeowners in areas where housing is totally unaffordable area either extremely wealthy, by definition, becau
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by scoofy 2y ago
People respond to incentives. I would rather live in a SFH for the same price, but I live in San Francisco, where that's absurdly expensive. When people talk about the proposed Sunset Tower, claiming "who would ever want to live t
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by scoofy 2y ago
The point would be you could drop them a bit randomly, once they land, find out where they are, and tell them where they are, to then talk back to the payload as it's landing. It's the moon, even a hard landing isn't that h
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by scoofy 2y ago
If you were trying to land on a specific site though, couldn't you drop down a dozen or so transmitters at the potential landing site? The assign them a location, and have them transmit the relative location to anything landing near th
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by scoofy 2y ago
But would they need to be in the orbit? Since nothing is on the moon, couldn't you just create a GPS array on the ground?
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by scoofy 2y ago
The concept of rule of law, and it's benefits to society, are lost on many.

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