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by seadan83 3y ago
Many building/land-use codes require one parking space per expected adult occupant. So we can multiply by two. Further, we are counting just parking at the residence, let alone the combined shared parking elsewhere. Plenty of roads has
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by seadan83 3y ago
Not all land is of equal value. Having exclusive access to your own public area that is not going to be developed, could be that ammenity is worth a lot; further it makes the area effectively more contiguous. All is to say the sum can be wo
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by seadan83 3y ago
In sum, the article notes that in the industrial age all efficiency was essentially structural efficiency. In the information space that has become personal efficiency. The article suggests (via the example of Merlin Mann) that personal eff
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by seadan83 3y ago
@NoMoreNicksLeft, the other responses cvan be ignored for now.. Consolidating things into one message, I say this: I find your answers very interesting, if anything because to me they seem completely irrational. That is just to say I do not
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by seadan83 3y ago
I am anti car, but not anti car for everyone in all cases. "I suspect anti car people just don't see these things as that big of a deal." I do see it, and it is a huge deal. Those problems seem like issues of underfunding (a
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by seadan83 3y ago
It's a self reinforcing cycle. Public transit sucks, ergo it is cut, it becomes worse is less useful, ridership declines, nobody is riding it, defunded more - rinse wash repeat. See transit is horrible... Seeing well done public transi
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by seadan83 3y ago
I was surprised by the stat, it does check out. Out 130 M housing units, 90M are single family (on a phone, citation needed, but that us what I found after a quick google)
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by seadan83 3y ago
You also mention, I did speak fir myself and then state there are "millions" that agree and then assume utter malice that "unless they are decieved". I'll point out the contradiction there followed by bad faith. I&#
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by seadan83 3y ago
You mentioned "literally the rest of us", which is not speaking for yourself. Concrete jungles where there is a giant parking lot and you drive to get from one end to the other is what is at discussion. Perhaps those could be buil
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by seadan83 3y ago
Amsterdam is not an isolated example for the Netherlands where density can easily match a mid sized US city. Further, the density of a downtown district in that same town could easily match the density of a block in Amsterdam (the buildings
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by seadan83 3y ago
I recommend re-reading the hacker news comments guidelines. Assuming less about others and speaking for yourself only would make for a better discussion. It id curious you seem entirely convinced that a car free "them" is necessar
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by seadan83 3y ago
Most of these exact same issues would be the same in C++, for sure similarly contrived examples could be contrived. > People, wake up! It doesn't have to be this way. You've been sold Java's absurd contortions dressed in t
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by seadan83 3y ago
The analogy might not fully hold. The risk is that the controlled burn gets out of control. IIRC there was a case last year in Nevada where a controlled burn turned into an extremely large fire. A better analogy might be safety drills at Nu
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by seadan83 3y ago
I think we're all in general agreement in this thread. If a company gives a bad deal for relocation, it's no surprise it is unattractive. I was pointing out that even relocation assistance is often part of that bad deal.
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by seadan83 3y ago
This ^ Though, I think we need to find data to support the claims in this thread. More income and more demand in housing could increase prices,but also increase the viability of building houses and just as plausibly lead to an increase in h
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by seadan83 3y ago
I think the situation may have been far more varied than a nostalgic: "Place and family mattered a lot back then" I suspect that place and family has generally always important. Yet, early US it took weeks/months for communic
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by seadan83 3y ago
Most relocation packages are pro-rated over one or two years even, or are required to be payed back in full if there is a separation within that period (willful or not by either party). My point is even with relocation assistance, the deal
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by seadan83 3y ago
Same source says 71 buildings set on fire. Does not mention if any were completely burned. Criteria for damage seems to be any damage at all. Saying the city was "sacked" might be more accurate, but even then that is wrong. There
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by seadan83 3y ago
This is a cost centric perspective. I wish I could find the YouTube talk where Merck switched to a metric of "cost of not implementing" IE: how much revenue do you lose per day by not implementing. They found out of 100s of projec
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by seadan83 4y ago
> The article is basically trying to turn them into urban areas rather than suburbs. That was not my take away. Why do you say this and how do you define an urban area yourself? My take away was zoning and minimum parking make for inflex
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by seadan83 4y ago
> For the last point, I think the answer to that is a definite no in most jurisdictions. Laws and judicial conventions often allow differing circumstances to affect the legality of things. Curious, any concrete examples? I can't rea
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by seadan83 4y ago
I'm confused by the forbidden surveillance example. Generally surveillance camera's are legal for any place where there is no expectation of privacy. The expectation of privacy is largely only ones home, outside of that you can be
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by seadan83 4y ago
> Playing a movie for a few friends who visits is fine, but start to demand tickets and suddenly it will look like a cinema which is not fine. Interesting analogy. "Ripping" something off an only using it for your personal proj
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by seadan83 4y ago
How to get a new AI powered software tool high up in hacker news? Mention GitHub Copilot, the equivalent of the abortion debate but for software engineers (everyone is certain to disagree and debate endlessly without swaying any opinions).
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by seadan83 4y ago
> Then the legalities can be argued, but an individual is in any case not remotely comparable to a service like copilot. Why is this? Copilot in some ways is an automated way to search code & stack overflow. There is a very annoying
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by seadan83 4y ago
As the copyright holder of "throw new", the Junior dev infringed my copyright! Let alone them infringing copyright of the company they crafted that code for. On a more serious note, there is a question whether algorithms and code
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by seadan83 4y ago
> Benchmarking and profiling doesn't help with that. I've learned that benchmarking and profiling is the _only_ way to write performant code. I've seen in code review a number of examples of a very fancy algorithm being br
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by seadan83 4y ago
It's a flawed argument. Consider the profit equation (revenue minus costs). The argument ignores that crypto is designed to have a minimum in cost (and that minimum is high). For most other computing applications, compute cost is just
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by seadan83 4y ago
Seemingly that statement is just not logically true (just need to find one counter example) Perhaps corrected by saying: _sometimes_ it's a grift, or _often_ a grift, or IMO it is a grift.
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by seadan83 4y ago
I think you successfully got my goat. But a few things to consider: (1) The climate models of the 1970's were actually incredibly accurate, 50 years later. (2) We are pretty close to 2 degrees now (AFAIK we are at 1.6 currently and ri

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