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by ta_1138 2y ago
If you can avoid population loss, it's still going to work out, because a great approach to increasing housing supply is more density. Grab 3 adjacent houses, demolish, turn them into 24 condos that are only a little bit cheaper, and o
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by ta_1138 2y ago
This is all about the tooling most companies choose when building software: Things with more than enough boilerplate most code is trivial. We can build tools that have far less triviality and more density, where the distance between the cod
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by ta_1138 2y ago
The separation of real, useful ground truth vs false information is an issue for humans, so I don't see how an attack vector like this is blockable without massively superhuman abilities to determine the truth. In a world where posting
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Go read Cadillac Desert: It's precisely about all the efforts, right between fantasy and reality, that have put is in the hole we are today. From straight out wishful thinking to really expensive investments that haven't ever come
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by ta_1138 2y ago
An environment that physically makes you more sedentary as, outside of a couple of cities, many things that would be sensibly done through walking in other countries involve driving. You can easily tell this is the case by seeing where the
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by ta_1138 2y ago
No doubt, but there's a whole lot of problems shaped like that in tech today. Look at any two sided market: Amazon/Etsy's third party sellers also want to be at the top, and there are bad actors trying to scam the intermediar
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by ta_1138 2y ago
In the culture where you live there are good chances you don't finish college with a couple hundred thousands dollars in debt, and getting a reasonable home near the place where you want to work doesn't cost a million dollars. On
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by ta_1138 2y ago
I have the displeasure of having acquaintances that have done some pretty bad things, of the fraud and bribery persuasion. They did so because they had no regard of the secondary cosequences. However, this didn't mean 'I understan
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Fun fact: You should sell your seed corn, because the best hybrid seeds, crossed from especially made inbreds that you'd never want to use for yield, are so much better than the second generation crossing that you'll always lose m
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by ta_1138 2y ago
It depends on how many years you do it, and how early. It's quite the trade in your 20s: Think of the freedom and peace of mine an extra couple of million in the stock market can give you. Then you slow down, celebrate, and know that y
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by ta_1138 2y ago
The problem isn't that you shouldn't care about your company, but that caring about your company is going to be far less important in your day to day. And yes, your team is one decisions away from being ripped apart, or you are on
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by ta_1138 2y ago
It's true that having to push people to the breaking point is poison. However, there's the other, not poisonous side of the coin: Communication costs will kill your productivity, and communication degrades far faster than linearly
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Then colleges are concerned when they see enrollment at many majors keep shrinking, while the demand for computer science grows, even when the college doesn't even have a proper CompSci department, but they depend on the Math school. T
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by ta_1138 2y ago
That's normal nowadays, even in the most ridiculous of situations. I once found that a system was getting a little expensive. As, AWS was billing us a million a month expensive. I figured this out, and came up with a plan that would cu
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by ta_1138 2y ago
But Managers as the center of the scrum is how many, many tech companies the outside world wouldn't call crappy run things. They also use Jira, mostly because they want reports that let people two or three levels up think they have any
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by ta_1138 2y ago
At which point I gained the problem of having to keep track of all of my microwallets securely, hopefully in a way that survives my phone being lost, a house fire, or my untimely death, leaving the wealth to inheritors. All while, at the sa
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by ta_1138 2y ago
And yet, many an architecture review is all about a group of people trying to justify their existence by adding features. I was in a design review this week where 4 different architects were involved, along with the expected assortment of m
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by ta_1138 2y ago
And for some people, the same thing is done with... work. Most of us wouldn't think of it as an escape from real life, but for some people it is. Overworking and dying young from it isn't just an issue for very physically demandin
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Why do you think that minimizing taxes becomes their #1 priority? What actually happens is that they tell the guy handling your finances to save them some money, and that's their problem. And given their fee structure, they'll go
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by ta_1138 2y ago
It's also important to see university departments as groups of people who often will end up working together for decades, and therefore leadership will see internal politics everywhere. What does doubling your student body do to said p
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by ta_1138 2y ago
I administered bug squash questions a few dozen times. Experience definitely trumped the smartest, most prepared young programmers, because no matter how much they studied, they hadn't really faced a real test suite in a large codebase
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Because you don't want someone that steals your credentials to spend large amounts of money in things they ship to themselves, instead of to you!
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by ta_1138 2y ago
And that becomes industrial, as someone takes 50 thousand cards, and then steals $20 from each. Then the next store takes another $20... Fraud is already a big business, with the current security levels. With worse security? Fraud goes up s
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by ta_1138 2y ago
You are missing the opposite side of the fraud picture: Where it's not the business scamming you, but someone taking your credentials and spending up to the limit in a store that deals with no chargebacks. This is, if anything, the lar
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by ta_1138 2y ago
The reason we have copyright laws is that sufficient people with power believe that the world is better with them than without them. Same with fair use exceptions. If an AI agent becomes just massively useful, and then a judge says that it&
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by ta_1138 2y ago
If I look at the crop that isn't useful for pollinators, and occupies the largest amount of land area in the US, the result is not corn which is sprayed with insecticides: It's lawns. The Kentucky bluegrass or fescue that is cut s
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Only the people that have really huge success rates, which is very small, and gets way worse as one ages. Have you seen the swipe stats from many Tinder users? What you describe is not a reality for even the top 1% of hetero male users.
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Stroads never make sense, even with zero pedestrian traffic. They have way too many ingress and egress points, so they are wide, attempting to be fast, yet ultimately a significant crash risk, because there's a way in, or out, or somet
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by ta_1138 2y ago
I'd argue that most American local streets are unsafe anyway: I've seen Spanish highways with fewer lanes than suburbian streets with no commercial. But the distances to connect 500 bedrooms, placed in 1/3rd of an acre lots,
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by ta_1138 2y ago
But that's a complete failure of the people doing traffic management: Other countries manage to make car accessible shops by minimizing the number of ingress and egress points in the road that is supposed to be fast, and moving the sto

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