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by timerol 7y ago
The "suburbs were never viable" claim is built upon a few facts about most US suburbs: 1) They are advertised partially based on the low property taxes in their municipalities. 2) They have restrictive building codes that prevent
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by timerol 7y ago
I am under the impression that it's regulatory. Specifically, regulations adding time to get plants permitted and constructed. If you look at the graph of new nuclear power plants coming online, only look at the US, and squint just a l
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by timerol 7y ago
Keeping up: The commenter has now acknowledged that the previous accusation was baseless
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by timerol 7y ago
I would also highly recommend The Dawn Wall: https://www.dawnwall-film.com/ . I watched it and Free Solo at around the same time, and The Dawn Wall is a much better movie in my mind
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by timerol 7y ago
For an amusing walkthrough, I'd recommend https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/08/05/harry-potter-and-the-cr...
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by timerol 7y ago
This talks about two major performance concerns in CPUs: control flow and memory access. The transition between the two was my favorite part of the article. It's both funny and accurate. "If the previous section gave the impressio
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by timerol 7y ago
https://stripe.com/jobs/search
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by timerol 7y ago
The current winner is a SIMD-ish solution using 32 bit math as 4 8-bit lanes. This has been added to the repo, and is discussed in the comments. https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/...
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by timerol 7y ago
Yes. Rust 1.34.0 (and presumably earlier as well) generates an unrolled SIMD-loop for the iterator option: https://rust.godbolt.org/z/c6uZCv
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by timerol 8y ago
Note that many warehouses have already done that. Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems) runs Amazon warehouses. A large portion of the warehouse is off-limits to humans, marked by tape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLVC
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by timerol 8y ago
Yeah, evolution didn't get started until after the Earth had already originated. Not saying that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" is the best explanation, but it's certainly better than what evolu
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by timerol 8y ago
To be pedantic, 1978 California Proposition 13 (Prop 13) limits property tax increases to a max of 2% per year. In the decades since, especially in areas with high growth, the overall tax being paid on property has become a tiny percentage
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by timerol 8y ago
In addition to the good policies you mentioned, construction should be encouraged in areas with high rents. The article talks about homeowner NIMBY politics as if it's an inalienable and insurmountable fact of life, but it's defin
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by timerol 8y ago
While true, it's mostly pedantic. OP is talking about a potential earthquake harvesting power plant. So generating in this sense means releasing the trigger, in the same way that burning coal is generating energy. It's just releas
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by timerol 8y ago
I don't think git counts as a counterexample. The initial commit had 1244 lines, including documentation. It now has over 200,000 lines of C. The initial commit didn't include branches, remotes, submodules, or many other git featu
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by timerol 8y ago
California could build more homes in a way that generates more tax revenue than it costs. In most places, the best way to do this is to gradually increase density, which increases the tax base. SF could have significantly more tax revenue i
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by timerol 8y ago
> Clearly there was plenty of room for speeding up our string matching. We considered binding the Rust library, but due to the way that Haskell’s foreign function interface interacts with the garbage collector, passing a string to a fore
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by timerol 8y ago
They've already gone "the Los Angeles route". Austin requires a parking spot per 275 sq ft of office space[1]. Given that most parking lots or garages take 300-350 sq ft per space, that's a bigger garage than the office.
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by timerol 8y ago
A more recent protocol based on similar thinking is IPFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
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by timerol 8y ago
I've personally advocated this position for nearly a decade now. I joke about having a Napolean complex with cars - I don't like driving anything that's taller than I am. (5'7") People often are confused by that com
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by timerol 8y ago
I'm a little confused by this comment. Increasing the market for short journeys seems like the kind of thing autonomous cars are really bad at. I already have a car in my driveway+, and I can take it 5-10 minutes to a number of stores
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by timerol 8y ago
Probably due to the strong political and moral statement in the middle. "in Europe, the socialism makes people dead on the inside" definitely requires some justification. Without that digression it's a great comment about the
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by timerol 8y ago
Note that a mortgage should not lead to negative net worth in the general case. Because you own a house, a mortgage with 0% down payment should have no immediate effect on your net worth. There are people who are upside-down on their mortga
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by timerol 8y ago
The Tesla strategy was to make margin on premium EVs while the big names ignored the concept. Then to transition to mass market EVs before the big names could squash Tesla. We're getting right into the crunch point where everyone is co
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by timerol 8y ago
If milk was $10 USD, it would encourage people to eat in ways that are cheaper to produce. Cheaper to produce unsubsidized lines up reasonably well with good for the environment (more vegetarian and vegan foods). I'm always surprised t
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by timerol 8y ago
I think the author's point isn't that getting money is good, but that people get money in exchange for good. Therefore, if you are receiving money, it is due to some good action you've done. If you are spending money, you are
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by timerol 8y ago
I think the article misses the point slightly, in a way that I notice a fair amount. A better title would be "The Best Skin-Care Trick: Spend Money". I often notice that we talk as if there is this magic group of "rich people
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by timerol 8y ago
The assumption that increasing development leads to displacement is misplaced. Homeowners could turn a single family home into a triplex, adding two new units without displacing anyone. There are also always people trying to sell and move i
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by timerol 8y ago
Given that they were founded in 1930, I think the century is pretty clear, though not favorable.
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by timerol 8y ago
This article seems to be putting on some strong rose-colored glasses. It appeals to the idea that people in the past all lived in beautiful, long-lasting buildings. The reality is that the long-lasting buildings are the only ones that still

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