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by weeksie 4y ago
Ah, I guess I misunderstood. Would it be fair to characterize your point as: AI art isn't art but neither is most conceptual 20-21st century art so why does it matter, we're already living in a world without art? If that's
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by weeksie 4y ago
Read the article, he addresses this exact objection.
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by weeksie 4y ago
Whenever I see this kind of persistence, it underscores how important path dependency is when trying to understand how things got to be the way they are. From legacy software to political systems, when there's cruft or weird behavior t
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by weeksie 4y ago
I suppose that depends playing definition games with "all the time", but we are doing it right now in NYC with the coastal resiliency expansion. Battery Park city was created in the 70s from the excavation done to build the WTC. A
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by weeksie 4y ago
1. There's tons of unused vertical space in LA. 2. They make more land all the time. Look at a map of Boston in 1800. In fact, look at an old map of almost any city near a large body of water and compare it to today and you'll fin
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by weeksie 4y ago
Manhattan (where I live) is extremely underbuilt. Lots of people want to live here! But yes, the implication of a housing abundance agenda is that places will change. I think it's generally underrated exactly how much the cities we kn
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by weeksie 4y ago
The easiest way to solve that is by making housing a less attractive investment, which you can do by building a lot more of it. Otherwise you're stuck crafting clever anti-investment legislation which may or may not work and may or may
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by weeksie 4y ago
There aren't enough homes _where people want to live_ and you solve that buy building more homes _where people want to live_. But that's difficult because cities have all these veto points. It takes forever to get new construction
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by weeksie 4y ago
Those are empirical studies. The Finnish one is the most recent I'm aware of, but they all say basically the same thing[1], here are a couple more [2][3]. Housing does not suffer from induced demand like road capacity does. This is eas
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by weeksie 4y ago
It'll be interesting. Unless the population shrinks I think people will still feel squeezed, since things still won't feel affordable if e.g. interest rates go up and prices stagnate.
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by weeksie 4y ago
You can always build more dense housing on land that is in high demand. In fact, doing that is the most obvious and effective way to keep prices low for desirable locales. Backed up by pretty much all the economic research on the subject in
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by weeksie 4y ago
It'll be interesting in a couple years when prices are still crazy and someone has to come up with an excuse for why. It's amazing to me how resistant people are to the idea that housing is expensive because there aren't enou
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by weeksie 4y ago
I don't know how much truth there is to it since I'm a relative novice at language learning, but from what I understand reading texts is a) excellent for building language skills and b) pretty terrible for your pronunciation and l
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by weeksie 4y ago
dude, drop out for a few years. take your family traveling, take the time to learn about subjects that interest you, develop a skill or even better an artistic discipline. FWIW I did that in my mid 30s and it was the best thing I'd eve
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by weeksie 4y ago
Wait until language models get in on the game.
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by weeksie 4y ago
I'm not convinced. Should we use command messages like rpc calls? No. But the category of command message makes sense. A command might fail. Only events are saved to the log. I think the separation of commands into ephemeral requests t
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by weeksie 5y ago
Memory lane. Way back in the mists of time, circa 2004 or 5 I wanted to learn about search indexing. I was a pre-rails ruby head and translated a large portion of lucene's index code into ruby as a learning exercise. The result was aby
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by weeksie 5y ago
SERAI If there are no S's I'll start the next word with a CH, if there is an S in first place I'll start with SH. Pretty consistent 3-4.
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by weeksie 5y ago
Cool. What about thread size limitations? Also, it would be nice if the tweets were trimmed. I just pasted a bunch into your editor and they had an extra newline so all the tweets had whitespace padding at the beginning.
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by weeksie 5y ago
Does Typefully support drafting elsewhere and pasting into your editor? I'm working on a twitter fiction experiment that makes use of pretty long (100+ tweet) threads and I write my drafts in Scrivener. The ability to paste in a bunch
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by weeksie 5y ago
Won't make a dent in the prices, but you could certainly spend political capital passing legislation like that.
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by weeksie 5y ago
Well investors also bought a record share in 2020, 2019, 2018, etc. . . . The problem is not the finance stuff, it's the lack of supply and the crunch will not reverse until the US learns how to build abundant housing. It'll eithe
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by weeksie 5y ago
Got a link to a place that does 45+ day dry aging with filets?
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by weeksie 5y ago
Another fun rather obscure cut is the Newport steak, which is a different cut of the tri-tip. It's a cheap steak, but surprisingly good. NY butchers tend to have them for pretty cheap, 8-12 bucks. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by weeksie 5y ago
Supermarket steaks sure, but a good (dry aged) steak is expensive and they don't often dry age filets. Check the price differential for Pat's dry aged vs prime: https://shop.lafrieda.com/collections/dry-aged-b
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by weeksie 5y ago
A strip is not a "cheaper" steak than a filet. Filet mignon is a fine cut, it's low in flavor but very tender which means that it tastes better when it's extra rare. Well marbled cuts of steak are usually better at mid-r
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by weeksie 5y ago
They claim the pandemic has dropped kids IQ scores by a full standard deviation? N=40? Hmmm. Nothing about that paper inspires confidence.
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by weeksie 6y ago
Extraordinary
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by weeksie 6y ago
Still nope. What you’ve done is a very elaborate exercise in point missing, not that I’m surprised. Take a look at that chart again and do some thinking. There’s a reason for using nominal prices to illustrate what happened after the oil sh
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by weeksie 6y ago
Jesus fucking Christ

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