willholloway

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by willholloway 10y ago
So you are saying we can't enforce our existing regulations, so the answer is to create new regulations. I say enforce the existing, narrowly tailored regulations before creating new, broad ones.
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by willholloway 10y ago
The town is highly desirable waterfront community, the region has a bit of a jobs problem, and the town was in a funk, visitors were down, local businesses were struggling, all the towns talented young people move off to larger cities, to p
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by willholloway 10y ago
That's an apples to oranges comparison. A short term rental is residential use, just like a long term rental is residential use. In both cases the property is used by people to live and sleep in. The question is does local government h
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by willholloway 10y ago
In the case of multi-family investment properties like a duplex or three family, the externalities are positive. Investment properties have incentives in place to not spend money on maintenance, not spend on upkeep to the extent the owner c
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by willholloway 10y ago
My town had a recent dustup over prohibiting AirBnB, some people claimed that it was against zoning regulations, the town attorney and planning and zoning looked into it and decided it was beyond their power to regulate tenure, or the lengt
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by willholloway 10y ago
I agree and like those things too. Sadly the economics of producing those things in the current environment typically lead to subsistence levels for the crafstmen. In the American economy of 2017 if you don't have scale, pop, leverage,
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by willholloway 10y ago
Cuban is wrong when he says programmers will be replaced any time soon. AGI is still pretty far away, but machine intelligence doesn't have to be general to make a huge dent. "The accelerating progress of technology and changes in
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by willholloway 10y ago
I would argue we are already inside the singularity. As far as ML, we have seen this before. When the tools get cheaper and easier to use, adoption goes up. RoR + cheap cloud servers and easy VC financing greatly increased the number of sta
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by willholloway 10y ago
The current generation of Intel chips can be overclocked comfortably to 5ghz with a simple water cooling setup.
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by willholloway 10y ago
This a good example of the kind of computational tasks that have me staying on the top of the line of the latest generation of intel's desktop chips, and overclock them when I'm running compute intensive stuff. If I want to try ou
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by willholloway 10y ago
Stem cells are showing more and more promise. One thing we know about them is that young stem cells are better than old ones. I think there is a lot of promise in stem cell banking. I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but do plan on bank
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by willholloway 10y ago
Segregating gifted children in with the regular population will one day soon be seen as child abuse. It has profound negative effects on the child, and leads to really terrible outcomes like drug abuse and absenteeism. We have a lot of evid
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by willholloway 10y ago
The liberal view of this issue may have the virtue of being correct, but it's very counterproductive from the individual's standpoint. I know that the ideology espoused on sites such as dailykos.com were very detrimental to person
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by willholloway 10y ago
It's 4tb in Raid 0. Why not buy the biggest disk that fits in the space your case and sata cables will support? All that I am proposing is a maxed out micro-atx case -- it only costs about ~1200
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by willholloway 10y ago
I've settled on a similar setup. I built my desktop box three years ago and coupled it with a 449 50" 4k monitor, and am still on a four or five year old laptop. I see now that the 7700k is 23% faster than the 4770k I built my box
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by willholloway 10y ago
I agree with the goals, and one day the dream will come true. But that day requires a breakthrough like energy to matter replication. But I salute you, it's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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by willholloway 10y ago
Agreed. We have the Machine right now, it's called China and the Midwest + Rail/Tractor Trailer Trucks + Walmart.
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by willholloway 10y ago
Because developer time is worth much more than the hardware cost delta. There are a number of tasks we do that are compute bottlenecked, how about compressing an archive, or compiling, or transcoding? Even things like apt-get install is fas
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by willholloway 10y ago
In my opinion there is only one answer to this question for anyone doing development: Buy the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor, right now thats 6700k, add at least 16gb of ram, 1 mid-size ssd, 2x 4tb drives in raid. If you want
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by willholloway 10y ago
Theoden: So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate? Aragorn: Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them. Theoden: For death and glory. Aragorn: For Rohan. For your people. Theoden: The Horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the
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by willholloway 10y ago
The idea that the lack of competition between states is the reason for high health insurance premiums is a red herring. The reason premiums are high is that costs are high, and our population is obese, disease prone and litigious. If we wan
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by willholloway 10y ago
That is a good question and the answer comes down to physics and the economics of battery technology vs this technology.
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by willholloway 10y ago
Agreed, and a completely federal reserve fueled one at that. I remember how, with great fanfare, DOW 10,000 was ushered in. I was in 8th grade and it was 1998 or 1999, I remember how ten years later the DOW hit about 6,000. We do not know h
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by willholloway 10y ago
There is no need to store summer heat for the entire winter, which would necessitate a far larger capacity system. One would only need to store solar thermal energy that is available on any sunny or partly sunny day for night time and cloud
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by willholloway 10y ago
My solution is we prosecute botnet operators and malicious actors. We have the technology. The NSA has the ability to know who they are. Countries that harbor them should face sanction. And ISP's could stop this DDOS activity. We shoul
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by willholloway 10y ago
You are right that these aren't difficult to implement, the problem is that we now have unelected government dictating coding standards by fiat, and ex post facto fiat at that. This precedent creates unlimited liability for so much sof
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by willholloway 10y ago
I think that this is the layer where this problem should be dealt with at. What we are in for right now is burdensome, expensive and vague regulation that amounts to security theater.
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by willholloway 10y ago
I have looked into this extensively and the promise of vertical farming is a big if, and It might take a breakthrough like fusion power to make it cost competitive with the methods these farmers are using. The capital costs of the building
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by willholloway 10y ago
I've become entranced by the Youtube videos of Urban Farmer Curtis Stone. I played around with the idea of starting a farm like this and the labor involved turned me against it, but I can listen to his vlogs for hours while doing yard
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by willholloway 10y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted, but I would say the most promising candidate is Dihexa [1] [1] https://nootropix.com/dihexa-story-science-experience/

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