willholloway

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by willholloway 10y ago
I have an extremely strong feeling that this is the most important comment ever posted to Hacker News. We won't understand that it was until it's over, but then, looking back forensically over the waste and ash heap before us, w
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My main point is that Boulder gets the population density right. The town is inherently bikeable, which in my opinion is much better than a walkable town. And that is what I think we should be developing for, bikeable densities. And the bik
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by willholloway 10y ago
I feel that gigantic metropolises are not optimal environments for software engineering. NYC, and it's helter skelter of noise and traffic and garbage and tiny living spaces, in my humble experience and opinion is not conducive to hard
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If a dentist could balance the load reasonably well, it would look very good. Missed appointments are a big problem for dentists and doctors. A missed appointment means paying staff and not receiving income. I always end up waiting at the d
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by willholloway 10y ago
Everything you say is true. But it is also true that I like it and find value in it. I like to see a numerical representation of how much time is left in a year, as a year is an important tax construct. If you look into the French Revolutio
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Think NYC Subway vs Amtrak. For Amtrak ( and dentist) you need a reservation. For Subways we just let queues fill up and then empty them. I believe that dental cleanings could work like this as well. People who are around the 6 month mark f
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by willholloway 10y ago
Awesome! Although the dream was to live completely asynchronously and divorce oneself from the oppresive orthodox time keeping system, I think a reminder of time left in a week is useful, as a work week is a real unit of measurement, the hu
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by willholloway 10y ago
In my ideal world things like dentist visits would be completely asynchronous. Until then, Maker Time will have to live in peaceful coexistence with the Gregorian Calendar. Edit: I think it's important to point out that not all culture
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Decimal Time(en.wikipedia.org)
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I edited post to include link. The count starts at 1095, because there are 1095 eight hour blocks of time in a normal year, there are 1098 in a leap year. The idea is to destroy the calendar, and destroy the clock! Replace them with a slow
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by willholloway 10y ago
Yes but it is helpful for tax purposes! The clock switching from 2 to 1095 means that: You have survived another rotation of the earth around the sun and It's time to close last years books and open a new set and deduct your business e
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The browser clock I wrote is written in Javascript and runs off the local time in your browser. I have not implemented those. The idea was to do the opposite of the granular nature of our current time keeping paradigm. To smooth out time, a
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The soothing zen feeling of not being on anyone else's schedule :) Maker Time is for people who build things, and building things requires decently long periods of focused time without interruptions. But it also reminds you that time i
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The rundown is very slow and gentle, and then it resets on January 1st. Right now there are 35 eight hour blocks of time left in 2016. It's a numerical representation of the time left in a year. I like to think of it as 35 chances to m
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I'm going to take this opportunity to shamelessly self-promote my own attempt at creating an entirely new calendar system, inspired by Paul Graham's Maker/Manager Schedule essay. It's called Maker Time, and the current M
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by willholloway 10y ago
What I am trying to understand is how is underground compressed air storage not the solution to the energy storage problem. LightSail is doing this, I don't see why others aren't too. The tech is simple. Dig a hole in your backyar
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by willholloway 10y ago
We just have to look at the world of bitcoin mining to see that custom fabricated ASICs would wipe the floor with general purpose CPUs for this kind of task. Intel 3930k = 66.6 Mhash/s AntMiner S9 ASIC = 14,000,000 Mhash/s
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by willholloway 10y ago
Passive solar homes with heat storage may not.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for thay are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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by willholloway 10y ago
Redfin isn't disrupting the industry. They set out to, and ended up pretty much recreating the existing model and competing on price. "We’re full-service, local agents who get to know you over coffee and on home tours, and we use
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by willholloway 10y ago
As someone who grew up in a family of real estate investors, landlords and brokers and has 14 years experience as an adult with it, I have to say, and I'm not picking on you because what you are espousing is a widespread belief, but yo
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by willholloway 10y ago
3D FDM plastic printers are an useful component of the future the hype described, but they are just a component, they are not energy to matter Star Trek replicators. If one designs for it, it is possible to build complex products. FarmBot i
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by willholloway 10y ago
On second thought, agreed. I hope that is not part of the solution. I think that our routers may be the key, or are at least completely negligent at the moment. A normal consumer router is essentially a black box, but it should be a watchdo
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by willholloway 10y ago
Could we not solve the problem of DDOS through collaboration between hosts and ISP's? 1) DDOS attack is detected 2) Attacking IP addresses are sent automated DDOS abuse notifications 3) ISP, like your credit card company when it's
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by willholloway 10y ago
Luckily I don't live in NY and short term rentals are perfectly legal in my town and state. What I am saying are the laws in NY are too strict and strangling growth.
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AirBnB house has positive externalities, and is much more desirable to live next to than multifamily, at least in the type of town I live in. This is why my land owning neighbors love me and are happy with the direction the neighborhood is
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by willholloway 10y ago
Here is the thing, I have read the entire zoning code for my town. My town has a strict definition of what a hotel is, and what I am doing does not meet it. A hotel has shared facilities, a check in desk and some other things. It also does
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by willholloway 10y ago
This house was built around the turn of the century as a single family house. At some point someone changed it to three. I'm changing it back. I own it. If for some reason the town tried to stop me from doing short term rentals, I woul
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by willholloway 10y ago
The state of New York has lost two Congressional representatives due to its population fleeing for more favorable areas. New York State is not doing well, and its combination of nanny state, local government corruption and high taxes is not
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by willholloway 10y ago
I do follow the same rules, I comply with all fire codes, carry proper insurance coverage and pay 15% hotel tax on every booking.

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