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by zanny 8y ago
Having a lot of land doesn't change the fact that no matter how much land you have, there is still a place everyone wants to be. You could have a million new houses built in Idaho and it wouldn't make a dent of difference to the
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by zanny 8y ago
US towns stopped building as a dense collection of buildings at the end of the 19th century. Modern "towns" are a dozen or so old buildings from that era surrounded by dozens of square miles of urban sprawl mcmansion housing. Fund
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by zanny 8y ago
Perfect time to rename the company to "usher in a new era of innovation". How about calling the new AT&T Bell? Because this merged company will be way worse an anticompetitive monopoly than the exploitative operator of the US
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by zanny 8y ago
This is the "extend" phase, in case anyone is keeping track. The embrace was "MS loves Linux!", switching Windows to use git, and putting tons of near random libraries and projects on github publically (vscode, chakracor
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by zanny 9y ago
Whats the opposite? He said progress beget bullshit jobs, you just stated the same thing.
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by zanny 9y ago
Fresh instance of Kate on my desktop uses 27MB, albeit its way more than a dumb text editor. Still, twice native is still in the same order of magnitude, something most naive electron apps fail to accomplish.
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by zanny 9y ago
My whole point is that the plateau is only for the luxury first-wave large family condo type housing (at the highest denstiy, at least - if you aren't there yet, you need more density until you get there, then you move on to phase 2)
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by zanny 9y ago
So for one there is no such thing as "infinite demand". We can talk about Seattle having an unmeetable housing demand when the whole city is hundred story condo buildings and the population density is twice that of Tokyo. Of cours
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by zanny 9y ago
A more direct example - if people have to live in McSprawlsBurg and commute an hour each way every day to work in NIMBYville highways and endless leagues of single family copy pasted houses will be built to accommodate job demand in that ci
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by zanny 9y ago
Except it is good for everyone. Just not in the same term lengths. For homeowners, constraining housing supply and ballooning their property values in the immediate sense stalls the economy at multiple layers. Without housing companies cann
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by zanny 9y ago
HN might not like to hear it, but what this hive mind likes to think of as "hot stack" - React, Node based software in general, etc - is not even close to the "hot stack" of almost anywhere except in the microcosm of Cal
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by zanny 9y ago
The problem with all these discussions on economics involving a middle class comes back to how everyones definition of "middle class" is different. Especially when you are rich and/or poor - you might have millions in the ban
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by zanny 9y ago
And societies have the ability to add more capacity by realizing by having privately owned radio spectrum the advancement and adoption of wireless data transfer has been stunted for decades. Everyone likes to argue that you can't have
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by zanny 9y ago
Just a note these chips don't have hardware mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown. The first Intel and AMD chips that will have had the time for them to be implemented to offset the performance losses will be coming out next year (Ice L
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by zanny 9y ago
On one hand, transit should be heavily subsidized and not profitable because profit motives in infrastructure choke the force multiplier economic effects of having said infrastructure. You need some kind of mechanism to disincentivize overu
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by zanny 9y ago
There has to be an argument that when you deprioritize education so kids can't read or do basic arithmetic yet are expected to do taxes and follow arcane laws immediately upon hitting age 18 that its extremely harmful to future generat
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by zanny 9y ago
I used to be pretty big on the UBI bandwagon but I've come back to Earth recently and the reason is pretty simple - while we certainly do not take advantage of the total sum of intellectual talent available today - we squander a huge
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by zanny 9y ago
Except it doesn't matter if general goods and services get cheaper if life necessities like healthcare and residence have their costs ballooning out of control. That $8 minimum wage job in ten years might be able to buy you twice as ma
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by zanny 9y ago
A large part of it is liability. In theory you could just send a self-driving boat out with a giant net to scoop up a few tons of marine life to bring back to shore and stuff in a processing plant. Or even better maybe make a self-sufficien
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by zanny 9y ago
I'm not sure if the stigma will go away, but a lot of the reason not to embrace the welfare lifestyle is the stigma associated with it. With UBI everyone is getting it, so if you use it to live off of without working... good for you. I
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by zanny 9y ago
I wonder if AV1 could work with an OpenCL decoder since it does block prediction. Would almost certainly need too much per-frame sychronization to work though...
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by zanny 9y ago
You don't have to tip in the US either. Just don't expect the servers to be very nice on return visits.
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by zanny 9y ago
Both ends of the market have been driven wildly off course. The major publishers have become so risk averse that the only games they greenlight are iterative skinner box perpetual loot box cash grab wastes of talent. And on the low end you
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by zanny 9y ago
I'd love to live in a world where collective action by workers could be considered an abuse of power. The workers would be way better off in such a world. It is completely insane and probably symptomatic of the extremely successful dou
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by zanny 9y ago
Making features smaller is far and away the most cost efficient way to make processors faster. It is also relevant to remember fan size and processor design are at least two independent divisions in the same company (Intel, Samsung) and are
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by zanny 9y ago
As someone who reads text all day, going up to a 27" 150 PPI monitor was huge . There is a tangible improvement in how that text looks, especially on an accurately colored monitor. The other footnote should be that display prices have
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by zanny 9y ago
> education in itself must be a strong goal for our nation Too bad it isn't. Education is being used as a yardstick to isolate the poor from the economy. Don't have a BS? Guess you aren't qualified to work at McDonalds. An
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by zanny 9y ago
Except the Passenger Pigeon died off in 1914. A lot of noteworthy fauna died in the 19th and 20th centuries from the combination of mass human expansion, industrialization, and globalization. The difference is that in 1889 there weren&#x2
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by zanny 9y ago
I strongly doubt we would let giraffes as a whole go extinct. There are many species (mostly birds) we have kept around for over thirty years now that went extinct in the wild since invasive species have rendered a lot of habitats uninhabit
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by zanny 9y ago
According to Gallup in 2013 the median incomes in the US and UK were $15,500 and $12,400 adjusted. Considering that US citizens pay on average 10% of earnings on healthcare where the UK doesn't that makes it more akin to $14,000 vs $12

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