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by zkms 8y ago
> It’s not possible that we actually love it here, that we like the clean air, wide open spaces, huge yards, non-crowded downtown, small family friendly parades, and our rodeo. Nobody wants to outlaw suburbs and single-family homes with
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by zkms 8y ago
> Count down to an article about five or six employees throwing a fit and protesting that military contracts offend their morality Many people know that the aerospace industry has had pretty intimate relationships with the military as lo
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> it would end up being highly regressive punishing those forced to live further out and with no option but to use a car I feel like zoning regulations that altogether prohibit housing density in US cities play an extremely large part in
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by zkms 8y ago
Have you considered getting a laptop that lets you export PCIe lanes (i think they do that with Thunderbolt these days, not exactly sure) so you can use the external GPU of your choice?
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> If anyone cares to investigate further, happy to give more details. I'm quite interested in looking into this further; any details you have would be much appreciated.
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Try out https://www.locationsmart.com/try/ , you can find the current location of a phone (not just with cell tower info, it can force AGPS to operate on your phone) with just its phone number ; the demo site requires
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by zkms 8y ago
> Can somebody explain why Affordable Rent exists? Because in large US cities, housing is artificially scarce (and thus pathologically expensive). This artificial scarcity is enforced by zoning laws; which prohibit SROs, rooming houses,
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by zkms 8y ago
> Wait, what? Carriers are selling personally identifiable location information? I knew they were selling aggregate data, but how are they legally selling location numbers tied to actual phone numbers? I tried the demo ( https:/&#x2
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by zkms 8y ago
> we need to fight for BMR and other strategies to create and protect truly affordable housing. The "BMR or nothing" thing that those low-income housing advocates do pisses me off so much (and I say this as someone whose curren
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by zkms 8y ago
> I would not trust Amazon for anything that you’re going to consume. Likewise. I've gotten flagrantly counterfeit body wash / shampoo and the only thing I buy on Amazon now is books, because they're the only thing that wo
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by zkms 8y ago
Why is there no way to whitelist an arbitrary website in my browser with this new scheme? http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901 is broken with the latest Chrome.
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by zkms 8y ago
> The US doesn’t have a housing affordability problem, we have a problem with everyone and their brother, regardless of income level, thinking they should be able to live in heavily populated, high cost of living cities. The US also has
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by zkms 8y ago
It's an apartment with a kitchen and bathroom and bedroom, not a "shoebox". If you don't want to live in one, that's fine, but prohibiting this kind of housing altogether is a horrid idea. In America, we don'
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by zkms 8y ago
> Popular cities are still ultra-expensive around the world, in spite of development. Not nearly as expensive than popular cities in the US. To be more precise, many non-US popular cities have a lot more supply of rental units at low cos
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by zkms 8y ago
> But what we also need is to immediately disallow the purchase of land by foreign entities that is not used for habitation. Why limit that to just foreign entities? Also that's trivially bypassable, just get someone to live in the
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> The closer I get to purchasing a house the more I find myself pushing against measures like this. NIMBY exists to protect most people's largest financial asset. Of course it's rational to push against decreased supply of an a
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by zkms 9y ago
> Dear Cloudflare, please turn on ECS by default. Cloudflare has made it clear that they won't. From https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/nitty-gritty-detai... , > 1.1.1.1 is a privacy centric resolver
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by zkms 9y ago
Nothing socialist about letting property-owners decide what kind of housing to build on their own land.
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by zkms 9y ago
> When did you last get 100Mbit+ speeds with 4G? Any time I'm not over the 5GB data limit on my plan, really. I can speed test and get values like 102 Mbps down / 35Mbps up on TMobile US, on an old device (iPhone 6). Newer
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by zkms 9y ago
> Is it abhorrent that the owners in a neighborhood can choose to come together as a collective and influence the neighborhood they all live in? Nothing wrong with it! If some people in a neighbourhood want to buy up a parcel of land to
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by zkms 9y ago
> Why is "build more in one place" a more natural answer than "let tech companies geographically diversify themselves in response to pricing pressure"? Because USian land use laws / zoning laws (that enshrine sin
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by zkms 9y ago
The sole purpose of those boards existing is to inflict those very wounds, which are not "self-inflicted" because the people who compose those boards are homeowners and the people hurt by the wounds tend not to be. Homeowners be
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by zkms 9y ago
I also recommend Nick Land's "Meltdown".
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by zkms 9y ago
Testing analytical methods of a field against engineered artefacts is a good idea but there is a fatal flaw here; devices that do a fetch-decode-execute-retire loop against a register file and a memory bus have perversely little in common w
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by zkms 9y ago
> rather in preserving the less-developed neighborhood in which they have invested and chosen to live. If they didn't buy the property, they should have absolutely zero say about what kind of housing someone else builds on their pr
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by zkms 9y ago
> If a pedestrian suddenly rushes out into the street or a cyclist swerves into your path, the deciding factor is often simply the coefficient of friction between your tyres and the road. This holds iff the control input you apply is onl
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by zkms 9y ago
> it's basically two rounds of SHA-256. There's a bit more to this; there's clever optimisations you can do (based on the Merkle–Damgård structure of SHA256 and the format/semantics of the data being hashed): http:&#
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by zkms 9y ago
> If they actually wanted to make change, they would have explicitly said “without adhesive” or “consumer is able to open without specialized tools.” This is no more than posturing. They could also target availability of repair parts and
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Towards solving the evolutionary puzzle of suicide(researchgate.net)
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by zkms 9y ago
> Demonstrating the value of, and rationale for, those "onerous financial regulations" has been the one actual good result of this blockchain nonsense. It's also helped demonstrate that plenty of financial regulations have

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