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So, if the problem is that real estate in cities is too expensive to build affordable housing... isn't the solution to build more cities?

There keep being more people and those people keep wanting to live in the same places.

But, the people already in those places don't want them - charitably, because it gets too crowded. Turns LA or SF into Manhattan, where you pay a lot for a mediocre shoebox.

Better transportation gets us a ways - when you ask someone in LA how far away something is, they tell it to you in time, because that's what matters - not the physical distance, but the temporal one. Better transportation means more physical space is accessible within the same "city".

But, it strikes me that this is nearly the same problem as corporatism and monopolies - as power concentrates, power concentrates faster. I guess that extends past money and politics to society and populations.

So if the government needs to redistribute power - wealth (universal basic income), politics (democracy vs autocracy), access (mass transit, education)... does it need to build more cities? Not build existing cities larger, mind you - but cause more cities?

The west coast grew later than the east coast. We have, what, three major cities / metropolitan areas? San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle? Five if you move the bar to include Portland and San Diego? East coast has more than a dozen MAJOR metropolitan areas, and how many more when you move the bar?

Maybe the answer isn't higher density housing in the cities we have where everyone wants to live. Maybe the answer is getting more cities where everyone wants to live.

Sure, it's not exactly like New York has a monopoly on metropolitan-ness, and we need to go all anti-trust on it... But you get the idea, yeah?

Make me think of Dublin. What was Dublin two decades ago? What is it now?

Makes me think of - what was it called, where you make a city with different laws, one part test bed, one part diversity? Happened in the Renaissance, and it's what Hong Kong is.
It just automates what was previously something done manually. But it only works 75% of the time. It's a nice tool to have if this is your domain but it's not like you get any guarantees about success. Biology is still stubbornly complex.
I wonder who did the leak? I wonder if the law firm knows who did it and where he is now?

My guess is some sys admin presumely at some central office (as this spans the whole company); I mean 2.6TB data - not so easy for an average lawyer to download to his laptop.
No it isn't. The land cost goes up, because now it's possible to use it for a much more lucrative purpose. This is called the zoning windfall problem.

At some point, in theory, the greater supply begins to bring down land costs in aggregate, but since real estate pricing is a localized phenomenon, this effect isn't universal.
We make fun of all sorts of people in life. I even do so at my own expense. Its not a big deal; it's even referred to as fun.
Byuu: On the State of Emulation, Part IV (Bsnes/Higan)
I don't think I know enough about subversion or centralised git. Aegis was great for the first few years. For the main project, there was a perception that it was slow and unreliable. But a lot of us loved the transactional features and preservation of the timelines of comments for code review. Its management of test scripts was very very valuable.

I'm not sure about your authorisation checks question. Maybe Aegis did get in the way.

An afterthought about speed and reliability - Aegis is almost too configurable. For instance, it relies on a 'file history tool' per project; that can be SCCS, RCS, FHist, or anything that you can tell Aegis how to use. We used the somewhat obscure FHist. It has the advantage that it was written by the same person as Aegis, and so is extensively tested with it.

Our project had the main repository sitting on an NFS server, and in later years around a dozen working on one or two changes at any one time, with those stored on each engineer's Linux workstation. That was slow and sometimes fragile, but we never really explored other confiration options.

We accumulated hundreds of unit test scripts which had to pass on each integration. In retrospect we should have worked harder to retire or refactor the oldest ones. Having fewer or faster tests would have saved time and angst.

Aegis' implementation is very dependent on the Unix security model. We thought about doing something to make it work on Windows, but quickly got discouraged.

I don't know much about security, but I'd guess you'd be able to discover many.

Sadly, Peter Miller, the originator and I guess owner of Aegis, died a few years ago. User and developer mailing lists were on the web last time I checked.
It highly depends on your country of tax residence and citizenship.
Panama Papers – 149 released documents (out of 11Ms)
The issue is that taking away that choice is damaging to many people. I think that the statement "most people in the West agree" glosses over an important detail - perhaps most people who have the money agree, and the others are forced to go along with it.

I would far rather have a home that has 'risky banister railings' if that meant I could actually afford it.

Mental health is as important as physical health, if not moreso - what's worse, risk of eviction, or having to pay attention near the stairwell? I get that this is an isolated example, but I'd take worse insulation, no solar, worse security, everything, if it meant I could get a home and slowly improve it myself with time.

If that means I have to live rurally - so be it - but as far as I can tell that means living outside of the country I was born in (UK), which is quite sad.
>There's a range calculator on the Model S webpage. If you drop the temperature and turn on the heater, even the 90 kWh battery doesn't have 240 miles range.

Yeah, it seemed at least three years ago driving from DC to Boston in the winter was pretty much impossible... and that's one of the most traveled routes in the country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the...

There's a lot of people I talk to who the only driving they do is from home to work to the grocery store. These are the ones insisting very loudly that range isn't an issue with EVs and there's no convincing them otherwise, its only a theoretical problem for them.
Of particular note: This release brings 64 bit support to the Linux compatibility layer.

I suppose when windows caught up Bash on Windows, FreeBSD needed to do something to keep one step ahead =].
China’s Companies Poised to Take Leap in Developing a Driverless Car
Some of whom had been ripping off the world, many of whom who are completely innocent.. Also, it'd be incredibly easy to steal identities of just about anyone in the data dump if you had the level of detail the documents have.
What sources? A brief search turns up some speculation but nothing that appears at all informed, although I certainly could have missed it.

I'm not surprised capacity is similar to what you'd find off the shelf, but I'd expect chemistry to be tweaked to account for the different environment and much higher need for longevity.
Even if concealing your identity isn't illegal, you may be concealing it because you're involved in something shady. Like tax evasion.
I'll echo this same sentiment. On one hand you've got what feels like pieces of GM trying to "turn an aircraft carrier around."[1] On the other hand you have a relatively nimble Tesla investing everything it has into making EVs affordable and desirable. And to me it's bleeding over into the consumer market. One just scored $8.5B worth of preorders, and the other shrugs off the prospect of even offering preorders, given the assertion that Tesla will hit 200k preorders and "suck the air out of the room[2]."

[1]: http://www.wired.com/2016/01/gm-electric-car-chevy-bolt-mary...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4BIoNsAB8s&feature=youtu.be...
Please, elaborate on who, exactly, is the plantation master in your analogy? What absolute tripe.
What if grandma lives in an apartment?
> The custom-build software will also be published to the general public either as public domain, or as Free Software so others can improve and reuse the software.

> However, it is encouraged to be retroactively applicable for the existing custom-build software developed by agency employees in the course of their official duties.

As much as I love FOSS, anything produced by the government — including software — is public domain, right? The government is not eligible for copyright — including FOSS licensing. While I understand that the government sometimes contracts stuff out, and those third-parties seem to enjoy a weird exception to the rule, the article seems to be including stuff developed directly by the government for the government. How do they think they have any rights to it at all?
Why not just have TSA agents flip a coin, or buy a bunch of Trouble board games, and repurpose the dice rolling bubble?
> This is why most OEMs lock out the touch screen controls while the car is in motion.

So that the passenger can't use them either? The car is not my baby sitter, I wouldn't buy a car that did stuff like that.
I was going to say the same thing. I know where the buttons are, so I can just feel for them without looking away from the road. Can't feel your way around a touchscreen.
>Relatedly, does anyone have a sense of how far out we are from consumer-grade haptic-feedback touchscreens?

Well, they had them in Star Trek: The Next Generation. While not actually shown close-up in the show, the technical manual explained that the flat touchscreens actually provided tactile feedback, and of course were reconfigurable.

How'd they do it? Simple: according to the technical manual, they used miniature force fields.

We're not very close to developing any kind of force fields right now....

On a more serious note, I believe there's been some research into using ultrasonics to provide some kind of tactile feedback. And of course lots of phones now have vibrating feedback.
How are documents that can directly lead to the identity theft of people not a privacy issue?
Sci-hub: https://sci-hub.io/download/c7c5/nielsen2016.pdf
I think there's a market size problem here. I just don't want to eat with strangers. I have stayed with strangers in AirBnBs to save money, but far prefer whole-apartment pseudohotels. But the stay is not the benefit I'm receiving, the trip is what I'm seeking and the place to rest my head is a requirement. With the restaurant, the dinner is the thing I'm buying, and dining with strangers would reduce the value substantially (for me).

If they can capitalize on the economics while having tables of two or four, I'll be down for these pseudorestaurants.
It's not illegal. It's not even expensive. Take a look at this catalog of manufactured homes.[1]

[1] http://www.claytonhomes.com/find-homes.cfm?categoryID=1
I could only find these 149 documents so far: https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/Source:%20%22Int...
I think that swsieber's point was not that Rust is unsafe, but rather that Rust is too paranoid. There exist safe things that Rust will not let you do (without turning off the safety catches)!

Of course, the answer to that is still pretty much exactly what you said: it's true of every programming language that claims to achieve safety in any sense. If Rust is too restrictive then so is every other restricting language.

swsieber, according to says some guy named Gödel, every type system that is sound (and decidable) is not complete. Since decidability is kind of not optional, and most people are not okay with your type system sometimes telling you that something is okay when it's not okay, well, you're gonna have excessive constraints in your language.
why verilog?
Mazdas lock out the touchscreens when driving, forcing you to use the "commander" knob instead. And not all functions are available when moving.
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You wouldn't describe your position on cryptography and privacy in general as "moderate" by any chance?
Good call and probably European given the choice of paper leaked too.
Don't expect to hear much on that front: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/04/corporate-me...
The vast majority of the population lives in areas with good Supercharger coverage, and uses major interstates for their long trips, which is where Superchargers are mostly located. I would contend that a majority of the US population's trips would fit within it as the network stands today. Again, just look at the population map of the US and the map of superchargers. It lines up pretty well.
Aren't there cities close to silicon valley, with nicer zoning laws enabling sane housing prices ? And if so, why don't they become the 2nd silicon valley ?
Very cool. Thanks for the links!
Index cards and a pencil. I organize the cards into columns that represent calendar weeks (Thur-Wed), and I keep the next six weeks' worth of columns at all times. There's an additional column for "future" that holds everything with a date more than six weeks away.

Stuff that doesn't have a date, but is a nifty idea to do in the future, gets put into a stack of future ideas. They're categorized. At any given time, I'm working on just a few ideas. When an idea is finished, I can take a new idea from the "future ideas" pile. In practice, I often know what I want to work on next and I don't look at the pile.

Cards are estimated in terms of points. I know from experience how many points I can get done in a week. At the beginning of each week, I count up the estimates on the date-sensitive cards. If there's extra time available, I either pull forward cards that need to be done in the future or bring in cards that will progress one of my current ideas.

Every day, I completely clear my inbox. Spam, no-response, and quick-response email gets taken care of immediately. Everything else gets turned into a card and put into the calendar. There's enough slack in my weekly budget that I can absorb these sorts of administrative tasks.

When I finish a card, I mark it with a little sticky dot. At the end of the week, I bundle up the cards with a rubber band and put it in a cardfile. I also add up the total estimates and write down the ideas I was working on for future reference. That info gets put on another card, of a different color, that acts as a sort of "cover sheet" for the bundle. I don't need to do this, but it makes me feel a sense of progress.

Been doing this for years and it works very well for me. It breaks down when I travel as I'm (a) busy and distracted, and (b) don't bring the cards with me, so I have trouble staying on top of my inbox.
Well, you could just speak with a Standard American accent when using voice controls.

If we Americans can easily ape British accents, you shouldn't have much trouble doing the reverse.
"Actively harming people"...followed by directly referring to someone with a curse word.

Funny that the US is on the verge of electing Trump, because there are a lot of people who are tired of this tripe.
They must have done something right, because the Model S was deemed "the best car ever, by a huge margin" by several of the leading automotive journals. Is the source of all those benefits the electric drivetrain?
Considering that the cloud is a PC customer, I'm not sure what needs to be fixed. Furthermore, as "PC core audience" I completely agree with you: I want nothing to do with this Spectre. It has to compromise on power and PC has never been about that. It sounds just like a tablet.
Thank you for the heads up.
Editor says there may be some:

https://twitter.com/ploechinger/status/716773530436825088

https://twitter.com/ploechinger/status/716763595820941312

Also, I hope journalists are asking the "accused" for their comments, and giving them time to respond, as journalistic best practice.
For anyone (like me) to whom that term was unfamiliar:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275206/Hong-Kongs-m...
emacs org-mode, sections with the date and [/] and subsections with the TODO tag, moving things forward as needed; sort of a cheater's GTD.
> The American automotive industry moved ridiculously slowly towards electric and alternative fuel vehicles

Tesla is American; this perhaps isn't the best choice of words.

> ultimately is only doing so to sell units on what they perceive as a new niche.

I don't think I'm cynical to believe that every corporation (including Tesla, etc.) that intends on making profits is trying to sell units in a popular niche.

> it's going to be the one committing to the broad goals of bettering humanity, not just capitalizing on someone else proving the existence of a market.

Fair enough, but for me it comes down to supporting the product that best fits my needs and desires, which I think on a societal level can do a better job of solving the most immediate problems. I would strongly consider any vehicle that fits what I'm looking for when I next shop for a car.
It seems a bingo spinner with two colors of balls would do just as good of a job.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bingo+spinner&tbm=isch
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I happily grant you that what I wrote looked like a strawman, and read out of context it was. However, I used the "to make a small group of people money" bit as a piece of euphony, paralleling the original sentence construction of the poster to whom I was replying. The entire point of my parallel - the only point - was not about someone profiting, but rather that I think the important element is the massive public health concern, not about zoning regulation.

That said, I disagree completely and vehemently with most of what you said. Allow me to respond to what I believe the salient pieces were. I'll rephrase for brevity, but please let me know if I've mis-represented your position in doing so:

1 - "Sharing economy doesn't undo regulations, they just demand new types." To date, we haven't seen the sharing economy demand "new types" of regulations; we've seen it completely ignore existing regulations and lobby against any replacement, even where those regulations are reasonable (e.g., requiring commercial drivers to have commercial auto insurance, w/r/t Uber).

2 - "Don't fit well ... not a reason to dismiss them entirely." That is a strawman. I did not advocate for dismissing them entirely. I don't generally advocate for eliminating viable business models out of bureaucratic laziness. The current situation, however, is "ignore public health regulations until we kill enough people to draw attention to ourselves." That is not an acceptable road forward under any circumstance, and being adamantly opposed to it is not the same as being entirely opposed to the existence of an "uber for chefs", or whatever we're calling it.

3- I disagree about the "order of magnitude" argument. It's rather like dismissing an Uber approach to user safety on the argument that each driver is just one driver. We must address it as the entire service, which collectively - if it scales, and let's be fair, scaling is the point - would end up serving enormous numbers of people.

4- "Imagine if healthy, home-cooked dinner was cheap and convenient." An appeal to pathos. Largely irrelevant to the discussion, and also to the services as they exist(which generally involve sit-down meals for groups of people at fairly immodest prices).
75% success rate for systems with this complexity (>10 elements) is probably just as good if not better than what would be expected by designing “by hand,” and the latter approach does not scale past the current order of magnitude (to 100+ component designs). I think that’s their main argument.
For a luxury car, looks matter a lot for the success of the vehicle, but for family/utility cars, I don't think they matter that much. Minivans are horrendous looking but popular for their utility.
Idle question sort-of-related but I'm asking it here because those who know the answer will be here:

The bge(4) driver by default doesn't support WoL, but a number of people have managed to take the driver from FreeNAS 9.x which includes a patched driver that does make it work and added it to FreeBSD 9.x. This was released as a .patch file so you could patch the driver and recompile and is of interest because it's the onboard NIC for the HP Proliant microservers that many people use for their own custom file storage servers.

The upgrade from 9 to 10 broke this patch because the lines changed too dramatically, but you can easily copy/paste it in to the driver source at the right places and it works (I did it on 10.1 or 10.2).

My question is: Specifically what process does one need to go through to provide a patched bge(4) driver to 'the appropriate people' so that the patch is included in FreeBSD's default driver and is not broken with each major change to the driver? How does one go from 'we have functioning code that enables WoL support' to 'this is a tested, certified driver included in the default FreeBSD install'? What licensing issues are there in contributing the patch upstream from FreeNAS to FreeBSD?

This is all new territory for me, so some guidance would be greatly appreciated!
It probably depends on the design of the physical buttons.

I've had cars where the physical buttons were sliders and I usually had to glance at them, especially when there were multiple slides parallel to each other (say for fan speed and hot/cold mix). That's because the part that I had to interact with would be in different places, depending on the current setting. It would require enough feeling around to make sure I had the right control that it would probably be more distracting than a quick glance.

My current car (2006 Honda CR-V) uses round buttons for many things. I do not need to glance at them. The fan speed control is always in the same place. The hot/cold mix control is always in the same place. The air routing control is always in the same place. So, if I want to change fan speed, for instance, I reach to the same fixed location every time, and then rotate the knob clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on whether I want to increase or decrease the fan speed. Unlike with sliders, the current setting does not affect what I have to do to find the control or interact with it.
Apparently they split out all the documents relating to Americans and haven't released them yet. So nothing has "hit home" so to speak for American media.
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> One just scored $8.5B worth of preorders, and the other shrugs off the prospect of even offering preorders, given the assertion that Tesla will hit 200k preorders and "suck the air out of the room[2]."

What is so inherently superior about offering preorders? I'm honestly not sure what point you're making here.
Choose your level of risk. I am sure if you want all those features, you can make the determination yourself. If you want to live dangerously, then live dangerously. I personally support this outlook. Better have cheap housing with risk than rent.
You are speaking in broad generalities about a specific and narrow topic. Could you please clarify what public health / food sanitation laws you feel are the one-sided product of lobbyists and special interests and have no "Chesterton's Fence"-type value to speak of?
I live in the Northeastern US and that situation would be 70% of my out of town trips, and I take a real lot of out of town trips. I don't think I'm very atypical, but maybe I am?

I think the point is most people don't want to plan all of their activities around the needs of their car.
It's definitely a very focused search. There will almost certainly be more coverage over the coming days/weeks. It is reported that a full list of names and companies linked will be released in early May. http://www.irishtimes.com/business/what-are-the-panama-paper...