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> “If we don’t fix these things and look to the long term, we’ll be putting a cap on our own growth,”

It always saddens me when I see comments that assume unlimited growth is a good thing - and not an opportunity to consider the pros and cons of managing growth, especially of things like tourism.

We've all been to places that are 'unspoiled' and can understand the interest in keeping them that way. We've also all been to places that are almost exclusively populated by tourists. I'm sure some people enjoy the sensation of being in those places (vendors perhaps) but anecdotally I find it rare that people rate those experiences higher than the former, or wish to revisit those types of places. This suggests we have an understanding of the value of controlling tourism growth.

One of NZ's most famous walks - the Milford Track - already has some significant constraints (presumably to maximise the walkers' enjoyment and to minimise the damage to the environment). During the season, you can only walk the track in one direction, maximum 40 people are allowed to set off each day, etc.
I strongly object to insinuation that people who are socially isolated and dependent in the physical world are almost by definition wasting their lives. Not everyone's spending their online lives doing nothing but surfing porn and Facebook.

They could have very rich online lives, where they are able to socialize - even very freely, competently, and confidently. They could be very creative online, or learning, producing, and contributing to all sorts of projects, from open source programming, bug fixing, or documenting to contributing to projects like Wikipedia to creating art or music, and so on. They could have many friends online, or perhaps the focus of a scholar. They could even be helping others on all sorts of online forums.

What's missing is the ability to support themselves and the lack of friends or a support network in the physical world. But what a lot of people from the old, mostly physical-only world miss is that the virtual world can often be as rich or sometimes even richer, more full of potential and free of limits than the physical world.

All sorts of achievements and connections are possible to a much greater extent virtually than physically. Many people can find social and emotional connections, creative and productive fulfilment, and a great education online, where they could have many problems in the physical world.

That's not always or necessarily a pathology. It's an expansion of possibilities, which are sometimes negative, but not always or necessarily so, and sometimes can be positive, growth-promoting, and can even lead to more physical contact -- as when someone who's active online find a kindred spirit online and then continues the relationship in person.

I'd love for there to be more research on how modern hermits spend their time online, rather than always fixating on a pathological interpretation of the choice of being solitary.
I think that relying on it should be the default rather than an advanced option. Kind of like "locked down by default" that you'd want from a database that isn't mongodb.
With that simplistic logic, public corporations are inherently​ bad at managing anything that stretches beyond the next quarter.
I'm afraid people will just drop out and get high. That's what people on disability or social security are doing now.
They overstate this stuff, all of the time.

My wife was a finance director at a municipal water utility in an old city. Water supply infrastructure wasn't a ticking timebomb -- many pipes last literally centuries, and utilities can proactively use sensors and robots to find weak pipes to repair without digging up half the city. They had a capital program that worked, lines were replaced based on risk and there was a reserve for breaks or other failures.

The higher risk area from a cost point of view is sewers. They don't age as well and as we pave move stuff, many older sewers and combined storm/sanitary systems are unsafe and vulnerable.

The Flint issue isn't about old pipes. It's about incompetent engineers who should be criminally charged for incompetence.
Look at all the historical claims and the techniques involved. It takes a lot of tenacity and trying things that shouldn't work but on extremely rare occasions somehow do.

A lot of them publish source code that demonstrates how the exploit worked, plus when paired with an open-source project that has a vulnerability you can see how that matches up to the target.

There's a large toolbox of techniques to learn, but in this fashion they're surprisingly well documented. Using these techniques you can find other exploits if you're creative.
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I realize that. Doesn't actually answer my question.
You need to have the cultural homogeneity for that.
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Definitely better than when they were just buying bus tickets for the homeless to go to Phoenix and Albuquerque... (Fixing the homeless problem by making it someone else's problem)
Unless I'm missing your point I think that unspoiled natural feeling is the appeal.

It's still a little wild but not dangerous.

Why bother going there if it's just another strip of Hard Rock cafes, Holiday Inns, Tourist shops selling wallaby trinkets?

You could just save the plane ticket and go to Hawaii instead.. if motels and Hard Rock Cafes are what you want.

And that's what American developers will turn it into....evidenced by...every culturally exploited tourist city in America.

Because capitalism is most profitable catering to the lowest common denominator spring break middle American hordes who prefer the safety and comfort of an Applebees and Holiday Inn over the possible discomfort of something unpredictable.

Seriously, Hawaii and Cozumel have everything you're looking for.
It really depends where you go and what you do.

I was in South Island for a fortnight a month ago, rented a people carrier with a mattress in the back, and went hiking all over the shop.

Some places and campsites were heaving - but in others, we saw nobody for days at a time, staying in the very well maintained DoC huts which dot the mountains.

Up near Arthur's pass, for instance, all of the listed DoC camp sites were crowded and in pretty unpleasant locations - but if you're prepared to tramp for five hours over rough terrain, fording rivers and what not, you get the mountains and the huts to yourselves. Crow hut stands out as a "I can't believe nobody else wants to come here" moment.

In Franz Josef, we eschewed a glacier hike and instead tramped up Alex Knob - saw maybe a dozen others doing the same - but looking back at the glacier through binoculars was like looking at ants on a cake.

Following this we went to East Antarctica, and saw nary a soul - but then you get to the peninsula and it's like a bad day on the M25.

I dare say part of the issue here is distribution of tourists and their activities - for whatever reason (reviews? recommendations? advertising? "If it's free it must be bad"?) people tend to go where other people already are, and don't go to those places which are less frequented.

The only place that felt oppressively busy was Queenstown on our first night, where we stayed in a £250/night fleapit motel.

Sustainability in tourism isn't just an NZ problem, it's global and growing - and it's not just about infrastructure, but also at what point does the popularity of a locale cause such crowding that it becomes unappealing and self-destructs?

Oh, and I write this from Ushuaia, which exists these days largely due to the tourist trade and likewise seems to be struggling to keep up with demand growth - new developments are springing up on the outskirts while city centre frontage sits abandoned, and locals mutter about water shortages.
Then create an independent organisation handling things with a fixed budget based on % of federal revenue.

This should solve this.
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As a Kiwi, what catches my attention about this discussion is that "raising the standard of living" in pure economic terms is still a primary political campaigning tool in NZ.

How do you measure the great things we already have and value that aren't so easily shown on a balance sheet and can't be shown on an emotive graph that trends up towards the right hand side?

The voter supported political agenda (whichever party it comes from) seems to often involve economic activities that don't hold to the long term values of the average Kiwi or the things that the rest of the world love our country for but we're temporarily blinded by the prospect of a shiny new car so make concessions in the short term.

I love the fact that so many people want to come and enjoy our home, but please understand that NZ is this way at least in part because we haven't focussed on growth at all costs. It may not always be this way.
Someone I was once friends with had been a drug addict while in the military, where they do random drug tests and throw you out if you fail, basically. I asked how to beat the drug test if I needed to, as I had been unwillingly exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke while job hunting. He assured me it would not matter, as secondhand smoke would not show up on the test, then gave me detailed instructions on how to beat the test "even if you are so high you have trouble peeing in the cup."

So, maybe don't believe all test results.
We've certainly not heard of any.
Which is why there are so many large capital private equity groups.
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Your supposed slam dunk simply isn't. Take the same example modified twice: "I listened to [Complaining person], a serial killer, and a hapless fool. However, no one could tell if I was speaking to one person or two."

Note that the phrase "a serial killer" could reasonably be read as an aside describing the first party. There is no silver bullet.
Eh...not really. Imagine an economy that was really dependent on tourism. Now imagine that tourism disappears for any reason. That economy is screwed. Tourism can play a positive role in an economy, but only up to a certain point. If your economy can't function without tourism, then you're in a bad spot.
As a pragmatic libertarian, that's where I stand.. it likely wouldn't cost much more, but would eliminate a LOT of other programs and agencies, and reduce/eliminate classes of subsidies and complex legislation for a simple, universal system that people aren't able to abuse (short of non-citizens, arguably claiming benefits)

We definitely don't need more tax enforcers, or more taxes... better spending, and simpler tax structures are needed much more.
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But if you don't use any process, what process is doing the reading?

(This sounds like a zen koan somehow.)
We're already at that point financially, although we haven't quite acquired the political will yet.
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I suspect the primary cause was engineering incompetence rather than a desire to save money. The water quality problems were caused by a lack of corrosion inhibitors; corrosion inhibitors would have cost $140/day, which is cheap compared to the $4 million that Flint spent upgrading the water treatment plant. It seems most plausible to me that the Flint engineers simply weren't thinking about the need for corrosion inhibitors.
So people say.

Yet in my city, for all its warts, clean water has come out of the tap since the mid 19th century, and the poop and rainwater flows away.
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The important thing to note here is that "precious metals" and "rare minerals" really aren't. Given advanced enough technology, they become abundant.

That happened with aluminum - they used to make very expensive jewelry out of it, till we learned how to mine it efficiently, and now it's $1.9 per kilo.

I expect the same to happen to gold, silver, platinum. Diamonds are already on their way.
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The Bernoulli equation is a valid description of what happens to the airflow pressure and velocity around a wing (at least at speeds well below sonic), but the problem is that it is not much of an explanation - it leaves you with something else to explain, namely the change in velocities. Attempts to do so without invoking calculus have resulted in the propagation of fallacies, such as the 'equal transit time' one mentioned above by tzs.

The "Newton's 3rd. law" explanation treats the wing and its immediate surrounding as a black box: air flows in, and exits deflected downwards, so there has been some downwards-directed acceleration. It does not address details of that process, such as why the above-wing airflow usually generates the larger part of the lift, or even how the deflection occurs, though it is fairly obvious that some sort of deflection will result from driving an inclined plane through the air.
What does capitalism have to do with it? It's almost universally agreed that government choices were the ones at fault, and whether capitalist, socialist, whatever, cost vs. quality is still a factor.
> In the US, cities manage their own municipal services including water supplies. The state only intervenes when the city runs out of money to provide basic services to their inhabitants -- and this happens very rarely.

In most of the country, if the city runs out of money, the city runs up a debt. And if the city can't pay the debt, the city goes bankrupt.

No state intervention to protect creditors. They took on the risk when they lent the money. And it is only money.

The idea that muni bond holders are so important that cities should have fiscal solutions forced on them from above to prevent a debt default?

That's a Michigan thing.

And now we know what that Michigan idea can lead to.
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Judt think of all the useless civil servants you would be putting out of work!

That woul take a serious chunk out of the budget though.
ah, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle
Like most of the world, NZ doesn't tax based on citizenship, it taxes based on residency.
A lot of people including myself have used tools to generate CF or Heat templates in the absence of a need for cross-cloud compatibility that Terraform offers. You can use Troposphere, Stacker, or anything else that can intelligently generate and manage component information as a JSON or Yaml file and get much of the power of Terraform - perhaps more given the option of a full language rather than an external, declarative DSL. I still haven't found an idiomatic, elegant API that can manage all those template references.

The primary advantage Cloudformation has for myself is a lack of need to manage the state that Terraform spends so much effort upon. In fact, Cloudformation does this fairly opaquely but was much more obvious when I tried to deploy a CF stack when S3 was down a while ago - being able to use an alternate state file location would have been handy then.
Not just the pH. The salinity too. Plain old road salt in the water messed with the calcium plaques that were protecting the pipes.
We do? I don't think I've ever have.
The biggest counterexample to this that some people have experienced is accidentally swapping if= and of=, thus backing up their target onto their source rather than vice versa.
Fair enough, however there's a false dichotomy in what you say there. Berkeley did take the decision, in 2015, to stop releasing material of this sort and to focus on producing specialized material that satisfies all access concerns (e.g. their edx.org material[1]). So what we're talking about here is pre-2015 material that, as a matter of fact, exists. Neither they, nor necessarily I, are arguing that they should be free to produce non-compliant material henceforth. However, I am arguing that they should be free to distribute material that already exists. It exists, it was produced with the best intentions, it makes the world a better place. Some people on the disabilities rights side seem to think that public access to this innocently-produced material should be taken away, despite their full awareness that the world will be strictly worse off after doing so. I don't find that to be a particularly noble standpoint.

[1] Their edx.org material is depressingly dumbed-down relative to their video lectures, but that's a separate topic; welcome to the future I guess.
Very informative and well written post, thanks for sharing.
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This is like saying that unless you own your own post office, you're not sending your mail, the US Postal Service is. Nobody talks like that.
What is the name of it? There seem to be several apps using the name so I can't tell which one you are referring to.
Makes for a better movie title. I mean who'd pay to see Escape from Microsoft Edge?
Thanks!

I'll give this a listen on the commute to work next week.
Yes- but don't sublet your rental ...

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You might be right about that. Japan has been pretty hostile to immigration, so it's probable that's a significant factor here.
I was initially a huge fan but now I hate it. It re-invents so many unnecessary wheels that it is downright obnoxious. There are no loops, if statements, variables. Things that have been in programming languages since day 1. It re-invents modules, badly. Has weird hacks like null resources and external data providers to get around shortcomings in their "declarative" model. And a few other things I'm forgetting. Oh, now they're adding "environments". That's just dandy because they got everything else so right.

Every place I've seen Terraform used invariably runs into these shortcomings and the workarounds range from using Erb and Jinja templates to generate Terraform templates to just ditching it entirely and using home-grown solutions. Terraform should have been a library in an actual programming language instead of a gimped external DSL that re-invents the wheel.
well exactly, somehow he bought NZ citizenship without meeting the minimum residency requirement provided for by the law ... that's why it's currently an ongoing political scandal in NZ
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They could. But why would they?

Why would corporations decide to buy stuff for their own sake? That's a loss of what they are built to maximize, that is money.
I think you're missing a lot here. The city isn't failing for lack of jobs, but for lack of jobs that produce value. A job rebuilding the infrastructure of an area is only valuable if there are other jobs from which you can tax to justify that.

If I spend $100 million to fund a trench that does nothing, it's a money sink. I've effectively thrown that money away. However, I have achieved however much employment that $100mm bought me. Until and unless that $100mm gets somebody some value, it isn't worthwhile, and as we've seen, there are very few people willing to fund completely pointless projects for no reason... even governments try to avoid it.

This is different than health care spending, or housing, or welfare -- those things (at least arguably) provide benefits. If I give someone health care for free, it's largely assumed that the cost of that health care will be offset in other ways. See the discussions on the Utah Unemployment article for examples.

But because governments are funded by tax dollars, and tax dollars are generated by earnings, until and unless people are earning moneys from outside the government that pays them, it simply isn't sustainable. Building infrastructure in the middle of nowhere is fruitless it is used as a lure for some form of money or productivity. The absence of said productivity means that, at best, you'll be revenue neutral on the funding projects and sustainable until inevitably inflation wipes everything away. Of course, to do that, the community has to be entirely self sustainable, which Flint definitely isn't.

In short, tax and spend can't work unless there's something to tax that isn't also part of the spend.
Put another way, we should use a space elevator and electric generator to slow useful commodities down as they fall from space to earth.

If only rockets had regenerative brakes!
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Great changes! State environments is the feature that stands out the most for me. Currently, this is done by managing different sets of TF VARs. That's not going away, but this should allow for more nuanced modules.
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In the US, cities manage their own municipal services including water supplies. The state only intervenes when the city runs out of money to provide basic services to their inhabitants -- and this happens very rarely.

In my view a city is not a sovereign nation. The political and financial structure of cities is decided by the states. If a city isn't providing basic services, it means that the state isn't providing basic services in geographic pockets of the state.

On the other hand, if this structure is really the best way of delivering municipal services, so be it. But I'm skeptical.

I see no reason why something like water service has to be managed at the municipal level. There could just be a state water service, and it could decide to manage itself by creating regional services. So far as I know, the cities aren't expected to manage delivery of electricity or natural gas.

Maybe Michigan is a failed state.
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