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The slogan is "Yes in my backyard." But the people saying it don't have a backyard. They should not be coercing people with backyards and imposing their will.
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Right, but that makes the online component even more confusing. Why would you ever order from walmart.com if they don’t offer those competitive prices? Amazon has plenty of stock, more than walmart can compete with. I can’t buy notebooks from japan from walmart—at least, not of the same quality, variety, and price amazon offers.
That seems to be the point of the article.

People are in an uproar about being recorded, but not realizing they are being 'recorded' in many other ways.
I think you've missed his point a bit. If I invested in a
cigarette company and then a state decides that smoking can't happen within 5 meters of an eating area and this will affect cigarette sales I don't have a right to stop this law just because my investment might be hurt.

Same with Herbalife, it's considered a pyramid scheme and a scam by many people. Maybe one day the US government says they have to shut down because some new law passses targeting them. In my world, I don't think they should be allowed to stay open just because some investors might be hurt.

Property carries a risk just like any other investment and just because property was scarce at one point doesn't mean it needs to be forever. If the bay continues to have skyrocketing rents and no construction then eventually people will leave and the owner's investments will go to shit anyway.
As are articles that point out that price discrimination is happening. Free markets function best with well informed consumers.
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And then you get into the city and have to take the T... My 4-mile Green Line trip from home to work takes anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half. The other lines aren't as bad, but the Green line is just shockingly terrible.
Ooor you could just flatshare, which easily finds you a flat with two bedrooms and a living room that seats twelve. And hey, you already have another person or two there to take the table seats.
The BBC is a total shadow of its former self. Radio included. 9 o'clock news is like it's for kids.
If true, the 2 SEALs will be executed. I believe the military still hangs people for this. Good.
Nobody, on any side of the debate, is advocating that people who own houses have their homes taken away.
They’re not winning in Boulder. 4 of 5 seats on the city council were just won by Nimby supporters. And no wonder... the largest contingent here is wealthy boomers who moved to Boulder because its Boulder. Why would they want that to change?

I’m not one of them by the way. But I do think that increasing supply in crazy high demand markets is a linear solution to a logarithmic problem.
> It comes across like people complaining that there are no pensions anymore and its unfair....

Firstly, we can and should renegotiate not only outrageous pension plans but also outrageous public salary. Or we can just let the local government go bankrupt if the unions won't blink. Maybe we need compensation caps in public office. Sorry for going off-topic but I just wanted to address your premise because it is not solid at all.
In a sense it's confirmation bias because it caused me to entertain the idea, but I don't believe they are actually classifying photos for advertising purposes. I don't discount the possibility, though. I'm 28 and, although I have been experiencing gradual hair loss. You're right that you could probably take my age and gender to make some guesses, but I'd imagine that using computer vision would allow ads to not be wasted on 60% of men who aren't losing their hair. Having used Amazon Rekognition, which can classify a person based on if they have a beard or not, I think Facebook could do so with reasonable accuracy. Beyond baldness, I imagine detecting the brands of clothes people wear could tell a lot about what fashion lines to advertise to someone.
(note: am currently employed by a kaspersky competitor, opinions my own)

exactly. as far as i can tell, this cert was created to impersonate kaspersky to silly middle-boxes and wireshark-using admins, who might just look at the name in the cert and not check whether it was valid.

it makes sense for a random endpoint to be contacting your AV vendor's infrastructure, so it's a reasonable way to hide. (other reasonable targets, like, say, windows update, might be disabled or managed by the enterprise)

there doesn't seem to be any intent at all to impersonate kaspersky w.r.t. attribution of malicious actions. rather, it's an attempt to hide malware c2 traffic as legitimate av traffic.

the narrative being pushed here seems to be an honestly transparent attempt at misinformation, borne out of... either a significant misunderstanding of the situation, or, as much as i hesitate to say it, intentional manipulation.

wouldn't be surprised if some target happened to be using kaspersky, and this cert was created specifically for that.

(also might point out that the original poster's account appears to entirely consist of submissions from their personal blog, which doesn't seem... great?)
Not to mention students.
They day I truly became old, was the day I stopped receiving ads for partying and travel, and started receiving spam about mortgages, loans, wrinkle-cures and pension schemes.
Watching this stuff tends to give me that dissociated-from-reality feeling that is only possible with certain media content (Richard Linklater's "Slacker", for one)
How the Customer Acquisition Process Is Changing in SaaS
Note, District 6.
I forgot about that. You can, in fact, use firefox with adblock on android, so long as adblock is distributed with the app itself.

Unfortunately though, it does not work globally.
The Economist is terrible. It's just the same neo-liberal slant on everything. Read one article of theirs and you are done.

FT is really weak. Go check out the FT comments some time - none of their readers understand how markets work nor how prices are set. You know why? Because they read the FT and the FT never talks about any of this. All they have is what appears to be in depth but is simply parroting numbers.

Guardian I have more time for but they are frustrating. They tell the truth right up to the point where it comes to talking about the banks and how land is used to extract labour, then they melt away. Which in the UK is everything.

UK journalism has fallen so far. Telegraph for example you could label propaganda - it's right wing. But it's so trashy now. And this is mirrored across all publications.
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> some grit and patience.

I think the point is to avoid that when it is trivial to do so.
I've always been kind of unclear on how the AGPL works, even after reading various TL;DR-ish explainers. What happens if you link/import AGPL code in, vs running an AGPL service as a separate process as part of your architecture?
Is there some guide that explains the division of responsibilities between different levels of government in the US? I have lived in the US and have always been aware of my lack of knowledge in this area. (In this specific instance I am unsure whether the City / State is responsible for urban planning / transportation capacity that might possibly be impacted by sudden changes in inventory.)
I read an article in the New Yorker recently about a guy chasing info on squid, just excellent. So well written.
They'll have to admit that they're really just looking to protect their view

I dunno, if I bought the most expensive thing I'll ever buy in my life and part of what I paid for was a good view, I'd be pretty choked if someone put a big building up and took that away.
As much as I support what YIMBY is trying to do for San Francisco, I think this is trying to solve the symptom of a greater problem: that our economy has shifted to not needing (yet still somehow requiring) our workers to work in a physical office.

I recently became a remote worker and I cannot imagine going back. If this became the norm in the US I think this would do a lot for fixing the housing problems.

We have enough space to house everyone, the problem is we believe we need to house them close to where the "jobs are."

But if employers allowed their workers to work from anywhere, then not everyone would need to live in NY, SF, LA, Boston, et al. The cities that experienced the worst emigration (e.g. Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee) could stabilize. Housing prices would normalize as a result of everyone not being forced to live within a 2-hr commute of the country's biggest employers. And those same employers could pay less for talent because they wouldn't have to give them a salary to afford places where the average starter home is over $1mm.

And yet, we see articles in the NYT how big companies like IBM are already rescinding their offers for giving people more flexibility. We're not moving in the right direction.
Could the title be changed swapping "She" for "Renee DeResta"?
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If you’re going to use a literal interpretation of backyard, instead of the colloquial and intended meaning (neighborhood), then the only person who’s talking about their own yard is the person who wants to build on their land.

When a neighbor says they can’t build, it’s a case of exactly what you decry: “it’s not their backyard to say [no] to”.
To write with lower contrast. What you write in grey will (hopefully) blend into the background, allowing your mind to focus on the other colors.

This is a common tactic with text editors: drawing comments using a very low-contrast color.
Why limit to affordable & teacher housing. Seems unfair and might not effect the current cost of living for those getting market rate housing....aka the tax payers.
That's an overly literal interpretation.
If Elon thinks we could live on Mars I would imagine we'd have no trouble adapting to merely higher temperatures on earth.
You’re correct that my language is too loose there.

Here’s what would happen:

1. Apple would declare that they are repatriating the money.

2. The shareholders would disagree. They would sue, claiming that the company’s directors are obligated to do what’s best for the corporation. The shareholders would vote to replace the board, and the newly elected board would replace management.

The threat of #2 prevents #1.
> If its having such an abject effect on your life? Why would you stay? You obviously had the skills to put yourself into such a position, you have the skills to get yourself into a much better position.

Because we believe we can effect change. I don't want to screw anyone over but home prices MUST come down regardless of how many second and third mortgages go underwater. What can we do to get you to support new construction?

https://youtu.be/dcbjWGj3jBk
Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15683970
It could also be a result of you looking at pages (not just on FB) related to male-pattern baldness before making the somewhat pivotal decision to just shave it all off, which would fit in the window of time that you perceive that you started to see more hair-related ads.

But yes, tagging characteristics of people based on photos seems pretty straightforward given the state of their image processing. I would guess that it'd also be used to target eyeglasses to users who wear glasses in their photos.
I'm not sure the evidence suggests that building a lot of high-density housing will reduce rents.

Compare New York (very high density, very expensive) to Tucson (low density, very cheap).

Building more housing may just induce demand: more people will decide to move to SF but rents will remain the same.
Appalachians aren't insurmountable as a geographic barrier, particularly because there's a very easy topographical shortcut by going next to the Erie Canal. What makes it really challenging is the lack of lesser-tier cities to plug into the network, combined with the sheer length.

Put another way, the distance between Chicago and New York is roughly 700mi as the crow flies. The distance between Edinburgh and London is 330mi, Calais and Marseilles 550mi, Zurich and Copenhagen 600mi, Milan and Calabria 600mi, Shanghai and Beijing 650mi, Hiroshima and Sendai 530mi. You're looking at a distance that's longer literally than the longest axis of most European countries, and at a much more sparsely populated region than the linear corridors of other countries that have axes that long.

NY/Chicago is on the edge of viability in terms of distance. As the crow flies, you're talking a 3½ hour trip minimum; as you actually build it, a non-stop express is looking like at least 4-4½ hours. The most feasible route with intermediate stops (via Pittsburgh and Philly) is around 860 miles, an even longer trip. If the trip were on pretty much flat, featureless terrain, the cost and time could both be kept small, but the mountainous terrain means you're generally on the worse ends of the estimate.

That's the biggest problem with the US: our cities are just simply too far apart for HSR to be viable in most of the country. And where they aren't, they tend to be in the worst pattern for utilizing HSR effectively.
I haven't dug incredibly deeply into Card's political statements outside of his fiction, so unlike my other comments in this thread, I'm shooting from the hip here, but...

My read is that Card (like a few other Mormon SF writers I can think of) is:

1) seriously invested in religion, especially but not exclusively his own religion, and absolutely unwilling to simply dismiss it
2) genuinely interested in social justice
3) struggling to resolve this conflict

This comes out strongly in questions about the tension between collective action and individualist conscience. And it's also pretty tightly-wound in the tension between churchly homophobia on the one hand, and on the other, compassion and empathy and respect for the sovereignty of the individual whenever possible.

I suspect that when one says that Card "is [clearly] a far-right reactionary", you're likely to be oversimplifying to the point of uselessness. Indeed, I suspect that in general, that description is unlikely to tidily fit very many people in the world. But on the other hand, I believe it's useful and accurate to say "some of Card's beliefs seem consonant with a deep connection to a reactionary ideology".
Low prices, yes. But real estate and labor costs are lower in New Mexico than California. Perhaps taxes too. So they have different prices by region. (Otherwise they couldn't be profitable everywhere, and then they lose economies of scale) Not that different on pricing differences between countries.
I'm genuinely perplexed at that animosity towards XML. In that second link I'm unable to find any substantive problem other than that "XML endtags make it too verbose". That seems like a legitimate thing to worry about when considering serialization formats, but where is all the vitriol coming from?

Bizzare.
It's a fair point, which is why it's probably a good idea to try to work it out with the property owner rather that appeal to the government to put him in a vice.
He has an excellent book, Quantum Computing Since Democritus. That's a good resource.
I have been highlighting this article on Obama's election, every time these stories come up:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/509026/how-obamas-team-us...

He was lauded for using "big data" and "data science" to run a successful campaign.

The social media companies picked on this and ran with it. Now this seems to have backfired.

Then there has been the culture of "attack ads", a lot of them based on misrepresenting facts to put it mildly.

So, now Congress and politicians want to do some posturing on Russian "interference". In case they do pass laws banning RT or some special interests from buying ads/bots etc. What then? The can of worms is already open.

People will find a way around. It can be as simple as registering a LLC and then having the Russian "data scientists" work through that. Or even American companies knowingly engaging in this.

The root problem here is the data collection being run by every other company out there. It helps companies and invariably advertisers identify people based on their tastes. So, will Congress and the politicians actually ban outright data collection? My guess is they wont. Posturing this as a Russian and a commie problem gets them enough brownie points.
Trained killer kill. More news at 11.

Kinda sucks for all involved, really.
The landed gentry have more to loose with bad housing policy. Where as renters can up and leave without issue.

Get rid of prop 13 if you want home owners to care about rising housing costs.
Personally, I find his writing style very enjoyable and often hilarious.
Here is an NYT editorial (from the editorial board, not an external opinion) doing just that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the...

The NY Times has its problems and biases (it is, as Chomsky notes, the Establishment Paper). But it also takes its journalistic mission seriously.
It's more conversationally natural for me to refer to the yard adjoining my property as 'my backyard' than my landlord to (who likely has a yard of his own for which that is more semantically assonant).
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"I cannot stand people who think home owners and landlords as evil people just because people who come after them cannot have it easy."

They're not evil, they're just selfish, and making life harder and more expensive for the rest of us.
It's pretty ironic to throw around words like "invest", "market", and "hardwork" while making an argument that the government should prohibit new development to protect your property value.
In dense urban areas, increasingly the property owner is a complex series of foreign tax shelters that probably doesn't even resolve to a real human being (or group of them) in any human-discoverable way.
Doesn't help. People then proceed to argue that the information was never sent to Facebook. Seen it play out before.
Yeah, no kidding. I have always worn just typical Levis work jeans for most of my adult life just like my grandpa, and the price for Levis has always been "Holy smokes" cheap in Walmart stores and actually fairly expensive online.
Your comment begins, “I dunno”, but nothing that follows contradicts anything I said.
Here is the problem, the bay area is filled with hypocrites. After all, they are having formal galas for affordable housing. Let me explain. Most of the same people who are pro-affordable housing and homeless rights are making 200K a year plus and living comfortably in their $4,000 a month rent apartments. I fully expect this won't be a popular opinion, but I don't have a horse in this race anymore. I'm moving to Nashville Tennessee next month, but I believe in free markets. If you want to live in the bay area, then you're going to pay bay area prices. It really comes down to basic economics.
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> Classic case of over-regulation. "Let's solve it with more regulation!"

I find this to be a fairly feeble argument. Regulation, to me, is a necessary evil. Most especially when it comes to protecting the common good, or interests of those who do not have other forms of power to get a seat at the table. I’m also a millennial and I’d be just thrilled if you’d hold off on apologizing on my behalf. Regulation is not some bogeyman. It can be effective or ineffective in relation to particular goals.
I guess part of the counter argument is that you did not, in fact, pay for a good view. You may have thought you paid for a good view, and the person who sold to you may have told you you were getting a good view... but, since you didn't buy the land between you and what you were viewing, you weren't buying that view. You were just lucky to get it.
If your political opinions are little more complex than "does this involve government intervention", it'd be wise to avail yourself over whether the proposed alternative actually entails more state intervention or less.
Sounds like an application of the `business judgement rule`:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule
Are you saying people should just run away from whatever problem they have? Why can't people fix things? Policies are just things people have agreed to. They're just words on paper. People can write new words on paper.
Because if you're putting something on the ballot, you've got to make the beneficiaries extra-sympathetic. Hopefully this will be extended after the initial proposition passes.
Companies would love to encourage remote work if it would work out well for them. They would save tons of money by reducing their office space, and they could lower their salaries because they wouldn't need to support the big-city cost of living.

So, why don't more companies encourage remote work, and why are some companies rolling back remote-work policies? Because they learned from experience that it doesn't work out well. Maybe some of them are just being stupid, but others are well-established companies that have been very good at running their businesses.

I've worked at a company that had very flexible working hours and a generous work-from-home policy, and now I work somewhere that doesn't. I much prefer the situation I'm in now -- my coworkers are much more responsive when there is a problem, it's easier to schedule and conduct meetings, there are far fewer slackers, etc.

Ever worked at a company that has office locations across the country (or the world), and tried to conduct important meetings with people in those other offices over Skype or the phone, or even expensive telepresence equipment? It kinda sucks. Imagine that every meeting, and every interaction with your coworkers, and every "whiteboarding" session was like that. That's not a world in which business is easy to conduct -- in fact, it's so difficult that companies are willing to forgo the massive cost savings they could realize by encouraging remote work.
Did you really buy the entire cone of land/air that provides that view? If so, you have nothing to worry about.
This is non-economical thinking. If a city becomes too expensive for service workers, service workers will leave the city, lowering supply and increasing wages. Its a non-problem from an economic standpoint.