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China will get there faster if we leave it up to private commerce, because private commerce must strike a deal to build infra whereas the government can pass a bill. Imagine if highways were private endeavors, we'd never have a road system. Thank Eisenhower (and the threat of the missile attacks) for that. Assuming another [super]power achieves 5G first, not only will their network be faster, but they will control the manufacture of hardware, and could use that for whatever means they see fit.
I guess a code of conduct is literally virtue signaling _with the express purpose of signaling the virtues the community will tolerate_.

It's like looking at a profit and loss sheet, and perjoritivity calling it a "economic document".

That's literally just what it is doing, and it's stated purpose for existing.
eul takes forever to start first time. maybe you should tell user in advance. I thought it couldn't start at all.
Input–output maps are strongly biased towards simple outputs
There is a price floor on housing, defined by the prevailing rent that Section 8 subsidy uses.

People getting pushed out get pushed into minimally suitable housing in out of the way areas. Those unqualified for subsidy live in unsafe conditions, live in SRO units or are in various states of homelessness.
all fair points. and your product seems to be designed/documented/marketed with the notion of keeping the username (which is part of the ENVKEY) secret, so agreed that "security-by-obscurity" is unfair (coupled w/ massive ID space).

your product is very well designed, seems like a tremendous customer experience. best of luck; i hope you continue to grow
Please don't tl;dr when it's clear by your summary that you haven't read the whole thing.
They only lower rent if they meet demand. If demand far outstrips supply, rent will continue to rise, just slower with new development.
No doubt the T could be better, but comparing the green line is very misleading. It's an above ground street trolley for a lot of its route, and it's much older than any of those other systems. The other Boston subway lines are proper light rail systems that move much faster.

The red line e.g. runs at 20 mph[1]. The problem with the red line are the age of the rolling stock and signal equipment and their tendency to catch on fire.

[1]: http://www.bostonologist.org/feed/2015/1/29/speed
In that sense, it's the evidence of a strong economy. There's a lot of factors in play, like Switzerland having double the population density, but half of the income gap disparity. The United States has twice as many people living in poverty than Switzerland.

There's also the issue of how tourism affects local economies.

So yeah, it's a complicated issue.
Don’t forget the $30M bribe son-in-law Kushner received while acting as a member of the administration, or the money he’s been funneling into criminal organizations. Just search for:

Kushner israel money
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> prescribes action instead of constraints

Interesting line in the sand to draw. Reading the actual actions:

> Prohibiting coal power plants, mandating emissions reduction, restricting # of cars on road, shutting down mines, removing coal boilers from homes.

These so called prescribed actions are really limits and fines (and further stronger disincentives, presumably). The number of coal plants in a city is now limited, on pain of fine or jail. The number of coal boilers per building is now limited, on pain of fine or jail. How is this different from the "free market" approach of setting limits and fines, other than the fact that it happened in China? On matters of public health and safety, capitalist democracies are perfectly happy with an endless number of such prescriptions.

The difference between a "prescribed" course of action and a "constrained" set of actions is a matter of degree, and what these people call free market vs communist has more to do with geographic borders.
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Building high-density housing is certainly in the interest of people who rent, since more rental supply equals lower prices for rent.

But you're right that it isn't in the interest of people who own a property. Congratulations, you've identified the cause of NIMBYism!
> Your post is so right I don’t understand how it’s not self evident. How could anyone be against the very concept of setting or codifying expectations?

The first is that they are often overly broad and police what people can say in entirely different contexts, the second is that they become weaponised so that people can only contribute if their entire political position doesn't offend somebody.

Neither are usually intended consequences, but the people putting CoC's in place don't tend to realize they are potential consequences at all.
Reverse engineering efforts, like it was done for old "office" file formats by the LibreOffice team. Or the same by various free *CADs teams. There are even tools for helping reverse engineering file formats like Kaitai [1].

[1] https://kaitai.io
> They have this idea that there are a bunch of wealthy and greedy developers out to get them and their precious neighborhoods.

This narrative is so persistent because it's 100 years old. But for most of that time, developers were called greedy because they made money by introducing cheaper housing into the neighborhood, thereby "ruining" it.

Here's a Supreme Court Justice shitting on apartments in 1926:

> With particular reference to apartment houses, it is pointed out that the development of detached house sections is greatly retarded by the coming of apartment houses, which has sometimes resulted in destroying the entire section for private house purposes; that, in such sections, very often the apartment house is a mere parasite, constructed in order to take advantage of the open spaces and attractive surroundings created by the residential character of the district.

That's from Euclid v. Ambler, the case that established the constitutionality of zoning. Our cities are expensive on purpose.
Let me toss my anecdote in on this one.

I used to live in Koreatown in Los Angeles, my rent was $1000/month including one parking spot for a 1BR1BA. A few blocks from me a brand new building opened with micro-apartments going for ~$2600/month for a studio, around the same time a non-luxury building opened two blocks in the opposite direction but that was all subsidized housing so I never found out how much they even charged (I didn't qualify).

Within a few months of this our landlord, who owns other properties and businesses in the area, stopped accepting new tenants or actively marketing the available apartments, it's rumored they are trying to tear that building down and make a bigger one. It's only about 30 units, but it's down to the last 3 tenants, rent has consistently gone up each year by the maximum allowed amount, maintenance is nonexistent, the parking lot sits empty and they still somehow enforce the max 1 vehicle per tenant rule. The rent for it is now $1200, trying to move in to a similar-sized apartment in the same block would cost you $1450 and an extra $100 for a parking spot. It's a crummy situation all around
Thanks. I'm a bit surprised by the reception actually. It was just a fun side project with no real use case in mind.
Rent has outpaced inflation for decades now. And median income has lagged behind inflation for the same period.

So it is an issue beyond normal economic inflation.
I think what the grandparent is getting at is that music is a culturally-mediated perceptual phenomenon, and so the geometric interpretations here are an artifact of the model rather than of how our minds organize pitch into some musical Gestalt. I both agree with that (I love Coltrane, but as the article accidentally implies, this is about as meaningful as numerology) and find the artifacts to be pretty cool, so I’m not so down on it as an intellectual lark as that poster.
I think you are confusing cause and effect here.
If only I could have a decent ThinkPad running OSX...
That link is not at all relevant to a lottery of balls drawn from a hopper.
Slower rises are still better than faster rises
Low prices galore with the Chuwi 2-day brand sale
Lyft, Gett, Juno, Via are the big ones in NYC. Also, Arro lets you have pay for a yellow cab with an app.
> I've always thought that cities needed to focus on redevelopment as a much broader, city-wide strategy. Instead of following trends of what the next "up and coming" neighborhood is, actually revitalize all areas of the city.

Actually I think developers would very much prefer to do this, but rich neighborhoods tend to have by far the most organized opposition, and opposition causes delays, which tend to add substantially to the cost, so poorer or less populated areas tend to be preferred instead.
That's...not how debate works. You can't just declare that you're not debating while continuing to debate, at least not when we're debating matters of opinion like moral responsibilities.
Bah, I recently deleted my 5 year account with nearly 4000 comment karma on Reddit.

Reddit is toxic. Saying something benign but mildly disagreeable caused some people to get emotional, and I do mean exceedingly emotional like you just crapped in their car and had sex with their girlfriend. I am not talking about politics, but subreddits like javascript and programming.

Worse than being toxic, Reddit is an echo chamber. Many users find vote counts as more than a validation but rather a righteousness or correctness, which contrarily means opposing votes are not a disagreement but a vilification.

I just found myself becoming progressively more depressed contributing to conversations there. In the end it seemed to almost never be about the conversation but about being RIGHT + 1!!!

Since deleting my account a month ago I am a much happier person.

Hacker News has voting as well, but with an incredibly important distinction. The votes are hidden from all but the respective contributors so as to eliminate votes from ever being used as any kind of vindication by ignorant people.
>What I find annoying is the same people that are against rent control and zoning are also utterly against government providing basic public services such as buses, subways, and mass transit.

Nice straw man, but this is not a commonly held stance aside from the extreme Libertarian crowd.
Conversely, If half the city wasn’t a dump, rent would be high everywhere

Yes, if other factors aren't taken into consideration. Speculative investment for instance. If we accept that there is a market limit on the number of people willing to pay to live in Chicago, then we can say increasing the number of viable units and neighborhoods should reduce the market rental rate.

But if people are willing to purchase properties without using them, then that throws that expectation out the window.
I meant the Atom architecture in general, trade names nonwithstanding. Bonnell, Saltwell, Silvermont, Airmont, Goldmont, Goldmont Plus. ThinkPads, on the other hand, in roughly the same time frame have used Merom, Penryn, Arrandale, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake and Kaby Lake R CPUs.

Does that more satisfy you my hair splitting, persnickety friend?
The difference is that e.g. quantum mechanics already operates on a vector space that contains all possible world-states, so many-worlds doesn't really add anything to the theory, it just interprets them differently. That's similar to the idea of a Platonic universe of mathematical truths, in that it doesn't give you any different predictions, just a different perspective.

What a multiverse "explanation " of the observed constants adds to that is a prior that puts probability mass on every possible state, from which we can get the possibility of our personal universe. (I think that's a bit dubious, since it only shifts around the arbitraryness to some meta-heuristic about priors, thus the scare quotes.)

Similarly, you could imagine a theology that takes all the same laws of physics and interprets them as "God's plan", which again is just a different perspective. But to get additional predictions, you then need to have some idea of what God's plan specifically is, which tends to require thick books of ancient stories that still don't explain everything clearly.

So in the end you could disfavor both theories based on the difficulty of getting them to explain what they are intended to explain.
There are certainly pieces of content using web views, but the part that jumped out at me is the article content view. If you attach a debugger to News and play around, it's not using web views to render the primary article content.

In the past I was able to get Xcode to let me debug the view hierarchy, but it doesn't work at the moment. Maybe they fixed that.
Disclaimer: I work for Grab

The competition in ride-hailing industry is pretty intense right now actually. You have several big players:

- Ola (India)
- Didi (China + Brazil & perhaps Japan soon)
- Grab (Southeast Asia)
- Go-Jek (Indonesia, a very populous country with 250 million by the way)
- Uber (global but has retreated from certain markets already, see Uber/Didi deal in China)
- Lyft (US/Canada)
- bunch of startups in Europe but not sure if any of them are big enough to mention
A shout out to the GPars framework [1] which makes actor based coding stunningly easy in Groovy / Java. I'm kind of shocked by the performance I can get out of it, to be honest. I once assumed that for trivial tasks (reading lines from a file, transforming them, writing out result etc), a parallel library would lose a lot of overhead in thread synchronisation. However I find that I can trivially construct data flows that massively outperform single threaded C code in Groovy. Which is to say, whatever overhead there is from thread synchronisation is dwarfed by the benefit of parallelising reading, computation and writing. If I had to think hard about concurrency to do it (as I would in C) I would probably never attempt it for simple programs, but GPars makes it so easy, safe and completely portable that there's really no reason not to.

[1] http://www.gpars.org/
People buy properties as "investments" when they see prices rising constantly, not the other way around.
I'm working on an enterprise app for Android using Xamarin and we are taking the UX semi-seriously. App looks and performs fine.

I find the concept of "native look and feel" to be extremely nebulous and not particularly valuable. Apps should look good and be responsive and I don't notice or care when they look native.
I don’t think podcasts are for me, but maybe I’m missing out on something. I don’t even really know how to play them. Do you stream them or pre-download? People listen to them on their commute do they, or while driving? So requires a cellphone contract with no download limit? I guess you don’t just sit in your living room listening? And you wouldn’t be able to pay attention while cooking right? I don’t think I can take in information in real time, and I hate meetings, so I’ve always assumed I should stick to reading and writing for studying.
Most people don't have even a basic understanding of economics or the incentives that drive markets. They equate development with gentrification and displacement. They don't realize that by opposing development they're actually restricting supply, and thus increasing prices.
We got back up to the previous peak (2007) in 2014, and have since just barely exceeded it in 2017/2018. The difference today is that the ratio of manufacturing jobs to manufacturing output is vastly lower than it used to be.
CIFUS advises the President on deals by foreign companies which are threats to national security. They strongly feel this deal falls in this bucket.
Is it just to alienate the majority to encourage the minority? A lot of companies promoting "diversity" certainly think so.
>Of course they are, they don't want to get priced out of their neighborhood by gentrification.

And what about those of us who got priced out of our neighborhood this past year?

>It's happening _incredibly_ quickly in Boston's neighborhoods one by one. It happened to The South End, Southie, Jamaica Plain, Somerville (not technically Boston proper but 10 years ago they used to call it Slummerville), and now Dorchester and Roxbury are gentrifying.

If they're still holding it, I plan on attending the Somerville city meeting tomorrow night to fucking scream at them to stop trying to impose density limits. How am I supposed to move back to Somerville after getting priced out into Medford with net-added units equaling zero?

Hell, has anyone tried getting Cambridge to stop being a leafy fucking suburb that actually takes up almost half the Red Line?
Sure, but it exacerbates the problem of rising rents.
> This seems like a very casual way to dismiss governmental integrity.

Government is a group of humans, we know that human nature says probabilistically that anything with lots of value/gain that isn't regulated, measured or public/validated will probably be manipulated by a certain percentage of people for various reasons. When out of view and no chance to get caught, greed is a natural part of some people if not all.

Government and police for instance are composed of humans, and can easily be compromised if the price is right and it is easy to hide. Anything out of view and of value will be manipulated. If you say, Why why? tell 'em that it's human nature...
If the new development is luxury low-density bullshit, it burns finite development space on low-density occupancies while raising average rents because they're expensive on top of it.

If this situation also started with the demolition of low-end high-density housing, it compounds in the direction of increased rents.

Rents don't go down when a neighborhood gentrifies...

How is this not obvious?

I get the impression the HN crowd is so solidly in the demographic of the gentrifying forces being overpaid tech folks that these types of discussions will always be strained.
"ABSOLUTIST_STRAWMAN_NO_ONE_ACTUALLY_BELIEVES" This is itself a strawman!

They spent huge swathes explaining exactly what was assumed to be true and by whom, and what is still assumed by certain people/fields etc. And if the article isn't enough go read the comments section where the two authors (who are at the top of their field*) answer questions and critiques.

Going by many comments here it would seem many have skimmed the article because it's too long and have come away with their own constructed reality of what it is even saying in the first place based being reactionary to certain statements without bothering to take in the context of what surrounds them. Similarly the comments section of the article consists of the authors re-iterating what they've already said.

Yes it is nuanced, which is why it requires a close reading.

David Graeber is easily one of best anthropological theorist of his generation from anywhere in the world. People who dismiss this because 'evidence' should wait for the book--a good chunk of which will be nothing but citations. This is not some generalized Joe Rogan friendly pop science or pop history (see: Pinker and Harari).
I think one crucial difference is that this actually has scientific precedence. For example, the Earth lies in an incredible number of "Goldilocks zones", which have just the right conditions for life to develop. For example, the Earth lies at just the right distance from the Sun for water to be in liquid form. To close and it would all evaporate, too far and it would all freeze. Why is this? Early astronomers (Kepler, I think) spent many years trying to discover some physical reason for why the Earth should be at this particular distance. From what physical principles could the distance be deduced? As we know now, this search was in vain, because there was no fundamental reason. Turns out, it was just a coincidence! With the discoveries of the (appropriately) named Kepler telescope, we have discovered thousands of exoplanets in thousands of star systems. With the billions upon billions of stars in the universe, there are likely trillions of planets out there. With odds like that, it is almost certain that a planet with our properties would show up somewhere, which it did. As it turns out, astronomers do invoke an "infinity" of unseen planets to explain the unusual features of this one, and I doubt Paul Davies thinks that's a leap of faith!
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> What I find annoying is the same people that are against rent control and zoning are also utterly against government providing basic public services such as buses, subways, and mass transit.

I guess I must be the exception then. I am very much in favor of government spending on public transit (which is a reliably good investment in our economy) and generally against rent control (which is known to suppress the creation of new rental stock) except as a temporary measure.
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I grew up around some businesses that sold various lottery products. I'm not trying to sound mean or dismissive at all when I say this, just strictly matter of fact: I talked to a large and incredible variety of idiots and uneducated people that bought lottery tickets, whether scratch-offs or traditional Powerball type. They all universally knew the odds were bad. Universally.

They also figured that for a few dollars - which most of them could easily afford here and there - those were the best odds they were ever going to have.
I live right next to a major google office and meet lots of web developers that are supposedly top tier who work there.

Every single of them uses ublock origin and specifically makes sure they are blocking google analytics and other trackers that some of them have worked on.

Something is fundamentally broken in tech when this is the status quo. Something needs to change. Bigly.
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> like Switzerland having double the population density, but half of the income gap disparity.

If you build evenly gentrified cities, isn't that going to be the results anyways? (also, I'm sure the US has way more than twice the number of people living in property, perhaps you meant per capita)

But when I was living there, it was fairly stressful. I guess if I was a poorer resident rather than a relatively more well off post-doc, it would actually be easier to find housing since there would be some assistance at least.
Anecdotally, in DC the typical wait time for my Lyft rides has about doubled over the past year. Since I can't imagine why fewer people would be driving for them, I interpret that as evidence of increased demand for Lyft.
We're a federal republic made up of 50 states plus DC. Balancing the power between _states_ is standard among federal republics (Germany, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, ...).

Federal republics _need_ the power balance among _states_, otherwise there's no point in the states participating in the republic, thus no point in even having a federal republic. If that's your point, fine. But you can't have your cake and eat it too.

How states want to balance out things internally is up to them, and that can be used to help the minority on specific issues.
Can we compare it to the original footage? I'm kind of pissed I can't find it.
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> perhaps you meant per capita

Percentage of population, yes. 7% in Switzerland, 14.5% in the US.

> But when I was living there

Do you mean living in Switzerland or the United States?
If you want to argue that, due to scarcity, we can't maximize global quality of life without mistreating some people, that is least a coherent argument.

There is no coherent argument that Amazon isn't treating its employees poorly, even relative to other companies in the same fields. Read some articles about working conditions at Amazon. This one's a decent starting point: https://gizmodo.com/reminder-amazon-treats-its-employees-lik...
Seconded on all counts. Except I'm not planning to recommend the book to my wife for exactly the reason you mentioned! ;)