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Suburban sprawl is one of the main problems that we are facing. Building more sprawl isn't a solution to anything, it just makes the problem worse, while also decimating precious wilderness areas in the bargain.

How would people living north of the Golden Gate commute to their jobs in SF? The only option is driving across the bridge, which already has horrendous traffic during commuting hours. That doesn't work as a solution. Building denser housing in San Francisco itself, close enough to workplaces or transit that people don't need to drive to work, is the real solution.
>>> .. it's a great deal.

Which is why we have elected officials run cities rather than property developers. The goal is not to make a profit today. The long term goal is a pleasant city with happy residents. Look at the Spanish neighbourhoods that were overbuilt only to be abandoned when the bubble burst. Think gentrification is bad? When an underused building looses its value it becomes blighted, saddling the city with all sorts of social problems.
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That exact same argument can be made about building more high density buildings in SF. "Let's turn one of the most beautiful cities in the world into an urban jungle filled with high rises so that it blocks out the sun."

At some point something has got to give. Building more apartment buildings and decreasing the amount of "open space" to accommodate more housing makes sense.
there is a big difference between paving over west marin, and allowing communities near transit, the 101 and aterials to densify. Also, realistically speaking, if density controls were lifted in marin, the vast majority of changes would be subdividing mansions into 4plexes, without changing the building envelope.
> the client dictates its own requirements, and the server is able to respond with no more and no less than what the client requires.

The burden of dictating specs is just shifted around, and it seems the workload on the server side is bigger with h GraphQL (wider range of cases to handle).

Am I missing something ?

> REST necessitates multiple queries

This is a self imposed limitation at best
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the master certificate is self signed yes.

this self signed certificate now has to sign the client certificate(s). Otherwise, the clients aren't allowed to address the master.

At least thats how i've come across it. Its actually pretty common in the infrastructure world. Your OPS team can probably tell you which services utilize it in your software stack, though you as a developer probably never had to worry about it.

Though a lot of services only use a singular client certificate across all nodes and just revoke the hole chain for rotations
Even granting the premise for argument, this says nothing about the tradeoffs involved in zoning some of the highest-demand real estate in the world as singe-family.

Not to mention that many, many people (including me) disagree with that notion, and the US is hardly wanting for 'burbclaves, if you like that sort of thing. Dense urban housing, on the other hand, is a relative rarity.
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Thanks, I think I did, see, I need better AI spell check. I actually disagree with the AI comment, but it's a long conversation, I am writing an article about why I think it's a real problem, and I'll be sure to post it. As for the QC, I agree, but imagine if a company announced tomorrow that they have QC capable of cracking public key encryption. There are algorithms that resist QC, but they are not being implemented in a wide spread way at the moment. So it's a solvable problem, like you pointed out, but it has yet to be recognized as a problem by major financial institutions.
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A couple of qualifiers:

A) This only refers to income tax, and does not count more regressive federal taxes (FICA) or state taxes (sales tax). It's interesting that I can easily find sites with aggregate tax distribution by income level for income tax pretty easily (https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...), but finding sites with aggregate tax distribution by income level for FICA seems difficult...

B) It's worth keeping in mind that the top 3.65% do earn 17.5% of aggregate income (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...)

Obviously the United States is progressive taxation overall, but I feel that this oft-quoted bullet point way over-simplifies the American tax landscape.
> “How does this invalidate the notion of interpretability?”

Who said that it did?

I’m saying the development of a model that yields scientific progress doesn’t have to have a connection to the parent comment’s proposed definition of interpretability, and may have competing interpretability concerns driven by specific inference goals that have nothing to do with proofs about the model under assumptions.
>if they could subdivide their properties for intensive development.

But that would require giving a damn about the local situation. A large segment of single-family-home owners in Vancouver - foreign and local - see the house and plot as an abstract asset, not something you can live in, let alone part of the strange thing they're calling a "neighbourhood". There are 4 empty houses on my street in the West Side alone. Telling the owners they can profit from rezoning probably sounds like telling them they can make more money if they fold their bond certificates into paper cranes. </rant>
Vancouver has done nothing but massively build new housing, one of the most prolific metros in North America. There were just lots of greenfield and brownfield areas to build on first, rather than up-zoning existing residential areas. (Olympic Village, now NE False Creek). The transit and other systems can barely handle the existing density as it is.

It doesn't matter how much you upzone SFH areas when you have tens of thousands of new people coming to your metro every year, it will never be enough.
same day? I've had the same experience as you if you are willing to wait a few days. they are great at the delivery/install.
Any apartments that go up in san fransisco will be nicer than most houses in the world
My point is that it's bad terminology, which I show by proving it leads to bad math. I notice at no point do you refer to the $10 as including part of the $100 in either case, so apparently you agree.
Looking forward to the day when Apple will dump Intel and ship its own "A chip" in the MacBooks.
Oh boy! Is that why some in the US are so expensive?
Yes, I forgot savers/creditors.

However, it does affect those whose expenses rise and a) are on fixed income or b) don't get raises as quickly and frequently as the prices of everyday needs increase.
Another django/graphene shop here. I'm really enjoying the transition. My one complaint is with deep queries. If the query asks for a very nested objects, the amount of DB fetches can become large and then you get a performance hit. With REST you generally know the performance of your queries since the schema is static. How do people solve the n + 1 issue here?
If it had the same government, you'd get the same problems.
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I’ve heard this referred to as “drawbridge thinking” in cases where someone moves to an area, makes sure they have access to whatever they want, and then essentially pulls up the “drawbridge” and says, “No new outsiders allowed! It’s too crowded here!”. I feel like this is essentially what has happened in the Bay Area/SV. Though I live in Portland and it’s just as bad.

It’s such bullshit.
I just got back from a week on my sailboat in Barkley Sound, which is the sound just to the south of Tofino on the west side of Vancouver Island. Maybe it is a local culture thing, but I was very surprised by how few boats had AIS transponders on the west side of Vancouver Island, especially now that the price of a transponder is well below $1000.

Then again, while AIS and EPIRB can save your bacon, they can also give a sense of false security especially if help is more than an hour away. Self-reliance comes first on the water.
Interestingly, the one place you could do this (walk in and buy a new washer/dryer/fridge and drive away with it) was Sears which has closed their stores in many major metro areas and are basically going out of business...
how about gfy?
thanks a lot, now I see how 2FA saved me two weeks ago, the moment I got the SMS, I immediately went on my first security ritual, changed all passwords with my pass manager, and removed the original/primary email address that haveibeenpwned.com, which I already knew about, changed its pass and stopped using it but forgot to remove from GH.
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Very interesting read. I did a double take that a lack of Cesium-137 meant "post-1980" (not "pre-1980") since the levels have dropped off since the testing in the 50s and 60s.
But they do have these items in the store out on the floor, they could have done it but it just seemed like they didn't want to make an effort. I realize your choice of model is going to be limited if you are in a hurry, but if you want to compete with amazon, being eager to sell people appliances day of would be a good way.
Can't see the comment due to censoring but character is not necessarily good. Having a character of homeless people openly defecating in the streets isn't optimal and will probably harm tourist activity in the long run
I have young kids. Until recently I lived in the East Village, and now in a proper house on 1/3 acre in Colorado. Life in Manhattan is fun but damn is it hard. Especially with young kids. And that was lower Manhattan, probably the richest, most charming high-density place in the world. I can completely understand why the residents of Vancouver wouldn't want to see their quaint little neighborhood demolished for the sake of stacking more people into the city in a bunch of glass-and-concrete trash cans.
As a manager/business owner, I like GraphQL because it shifts the burden to the API consumer. That consumer, for us, is a front-end resource who is sometimes less expensive but very often less busy than our backend team.

That's obviously not the same formula for every company. I'm just offering it as a potential counterpoint.
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Oh, so it's still expensive to live in a city that refuses to build more housing? And here I thought that had changed since the last weekly article on the same subject. ;-)
Living close to work has a drastically smaller infrastructure footprint than living far from work. Arguing against an urban development on traffic grounds is essentially always in bad faith: if the potential residents can’t take up space in your neighborhood, they will take up space on your freeway. Neighborhoods can scale; roads can’t.

Every third sentence out of the YIMBY camp is about the effect of urban density in communities: how complete streets, walkable businesses, public space, etc. bring us both physically and socially closer together, walking back the hyperatomization of drive-alone commuting and automobile-scaled environments.
> Foreign demand for USD does in effect lower US govt borrowing costs

This is correct. But petroleum trading in dollars is an effect of the dollar's hegemony, not a cause.

Every dollar transaction contributes to the dollar's network effects. But petroleum's contribution is small and overstated. Petrodollar hypotheses are closer to conspiracy theories than useful models.

The U.S. dollar is underwritten, ultimately, by American consumption. About 15% of American imports are petroleum [1][2], so it's a significant factor. But it's not special in any particular regard.

[1] https://traderiskguaranty.com/trgpeak/what-are-the-top-10-u-...

[2] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountrySnapshot/en/USA/textview
Wouldn't it be a spooky experience to stand on one moon, and have another pass close enough for you to touch it? If they were of similar mass my intuition is that you'd go weightless while it was happening. Might be best to be harnessed during something like that.

While I'm thinking about spooky space stories. Jupiter creeps me right the hell out. Thinking about being on one of its moons where Jupiter takes up a HUGE percentage of your visible sky and is just screaming radiation at you. Personify the gas giant a little and you've got a decent proxy for hell. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/184/simulated-view-fr...
There are jobs all across the country. The total cost of living in SF is the highest in the US right now, so it can't be the pay that's attractive - if you're making $250k/year and paying $1mm for a starter home, you could almost certainly do better living elsewhere at a lower salary.

Jobs could still be a component, but I would say it's the character of the jobs, and the character of the area, that draws people.
This is also what I like to do although I prefer using static PDFs because they are the most portable and fool proof format
I wonder if the prospective company's G Suite data gets crunched.
I liked the two sentences before those even more:

> Java’s type system has taken a beating by the desire for backward compatibility and the interaction of its growing list of features. It needs some love to get it back in shape.
I'm not even going go read past the headline to say: technology is not the problem, here, stop titling things as if it is.
That's a different problem. Basically the whiskey makers under predicted the demand 12 years ago or so when they were making that batch. Now it's sold out practically everywhere, hard to find even in Japan.
It's the same argument again and again but nobody that defends this really think this through.

For the ones that still want "fake news" completely banned, I have a question: who is going to decide what is true and what is not? A company? The government? Will we have "commissions of truth" deciding what can be published or not? Will the users "vote" on what can be published or not?

Please come with a proper solution and stop arguing for something you and nobody else want. Thanks.
Is he perhaps seeking a middle ground, where he wants more development of spacious luxury condos? I wouldn't want to live in a crappy little (and usually old) apartment either, but I do like new luxury-ish condos. Theoretically, it should be cheaper to buy such a condo than a single-family home in a location where land value is very high.

Apartments really suck for a lot of reasons: the rent goes way up every single year, forcing you to move out every year or two, because the management companies seek to maximize profit by screwing over existing renters, thinking they won't want to move. They're typically very poorly built, because they're not owned by the residents, so they're noisy. They're usually very pet-unfriendly. I could go on and on. Condos are almost always much nicer to live in, even though from the outside they look much the same. They do have their issues (crappy management at many of them, but at least in theory the mgmt is answerable to the owners and can be voted out), but there's big advantages to living in a condo over a single-family home in my experience: not needing to worry about landscaping, exterior maintenance, etc., various amenities (gym, etc.), and just convenience in general.

I don't live in SF (I live in DC), but it seems to me that what SF really needs is a lot more high-rise condos like what we have here in DC. And DC isn't nearly as "crowded" as NYC.
How does the complexity bite you? Large files, bad error messages, bugs? Something else?
This reminds me of the desirability of pre-WWII battleship steel in particle physics experiments. Due to required detection sensitivity they need to construct experiments from materials that have as low background radiation as possible in order to not mask the actual information of interest. Ever since the first atomic bombs were detonated, sufficiently low-radioactivity steel became much more difficult to find. A large portion of available low-background steel supply is from battleships that were built before the bombs [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
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You're telling me none of those big houses (viewed in satellite and street view) are even Duplexes‽
> there are market constraints on how aggressively it may do so if we want the system to keep working

Part of which involves discussing deficit and debt.
Sometimes Best Buy has exclusive models that have specific software put on there by the manufacturer. You can usually verify if you are getting one of those models by googling the full model number to see if there are other sellers than Best Buy out there.
One problem I have had with dealing with Google (not for this particular service) is that they set up mechanisms where adding a "backup" creates a new single point of failure rather than adding redundancy. If you can't access one particular backup method of verification, your primary and other backup are of no use. It's a trap! And quite Kafkaesque.

While this might not strictly apply to some other particular situation, my experience would lead me not to ever trust Google when they say "do this seemingly logical thing because it will make you safer".
You're right about empty units in high density properties. It's a problem in a lot of cities (London is another).

I've heard some cities thinking about imposing a supplemental tax on unoccupied housing. It would help a lot, not just in skyscrapers but also in low-density areas where slumlords let their houses rot waiting for the land values to rise.

But unfortunately, the same people who would get hit by this tax are the most solid part of the tax base. Real estate taxes are a huge part of many cities revenue. Increasing them is never popular.
can keep in mind transitions between slides, whether working your way through the current slide as intended or digressing. these transitions can contain a purpose for arriving at the end of the current slide + relevance to the upcoming ones
Prime member for the last 8 years but I'm seriously considering canceling next year (mostly due to the price hike in Prime).

I've had plenty of items arrive late or not even at all, with stretches where I've had back-to-back-to-back issues with Amazon, so frustrating that I considered canceling Prime right then and there (~3 years ago).

A couple times they were delivered to our neighbors house next door (who dropped them off to us, thankfully) and a few times we had to contact Amazon Customer Service who just sent us a new one. In general, I trust Amazon to get me my item, but they're definitely not perfect and I wouldn't be surprised if OP isn't exaggerating...

BTW, I live in the Bay Area (and not out in the boonies).
Yes, the nicest neighbourhoods in the world, in my opinion, are medium density, with a mix of mid-rise density that allows sunlight in while still getting a critical mass of people for services and transit, with some SFH that is nice for families and gets lots of green space in the neighbourhood.
This will get flagged, but it's a decent article.

I've thought for a while that Trump is not Putin's puppet but rather a Putin wannabe. He's too egotistical to be anyone's puppet. His goal is to become America's effective dictator, eventually either rigging (like Putin) or abolishing the electoral process. A partnership with another totalitarian oligarch would be fitting and very helpful toward this goal.

If the thesis in this article is correct the target of such a partnership would likely be China and to a lesser extent Japan and the EU, since those are the only world powers who could challenge Russia or America.

There's an intellectual basis to it as well. Putin is purportedly a believer in many of the same ideas that one finds in America's alt-right: esoteric post-war fascism (search for Julius Evola) and neo-reaction / neo-feudalism. The end goal is probably more feudal than fascist, though the distinction is somewhat academic.

If such a scenario unfolded we'd end up with something like a planetary nobility.
Maintaining its culture is one thing, but it's irresponsible that SF has continued to allow commerical zoning and jobs to increase without upzoning for housing accordingly. It places strain on cities around SF and causes the transportation infrastructure to be unnecessarily stressed.

SF is trying to pull a Palo Alto where they reap the benefits of having many jobs, but push the cost of housing to neighboring cities. It's irresponsible.
Yes. Seven years, it's the best place I've ever lived, completely ruined me for the rest of America. I only wish I could find a similar place with more tolerable winters.
> I do too but can we say "most" Americans? Are there any stats available on their customers?

"Most" is almost true if you only look at ecommerce.

"This year, the online shopping juggernaut will capture 49.1% of the market, according to eMarketer's latest forecast on the top 10 US ecommerce retailers, up from a 43.5% share last year. Amazon now controls nearly 5% of the total US retail market (online and offline)."[1]

[1] https://retail.emarketer.com/article/amazon-now-has-nearly-5...
I feel like Apple is making similar mistakes that Microsoft made a few decades back, its walled garden has become so ubiquitous that they assume that there isn't any trimming that needs to be done. Specifically,Macs are basically the only FreeBSD-based machine with a consumer-friendly interface (ironically this may no longer be true once Windows gets first-party linux support).

However, issues like these make me resentful that my day-to-day is dependent on OSX. I hope that some other competitor really steps into the currently (admittedly slim) hole in the market that is growing between professional users and the average Macbook user.

EDIT: corrected my mistake about linux!
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This is a good resource about how do better slides:

http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/01/con...
LIRR is far better than Caltrain. It's easy enough to afford a house and commute to Manhattan
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I feel like the solution to this is to have slides without a lot of text on them, but then include what you say in the "speaker notes" section when you distribute them so that people who didn't attend the talk understand them.
If the bottle was sealed, it won't pick up measurable cesium. That arrives via atmospheric transport, being picked up by rain water and eventually grape plants.
This reminds me that SF's actual neighbor to the north, Marin County, is mostly real unbuilt wilderness.

Imagining a Sci-fi scenario. Elon Musk has Tesla develop an autonomous hovercraft ferry, which only requires ramps into the water to be built to allow operations. Access to and from Marin becomes several times easier, causing its population and development to rapidly increase.
Absolutely, I have only ever thought of modern aids like AIS and satellite EPIRBs as part of a belt + suspenders approach to safety and planning.
Careful now, can't be criticizing Google too much on HN, they send the wolves for you.

I'd love to know how many of the people rallying around Google's defenses now were anti-Microsoft back in the day for doing what is basically the same damn thing they were doing with Internet Explorer, only IMHO worse because Google didn't even develop Android, they just picked it up and filled it to the brim with their software.
SF is a city that is constantly changing itself, for good or bad. Been in SF for over 40 years now and still can't believe how much has changed in that time.