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The problem is that those laws are politically unpopular. We have rent control that transfers to the next tenant, so any landlord (like mine) who gave a good deal in 2016 is kicking themselves now. Stories abound of nightmare tenants living rent free for over a year, and even after trashing the place. If I owned a place in Dublin I'd try really hard to avoid becoming a landlord. All of this means there's less supply instead of more.

We also have a lot of voters for whom rising house prices are a good thing. Homeownership rates in Ireland are high compared to the rest of Europe and plenty of people were underwater from the mid-2000's until recently.

Dublin needs to get rid of height maximums in the core of the city, build a transport network not suited to the 1950's (it's shockingly car-dependent and sprawling for Europe), and maybe not trap every project in planning hell. It suffers more generally from a labrynthine complex web of agencies and politicians - how can a city this small have sixty-freakin-three councilors? We're only 1.2 million people. And yet we wind up with things like the city council drawing up plans for a bus lane without realizing someone's already got permission to put an apartment building on the same land.
https://www.dublininquirer.com/2015/06/30/for-favoured-liffe...

Of course, our agency tasked with bringing in foreign investment is just pretending none of this is a problem https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/ida-chief-denies-c...

Those reading this - keep in mind that yeah, it's cheaper than SF, but wages are substantially lower too.

I actually really like Dublin, and I am grateful to the Dubs for making me feel welcome (I'm from California) but I got INCREDIBLY lucky moving here in 2013 and walking in to a flat (the economy was on its knees then). I am aware that as a tech worker who lives in a prime spot in Dublin with rent control I am part of the problem. However, I'm also moving to the midlands in a few months, so that should free up at least one flat.
Neither, it’s actually a form of tropical potato
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Another approach is land value tax, ie. make it very expensive to have idle buildings or parking lots in the city center. You can still have some deductions for primary residences to lessen the impact on them, while creating incentives to keep landlords from low-occupancy uses.
How does this work if they don't allow the goods producer to sell on their market place (or their affiliates) but any willing third party to sell the same good?
What do you mean by hard questions? Does it include things like "what happens after we die?"?

I think those questions are best answered by religion, but religion is being attacked, or at the very least, excluded in most thought-provoking venues.

Take for example the school that reject have Chick-fil-A on campus because of its (Chick-fil-A's) religious leanings[0]. Or the fact discussing religion on this very website is generally frowned upon - though that seems to be a reaction to people's recent animosity towards religion.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/school-blocks-chick-fil-...

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That said, I think religion can have a very real effect on opioid use/suicide, depending on the religion. See for example Utah, where the opiod rates, suicide rates and pornography rates are above average. I think that's a result of a complex interplay of factors. I think the gist of what's going on is that the "mormon" culture has squashed many visible vices - smoking, alcohol consumption and physical infidelity. Combine that with a streak of being judgmental / people trying to fit in (TGF, not in all places), and you get an over expression of harder to see negative effects: pornography consumption (though maybe Utahns just pay more for it... being more honest about it?), opioid use, and depression leading to suicide.

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With all that said, (disclaimer: I'm a member) I think the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has plenty of missionaries who love to talk about (and answer) the hard questions (if I'm interpreting your post right). And I'm willing to talk about them too (my username as a gmail account). I'm not sure the answers will be satisfactory to you, but I've found them useful.
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Property tax should be progressive. If you own 10 apartments you should need to sell 10th to pay yearly tax for the 9 remaining ones. Taxes gathered this way should found basic income.

This would crash the property market but it would make flats available nearly to all who need it.

Flats can't be both affordable and good investment for superrich.

Top 500 richest folks got their money differnt ways but the most common source is real estate, usually 3rd generation of hoarders.
Arguably, Boomer style retirement based on being independently wealthy was/is a fleeting historical oddity. Historically people died young or moved in with family.
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I'd also ponder the implications of storing your RDS password in an environment variable. There's no reason to potentially open up this information unencrypted to other applications.
I agree with most of this except the part about inventing debt; come on now, debt has existed as a concept far back into human history.

EDIT: Yes all, I understand credit is now more easily available than ever, and I would argue that ease of credit is a substantial problem allowing for the transfer of responsibility to future generations.

@infogulch: I agree with everything you said, but that is not what OP said, and hence, not what I replied to. Internet Talking is hard!
This "I'm not arguing this, but it could be argued" is such a waste of time.

If you say it's "not so big a leap", make the argument? After all it doesn't matter if a leap is big or not, that's always related to the gap it needs to cross. If argument holds and you end up on the other side, it wasn't so big a leap. But it's pointless to talk how a leap is feasible instead of simply making it, leaving that as some sort of exercise for the reader.

I guess it would be actually two arguments, 1.) calling sociopaths animals 2.) the equating of injecting others with something for the purpose of torturing them with injecting oneself with drugs, for the reasons and purposes people actually do that.

Not sure how you would funnel the wide variety of reasons people end up addicted to drugs into something that could be compared with a single situation and motivation like that hypothetical torturer, but then again you haven't made the argument yet, so maybe you know something I overlooked.
This sounds like a repeat of the process Walmart went through. As they become the reseller that's too big to ignore, they can start dictating the terms of the relationship.

So how'd that Walmart revolt turn out?
I feel you there, although I do think it can be useful to say things like "people born before 1980 will not experience climate change like those born after."
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The government ought to be in the business of making sugary drinks and snacks subject to the general market (I.e., through eliminating subsidies for corn and refined sugars) and not trying to become experts in what should and should not be in poor people’s shopping carts. Restrictions like that only lead to people selling their benefits at a loss for cash to get what they want.

Reducing food deserts, increasing healthy food programs for children, and eliminating market distorting subsidies are less paternalistic and more effective.
I wonder what this third-party framework is/was...
There are a lot of reasons to dislike Facebook, and I myself have almost entirely stopped using it. However, most of these politicians are yelling at Facebook for only one reason: they want to bully it into implementing whatever censorship they desire.

You don’t see politicians hauling the inventor of email onto TV and demanding that someone do a better job of censoring email. They know that email is a decentralized system, and for this reason it is respected as a neutral medium of communication (at least in countries who don’t censor the entire internet).

Facebook having an easy to dislike figurehead and centralized company behind it makes it much easier to turn into a bogeyman. This can get citizens in liberal countries who would never agree to a great firewall to agree to some kind of censorship of Facebook.

Hopefully someone can make a decentralized social network/messaging platform catch on sooner rather than later, so that we can return to a world where blanket censorship is considered wrong, instead of something for politicians to aspire to.
Certainly sarcasm, right?
That's a bit different though. Most Slavic countries were part of the Eastern Bloc. Hard to have a bigger generation gap than the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Agreed. In that vein, one of the most troubling metrics I see for the U.S. infant mortality:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/29/our-i...
I'm exited to dust off my Elixir skills. Jose Valim (creator of the language) is going to stream solutions on Twitch on a one-day lag.
I think it's absurd that I have to price match bestbuy.com when I buy something at the store. It's like they're actively trying to kill shopping in the store.
Isn't that an argument that the inflation adjustment isn't suitable for this comparison?
I'm sorry, I lived in a socialist country behind iron curtain. You do not want to repeat same mistakes, if someone worked (few family generations worked for them, more likely) for those 10 apartments it should be theirs, period.
>In your example about bypassing the cross-origin policy, POST requests in general are allowed to be cross-origin by default, so unless you're explicitly blocking that using something like an iFrame, a 3rd-party script can already just send requests directly.

Not sure what you're trying to say here, as far as I know CORS is applicable to all HTTP methods except OPTIONS when using Ajax. If you're saying that it's allowed using Forms, then that's allowed for all HTTP methods as we're navigating away from the page.
If you pay attention you'll note that it's always other peoples' kids who are the problem.
> The goal was to make it so library authors could write Nim in their own "style" - some prefer snake_case, others prefer camelCase, maybe PascalCase.

That's something that would have appealed to me years ago, but now not so much.

In 2018, I want all the libraries, and all the code I ever look at in a language to follow the same style and naming conventions. If you adapt yourself to that, my belief is that will aid comprehension in the long term.

So I appreciate the language communities which have strong conventions which are followed by the majority, and are encouraged / enforced by the tooling. All hail gofmt and rustfmt!
The signals are filtered, reconstructed or otherwise dealt with, of course they look clean.
not directly related, but I have feeling that, sometimes, we, as software designers -- under-estimate the value proposition of a 'single executable/single jar' distribution, for backend services.

If, at design stage we spend a bit more time 'designing' the run-time dependencies and packages of caching frameworks, reverse proxy services, load-balances -- we should end up with more cohesive, single executables/jars/assemblies.

the same assembly, could then be deployed at multiple hosts/end points and started up with a switch at the command line, indicating what particular subsystems need to be executed.

Single file distribution should also help to eliminate, or reduce the headaches that ops/customer teams have to go through when they are deployment our solutions.

I appreciate that docker and template attempt to solve the ease of deployment from another angle: given all decoupled, loosely related artifacts -- here is a 'hat' that manages them all.

But working on a deployment model at the design time, rather than as an after thought (or delegated to another team of devops/etc) -- I think, would help.
As it turns out all this bullshit about millennials not wanting to get married, or own houses, or own a car is manufactured news

Well yes, that is after all a central point made by the article:

“We find little evidence that millennial households have tastes and preference for consumption that are lower than those of earlier generations, once the effects of age, income, and a wide range of demographic characteristics are taken into account,” wrote authors Christopher Kurz, Geng Li and Daniel J. Vine.
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Sure, but a ton of people I know who stay in AirBnB do so because they prefer the experience, not because it’s cheaper. Perhaps that segment I see is biased but I’m not sure more hotels -> lower cost and more diverse locations will fix the problem
One of the Buran designers openly admitted that they were forced to copy Shuttle since it was 'already working'.
Last evening while we were out to beers, a friend recommended me a book apparently reviewing precisely this history: https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290
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Exactly. And thats largely because the boomers pulled up the ladder behind them via zoning rules to greatly restrict redevelopment and density of new development, thus denying adequate housing supply to their kids.
That's what I did too and my original plan was to use 25 different languages throughout the month. However as the puzzles got harder, I found there just wasn't enough time in the day. I'm sure the puzzles remain easy for some, but for me personally they got challenging even in the languages I already know.
America does have a notable weakness for pop demography. However termed, though, I do think the phenomenon has been seen elsewhere. Google for "Young Ireland" or "Young Italy"--those go back a long way, even if the expression "generation" wasn't used in them.
"Boomer style retirement based on being independently wealthy was/is a fleeting historical oddity."

It was an illusion that never really materialized for most people.
HN may be down on Amazon but whether or not a company is 'thriving' is not always tied to whether the company is doing the right thing, or even heading for disaster.

Amazon is probably not going to fall apart over night, but it doesn't mean all of their actions are taking them in the right direction.
Yes it has existed before but never so readily available. I believe credit card was first introduced in 1950's and modern mortgages in 1930's.
> these crimes

It would have to be for crimes defined in Russian law, but yes.

As a hypothetical, I wonder whether the US could carry out a private prosecution in Russia under Russian law.
Is this a perfect storm like the Tacoma Narrows bridge, or British Rail's wrong kind of snow etc?

Today's systems have become astoundingly, barely-manageably complex, to the point where this kind of thing happens all the time, but let's not delude ourselves with the slightly mystical 'perfect storm' analogy.
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Movie reviews compare movies on their artistic and cultural merits, and they are quite pervasive. When I search for a movie, for example, the rating is the first thing that appears, along with a bunch of review sites. The box office is almost invisible.
That’s helpful perspective, thanks for sharing :)
Sure but what's fair in terms of debt was seriously limited. Now with payday loans all bets are off.
Back in 2010, when Windows Phone first launched, the smartphone market was a very different place.

Microsoft could have leveraged the popularity of Xbox to market their phone as a mobile gaming system and I think that would have been hugely popular.
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Propping up housing prices and NIMBYism isn't trying to give your offspring a better life.

I guess by some math they would leave the house to the kids, but that will be when the Boomers are ideally 80 and their kids are already grandparents. Assuming the wealth isn't spent on end of life care (it will be).
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> they invented it to pay for their lavish life styles they couldn’t afford

Debit does not work that way over the entire economy. It can change the distribution of wealth, it can incentive people to act differently, it can change the cost of transactions. But it can not anticipate future wealth.
As a landlord, I don't want my tenants renting to people I haven't had a chance to vet. At least if I'm taking on the risks or ABnB I'm also reaping the rewards. Good luck collecting from my tenant if their hotel guests damage the property.
"stories abound" of homeless beggars who actually have "a lot of money" .. too .. it is a psychological fascination.. real-world needs measurements of factual conditions, not urban folktales
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Backups can also be automated. I think that parent's point is that, like backup, if it isn't the default then users are probably not doing it. It is my experience that most people, even people who should know better like you or me, think of data loss risks as theoretical until they've experienced it first hand once or twice.
Better not have any parallel fifths in there or I swear to god my Theory professor will come out of his grave and berate the AI for it.
How are boomers as a generation of people responsible for the '78 Supreme Court decision to allow national banks to export the interest rate law of their home state into any state where they do business?

Thats what caused the credit card explosion

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/marquette-inter...
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Wages/GDP Graph may have something to do with it. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=2Xa
Interesting choice. What made you want to learn Ocaml?
Well I have a stalker.

Lies. BSODs are Kernel panics. These happen in every OS. They can be caused by failing hardware, iffy drivers etc. Are you going to claim that you never had hardware fail? never had a dodgy capacitor on a video card? I don't believe that. Also the last time I had a BSOD on Windows is because one of the SSDs in RAID 0 failed.

Dependant on Linux distro there maybe no safe upgrade path between version of the distro (Fedora recommends a full reinstall last time I checked).

I haven't backed up a registry ever. I haven't installed 3rd party anti-virus software since the Windows XP days which was 15 years ago. Windows has improved quite a lot in some ways (and in other ways it has got worse).

> Works For Me.

Which is exactly the attitude problem with most Linux users when discussing the topic. It is whataboutery at its finest.

> Sorry that you didn't enjoy it. Hope you have fun back in Windows land.

Linux works absolutely fine on my Phone, VPS (Digital Ocean) and as a XBMC machine. It just doesn't work properly as a Desktop Operating system.

I am just not a zealot when it comes my Operating System Choice and I don't pretend things that are real problems aren't.
Yeah this has become my standard reply when a boomer makes a stink about Millenials to me. “Sounds like they didn’t have very good parents.”
> Could Apple pull the same trick?

I seriously doubt it.

I think Apple management doesn't really have a clue how to build a cloud business for developers and the enterprise.

Tim Cook for example is no Satya Nadella. He has grown Apple to be very profitable, but clearly has no technological vision like Jobs did.
Social Security was founded in 1935, so before boomers ever were born, although it had a different feel from today's program. Social Security is funded (you actually pay taxes for it), but the rest of the government borrows from it quite recklessly which is why republicans want you to believe it's not funded. With simply upping the ceiling on the amount taxed into it we can easily fund it for the foreseeable future. Now of course the right wants you to think otherwise so they can kill the program for future generations but that's just not backed up by facts.
So burn them down. If they are empty and owned by a bunch of wealthy councilmen, then nothing will be lost. You already can't live in them. Your protests are doing nothing. You are already homeless. Burn the houses down.
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To be fair, it's much easier to separate "food" from "not food" than to have to qualify whether any particular product is "good" or "junk" food.

Can you imagine the additional bureaucracy needed to classify (and enforce) the use of food stamps on a more granular level?
My thoughts and sentiment completely. It is just not worth my time and Heroku has proven to be reliable platform over the years. It is simple, interface is familiar and easy to onboard new people to.
seems like a generalization to say 'baby boomers directly responsible for...' How do you consign direct responsibility to a group of people only tied together by their year of birth? Are you sure you are not yourself unconsciously kicking the can down the road through some horrid act or inaction on your part?
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I think it's worth noting that having a family is a "life experience" and a home is a "material possession". Many would argue that travel, dining out, bars... are shallow and hedonistic experiences while cultivating a family and community are enriching and rewarding.
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Government regulates and manipulates health care to such a degree that its hard to even suggest a free market is anywhere close to what is observed.
I'm considering doing Racket because it has a lot of good resources for people who aren't necessarily experts in Scheme.
> by removing barriers to development

That's quite broad.
Barriers to development were lowered and ignored during the Celtic tiger era.

Really poor housing was built and funnily enough, it was still sold at obnoxiously high prices.

The only people pushing for this are property developers and thankfully so far, most of the country has remained strong on not falling for this spiel again.

*This doesn't exclude building higher in city center.
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ah! no. ofcourse not. id say its rediculous and cruel to think that. but id ask to see who planted that thought in her head.

people who judge you solely by internet points arent people you want to work with. i know a few, too.

great coders existed before FOSS. great coders will exist after FOSS.

people have families, people have different struggles.

go easy on yourself, and code however you like, i say.
MSFT is in this position because they executed better than Google in cloud (also cleverly placing their fat profitable office revenues in cloud) and the market rewards growth in rapidly expanding markets because it's a signal that of future revenue and market share.
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Sure comparisons would be very interesting to list as well, maybe for a next post! This one is more beginner-oriented and I think it already brings value to some readers.
this is what happens when you let foreigners with unstable currency buy property but the property security is provided by the taxpayers expense. we in fact are subsidizing and securitzing china and other coutries outflow of capital