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This article completely ignores rent as the means for wealth-building with real estate. Instead it focuses on the price of real estate. Even when prices stop rising, real estate can keep generating income.

Really, the opposite of the headline is true: If prices go too high, real estate stops becoming a good investment, because you can get better ROI elsewhere.
A content play that costs SMBs $39 a month makes no sense. It has to be free to get to Google data scale.
I managed to interact with lots of people who work for Google daily. The culture "The Circle" illustrated is spot on but I guess making 4x or 5x federal median wage would do it.
the email field is just for you, others can't see your email of you every it.

right now, your profile is empty, so OP won't be able to reach you.

enter the email in the 'about' field.
I'm not sure why I even asked, because no matter what they say, it's not going be accurate, what I want to hear, or within my control. 2 games I've paid for that go against my rule of not buying centralized or DRM'd, Rocket League and 7 Days To Die. 1 now has a very uncertain future. I have 51 games on GOG, all of them work on Linux, multiplayer servers can run on any machine, and I can back up my standalone installers in cold storage. I have no concern any of them will ever be unplayable. I'm sticking to the rule from now on.
Top 20 in letting applicants bribe coaches to get them in, maybe. Any rag with USC as a top 20 university isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
If the system is even a few percent better than humans then it would save thousands of lives when widely deployed.

Musk has made this argument many times. Basically don't let perfect be the enemy of better.

But if the vendor is legally liable in each case then this software is untenable.
We are going to have a really hard time getting out true autonomous driving if they don’t do this.

That’s how the system will learn how to deal with real life scenarios.
So the claim is that verisimilitude's suggestion, that renting would be illegal, is a gateway the government owning all property and private ownership being illegal? I don't see how it's reasonable to suppose that would be the result. I also don't see how MagicPropmaker thinks that's what verisimilitude was thinking.

Am I missing something?

[Edit: I mean, I can see that renting being illegal is a restriction on use of property. That's a long distance from private property itself being illegal, though, and I don't see any reason to suppose that would be the end result - either the desired end result or the actual one.]
We have public and private universities. Private universities get public funds through a variety of means, mostly scientific grants, but not public funding in the sense of unconditional grants to the general university fisc.
I went to Berkeley, it’s a far better public school than Washington or Oregon, who appear to be oddly insecure of their schools’ >40% acceptance rates. Surely our graduates would never make discriminatory hiring decisions that may deprive their company of talent.
Agreed. Emotional work has quite the cost.
That's a hilarious joke!
That's not what happened, though. Google management was quite happy to completely ignore Damore. He was punished only once his screed became public and embarrassed the company. That's exactly the opposite of retaliation!
> We're not leaving this planet for a long time yet.

IMO, that's an argument against Olympics, not for it.

I'm far from calling myself an environmentalist, but consider all the waste and pollution produced by people flying in from all over the world. The negative impact is significant.
im all for the technology and accepting it will be fallible, just not for putting the blame for its errors onto the human non-driver
People forget that Valve made Half-life 2 - at the time one of the most anticipated games ever - a Steam exclusive. It's basically the only way these things can get started.
"As crazy as this initially sounds, you might consider funding your IRA by using a cash advance on your credit card."

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/funding-ira-wit...
>Anyone can major in Art History without a lot of effort.

Another day, another Hacker News comment asserting the inferiority of any non-technical subject based on zero experience or evidence.
It seemed to me that the retaliation against Damore was supported by many people at Google. Even the media supported that retaliation.
Why a a dichotomy between a decent house, and a 'stack em high' mindset?

Terraced housing as seen all over Europe could house single families without issue. London is full of these things.

100sqm is really quite a decently sized home with gardens front and back. That's already a 10x density improvement.

Not everyone wants to live in an apartment surrounded by other people on all sides with no control over the place they live in (because it's all outsourced to a "management company" e.g. nonsense bureaucracy).

As far as I can tell all you're going to do by building tons of flats is entrench some sort of class system. Outside of elite city center locations only proles will be living in apartments.
Any safe housing is a good investment. It is the bottom of the hierarchy of needs. While you might not make a profit on the property, you should at least come out even when selling. It provides a way to save money (to eventually own the home) and you can use that money to slowly climb into another better house and so on.
One apartment building makes up for, what, a hundred single family tiny suburbia houses? I’ll bet on apartment buildings providing more supply.
I'd urge you to think more about this. You can imagine the same thing for murder trials: 10 million per victim or you go to jail. You can use the money to make the world better!

I'm not so sure. These institutions have an embedded narrative. For universities it's that they are meritocracies, where class/race/gender/etc do not matter. For the justice system it's that everyone is equal before the law and the guilty will be punished.

I don't think these institutional narratives are superfluous. While it's naive to expect the institutions to live up to the narratives, the narratives end up serving as ideals. And I don't think the institutions can exist without those ideals.
When the news first broke there was an article where the some of the admissions officers were asked about it by journalist. Unfortunately I do not remember where the article was published. The gist of it was that the bribe devalued the schools -- the rate for "you will admit so and so" is north of $10 million.
The rulings stated it was legal for Google to do what they did. And I totally agree that it was legal - my gripe is with the difference in how society at large reacted to it. I've quoted a few relevant sections from the rulings

In the summary:
"we conclude that the memorandum included both protected and unprotected statements and that the Employer discharged [Damore] solely for [Damore's] unprotected statements. Therefore, the employer did not violate Section 8(a)(1) of the Act"

In the Action:

"The Board has acknowledged that it has a duty to balance an employee’s statutorily-protected rights against an employer’s legitimate right to enforce its workplace rules and managerial prerogatives"

"In furtherance of these legitimate interests, employers must be permitted to “nip in the bud” the kinds of employee conduct that could lead to a “hostile workplace,” rather than waiting until an actionable hostile workplace has been created before taking action."

An earlier decision they quoted in the ruling:
"In view of the controversial nature of the language used and its admitted susceptibility to derisive and profane construction, [the employer] could legitimately ban the use of the provocative [language] as a reasonable precaution against discord and bitterness between employees and management, as well as to assure decorum and discipline in the plant"

To me this sounds like they are saying that Google indeed retaliated, and it was legal for them to do so
While true, that's completely orthogonal to pathseeker's point, which is about legality rather than affordability.
Europe is merely exchanging smaller governments for a bigger one; they have their peace (for now) but are slowly trading relatively local sovereignty for it. Yes, you can have a walled garden within which there is peace. Enjoy your walls, young Siddhartha.
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Ok. How does that change the paradigm? It’s still a use of force ...
But there would still be less of those donations. There would be some, yes. But significantly less. And less money means that these school are unable to let in as many poor people as they did before.
Article says it would have been breaking regulations to make it automatic.
A big company is difficult to manage. Why aren't these employees being more effective by targeting the abusers instead?
And whiners in the middle, apparently. Maybe you weren't as competitive of an applicant as you thought you were?
"In that context, it's a very, very dangerous thing to start blocking people from the financial system for political views."

We aren't "starting". Recall all of the countries that have had sanctions placed on them, such as Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Russia, etc.
UK becomes first parliament to declare climate emergency
Weak enemies.
You've hit the nail on the head. Whenever this type of practice is used to fight against the extreme right (in theory), it inevitably ends up being employed far more often against the left, and not just the "extreme" left. Environmentalists, civil rights activists, anti-racists, economic leftists, and others get caught up in these nets while somehow the stated targets on the right tend to get a slap on the wrist.

The organized left has always been more of a threat to the establishment than the far right. Nominally leftist activists who push this sort of tactic would do well to realize this and resist the urge to encourage and allow this behavior from corporations, and especially corporations as powerful as Mastercard.
There are many kinds of meditation. The unifying idea behind them all is that it deliberately directs the mind to some task, but the tasks can be widely different. What you're describing is just one way to practice a particular kind of mindfulness meditation.
I’m from the Bay Area and I can tell you that as far as “status” goes, USC and UCLA don’t carry much status at all, if any. Berkeley is considered far more prestigious here. And of course, Stanford.
> after years of shadiness and recently outright lies

I'm not sure what you're referring to here. By my account, Epic has been among the better game developers for consumers. I wish Fortnite et al didn't use microtransactions—as far as I'm concerned, they always make games worse by building a purchase incentive into the design of the game—but it is free to play, so there's a limit to how much I can complain.
That’s not true. Economic sanctions is the ultimate weapon these days. Look at Ukraine and Russia. Russia is now in its 5th year of sanction from EU and US and others. As a result, a withering economy and massive population outflow for Russia.

Also look at the effects of sanctions against Iran and Venezuela. Both are collapsing.

Imagine the effects of sanction on an economy as big as China.
You shouldn’t be condemned for life for not being elite material when you were 18.

Disclaimer - I was not elite material when I was 18 and feel like I’m condemned for life when I read these posts.
Have you thought about doing any work that makes it easier to fire government workers? They have a reputation for soft corruption like hiding being red tape or slow-rolling out their employment until retirement.
Content blockers (and their built in tracker prevention) both apply to ping elements, but there’s no extra javascript or weird redirect tracking.
Feel free to share whatever ranking validates you.
> Wouldn't it make more sense to just publicly fund the creation of these seats and have people pay their fair share?

Even if education is publicly funded, allowing these "bribes" would allow even more people into elite institutions.

So by all means, fund stuff. Unless you are willing to spend infinity dollars, it is all better to allow even more funding to come in, and pay for people who wouldn't have been able to attend those institutions otherwise.
Go research financial aid programs and outcomes at elite US Universities. The fact that these schools are subject to financial pressure at the margins absolutely does not mean that they are closed to needy students. There are MANY unfair elements of the US educational system that disadvantage poor and minority students, but access to elite schools for the deserving fraction is just not one of them. We're doing fine here.
You’re correct. This country should work just as well for the hard working kids at UMass Boston as it does for kids at MIT.
> international sports competitions go a long way towards softening some of humanity's worst tendencies: sexism

Sexism? I hope you do realize that you are actually defeating your own argument here, since women are segregated and compete separately.

Trans-men, who were not even top athletes among biological men, already dominate biological women's competition.
"Indeed, a government could in theory do this. A government could refuse to take action when banks refuse to accept customers with particular political views. A government could allow "redlining" housing practices against people with particular political views. A government could cut off police services to people with particular political views."

Rightly or wrongly, a lot of people perceive the complainants here as being the sort of people who like to call this the free market when it happens to others.
In general terms regarding systems in our society - If the system is dependent on charity to support it... it isn't supported, if the system is valued by society then society should support it up to the cost of it's value.

Education is absolutely worth the cost and the need to charity is highlighting the underfunding here[1].

[1] Also, the inefficient use of money, higher education is absolutely guilty of inefficient operation with lots of cushy bureaucrat jobs, but imagine we could make higher education efficient and it still required an additional injection of cash via charitable donations.
I would really like universities to be meritocracies. However I went to a highly ranked school for undergrad and I can assure you it was nowhere close to a meritocracy, nor did it really try to pretend that it was.

That narrative may exist for you and others, but it's entirely accidental.
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I don't see any reason to panic.

In raw numbers the US Navy is technologically and numerically dominant.

But China will increasingly be able to surge "mass" in terms of both technology and numbers to dominate its near shore and achieve theatre level superiority.

China is building out it's military in a way that is akin to the US Reagan led 1980's.

But what concerns me the most is not PLAN versus US Navy, but China/BATH versus US/FAANG+.

We are not likely to see a single navy dominate the world's oceans ever again.

But what about a single country dominating the world's geodigital platforms?
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Well I went to Berkeley, it’s questionable why we’re even ranked in the top 25 with an acceptance rate 30-40% higher than UCLA or USC this year whom like you said, don’t deserve to be in the top 20. Imagine what it would be without EECS. Berkeley grads need to pay attention to what’s happening with the school, it may be the only college in Californi where applications have been going down for the past 3-4 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking may help you understand the parent comments train of thought
That's what the Swedish authorities are saying but for all we know the alleged victim is not even standing behind these claims. Since the Swedish authorities just want to 'interview' Assange there is no downside for them to use some trumped up accusations/statements as a pretext to get that interview (and get him into custody). Assange's lawyer is on record saying that text messages contradict the allegations. I doubt he's staking the defense and his professional reputation on a lie.
So basically you're advocating for stopping adults from voluntarily engaging into a victimless activity.
I am quite interested in who uses Git GUI’s vs the command line tool (and which tools they use if GUI). Command line is going to be more robust but given the difficulty in learning Git (I end up teaching people much more senior than me some of the tricks) I can imagine that more people use the GUI than I would initially think.

I’ve found GUI’s only to be useful in one or two specific examples: complicated rebases and merge conflicts. In all other cases the CLI workflow seems faster.
That’s not an accurate summary:

They found that Google firing him in response to a complaint about their discriminatory practices wasn’t retaliation because him complaining upset his coworkers.

It’s an insane ruling, that undermines the basis of protections.
ugh, I feel your pain. Have had to use that in the past, it's basically one step up from SourceSafe.

The first thing I did at the last company that used it was migrate to git. The good news is that (from memory) there is a tool that will migrate all the history to git.
There were plenty of "movements" within the Google-Intranet using tactics that are at least cognate to authoritarianism - namely bullying, harassment and intimidation - to pursue their politically-skewed goals and drive political opponents out. It's not something that's in serious dispute by now - the reporting, even in court-submitted documents like the James Damore complaint, is way too clear for that. And yes, of course this is severely dysfunctional for any sort of enterprise. We actually have laws on the books that are meant to prevent these things; though the enforcement is quite inconsistent.
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There are many types of elites - financial elites, academic elites, social elites, etc, etc.

An elite school tries to cater to all of those. It would be better if they were more up-front about this rather than pretending they are all about academic achievement but they would still be elite schools. And they'd still have some exceptionally bright students in their classes.
I would love to meet the author of that line. I have a bridge to donate to them!
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How does a sit in work?
Orwell fought against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, and found his side being called fascist by the Stalinists. I suspect he was more hoping to return the word to meaning something (he quite passionately cared about fighting fascism) than encouraging its misuse.
Uhg, you're right and I can't edit now. That's what I get for not reading.
I used to buy Nexus phones and jailbreak them for SU root privileges so I could deny apps (mostly by google) from using permissions without my consent on app launch.

With that being said, I'll be switching to an iPhone for privacy reasons, starting with my next phone and I've been a loyal Android user since Google started with the G1. How times have changed...
This is literally the app I’ve always wanted and have been looking for for years.

Do you have a recommendation for an alternate app? Im SO DISAPPOINTED at discovering this app only AFTER it shut down that it’s hard to even express. I use “Logsit” right now but there’s no way to track correlations or causation other than annoying CSV data-wrangling. Please tell me you can recommend an alternate app! :)
A steeply appreciating market is either an indication of a bubble or that the previous valuation of assets was highly inaccurate. They're market inefficiencies that, sure, people will try and arbitrage, but they're not the norm... except that the housing market is really weird due to the incredible illiquidity and non-divisibility of assets.
They likely won't split the userbase, they'll make multiplayer cross compatible.
Nothing says oddly insecure like creating a new account and repeatedly shilling for your alma mater when you are aggrieved because people happen to be criticizing it obliquely.
> Housing doesn’t have to be a commodity at all. It can easily be an unconditional human right.

An unconditional human right... where? Does everyone have a right to housing in the uber popular San Francisco? Does everyone have a right to beachfront property in Hawaii? Or if you don't have a house are you provided one in North Dakota?

More people want to live in San Francisco than there are houses. There's going to be winners and losers. I would love to radically increase the number of immigrants we let into the country. Where do they have a right to housing? If that housing doesn't exist who is obligated to build it to give away?
That's why most missions are going to be focused around the poles at first until something other that solar is brought to the moon (like nuclear, be it fusion or fission).
There isn't, but there is against a "donation" being quid pro quo. They're free to call it what it is, tuition to bypass admissions requirements.
How about with traffic laws? Finland applies a sliding scale to them based on income:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
I also went to a highly ranked school.

It wasn't a perfect meritocracy but it was at least oriented towards merit. But my initial point remains: the idea of the meritocracy is necessary.

I don't think universities can exist without it, at least not in this form.
Housing can only grow by inflation, but LAND can multiply, because you can build higher on the same amount of land.
The point of an elite school is that it's meant to be 'elite', i.e. selective. The more dumb rich kids get in, the more the value of the school's degree declines. This deal has always been bent at the high end ('buy us a new library wing and we'll ignore that little Timmy has a room temp IQ') but not overtly broken, which is what this proposal (and the behavior that people are being prosecuted for) amounts to.
He's not the only one working on this.

I think its seriously deliverable.