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It "works" (in that it doesn't cause problems like rationing by other means like queueing, under the table payments, subletting, or any one of the myriad other problems rent control produces) because it actually does nothing - it results in rents which are equal to what the open market price would have been.

Ultimately, if you want to reduce rents AND have a functioning market, you have two options (or a combination of them): (1) reduce demand, (2) increase supply.
I think you're just changing "the point" as I replied to this direct quote:

>Through your business with AWS you are now funding a large, fierce, and direct competitor.

No one here is talking about FBA's or the Amazon marketplace; they're talking about using AWS and having Amazon infiltrate your product space down the road.
At least we have plans to deal with nuclear waste.

What is our plan to deal with carbon waste?
> I'm arguing that "only $12,000" is dismissive of how impactful a difference that makes to the lives of people who don't live in a big city.

But the $12k in question isn't a fungible $12k. It's specifically the difference in housing costs between urban and rural in the example given earlier.

If the point is that many people in rural areas are economically struggling, then yes we agree, just as many poorer urban dwellers are (and to whom a random $12k received would also be hugely impactful), but that has nothing to do with example proposed.
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That doesn't work so well either. You have to commit to spend a lot of money to build the transit line, and then when you try to make the zoning changes, NIMBYs will still find a way of blocking them.

Where I live, the transit agency has been building a $2B light rail extension with the understanding that areas around the stations would be rezoned for high density.

But so far, it looks like the city will cave in to pressure from homeowners for lower-density zoning, leaving a very expensive transit investment with far fewer people riding it than anticipated.
I've seen a few sites that suggest much of this is based on our orbit [1]. If that is true, then the oceans may be about to dump ludicrous amounts of Co2. Hopefully we can find a way to turn that into fuel.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=milankovitch+cy...
We use a variety of tools, and often when we add a new tool it's because we review the integrations for segment and discover a service that we can leverage. For a good starter setup though, I really enjoy segment, sentry, mixpanel, and heap.io. We use a few other services, but when it comes to troubleshooting for customers these are our main goto services.
Didn't say no problem, only that the map of the original post I replied to is shit. Which it is. There's no reason to believe everything south of Siberia and Canada will be a desert.

Climate science is based on past CO2 levels and uses the fossil record of foliage to estimate temperatures. Not even the most dire predictions claim the earth will be mostly desert in 100 years. There will be flooding and some desertification, but many regions will also become greener.

Even NASA has observed that the earth is greener today than 40 years ago.
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I want to downvote you for your ridiculous show of privilege in that statement but won't since that's not what downvotes are for. $12,000 a year is a lot of money, especially when added up over time. The US median income is just over $61,000, meaning "only" $12,000 represents 20%. That's just crazy to consider that a small amount.
That's weird. I was driving around MV and Sunnyvale this weekend and was surprised by how much more residential (apartment complexes/townhoses) building seemed to be happening in Sunnyvale (along Evelyn Ave) than MV.

Could it be that these Sunnyvale developments were just issued permits earlier (2016 or 2017), and we're just seeing it further down the pipeline?
Unfortunately, that's still wrong (I think). Go will still allocate a temporary slice-header on the heap and then de-allocate it when it's dereferenced.

I believe the only way to do this without unsafe code is to pool these slice-headers as in https://github.com/libp2p/go-buffer-pool/blob/master/pool.go.
Yeah, but Libra could do due diligence when the money enters their system. Sure, things are a bit "informal" on the BTC/ETH side, but I'm pretty sure Libra will strive to meet the demands from governments.

That being said, yeah, wild claims can and probably will be made by various entities.
Why didn't they just use bitcoin?
Good to see another AT hiker on here!

Quite a trip seeing the names of all those mountains I walked over. This is an interesting factoid I wish I'd known on my hike, I was always curious why there were no alpine zones in the southern Appalachians.
Yeah we will adapt, but not fast enough.
The problem is that even if we had way more nuclear, we'd just use it all.

We need to start leaving carbon in the ground. Try to burn less fossil than the year before, instead of setting record after record. All green energy initiatives are just red herrings.
As I said, I'm running 64 bit hardware, and a 64 bit kernel.

But shifting the packages from 32 bit to 64 bit is not supported automatically.

And that despite the ability to install both 32 and 64 bit packages side by side.

It's like they did all the hard part for the upgrade, and just didn't finish that last little bit (find 64 bit versions of existing 32 bit packages, and install them, then remove the 32 bit).
Enpass (https://www.enpass.io/)

It is easy enough for my extremely non-technical wife to use on both her laptop and phone.
>Property value skyrockets for a while, and people who arent happy with it can sell and go live somewhere else with the money if they don't like it.

This attitude is exactly why people are uncomfortable with processes like this. It ignores existing inequities of property ownership that have impacted wealth distribution.

If where you decide to build the station is like most of the bay, the people living in these homes aren't the owners. Especially if they're presently black or latino-majority neighborhoods, American housing policy over the last 50 years has purposefully kept these communities from gaining ownership equity by explicitly redlining them or locking them out of the credit market.

They won't profit from selling the property, they will simply be displaced.
Well, desks don't fly through the air at 500 mph with ~hundred tons of cargo aboard :/
Tens of millions of years is a pretty small snapshot to use. Brains have existed on earth for approximately 500 million years. Life for about 7 times that.
> The absolute noise and other issue is much lower, the city is designed and built so poorly it can't handle it

My experience of Somerville has been very different from yours: I've never been woken up by noise coming in from the street, and I've lived in two very typical wood-frame houses (first a triple-decker in East Somerville, now a two-family near Davis).

But it's also worth separating "what should you build a house out of to avoid noise infiltration" and "what sort of neighborhood densities can you have with low levels of ambient outdoor noise".
"The people living there don't want that, though, so the laws prohibit it."

... which is the definition of democracy.
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If you aren’t a denier then why are you repeating a classic, thoroughly debunked denier talking point?

https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-on-mars.htm
This is a bit sensational.

Most Boeing jets that you can book a flight on today are some of the safest the world has ever seen. For example, the 777 has been in service 25 years with only a few serious accidents we can conclusively say are related to the aircraft design or operation. The 737-NG (precursor to the MAX and also in service ~25 years) experiences one hull loss incident for every 4 million or so departures. Even their other fairly new jet, the 787, has never experienced a hull loss or fatality in almost 8 years of commercial service.
Except many of those stores haven't fostered distrust in their market place with fake products. I found myself buying Amazon basics because I felt like I could trust them in ways I couldn't trust anything else on the site.
Depends what you mean by "we". Homo sapiens has enormous cultural flexibility (though clearly, as the worldwide ecosystem collapse shows, this doesn't scale). So groups of humans will continue to live.

But our global civilisation will inevitably collapse. No-one can predict in detail what that will entail, but we can be sure it won't be pretty.
On letting the options expire:

There are other options than purchasing the options yourself or just letting them expire.

From a pure finance perspective, you just need to find someone to take on the risk of the exercise. My company, ESO Fund, has a diversified portfolio of startups and as a result can take a $20k bet with much more ease than a single employee making a $20k bet.
the only scalable solution is to reduce demand, not increase supply. cities are already getting pretty saturated, and building more houses isn't going to solve a thing.

what is really needed is very fast public transportation from outside cities to the cities themselves, and incentives for workplaces to split into sub-branches in other nearby locations instead of endlessly expanding within the same city.

most people would prefer living outside the city for cheaper and higher quality of housing, the force pulling them back towards the city is the transportation distance to work. the force pulling workplaces into the cities is that they want to minimize transportation time for potential employees (unless the workplace has a location tied to the city), while they still need to cluster employees who have to work together.

so everything is clustered, and there's nothing to do about it.

only way that this can end, is if you reduce the force pulling everything together - by reducing transportation distance - while in the same time, you need to introduce some incentives for workplaces to split to sub branches.
15 miles, 2 hours? Hmmm, maybe invest in New roads.

But city living is sad, yeah you can have all the social fun, but none of the quiet, peace, living and hobby space.

I like living 10 miles from the city, lots of space, quiet and green, can drive 20 minutes to the shity anytime.
Was it really his responsibility to give your team a lavish thanks? Sounds like he had a windfall, but working on commission can very easily go the opposite direction.

Was the wild success of the initiative due to your team’s outstanding technical genius?
IMDB is also owned by Amazon.
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Sure, so they're solving THEIR problem, not the housing crisis problem.

That's all I'm saying. Just like the OP said, more private companies building on their lots isn't really going to budge the needle.
I like how you're thinking from a hobbyist standpoint.

The teaspoon analogy (below) is a little flawed. It discounts technology improvement/growth.

You also have to include that:

1. teaspoon tech is in its infancy

2. if teaspoons were a few orders of magnitude cheaper and bigger, the job would be done rapidly

3. teaspoon tech has lots of promising pathways that haven't been followed

Carbon removal tech was $1,000/ton a few years ago, now it's ~$200/ton. Draw a line through those points and you might get somewhere interesting.
This measure discourages investors to purchase already existing property, for sure. But this also leaves the opportunity to put the money in construction. The market in Berlin is still very attractive due to very high demand, so lets see how quickly can the local councils allocate land for new housing. Some time ago I’ve also heard the complaints that city has no enough capacity to give building permits quickly. Those could be the real bottlenecks in the city which grows by 200 000 every year. It’s also interesting to compare it with Moscow - nearly the same area, but 4 times smaller population and plenty of badly used space (like Tegel airport). Will it be able to keep growing while maintaining high living standards?
Can we just call it the global reserve?
If you use it as such, of course it is. Filesystem DBs been around forever. What point are you trying to make?
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I don't have a new system, I would need to do it in place, on the same system.

I guess I should have clarified that I already have a 64 bit CPU, and 64 bit kernel, but my initial installation is 20 or more years old and has been updated since then, from that same initial installation. (It's even the same initial ext3 filesystem, since I used md raid to shift the installation to new hard disks over time, it used to be ext2, but that upgrade was automatic.)

Debian has the ability to have both 32 and 64 bit packages installed side-by-side.

I.e. they did the hard part. I just need some way to automatically shift each package to its 64 bit equivalent, then remove the 32 bit one, and eventually the libraries too once nothing depends on them.
The true value of any currency is what you can do with it. If someone owns some coin and wants to buy some food to feed their family, the seller of the food first has to accept the coin, but regardless what value the rest of the world places on the coin, the seller of the product is still in control of what they will accept. I am not sure how using a cryptocurrency solves the problem of hyperinflation. It is still not going to be cheap or easy to purchase items in the areas these problems exist. I think your other points about access to banking and storing/transferring money are valid. It implies the person has a working mobile phone and access to a network though too.
Mars is a radically different planet and has its own climate. It doesn't have anything to do with the sun getting warmer though, e.g. we can't blame the sun for the Earth warming up just because Mars is also warming up.

A few of the key differences off the top of my head:

- The polar caps of mars are mostly frozen CO2 ("dry ice"), and also mostly disappear during the summer. You can see timelapse animations showing them shrinking and growing by like 90% each year. Their behavior is radically different from our frozen water ice caps, and have a huge difference in thermal mass too.

- Mars has a very thin atmosphere, mostly inactive geology, and no oceans. That means it has very little in the way of thermal buffering

- Mars goes through it's own Milankovitch cycles (changes in orbit eccentricity, axial tilt, precession) which means it undergoes it's own warming/cooling cycles just like earth. It happens to be in a warming cycle right now.

- Enormous dust storms can take over the planet for months at a time, which obviously has a huge impact on global climate

- We have a very short record of observing Mars' climate, so we can't really make long term trend analysis like we can on Earth
Ok, three parties... And it wasn't a shady link in the airline's email?

https://support.google.com/calendar/forum/AAAAd3GaXpEb0_0F6e...
>That is because in the case of a goog share you arent telling someone else what they can do with their share.

The same way with the proposed city stock shares - nobody is going to tell you what you can do with it.

>Instead, SFH are being allowed to have more options for what to do with their property.

no. It is a rich&powerful well-connected developer who is getting zoning changes and only to his properties (similar to the situation when only the major shareholder would get additional stock/dividend issued for free) at the cost to all the other residents and property owners. Privatization of profits with socialization of costs - the main reason for the NIMBY.

>In fact giving more options for property actually increases the value of that property.

Nobody is giving more options. Uniform re-zoning never practically happens. It is always a targeted action for the benefit of specific powerful developer who has already at least got an option on those targeted properties. At least the common stock schema i propose would allow to spread some of those gains toward all the others who also bear the costs, ie. the whole city.
Right now, it is not reversible or changeable. There is a system of rent, so it isn't permanent(although evicted data can be reconstituted via crypto-proof).
Lacking new construction they'll buy up the larger, older family homes as investments instead. That's what happened to San Francisco with its lack of development. If a foreign investor invested $1 million dollars into real estate, isn't it preferable for it to be a few small units in a highrise rather than a good part of a traditional residential street?
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Google home just took on a whole different meaning
As I said, marginal improvements are used to justify ruthless exploitation.
Omega Co is expanding.
Cause European cities are so much better? They're not. Overcrowded, overpriced, just for jobs and getting out asap.
A bit stale on the Pi side (2015), but: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=raspberr...
Anecdotally, my experience running Redis servers on AWS (both standalone EC2 instances and ElastiCache dedicated Redis instances) is that network latency is likely to become a barrier before anything else. We struggled with the same performance problems on both small-footprint small-payload Redis DBs and on large ones, and paying for the next tier of network connectivity (between our applications on EC2 and our Redis servers on EC2/ElastiCache) did the most to alleviate delays.
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>in general they're clearly very effective.

Oh yeah. Like, it's nearly impossible to find a place to live. Economics 101, true, artificially lowered price is leading to deficit.
The problem is it's scary to live in a city that only has one employer offering jobs in your field. My wife and I moved to a new city last year, and while we considered a lot of smaller cities, it ultimately wasn't worth the risk to live someplace that only had a couple prospective employers.
Discussion ongoing here:

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Never said that. Illegal activities would still be considered illegal, it's just the industry would be legal within a set of regulations. Take a baseline for the age of consent for the entire nation, maybe go conservative about who can work in that industry. (Say 18, or 21, etc)

Other countries have legalized the work, have very stringent guidelines, and have addressed the societal issues that come about with having it.
If I were Taiwan, I would be working with the US to engage in a crash program of developing AI drone mini-subs. Basically, develop the ability to make the waters around Taiwan exceedingly dangerous, even without air superiority.
Didn't I just read a story about the Amazon retail stores in SF being forced to accept cash, not just credit cards linked to someone's amazon account?
Jeez, are these really the big ideas coming from SV these days? Pedestrian applications of technology to mundane problems which deserve billion dollar valuations?
> there's nothing you can say to any leader, politician, or pleb that can shock them into action

The notion that a bright ape, with social cognition designed for small group interaction, could scale its decision-making abilities to manage a global civilisation, was always a mere superstition.
True, though it would still be considered as 'read' by the trackers.
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Great question!

1.) 7x on rideshare is a lot but if you think about the portfolio of spend for a company, most of it is not on rideshare. Since our offering is superior, people usually put all of their spend on Brex, which helps us make up for the amount of money we're giving away on ride share. We also get back discounts from vendors. In general though, we believe in providing the most value to customers, so we're ok with giving away more rewards than the other corporate cards out there.

2.) The personal credit card space is interesting, but our mission for now is to accelerate entrepreneurs, which means we're focusing on building the best possible financial products for businesses. The market for this is huge, so we still have a long ways to go
That is the PR reason.

The real reason is aftermarket changes/repairs/services.

Tesla wants 100% of that business, reminds me of Apple.
I came across backup appliances recently that work on this principal. They literally have TBs of unused disk space in the box in my datacenter, but require an additional license to activate. It makes me very angry!
It is kind of confusing. They have their own language that will let you create various kinds of structured modules. Initially, they are going to limit it to their native modules. The modules have some properties that make the contracts safer and less prone to duplication bugs. They haven't finalized the syntactic sugar version of the language yet.
Often because they pay well. Sometimes because you want to work on a big project that is out of reach of most companies.
My take is that from an "economics 101" perspective, a rental isn't a normal commodity.

When a vacant rental is first advertised, it is essentially "put on the market" and it's price could be determined by supply and demand in a more or less fair way (assuming "gentrification" is just demand).

But signing a lease and renewing it are very different. For the renter, leaving a rental incurs a very real cost (searching for another place, packing, moving, stress, change of habits etc). It's true that there's also a cost to the owner but it's much smaller (adverting, viewings, risk of unknown tenants etc).

So the "rational" thing for the owner to do is to try and take advantage of this by hiking up the price to include the leaving cost of the tenant. If the market is left to it's own accord, it will cause this.

Of course freezing hampers with the fluidity of the market price. A good middle ground is a predetermined max price increase agreed upon in the lease.
We really need more reasonable taxes on fossil fuels that make it cost-prohibitive

And more awareness among consumers - how often do we need same day/next day delivery? I bet not that often

It would be nice for consumers to support local businesses instead of always buying from mega corporations...
Get HBO to make a dramatic miniseries about it?
Wouldn't orbital changes & things like solar output already be accounted for in any serious climate modeling and history?
Are you saying you got counterfeit Amazon Basics products? I'm pretty sure Amazon Basics items are only stocked and sold by Amazon and not any of their "marketplace" fronts so I don't see how you would have got fakes.

Amazon Basics is just like the grocery store brands that have become popular. They're basically rebranded products by a different company at a cheaper price with some level of quality endorsed by the retailer (Amazon, Costco, Kroger/Publix grocery stores, etc)
Encourage people to buy land and build their own houses?
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Until cryptocurrencies can deal with 51% attacks they are a waste of time in my mind. The technology is interesting, and that's about it.
MV is issuing permits mostly for townhouses, IIRC. In my neighborhood alone a number of townhouse communities have gone up. One single family home is being replaced by a 4 unit townhouse. So I wonder if that explains the difference. I also think that higher density housing is where we need to go. We don't need to go to high rises just yet but townhouses is much more efficient use of the limit space.
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