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I think there is a difference between architectural changes that would inhibit the overall performance of an application vs language specific optimizations like the article is referring to.

My comment re write-profile-optimize was geared towards the latter, i.e. using strconv is usually uglier to read than fmt.Sprintf, you probably should leave it alone unless you've profiled and found it to be a problem.
"If only" implies the speaker longs for whatever thing to happen or have happened, that such thing would be better.
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A challenge coin!
Are people who tend to run companies total children, or do they think that those of us working for them are children?
Why stop at price controls on housing? Why not just go bravely into the full-blown confiscation and redistribution of private property.
Effective and efficient communication is very important for a large number of job functions. Video conferencing has yet to supplant the efficiencies enabled by co-location.
It's quite literally how nearly every successful business currently operates. Digital communication suffers from lag and resolution. There simply isn't the requisite bandwidth and speed to communicate the same information that humans get from all of our five senses.

Jobs are about relationships.
Well you're doing as much as you can right now it seems. Methink the solution is mostly of social nature. Are your neighbors nature friendly ? Talk with them, do more things without waste, do more things locally. There's a guy in Florida who turns neighborhoods in semi-gardens. People gather around and plant some stuff.

Big factors like industrial pollution, transport, long distance shipment are 1) too heavy to move (you need political power, and political power is also heavy to move) 2) but they do depend on people spending their money for their product.

I dream of a smooth swap (https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Flh4.googleu...) where people allocate more to simple and local life. Forcing the economy to curb accordingly.

I have the feeling that it will make (and it does already) people a lot happier[0], and since having to do locally you can't rely on economies of scale so people will have things to do instead. It won't be fancy or pretty but plausibly more meaningful to work with and for your surroundings, even if it means no more white collar position in a shiny tower.

There are online places to discuss, reddit has many (r/collapse, r/guerrillagardening), some people also make discord groups. You might take a peek.
This reminds me of a bridge in Cambodia. It was made of bamboo and every year the Mekong washed it away.
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> But when things get out of hand, when extraordinary action is deemed necessary to adjust for an untenable situation, it is not only right but paramount to take them.

That rationale is also how wars get started.

Not that I disagree with you, per se: lethal "cures" and excessive pollution were killing people in the early 20th century in the US and government intervention was required. But the Korean and Vietnam wars were also the result of people thinking that the spread of communism was also untenable.
You're not understanding my argument correctly.

I'm saying, in spite of it being cheaper to distribute their engineers and hire remote, they do not. These aren't companies run by incompetent people, and they're large enough to have some remote workforce, so they understand how remote workers compare to onsite with as few other variables changed.

These companies hire onsite because it's important to be able to meet face-to-face. Emotion is particularly poorly conveyed over email or VC, and sometimes to convince somebody of something, meeting them in person is the best way to do that.
Not sure if that is worse than a challenge coin. Maybe.
I'm sure that's why all my Chinese colleagues have been desperate to stay in the US.
In my personal experience managing and being part of different teams (remote, onsite, hybrids).

I have found that what is in general most effective is that EVERYONE on the team is remote, or everyone is co-located. You can do hybrids, remote work with an on site team if the remote folks are strong communicators and/or people that are more task oriented (Assuming you have someone to manage them) but there is a tax on doing so, and often they won’t feel as connected.

Even in the above hybrid example, there are specific things you need to “plan in” to be effective (things like an office buddy, regular sync up times, clear responsibilities/action lists, etc).
To many developers in "smaller" tech cities, that's nearly 20% of their pre-tax salary.
The propulsion could work. What about sustaining life for 200 year biospehere without any external resources?

What about interstellar debris?

What about deceleration?

And that's just the feasibility of the colony ship, then there's colonization/terraforming, etc.

I'd be thrilled to see such an effort take shape, but to say "it would work" has marginal relevance to "the project is feasible".
Here's one example: increasing average temperatures raises the incidence of extreme heat waves. There is an upper limit of temperature+humidity above which humans cannot survive. Under business-as-usual rates of CO2 emissions, those conditions will start to happen, and India is one of the earlier areas to see it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/02/climate-...
Facebook is subject to U.S. legislation. Chinese Bitcoin minors aren't.

Facebook has many users. Each Bitcoin marketplace has only few.
Bay area voters have made their intentions abundantly clear, in numerous elections and voting: they don't want growth. So much so, that local politicians even brag about how much housing developments they've stopped.

Why fight such a huge uphill battle in trying to get housing in the Bay area? Wouldn't it be easier to start from a city or town outside of CA? or at least outside the bay area? Maybe somewhere in the middle of no-where (there's still so much unused land immediately outside the Bay area - even within -> just west of woodside there's hundreds of square miles of completely undeveloped land), where NIMBYs have no jurisdiction. Then create a high speed train or subway system connecting it to the rest of the world. Since out there land should cost very little, it would be a lot cheaper to create a highly effective transportation system then spending 1.5 million dollars per lot!

I know in the past new towns have failed, but that's because they didn't put employers there first. If we start a new town or city and put a major employer in the middle, people will move there.
The thing is, that there is no real "pure" speculation without the demand.

In Berlin only 1.7% of housing is empty, of which 41% is because of ongoing modernisation, 31% because of renter currently changing and 12% because of mold or other damages.

So only approx. 0.27% of housing is empty in hope of higher prices or because of other reasons. [1]

The demand is real. No living space is created by this policy. Much will not be build because of it.

[1] https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article214572349/Nur-1-7-Pr...
I’d be interested in reading it if you know the name or author.

Maybe this: https://www.securitee.org/files/xhound-oakland17.pdf
Concentration camps
She lied to living artists about authorized prints and basically just was brazen in not caring. The target price range made it easier. No one was authenticating the work at the time. So not much of an explanation from her other than bad lies. It was basically like copying 1 or 5 dollar bills, no one checks those
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If supply stayed exactly the same as it is today, sure. I would imagine 5 years gives them some room to allow for more construction to increase supply by the time the ban expires.
Call them what they are: Concentration camps.
I have looked at it to choose between two puddle-jumpers, I chose the one that was the jet over the turboprop.
Doesn't that discourage people from building more housing, which is what would actually bring the price down?
How do you know if you are predisposed? Even family history can be hard to figure out and detangle
There is nothing as permanent, as that which is called "temporary," and nothing as temporary, as that which is called "permanent."

Applies to almost every bit of code I've written.
"public access channels are normally something like your local version of PBS. For Brits maybe something like BBC but at much smaller regional scale."

I don't think that's accurate at all. Public access channels are TV stations which will broadcast content created by any member of the community. I don't know how they are now, but decades ago in NYC all sorts of bizarre shit got broadcast on public access, from weird conspiracy theories to borderline pornographic material to awful performance art project some NYU or SVA student slapped together. The main thing all the content had in common was that it was ultra-low-budget, since it was usually created by a single person on a cheap video camera.

It was absolutely nothing even remotely like the BBC or PBS, which are both organizations with significant funding and a highly professional staff of people working for them. Most importantly, the BBC and PBS create their own content, while on public access channels the content is created by members of the community. Usually, on public access there's some kind of signup roster where you as a community member put your name in a free slot, and when your time comes you get to play your video. Some public access stations might let community members use their studios or their equipment, but for the most part you're on your own.

The closest thing I could compare it to would be youtube, but without any advertising or search or choice of what to watch. As a viewer, you just had to watch whatever video a random community member played at the time you turned your TV to that station. 99.9% of the time, the content was absolutely bottom of the barrel amateur garbage which probably had close to zero viewers. Frankly, I'm surprised these stations still exist, as these days most people probably get their random user-generated videos from youtube.
> Raising prices = Demand > Supply

That’s a simplistic view of the problem (simplistic as in introductory-economics-textbook-simplistic), and you have no idea what you’re talking about. Demand is obviously a factor (duh), but the main reason for the terrible, pathologic inflation of the real estate prices in Berlin is called speculation, together with government incompetence and, in some cases, blatant corruption. This rent cap is an emergency measure meant to stop evictions and give people around here a break. Of course it’s not going to solve the problem in the long run. No one is expecting that.
Exactly. I wouldn't even say that's a non-job function - I've worked at companies with low morale and social cohesion before, and it directly impacted the quality and amount of work that people could do. We're smart primates that are still heavily dependent on social cues and a feeling of inclusion.
lol I wrote that subhed — was fully meant to be ironic
Sure, but one billion dollars is only 0.more_zeros_than_I_care_to_compute% of the value of all tech companies.
This addresses the two greatest threats to their business model:

- users associating spam received to their use of LinkedIn

- undermining the value of LinkedIn paid services

I'm more upset at browser vendors for creating such an obvious security/privacy hole than at LinkedIn for using it. And now Chrome will use this as subterfuge for nerfing adblock. This is why we can't have nice things.
If everyone is pulling in the same direction, wants the same outcome, and traditional warfare is all, maybe. What if you wakeup one day and $continent is hit by biological weapons and $country is looking suspiciously healthy, and just bought themselves another hundred years.

There's better options for us than killing other people; where's the cutoff where other people think it's better to genocide us? Ever or never?
Nothing, its always been easy for me to get jobs as a developer, I don't understand people that find it difficult. If you have at least one years full-time experience and are competent on the job then most companies I've known will be desperate to hire you as there is such a huge shortage of good developers.

Sorry if thats conceited.
I highly doubt they interviewed all 150k employees, in a setting where they felt comfortable to speak freely.

The fact that they got this quote from an employee in their sample size of "people we talked to" is notable, IMO. Not a sign that the sky is falling, but notable.

Edit: The alternate scenario in which one of the 150k employees actually reached out to a journalist of their own violation is notable too! If they felt strongly enough to actually contact the press, then something is wrong.
Yea, that's a sucky side-effect. But it means access to lots of great people, ideas, and jobs. I've lived on a farm myself, but living in an expensive, but small city is appealing to me right now; a decent trade-off.
> There's a reason why your home is cheap.

https://www.aol.com/article/lifestyle/2017/03/09/naples-happ...

Swing and a miss.

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples,_Florida

> Naples is one of the wealthiest cities in the United States, with the sixth-highest per capita income in the country in 2012, and the second-highest proportion of millionaires per capita in the US.

In short, your passive aggressive quip doesn't match reality.
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You raise a good point. But national security has its place, especially when two nuclear-armed neighbors have invaded you in the past.

We can build-up national security and enhance focus on internal problems at the same time.

For example, there have been talks of cooperation with Israel on the water-shortage issue:

https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/israel-comes-forw...
There are also sole proprietorships collectively worth billions. That doesn't mean that a sole proprietorship is the best way to run a company.

Perhaps I'm weird, but I'm not interested in working remote. It's isolating socially and politically, and I work slower over the medium term.
If everyone you need to send money to is legally accessible through the international banking system, I’m happy for you.

But don’t throw the others under the bus. Some people have family in places you can’t easily send money to, it’s not a joke.
What are the alternatives? LinkedIn is pretty powerful with network effects. At one point, I thought angel.co would gain traction.

I wonder if there will be a successor to LinkedIn in the near future?
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Did MMN get taxpayer funds? It sounded as though NYC merely gave them rights to a channel.
That's not really an apt analogy. Just wait until vendors only accept Libra as their payment option.

It is not unrealistic either. When I was in China, I dined at restaurants that would only accept WeChat Pay as payment. Only because I was a foreigner was I able to get a pass to pay in fiat.
Indeed, it's complicated. One thing that is interesting to note though is that, while Prohibition is frequently cast historically as a failure, it did lead to a significant reduction in alcohol consumption, as seen in the drop in cirrhosis cases. Thus, legalization also needs to be ready to handle the inevitably greater public health risks.
>I also think people have a right to use the extensions they want to scrape or block content on sites they visit

Do you also think people have a right to record movies they watch in the theater?

I think people are free to run whatever extensions they want in their browser. I think companies are also free to tell people they aren't welcome if they're going to use that extension.

Why should a company like linkedin be FORCED to serve anyone? It's not a public service, they aren't a government entity, you have no right to their service.
There are bridges made from living roots in India[1], some of them longer than 50 meters.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/root-bridges-cherrapunge...
Can you elaborate on what you define as speculation and how it increases prices?
> ...and your high paying job mostly pays your landlord.

Unfortunately I haven't seen many roles in, say, Dallas or Atlanta where the pay is only 20-25K or so less than my current, total-comp wise. It'd be a bigger drop, usually. The rent gap is steep, but the comp gap can be larger.
I almost never use the LINQ syntax, as the helper methods with lambda expressions make a LOT more sense to me.

I'm pretty new to Rust and can understand the critique... I think the biggest issue really comes down to a lot of code written, and an ever evolving canonical way of doing things. I think it'll get better with time, and does have some nice features for workflows that are difficult in Go.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of Node/JS as I just get stuff done. Most of my work doesn't need the ultimate in memory/performance as a lot of it is just gluing things together and it does very well as a scripting environment imho. Windows, Mac, Linux and very little friction. I like JS as a language and will leverage functional, some oop and procedural styles in different aspects of an application where they're a better fit for that aspect. Most languages aren't that flexible.
another interesting area: regulations on building which drive the costs upward.

case in point: Los Angeles requires that new construction include parking for a certain number of cars per housing unit. usually this means placing the new building on top of a subterranean parking structure, which costs a lot more than a building on a normal foundation.

and new construction must also include a certain amount of outdoor space per unit which also reduces the number of units which can be built into a given lot.

all of this overhead is passed along to new tenants/buyers.
Great, then they'll just extort more store owners?
I wouldn't be surprised if LinkedIn sent this data back, but browser plugin detection sounds like a common ingredient in browser fingerprinting, which can be pretty useful for things like A/B testing signed-out users or detecting ad fraud. I don't place LinkedIn in very high regards, and I'd be surprised if they ever asked a user if they could fingerprint their browser in an unambiguous way, but I don't know if I find this particular thing to be exceptionally evil.
> I assume the same goes for the more lightweight Ubuntu-based distros Xubuntu and Lubuntu?

From the article:

Q. What happens if I use a flavour of Ubuntu (Xubuntu / Lubuntu / Kubuntu etc)?

All the official flavours are built from the same common archive of software packages. As the Ubuntu archive drops support for i386, it would not be available to any flavours. If you absolutely need an i386 version then 18.04 LTS is still available.

> What are som good alternatives to these that will continue to run on older 32-bit machines?

Puppy, maybe?
I don't think the fact that humans are social animals needs a citation. Most people are healthier and happier spending their time in social groups. Even as a highly introverted person, I'd much rather interact with live people every day than work remotely and only interact electronically. Of course there are exceptions, but I would guess that building a company, or even parts of it, from the exceptions is a lot of trouble.
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Eh. If you wanna be cynical, they could've cashed in harder by building more commercial real estate. They say they're specifically rezoning a bunch of land that's currently zoned for office or commercial space, so I gotta give 'em some credit.
People respond to this agglomeration factor with the argument we should “hire remote cuz the internet thing”. But the other factor to consider is how we are less tied by our jobs to physical location and that allows more choice in where people decide to live too. A lot of people want to live in the Bay Area and other coastal cities. They don’t want to live where housing is cheap in the Midwest.

So you may have a liberating force in the way jobs have changed, but that works both ways.

People are moving to the big coastal cities. The big coastal cities (and states) are doing a piss poor job of accommodating this - actually they’ve taken active measures to worsen the housing problem with zoning and tax rules.

I would guess that google would get a lot more bang for its buck if it just outright bribed politicians with that $1 billion to enact policies that allowed constructing of more housing and better transit.
I don't think it should, because if I didn't fly to the other side of the world for a holiday then I wouldn't replace that journey with a drive of the same number of miles.

Besides, when people describe flying as "safer than driving", the implication is that you're more likely to end up dying one way than the other. So any measure of "deaths per x" (x is miles, hours, or whatever) needs to be followed with "typical x per lifetime".
Politics is a huge factor in the lack of affordable housing. Both legislation and concerns by citizen about how new housing will "change" a neighbor make it next to impossible to build higher density housing.

Watch this video - it's eye opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4
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Right, don’t they live in shipping containers in snowcrash. A few years back I heard there was a movement in Oakland to build shipping container villages. Nothing new since the 90s except for Facebook.
A local news report from a neighboring state said the offercers involved were placed on desk duty. Which is politically better for them, but actually worse than the usual punishment of paid vacation, err, I mean "administrative leave".
This is very confusing, but is standard naming convention for Debian/Ubuntu. Basically i386 means x86_32 and amd64 means x86_64. Why they can't use the latter is beyond me. True i386 doesn't even work with recent Linux kernel and Glibc. i386 in Debian-speak is actually i686.
Wouldn't planets orbiting this close to the star be tidally locked to it? If they are tidally locked to the star, they are also likely to have extreme temperature variations between the two sides. This could rule out life.
It's really more like 120Hz since the polarity doesn't matter for incandescents.
It also affords living an area with substantially better quality of life in many areas: diversity and opportunity (career, entrepreneurial, academic) being two important ones. Most places with an acre of land as you describe are rural and in areas with poor services, education, and other quality of life concerns.
I think the main reason why this makes me so angry is because it's Berlin, again, doing something fiscally irresponsible that the rest of the country is going to have to finance in the long run.

How I imagine it to go down would be like this:

Today the politicians pat themselves on the back for their progressive stance on this
topic.

In year 2 of the rent freeze most of the property investment will have seized, new construction is going to be mainly be occuring by entities that are forced to construct in this market, which are mostly government backed.

In year 3 the pressure on the city council will be so high that some emergency funding will be requested by the city to support the government backed property developers (degewo, GESOBAU, GEWOBAG, HOWOGE, WOGEHE, WBM) in their quest to buy expensive property from "evil" speculators to build more housing, as obviously the private markets have failed to do so.

In year 5 after two years of campaigning the funding is granted by a then black/green coalition in the Bundestag.
The crazy ones are the ones that change the world/universe. For the right price, it would make sense to invest in such a venture.
they'd be docked or anchored in the bay. daily ferries to the south bay and SF. duh.