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People are happy and healthy in a place for all kinds of reasons. That doesn't make them a desirable settlement destination for others.

Maybe a town is incredibly racist and who lives there is all from the same longstanding community and they are all extremely close and have good personal relationships with each other and feel a strong sense of belonging to the place and the people. Maybe the town is perfectly suited to being students, young and single and there's a lot of things that cater to them. Maybe the town is better suited to families, couples, people who own dogs. Such people will gravitate there. This could mean they are all happy and healthy, but it would not mean that if I, some random bloke from a different state/culture/language/country moved there and tried to settle in and live my life, I would be particularly happy or healthy.

So yes, a place can be the happiest place in the world for the people who already live there, and still be undesirable for the "looking for a nice place to settle" population at large. However, having a highly employable, high income industry, lots of motivated hard workers, a vibrant art scene, and good weather makes a place a lot more universally desirable, and it takes a helluva lot of negatives to offset that desirability (which the bay area is trying really hard to do).
I don't know how to use ipfs to support dynamic content and do user authentication. I have tried orbitdb, but it's not as easy as a conventional database.
The goal of rent stabilization is to make neighborhoods more stable. The concept is right there in the name, and that's exactly what it does. It's not built to stop shortages, or to increase the availability of apartments for people moving to the city.
The only viable policy we have available is to wait for better future tech to solve the problem.

That's not a call for doing nothing, anything that improves the specific tech that can solve the problem is worth doing, but anything that detracts from it should be avoided.

So, carbon tax is great. Subsidizing renewables is iffy (has to be done right). Any proposition that slow things down is actively harmful. Saving energy is neutral.
>BLISS links from Wikipedia are still working

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS

Interesting. I remember Jon Bentley [1] mentions BLISS multiple times in his book Writing Efficient Programs.

The book is a gold mine of software performance tuning techniques (with recommendations on when to use them or not), organized in the form of many numbered and well-named "rules" (so that you can remember when to apply them) about saving time or space, or trading space for time or vice versa, all with plenty of examples and "war stories". The book also talks about working at many levels of the stack (although most of the focus is at the level of program code), all the way from hardware up to algorithms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bentley_(computer_scientis...

I took a brief look at the BLISS language, and I have to say that it does seem a bit verbose, though in general, in the larger scheme of things, that may not matter, given other qualities of a language, or may even be an advantage over more cryptic or concise languages.
Go was built by Rob Pike and based upon the work that was done for the distributed operating system Plan 9 and the Limbo programming language that was built along with it. When these things were being developed, functional programming techniques were not in vogue in the mainstream software engineering world. It likely might not have been practical.
Thanks for the detailed explanation and your work on rg, I use it all the time and strongly appreciate the performance with unicode because I do a lot of searching of large directories of files that are largely in Japanese.
Digital currencies seem to have separate barriers. There also arent any countries providing bonds in crypto so the mechanisms employed by countries to manipulate currencies wont take effect.
We like to be scared and seek out “voluntary arousing negative experiences” (VA
Maybe I am just ignorant, but I do not see the appeal of gold.

"Gold. How archaic." is what I immediately think. So many other commodities will hold value, even in the worst of times, being either useful or desired, and have long shelf lives.
That's a bargain when you remember that Siemens moved its headquarter from Berlin to Bavaria after the war [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens
>First, over the next 10 years, we’ll repurpose at least $750 million of Google’s land, most of which is currently zoned for office or commercial space, as residential housing. This will enable us to support the development of at least 15,000 new homes at all income levels in the Bay Area, including housing options for middle and low-income families.

This doubles their investment if the average home price net of costs is 100k. It seems likely the number will be way above that, just glancing at median home prices.
Paani Foundation - if you are looking for a heartwarming story of a village in India that overcame water scarcity through rain water harvesting (and a good organization to donate to)
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The problem is of incompatible time scales. The original studies and requirements for the F-22 were done in the 1980s, Lockheed selected to build the F-22 in the 90s, F-22 entered flight test in 1997, IOC declared in 2005, expected to be in service until the 2040s at least.

Iteration time goes down by a lot in wartime. Also, choosing technologies which have much shorter iteration times could be a disruptive game changer. I'd bet shaped charge carrying drones with a range of 4 km would be much faster to iterate on than tank guns with the same range.
It is my extremely studied experience that this is rarely (read: almost never) the case, and that the far greater risk is of radically less- or entirely un-maintainable code produced by developers who have incorrect intuitions about what needs to be fast.
If only we had the knowledge to plan cities so that it's possible to live near where you work. Perhaps it sounds crazy, but we could even stack dwelling units on top of one another.
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> rent controls are damaging

To whom?

Rent controls redistribute the value capture from gentrifying neighborhoods away from landlords and towards longtime residents. That's what they're intended to do, and they do that.
It's also the F-22.
The flooded areas are surprising. I always thought Japan would be the first place to go. Look at Brazil, why is it so flooded compared to everywhere else?
There is basically no way that a self respecting first world country will allow this to happen. The national federal reserves in Europe are still responsible for international settlements, that gives a tremendous amount of power and oversight, they won’t allow a third party to take that away from them.

Facebook may be able to buy off US regulators, but they won’t be able to convince the EU.
It's so much more complex than "young naive devs want to throw out the manual". Extremely valid criticisms towards central banking have existed since before central banks even existed. Just ask my man Thomas Jefferson what he thinks about central banks.
If you’re talking about Airbnb, as far as I know what you’re describing is not allowed in Berlin.
Probably a wise choice, but they would need something to justify the ban. Otherwise it would be statement against statement would it not?
A billion TJ, or the ocean's total warming is 436 ×10^21 J since 1871[1] is a bit like billion pounds to most of the public - most of whom disliked maths - huge, but utterly meaningless. Why else is every media story associating things with the size of a football field, the area of 63 Wales, or length equivalent to the height of the Empire State or 23 double decker buses? And I always wondered why double decker buses when they're the same length as a single decker... Must be a British thing. :)

Guardian reported the ocean warming since 1871 study as "...equivalent of one atomic bomb explosion per second for the past 150 years" (1.5x the power of Hiroshima), which seemed a bit hyperbolic. Except the same article then asked the author of the study[1]:

“I try not to make this type of calculation, simply because I find it worrisome,” said Prof Laure Zanna, at the University of Oxford, who led the new research. “We usually try to compare the heating to [human] energy use, to make it less scary.”

At which point I think Guardian might have been on to something in their choice of visualisation...

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/116/4/1126
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So we just need to magically create more housing and make it cheaper, or magically prevent people from wanting to live there.

I'm not aware of either of these things happening in any modern city. (well, the latter happens whenever the local economy tanks)
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I wouldn't really call that naturally formed in the sense GP was talking about - any more than a building with a green roof, at least
That's where we (the western world) are headed. Expect soon: thought transformation camps for homophobes.
Why green tree huggers do not ban this service ? Call them piggot ? Ban absolutely everything.. why ?

Oh.. it's Microsoft.. that's why.. you sheep's!
No way, no how is Google or any other decent employer going to uproot all their knowledge workers and make them unproductive for the foreseeable future by forcing them to move to another region.

The diaspora from the Bay Area will keep happening the way it has been: at the economic margins. Over time, people outside of tech who aren’t subsidized by prop 13 or rent control will get priced out. There will be a perpetual underclass living in trailers and garages, and the landed aristocracy will be further entrenched.
>But there's no possibility of abolishing the function of intelligence analysis and clandestine service, nor should you want there to be: net-net, the CIA might in fact prevent more armed conflicts than it contributes to, and in any case no major power will ever unilaterally disarm.

I don't think you know anything about the history of the CIA if this is your assertion. First, the clandestine service was created in 1947, so the assertion that we can't do without it is belied by the preceding millenia of history. As for "might in fact prevent more armed conflicts than it contributes to", what is your basis for this? The way the CIA operates is to stir up trouble. They arm dissident factions, they bribe officials, they create and disseminate propaganda. Their entire history is one of fomenting conflict. Also, the torture program is not new - the CIA has tortured people throughout its history, in addition to doing things like running mind control programs and other bizarre nonsense.

Second, the CIA has historically been pretty shit at its intelligence work; just in the past twenty years they failed to anticipate 9/11, incorrectly said Saddam had WMDs, and were instrumental in ginning up the whole Russiagate fiasco. That's not much of a record; but it does have continuity with the rest of their sad history. In addition the function of this intelligence service - its ONLY function - is to provide intelligence briefings to the President. If the President doesn't listen, or can't comprehend, the entire analysis function of the CIA, however many thousands of people and billions of dollars are at work, goes to waste. This is a terrible way to organize an institution. It is designed to fail.

What the CIA actually represents is a key failure of American post-war policy: the decision to conduct foreign policy primarily through covert action. This has never worked, and it results in an unaccountable organization that has historically favored brutal, murderous individuals like Suharto, Pinochet, Mobutu, and many others. This is an organization that needs to die, now, and the more we can do to build momentum for that the better.
Governments wouldn't do it themselves. The average person still sees crypto as risky and volatile (if they are familiar with crypto at all)
I used to work on one of those extensions. The lengths linkedin goes to "protect" public data is kind of absurd. If they poured those resources into building tools for salespeople the site would be far more valuable. Or, they could reopen their now closed developer program. It has also been established by lawsuit that those extensions have a right to do what they do.

Those extensions would break the site far less frequently if linkedin would stop trying to break them. And, our users definitely knew when it was us breaking linkedin.

I'm not sure it's as much a catch 22 as it is a self inflicted wound.
You would run into the same issues which are used to sabotage any new development. I gave a list below, it really isn't meant to be in jest but it sadly does happen.

The only way to get the issue fixed is with a state amendment and even then it would be years in court. It really comes down to two real reasons, they do not want those people in their city and second it makes so much money for all involved the longer nothing changes.

1) you would have to set aside a good number of units for low income residents
2) all work would have to be done by union member organizations
3) you would need to have multiple environmental impact studies to include traffic to and from the location
4) you would also have to appease groups concerned with the affect such a ship would have on naturally occurring views; this has been used against new construction as well as shadows cast
5) Plus a litany of politically associated special interest groups would have to be appeased, this is the primary method of wealth building among the political class.
> Go isn't unique in this; there are many languages with runtimes that require similarly intensive amounts of copying and context conversion before C code can run on whatever the data is.

I agree, and some of this overhead is even inherent in legitimate, foundational choices such as VM-interpreted/"managed" code (as in Java/.NET; but Python does this as well) or the use of tracing GC (which requires some strict discipline on heap contents, so as to enable the GC itself to reliably "trace" and discover the semantics it cares about). So, I'm definitely not saying that the choices made as part of Go's design are consistently wrong here!

Indeed, Haskell is in a very similar place overall; the "fibers" that GHC uses in its compiled code are implemented via async code underneath, much like Go's goroutines, and Haskell's performance is also well within an order of magnitude of pure C-like code. So the issues you describe are quite well-understood in that context, and they are definitely not regarded as a "reason" to avoid the use of C FFI when performance requirements call for it. But describing Cgo itself as something that's high-overhead and should not be used for that reason is misleading to an even stronger extent, and that's what I was objecting to in the grandparent comment!
I have suggested connection on linkedin that is my wife's maiden name. It's super creepy. We have zero shared connections.
The downvotes are because you have chosen to make an irritating pedantic point about word use when the meaning was entirely clear in context.
I sought one of these out for the 2017 solar eclipse in North Carolina, but was sorely disappointed when it turned out that while there were no trees, it was covered quite thoroughly in shrubs and you could not see the sky.
I do. Post your prices online. Make these prices be the non-discounted prices. The chaff will balk at the price and move on. The wheat will call you to find out what more you can do.

I hate calling only to find out you're selling for triple the price of comparables because of "magic beans" reasons.
The same kind of terminology debate comes up when people use "third world" to mean "developing countries" and, when corrected, they just declare the meaning changed. So if that's how we're supposed to roll then why wouldn't the same logic apply here?
What isn't a laughing matter is how we excuse all our favorite tech companies to continue manufacturing there.
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As a matter of fact it does... in battery saving mode.
Personally this class of things really highlights an imbalance for me. Consider that Google runs its own own bus service for employees, and now is building housing for the same.

Traditionally, successful businesses in a region paid taxes, and those taxes were used by the local governments to invest in infrastructure like public transport and urban development.

So in this regard Google usurps the mandate of the community government in favor of using their excess profits to invest in the community that only benefits them (well peripherally it benefits others as Google employees would otherwise burden city services)

What is wrong with that picture is of course that the people without advocates are literally left out in the cold. From the article Google is investing $1B in better housing for their employees and putting $18+3+1.5 ($22.5M toward homelessness which is 2.25% of a billion dollar investment. Contrast that with if Google paid $1B in taxes to the bay area communities where it has facilities, would those governments have the same priorities for those funds?
I think many of us wouldn't mind the capability to Transform the Thoughts of large segments of our society...
Absolutely not. That would destroy my posture. More screen real estate also helps me be productive.
Go was designed by some of the most gifted engineers of our time.
In particular, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson had been working in distributed system for more than 40 years, and before Google they worked for one of the most renewed research facilities in the whole world.

Murray Hill gathered together people focused on solving real problems for the most distributed industry in the last 150 years. They had the opportunity to witness technologies and solutions that worked. And I quite sure that they suffer those that doesn’t.

From my humble point of view, Go is a compromise of what works in real life, the first time I see the go compiler, I traced it back to the good things of Limbo, C, object oriented programming and the adding of a simple syntax to create CSP concurrency made it a killer application.
> Silicon Valley loves taking risks (and failing!), but when a bank does it it's unacceptable?

No, what's unacceptable is the government bailout "guarantee" you get from being "too big to fail". That's not "taking a risk", that's not "capitalism", that's gambling with someone else's money.

I will agree though that you can't blame the banks for an environment where they're effectively pushed to lend recklessly, that's the result of monetary policy.
Bitlocker isn't even an option for Home versions of Windows... Which most store-bought laptops use.
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Facebook also isn't becoming a bank. If anything, Facebook is becoming a payment processor (not really, but close enough).

Why trust your money with Paypal, but not Facebook?

When given the choice between a monolithic corporation and some kind of cryto-based federation, why choose the former?

How is any of this worse than what we already have?
Real question...what is useful about gold today that makes it valuable, other than it's scarcity?
OK, I've taken the [dupe] marker off. You can repost this if you want, but it would be best to wait a couple weeks to let the hivemind caches clear.
> But many people want the status without having to pay the $$$

It's not just about the status. Every city needs people who do lower paying jobs. Someone has to clean those office buildings, someone has to take care of sick people at hospitals, someone has to drive taxis, buses, ... By not supplying those people with affordable housing within the city they're lives only become worse (more money and time spent commuting, less time spent with family and friends).
Witchcraft!

Seriously though: It'd be great if apartments were better sound-proofed. My only gripe with apartment living was inadequate privacy and being woken up at 3 AM by a lead-footed upstairs resident.
That's true for, say, bread. Or really any fungible good where labor makes up most of the price of the product. If you artificially suppress those prices, there isn't enough money to pay the farmers and bakers, and no bread will be made.

This freeze actually exempts new construction, so the whole problem is mood. But it's still interesting to think it through, and the result is different than simple economics may make you think:

Housing is different than bread, or cars, or mobile phones. It doesn't actually cost meaningfully more to build a new house in the middle of Berlin than to do so in some empty village in the countryside: the costs of material are the same, and for the most part so is labor.

The only difference is the cost of land.

The effect, according to the basic supply/demand scheme of economics you are invoking should be to depress land value, with no effect on the amount of housing units being built. That's true as long as the rent it is possible to charge is high enough to cover the costs of construction. One can take a guess at the actual value by looking for the cheapest rents in newly constructed housing, which for Germany is about half of Berlin's average. In the limit, land value would tend toward zero, although that's rather theoretical because at some point owners just wouldn't care about selling.

This hints at some additional factors that may have minor impact: maybe there is an expectation that land value will rise again after those five years, and the actual discount in the market is therefore smaller, etc. But even then, it's only land value that would be affected.
Very curious about this scenario - what about people who have a rent contract with "Staffelmiete" (meaning rent goes up by a "small" amount each year)? Does it mean this annual increase is now seen as invalid?
"They are helping minorities integrate into Chinese society "

They are already part of Chinese society. And they don't want help. They want to be let out of prison and to return to their families.
That's a cool project, and it's a cool trick to avoid a dependency on a large company's app. Buuut There's always going to be a dependency on your ISP, your web hosting provider's internet access and their hardware uptime/backup schedule, your neighborhood's telephone poles and wires, your utility company, your hosting company's utility company, etc. etc. etc.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and I try not to think about how fragile it all really is all the time.
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Like how talking about IQ is just 'race realism' right
Terry would not approve.
> Do you also think people have a right to record movies they watch in the theater?

Nope, but I'd sure be upset if I caught movie theater employees surreptitiously reaching into my pockets to check for cameras.
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I'm not sure that it helps anyone's cause to try to rank the awfulness of various fundamentally awful things. Both of these things are unspeakably horrific.
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Not to mention that anyone is guilty of plenty of crimes at any point in time. You just have to decide to "get" someone, and they will be taken away.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/12/forty-five-th...

Just read number 37 if you're having problems accepting that the law will be applied unevenly.
If he’s union then his job will be pretty safe.
Survey says; a few people agree with you. Most do not.