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> "Rent the Backyard was founded to help homeowners who want to earn extra income from their underused backyards"

Finally! Another avenue for greedy property owners to extort more money out of millennials. By housing them in an old garage* (repainted + some IKEA furniture to go on top). Can already smell that sweet ROI. VC hard-on right there! Gotta invest!
But my point would still stand even if I couldn't provide an example either. The burden of proving that a technology has no significant benefits should fall on the people trying to ban it.
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Many "democracy loving" politicians today:

"I knew the techies could do it! They told me they couldn't but I knew they were lies. See! even Kazakhstan can do it, so why can't I also break HTTPS encryption?"
Forest City is a disaster politically. The current Malaysian government (who won the latest election) turned it into a land-grab / immigration issue.

Without support at the federal level, I find it hard to imagine the project will succeed.
They do. Look at who is paying taxes in America vs who is having more kids.
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Differentiating between natural and sexual selection feels pretty hand wavy to me (also not a biologist.)

Your hot-guy rockstar example perfectly illustrates how sexual selection is natural selection. If something is super attractive but also interferes with breeding, it’s not going to have a lasting impact on a species (if it’s genetic).

What’s the fitness here of the tooth-horn?
> there's a lot of value in knowing who your donors (customers in the business scenario) are for non profits

Well, of course, but the things they use that knowledge for are bad for me.

> They get additional income from selling lists

OK, then they're already my enemy.

> they want to reach out and build a relationship (especially recurring donations)

Ah, there's a word for people who try to build a relationship with you in order to repeatedly get money off you: "Scammers."
Agreed with other comments here.
I have been working in anti-spam since 2003. BitBounce will fail just like GoodMail and Habeas before them. Why? Because marketers won’t pay to reach your inbox when they know it won’t improve their conversion rate. And after all, the email’s purpose is to convert actual business; not just to reach your eyeballs.

What value is there in my newsletter or advertisement reaching you if it’s not appealing enough that you would want to receive it anyhow? And if you wanted to receive it, then that probably means it wouldn’t have been blocked by the spam filter.

In fact, all modern spam filters work on the premise that email has value if the end user interacts with it materially. Spam and low grade marketing receives very little interaction; this is why it is rejected.

The BitBounce guys are burning crypto hype. When that runs out, they will join the pile.
Found your post interesting. Thats it :-)
When that "pleasure" ends up making peoples live a lot worse, then yes I do want to remove it.

If we were never to take away pleasures no matter their consequences, you could just as well legalize "the Russian Krokodil" (don't google images that).
> An abscissa represents the elevation of a point above the y-axis

So your y-axis is the horizontal one?
Most of SF west of the Mission is actually pretty good for raising kids - Noe, Twin Peaks, Forest Hills, Sunset, Richmond, and Lake Merced are all pretty family-friendly if you can afford them.

You're right that they're practically suburbs though. Somebody did a transit-scaled map of SF and it actually takes longer to get from the Outer Sunset to downtown than from Mountain View, 50 miles to the south. One of the biggest problems with SF is that the public transportation system sucks, since it's such a patchwork of independent agencies. (Residents of these areas might consider this a feature rather than a bug, though, because it keeps the homeless, poop, drugs, etc. out of their neighborhoods.)
In my country (not US) it is by law allowed for either side of the lease to terminate it under extraordinary circumstances.

This situation would certainly fall under that. Obviously, if the other party objects to the termination, you'd need to get some sort of medical verification for your condition.
I still don't know who Shiny is for... For very small organizations? You'd be a fool to run Shiny in a place over even just a couple hundred people... I've never seen any kind of seriousness around denial of service, pen testing, end to end data security, etc. If you're smart enough to be using Shiny to make something really great, you should also be smart enough to understand the risks of web applications. And I could also add with Shiny are you providing analysis or an illusion of an analysis platform with a risk of misinterpretation?

The best fit seems to be demoing work during a presentation or similar with it running locally... Where you can move some sliders and discuss some scenarios. Anything more than that and Shiny seems to promise you a turn key solution to weakly understood risks.
IIRC MVEL language was integrated deeply into Drools. JRuby would have been awesome.
Good ideas but too high minded. Any policy that actually gets implemented will be “progressive” and favor the lowest common denominator individuals. Well off people need to figure out smarter workarounds like remote work, etc.
> The point here is that GP was complaining that there were no career benefits to making such a decision - why should there be, exactly? Such a career move benefits oneself and ones family. No one else.

Same as leaving the job and changing. Benefits no one but you.

When all possible actions are framed as selfish, that whole argument is nonsense.
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Apparently nobody wants to feel like a cog in the machine they really are.

In the (not so) elder days, displaying a roomful of people banging on typewriters was considered cool.
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I will say with full confidence that this technology most certainly will be abused, regardless of whether it is regulated, and that the most flagrant abuses will be committed by organizations that are practically above the law. No regulation will stop the Chinese government, and there is not and never will be the political will to push through regulations powerful enough to constrain the NSA.

However, the regulations will be powerful enough stop any beneficial uses of facial recognition because say, the CDC, will follow the regulations to the letter and not spend the GDP of a South American nation in fighting it tooth and claw.
Worse than that, the article states that you have to buy them out as part of a sale.

My house has an ADU and came with paying tenants. Zillow thinks my place is worth about $30K more than the average on my street... but I also have a pool (couple others do) and am the only one with a legit 5th bedroom, so I'm thinking the market value of that ADU is roughly nothing.
and I wanted to recall that google employees repeatedly removed chromium's project code to restrict or disable referrer headers.

I personally was involved in 3 distinct times. And after that gave up chromium and the lie of google-independence completely.

and so should you. If they tweak things to reach their profit goals, they will also do the same when any agency "asks" them to. it's a slippery slope, and they already crossed
That is true, however it could be used for CA verification also, could it not?

Edit: RFC 6844 very unambigously states that it can be used for additional verification:

CAA records MAY be used by Certificate Evaluators as a possible indicator of a security policy violation. Such use SHOULD take account of the possibility that published CAA records changed between the time a certificate was issued and the time at which the certificate was observed by the Certificate Evaluator.
It makes sense for Microsoft/IBM/Oracle to jump on the k8s bandwagon because they're basically doing the worst/newest entrants but why AWS? They already had CloudFormation, along with lots of energy already dumped into SDKs for various tools (ECS, beanstalk, etc).

I think it makes sense for AWS to jump on the bandwagon because they understand that Google is trying to commodify its complements [1]. The thing that AWS is betting on, I think, is not only surviving but thriving in a commodified environment [2]. The bet that AWS is making is that just like Amazon's retail business, commodification will hurt their competitors more than it hurts them, which will then allow them to make the most of the newly cleared competitive environment once the dust settles. Google's play, on the other hand, is to use the fact that Google is massively profitable elsewhere to allow Google cloud to run at negative profitability for a while in order to try to take a chunk out of AWS. The big loser I see from Kubernetes is Azure. Unlike Google, Microsoft does not have massive and growing profits from elsewhere. Enterprise and consumer Windows sales, while profitable, are on a declining profitability trajectory, according to Microsoft's own estimates. At the same time, Azure, in my estimation, doesn't have to survive extremely low margin environments in the same way that AWS can.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

[2]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/01/13/margin/
a, minable interface to sci-hub :)
If someone could enlighten me where i'm wrong, it'd be much more constructive than simply downvoting.
But the town in your example didn't: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3001691,-71.357662,3a,75y,73...

Residential and commercial space are both required. Picturesque low-density residential zones kind of force the commercial areas to be like this; how else would people get to them?
Thanks for sharing the info about this flag, I'll definitely experiment with it.
No, I didn't say a lump sump of $50K is insignificant, nor imply it. In fact a careful reading reveals that I say nothing at all about lump sums of $50K. That is because a lump sum of $50K is a lump sum of $50K and what we are discussing is a recurring expense of around $100/mo. Those are two different values with different units.

You are reading your own comparison backwards to make this point. I'm sure $50K can make you $100/mo in perpetuity. Saving $100/mo does not give you a lump sum of $50K. It gives you $100/mo.

Viewing it another way, At $100/mo, that'll take 42 years and 8 months to save $50K. If we're talking about a higher yield account, let's charitably assume 2.0%, you could probably get it down to around 30 years.

Personal finance and health are both things that need to be viewed holistically. They're lifestyles changes. Having good overall posture is more important than individual decisions, and honestly, making more money trumps basically anything you could ever do to 'hack' your finances. You may as well spend less time hacking your finance and more time growing your career. Or hell, more time working on your health, something that you don't get any second chances to fix later on.

And let's not forget. The conditions that folks were making long-term investments in in the past are not the current conditions. The human race is facing seemingly-unprecedented existential threats and no doubt that is going to affect someone's willingness to make long term investments.

And, you know, even if everything else ends up fine, you could always just get hit by a bus tomorrow. So while you should certainly give a shit about your overall financial and medical health, maybe living in fear of spending $100/mo on something you enjoy isn't the best balance to life, realistically.

I'll just take the fucking coffee.
I was actually quite excited until the "we use our own crytocurrency" part.

This seems like an almost trivial service to implement yourself that could use bitcoin, or PayPal.

Plus it suffers from the traditional failure of challenge response spam blocking, in that it creates backscatter from spammers falsifying their "from" address.
A Two-Income family also is a significantly less mobile family.

When you want to move, both partners need to find better jobs at roughly the same time. And that just doesn't happen very often. And, if you are already established with support networks because you already have kids, rebuilding those networks can be almost insurmountable without one of the parents literally taking time off to put that support network back together.
4 million is the count of people that installed those particular extensions that leak your information.
The go 1.13 version of errors will have the `Is`, `As`, and `Unwrap` which make this almost a standard in go. They expect you to be able to unwrap but have not created a normal way to wrap. https://tip.golang.org/pkg/errors
it doesn't seem that the smart aspect of it is the problem there though, but rather bad planning and the expectation that smart alone would attract people to move there.

the discussion continues here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20475258

turns out there is quite some criticism about the article
Yet another Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (FUSSP) [0].

The ol' "form letter" [1] still makes me laugh every time I see it.

[0]: https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html

[1]: https://www.dmuth.org/fussp/
http://docopt.org/ — turns help text in a Python doc string into an argument parser.

After a doc string put:

import docopt
args = docopt.docopt(__doc__, version='0.0.1')

Edit: krapht points out there is now support for multiple languages: https://github.com/docopt
We build units that are just as nice as your existing home. With proper upkeep, they'll last just as long too.

This was something the article didn't quite get right. You're able to pass this agreement on to a next of kin or new buyer. We'll even lower the priority of our lien to allow a mortgage to be issued.

You're right that one of our hopes is to enable people to stay in their homes amidst the rising cost of living. The income from this unit can be used to hire a caretaker or even enable the homeowner to downsize in place -- moving into the ADU and renting out the main home. In this scenario, the homeowner would just need to pay us half the market rent.

Finding a balance between renter and homeowner is a big concern of ours. The scale of the difficulty depends a lot of times on how much space there is on the lot. Most of the time we'll build as far from the main home as possible to help preserve privacy and independence but there's still a balance to find. We have an expectation for homeowners and renters alike to be reasonable and we don't want to need to enforce that with a contract but setting clear expectations and methods of recourse are important.

I don't think I've ever seen Brian wear a tie ;)
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I guess that's my point: Shenzhen isn't a "smart city", it's an Special Economic Zone that happened to specialise in tech, for now. People will put up with whatever living conditions they can survive if it means they have a job. If the tech industry collapses, Shenzhen will probably just pivot to some other industry.
I was comparing copays to tolls, not healthcare costs in general. Copays should generally be small, bearable even for a minimum wage worker, perhaps pegged to an hour of the local minimum wage.
The idea is that there's a third party who formally holds the contract so there's minimal disruption for the homeowner if something happens to our company.
The wrist rest is actually to keep your hands inline with your wrists. So you don't have them at an angle while type. I attribute a good deal of my pain being missing from the raised section of the keyboard under the spacebar and the gentle wrist pad.
I am not qualified to review how it implements forward security, for instance.

But this shares a lot of the problems that GPG has. It relies on existing mail standards, so it leaks metadata all over the place, and security can easily be defeated by "accidentally replying without encrypting." It's configurable -- every choice you have to make is a chance to make the wrong one. It implements RSA, which nobody should be using anymore.
Definitely appreciate that many will benefit from farming it out, so I think this company substantially expands the addressable market, but in support of DIY (as someone who was raised in the house my father built), building your own such modest project is very achievable, particularly if you farm out electrical and plumbing concerns. With respect to managing contractors, my understanding is that roughly daily supervision will do, which can be manageable even with full-time employment. You may have better ways of spending your time, but let's not use that as a basis for overly-narrowing our own concerns and capabilities.
It would be really nice to have emacs package that supports argdown compilation and syntax.
As another piece of anecdata, my previous home had a spacious and nicely finished detached garage in addition to a single-car attached. It values the same as other similarly sized homes in the subdivision without a detached garage. It definitely had value to me as a workshop/office/man-cave, but not-so-much the market at large.
I live in South Korea and write drone ground control software as a hobby. Songdo is the city I go to on the weekends to test my latest changes because it's outside the Seoul no-fly zone and has a largely deserted central park I can fly in. I wouldn't say it otherwise feels anything like a ghost town, though - just less dense and more spacious than Seoul. With kids, it'd be attractive.

Edit: Here's some old alpha screenshots of my app flying over Songdo and me: https://m.imgur.com/a/dK21yca
> Syntax coloring isn't useless, it is childish, like training wheels or school paste

Not as childish as writing a blog post bragging about how you don't need syntax highlighting to code.

In all seriousness, though: yes, after a while, you don't usually need it. But it's an immediate visual confirmation that I used the wrong type of quote for a string literal, or that I forgot my `def` statement before a python function. Unless you literally never make these errors (or the myriad other little errors that can be caught this way), syntax-aware editor tools like syntax highlighting or auto-indent will save you time by alerting you of your error promptly and letting you fix it without getting distracted. Nothing beats having the whole page suddenly look the wrong color to get your attention.

I actually can't think of a better way to avoid the class of errors that highlighting instantly exposes.

[edit] I do agree with Crockford that extra types of highlighting/formatting for readability can be great, including context-based coloring; emacs's rainbow parens does something similar based on enclosing parentheses, though the interior of the parentheses is still highlighted in the standard way.
> I don't know about you, but those are things I'd go to at most once a year so taking the train/driving downtown for those rare events wasn't a big deal for me growing up.

Do you have children? I ask, because the frequency of attending these and all the other public institutions skyrockets when you have kids.

Before I had kids, it had been literally decades since I stepped foot into a public library. After we had kids, we go all the time. Same with museums, parks, pools, everything.
Making open office essentially a nunnery never works. We tried many times.

If you tie salary to noise levels people will quit. Bonus points if you benefit people for being team players, talk about conflicting priorities.

About the only half workable solution is isolation headphones - like for shooting ranges, or earphones for those who prefer it.
Enhance online communication too.
(For our purposes, Mattermost or Slack work well, with code review tools second.)
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`.format` lets you dereference arbitrary attributes and indices (I don't think it lets you call methods though), meaning you can run code and exfiltrate data through translated strings if they're not extremely carefully reviewed, which they often are not.

% only lets you format the values you're given.

> and isn't something like Django's _(str) better anyway

They're orthogonal. You apply string formatting after you get the translated pattern string from gettext. In fact, Django's own documentation demonstrates this:

def my_view(request, m, d):
output = _('Today is %(month)s %(day)s.') % {'month': m, 'day': d}
return HttpResponse(output)
Well, good point, but you should be more precise: strollers with HUMAN KIDS in them. I swear that at least one in two, perhaps even more, of these strollers today tend to have dogs in them. At least in San Francisco.
> The movie "The Founder" might clear things up.

The movie The Founder is mostly fake. It's unlikely to clear much up.

http://rayandjoan.com/the-founder/
I agree with your general points: this article over-emphasizes negative aspects of a few people and the picture it paints is not representative of overall planned cities, even Songdo.

Just one nit: 4855:1 came from an article in 2007 about the initial applications for an office-tel (basically a high-rise building with offices and apartments). After 12 years, I believe Songdo has a new problem of too many ongoing housing projects and not enough people to fill the apartments to be built.
Solid insights on both sides of market
That's how everything turns out, though. Once you achieve all the things that you thought will make you happy, you'll find new things to be unhappy about, usually in the details of the stuff you just achieved. That's the nature of emotions - they couldn't actually cause motion if you just sat there content with your lot in life. Only thing that'll do that is drugs, and even then you tend to build up a tolerance to them.

The real test for whether something is good or bad isn't whether people are happy, it's whether they would choose to go back. And I think you'll find that most women are not all that eager to go back to the 1950s. If they are, there are subcultures within the U.S. that can provide that, but those subcultures aren't really flourishing in terms of growth rates.
Why did the bus trip take 12 hours when it's only a 3.5 hour drive?
The present judiciary in India lacks spine, on one hand they say privacy is fundamental right on other hand they drag their feet to stop the project aadhaar which required collecting biometric dataset on whole population.

And their defense claims US has SSN which is equivalent of Aadhaar why anyone can see ludicrous

And still Aadhar requirement is not removed for filing income tax return (which results in massive penalities)
Reminds me of this legendary comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Although I appreciate some of the argumentative counterpoints, most of the time it's from people who underestimate how lazy human beings are, and that people are willing to pay for simple services
Coffee houses are often free to sit in. Social clubs also often hold free events. Live music is often outside. Playgrounds and museums tend to be free or low cost
I tried to do the same with an HMO - where everything is inhouse, lab, accounting, insurance, billing, they do everything. The result was the same - nobody knows how much anything costs (or at least nobody will tell me), you'd know when you get the bill. Completely insane system.
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Unfortunately, a fully-featured unit is really expensive. For a unit like the ones we build (full bathroom with shower, kitchenette, on a full foundation) you'd be hard-pressed to build a unit for less than $100k. This number assumes you're spending a whole lot of your time working on the project. People are building these units and we're excited to see the stock of housing rise in the Bay Area but most people won't make the jump to borrow the money on a home equity line of credit and become a part-time construction manager.