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> The original proposals had none of that silliness. They targeted tactical rifles: short to be light, portable, and effective indoors and at close quarters, with detachable magazines to maximize sustained ability to engage targets.

This doesn't match up with my understanding of the history of assault weapon legislation. Roberti-Roos in California (1989) banned weapons by name, not by how light they were or how useful they'd be in close quarters combat. I can't find any early drafts of alternative proposals. By the time the Federal Assault Weapons ban came around in 1994, this approach was exposed as unworkable because manufacturers would make minor changes, change the model number, and get around the ban list. That's how you got the feature tests, which were added to Roberti-Roos in 1999.

If you know of any early assault weapon ban proposals that banned based on functionality, I'd really appreciate some citations. I've seen more recent proposals to ban all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines, but nothing that dated to the 1980s.
It doesn't matter what you think. The local residents set local policy. You'll need reform that also benefits the existing voting block.
> We don't need hem in Detroit or Stockton, we need them next to jobs.

If more companies embraced remote workers or even just partial remote work, this problem would be greatly alleviated.
The practical result of rent control is the further enrichment of real estate developers and investors. It appears to be a populist focused measure and therefore wins support from certain political factions. Meanwhile it removes supply from the market and in a market where demand far exceeds supply - like the Bay Area - it drives up prices for new development. It's one of the more intriguing political coalitions out there. As housing prices increase, salaries have to increase in order to attract and retain talent. In the Bay Area, this represents a transfer of wealth from tech investors to real estate investors and developers. The generous valuations granted to tech companies by the private and public equity markets make this possible, for now.
Note that the article is about wealth, not income.
I don't have a problem with suggesting that he sounds borderline psychotic/manic, because he does; what I don't like about the cliched comment about "getting help" is that there is, basically, no help. It's like cancer, there's all this activity and research and treatment that you're vaguely aware of if you haven't experienced it firsthand, but it amounts to barely statistically significant effects on symptoms with terrible side effects.
That's because SF has lost their minds and capped it at 2.9%. Generally speaking, most places allow anywhere from 6-10% for increases.
This cuts both ways. Why should you or anyone else be able to access this housing, for example?

But beyond that, local residents set local policy so it's obvious why these policies are in place.
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Information does want to be libre.

Information is not gratis.
You sound like a greedy landlord extracting rents while adding no value!

Part of the problem!
It's pretty much because that API is written by someone who hates his/her job
My grandmother talked about playing in piles of fresh asbestos when she was a child, because it was soft and fun to jump in.
Honestly...how is that more readable? It's more verbose sure but the first example is much more readable and straightforward. Here, you have to remember Haskell's list comprehension syntax and you have to scan up and down a few times to keep track of the variables.
"If you don't like it leave." People who say that might as well be telling somebody in Venezuela if they don't like it there try the USA. Most people can't just move to another developed country. They don't have the means and/or don't the meet the visa criteria.
Problem is that if the word "subsidies" is used exclusively to mean a specific and narrow concept around cash transfers when talking about renewables, but then you use the term to include a much broader set of scenarios when talking about fossil fuels, while directly comparing the derived numbers, then you're misusing the language in order to deceive, regardless of all else. You're communicating that the numbers represent the same calculations for both forms of energy, when you know that they actually don't.

Define the terms however you like, as long as you are careful to not to induce people to believe someone that is untrue.
Or, Jethro Tull's "Fat Man":

Don't want to be a fat man
People would think that I was just good fun, man
Would rather be a thin man
I am so glad to go on being one, man

Too much to carry around with you
No chance of finding a woman, who
Will love you in the morning and all the nighttime too

Don't want to be a fat man
Have not the patience to ignore all that
Hate to admit to myself
I thought my problems came from being fat

But there's no evidence that "fat and ugly" = "creep".
For reference, the "sonic weapon" may have been very loud crickets [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/science/sonic-attack-cuba...
I'm fairly confident that the person I'm replying to knows this.

A better phrasing would be "subsidized healthcare".
What a bizarre interpretation of my comment.
I think we're working together in our support channel, but the email you received was in error - we're working to resolve.
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Are you thinking rent control causes rents to go up?

It’s usually the other way around.
GitHub actions are pretty easy to get started even for CI beginners.
Only few things I feel lacking,
1. Environment variables can only be defined on steps, they can't be defined at a job level. So the same code has to be repeated in each step.
2. There's no way to manually trigger a job.
Patientplatypus was overly kind in describing this as a stretch. It hinges on an obscene misrepresentation of the intent behind safety spaces and total ignorance as to what goes on inside them.

Discussing safe spaces without mentioning trauma and PTSD is evidence of disinterest in investigating the topic at best and deception at worst. The purpose of content warnings and taking care to use respectful language is not about shielding participants from learning that bad things happen or that our everyday language encodes bias about the relative value of human beings. The participants whose well-being it seeks to promote already have this knowledge to a greater degree than Colin Fleming ever will.

Content warnings about rape matter because almost every classroom has a few women who've been raped, very possibly by someone in the classroom. PTSD evokes strong physiological responses that are more likely to be manageable with advanced warning.

Similarly, derogatory language about LGBTQ people is often delivered with the threat of violence or actual violence. I don't know a queer person who hasn't experienced some anti-queer violence. My wife worked in a LGBTQ center and had to hit the floor when someone emptied a gun into it from a car. The initial trauma is deepened by subsequent threat and fear.

So what goes on in safe spaces? I'm a Boomer, so I don't spend much time in classrooms, but I do spend a lot of time in spaces like activist conferences. Let me tell you, none of the discussions I see elsewhere are as passionate or as vigorously contested. This is a benefit of safety, not a casualty of it. I see the same thing at work when I succeed in creating psychological safety for my teams: passionate discussion in engaged teams.
ACH is a method for sending money between banks primarily in the US. Yes, unfortunately we're limited to 22 states in the US right now, but we're working to expand to more states and internationally in the coming months. We're working on publishing that information more broadly, thanks for the feedback.
Nobody is entitled to live in posh neighborhoods. That is a false argument.
Or immigration.
Cataclysmic events occur on geological timescales. Historically no species survives more than some thousands or perhaps millions of years, timescales short enough to fit between unavoidable extinction events.

Humanity is currently on a path to destroy the earth's capability to sustain us, on a timescale that is laughably small compared to geological timescales.

If we behaved better, humanity could conceivably exist for hundreds of thousands, or millions of years without being obliterated by an asteroid or colossal volcanic eruption(s).

At the rate we're going, we won't last another few hundred years before we create an environment so toxic and unlivable that we extinguish ourselves.

Luckily a few rich crap heads will get even richer before that happens, bless their cotton socks, so it will all have been worth it.
I hope you get your wish of paying more taxes, but failing that, you are allowed to voluntarily pay more taxes if you feel guilty about your "glut of profit".
> what am I coding for?

My family.

I’m constantly striving to be the best I can at what I do and sometimes that means burning the midnight oil. That doesn’t necessarily mean working on work related tasks after hours but working on bettering my skills and knowledge after hours so I can have more of an edge in my career and workplace.
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Would you talk about soldiers, police officers, teachers, and firefighters the same way?

The word "bureaucrat" is just a catchall term for the people who work for the government and can't possibly be important or decent people because they don't occupy any mental space in your head.
The distribution of wealth is as unequal, as for a hundred years. A new guilded age has arrived. Average distribution of 'placewealthorincomemeasurehere' is irrelevant.
It's handy to have all those k8s instances scale to zero on Sundays.
Yes please continue to give the Nobel Peace Prize to people who have actually accomplished nothing. It will surely keep the stature of said award high.
Yup, I'm all setup now. Thanks for the help.
I'm not sure the article you've linked is supporting the conclusions you are drawing from it. A $3 billion increase in costs to future tenants is not what I'd call a successful policy outcome.

I'm seeing phrases like (gross cherrypicking, also doesn't represent the full picture article, I know, I know) '15 percent decline in the number of renters living in these buildings' and 'led to a higher level of income inequality in the city overall'. This and conclusions like a 5% increase in rents city-wide suggest that the policy is not improving the housing affordability situation.

Indeed, it looks like rent control is great if you can get it but is making any housing shortage worse.
Glad to hear this merely because is has positive downstream effects. No need to beat one's chest, just maybe a moment to reflect on humility and figure out how to continue the trend.
You must be confused. Fentanyl is only given for long-term pain control (spanning months and years), never for temporary pain, and never given to anyone who is opiod naive.
This is exactly backwards.
PPP for comparing standards of living

Nominal GDP for comparing global economic influence

Use the right tool for the right job
I read somewhere that the Chinese have laws that prohibit projectiles that can deliver certain levels of energy. I mean that not quite right as the gun fires the projectile, but it's possible they do consider this ammunition.
So the way it’s run is not the problem, it’s that we’re not spending money?

Kind of like public schools?
Curious how many times you and millions of others thought you could slaughter all those insects with your cars before it would harm them. Roads are one of the main reasons for declining animal populations and insects are impacted as much as or more than any animals.
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> building permits

Conversely, you don’t want unsound buildings in earthquake country, but yeah they’re also being abused
This is what you can do when you have all the background investigations for the US government. You don't need any evidence of wrongdoing. You have prima facia evidence the person could be a military operative. Military on foreign soil is big deal and US may find themselves with little recourse other than routine diplomatic channels.
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Yeah, it's the same reason tipping exists, and resort fees exist. They do it because it helps them make more money by tricking people into thinking it's cheaper than what it actually is.

Pretty sure Airbnb has A/B test results somewhere to back that up.
Yeah! I should have rent control! I should be able to live where I want and pay below the market value. Screw the free market, I want to live in someone else's house and pay them less than it's worth. I don't care if their costs go up due to increased maintenance costs, or inflation, or wage increases. I don't care if the value of their property increases due to basic, fundamental, elementary economics like supply and demand, and their property taxes increase. Screw them. It's my right to live where I really really want to live. I especially don't care that nobody else can move to where I live because there are no new houses being built, and therefore no new money into the local economy. I'm not moving to a more affordable area, why should I? And I'm definitely not going to save money for a deposit so I can borrow money at some of history's lowest ever interest rates. Then I'd be working for the man. Screw that, I've got avocado toast to pay for.
An equivalent phrase for being "priced out" is being rewarded for wise real estate investment.
Sorry, for the people that downvoted me, I changed my mind. You're right, people should be forced to join clubs against their will.
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Stripe goes a step further, and makes it easy for the shovel-sellers and the shovel-buyers to get what they want. Good on 'em!
If '"Creep" is just the next step in the bullying ladder' then there should be far more examples of women calling Stallman 'fat and ugly' than there are of calling him a creep.

What limited examples I found of calling Stallman 'fat' appear to come from males who also use, eg, racial or ethnic slurs against him.

The observed evidence therefore is not that there is a single ladder, but that there are multiple ladders, and "creep" is a different ladder than "fat" is a different ladder than "ugly".

Let's also not pretend that Stallman didn't have a decades long history of behavior which most other people of similar weight and beauty don't have.
Something that people who believe they are sane don't generally understand is that manifest psychosis/mania/paranoia cannot be refuted by proof (assuming it exists) that what you are talking about is accurate in some sense.

It's like if you are drunk, and you successfully drive your car through an obstacle course. You're still drunk!
What do you mean? Tiananmen Square is a place in Beijing, right next to the Forbidden City. You can visit it all you want, there are so many tourists there.

You can get arrested if you want, shouting about the massacre, but there are much easier ways to do that.

China is such a vast place and there are a lot of places worth visiting. Don't let internet mentality stop you from exploring the world, no one is after you.

Sucks that China's govt is such an authoritarian hell but it's mostly transparent to you as a tourist.
I wish I lived in California. I'd be requesting the deletion of my data ALL OVER the internet.
Non paywall?
One difference, it seems, is that under the proposed law you couldn’t advertise your $3 service as “free”, maybe?

Either way though, I’d be happy if it were just required that there BE an opt out even with a price tag. Google can then finally tell me how much money they want for their services.
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That's at best a misunderstanding of what that means, and a less charitable reading of your comment would be that it's deliberately misleading. "San Francisco" refers to the metro area which includes a much larger area. That includes 28K homes that are on the market right now. When people have studied why homes are vacant, another substantial fraction of it is homes being remodeled or otherwise uninhabitable.

That's very much NOT 100,000 livable houses sitting around being owned by speculators.

A much better way to look at it is vacancy rate. SF's vacancy rate is around 5%, which is very low and indicates that nearly all of the housing stock is being used. For a lot of the same reasons that a 0% unemployment rate is not possible, it's not possible to have a 0% vacancy rate, and in practice 5% is about as low as you can get.
What's up with the modified title? The article title is "Rent control will make housing shortages worse" - statement, not "Rent control will make housing shortages worse?" - question
The biggest hassle is maintenance and turnover. I've never had a shitty tenant in over 10 years of operation b/c I do a good job screening.

It'd be much better if I could lock in a tenant and simply raise the rent each each, but where I live housing is plentiful and if I did that, they'd move.
I am fairly certain the second the old dude dies they are going to be like "Motion to open on Sundays..." in the board room.
Tiananmen Square is a major tourist destination in China. It’s on the subway signs. No one is pretending the square doesn’t exist.
Pretty much. It's absolutely predatory. That's why I'm investing in building the 20 unit complex. At least it's not just me printing free money that way.
>didn't control much more than egregious rent increases

This is accurate, this year the increase limit is 7%, which is pretty much unheard of except in the most egregious cases.

> didn't apply to new housing

> expired after a time

The expiration is on the waiver for new buildings.

Rent control won't apply to buildings that opened within the past 15 years, and it won't apply to single-family homes, unless they’re owned by a corporation, or duplexes where the owner lives in one of the units.
How do you find the performance of the i3 Rex in range extender mode?
It seems like you're invested in missing the point, but will you accept the analogy of restaurants? A wide variety of restaurants exist in most cities across a wide spectrum of prices. It's not a given that some 5-star French restaurant is necessarily the most economical use of a storefront everywhere. It might make more sense to build a Buffalo Wild Wings. But if you can only build a limited amount of housing, much less than what is demanded, you'll only be selling to the highest bidder anyway, and since you know you can fill your whole building with your target customer type you might as well build exactly what they want because then you can charge a bit more for it.
Ah, unfortunate but it happens. Subtle jab by the video editor to start the video with a Taycan flying by.
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I took the summary quote directly from the Cato institute website; I am in no way misrepresenting their top-line conclusions.

As I said, you can certainly dispute the goal of favoring incumbents over new residents. There are also issues with landlords in rich neighborhoods wiggling out of the controls, which lead to the rich/poor inequities you note.

But on net, it does what people want it to do: protects existing residents, with a minimal net impact to the housing economy.
I recently watched that documentary and really loved it.
It is not possible to control rodents by predation.
Are you suggesting that these drones will follow streets for the entirety of their routes? Doesn't that nearly defeat the purpose of flying? Can you imagine if airplanes had to follow interstates for their entire flights?
Ansible all the way.

I'm really upset with the way Google let their marketing team run roughshod all over the place with that software. Kubernetes is almost never the tool to use. It's entirely insecure, overly complicated and almost never fits the intended supposed benefit. Worse it feels that the entire CNCF ecosystem is ran entirely by marketing people with "developer evangelists" that have never coded a single line of code in their day - it's a real shame and quite honestly an insult to professional engineers.
> A single verb in Yasunari Kawabata’s short novel Snow Country is translated in 29 different ways because what we would render as “I think” can in Japan mean “I remember,” “I long for” or 27 other things.

Ugh. That might be correct in the sense that a translator could defend their choice in using a certain English word or another, but that's also correct for most words in literally every language spoken on Earth.
This is a confusing interpretation of what I said:

> This is not evidence of numbers, but I have an existence proof in that I also personally know a lot of people who know and insist on not opting out.

Most people I know would interpret that as "I know I'm not the only one because". After all, I specifically say "not evidence of numbers" and I also specifically say "existence proof". I find your response baffling.
it might surprise you that most devops/sysadmins don't use k8s/docker and think it's a disease - some of us are brave enough to speak our minds against the brownshirts that want to tear us down
The web link worked for me.
Will track down! It'll be somewhere in my pile of bookmarks.
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You could publish predictions on http://longbets.org/ and make some money!
I remember walking through the grass on the way home from school and seeing hundreds of grasshoppers jump out of the way. I saw a grasshopper the other day walking my kids to school and realised it was the first I had seen in many years.

Mum used to yell at me all the time to hurry though the screen door so the flies wouldn't get in. Now we could leave the screen open all day and we'd be lucky to see a fly come in.
They should work on getting some vibrato in there so they sound like angels instead. ;)
The average MPG in the US is around 25mpg[1]. So assuming that 6 kWh of electricity from the grid (big assumption, see below) is used to refine a gallon of gas, then it seems like the math pencils out. Of course the MPG average includes trucks and SUVS, etc, so not a perfect comparison but very much in the ballpark.

Regarding the 6kWh number, I have been having a lot of trouble confirming it. Some stuff I have read says that refineries are major consumers of grid electricity. Others claim that they can produce most of their energy needs from the oil distillates on-site. My best guess is that it probably depends on how old the refinery is, because it seems like the older reports/estimates tend to mention the electricity consumption, whereas the newer ones mention the 'on-site' energy generation/consumption. I think a lot of the energy demand of the refinery is used for heating, so burning the oil distillates would be way more efficient than using grid electricity for that. So, it may just be the case that older refineries are way less efficient than newer ones, and the 'EV vs ICE' comparison depends on how modern the refineries are in your area.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-emissions/u-s-vehic...
>I don't know how we disentangle all those when trying to measure or compare human welfare.

One number I like to use is the IHDI :
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_countries_by_inequality-...

There can be an endless debate on the methodology of course and I don't think this number should be taken as an absolute truth.

It does give a more holistic picture though and takes many more factors into account.