skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supply and demand is still a thing for rentals.

If it's legal for a non-global-capitalist to replace their 1 unit single family home with say a 2 unit duplex (and if the regulations are sufficiently streamlined that they can do so in a cheap-enough and timely manner), many individuals will do so on a home equity loan or similar type of loan and then rent out the second unit for extra income.

When enough individuals with 1 unit single family homes own duplexes with rental units, this applies negative pressure to rental prices (because supply and demand does exist in the rental space)

When rental prices are depressed, this will (slowly and over the long run) apply negative pressure to the inherently-speculative purchase price for a housing unit. Aside from "prize units" like skyscraper penthouses, your average rental unit sells at a speculative price based on rental income and perceived future appreciation. When you depress the rental income, you also depress the perceived future appreciation.

You CAN fight speculation with free market economics, but it requires more than luxury condos, it requires ordinary people with ordinary properties in ordinary neighborhoods who can take a loan to make their land more productive.
> There’s been some research lately about whether Private Equity outperformance is partly driven by the illiquidity making it harder for investors to dump their positions in a moment of panic.

There are apocryphal stories of studies purporting to find that the best performing investment accounts are those that belong to people who are either dead or had forgotten about their account:

* https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-the-buy-and-play-dead-...

* https://twocents.lifehacker.com/the-best-investors-literally...

Generally, even if one invested lump sums right at market peaks, just before crashes, you'd still get a decent returns as long money was not withdrawn:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

Though the best strategy for most people seems to be to just put away a little every money in a total market passive index fund:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
You honestly don't want that, but if it's literally the only option (as it is today), it's a huge advantage.
Haha this is great! You should reboot this. We've talked about doing something outside of email, maybe a podcast or livestream or something.
high profile spammers will emulate enough of the browser to render any measure based on browser anomaly detection worthless

Based on actual experience of fighting spammers, that isn't the case. Like a lot of people new to spam fighting you're making assumptions about the adversaries that aren't valid.
I just googled a little bit (won't share the links because they are easy to find and check, and I am on mobile, at work).

Orkut had ~29 million users by the time it was passed by Facebook in number of users in Brazil. This was about ~65% of internet users in Brazil.

Today Facebook has ~75 million users in Brazil, which is about 53% of internet users in Brazil today.

Of course, it all depends on how you define "monopoly" here. But with the definitions: "% of users that use any social network" or "% of users that use the internet" , Orkut had as much a monopoly as Facebook today. If the definition is "% of users from the whole population" that probably Facebook has more today.
Having better sales might help for a few quarters/years. Having better technology might help for a few decades.
Could you link me to the FTP vs. Dropbox discussion? I am curious. I haven't used either for years and the implication seems to be that there is a profound difference, so I wonder what it is.
I would prefer decentralized options which help me keep my freedom of choice about things like cost, property value impacts from perceived or real risks, sustainability, and individual control of my power sources.

And nuclear consumes a lot of cement in construction, a huge source of carbon emissions. Many cement plants are fueled by coal — not even coal generated electricity, but directly by coal on site. Which is more efficient but also helps hide the problem as it keeps their carbon emissions off the radar as they are not included in lists and charts of pollution sources focused typically on power plants.

Also I prefer to limit involvement of megacorp / government partnerships in decisions about my future liabilities.

So nuclear, while it may be technologically more advanced than it used to be, is not my cup of tea.
Im not saying your opinion is wrong, but most of the world cant afford a tesla, so I have no doubt that your friend group is skewed with salaries way above the mean.
How does the capacity to respond imply memory rather than reflex?
Tesla has only been around for 16 years. Given most car companies have a good start already, they should easily replicate what Tesla has done in 5 at most 10 years.
Of course, such things are perfectly possible and for an image editor I'd consider in-browser js superior to anything but native apps.

However, consider this, you want an app that has to use a database, you can't store everything on the client or use things like Dropbox integration. Plenty of situations where you want that, but that just can't be done with clientside js without also making your database acces keys and encryption keys available to all. So all in all, it depends on what sort of app you want to build or form your course around
The Chryler Pacifica PHEV is basically a half EV van .. plugin hybrid with 30+ miles of electric-only range (with another 300-400 miles of hybrid/gas range)

An all EV van would be great but this is closest you can come today.
> As of 2019, only one large outdoor clothing company has abandoned PFC-based DWR finishes.

Which one?
Many classes aren't lectures, rather you're sat there completing work. On the face of it allowing headphones isn't unreasonable.
I'd ask the opposite question.
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My calculations don't match yours.

Here http://www.bluebulbprojects.com/MeasureOfThings/results.php?...

That says there are 148 trillion square meters of land area on earth. So the technosphere (at 30 trillion tons) is about 1/5ton per square meter, or about 200 kg. If you use the all of the Earth's surface, it's 510 trillion square meters, so about 1/17th of a ton per square meter, or about 58 kg per square meter.
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I'm super curious how this reflex to curl the leaves in response to touch is adaptive for this plant in the first place.
Sounds like that panned out, but it's pretty circumstantial. Not all of us have the opportunity to buy a house at the bottom of the largest real-estate recession in generations.
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Maybe it's because for me it's just locale (UK, en-gb) and not language? I don't know, it doesn't work well for me though.

If Amazon appears in the top 'web' results, it's always amazon.com (not .co.uk) however toggled. The sponsored links in 'shopping' results are always amazon.co.uk & £-figures though, however toggled.

Company websites, airlines, booking systems etc. that I know I'm going to need the /en-gb/ variant of invariably appear in results as /en-us/ URLs.
I don't mind a wide car as long as it's not one of these absolutely fuck-ugly SUVs. They're a plague.

Go to any remotely rural place in the UK (especially if it's rich) and you'll see SUVs and 4x4 with no more than 2 people in them usually - basically just because there are some leaves on the ground, despite all the millions of Dollars, Euros and Pounds that have been spent on making normal cars safer, grip better and more efficient.

Edit: I fully expect to be seeing some Tesla Cybertrucks assuming they come to mass market.
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For most of my life, I just worked my own taxes and filed on paper. Used TT recently as my taxes were quite complex for a few years.

It seems now that filing on paper is no longer a practical thing to do, time- and complexity-wise. What's the closest thing available these days? (for federal and all states, obviously)
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Not just fatter though, taller as well.
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> I don't know how to break this on a policy level.

Let's just stop flocking to overpriced places.

It's that simple!
The alternative is worse. It doesn't really matter if it is the same as ICE. Every time I use my credit card at my local gas station it asks me if I'd like add my phone number to receive text ads. Every time. Telsa is not going to let that happen. People are paying for a premium for electric cars still and that premium should come with something better than the alternative. Telsa has delivered on that. The concern is that traditional car companies aren't. Telsa made the decision early to own the process from beginning to end. Just as Steve wanted with Apple when he came back. They do not want to be dependent on a third party for their customer's experience with their products and their dedication has shown through the lifetime ownership of their vehicles.
To me, its the next big bubble out there.

We had dotcom, we had subprime mortgage, next we have the VC bubble.

Tesla has had 5 profitable quarters in 10 years. Uber loses billions of dollars a quarter. Chalk it up to R&D or whatever you want, but this is only sustainable because of this giant bull run.

When the money starts to dry up, these companies are going to implode.
One could argue if those can be called "technically knowledgeable"
Or...just let the free market create sprawl and reap the rewards of it reducing free space as population naturally grows. No government conspiracy needed.
That doesn't seem entirely accurate. Super cruise only works in supported areas, and it gets updates at a dealership instead of over the air. Both will improve over time and both appear to use ML.
This is agreeing you were wrong, but your false claims still win because the people are suckers. When climate change is still roaring along 30 years from now and the laws of physics haven’t changed to allow solar and wind to completely displace fossil fuels, you can really be proud of your win.
Same with FF 72.0.2 + uBlock Origin
With Scratch 3.0 you can run the full web based Scratch on any iOS device, although I doubt it would be a good experience on anything other than an iPad.
Drinking water typically does not provide significant quantities of any essential minerals. For example, the USGS threshold for "hard" water (heavily mineral-laden) is 120 ppm of combined calcium and magnesium carbonates. At that level, drinking the recommended two liters a day would only give you a few percentage points of your required daily intake of elemental calcium and magnesium.
I have incredibly little faith in industries to establish standards nowadays. Every car manufacturer will eventually make their own charging network, all with their own proprietary connectors. Any aftermarket connector to try and work for all of them will be sued out of existence.
There is one place where it currently is a pretty large failure, and that is repair shops. The waiting times are very large compared to other manufactures.
This seems to be the benefit to me as well. The average person won't get a £100,000+ loan from a bank so easily for anything else.

Want to start a business with that money? Better have a rock solid business plan. Investing elsewhere? No chance, a bank won't lone that money for you to play with on the stock market, and the rate you would get would wipe out any gains from something safer like a tracker fund.

For anyone that is not content living in the same area for the rest of their life buying is a poor decision. But it is the only way most people can access a loan that size and leverage in that way.

I've resigned myself to the fact you have to buy (in my country at least), and I will just make sure it can be rented easily when I want to move.

Some European countries are much more renter friendly and I would consider renting exclusively there. Germany and Berlin seem more appealing in that regard with the rent control that was put into place recently.
yeah, once you realize you already know what you are looking for, then you can create custom searches or use the !bang notation.

!stack 'Error message'
That's a decent amount of money, but it's not that much compared to the cost of an electric vehicle.
That’s why I suggested MERV 13 and not, say, MERV 8. If your filter removes a mere 50% of particles at a given size but moves twice as much air as a HEPA filter, you’re doing fine for a recirculating filter.
I'm currently building a free analytics service that's the fastest. Ever. Faster than Fathom, Simple Analaytics, pretty much everything except Google Analytics you can think of.

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> https://sdan.io/pingpong
If you go to a public hearing about, say, an apartment building being proposed, you find people absolutely frothing at the mouth with anger, and coming up with the most outlandish of reasons why it shouldn't happen. They also tend to insult and be rude to everyone there not on 'their side', from the public officials running things on down. It's a real eye opener if you've never been to one.
To your last point, I'm not sure what you want to say:
Nuclear accidents happen and the cleanup can't be that bad compared to electricity generated?

Imagine we would have used that $1b for renewables? Any idea how much power THAT would have generated?

It's interesting how the mind of nuclear power proponents work:

Unwilling to see the larger picture, denying of basic facts (like a failure rate of 1%, brilliant) or the enormous costs being handed to tax payers (on top of their electricity bill).
And down-voting facts they don't like.
Before I clicked, I expected it to be this one https://www.xkcd.com/606/
Well, I agree, that's why we have both low and high level languages. High level languages, setting you free from the actual constraints of the underlying machine, allow you to define abstractions that can increase productivity greatly - that's their whole point of existence.

I mean I don't see people complaining how you don't need to manually manage memory in SQL expressions.
Just start with the assumption that no one understands how to read a man page and how to translate that into a full command line operation. A simple example goes A LONG WAY.
A coffin that fits 4 adults and a German Shepherd in the estate bit. That's quite snug, but no worse than a Polo, Beetle, Fiesta or 2CV of similar era.

But like most cars it spends most of its time carrying just one or two adults, maybe a bit of shopping, when it has ample room.
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The future is a monopoly?
Cynical view: the laws passed in the mid 20th century to lock out black and brown folks from homeownership are now starting to affect white people. Sprinkle historically low interest rates and you have the modern day housing market.
The entire Half-Life series is free for a while
The scent of racism that underlies the whole “white and asian American men can’t possibly empathize with other cultures, foreign or domestic” idea seems to grow every day.

But it seems politically dangerous to even hint that you smell anything.
Been using this for years, it's great!

Note that https://cheat.sh works too (I find that easier to remember than cht.sh)
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Congrats for the detailed post. I had a quick glance and was surprised you didn't mention ErlPort. It seems it could simplify things a bit or am I missing something?
Oh definitely not everyone.
There is one: https://github.com/Johni0702/mumble-web

Also the protocol is open so it should be doable: https://mumble-protocol.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

For those curious about the switch from murmur to mumble in our conversation, murmur is the server side, while mumble is the client side.
As a parent with 2 young kids the massive size of car seats forced us into a larger vehicle.
> Real estate isn't a very volatile asset class.

This conventional wisdom has been increasingly getting less true over the last decade. Valuation increases of 5-10% per year on a regular basis are also "volatility".
The idea of loading up that suspension ‘system’ with batteries makes me twitchy, but it’s such a great car that the extra effort that would be required would definitely be worth it.
I agree 100%, but most of the world won't buy Tesla stock. So the market for both the stock and the car are the same population. A lot of them owns BMW, Audi, Lexus. When many of them switch to Tesla, where do you think the stock will go?
If Google is able to introduce this then why can't Apple?

>Starting in Android Pie, devices can take advantage of a new capability where backed-up application data can only be decrypted by a key that is randomly generated at the client. This decryption key is encrypted using the user's lockscreen PIN/pattern/passcode, which isn’t known by Google.

>By design, this means that no one (including Google) can access a user's backed-up application data without specifically knowing their passcode.

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h...
>There's been less progress in surgery, where hellish hours are considered part of the journey.

This is really a bad thing, because women are generally superior to men at tasks involving fine motor skills.
I've got a narrower than average car, and it's nice to fit in garages, tight parking spaces, narrow ferry lanes, etc. The seats are a little narrow, but not too bad. For some reason they built it so the turning radius is worse than a mini-van though.
Yes, that's exactly what OP is doing? Blaming inaction on climate change on anti-nuclear activists instead of the outright deniers fits the Whataboutism template pretty well.
A global proxy for Go modules
> Every ad on Google is clearly marked and set apart from the actual search results.

Clearly is a stretch here.
Just a shot in the dark, but if you use Cloudflare already, their stats include view counts. It's also probably more accurate than relying on JS tracking tools because they can count the actual requests to your site.
Of course. Most Google engineers would not be involved in it, and would of course be doing their best to keep Google's customers' data secure.
Schools don't need to be the crappy temporary trailers. However, do schools need fancy immense structures or can they just lease office space?
2008 really showed that homeownership is no different than tenancy. Look at Detroit. Entire city blocks were owned by the bank simply because people either couldn't afford the mortgage, their loan was called due, or they thought the short term loss in equity wasn't worth staying in a run down place anymore.

I believe that the purpose for homeownership in the US was primarily to foster a competitive housing environment. That way landlords wouldn't control the majority of the housing market and people could help keep housing prices down per month by being able to have the ability to qualify for housing just as easily as tenancy.
On MacOS, iTunes/Finder stores (optionally) encrypted backups at

~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

I was thinking of creating a symlink to Dropbox, for instance and having my cloud backup there. I don't know if the backups are incremental which could be a storage problem, but that can be managed through some scripting.

Since we hold the key it's a blob nobody can get to without brute forcing it.
> We agree to disagree then. Good luck to nuclear proponents attempting to make their case to the general public (who don't want it), investors (who won't invest in it), and political leaders (who don't want to risk their careers on it).

The point here is not disagreement with these points, rather than the arguments that brought us to these points are misguided.

> In the meantime, progress marches on:

And so does climate change.
Pretty funny how NOTHING has changed except the dollar's devaluation. Yesterday's $.15/hr is today's $15/hr. Means nothing. Labor continues to be exploited.
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He's comparing the most popular car from Tesla to some of the least-popular cars from the other manufacturers. Audi sold 200k cars in 2019, but they were SUVs, not sedans. I would guess the Model 3 sales will crater when the Model Y comes out.
> So much of work today that takes place in big cities can easily be done from home

Not all that much - not everyone works in software, and not everyone who does will be most productive from home, and not every one of those will want to work from home.

My work can be done from home and my employer is quite flexible - I still gladly spend the time and pay for my commute because I'd rather not be at home all day.
Sure, but whether a tool is 3rd party or 1st party matters less if there is significant difference in the advantages that tool brings. Being free and/or open source is more important, but at least currently, there are many excellent free and open source Java tools in all the categories I mentioned.

Also, I didn't say that Go's tooling is the worst. I said it's one of its worst aspects. I still miss Maven, jmap, VisualVM, and the Java debugger almost everyday, not to mention IntelliJ.

> Most of the things you have to configure and tweak on the JVM and profile for aren't even considerations in Go, because they are either simply non-issues in Go, or don't exist (because Go does not have a virtual machine to begin with)

I'm not sure what you are thinking of specifically here, but in general the same considerations apply between Go and JVM, it's just that Go doesn't allow you to tweak things like GC algorithms and parameters. JIT is the only other area where I remember spending time thinking about Java performance that is truly a non-consideration in Go, but Go has other performance considerations to worry about (pass by copy vs pass by pointer, number of system threads off the top of my head).
cities have only been like that for the last 10,000 years or so. they're the engine of growth of civilization. the artificial housing shortage trap has only been going on in the west since starting around 1960 or so.
I'm curious what's a good rule of thumb for "dependent on each other". A foreign-key relationship? That's... pretty much everything unless you have two completely separate business lines.
They are highly priced for a reason... because of the demand of people wanting to live there, so no it's not really that simple.
AWS mining their customer's data is a huge liability for their cloud business and a blatant violation of their service agreements. Something that would fundamentally break the concept of using cloud services like AWS or Azure.

This is why this comparison doesn't make sense. Google Analytics is a 3rd party service where you have no control at all of your data. You put a script of your app, and then you basically funnel data to them. That's it.

Using Pinpoint, in this case, is the equivalent of using EC2 and S3. You can control the flow and the lifecycle of data (deleting data forever, for example).

You should be able to trust that your customer data is safe there, otherwise, why use AWS at all? or better yet, why use any public cloud infrastructure provider at all?

If you're concerned about that, you probably should build your own self-managed server infrastructure.