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In defense of rent control, it provides a stabilizing force during a downturn. How many folks who live in an apartment that has been under rent control for 10+ years are packing up and moving into their parents basement right now? My guess is very few.

It certainly has its issues, but there are much worse market distorting policies that I would like to see be fixed before rent control gets put on the chopping block.
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> Just imagine the value of the industry popping up to "explain" things to the confused random people in parliament. It would take lobbying to a whole new level.

Honestly I'm not sure it'd be all that different. I mean, ask a random pedestrian on the street if they know what lobbying is, and they likely have at least some minimal clue. That means it's already a "cultural factor."

What would change is the way lobbying works, since it'd no longer work in a way where a long-term rapport is established between a politician and a bunch of lobbyists...
How can the community participate in the project if it is not a relatively independent project? If things are closely coupled to one person’s monorepo, then presumably the code is not usable for another person. So, for practical purposes, it might as well be just a code dump.
> At the same time, Amazon was not cash flow positive when it IPOed and it figured out its profitibility just fine.

Well, one of the reasons we throw around the "fake it until you make it" term is that some companies don't "make it", and if they're big enough it's a big deal (e.g. Theranos). That an extremely changed market causes a lot of these companies to start having problems sooner isn't really a surprise.
I'm confused by the GP's us-vs-them animosity. There was an interesting issue that got buried in a polarizing "fan" vs "hater" dynamic. :'( Sigh

Like, shouldn't most high-end consumer devices include a dedicated update storage partition or flash area so that user storage is never impacted?
I think the timing would not allow for politicians to oppose the shear political pressure on this one... it goes beyond tribal politics. For that matter, given Trump's populist pov, it's likely to get signed quickly as well.

I haven't read the proposed legislation so cannot speak to any specifics that may or may not be objectionable though.
I will never trust banks since they are for-profit companies, eg. I went out of Bitcoin as soon as big banks could short it. I appreciate small banks a lot more, but they don't have that much influence.

But, I trade stocks and I recently traded etf's.

It's high risk, high reward opportunity. But as all things, do not invest money you can't lose.

Also, turbo's or multiplied etf's are dangerous for long term. Since a 3% rise is not the same as a 3% down in value ( you lose more) and a multiplier makes it worse.

I don't know everything about etf's, I only joined shortly because the opportunity seemed there and I had some risk money. I do admit going in head over heels at the time, I've never held it for too long.

None the less, would appreciate any insight any can have. It takes a long term to find actual valuable advice on etf's.

A book recommendation would be good also.
It comes down to control and immutability. I know not everyone agrees with this but I believe it's fundamental.

You can use the "Immer" syntax of setState if you want:

setState(s => { s.list.push(data); });

But in some cases it is more expensive. Like a splice will per row will trigger the proxy to tell you they've all shifted a position. Where as just setting the array only hits the proxy once. Sure Solid batches the updates from the call but it's still unnecessary tracking. Solid lazily decides whether state should be made into a reactive atom based on whether it is referenced in a tracking scope.
I am glad I am not the only one confused as hell. The API of the library is literally anti-pattern.
When it comes to shipping Python server-side apps, Pipenv is a godsend. Before discovering it, I had 3 requirements.txt files (common, dev, prod) which I had to edit manually. This often meant forgetting to include something that I just installed and only finding out after a full round of QA.
It also meant a separate couple of steps for full-tree dependency freezing which never worked quite properly anyways. Pipenv just....works. Dependencies are saved as I install them, I only have to deal with the top-level ones, but the whole tree is locked.
Ben Hunt and Epsilon Theory is a good blog for that. Their take on financial markets as behavioral psychology is ... interesting if incredulous at first.
Warren Buffett: For most people, the best thing is to do is owning the S&P 500 index fund

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Looking at the real estate data, prices haven't really dropped that much. 2020 started with a historically low inventory of houses for sale nationwide. During the virus lockdowns, both supply and demand dropped so prices remained relatively stable.

I don't think we are going to know the real impact on the housing market until the lockdowns end and people resume normal activities like buying and selling homes. Then we will see if the relationship between supply and demand shifts.

Personally, I think that if work from home continues for a large number of people, people who have families are going to want to get out of condos and apartments and into houses where they can have dedicated office space. I wouldn't be surprised if demand shifts away from places like San Francisco toward houses in the suburbs with 4 or more bedrooms.
Semiautomatic means it reloads automatically. A bolt action, manual-reload rifle would be useless against a mob, which was the stated threat profile.
> Do people have the right to self defense?

Of course, but that's a last resort. You cannot ask someone who is in risk of imminent harm not to defend him/herself, although that should be the minimum use of force needed to fend off the danger (in the US as usual the law is less strict, in Europe you can shoot to defend your life but if it's proven that in that exact moment your life wasn't in danger you'll be charged).

> Please tell me the last time America won a war against a militia or insurrection embedded in the civilian population.

A clear case must be in 1865, when the Union won the civil war- at the cost of between 600k and 1 million dead. But there's of endless instances of the US police or national guard using force to repress protests, uprising and terrorism- as it is normal. It's hard to say whether these movements could have been more widespread if they hadn't been repressed through intelligence and use of force.

But can you point out an example of when a militia or an insurrection won against the US police or national guard?
> The knock on Facebook is often that it doesn’t have its ad strategy figured out.

Did a double take until I saw the date. This aged spectacularly poorly…
There are multiple groups with different motives and actions. It will always be inaccurate to lump "protesters" together into one homogenous group when they are anything but.
Where was the order to disperse in Seattle? It definitely was not announced on Saturday before the Seattle Police Department started attacking protestors.

Mayor Jenny Durkan didn't even send the emergency curfew alert much before 5pm. I received it at 5:04pm, and most people I talked to got it after 5pm.
That is exactly what will happen if QI goes away, and taxpayers will ultimately pay the premiums. Maybe that would be better, or maybe not. But in general, few policemen could withstand the risk of a single ruinous suit, and without insurance of some kind, would be forced to flee the occupation.
There has been proposals to have something similar to malpractice insurance, where cops that get sued a lot will have higher rates and will likely be kicked off the force, and good cops would bring the rates down.
You seem to misattribute perfect knowledge, control, aim, and rationality to a scared person with a gun.

edit: some examples of scared shooters acting out of fear without enough information shoot people who are not "intruders":

- Connecticut teacher mistakenly kills son after neighbor reports robber [1]
- Ohio Father Fatally Shoots Son He Mistook for Intruder: Police [2]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/justice/connecticut-father-ki...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-father-fatally-sho...
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With the Posse Comitatus Act, the Federal Government limited its ability to use the military as a domestic police force.
The Insurrection Act limited how the President could deploy military domestically as well.
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I find it interesting that there is an inherent assertion against an equal right to access information in the stipulation that the publisher must be paid.

I look at things differently though I suppose. I see each human as a parallel processing core, and our immediate consciously recallable set of knowledge as basically being Cached, our referentially recallable knowledge (stuff we know where to find, but don't have in mind) as a pagefile swap, and the unknown, but authored as a compressed, archived file on our collective population-wide hard disk.

So what we're suggesting here, is that certain cores should have to go without access to certain trivially reproducible archives so that the archiving program (publishers) can utilize the product of said cores (analogous to money earned by other work done) to pick the winners and losers of the process of making an archive(I.e. subsidizing authorial works) in the first place?

This sounds like a pretty terrible system to me, and like publisher's have an exaggerated role as gatekeepers in the marketplace of ideas. I would not expect that in the presence of a zero-cost information replication mechanism such an entity performing such a task would be desirable except as an artifact of a programmer having something better to do than to refactor out that quirk of the old high cost implementation.

I wonder how far out I can extend this simulation of society as computing system. I suppose the analog of the necessary inputs for life would be the power electricity bill? Hmmmm.

You know, I think I just nerd sniped myself. I'm not sure if I can complete this post as intended now that I'm continuing to think on it. I'll leave it here in case anyone else wants to join in on extending the metaphor/figuring out where the breaking points are.
Yes, that was my thought process. I also don't own one but am definitely thinking about it now.
I believe the point here is that _this_ particular president is hiding from violent mobs that he has had a large part in creating.

It's akin to the school bully that teases other kids and hides behind his parents when confronted.
Possibly Russia?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-documents-reveal-...
> It wasn't always this way.. you used to have to make solid product with a business model that clearly showed growth AND profitability.

Its because there isn't anywhere to put cash.

The market tolerance has expanded because the market was desperate for things to invest in.

So whether it is non-voting shares, profitless companies and bigger issuance sizes, it is all a symptom where there is no predilection for a cure.

The government's growth targets cannot be met without giving money to the credit worthy. Money is free for them and they have make more from that money. It doesn't "trickle down" very far, but it does still lack a place to go where a return beats inflation (the speed at which the government gives other organizations cheap money).
You've missed or failed to acknowledge the actual point I was making. I think any reasonable person would agree that forcing double digit millions of people out of their homes is a very undesirable outcome. Most of those people would agree that something needs to be done (exactly what being dependent on one's political and economic ideology). Many of those people would probably also agree that the government is the one that needs to do something, simply because almost all political ideologies agree that one of the purposes of government is to do things that private citizens cannot. Let's just agree on this, unless I'm grossly misinterpreting what you're saying.

What I'm actually saying is that you can't simultaneously agree that "people aren't moving to SF," and that "the market is fine, because it's a thin market and these prices reflect very few transactions." The latter is a consequence of the former, and the root cause of both is that people just don't have the money to move. This, in combination with the coronavirus eviction moratorium in California, leads me to believe that people aren't moving anywhere, not that they're moving to lower cost areas.

I hope I'm wrong, because unless the government steps in with something radical like a debt jubilee, those people staying in their SF apartments with no income and incurring debt are just going to suffer more down the road.
That’s taken heavily out of context. Nobody plans to shoot someone when in a self-defense situation. Planning to use a gun to shoot someone is by definition a crime, and there is a burden of proof for that.
The term hacker is indeed pretty old. As far as I know the MIT model train club divided themselves into the artists who worked on the scenery on top of the board and the hackers who worked on the underside of the board on the fancy electrical switching they had adapted (hacked) from telephone exchanges. When computers first arrived at MIT this latter group moved their focus to them and the term "hacker" moved with them into computing.

Other comments have mentioned "cracker" in relation to invading systems. Before computers we had "safe-crackers".
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Actually for practical purposes it is generally private for a few weeks until summons info makes it to webcriminal.
>> an unreleased NES game – an unpublished version of Days of Thunder done for Mindscape (a separate attempt done by Beam Software was ultimately published in its place

I wonder how many other games reached playable or nearly-complete states, and were just cast aside because of schedules, contract snafus, etc? Imagine what we missed out on.
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>> They finance new cars, rent them out for a while, then dispose of them. That all works fine and vehicle debt is not a problem when rental income covers the interest+depreciation on the vehicles.

Financing anything is ok until something goes wrong. The problem is that too many people and companies are living paycheck to paycheck. God forbid a company hold enough cash to finance their own operations - no that needs find it's way to the shareholders.

A recent headline at CNN said the next problem for the economy was people saving money during the crisis or even paying down debt. SMH.
I'm not even following the rationale. They're angry at Twitter? For what, exactly?
Prior to the "National Emergency Library" situation, that is exactly what IA did.
For every application of FSD that applies to a lending library, it seems like there are 99 or more that apply to everyday lending, modification, repair, or resale concerns. Even if libraries didn't exist, I think we'd have something like first sale doctrine.
Even before the pandemic it felt like 50% of places on Streeteasy had been listed with net effective rents in recent years... the current situation is probably just accelerating a trend that was already well underway.

Doesn't mean I'm not kicking myself for signing a 2-year lease on a place last fall, though. I love my apartment, I've been here 2 years already, and its a fair price, but I'm basically 8 months into a 24 month lease and could probably save almost 10k over the next 16 months if I had the option of breaking the lease and moving.
You seem to be on a different thread from your parent.

I got from your parent "a semiautomatic rifle takes two hands to shoot, so how do you plan to shoot rifles?"
Where the article describes an entirely different scenario and protocol is that what you mean by 'literally'?

I'm not doing this to become big and strong. I'm doing it so I don't feel overheated for the next couple hours, sweating into my clean clothes and feeling like this was a mistake and I shouldn't do it again.

Technically correct but demotivating strategies are a Pyrrhic victory.
What is known as that Qaeda thing was no more than a dozen something angry disenfranchised seminary students, and their sugar daddy sponsors with Saudi state links.

For most of people, it's no more than a product of their imagination.

You've believed that nonsense. People can lie, you know.
I read his comment not in an absolute sense, but that most reasonable people do not want to ever use their firearm against another human. But they may encounter a situation that forces them to, and that defending their property/loved ones using a firearm is their right.
Imagine you own the company, and the company has an ability to grow.

(1) Show profit: distribute it, put it into a bank, etc. You pay the tax on the profit; if you pay yourself a few million, this is taxed at 40-50%. Assume that your shares grow, too.

(2) Do not show profit: invest everything! Always be a wee bit in the red. Assuming your company actually grows from the investment, Your market share increases, your cash flow grows. Most likely your shares grow comfortably with that, too, at least in the long term. But you don't pay the tax on the profit. You pay the tax on the capital gains, but it's much lower. You don't pay yourself anything, because you can sell a small bit of shares to get these few millions you need.

Now, who in their right mind would show profit if they can show more growth instead?

Apple would be happy to do that, too, but they have no room to grow, it seems. Same with Google; though they invest a lot, they don't seem to find another seriously growing niche. Amazon can pull that off, though, and they gladly do. When Amazon becomes predictably profitable, it would mean they ran out of fruitful growth / investment ideas.
No my point is 1.5 GB is too small a transient (you delete the download when done) requirement to make someone have to bump up disk sizes.
True, but wouldn't most people at least do a google search of their name to see what pops up?
>But in the context of this post, you (and the Facebook employees) are actually arguing exactly the same thing: that Six Flags should be required to ban people who, for example, wear Republican candidate T-shirts to the park.

That's not at all what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that Facebook and Six Flags are private entities, and private entities are generally allowed to ban whomever they want from their platform/property (assuming they're not breaking the law by doing so). I'm not arguing whether they _should_.

More to the point: Yes, if Six Flags over Georgia wanted to ban people who are wearing Republican Candidate T-Shirt from the park they can do so.
The uncomfortable fact is Zurkerburg appears to be trying to make allies of people that normal Jewish people find really really queasy. And it not trolling to bring that up.

Especially as a response to an article discussing both Zurkerberg and that person.
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> Like many other Thais, the prominent writer and social critic had grown wary and distrustful of Twitter over a recent string of developments on the platform that sparked privacy concerns. Last week, she joined a massive migration of Thai users to Minds, an open-source and decentralized platform that prides itself on being transparent about how it manages data and revenue—users receive “tokens” based on interactions and time spent on the service. The platform saw a spike of 100,000 new Thai users in a single day last week, its founder told Coconuts Bangkok, causing the service to crash temporarily. There are now more than 200,000 Minds users in Thailand, according to the company.

They've migrated over to https://www.minds.com/

Never heard of it before. Tried looking for any significant discussion on hacker news about it but couldn't find anything that had more than just a handful comments.*

Has anyone here used it?

* https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=minds.com and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19340801
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> we're incentivized to keep the rents high and give months of free rent.

That's basically a fancy way of lowering the rate, right?

Our friends just bought a new house in a development and the builder did a similar game where they added in some bells and whistles instead of coming down on the price. Their reasoning was that they couldn't drop the price because that's public data and it would put pressure on them to accept lower prices from other buyers in the neighborhood.
Another disincentive for willful misconduct is that the police do not bear the cost of resulting lawsuits (the taxpayers take the hit).

Police should be self-insured, backed by their pension plan. They have to have skin in the game in order to care.
> the police do need to take more definitive action when other methods have failed.

Apply this logic to the protesters. There have been many examples of attempts at change without violence. I don’t like this, but I see why it is happening.
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He literally added the context of the quote, without which MLK's views were misrepresented.
Thanks for replying. I read it but I couldn't find a solution to my problem - "advertising", "monetization", "machine learning" evil standing between me and free games.

Edit: Now I see that some "Play now" links are leading directly to the game's website.