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> The solution is so simple, our population growth rate is too high relative to housing production, so the quickest, most immediate and obvious solution is to reduce immigration significantly. Within a couple years you will see housing demand fall and with it, prices

From my perspective, your rationale is a logical fallacy of the single cause.

If you're not familiar with it, I recommend reading:

* http://believingscience.blogspot.com/2016/08/todays-logical-...

* https://medium.com/@edeubanks/argumentum-ad-simplicitate-9f5...

Now what happens with this fallacy isn't that you're for sure wrong, but that you have determined for sure that you are right, yet there are multiple probable cause at play here, but you single one out and attribute that one as a sufficient cause without justification.

And personally, even if it was the single simple cause of high house prices in the Toronto metro, you still haven't addressed the opportunity cost. We don't have immigration out of generosity, most migrants are selected through a thorough application process, and we pull in people with labor skill that we need, or with wealth that we want them to bring over. This is true of foreign investors and students as well. There are reasons why we do so, because most analyst see it as a net positive for our economy. I'm with you where I would like our economy to sustain itself without any external investment, but what I would like and reality are two different things. Right now it doesn't seem like it would. So what are we going to do about that? If you cut out foreign investment, immigration and students you need a strategy for that or we'll just take a huge hit financially.

Also, keep in mind we have a decreasing workforce. Based on this article https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/from-a-baby-boom-to-a-reti... the foreign workforce we're taking in isn't enough to fill the workforce gap we have due to an aging population. We're losing workers, this isn't steady state. That's why we ramped up immigration:

> For Canada as a whole, the challenge is to become more competitive even as we lose these established workers. Immigration is helping to grow our talent pool. We welcomed more than 300,000 new immigrants last year, about 60% of whom are skilled workers. The immigration minister has described this as “the new normal.” Yet it still doesn’t cover the annual retirement rate, so we’re going to have to get more creative.

It's going to be hard to manage without immigration, we just didn't have enough kids, and we didn't educate, teach and train our kids properly to be able to replace our workforce in a steady state. That's the other side of the problem. We take a few refugees as a feel good pat on the back, but the truth is, most immigration we take in is so that we can sustain our workforce, keep our businesses competitive and prevent our economy from crashing down. At least, that's the reason why we do so. Now maybe that's also a wrong conclusion, maybe there is another way, maybe people overblow the impact of not taking immigrants would have to our economy, but economics is hard, figuring out what is best for the economy isn't simple, in my opinion at least.
> The whole diversity thing is extremely one-sided and biased and very much undiverse in nature.

Can you elaborate?
> I have to ask, every large pick-up I've had a go at driving has the turning radius of an aircraft-carrier

Some of the big trucks have rear wheels that steer too to help with that.

Also, have you driven a Ford C-MAX? It's very narrow for a four-door sedan/hatchback, which is great for getting into tight parking spots, except it has the worst turning radius ever.
‘The Little Mermaid’ Was Way More Subversive Than You Realized (2019)
Bohr–Einstein Debates
>if white color is racist also by containg all wavelengths, while black suffers by absencing visible light.

This definition of white/black colors is context dependent.

In some contexts white is defined as a combination of colors, and black is absence of colors.

In some contexts (e.g. art) white is defined as absence of colors, and black is a combination of colors.
John Gray's NY Review articles are great.

Reading him, it's interesting how often "new ideas" are actually old ideas that have been forgotten and are now being recycled.
They have a few local teams in China, plus ThinkPad teams worldwide plus NEC and Fujitsu operations. Lenovo seems to be operating like a brand name shared by those multiple teams each with its own ways of doing PC, controlled by the corporate in China, so depending on which team did a product, the designs can be wildly different.

Some of Ideapad 100 series were completely mini X270, for example.
I'd have responded the same way.

I'm not creating an account just to do someone else a favour.

I will send an email and that's it. If you don't have an email address then you're not getting a message from me.

It's disappointing how frequently this comes up.
You should read your words out loud, to yourself, to your kids. Israel is better at it, better at killing people...

There is no easy solution for that conflict, but killing more people and holding millions of people in de facto concentration camp sure wont help it.
The point is that 8 in 10 only read headlines, and there are many headlines saying about inflation fears, which embeds in peoples subconsciousness and is then used by politicians and commentators to manipulate
What you’re describing is an untenable situation. So, let’s say that Twitter operates as you suggest, as an open platform, and people start posting child pornography, multi-level marketing scams, and racist imagery. Do they have to just suck it up and wait for the police and courts to tell them to take it down? In the mean time, they’ll lose all their customers. If you say, well of course they can take down kiddie porn, then you agree that they have the right to curate what is posted on their site, just not how much.

Let’s say I run a BBS for stamp collectors, and a crowd of new members join and start talking about their upcoming white supremacist rally on the site. Can I delete their posts and ban them while still having safe harbor under 230? Or should I instead lose my 230 immunity and be forced to face liability over that post where Fred calls Jenny a nitwit loser because she got the date of the Amelia Aerhart first-day cover wrong?

What if they’re just talking about knitting, on my stamp collecting forum? Then can I take it down?

What if my forum is for young Democrats? Can I take down posts supporting Republican candidates?
For me it was an aesthetic thing. The black modern look with metallic buttons it had was a departure from the beige that dominated computers of the time. Atari had a great design sensibility. The Atari 5200 was another great example of slick design for the time.
I personally prefer primary/secondary anyway.
The US markets may feel artificially high to you, but a conventional modest-return, low-risk investment account that you can arrange with any high-street investment advisor is going to be extremely broad in their portfolio. The US markets that you think are inflated may comprise 5% or something of it. It'll also be invested in Asia, Africa, South America, and in different industries.

These kind of broad and boring investments always return about 5-10% or something like that a year. Occasionally they go down one year if there's a big bust up, but if you look over a ten year window it's always going up.

So why doesn't everyone invest in them if they're so dependable? Am I selling a get-rich-quick scheme? The reason is they're too modest for most people who are trying to get more like 15%. But those people take more risk - the kind of risk you're probably worried about.

And so why does the bank pay so little interest? Well they're getting that 5-10% from similar modest-return, low-risk investments (well probably a bit less less as they're more cautious)... and pocketing it.
> Should I be able to sue google for including chrome os on chromebooks? Apple for preinstalling osx? Android? Ios? What about the os for my cars' display, or my smart tv?

Yes
There's no need to add irrelevant disparaging remakes about people who don't have homes.
As far as I know, I'm the first to propose a solution that includes the equal-area constraint as part of the solution, though it is mentioned in the Penner paper as part of the search that led to the saddle point ODF solutions.

The technique should definitely work for path merging, that's a primary motivation. I'm not sure I understand your other questions. It'll probably be clearer when I release some code that implements this algorithm, though I'm not making any promises when that might be.
It boggles the mind why half-time and three-quarter time employment isn't more popular. I guess UBI would allow that to happen instead of employers having to worry about benefits.
SpaceX will deploy a low orbit ion cannon and DoS the Chinese censors.
The "problem" is that you (as I mention earlier) are insisting on treating any "crime" as morally identically to any other, which seems insane to me. Would you rather be shot or mugged? I know the answer I'd give.

The prevalence of guns changes the nature of crime, on the whole, from largely survivable violence to presumptively lethal injury. And that's bad, thus the game-playing with "crime" statistics instead of shootings to try to obscure the clear truth.
This is why we need to put the money into the right hands. It reminds me of trickle down economics. Instead of flooding one plant and hoping that you are pouring enough water to reach the entire farm field it would be more effective to just water every plant a little. It would require much less water overall.
From https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/wiki/Why-OpenSnitch...:

> Why OpenSnitch does not intercept application XXX

>

> tl;dr

>

> - because we don't use eBPF.

> - a process is opening connections too fast (nmap for example, firefox sometimes...).

> - the system has a high load and we're unable to find the process in time.

> ...
I’m pretty convinced that if I could have my engineers work 4-5 times 4-5 hours blocks of deep, focused work per week - meaning work that is at the very limit of their cognitive and programming abilities, and do another 8-10 hours of the necessary corporate overhead, that we’d collectively get at least twice as much done per year.

One difficulty is that a lot of the work that needs doing isn’t anywhere near anyone’s cognitive limit, but even with that set aside, it seems impossible to pivot to such a world with teams beyond a very small total company size.
Not yet. For now the project "alpha" version is only deployed on Kovan testnet, in which ETH is free.

When I started coding this project ETH price was around US$ 500, and gas prices around ~40 Gwei, making it feasible to launch the project on mainnet without much hassle using my own funds.

Since then ETH has gone up to the roof. Now ETH is ~US$ 1900 and gas price ~150 Gewi, making it 14x more expensive to launch.

I'm still evaluating if I should launch on ethereum mainnet or in a different solidity compatible blockchain (ex: Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche) once the project reaches a beta version due to the cost of deployment.

In the project main page I ask for donations for covering deployment costs [1], but so far I was unable to secure any funds.

[1] https://github.com/TCGV/DeFiOptions#support-mainnet
FCC actually gave Spacex 900 million to put those things up there. So Musk will profit at our expense. Are all his businesses government subsidized?

I could still see the trail of them before dusk so it appears it isn't working.

edit: the experts agree that spacex didn't do enough to reduce reflectivity and that it's still an issue. https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-a...
South Korea uses unmanned sentry guns to defend the DMZ. This gives them some degree of protection from another Northern invasion, even without US assistance.

If I were to characterize any part of Korea as a “dystopia”, it wouldn’t be the part that defends itself with robot machine guns. Indeed, the robot machine guns were invented to protect South Korea from falling under the dystopia that has overrun the North.
Israel restricts flow of dual-use goods [1]. There's nothing wrong with that.

If you had a bad neighbor, which has intentions to build bombs in his basement, you'd damn sure try to restrict what goes into his basement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology
> For most salaried people at my company who I’ve spoken to, it sounds like the norm is minimum 45-hour weeks, with bad weeks being as much as 60 hours. Getting breaks or lunches seems rare, if it happens at all, and work can bleed into other areas of your life.

This is very specific to the employer and doesn't have much to do with salaries vs hourly. To jump from there to "salaried is a scam" is a bit too far.
Maybe they only uploaded a 1080p version of the video - but I was expecting higher def. ...then again, I suppose interplanetary bandwidths are probably not great.
I live in New Zealand, where our first lockdown was taken VERY seriously by nearly everyone. If the population actually does it, lockdown works. A lot of people credited our current administration for our successful Covid elimination, but I think it comes down to our culture. We work together in close communities.
Sadly, I don't have a solid book recommendation about the early Internet.

But, my favorite Internet history book of all time is "IPng: Internet Protocol Next Generation" edited by Scott O. Bradner and Allison Mankin. It's about the development of what would become IPv6, and each chapter is written by a different engineer who was involved in the process. Some chapters were written for the book, and some chapters were publications/reports from the process.
Maybe too many companies have been burned by the undocumented mess left by the "above and beyond" crowd who move on after two years?
Is there a community for rooting Smart TVs and putting some other OS (i.e. LibreElec) onto the hardware?

Conversely, does anyone know if there's some way to re-use smart TV hardware? I had a Sony Android TV get smashed by a wayward child's actions some time ago and took all the boards out before recycling the rest, and I'd love to use it on my old dumb TV which has an aging Xbox 360 driving it, but I can't figure out how I'd get normal video output from the thing.
Haha sure..

What's your alternative? American Nuclear Fusion?

This kind of people aren't european, they worship america, and want us to depend more and more on their companies

I'm tired of hearing the same people saying we should exit nuclear energy, this is beyond crazy
In addition to the other comments, product licenses from purchased copies of Windows (like a digital download/upgrade of Windows 10 Pro) are stored in your Microsoft account.

Whatever means you use to reinstall even if it's a custom built machine without a Windows key in the BIOS you login to your Microsoft account and the license/activation "just works".

Loooooong gone are the days of typing in license keys or calling Microsoft on the phone if there is a problem activating/re-activating.
I don't think I have ever gotten a floating rate loan in Germany. Are there specific countries or types of loans where these rates are common? Are you talking about credit cards?
My hope is that social distancing continues—not at concerts, etc., but places we are forced to go, like grocery stores, etc. I’ve even gotten used to the mask, but feel that will be a welcomed good riddance by most.

I had one cold this winter, rather than counting on get sick 4-5 times.

I do have a self-centered concern on opening up though.

My life was lousy before the epidemic. I didn’t see a great economy. I saw a lot of really lousy jobs, and a lot of desperate competition.

I noticed some societal pressure to produce/succeed lighten up during the pandemic, at least for myself. In a weird way, it was kind of a positive. With each day they are counting to opening up, I noticed my sleep, and depression worsen.
After a 10x rise in less than a year, a 50% decline is definitely not a remote risk. Anyone taking this style of loan should be prepared to face a margin call and avoid liquidating collateral at the bottom.
> we’d probably be busy for a couple weeks

You would get paid to implement more descriptive systems. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Sure, of course... I guess they just gave a poor example of what they were trying to express.
Remember: the border used to be more open and I guess it will be in the future as soon as attacks decrease.
The coordination and knowledge sharing costs go up at least linearly with number of people. Twice as many people each working half-time mean a lot more of that time is chewed up with communication/knowledge acquisition.
Inflation is a tool to push wages down, you can collectively bargain against labor with inflation.

If you are in the owning class, you want wages tied to a currency and not the CPI. And you want a steady form of inflation that you can account for, while labor costs can drop at 2% plus per year.
It's pretty obvious any why I look at it. The resemblances with MLM are staggering and the late-stage capitalism arguments for NFTs are baffling. It makes me see bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as not so fun anymore and just a big capitalist scam.
I’m curious, in the US, is there a link between being salaried and having health insurance? I’m in the UK and our company gives full time employees health insurance but freelancers (the hourly paid workers) not. Is that the not the same in the US? Because that would seem like a big deal.
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My younger self was all about the kind of freedom that makes people hate Apple. But my younger self didn't see the absolute disgusting mess the internet became (sorry teenage me, it's not a utopia unhindered by borders, fueled by access to free information). Now, sometimes I want Apple. Sometimes I want Disneyland. I get why at Disneyland a man mysteriously appeared out of nowhere in a red coat and white gloves to tell me and my kid friends to turn the system of a down coming from my buddies backpack speakers off because it's disruptive to the atmosphere. It's why you can have faith if you buy a Nintendo console you're going to get fun games anyone can enjoy. I get why apple doesn't want trash on their app store. When you buy Apple, you buy a device and an atmosphere. It's clean. It works.
He's claiming that people who go into their overdraft and credit cards every month have $100 in their bank. They don't, most people live paycheck to paycheck, their bank balance just before payday is $nothing
You are mistaken about the rights and responsibilites of carriers. Carriers have never been required to carry all content without distinction. Just think about your cell phone company - if I get a call from someone they thing is a phone scammer, their name pops up in my caller ID as “scam likely” - the phone company is doing that!

The biggest flaw in thinking here is that carriers are forbidden from curating the content that they carry.
Would it be a big deal to change it? I don’t mind calling my degree something else.
> I have a couple of servers running in digital ocean with some docker web applications on them. I want to block access to these web services from the public internet but allow them from the VPC network.

What you need is a private network[1]. A private VPC will allow instances to communicate with each other, but to access them from the outside a "bastion host" is required. If you install a VPN in the bastion house and add the appropriate routes and settings, you'll be able to connect to your instances internally. This is the "proper" way to create a "private" network.

You could achieve the same thing using Cloud Firewall[2]. The cloud firewall supports droplet as a "source" definition.

UPDATE: You can create a private network using a shared VPN but it is an overkill if instances are on the same data centre.

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/vpc/#features

[2]: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/firewalls/#feat...
Yes, I can see that, but seems completely unrelated to the NFT. The NFT and the content it points to are independent from one another.
Fractal is actually responsive, I am actually impressed. It's not bankrolled by multi-million dollar companies though and Telegram web app is way faster so something doesn't add.
Here is Chomsky describing what Libertarian Socialism is, how such a highly organized society would be constructed, and that it is “traditional anarchism” while noting that “anarchism” is a broad term.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/b3m4aRQ9QvQ
It's worse for them than not having housing at all? I find that hard to believe.
LOL then start one
Actually 20-30hrs/week might be an overshoot. I'm surprised to see that for a lot of my friends teleworking means about 1h of work per day and an occasional meeting.
Salaries are an information game (that employees aren't winning), so it's limited, the extent that I'm willing to bottleneck my income at whatever Glassdoor/Linkedin horseshit a company is working off of. You can easily quadruple your income doing smart contract work, especially if you can reuse code across projects, whereas for salaried roles, you are mostly going to get incremental raises over your past salaried jobs.

There are different ebbs and flows to each type of work, so it's worth trying both for folks to see what they like. Job hopping for raises works for some people, but it also seems to lead to a lot of churn and lower expectations of trust and loyalty for salaried employees in the tech industry. Not my style. A business cutting edge-to-edge with another business is a more reciprocal arrangement, but there are some downsides and more stress.
People always use New Zealand and Australia as a shining example, but as an average joe, my first though is that they're already isolated which gives them a tremendous advantage.

I think the more valuable examples are in asian countries where they share close land borders. I'd assume that their cultural differences enable to comply with the rules a bit more than western countries so I don't know if it was even possible to prevent something like that in countries like the US. There's just too much resistance to control like that and the amount of land border that'd we'd have to police
father/son nodes were changed to parent/child long before "wokeness" or "SJWs" or even "PC"
> I think there is a real risk of it becoming more than just a sugar/ergonomics layer

I'm not sure it's actually a risk. The improvements to optimization in C compilers have benefitted everyone, though it took C a long while to be better at it than humans. I think the same idea applies here, as long as we choose our abstractions and optimizations carefully.

> it reminds me of GraphQL

Good catch, GraphQL has been one of my inspirations.
Mortimer Adler is kind of fascinating figure in popular culture of the past. The closest kind of parallel I can think of now to him would almost maybe be someone like Maria Popova but that's not entirely a great comparison either. He really did believe all the world's knowledge was contained in the written words of the past & present. He wanted to celebrate it, he wanted people to read them and talk about it but he also wanted to compartmentalize and package it and "sell" it too (Great Books & Encyclopedia collections) Not necessarily a bad thing really. Interestingly the 1972 revised edition of this which is the much expanded one was worked on by Charles Van Doren, the guy who cheated at the TV Quiz show in the 1950s. (The republication of the book was in part a professional/reputational reboot for him w Adler's help)
Depends on which side actually needs the money.

You cannot make an absolute statement that consumers vs businesses deserve more money, you have to look at the current market.

However, the central banks have opened the flood gates for supply side monetary stimulus. It's not unreasonable to think that the demand side has been neglected massively and that money should be put into the demand side instead.