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I feel passionate about this issue. People should feel secure in their living situation. Young people becoming newly independent should feel confident that they can find an adequate living situation regardless of the salary they're able to command, and that is absolutely not the case in much of North America at the moment. At the same time, my dad has made quite a bit of money from savvy real estate investing, and I stand to inherit much of that. He also pushed me to invest in real estate and my properties have appreciated an unbelievable amount in the last few years.

I feel guilty having profited so much off of something I now perceive as somewhat immoral, but I also feel completely powerless. How can someone like me influence politics enough to steer this ship back towards affordable housing?
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I'm not saying that it's the case for most land, I'm just saying that the land that people live and work it's not uncommon. Over 80% of Americans live in urban areas.
reminded me of h this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis
You do realize that has more to do with the availability of hydrogen and that they only have to hit their emissions target by 2050?

If you have done any kind of digging at all you realize that they have ran gas turbines at 90% hydrogen decades ago: https://www.ge.com/news/reports/hydrogen-generation-gas-turb...

> Take the Gibraltar-San Roque oil refinery in Spain, where the GE-made 6B.03 turbine has logged thousands of hours burning a blend of fuel gas and hydrogen. This same 6B.03 machine is also working in a South Korean refinery, where it has racked up more than 20 years burning a fuel blend containing more than 70 percent hydrogen. This turbine has even gone all the way up to a 90 percent hydrogen blend.

So even your goalpost moving argument is still wrong.

This whole thing started because no one here thought someone would seriously try to argue that hydrogen gas turbines are impossible. For some of us this was too obvious to even bother trying to debunk.
If you're a fan of the classic shells and cheddar, try stir frying some diced shishito peppers and adding them in next time.

As I age I find straight mac and cheese a bit too heavy these days. The peppers compliment and add to the flavour, while lightening the carb/fat hit a bit.
It isn't, but frequently the default editor is set to vim. That said I would question the judgement of anyone that judges you based on your favored editor.

Except emacs, those folks will burn in hell.
Housing should not be a financial instrument. There's nothing more to it than that.

Think about this: "every investment property requires a renter". It's the perfect embodiment of social/financial divide.

Radical idea, extremely unpalatable to many people: governments should ensure that anyone who wants to buy a house can buy a house by lending them the money. Consider Denmark doing exactly this: https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/denmark-...

I think it is a Russian saying "the fed do not understand the starving". i.e. anyone who owns a house has no empathy for those who don't.

But why the fuck should everyone not own a house who wants to? The disabled should be able to. Teachers should be able to. Firemen and policemen should be able to. Childcare workers should be able to. Instead, many people simply will never be able to own a house.

And the people who make the decisions - the politicians - are "the fed" - they all own at least one house often many.

Here in Australia the governments are all on a mission to make housing ever more expensive - fuck them.

I also can't see a single reason why overseas buyers should be allowed to buy real estate unless they are citizens or permanent residents.

I'm hoping one day governments will be voted out because people can't buy a house.

Housing...... should be for people and should be the basis of an equitable society in which everyone gets to own where they live.

Instead, all that counts here in Australia anyway, is .... money money money money.
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Well that was a very nice ego boost. Glad to see I’d be considered a great hire by a script that can match my CV to this matrix.
Yes, I have a similar setup on Azure - Azure Storage account with an Azure CDN fronting it. It's less than a single US cent per month for the hosting and bandwidth costs atm.
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My parents in law are well off due to property investment.

It’s basically scalping but you’re scalping homes people could live in.

I had a chance to take on their business and was eager with dollar signs in my eyes but my wife couldn’t stomach the ethical implications so we didn’t. Maybe we will receive some inheritance; maybe we won’t but I’m proud of her resolve.
> In the US eggs sold retail are required to be pressure washed.

That's interesting. In France it is actually illegal to sell washed eggs. As a result they can be kept easily a month without refrigeration. I wonder why there is such a different practice.
Welcome to Hacker News. Since you’re new here, you seem to be unaware of the fact that the person who’s opinion you’re referring to and attempting to dismiss is one of the moderators of HN, and one of the authors and keepers of this site’s guidelines.
The diagram (Asian Black Death is the Big Bang according to genetics)

https://twitter.com/monicaMedHist/status/1343894776978915328...
> Hopefully Google's capability-based microkernel approach with Zircon will stop this ever happening.

Just a correction, I meant "Hopefully Google's capability-based microkernel approach with Zircon will reduce the incidence and severity of vulnerabilities being exploited once they are inevitably discovered".
But reducing it down to a basic fact exists in all of these. We agree the boat is stuck. We agree an election took place in the US. We agree there is an Earth.

But yes, regardless it is still nice to just say:

The boat is stuck.

And everyone agrees.
> But seriously what were you doing those 15 minutes? You could have your cheese sauce ready to go and put the noodles almost directly into it

One thing this thread has taught me is that what I would consider mac & cheese, which involves baking the cooked macaroni with cheese and roux, is not what other people are doing.

I now see why 20 minutes for prep can work, though I’m not sure I would be much more interested in eating that.
It's almost endearing how far someone can shove their head up their own asshole and still keep shoving...
In a certain way housing isn't a financial thing when it should be i.e. I look at my estate agent that I piss money into, they do absolutely nothing and are generally totally incompetent because they don't need to be.

I believe in private property as a right, fundamentally so, but it's just ridiculous at the moment - especially if you consider that voting systems are usually biased towards those of us who are older, richer, and often suburban or rural - this massively skews the incentives for politicians.
Things got so bad in Japan during their property bubble that it led to such bad ideas as 100 year multi generational mortgages:

https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990...
Still difficult though.
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> No, there's no way someone can be that stupid.

Unfortunately, my experience in various industries leads me to disagree.
He supported the right of the state of Texas to regulate what kind of sex it's citizens were allowed to have in Lawrence v Texas where cops responding to a noise complaint found gay men having sex and arrested them for having sex in their own home.

Flowers v. Mississippi was arguably worse or at least as bad.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/clarence-thomas...

He believes a person facing prison has a right to hire counsel or accept the services of same but no right to effective counsel as established by Gideon v. Wainwright

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1962/155

He also disagrees with New York Times vs. Sullivan. Wherein we severely limited the misuse of civil courts by public figuree to shut down free expression.

A capable analysis by the la times.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-chemerinsky-supr...

I could go on and on the constitution as he sees it would describe a nation unfit to live in something he has in common with strict constructionists.

Thomas is both morally and intellectually unfit

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/opinion/clarence-thoma...

He never credibly established his right to be on the court in the first place and his silence in court is because he has nothing to say. When he does speak in his dissents it is frequently to express sentiments that shock the conscience. He is more forward now because the conservative world has rotated far enough to the right that it is well aligned at this point with Thomas malignancy. He is emboldened and we ought to be concerned.

I might be an armchair non expert but at least I know people should have a right to council, the state shouldn't regulate what consenting adults do with their genitals buying legislators isn't speech, and trying a black man 6 times because the convictions keep getting overturned for prosecutorial misconduct is wrong.

This puts me, someone manifestly unfit to be a justice, head and shoulders above thomas.

So glad to have provided such rich entertainment. Got anything else to say?
Research issues in your community and contact your local representatives about your ideas and opinions on it. Then, the more you understand about these issues, try to get involved in local organizations that provide housing for lower income residents. There's great work to be done! Don't be afraid to roll up your sleeves :)
Or a reference to the last 40 years...
Good article.

*Now let’s look at IT in general. When was the last time you heard about or used some really good software library or application developed by a HK company or a bunch of HKers? Exactly. We’ve done fuck all in IT. Do we have programmers and software engineers in HK? Sure we do! But even in IT, we’re just consumers who use the awesome tech developed by people and companies in other countries, to make yet another CRUD or to develop high frequency trading systems so we can pretend to be creating value. In contrast, you see Alibaba, Tencent, DiDi, bilibili, and ant.design ranked among the top 100 organisations on GitHub, based on the number of stars on git repositories. They have contributed to the world widely useful software libraries such as arthas, weui, ncnn, rapidjson, ijkplayer, flv.js, DoraemonKit, and ant-design.*

Excellent points on the whole. Maybe if HKers spent less time bitching about "China bad" and pretending about bullshit ideologies and politics, and go back to the creativity and hungry hard work spirit that initially contributed to HK's growth, they'd get some shit done for once. Until then, the decline is sad to see.

But the issue with the young generation in HK is somehow they are "content" with the reasons over results bullshit, and content "feeling good" by pretending "China so evil", and playing some fake victim fantasy, they are content with this, rather than going, "How can I get results? How can I make my life good? How can I build up HK?" I think probably a lot of people realized "Oh, shit we can't 'compete' anymore, we're no longer the star child" so in the trope of sibling rivalry (even tho it's China-HK are not brothers, more like family), they just gave up, defeatist attitude, and found some weak and pathetic and twisted (and evil, look at the violence of those 'terrorist protesters' during the unrest) way to pretend they're better than China now. Now, all the poor HK kids have been misled by this bullshit, and they're all addicted to this idea that China so bad, because they've got nothing else to contribute, and it's the only thing they have left to feel "good" and deal with the fact that they're no longer number 1. Rather than lift themselves up, they wanna try drag no. 1 down. It's so sad.

Man I wish I didn't see the place I love come to that, but it has. Good article, I wish more HK young people could listen to you about this, but they are too closed minded. They don't want to hear. If you say ideas like this, then they just want to fight (or set you on fire), and react and not listen. I get why. It's too painful to listen. To face the fact: You're not number 1. It's on you. It's no one else's fault. It's your responsibility. No one's coming to save you. It's your responsibility to "make HK great again".

Hard truths to hear, so they stuff their ears and chant "songs of freedom". I'd laugh if it wasn't so real and if I didn't love that place. It's tragic. Oh well, at least China has stabilized HK for now by putting their foot down.
Just to add a bit more to MS Oasis of the Seas passing under Great Belt bridge:

"Approaching the bridge at 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph), the ship passed under it with less than 60 centimetres (2 ft) of clearance."

EDIT: found a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYf8F9-jULo

Mind. Blown.
> Ach! I forgot you don't have electric kettles in the US because of some crappy power supply issues!

We do have electric kettles, although I take it they don’t heat as fast as yours due to the difference in power supply.

That said... I’ve never seen one (in the UK) big enough to heat enough water to properly boil pasta. They’re like one quart or 1L at the most...?
Fire retardants in general are pretty terrible. Great example of unintended consequences of overzealous regulation. Now we don’t have fires but are killing ourselves with pfoas on our pillows, mattresses evetthing.
The Ministry of Truth from 1984 has been perfected in China!
Public cache is an awful idea. It initially sounds like a great public good, but many of us can see where it will go:

- google will still have some "extra" crawling to keep his monopoly

- everyone else would be fighting for an access to said cache, which will not be able to carry everyone who wishes. So, there will be rationing and favors

- that will quickly become a bureaucracy which would envelop every aspect of internet activity

- "undesirable" sites will be easily ejected from cache and forgotten forever

- you will end up with a single entity paid by public, can't go bankrupt, in charge of whole internet. Google will go bankrupt if they don't satisfy people - these people don't even have to do a good job - there's nobody else on the market (remember, we started with the need to eject google? This will eventually happen).
> This whole started because no one here thought someone would seriously try to argue that hydrogen gas turbines are impossible. For some of us this was too obvious to even bother trying to debunk.

Now you're just straight up lying. Nowhere did I claim that hydrogen gas turbine was impossible. In fact I even provided an example of the soviets experimenting with hydrogen powered jets. Do you realize that a jet engine is a gas turbine?

What I did say is that you can't just repurpose the existing fleet of natural gas turbines for hydrogen generation. I'm well aware that companies are working on 100% hydrogen turbines, but even the examples you cited require a mix of natural gas.
A lot of dismissive complaints that boils to "this is objectifying programmers", and yes I get it. But now I'm on the other side (VP, but still coding), and actively recruiting, I realized some things taken for granted from myself and my good engineers, are still missing from a large number of candidates I've interviewed so far.

I usually ask the candidate for a live coding test over zoom. "Here's what you need to code, please share your screen while you're doing it so I can see how you work. You're free to google, of course, because that what we all do at work. The guy who wrote the quiz did it in 5min, I did it in 10. I give you 20 just in case. Please start now."

Then I watch them code. After that, we discuss their approach. But usually the second step never happened, because as soon as the timer stops and I see their code, the code (and how they're writing it) usually tells everything.
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Is this some kind of supervillain fan fiction?
This isn't tipping, but assured maintenance.

We usually think of wages as payment for work produced, and generally, if the cost of producing a thing isn't exceeded by the value created, you won't pay that cost.

But the true cost of labour is its upkeep, sustenance, that of its family, the training, risk, and uncertainty associated with the employment, as detailed 245 years ago by Adam Smith (Book 1, Chapter X, Wealth of Nations).

And that means, in a time when work is impossible, paying a maintenance wage to ensure future productive capacity.
Not really. It's industrial SDE competency matrix.
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Off topic, but Bradley (and Karen) has an interesting podcast about free software legal issues called “free as in freedom”
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No actual story about thermite was contained therein.
> I now perceive as somewhat immoral, but I also feel completely powerless

You already have and stand to inherit resources a good chunk of the country dreams of...and you feel powerless? You own those things. You control them. If you want something to be different, do something different.

> How can someone like me influence politics enough to steer this ship back towards affordable housing?

Small steps. Do what you can with your resources. Your existence and how you live your life is the biggest political move an individual can make. The article is about expanding the scope of problems to solve them, but that logic is for institutions. As an individual, think individually. You defeat yourself by growing the problem scope into something requiring state action.

Specifically since you own and will own real estate: convert your properties into section 8 housing. It has a bad stigma and everyone worries about terrible renters, but I've had worse luck with non-section 8 tenants than friends have had with them.
That model predates important advances like Rational Expectations.

Even in the 1980s the Fed under Paul Volcker tried to reign in inflation too quickly, causing a recession.
I loathe when people are trying to represent the tiny Japanese crawlspaces as "better housing". I'm keeping my american one thank you very much
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100-year mortgages are common in Sweden. A few years ago the government even had to pass a law to limit mortgage terms to 105 years, because banks had started selling 140-year loans.

It’s sort of a halfway house between renting and owning. As long as property values go up, both buyers and banks seem reasonably happy with the arrangement. Apparently the Swedish rental market is quite broken which led to this model, but I don’t know the details.
Money flows to good investments. If it flows internationally it’s because investors without citizenship trust your country’s rule of law in respect to non-citizens. Violating that to seize foreigners’ assets, or force them to sell at a discount, works once but ultimately leaves the country worse off IMO.

I hope some smaller countries start experimenting with true socialist policies. We need a Venezuela every few years to remind us why it’s such a terrible idea.
And do they classify Chrysler as domestic or foreign (part of FCA)?
I also don't think top down land use regulation/zoning is appropriate. That's best left to localities with the exception of large projects (state and federal).

Why should Tokyo set zoning for Kagoshima?
Was this a scientific study? If so, that’s interesting
How is this a weakness with "the system"? What's that even mean? What is strength supposed to look like?

If somebody bombed the canal or a ship sank at the entrance then it would be a similar situation. Sometimes it's just risk and crazy events, not some planned ineptitude.

The fact that the world continues just fine is actually evidence of how resilient everything is.
With Github Actions the CI more or less "just works".

With free private repos and that kind of integration it's a pretty neat setup.
How do you standardize this across applicants? I'd worry that there's not enough to compare across candidates doing something as generic as this.
Houses and rent are expensive because there's not enough houses in the places people want houses. You're not paying for the house, you're paying for someone else not to live there. Governments further subsidising homeownership will only make them more expensive.
Perhaps the trick is notebooks with little images in the margin
I'm sure an actually robust Cloud Run look-alike is a lot more work than just adding a web UI but yes, I agree. Details like isolation, storage, security, addon-services, etc take a lot more time to work out (and some lessons you only learn by doing it wrong once or twice) but simply running KNative does get you ~80% of the way there.
> I feel passionate about this issue

Are you saying you're subletting at below market price to low income tenants?

Or just that you'd like to use other people's money to improve the world?
The article warns of spoilers at the top. Those wishing to experience the game for themselves can try the emulator link [1] at the bottom.

[1] http://torinak.com/qaop#!hobbit
There's enough houses.

There just shouldn't be people owning more than 2.
You certainly can, I just set that up myself this week.
They do, but the accompanying app with RocketBook makes it easier. Each page has customizable bubbles which I can tick off to send the notes to the right destination. It just works which is unusual with most technology.

Additionally, when I was in my undergrad I still went through a lot of paper. I have bad habits when I scribble notes or solve math problems. But with this, it's the only notebook I carry.

I don't have separate notebooks for work, subjects, home, etc.
sorry, i forgot about this thread, and absolutely did not think you'd respond. kudos.

yay, you proved a RAW video can be zipped. you're right, i'm wrong. i have to ask though, why? what in the world is this trying to achieve? this has to be one of the worst ideas for making video smaller and useable.
Not to mention that most apartments have mininum lease durations, and penalties for breaking said leases. So if you move for a new job, sign a one year lease (because that's all that's available, or you can't afford to pay extra for shorter terms), and then a month later you're handed a box and a security escort...
Articles like this remind me that there's an entire world of people who have to work day-to-day in environments much more hostile to creativity and fun than I've ever had to endure.

This feels like something I'd come across in an archeological dig, something that tells us about our past, and how far we've come since then.