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My point was that lockdowns aren't necessary, and rather than jumping to lockdown, we should be looking to learn from the countries that handled the pandemic better than us. In America the dialogue basically seems to just be "omg cases are rising? SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING". Not enough attention is put on the million other less destructive measures that can be taken to reduce the spread.

Right now for example I'm in a third world country with a highly ranked healthcare system (above Germany). No lockdown here, hospitals aren't overwhelmed, and life is almost like normal (other than half the local businesses appearing to be out of business). There are basic measures like hand sanitizer everywhere, and needing to put it on to say enter a shopping mall.

2 weeks ago I was in the U.S., and I never really even saw that. I was in a post office, and I had to ask the cashier if they had sanitizer and she took a little bottle from the back, after which I'd imagine she put it back behind the counter as if hiding it from customers. When I took an Amtrak train nobody offered hand sanitizer or checked my temperature.

I'm not saying that having hand sanitizer available is the cure to containing COVID, I'm saying that these are the absolute easiest to implement measures that even third world countries have managed to implement, and the U.S. is not even capable of that. The U.S. seems incapable of doing anything other than telling restaurants they need to shut down, which is absurd (yes there are things being done behind the scenes and I'm hand-waving a bit, but the point is that even compared to third world countries, the U.S./west appears to be immensely incompetent despite being the wealthiest countries)
Sounds like a place in need of “right to repair”
There are companies in Europe that produce suspicious looking papers backing products in the alternative medicine industry. "Darsch Scientific" comes to mind. They have done papers supporting Menon and Powerinsole. The papers published include graphs and pictures of cell cultures and conclude amazing results but methodology described in the papers seem to be less than robust for products claiming miraculous properties.

https://www.dartsch-scientific.com/
https://www.powerinsole.com/science-en/?lang=en
https://www.memon.eu/blog/schutz-hochfrequente-strahlung-ele...
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I thought you were joking until I read the article. That's not a thing I've ever seen in Austin's culture, indeed a transplant.
> puts you in one of two firm categories, and any sort of crossing over or breach between categories is impossible

I find this debate interesting so I try to read a lot of different perspectives. I think the /r/gendercritical position was more nuanced than you make it out. They think that while humans can’t change their sex, rigid ideas of what it is to be a man or woman are one of the things that causes some people to feel like they need to. They would say that society should accept a and encourage a broader range of expressions of femaleness and maleness than it does now.

The GC position, as I understand it, decries the idea that a butch dyke should feel the need to live under a male identity just because she is far outside of the “firm category” of feminine or has many traditional masculine traits. It’s why they use terms like “butch erasure” [1]. It’s something interesting that I learned reading a now-banned subreddit which helped me to have more compassion and understanding for people who haven’t always had the easiest time in life.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrnJOSk-3kA
> I am always really wary about google and their products. People might say that enterprise services are different, and it's different from free services where if you're not paying you can't expect anything, but there's been paid services by google that have been absolutely terrible like stadia

GCP is a major player in the cloud space. Number 3 last I looked. I fail to see how that compares to Stadia, an expensive experiment that may or may not succeed. Do we judge AWS on Amazon Prime Video's mediocre service? I sure hope not. Let's be clear - GPC is not an experiment. It has massive capital backing

> At the very least the marketing for gcp could make it clearer what exactly it's offering that's better: price, ease of management, etc.

Okay, but you (I assume) can read beyond marketing. Marketing should not influence your decision (very much)

> Because nobody is going to get fired for choosing AWS so there has to be a real clear incentive other than some small technical improvements that don't matter at scale.

I don't use GCP but there are many clear advantages. If those do not help your biz case, fine, move on. But if you can't see the advantages, read more
I don't think that saying technology is an evolving problem is an "authoritarian" stance

Software is written by human beings, human beings make mistakes. The fact these devices can't be updated by the vendor is an implicitly economic problem

Right-to-repair likely wouldn't "solve" these problems for 99% of people, unfortunately. Netflix would never have its customer service people advocating to download custom firmware for smart TV's from "some Russian website" for instance

The real change it would cause is allowing "tech savvy" people to carve out a niche repairing and reselling used, but functional devices. Which even if it's only a 1% decline in sales is an unacceptable proposition for companies.

Selling millions of something every year somehow isn't worth it if even a single PENNY is left on the table, or "spent" in the wrong place instead of lining their pockets
handwaving here, but broadly correct: modern OS' will try to arrange work/app wakeups so they happen at the same time - ex. if I schedule a 15 ms timer, and you schedule a 18 ms timer, maybe we both just get woken at 18. or 20. or the phone rang, so we had to kick up power to talk to the tower, lets grab email
I'd imagine one's views on gentrification are largely shaped by which side of the gentrification they're on.
It shouldn’t be considered harassing or “doxxing”, but this precedent of arbitrary labeling was set on numerous occasions. For example it was set by activists and partisans crying “doxxing” on past occasions like when journalist Andy Ngo documented the criminal activity of antifa groups in Portland or when Zero Hedge listed the public information of the Wuhan lab’s head straight from the lab’s public facing website.

Randomly made up, highly charged words like “doxxing” have no place in our discourse. We need to have fixed language if we are to reason about the world around us in a consistent and useful manner. Unfortunately these days language has itself become a political tool and battleground.
That definitely could be, although the Merck I'm referring to (which Oxford was about to sign a deal with) is German.
No class of argument is more malleable than who was there “first”. Sometimes it means you’re right and you’re entitled. Sometimes it means you’re wrong and you’re exclusionary. All depending on the perspective of the person using it for leverage.

Compare this article with any article about the need for denser housing in California, which is often opposed by the people who were there first.
Actually my experience is that while those are many, they are usually considered sociopaths or narcissists.
I moved to Austin 20 years ago from Palo Alto. Fiesta Gardens isn’t all churros and mariachis. The car meet ups can legit be a bit rough. https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/6pocmw/brawls_at_fi...

So I understand where the gentrifying scum are coming from. But jeez, do they not know how to search Reddit?? Everyone knows about Fiesta Gardens and its craziness. I’m sorry they failed to do their due diligence. Now perhaps they’ll understand why it’s cheaper than Tarrytown.
But does the 1 million dollar missile cost 1 million to build a second one?

Often times military cost per unit factors in a fixed R&D cost. It doesn't necessarily mean it literally cost 1 million in parts and labor to assemble the single missile.
Ok, now I need to spend some time there.
This is not true. What is your source?
True, most of us then. Definitely the majority. I’ve seen people sleeping and driving in bumper to bumper traffic without causing any problems.

So there’s something going on in the brain that we’re not getting.
Because it's extremely location dependent, and not true for most hospitals. Full hospitals are in the minority.
How is that possible? Do apple servers send a list of >1Mio apps to the device and the device chooses among those? Or more likely the app builds some profile/preferences and tells those to the server so the server can choose what apps to propose?
So basically change "cost of production" and "3.14" until it works?
Seriously. It’s that the changes don’t bring with them culturally meaningful adaptations. We see apartments built like the one described but that doesn’t introduce long term neighborhood residents like the ones joining the party.
> I think his movies seem so good because everything about them is good.

Seems to me you just made my point. :-)

I must have missed the greatness while sleeping.
> In what ways is Google the best product

> I think in many ways they have the best product.

They didn't say that Google had the best product. They said that in many categories, it was the best. That doesn't mean it's the overall best product. In fact, from their post it seems pretty clear that they ended up deciding that Google Cloud wasn't the overall best product.

> if you had a prod meltdown and couldn't get support

Presumably, they were implying that customer support _wasn't_ one of those many ways.
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I don't think that happened but if I did I'd be thinking financial market manipulation for private gain long before intelligence agency shenanigans by states.
Have there been any natural experiments where less-wealthy white folk were priced out by more-wealthy non-white? I think the driver of gentrification is economic class not race/ethnicity. Wealthier and whiter show up together but may not be the same thing.
Definitely visit. Check out the river walk. If you’re a basketball fan, you got the Spurs.
East Austin’s demise was a neighborhood topic in the late 90’s.
Those traditional black neighborhoods were bought up, demolished and turned into luxury apartments at insane prices.

At one point I was on the east side and saw an old black woman rocking on her front porch in front of a 70's shotgun shack, next to an ugly post-modern 2 story house with a lambo and a tesla sitting outside of it.

I don't think increasing housing density is the answer. We really don't need more luxury apartments or million dollar condos.
I'm interested in the nuanced version. I'm not familiar with the event. The article painted a pretty clear and unsympathetic story: "these folks have been gathering in this spot to do this thing weekly for 25 years, an expensive apartment building went up, and some of the residents who moved in don't like the event and want it canceled, citing a variety of flimsy pretexts."

So what's the interesting and unusual nuance that makes this story more interesting?
If you like this concept and like to dig deeper there's Xronomorph [1]. Don't love Xronomorph's U.I. but it is an interesting concept with some deeper mathematical background around the concepts of "perfect balance" and "well-formedness" of rhythms. The site has some papers and links on those concepts, quite the rabbithole.

1: https://www.dynamictonality.com/xronomorph.htm
>It's a different set of skills though

Maybe? Obviously there are people at SpaceX who don't work directly on rockets, and there are people at Google who aren't SWEs. People might find some prestige or glamour even in jobs that aren't the ones you think of.

Right now it appears SpaceX is hiring customer service people for Starlink, and an HR rep to work at Cape Canaveral. And a network operations analyst in Washington, and so on. They also have "rocket engineer" positions, but there are plenty of other things.

The only time I was contacted by a Google recruiter, it was for a job in their legal department, so the experience was completely unlike what you hear about them.
I haven't read the book, but I have traveled on a container ship through the Suez Canal. It's not really what I would call exciting, but it is fairly interesting. It takes less than a day to transit, and the scenery is relatively varied - you get to see urban areas, some rural farmland, beaches, and full out desert. Both in front and behind are dozens of massive container ships, just as big as the one you're on. It's quite humbling.

All this is in contrast to the rest of the time you are onboard. You are right that not very much happens. The ocean is very, very big. The vast majority of the time you can't see any land, or any other ships. If you don't have a satellite receiver of your own, there is no internet, no news, no nothing. Sometimes there is a storm. Sometimes there is a sunset. Most of the time there's nothing of note. I found it really relaxing, but it's definitely not for everyone. It's also a very expensive way to travel compared to commercial airlines or even long distance rail.
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> Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, there are people who built their house next to a NASCAR track! WHO thinks that is a good idea?

Depends on how often it's used I guess. At times I've lived a couple of blocks from a formula 1 track and right on a hairpin bend of an IndyCar track. Both were held once a year so even though I don't like car racing it was a feature not a problem.
She wasn't Irish. She was British but born in Ireland. This is part of Ireland's attempt to cobble together some sort of anti fascist history as nationalism rises due to the displacement levels of immigration seeing numbers greater than the historical plantations of her kind, the legacy of which still causes trouble to this day.
Did they bother to use a scanner antenna and a spectrum analyzer? If drones, likely they would have measured some radio signals.
I'm keeping an eye on https://rockylinux.org/ to see how it pans out. It's got AWS as a sponsor and according to their site "Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project." That bodes well. We'll see how it goes.
Wow one of my life goals is to have a house with a proper workshop. Guess that won’t happen in Sacramento.
There's already a ton of shipping going around the cape and yeah, giant cargo ships aren't doing mid trip pit stops just for food and fuel.
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Short story is, they're making money you don't have access to. Exchanges add fees to every trade that goes through an exchange. If a stock costs $10 with a $1 fee, and someone's willing to sell it to you for $10.50 with a $0 fee, wouldn't you take it? That's fifty cents of price improvement over national best offer. So Citadel batches all the orders for that stock and does one big trade (per stock) at the end of the day, and everything settles out -- you got cheaper stock, they made some money for their trouble. Enough money to kick back $0.20 or so to Robinhood for referring you as a client.
This is an intentional tactic. Buy land at a discount near a nuisance, sue/threaten everyone around you into oblivion, and then enjoy your now-significantly-more-profitable house/condo/apartment building.

This has repeatedly happened with the music venues, which caused them to leave that part of the city. It happened with a really nice gun range. It happened with several bars. Unfortunately the car meetup is probably doomed.
they definitely were asking to be seen. unclear why, though, other than as some sort of taunt.
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First, the competition does place a time limit (in fact several resource limits). I agree that it may be too lax to judge consumer-oriented compression algorithms. That is not what this competition is about.

The goal is maximizing compression ratio - with the aim of affecting AI. Since an AI system can be seen as a lossy compression where some worldly input is compressed into something that we hope mimics "understanding". Improvements in compression may translate to AI advances [0] and potentially vice versa.

To draw a parallel away from computing:

One could say we are compressors that experience the world and compress it to loose what we don't care about. Improving our compression is basically akin to "knowing more" or "remembering more of the right things". See Schmidhuber [1].

[0] http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#compai

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
It's sad that the U.S/Europe is not capable of implementing contact tracing. I don't want to be spied on by Big Brother more than anyone else, but I'll take that over the government telling me I'm not allowed to leave my house.
I live next to an airport, I consider that noise to be the sound of progress abs economic growth.
that presupposes the locals were renting to begin with.

I don't see evidence of that, or the opposite.

I admit to be assuming that long-time locals own their property. At least, a significant chunk.

Also note that not enacting a tax cap is not "neutral" to the status-quo of community: for as long as they do not enshrine capped taxes into their code, the longtime locals will be outbid by transplants due to the latter's ability to pay absolute higher property taxes.

This only accelerates gentrification further.
Yep I recently picked up a used slim HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF i5-4590 Quad Core 3.3GHz 16GB RAM / 240GB SSD With Win 10 Pro for $150..

And it literally was in lightly used (basically perfect) shape and no issues at all.. they even threw in a cheap WiFi dongle.

It’s amazing what you can get on eBay for value as far a large used computers go.. obviously it’s YMMV as far as the seller you happen to buy from and the condition of the item you receive.. but for me, this machine was super awesome and fast (I hadn’t bought or built a desktop PC in at least 10 years prior to this)...
*Fled
Difficult thing is sometimes you look up a source for a city's population and they will show you the exact population of the city limits and sometimes they will show you the population of the metropolitan area. The article rounded up the actual census data from 9.5% to 10% for the 2000 numbers, but left the 2017 number at 7.5% (fudging with precision).

At any rate, if someone moves from East Austin to Del Valle or Manor, are they 'forced out of Austin'? Even if that move affords their family a larger living space? These are satellite communities only a couple miles further out of the city center.

No doubt East Austin has gotten much more expensive in the past 10 years, as the article underscores. There's still quite a bit of low income housing, but it's certainly making up a smaller portion. As the downtown corridor jumps across I-35 and expands east, more and more high rises are being built in East Austin, where older ranch houses and traditional neighborhoods used to exist.

The thing is, many of these older ranch houses on the east side aren't even in great shape and don't really fit modern standards. They have character, sure, but raising a family in a small, wooden, 2/1 or 3/1 1950s ranch house with bad upkeep is not necessarily a desirable thing. Migratory data alone is not enough to interpret the story.
The removal of a bad system that does good without a better system to replace it is an evil in sheeps clothing.

Furthermore, what's with the "misogynistic, transphobic piece of shit" malarkey? Is that just becoming the term du jour for "people I don't agree with" nowadays?
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That is an excellent question and it strikes to the heart of the difference between two people’s interpretation of a given statute (or body of law).
https://code-enforcement.saccounty.net/Programs/Pages/AutoRe...

These rules are draconian. "[Prohibited if conducted] outside a fully enclosed garage or accessory structure and resulting in the vehicle being inoperable for a period in excess of 24 hours."

On the other hand, if you're rich enough to live there, you're probably rich enough to have a large enough enclosure where you can skirt the law anyway.
I've been here for seven years. It definitely feels like we're on the track toward what people describe SF as. Several cultural institutions have gone out of business in my time here, everything's getting more shiny and less weird, the homeless camps are growing enormous due to rising rents/displacement, etc. We're not SF yet, but we will be before long if nothing changes.

I held out a small hope that covid and the remote-work wave would stem things a little bit, but it's hard to say whether that's happened. If anything, the influx could have increased due to the exodus from SF.

Overall I don't feel optimistic.
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The plant roots like the right texture. If you have clay, adding organic matter releases glomalin [0] and creates aggregates that let the water drain more easily, preventing root rot and allowing them to penetrate deeper.

Each of those - sand, clay, organic matter have a pore size distribution and different pressure that it releases water at. The amount of water and the pressure that it's released at form what's called a soil matric potential graph. The important thing is balancing those so that the soil moisture is mostly held at a pressure that the roots can access . There is a soil texture pyramid that illustrates the different soil textures and mixtures.

[0] https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/content/archive/agriculture-today...

[1] https://topsoilpros.com/what-is-a-soil-texture-chart/

The guy in the video is calling mulch compost. Compost is supposed to be made of green material which contains nitrogen and other nutrients not bark and wood chips. There are different sources of organic matter that contain different nutrients, pore distributions, etc.
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I enjoy Philip Glass' music.

But if J.S. Bach were Philip Glass, there would be a Philip Glass subreddit with 100,000 members dissecting every single section of each peculiar new album.

One section of a piece would consist of the melody of Lee Greenwood's "Proud to Be an American" somehow fittingly trudging along below Philip Glass music. Another section would overlap three Philip Glass musics with staggered entrances, turning each upside down for a subsequent section.

Yet another piece would have just one Philip Glass music, overdubbed with a Disney movie theme, a Lady Gaga song, and some generic hip hop music he heard while watching a dance competition at the mall.

One double album would consist solely of sophisticated mashups of songs chosen exclusively from the tin pan alley era-- one for each common tempo on the metronome-- served over a nice bed of Philip Glass ostinatos.

After getting banned from SNL for going overtime with a tasteless tin-pan-alley style freestyle rap/dj'ing experiment, Philip Glass would have moved to Dayton, Ohio to write weekly 45 minute religious services in the style of golden age Broadway musicals for a small evangelical church. (Edit: he would also personally perform Philip Glass music at the piano for the service's prelude and postlude.)
> To be as clear as possible, the President isn’t Democracy

I am afraid I am lost.
As long as they personally don’t have to throw grandma down the stairs, they’re ok with it. The price of progress.

Since TX doesn’t have Prop 13, they are going to be annoyed with the tents cluttering their views.