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No one is saying housing and building regulation is always bad; those are good!

It's just regulation promoting low density is bad.

Libertarians love this example to troll the statist left that the state can't be trusted to control things wisely, but I'm just happy to hope undoing these things can be bipartisan, because the real estate lobby is so strong it's needed.
> US citizens residing in Puerto Rico do not vote on the presidential elections

Do you have a source for this? As far as I'm aware, US Citizens can absentee vote from out of the country without issue.
Searching in the recently updated nuget packages I came across this Pdfflowlib library:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Gehtsoft.PDFFlowLib/

Examples that this library provide look pretty neat:
https://github.com/gehtsoft-usa/PDF.Flow.Examples/tree/maste...

I'll try to use them as a starting point for building my docs.
I can't honestly imagine how bad indirect negative impact of all related to covid will be, I would say at least on scale of direct deaths / long time sufferers (although those things are obviously not directly comparable). And yet despite all these costs, most of the world failed desperately and repeatedly in handling it and the show is far from over.

Meeting the other sex is a topic on its own - all normal venues often just disappeared, especially here in Europe. No bars, no restaurants, concerts, schools, group sports, and most importantly not that much work in the office, arguably the most common place for folks to meet their significant other.

I am just a remote observer of this, we were lucky to get married in summer 2019 - one year later the marriage would be with 6 guests max if it would happen at all. But still can't wrap my head around all this no matter which angle I try to look it form.

Me, my wife and my son been through covid in February, my parents back home are going through it now and I really do have respect from this unpredictable sickness. But as damage mounts in each one of us and there is always this fleeting political promise that in next 2 months it will be much better, I am getting tired of largely inefficient yet very restrictive constraints and starting to lean more towards 'fuck it, keep basic measures mandatory everywhere and lets go back to behavior as it was before covid'. It may be just a stupid kneejerk reaction, but over 1 year wears one out
> Incremental compilation, edit-and-continue are available in Visual C and C++.

In a particular toolchain not available cross-platform - not comparable to Zig having it available in the reference implementation, which is open-source and cross-platform.

> REPLs do exist for C and C++.

Hacky, nonstandard ones with limitations and altered semantics that aren't included in any of the major IDE's. Not remotely comparable to what's provided with SLIME.
I'm not thrilled about the further expansion of US influence on worldwide telecommunications.

StarLink is a "solution", involving ruining raw data collection from any amateur or professional space telescopes fir decades only because the corrupt US government and private internet ecosystem doesn't allow for accessible internet connections, that the whole world has to suffer for. A shitty solution to an artificial problem in a country that tries to police the world.

Totalitarian governments will jam Starlink frequencies or arrest and shoot people who use its receivers. They won't be beaten by some crazy billionaire with an internet space ISP. You'd be a fool if you thought China would ever allow something like StarLink to exist in their airspace without exerting major control over the company.

No, most likely, StarLink will just be unavailable to totalitarian countries until their dictators stop doing what the US government wants them to do. If there's no way to block it, it'll become just another tool in the deep toolbox for insurrection. After all, dropping StarLink receivers is a lot easier than handling "rebels" guns when the time calls for it, like in most major conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa for at least the last decade.
I'm good hearted, but too stupid to understand his argument, so I will continue having as many children as I possibly can. The world in 400 years will be filled with my descendants, living good hearted lives stupidly, being harmed, causing harm, and reproducing rapidly!
By this same logic, myself drinking a glass of water is immoral. My entire existence is immoral.

Absurd philosophy, absurd reasoning, absurd conclusion.
My guess is the latter.
This article specifically addresses buildings that are only illegal because of zoning. They aren’t including buildings that are unsafe due to building regulations like firecodes, ADA, etc.
> The Tree-sitter parser for Bash itself somehow requires Typescript, though the parser is in C.

This is not necessarily true if you can write a compiler for a tree-sitter grammar that outputs the parser code in your favorite language. I know semgrep does this to make parsers for OCaml. But, of course, that's more work to be done.
> Filecoin can currently be used to purchase reliable cloud storage at a significantly lower cost than AWS or GCP.

I spent a little while looking at their site and docs, and I cant find any information on what storage actually costs. Where are you finding this information?
Sorry about that. But thats the term what is used by Apple to these type of bugs: https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/ ( Zero-click unauthorized access to sensitive data )
I think, in a market like this, if a new type of product appears, and starts gaining massive traction?

The CEO, the board, the top execs, marketing, etc, need to force use that product exclusively. So they know. So they get it.

Because it seemed like many floundered by not understanding the differences, what was important.

RIM could have done so much, but they didn't even get it, or seem to understand why people were bailing.

Where was RIM's board? CEO replacement took too long too.

Ah well.
Let's Encrypt is also down and can't issue certs
The main problem with "control who can live here" is that you would generally like children born in the place to be on the shortlist, but this would be unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. Cities and states can't privilege natives over migrants.

Rent control and the heritability of Prop 13 are the best California can do to prioritize incumbents. They do work somewhat, but the next generation of natives is still as screwed as prospective migrants re: forming their own households in the place, at least while their parents are still alive.
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Currently, no. I made a prototype for it a while back but we had to change editors and it was pushed back. But it won't take long to revive so it is definitely in the plans.
Our GitLab CI is failing due to https://mcr.microsoft.com/v2/ being down.
Sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 way faster than expected
The Internet permission was largely useless. If you knew what you were doing, it was trivial to bypass it to exfiltrate data. On top of that, almost every app requests it, which contributed to alarm fatigue in users.

Permissions are only useful if they can be enforced and users pay attention to them.
Fantastic. Not on-board with the ^^^^ syntax - could be improved. But it reminds me of how sequential-character syntax is limiting, like if you were going to make an integrated circuit in strict 2 dimensions, without being able to bridge over traces sometimes in a minimally 3-dimensional way. This is like bringing programming into, literally, a new dimension.
Rust's "compile-time code execution" is a horrendously complex joke, and it's compile times are so atrociously long that the lack of those two things you mentioned is even worse than in a language like C (with somewhat-sane compilation speed).
Mammoths could fight climate change
Make the Ever Given get stuck anywhere
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.

The JVM is designed to execute the constructs of the Java language. Scala compiles to JVM bytecodes, but it does a lot of (very cool!) things that are not natively supported by the JVM, and thus tend to be pretty expensive. Scala's pattern matching, for example, goes beyond what can be efficiently expressed in the JVM.

As a rule, Kotlin does not take this approach. Instead, almost all the constructs in Kotlin can be cleanly expressed in JVM bytecodes.

Reified generics is a good example. Kotlin only allows them when a function can be inlined, since in those situations, you don't actually need generic arguments, since the code in the inlinable function can be dropped in place. This allows for the convenience of reified generics -- but only if you're willing to live within the limitations of the inline restriction. (And it's also elegant, since it'll be easy to relax the constraint once the JVM adds the needed support.)

I've run across one or two things in Kotlin that don't translate to JVM bytecode elegantly, although I'm struggling to find a good example off the cuff. They're definitely the exception, though, whereas the Scala team took a more radical approach.
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NYC has one of the lowest rates of housing starts per capita in the US.
How are you going to keep people out of the city without raising prices? Also how is that fair to people who didn't have the privilege of being born in a nice city?
The market produces market rate housing. Developers prefer to develop higher priced housing because the effort to develop a housing project is mostly independent of the number of units and the market segment for which they are built...a few low cost units is about the same effort and risk as a lot of high priced units.

Actually, it's probably harder to build low cost units because bankers prefer a higher upside and psychologically tend to identify more with wealth than poverty...I mean people usually don't go into banking to alleviate poverty, misery, and suffering...although I have known bankers and they were all pretty decent people. It's just that their day to day work was serving wealth.
What’s the problem with:

1. Picking who is worthy of living in San Francisco as determined by the City and County of San Francisco

2. Removing current residents that don’t fit the criteria

And 3. Controlling who may then migrate in?

You tell me, Ford. You tell me. I have faith that you can do it. I’ll give you exactly one hint: San Francisco is not a country.
Same is true of used cars, aircraft, boats and any number of regulated products. Change any tiny reg and all the previous stock "could not be built today". It doesn't mean much. Buildings last decades, centuries, far longer than any zoning board decision.
IPFS devs commented on IA.bak back then, saying he would write a proposal to store IA.bak on IPFS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9148576

AFAICT, there was no follow up at the time, according to https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/i... ; so IA.bak went with git-annex, but it had issues given the scale of the project
Now do this with .bat files :)
Having won the IOCCC definitely helps to boost visibility, since it is one extra place where prospective employers can look you up, and it's a fairly exclusive one.

I ended up doing some readability related work at my current job because of (in spite of) my IOCCC experience.
So the crucial thing about story telling is that it’s not a literary genre. And that means that’s it’s often extemporaneous. In order to make up stories on the spot, storytellers use a body of elements (motifs, incidents, etc.) that they can dump in when they need them. Literary genres close to oral storytelling, like chivalric romance, the Sanskrit katha, and Arabian nights tales, usually keep this quality. (Btw, a good storyteller can do amazing things in this framework).

The issue with Alladin, Sinbad, and Ali baba, is that they lack most of the common motifs of Arabian nights tales (IE the slave whose mistake solves the problem, bedtricks, the sultan who solves everything, the discovered needed object) but do possess motifs very characteristic of 17 and 18th century French folktales (notably alladins rags to riches story, and the princesses cup trick). They also are less motif heavy in general! That doesn’t mean the translator made them up by the way... the resemblance to French folktales could be an accident, and they could be from another storytelling tradition, but they don’t seem like Arabian nights stories
> The question is not _whether_ humans will become extinct, but rather _when_ they will. If the anti-natalist arguments are correct, it would be better, all things being equal, if this happened sooner rather than later for, the sooner it happens, the more suffering and misfortune will be avoided.

By this rhetoric, life itself will one day end and since life is the source of all suffering, one might even argue hurrying along the process of destroying life. This I cannot get behind so I guess that makes me a pro-natalist.
> This must be this year’s April Fools article.

No, it's just the continued folly of the publish or die mantra of academia; this guy is a professor of philosophy and probably wrote that to cash in the 'controversy sells' narrative that has made so many otherwise mediocre people come into the limelight.

Academia is known for this kind of trite, esepcially in the non Sciences, hence all the trolling for SJW woke, fem-nazi BS that universities in the West have been pumping out all while China has been focusing on sending their kids to the best universities in the West's STEM fields to take advantage of the native's perpetual navel gazing and outrage culture tantrums.

It's gross, and I saw the uptick of it when I left University in before the 2010s and it already looked bad, I'd later visit several prominent university years later (including CalTtech) and all but a place like Caltech had the same thing--safe spaces, genederless bathrooms, outrage culture firings etc... It was pathetic to see as a person that had to struggle just to get a seat in impacted classes just to graduate in 5 years that this much effort was put on such vapid things.

The joke is what academia has become, this is just a symptom of it.
Anyone taking up 17KLOC of shell script “as is”, regardless of how many cool domains it is on, to use in production deserves everything they get subsequently.

It will be a useful learning experience.

The same goes about taking up k8s with no thinking, by the way.
The storage is incidental. Filecoin "storage miners" are required to perform work to prove that they're still storing the data. This work serves no purpose beyond acting as a proof of storage, and performing this work has nontrivial costs.
Home owners and landlords have more sway than renters. Why would they vote for government officials that promise to destroy their asset values?
It's a bit odd to count that as revenue. Like Robinhood counting their entire trade volume of $350 billion as "revenue".
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how can you say this with certainly in your case
$500 would include a few images or something. But it definitely wasn't a crazy amount of work. Swapping out text and messaging probably came in closer to the $300 mark. We mostly were paying for expertise of email developers that we trusted.

We rotated through a team of freelancers that specialize in email development. All the freelancers we worked with did email development full-time. They didn't make websites, they didn't do SEO, they just knew email inside and out. They specialize in email, and we paid a premium to them for that expertise. This is important because you want the emails to work on all platforms. So while it might seem easy to just swap out text, it can sometimes cause layout issues (email is very finicky) and we didn't want any of those glitches negatively effecting the brand. The emails generated tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue per email on average. So no one batted an eye at $500 to make the email. You are paying for the right person to do the job, not micro-analyzing their hours.

We made a lot more money from those emails than the freelancers made by making the emails. So you also want to make them happy, because good email developers are a dying breed. They are hard to find.

I should say that part of process was testing the emails. We ran email device and litmus tests for every email that had to be done as part of the development process. So when I got the finished email from the freelancer, they always submitted a link to a full litmus test result page which showed the email presented in about 30 different device, resolution, and email client combinations. That's what was required for me to approve the email and for the freelancer to get paid.

So the freelancer wasn't just swapping text, but testing the email for us and making any fixes so it worked consistently. They would also add variables for things like %%firstname%% or whatever. We would also run "conditional emails" several times a month that were customized to a customer's location (for example New York customers got a different email than California customers) or some other segment. But conditional emails were more advanced and would run closer to the $2,000 mark. Again, conditional emails out-performed blast emails (uncustomized), so they would consistently bring in 6-figure revenues on those days from the email, so no one thought twice about the $2,000 bill from the email developer.
> why is Coinbase listing on the NYSE

I don’t think you read the article, let alone the headline.
It's not induced demand through increased housing stock, it's city development that becomes a cycle of residential/commercial/business development (or all-in-one mixed development), all of which have feedback loops into each other.

Simply going for growth-at-all-costs gets you a more crowded but still expensive city. That may be better for the people running the cities and their budgets, but it's not clear to me it's better for anyone else than having things spread out to more places across the state or country.
big ole paywall.

I keep thinking more along the lines of mothership drone carrier than aircraft carrier.
Apple's entire business model is based on appearances. To be fair so is Microsoft's and many others.

Security is usually the last priority for nearly every for profit entity because it doesn't drive revenue.
They are listing on NASDAQ. Though they will be tradable on NYSE as well.
The VCs that gave them many dollars would like their investment (and hopefully, profit) returned in dollars.
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Astute observations, you seem to know this space well. Judging from this and your other comments, you also write really well (high information throughput!) - have you considered sharing your knowledge with a wider audience?
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While there's tons of unfounded mania going on in the crypto space, to paint it all as nothing more than Tulip mania is really pretty ignorant at this point.
These people are becoming just as bad as Q-believers. Everything has a hidden meaning if you just peel back the covers a little bit. Everyone is working against the retail investor. etc etc.
Using the words equally effective is a lie though. An uncharitable take being government propaganda being repeated because bureaucrats/politicians see it as a noble lie. If these studies only produced a pass/fail then that would be acceptable, but we all know that's not how studies are done.
> The gatekeeping, obscurantist mindset that has taken over in contemporary poetry

North America and the UK are now at least two decades into trends like slam poetry being ascendant, i.e. poetry that emphasizes being accessible to the public, tackling real-world hardships and political struggles, etc. The publishing decisions of major poetry presses like Faber & Faber are now largely centered around that.

Sure, there are still more hermetic or ivory-tower poets around but the heyday of their influence was only up to about the 1980s or 1990s. Nowadays they are mainly publishing in small-press editions that few people will even see copies of (especially due to the death of the bookstore), let alone read.
This is clearly what triggered the post.

Work was done but not paid.
Shitty business on Apple side...