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1. What's your point?

3. Sure it can. You can have a market governed by supply and demand. Lots of demand? Price increases. Price increases? Incentivises supply. More supply? That's great, it addresses the scarcity and prices will follow-suit.

Poor people priced out who have a right to housing? A rental cap is an intervention that directly impedes the free movement of the price up to a hard cap.

But a housing subsidy for low-income individuals, i.e. more money to spend on housing, does not change the fact that the market is still governed by supply and demand.

Housing prices with rent subsidies can still go up and down depending on demand. But the government taxes the rich, and redistributes money to the poor, allowing their purchasing power in the housing marketplace to be more equal than solely based on their own income.

This, combined with proper zoning laws (set more at a federal level to override local NIMBY powers) and limited red-tape, to allow construction levels to respond to increased prices and actually generate adequate supply, is a market-based system where the poor are getting their right to housing.

What's the alternative?

Besides, there's more housing than ever. The right to housing cannot be spoken about without also saying 'in particular places'. The average household size (people per house) has dropped every decade for a century, and the average home size has increased every decade for a century. The square foot per person has been growing and growing. Whatever housing crisis people talk about, they tend to completely ignore location. Yet you'll find plenty of people who speak about a right to affordable housing in NY or SV when it's a place where incomes are at the top 0.1% worldwide and there's easily 10x as many people (in the country, and 1000x worldwide) who want to live in such cities at an affordable price than there are homes to live. It's impossible to provide a right to housing to all in those locations with any policy anyone on any part of the political spectrum can think of.
"One thing is well established: COVID-19 started in China."

Fun fact: virus found in a place does not mean anything about its origination. Check the infectious disease history
I've changed the battery on my copy of Pokemon Gold twice. I wonder if whoever designed those cartridges expected anyone to still be playing the game twenty years later.
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I can walk to all those things even though I live in a 130 m2 house with an 800 m2 garden full of mature fruit trees.

There are four supermarkets within 2 km, the doctor and chemist are 1 km away.

In many countries it isn't necessary to sacrifice living space for convenience. It is largely a political choice for the country as a whole even though it is an economic one for most of the individuals. Even in densely populated countries like the UK the population is very unevenly distributed resulting in huge conurbations.

Countries like the US have no reason at all any more to have people live in dense cities unless they really want to, after all there is a lot of empty space there and good physical and electronic communication.

US mean density 36/km2, UK 275/km2, Norway 15/km2.
> running terraform apply is unpredictable, due to the nature of the design of the program, even though it was created with the opposite intention

Citation needed. Run _with a plan_, terraform apply is entirely predictable as to the operations it will carry out and the order in which it will carry them out.
The largest and most sophisticated holders of crypto assets would be using multi signature wallets with a protocol between multiple private and secure participants. How does a gun allow you to seize private keys? We are back to they can threaten to kill you? But there is a problem, if they do they lose the keys also. Guns and weapons are massively less effective against crypto assets in comparison to traditional assets. If one owns a factory and doesn’t pay taxes, those guns work very well in comparison.
Hah it will soon... kinda :). When I ship the related booklist feature in mid May it will suggest random best-book-lists to kinda achieve that...

Preview of that feature here:
https://forauthors.shepherd.com/related-book-lists
> Is he more happy?

Even if he is, it's not like happiness is a zero-sum game for humanity.
> We are now 16 months into the most serious global pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1919, and we still don’t know the origin of the virus.

Weird way to start out the article, given that we don't actually know where the Spanish flu came from.
Looking forward to reading on haxx.se about how someone contacted Daniel for help with their Martian helicopter that, according to the manual, runs curl.
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Globally, we're better off if China is doing novel disease research than if they're not. It's also likely that China should be more careful when doing this research. The US has had some pretty egregious virus leaks while doing their research so the latter statement doesn't say anything bad about China, just that they haven't learned as many hard lessons as the US has.

Given the first two statements, does it really matter much whether COVID escaped from a Chinese lab or was of natural origin? The same actions should be taken either way.

The big difference is that the knowledge enables a Chinese witch hunt.
Too soon, this is like saying "we need to know whether or not Saddam is actually making nuclear bombs".

This is something that being right at the time gives no advantages and which time will reveal.
Turning down the transmit power of the AP might help in this situation.
I use the 2.4GHz band only for legacy/unimportant devices so I've turned its transmit power to the lowest setting available. All of the legacy devices are in the same room with the AP so this is not a problem in my case.

Since 2.4GHz penetrates through walls quite well this has the added benefit of limiting the radius of the coverage and to some extent improving security. But this is not a perfect solution (it's more like an unintended side-effect).

The 5GHz band has lower penetration through walls so leaving it on highest transmit power should be fine.

I found the following article and its comments to be quite helpful:
https://metis.fi/en/2017/10/txpower/
One of the things I think it shows, is that there are some very wealthy people out there, who are able and willing to invest in this.. I also think it confirms that intrinsic value is less important than we think.
>> Edit: You're sort of glossing over that "nobody in the driver's seat" is unusual by itself. All explanations I can think of for how this happened are unlikely.

That means you can't think of an explanation for it, not that there isn't one.

Again as I said in other comments, if you find yourself thinking "I can't think of a better explanation", that's a sign you need to sit down and think of a better explanation.
Here's what owning my home has meant for me.

I live in a high COL area, when I moved out when I was 20 rent was more than half of my income. I'd get raises but my rent would continue to climb. 5 years ago I bought a house, my rent stopped climbing. Now I can't even get a apartment for 125% of my mortgage and that is without a yard, with neighbors a half inch of sheet rock away, and no equity.

This means that while yes I still have to work, it isn't the end of the world that I get fired or miss a promotion. I no longer need to push hard to drive up my income like I did when I was in a apartment. So now I have more options, when a PM screws the pooch and misses a requirement I attend my daughters soccer game as planned instead of staying late.

If that isn't freedom I don't know what is.
My aunt was a single mom, and not all that bright. She beat my cousin (a girl), who is about 3 years older than me with a wooden spoon frequently. She ended up being withdrawn, having an enhanced interest in boys younger and more intensely than average (Edit: I think this maybe an evolutionary psych survival mechanism when there is no (or a weak) father-figure around), and eventually running away with the biker gang the Mongols (the same overall one Jesse Ventura was a part of) for some months. In the end, she became a withdrawn adult (I haven't heard from her in years), obese, smoking, no kids, low self-esteem, low locus-of-control, and she works as an almost nurse at a very dangerous children's and teen's mental hospital in a southern US state. She doesn't have any hobbies that I know of.

My mom and dad grew up when corporal punishment in schools was still a thing. They both separately lived in Britain and West Germany before moving to the US. My dad also grew-up in the Philippines for a few years.

I was beat about a dozen times by my parents, but never by private or public school officials. Later, my parents made me write sentences on paper like Bart Simpson on the chalkboard. Haha.

Interestingly, corporal punishment is still allowed in the public schools of 14 US states and private schools of 48. Boys receive 81% of corporal punishment while girls received 19. African-American boys receive 16x more than white girls. Technically, this violates Title VI, Title IX, and Section 504 (but sexism only applies to girls, after all and racism doesn't exist if it involves abuse or the school-to-prison pipeline).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_in_...

These days, I think US parents are both too busy trying to make money at work to teach their children to behave properly, empathize with others considering the Golden Rule, have manners/be considerate/respectful, fearful and inexperienced in the world when their parents are around because of limitation imposed by helicopter parenting, and generally grow-up more "feral" because of unsupervised "latch-key" alone time, and narcissistic because of the celebrity and materialistic culture without the parents to counter it. Also, I think modern parents aren't as skilled in correcting behavioral problems, don't impose consequences as much, and aren't as concerned with their children being unruly in public.
Yeah the gear and software are very good but the management response to basically try to sweep the whole thing under the rug has really soured me on the company as a whole. You might as well just hand foreign intelligence the keys to your network.
Or a Zipit Z2 - same DAC, a fraction of the price, and comes with a keyboard! Sure it's only got 32 megs of ram but how much do you really need to play audio?
Alternatively, maybe we should mingle with animals more often such that novel viruses are common enough that we experience them with far more cross-reactive immunity than we did with covid.

I'm of the opinion we have a long way to go before our primary defense against viruses is _not_ our immune system. If I'm correct I think many of our strategies to limit exposure and pretend we can hide from pathogens is very misguided.
We have slightly more resources now to find out than in 1918...
Reminds me of this recent book review on "Georgism", an economic doctrine that states that land ownership is responsible for most of capitalism's evil: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

Interestingly, Georgism agrees with you: the problem is that since land appreciates in value (as the supply is fixed and demand increases), there is an incentive to hoard it speculatively. George proposes a high land tax to negate land appreciation, and make it so it is only profitable to own land if it is effectively used (to live or to produce on).

Having corporations own land instead of individuals is just about the worse compromise that can be made.
We could definitely do a lot better, but currently we don't have good alternatives to animals for food/pleasure/clothing/medicine.
> individual home owners would be stuck unable to sell their property, because it would drop in value. (even if they could sell it, not everyone would want to buy it). i am not sure if that's good or bad.

It's good because it would motivate owners to own only as few houses as possible (to minimize work on updates), and many more people could own a home then.
What takedown are you talking about ?
Prolog was the first programming language I was taught at university. I’m not sure it was the best introduction to programming as it’s quite different from most other languages. I think it expressed the high-brow attitude of the lecturer.
> only supply houses which matched the current building codes

That would either destroy vast numbers of perfectly usable and often interesting or historic buildings or require the creation of a system for giving exemptions in order to preserve them. And of course this gives an opportunity for corruption and cronyism.
Systems that are already configured and up and running for years have to be maintained and updated.
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> Having to pay >60% of monthly salary

I moved to a MCOL city where my mortgage is <20%. my salary
No, the big difference is, that if it leaked from their lab _they_ are responsible. That's not a witch hunt. If I crash my car into your car today, it does not matter that you crashed your car into someone else two years ago.
I love that one :), any other suggestions for me?
Don't forget the numerous times in the past the CDC has fucked up, including 75 CDC employees potentially exposed to anthrax in 2014 because they shipped live instead of dead samples of the lethal strain.
It execs scripts for each metric and stores the data using rrdtool. If you are only collecting a few metrics and use a 5 minute collection interval it's probably fine.

A while ago I switched from munin to prometheus+node_exporter and with that went from collecting metrics every 5 minutes to more metrics every 15 seconds.

Munin is easy to operate initially. You can go from a script that outputs a number to a graph on your screen in a few minutes. It does get more complicated when you want to do something like graph the aggregate of a metric across a subset of machines. It is doable in the configuration, but a hell of a lot harder than just adding a widget in grafana and writing a simple promql query.
I already started using it as background for my work :)
I mean, yeah clearly? Your own source for what is nearly the worst case in the world is ongoing investment of “US$200 per capita and year”. Look at how much the home values have increased! Do you really think that’s not trivially extractable from property taxes?? That’s IF it’s as bad as building megacities in the middle of literal deserts which obviously a place like Bozeman is NOT.

You’re throwing your hands up exasperated at the costs of building water infra when the peak is somewhere around 1.5% of GDP but then you have housing costs that are rising dramatically faster than wages and everyone’s like “whelp, nothing to done here.”
Not gp but here's a possible answer: I usually require db migrations to have a "down" script as well but "down" is never applied automatically. I only auto-apply "up", and when a rollback is needed (which has been very infrequent in my case) I manually apply the "down" scripts using Flyway cli commands or by hand.
Was it a natural origin? We need to understand how bats came into contact with an intermediary species, how that came into contact with humans, how to minimize risks in the future.

Was it a lab leak? We need to know if safety protocols were followed and to develop better protocols if needed.

By your logic, we would never investigate any accident. Why look into the cause of a fire, it won't help bring back the victims or restore the damage. We should only look into how the response of the firefighters could've been better? No. We should look into both.

We even investigate every single airplane incident even if there were no victims and develop new safety protocols around them.
Ever heard of Occam's razor ?
> not many on this site trust the NSA or the CIA.

> But, both orgs have stated both privately and in public that that is not the believable case.

Do you have a citation for that? The public statements last week had it as one of the two scenarios they were studying (along with a lab leak) which is not as strong as the claim you’re making.
I’m pretty sure the COVID-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab on accident, and here we are. CCP incompetence or apathy allowed it to spread worldwide. They were doing legitimate research there and the protocols simply failed this one time and here we are.

Viruses can escape labs. Happened in the U.K. too. The amount of cover-up and unwillingness of world leaders to really talk about the potential origin makes sense because they don’t want to create anti-Asian sentiments.

We are already seeing some of that recently (attacks on Asians by morons and racists). Trump was willing to stoke the flames. He called it the China Virus specifically because of this - I think he was pissed off that it happened given his anti-China rhetoric and that world leaders probably agreed not to probe into it too much and to keep distance from the theory to prevent racist hate attacks and violence (which was probably the right thing to do).

For China, well, can’t ever admit anything bad happened and all that with the authoritarian regime. So the motivation there is obvious.

To me this group of actions would make the most sense geopolitically, subject to new information.
> I would not agree here.

Yeah, I was hasty. Of course you can transpose any segment of intervals, including a chromatic scale. The point is that a chromatic scale is a special case of a symmetric scale which includes all pitch sets (and therefore, all pitches).

That's important, because to a beginner in tonal harmony the combination of "scale" and "key" is like a pedagogical sandbox. The intervallic profile of the scale serves to reinforce the very idea of music being in a key-- it extends to the system of harmony as triads are stacked thirds within that given intervallic profile. So everything has guard rails which serves to reinforce the relationships between tonic/dominant harmonies, cadential formulas, and so forth. Those guard rails are important since the modulo math of starting on different scale degrees to generate church modes can be conceptually confusing-- at least you've still got the lynch pin that the quality of the chords in a I-IV-V progression is unique to the major scale.

It would be a twisted pedagogical move to pair the starting point of "chromatic scale" with "key" because suddenly there are nearly no guardrails. Sure, you've got the placement of the "starting note" at the beginning, and you could give that an agogic and dynamic accent when playing the scale to emphasis "tonic." But there are no other clues for the listener about harmonic or scale-degree hierarchy. You've literally removed everything else.

It'd be like teaching beginners how to dribble a basketball, then moving directly to how to call a time-out before you fall out of bounds. I can imagine how strange that team would be. And I can imagine how weird the music would be from a python programmer who incrementally builds a sophisticated program for the purpose of deploy chromatic scales in various keys. In both cases I certainly want to experience the result, but in neither case would the participants be building on "the basics."

Edit: clarification
That looks very interesting, is there a demo or live site using it anywhere? I don't see one or can't find one, thank you.
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China lab.
I am prohibited by my employment contract from working a second job without approval.

It doesn't say, of course, that I'm supposed to go home. I can go to the bar, the library, the bowling alley, whatever. But it does say that I can't hold a second paid job (and it does demand that I truthfully tell them where I live). I am very much being paid not to work a second job.

Maybe you aren't! But I am, this is fairly normal for salaried positions in America, it's almost certainly enforceable, and it's something I willingly signed and accepted when I took this job.

I am aware there are a large number of people working non-salaried jobs who work multiple jobs. This thread is specifically about salaried jobs.

More relevantly to the thread, my contract also says that any work I do which is related to my employer's actual business is owned by my employer, whether or not I do it on work time or at work. I paid actual lawyers to review that portion of the contract before I signed it, and they told me it is absolutely enforceable. In this case, the question is whether an IBM employee can hack on an IBM-authored, IBM-maintained driver for IBM computers, contributing to which used to be part of their job on the side. It would be absolutely defensible for IBM to say they own this work regardless of when it happens, and it would be frankly surprising if the employment contract did not say that.
Regarding intermediate level SQL, I'd highly recommend Jenniffer Widom's edx courses[0]. They have a good mix of cs theory and practical exercises, which combined gave me a big push in my approach to databases.

[0] https://www.edx.org/course/databases-5-sql
”60% monthly salary on a mortgage"

I think everyone would agree that that is not financial freedom, but it's commonly accepted and taught that your rent/mortgage shouldn't be more than 30% of your take home.
You can’t make improvements if you don’t know what needs improving. Shining the light under the rug should be presented as important because we’re doomed to repeat mistakes unless we go through the unattractive process of discovering what we did wrong.
Yeah, why would you use a tested system that just "works" if you could add some npm dependencies, node.js and a 3 month old database that is out of support already if you are not upgrading every week?
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I fully agree. I guess the intention may have been to make people hurry up buying or building while young.

One of the major political parties here (Centre Party, the agrarian-liberal party) wants people to live outside of the cities. Finnish cities are so small that it's easy to commute from a place with plenty of cheap land and thus it's possible for most people to buy or build a house there if they want to.
I use a cheapy USB soundcard that cost about as much as a soup and sandwich. Sounds totally fine, but it has TOSLINK output too so the DAC hardly gets used anyway. I don't understand why anyone would spend hundreds or thousands on media players and soundcards. Save it for the amp/speakers!
It's lightweight, it's flexible, it's hackable and it's very orchestrate-able. I've had dashboards showing summary stats for IoT devices, the VMs they're talking to and the hypervisors the VMs are running on with very little effort.
The poster on devrant has joined the discussion and it seems like this is exactly what has happened: they spoke to their neighbours, and their neighbours have refused to make any changes.

It does seem like getting some 5GHz hardware would be a relatively straightforward solution but the poster is unwilling to do that. My take is if you want good quality home networking then you need to be willing to pay the price to get that within the constraints of where you live: sometimes that means spending more money than you might like. Such is life.