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Property tax is higher but there is no state income tax. Also, property tax increase rates are significantly higher as compared to California. Austin is also growing very fast and is quickly turning into the sprawl that I have always associated more with Dallas and Houston.

Financially speaking, either place may turn out advantageous depending on your house's price and income. CA (Bay Area) has a lot of other positives that are almost impossible to get in TX - tech scene (quality and quantity), nearby sea, desert AND mountains, good weather are just some of them.

Many years ago, I chose to move to TX as opposed to CA. But most recently, after living abroad for some years, I picked Bay Area to move back to mainly because most of my friends have converged to Bay Area over the years - almost all are in tech. However, if you aren't involved in tech and don't care about some of the other positives of the Bay Area, Austin is almost a no-brainer.
Additionally as someone who did some casual redfinning around Austin at the start of the pandemic, I'd say my own natural inclination was to shop pretty close to the price of the California single family home (i.e. $1M) and envision what it'd be like to live in/grow into the Texas mansion (i.e. $1M) at the equivalent price range. I probably wouldn't have downsized to a $400K home and I probably would have been sticker shocked by the property tax bills.
> In the crypto economy, and yes, its a fully fledged economy and social network in 1, u can get in on the ground level and ride that hype up.

So the utility of Solana is that you can, and I quote, "ride that hype up"? I think you've kind of proven the OP's point here.
There are a few comments saying that 3nm is a marketing term and that the transistors are actually larger - how is this allowed? Isn't it misleading and deceptive?
He said today that the California facilities will be expanded, not moved out.
That is a massive assumption. Plus with continuous growth in home value their tax bill will also keep ballooning, unlike in California where prop 13 shields homeowners from this.
The east part of Austin where Tesla is located is still underpopulated compared to most of Travis county, so there's room for a lot of housing to be built out that way. Connectivity from there to central Austin isn't too bad, since that's the direction of the airport and Houston.
The navigator would be looking at a screen displaying ECPINS Submarine[1] or similar software.

The inputs they'd be able to use would include:

1. GNSS location (only if surfaced)

2. Passive sonar data (detecting location of electromagnetic signals through water e.g. acoustic noise of another ships propeller)

3. Active sonar data (only if stealth is unnecessary)

4. Radar data (only if surfaced)

5. Bathymetry models/charts[2] (accuracy depends on location in the world)

6. Tide prediction models[3] (availability is location dependent)

7. Inertial navigation sensors (dead reckoning so accuracy drifts over time)

8. Surface Electronic Support Measures sensors (allows geolocation of signals from other ships, aircraft and ground transmitters)

[1] https://osimaritime.com/solutions/software/ecpins-submarine/

[2] https://www.admiralty.co.uk/digital-services/digital-charts/...

[3] https://www.admiralty.co.uk/publications/admiralty-digital-p...
> In the long term, I think that many mosquito species will be driven to extinction within the next 30 years.

I honestly don't know: will this affect the ecosystems? I think (at least) dragonflies eat mosquitoes. No idea how much the depend on them for food.
So, it's obviously hard to define what the Bay Area actually is. The SF to SJ corridor is one definition but that excludes East Bay, which is significant. Probably the best proxy is the SF-SJ-Oakland metro area, which seems to have a population of ~10 million people.

How many of those are tech workers? It's hard to say. Here's one estimate that suggests there were ~400k in each of SF and SJ a few years ago [1].

Some of those will be single or married to other tech workers. Others will have partners outside of tech. Some will have children. I'd say for every person in tech there's probably 1-1.5 other people as a back-of-the-envelope type calculation.

That puts the tech population at around 15-20%, which passes the sniff test (at least for me) and is significant. Obviously not all of those can vote (eg immigrants are represented highly in tech) but many can. So we're talking about a group that could wield a lot of political power.

But they just don't it seems. My personal view is that Norcal tech workers as a whole are just as self-serving as the NIMBYists they like to point the finger at. I suspect that a large number of them are the NIMBYists at this point.

[1]: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/09/16/san-jose...
According to Zillow the median house price in Austin is $596k. In Fremont, CA it's $1,4m.
Google Groups effectively salvaged what was left of Usenet, so saying they
broke Usenet is rather uncharitable.

Gen Z doesn't even use email, so "any new user becoming interested in Usenet"
seems unlikely.
All the good names were probably taken yet
If you know of a place where there are a lot of books and you can hang out with smart people, please tell me where it is, it sounds wonderful.
Doesn't mean he wants to pay them. Look at Joe Rogan doing just this to avoid heavy taxes on the spotify deal.
There are many millions of people in the country that don't share your politics. Some of them are even engineers with families.
> without changing the working conditions currently in place nor the salaries of employees, thus switching from the 40-hour week to 32-hour

Yes please!!
There is a surprising lack of mention of long covid. Good stats from a competent public health agency like NHS would be welcome.
According to a friend that moved to Austin last year, yeah traffic is a problem but in downtown Austin in new buildings it's even worse. Sewage is a problem.
I mean are you seriously comparing affordability of Austin to the bay area? My sense is that you have only lived in Austin and thus don't know how squeezed things are in the bay area. Not trying to be rude but just trying to point out how much more affordable Austin is relative to the bay area.
As someone who lives somewhere with an actual housing crisis, I just did a Zillow search for homes in Austin and I don't think you quite understand what a housing crisis looks like. Your homes look dirt cheap by Kiwi standards.
That’s fascinating I never considered before what the fur traders out west were doing. That’s an aspect of history left unexamined usually.
Can confirm. My rental property in Austin is up 50% in value.
If California somehow repealed Prop 13, you would see their property tax rate zoom up to the point where Texas property taxes wouldn't seem that outrageous by comparison.
He has options he will be selling soon and they are taxed where they will be sold, in this case texas.
The theoretical half pitch size limit for a single exposure EUV is Lambda * 2 or 26nm.

You can get arbitrarily small at the cost of exploding count of masks. I.E. double patterning needs 2X masks, but quad patterning needs 8X. Octuple patterning is completely impractical.
There are at least three reasons that an injection is not the same.

1. The sudden viral load is orders of magnitude larger than typical exposure and given the complexity of the immune system, may produce a different response. Also recall that unlike traditional vaccines this mRNA hijacks your cellular machinery to produce an inflammatory protein - so comparing it to past vaccines in this respect is invalid.

2. Again because of the complexity of the immune system, its possible that a sudden, massive injection of spike protein mRNA will not activate the immune system in the same way that a gradual infection by the full virus.

3. From what I've read, the spike protein when manufactured from snipped mRNA is then expressed on cell surfaces, in contrast to a true viral infection which releases the full viral particles into the bloodstream. This could induce autoimmune reactions which would explain many of the documented side effects.

My main point though is that many in the vocal pro-vaccine crowd are underestimating the borderline chaotic complexity of the finely tuned chemical soup that is our biology. And we are injecting an engineered substance which we know is biologically active in a novel way. It's hubris to casually presume that we got this right the first time.

Edit: for the programmers, think of it as a very clever and involved hack. And hacks can have unintended side effects, especially when the system is poorly understood.
Sweden had a similar idea. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/visingso-oak-forest
And potentially cheaper staff and real estate compared to Cupertino.
New U.S. Government Initiative Holds Contractors Accountable for Cybersecurity
yes, of course. I do not declare that the need uses a laser for neutralizing mosquitoes. But except mosquitoes, we have many other harmful insects and pests.
Add some steering and if needed power - if you’re lucky you only need to steer to the path with the energy of the vertical ascent.
> What? This doesn’t make any sense. 0dte options are often some of the most actively traded. But I’m not really sure you get this stuff.

Did you miss the “far out of the money” part of my comment?

What’s the bid/ask on the Oct 8 SPX 4550C going to be at open tomorrow, assuming SPX opens around 4400? Bid 0.00, Ask 0.05

I also understand there is resting (and possibly hidden, depending on the order types allowed by the exchange) liquidity on the order book that would be there if USDT collapsed and MMs pulled out, but how long do you think it would take for orders to evaporate for an asset that is rapidly approaching a 0 dollar valuation?

I’m just a dumb amateur, but I have a basic grasp of the mechanics.
The only knowledge you have of the lightning network is a YouTube video from 3 years ago posted on a subreddit with a financial interest in badmouthing BTC?
This is true and if it was flu kind of virus with very low reproduction number, it would be right but Delta variant has very high reproduction number and it is guaranteed to infect eventually almost everyone who is without immune response against it.

There is also this fact that myocarditis has high prevalence among teenage boys (even CDC might underestimate it) and it looks like it is caused by some form of immune reaction and its occurrence is immune reaction size dependent (Moderna causes more myocarditis than Pfizer that causes more than AstraZeneca). It allows to postulate that it might be that the people who get myocarditis after vaccination have high risk of getting it after infection.
Tech being concentrated in the Bay Area certainly exacerbates inequality and cost of living increases, though the fault is less individual workers and more corporate leadership and VC firms insisting on concentrating there even when it might not be geographically necessary.

The sad thing though is that it seems even when you disperse highly paid workers who can work from home, inequality will continue even in other markets, see Austin, Miami [0], Nashville [1].

Then again, those markets were booming even before tech workers moved to there.

[0] https://therealdeal.com/la/2021/09/28/miami-nips-at-ny-for-t...

[1] https://fox17.com/news/local/real-estate-market-so-hot-this-...
I thought that these were always considered slang, and that during World War II they became slurs (partly because of their regular use in war propaganda). I don't imagine that there's a time when either term would have been considered a "proper" way to refer to Japanese people, although I do imagine that before World War II they probably wouldn't have been considered insults and might have been considered affectionate.

If my guess about that is right, then you could compare it (pre-WW2 only!) to "Aussie" and "Kiwi" (for Australians and New Zealanders), which nobody would say is "the" name for these groups, but which is also not an insult. Although this is complicated because these are, I think, also autonyms for these fellow English-speakers. Maybe another example is "frogs" for the French, which is mildly disparaging but usually not a horrible insult, at least in contexts that are otherwise respects.
It looks awesome!
May I ask what all tools/frameworks you used to build Rocket Jump?
Just 2 0 0 0 lines?!? That's really saying something. I wish it was available on macOS.

OT: I've falling back in love with Haskell after reading Ben Lynn's astonishing adventures (https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/compiler/) and it's still super awesome for explorative programming.
Ah, no. I'm sure that's build able in Elixir using a NIF (function built into the VM, in a similar manner to Python modules written in C) but you'd have implement it, I'm not aware of anything out of the ox.
Intel actually renamed their nodes in like with Samsung and TSMC, so Intel 7 (used to called 10nm) is roughly comparable to TSMCs 7nm and Samsungs 8nm
> Or do they just memorize the answers

Yes, and guess where they learned it from? Regurgitation and handing in "something" on time can pretty easily get you a degree, even at a top tier school. That will get you further at most organizations than a resume with completed software projects and no college degree. Once you are in, it's easy to do enough to avoid getting fired. No one wants to take the blame for a bad hire.

After a few years, they're a mid-level engineer and maybe they make good looking diagrams. They answer all of their emails, they show up for the meetings that actual engineers don't want to attend. They have a purpose and fill a role, even if they still fundamentally don't understand what's going on.

No matter where you go, or how high up the chain you get, they will be on every team and in every meeting. What they lack in technical understanding they cover with political and social skills. Which also means they will be your management.
There’s not really a standard, some feature is probably 3nm, which feature chosen has varied over time and between companies.
>>If enough of them arrive, demands for services (schools, fire, police) and infrastructure (i.e. light rail, etc.) will increase.

The high taxes of CA are due to the state sector having taken over the political system, via control over the dominant narrative/ideology.

To give just one example, emergency workers can retire at 55 with 90% of their pension, that averages $108,000 per year.

California now has $1 trillion in pension obligations for its unionized public sector workers.
Actually it is all about marketing now, the customers though to whom they market are MNCs with immense cash piles to splurge on microchips. Nobody else can.

See — you rarely ever see so much marketing money spent on an industrial service, and like here seeing Hollywood level gfx on an obscure industry event keynote would've been more laughable than noteworthy 10 years ago.

Without these cash piles, there is no way to finance new fabs, and SEL is fighting for its survival here. Once you are out of the race in semi industry, you can never catch up.
Now you can repurpose minitels as cheap VT-100 replacements.

With tmux you han hide the status bar, so you can have a nice multiplexed term to boost your productivity.

I am not kidding.
It's really not the school that determines outcomes but the home life. You have a lot of kids in LAUSD who have no real role models at all in their lives and come home to terrible situations every day, which makes the school district look bad but its not really something the school district has any power to solve short of offering boarding school for at risk kids.
How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha
Do you think that these projects don't further the DoD's core objectives? The vast majority of such projects do contribute to the departments ability to wage war and build a competent force.
I'm sad to say there is a good chance Intellectual Ventures patented similar tech:

https://www.mic.com/articles/180851/the-world-needs-this-sma...
Humans only have eyes... and the most powerful supercomputer in the world between their ears.

The goal is to cut costs and keep shipping during the chip shortage. Ignore the excuses.
That seems low for "the most hardcore" alcoholics. If we exclude the absolute extreme top 1%, I'd wager the 95th percentile of alcoholics begins at 2 fifths (1.5L) of 40% liquor per day. And I might even be underestimating here.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780285
Or just use much lower precision for the color
I would add another line,
2c. Considering effects within the solar system

Since entropy invariably increases overall.
Viral Loads Similar Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People
>So, what us promoters of free speech read this as is, “anything that qualifies the unified messaging of the dominant orthodoxy is banned.

Thanks for proving that promoters of misinformation are bad at reading comprehension and spread misinformation on basic facts.

Not being able to monetize != banned.
>Not to mention the a worthless human being of a governor. Backwards politics and ideals. It's a joke of a state, everything wrong with America hyper-concentrated on steroids.

There are millions of people who think this exact same thing about California.
> Of maybe that's just my central-European perspective.

This kind of sedentary thinking is one of the many reasons why there aren't any Tesla-like companies in Europe.
Compared to the Peninsula, Austin is basically free. Median home price in Austin is $575,000. Median home price in Palo Alto, where the current Tesla HQ is, is $3,488,610.
This is somewhat unique to CA but it was in the news recently.

https://www.sambrotman.com/personal-income-tax-residency-cal...

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1004.html
Yeah that's what they said! I am not saying it's not a sound bet, honestly I hope it goes well. The thing is that nothing indicates that the new housing built there will not be sold at prices that flatten the curve. Yeah supply and demand and all that, but there will be more demand and the real estate market is good a limiting itself to the supply that keeps the prices increasing just about right for them to make a quick buck selling to a captive audience.
Do you have any idea what housing costs in the bay area though? We can compare between the zipcodes of Gigafactory Texas and Fremont. According to Redfin the median sale price for 78725 (Austin) is $362k, compared to $1.225 million for 94538 (Fremont). That's more than 3x the price. Compared to California it's definitely affordable.

Austin:
https://www.redfin.com/zipcode/78725/housing-market

Fremont:
https://www.redfin.com/zipcode/94538/housing-market
This is irrational. Though i am not a 'tech worker' my presence is actively trying to undo the harmful policies by being another vote to overturn the paradigm. Literally leaving does nothing but slightly delay the injustices that these policies perpetuate. Effectively brain-drain, but for the voting populace.

The displacement is going to happen with our without tech workers, because of the land use policies. Maybe not today, but as it stands, the region will likely never become more affordable. Blaming the tech workers for literally existing when the suburban tides turned back to urbanism is a trivially irrational post hoc argument.
More precisely shouldn't we be comparing the number of life years lost. If for every young healthy person that develops myocarditis or increases his lifetime cancer risk by 1%, how many 84 year old getting to live another year, is worth the risk to the young healthy person.
By that logic literally everything is based on advertising. That makes the argument meaningless rather than convincing.
Another thing that makes the home buying / mortgage comparison not 1-1 is Fannie Mae:

Austin/Dallas/Houston/San Antonio are not classified as "High Cost of Living" areas, as SF/LA/NYC are. This means that a conventional mortgage as of 2021 in Texas is capped at $548k, while in LA/SF it's $822k. The practical effect of that is any mortgage higher than $548k in TX is classified as a "Jumbo"/non-conventional loan, which usually comes with a higher interest rate and/or higher percent down required.

You want a $1M house in TX rather than CA? Be prepared to put $400k+ down or accept a higher rate + PMI, rather than the normal 20% down in CA. All on top of the fact that you're paying the equivalent in taxes to a $2M+ home in CA.
That has nothing to do with the schooling and everything to do with the homelife these impovershed students experience after the bell rings. If you are a good role model to your children they will do fine in public school and not join gangs or drop out like those whose only role model is their cousin who got out of prison and is trying to recruit them into a gang.
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=traHIsUOInw&t=976s
> quality of neighborhood which is proxy for access to high paying jobs

In other words, the value of the land (which is to say, the value of the location). To be clear it's not the amount of land, it's the value of the land in particular places (especially urban land next to valuable jobs).

If you think land (location) isn't a big factor, perhaps you could explain why in the heart of San Francisco this 2,300 sq. foot EMPTY lot costs $2 million:

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/content/images/2021/08/image...

While this 2,020 sq. foot lot right next to it with 3 beds and 3.5 baths costs $2.3 million:

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/content/images/2021/08/image...

(found those on redfin, personal information redacted but you could find your own examples easily)

Here's a map of the land value share of real estate for the whole of the united states:
https://www.aei.org/housing/land-price-indicators/

And if you don't trust the American Enterprise Institute, you should look at Larson (2015) who says much the same thing:

https://www.bea.gov/research/papers/2015/new-estimates-value...
This comment is the beautiful content that I come to HackerNews for.

I wonder if there is a proper theory of humor out there. For example, surprise is a big part of any joke - be it double meaning joke, a pun, something clever; the only common thing among almost every joke is surprise. So I wonder if there is a comprehensive theory of humor out there.
>The truth is there is no consensus so censoring half (or more) of the discussion is downright absurd.

Demonetization != banning or censorship.
Binance: buy $1m BTC/USDT

CME: short $1m BTC futures (which are dollar settled and thus BTC/USD)

On Binance you are long BTC, and short USDT. On CME you are short BTC and long USD (implicitly on the fiat legs).

So if we add that up, the BTC positions net off and you’re just left with short USDT and long USD which is the desired outcome.

In practice, if Tether implodes I would expect everyone to sell Tether (by buying crypto with it) and then due to panic, to send that crypto to exchanges with fiat off ramps where they will then sell it. So the price of BTC on Binance goes to the moon, and the price on CME collapses. You will likely lose whatever money you had on Binance (your profit is denominated in worthless USDT and Binance is probably bankrupt at this point) however you should make multiples of that with your CME short.

This is all of course not investment advice and extremely hypothetical.
How long does the the bottle of carbonated water last?

Do you just open it and leave it there?
I think he is using the physical definition of information, not the popular one.

In that sense all human actions do create, modify, and/or destroy information.