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> Part of the problem with the first item you mentioned is that developers don’t really want to build cheap housing (I guess this is an assumption, but it makes sense financially.)

This is like saying that Toyota would rather sell Lexuses than Camrys.

Yes, it's true, but they sell Camrys anyway. Why? Because the market for luxury is only so big. They can make more money total addressing other parts of the market.

So why doesn't this apply to housing? Land + zoning. Imagine if Toyota was only allowed to produce 10,000 cars a year. What kind of models would they choose to make?
Only certain models supported the fix via UART.
Does anybody know of a typescript open source project that's easy to get started on?
There are enough companies that offer competitive salaries to FAANG and interesting work in those spaces. That FB is the best of a list of companies wall street grouped should be the notable factor.
> Do you think this is the next revolution which will transform social media forever?

Of course not. Rarely if ever do revolutions come from on high or on purpose let along both of them together.
It's not that simple. Right now the interest portion of my mortgage, plus my property taxes, plus my HOA dues, not to mention maintenance and upkeep, is more than what I was paying in rent right before I bought my house. That money is "thrown away" in the same sense as rent is; only money going toward mortgage principal gives me something to show for it. It absolutely would have been more economical to rent than buy. But I wanted to buy (see: your totally valid argument about having the freedom to do whatever I want to my home), and was lucky enough to be able to afford it, so I did it.

Sure, you can make the argument that I can hopefully expect some capital gains down the road if/when I sell the place. But that's not guaranteed (consider all the people underwater on their mortgages, for example, after the 2008 financial crisis; I wouldn't be at all surprised if something like that happens again during my lifetime), and it may well be that putting that money in the stock market would net me better returns over time.

But it really just depends on your local housing market. In some places it makes more financial sense to rent (rent < interest+taxes+upkeep), and in some places to buy (rent > interest+taxes+upkeep). And sometimes the financials aren't the #1 driver of the decision, anyway.
Get your OKRs out of my GEMs
Really? If so, then TIL.
Chargebacks are no panacea for dark patterns; issue too many and you’ll start getting your card blacklisted from payment processors. I did this a couple times with an online retail store that was especially egregious on the dark patterns (sneaking things into your cart on checkout, etc) and my card would get rejected at certain gas pumps and online stores for the next 6 months. It wasn’t all of them, but a good 25% simply wouldn’t take that card.
I would defer to no less than a luminary like Thomas Jefferson in my attitudes toward the would-be inheritors of all those million-dollar ranch-style SDUs, who said something along the lines of..

> I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

(Though really, even before I knew of Jefferson's attitudes about inherited wealth, I'd read enough to know that divesting children of unearned windfalls isn't necessarily a bad thing. Can't take it with you, ya know.)
> Housing is an expense to me, not an investment.

I wish more people (in the US, especially) would think of housing in this way. I think we'd have much more sane housing markets just with that change, even without fixing a lot of the other structural problems we have around housing.
Life is not all about money or investment. Sometimes it's about stability - owning a home lets you plan for the future in ways that nothing else allows for. It puts you out of reach of all sorts of predatory folks and companies.
Its something that sucks it has to be done a state level. I mean, that is how most decisions are. It sucks any decision sometimes has to be made at the national level. But NIMBYism has a strong influence in municipalities. I would argue, the people who have the time and resources to go to city council meetings and voice their opinions, are the people who are NIMYBYs. Kind of hard to go to city council meetings or have influence if you don't live in the city (think of an outlying town/city of San Fran), or you have to commute 2-4 hours a day to and from work, or your holding down two jobs to keep your head above water.
Zoning is also an issue in NYC. The suburbs are unable to become dense do to zoning which causes the prices to go up.
XML died because too many configurations turned what should be a 'prop' into an inner tag -- and it doesn't help that XML doesn't really give guidance as to when to use which. And, of course, when you deserialize XML, the innerText is always in a very strange place as to not really being clear "what the right way to handle it" is.
> You should also check housing prices in states like Kansas, they're all through the roof - https://www.zillow.com/ks/home-values/

How is a $184,486 average "through the roof?"
San Mateo County rejected BART expansion when it was initially constructed, which means that essentially all suburban rail traffic into San Francisco goes through the same tunnel under the Bay, and trains are regularly packed to the gills already.
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You also have government guaranteed mortgages. This is probably the most unusual aspect of the American home market in comparison to other markets...it is essentially publicly owned (the only place that has a similar structure is Denmark, and even then there is no Freddie Mac/Fannie Mac...just a large secondary market for resi mortgages) and makes mortgages very cheap with little rate risk (I am in UK, 30yr fixed mortgages are unheard of, the most you can get is 5yr fixed and it costs 200bps more than a 30yr fixed in the US).

Just a broader comment: the main financial argument against home ownership is really the size of the deposit. If you are paying 25% down (this is now standard where I am in the UK, we went from 120% mortgages to 75% mortgages in the last ten years...and house prices kept rising, so the upfront cost of housing is way way way up) then it may be close for some people. But you add in the security, the potential for capital growth...it is attractive financially (and I wouldn't say this is true in the UK, downpayments are too high, mortgage rates are too expensive and come with massive interest rate risk...it isn't worth it on a pure financial basis).

I can't see myself every buying a house because I just don't like having a lot of stuff, it tends to worry/distract me. But I think it is unfortunate that housing has become associated with this "I got mine" mentality. Germany is a nation of renters, it has led to levels of wealth inequality higher than the US because all that value from rising property prices has gone into the pockets of a few large corporations (the median net financial wealth of a German citizen is EUR20k, about the same as Greece...and they have one of the highest per capita rates of billionaires). Maybe we can tax rising property values more efficiently but the US model (essentially, publicly guaranteed mortgages) works quite well too.
In Canada extremely unaffordable housing has been the reality since the Pandemic. I think the US is just catching up and when it does there will be more unrest because of how much influence the states have over social media and news in general around the world.
Then they can quit complaining about people who get priced out, can't afford to leave, and end up on the streets.
Yeah, the situation in Canada is getting bad. Look for the blood on the streets soon.
> 6-8 children was the norm even in developed countries in the past

I would say that's on the low end. Jean Chrétien was the prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003, so politically contemporary with George W. Bush. He was born 18th of 19 children.
In cities with no zoning todays luxury housing is tomorrows affordable housing. For example in Houston apartments and houses that were touted as luxury in the 80s are slums now.
Why try to find one material that fits every application?

Steel cans are better for canned goods where the pressure is low and they rely on design more.

Aluminum is usually better for cans of soda under pressure where they're stronger.

Glass is heavy, but strong in certain compression modes. It's nicely recyclable but does use more fuel to transport.

Plastic is lightweight and really I wish we didn't ever start using it except as it is -- a space age high tech super material that deserves better than to be unnecessary packaging.

Paper I'd love to see used as much as possible, but it falls apart when wet.

Cardboard is better when a bit wet, and is cheap and easily reusable.

I don't think we need one answer here, each of these cost different amounts and it depends on the application. What I'd like to see is instead a list of alternatives to every plastic application using metal, glass, paper, whatever it takes.
That’s how some people connect, my friend.

A good-faith way to look at it would be to see it is this way - sometimes, things bother us and we don’t feel like telling other people about them because we don’t want to bother them. When this person asked you if everything was alright, I believe they meant to say “hey if there’s anything bothering you, I’m open to talk about it okay? No judgement”

Our analytical minds play tricks on us very often. It can take any situation and make a bad faith interpretation of it.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! As another reply mentioned, single click/tap on a piece auto rotates it to the correct orientation.

Many have pointed out the auto rotation is either too easy or annoying, so I am considering alternatives. I originally started with single click to rotate 90deg but was told by early users it was too hard. Reconsidering ways to introduce this that is friendly to all users.
Cities are not entitled to drain away a lot of state or regional tax money to get all the transportation and water infrastructure they want, but then refuse to let anyone live there. That's plainly unfair. Berkeley today has the same population it had in 1950, but in the interim we built all the freeways and subways that Berkeley needed to have a booming job economy. In 1950 Berkeley had zero subway stations and in 2021 it has three subway stations. If Berkeley had wanted to remain at this population level forever, the time to have decided that was half a century ago, before all the investments.
Apparently I'm fashionable again. Wait long enough..
I have never really gotten used to wireless buds, and still find myself reaching for wires half the time:

- Wireless buds don’t connect 100% reliably; sometimes I get one and not the other, or neither. Sometimes they will randomly disconnect during use.

- Sometimes the sound glitches out randomly, which is so irritating that I don’t care how good the sound supposedly is the rest of the time.

- Gestures and voice are simply not as convenient as buttons on the wire. If I tap the thing in my ear, it tends to get shoved further into my ear and may still not register.

- They fall out of my ears, no matter how “snug” they seem. This makes me only want to use them in places where I won’t lose them, e.g. at home but not out for a walk.

Crucially, there isn’t a single problem above that occurs when using wires. The only inconvenience is that the default headphone wires are stupidly short (provided by a company that sells wireless buds, hmmm) but that is fixable.
Assuming you have queues and stuff that can hold the requests in the intermediary time. Some systems will just start dropping the data or crashing and loose data.

If you have a queue or something in the middle then the failure is potentially recoverable or never happens in the first place.
You nailed it. This doesn't benefit Principal Place of Residents (PPOR). It only benefits those with investment properties since that equity can be liquidated to purchase other assets and get out.
> lets say 20 or so for a company

Wouldn't rich people just create multiple companies each holding 20 properties?
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> If the real problem was always zoning, wouldn't dense cities like NYC and Shanghai be cheaper than average, not way over average?

It's not about supply by itself, it's supply vs demand.

Big cities have big populations and economies, which means a lot of demand.

But as far as zoning goes, note that like other metros, NYC has actually effectively downzoned areas over time; in fact, a huge proportion of buildings there would now be illegal due to different types of density restrictions: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...

A lot of NIMBY's tend to go, "well, there's still some areas where it's possible to build more, so there's no real issue there". This is approximately like restricting car manufacturing to one state, and then when car prices go through the roof, saying "well, there's still more land to build car factories there, so I don't see the problem, it couldn't possibly be this rule".
Interesting - I don’t have that experience. Yes, people use generic intensifiers, yes, ‘incredibly’ is one of them, but I haven’t noticed it be used any more judiciously than any other such word.
Came here to say this also. Linux, 1200p, Firefox 94, amdgpu/radeonsi, webrender is enabled. It's laggy enough when moving pieces that I thought the page had locked up; a FF process jumps to 100% cpu usage and my cpu fan spins up any time I try to manipulate a piece.
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I use Hammerspoon to get something like tiled window management.

Hammerspoon is not a window manager out of the box - it's more a toolkit for building the one you want, along with a lot of tools for automating various aspects of OS X.

The thing I like most about my config is how I have windows automatically resizing and positioning themselves when monitor count changes.

Maybe OS X is better now than it used to be, but I used to subconsciously dread connecting or disconnecting external monitors because I'd spend several minutes fixing my windows afterwards.

After configuring Hammerspoon, that suffering became a thing of the past (If you're curious, you can find that code here: https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/d8c81c3890af65bf431...).
Eminent domain?
My counter argument would be that the policies as they currently stand are policies that affect people who have less legal footing in committing change in that area. Someone who works in San Francisco as a janitor, but lives in San Jose, doesn't get a vote in San Francisco elections. The people who do get to vote are least affected. So now the local problem as external consequences, which kind of punches a hole in it is entirely a local problem. Depending on how far you want to go with considering something local.

EDIT: Another thought. And people the person works in SF, but lives elsewhere, who doesn't get to vote, but still have skin in the game for policy in SF.
> Only if the old housing stock isn't torn down to make room for the new housing stock

This is about zoning too. Normally, if the demand is there for it a smart land owner would build more housing on the same plot, e.g. turning a single family into a two family, but of course that is illegal in many places.
The site and the video are very well done.
I have not tried the browser extension, but I sure it is will smooth just like the site.

One thing that put me off is the limit of 1000 messages. I think it would be nice if it was 10000 while keeping the size (storage limit to 2GB)
j2c.

Good luck!
>Were the previous business owners given privileged treatment due to race, wealth, or *political connections?*

Ding ding ding. Many of the property management companies are run by political insiders. For example, Makras... and they're a slumlord because they're connected to the city so they get any complaints thrown out.
Why won't we go to Mars (ever)? You may be sceptical of it happening in the next 100 years but very confident in it happening in the next 500 years, it is a very strong claim to argue that it will never happen in the broader context of increasing global wealth and massive improvements in space/energy technologies.
Recognizing it is one thing, but thinking it’s a good “investment” is another. Often funding/chasing status is a fools errand IMO.

Part of the problem is that homes being the largest asset that a person owns because they’re chasing the status of that American Dream. Can you think of any other illiquid asset that people would suggest piling a majority of your net worth into?
Getting major Dunning-Kreuger vibes here. SemiAccurate seems 100% convinced that big:little makes no sense in a laptop. And their evidence? "It's not a phone, milliwatts don't matter". Anyone with a little curiosity will immediately have a few followup questions. Is it true that big:little only saves a tiny amount of energy? Is it true that a tiny amount of energy savings in phones is significant enough to do this architecture? Why does the Apple M1 use different sized cores if big:little is such a "dumb" idea? Why does this article not mention M1 at all?

I'm not convinced.
Yeah good point. Also delayed payout / lump sum discount.
Ya, you saved because you are living single, and _assuming_ you have no kids as you live in 1 BR.

Rest of the population have family's, and have to care where and how their children grow up.
JSON5 keeps coming up in these discussions, and I've personally had a great time with it. Hopefully some larger projects pick it up and it eventually becomes a common occurance, or something.
As specifically noted in TFA, he had the idea at a time when he was a truck driver. He did not get to implement it until much later, at which time he owned a very large trucking company. It is not a coincidence that he needed to own the very large trucking company to be equipped to implement his idea.
Property taxes are a useful tool against property speculation (which is why China is desperately considering one). Likewise, the fact that property tax is "stepped up" on sale also makes people less willing to sell (because they lose their sweet property tax valuation if they buy something else) and so pushes up the prices on the remaining second houses on the market. Grandma isn't going to move out of her 4 bedroom house because she is paying much less on property taxes than if she downsized to a two bedroom condo in the same area.
Solar is only cheap when sun is shining bright. Just batteries needed for cloudy days or nights is multiple times more expensive than burning coal. solar+storage might become cheaper than coal by the end of this decade.
Sadly the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere even if we stopped polluting today. Will still bring about huge negative effects down the road. We need to decarbonize our society(listed first because it’s the first priority) AND remove CO2. Source & a great read: https://www.orbuch.com/carbon-removal/

If you want to learn about carbon dioxide removal check out AirMiners: https://bootup.airminers.org/ they have a useful self paced curriculum
In Good Spirits: Alcohol was a part of diplomacy in early modern Russia
There is no other asset I can own that alleviates the financial burden of burning nearly half of my take-home pay in perpetuity to fund some rich landlord's beach vacations.
That makes sense. This is a sleepy neighborhood so I guess I've never had to consider the whole calculus.
This is what most people get wrong about home ownership. Mortgage and rent are two different, unrelated things.

Rent is part of the value of a property. If you live in it, you're essentially paying its opportunity cost. That in itself has nothing to do if you borrowed money against it or not.

The only way to not pay rent is to make someone else pay for you (eg live with someone else that doesn't charge you)
There is another set of twins used, that is the security guard who gets a full house on the coffee machine. He meets his 'double' that is actually the t-1000, who 'pokes' him through the head. The actor duo are in a few other movies, including Gremlins 2, where they aren't trying to fool the audience, but just are twins.
If an economy is booming in an area, and people keep trying to move there, that's a sign that the metro is doing something right, and that it's desirable.

Forcing the government to get in the way and tell people not to go where they want to go is stupid and exclusionary. It's "I'm in, now shut the gates on everyone else".

Like, how is indulging NIMBY attitudes useful or productive at all? It means less freedom for people to live where they want to live, it means higher housing prices that strain people's budgets, it means it's harder for businesses to grow and be productive, and it usually means more suburban sprawl that destroys the environment.
This links directly to an unknown attachment. Just FYI for anyone else who would have cared to know that.
> San Francisco must exist in some sort of twilight zone where there are 1 infinity people that want to live there and if they build 1 infinity houses, all of the houses will cost 1 infinity dollars

This is something only you are saying, and it makes little sense.

What is true is that San Francisco has limited space, and so even if density can be increased, a new limit will be reached.

Have you noticed that Manhattan and Tokyo are not meaningfully cheaper than San Francisco, despite being much higher density?

The reason is that building more residences doesn’t make it any less desirable to live there, and even supply is still limited.
i tried this trick, and saw a few interesting bugs. obviously this whole trick is an edge case, but i had some visual doubling of my large piece after certain clicks, and also i had an event happen where i heard the click sound stacked up 100 times then the app became unresponsive
Lynx doesn't support JavaScript like every other modern browser.

It is outdated.
Assess how strong the caching abilities of given site is
Cities are conducive to human flourishing. It is good for people to have access to them. They can't be made from whole cloth; only a few sites have the potential to grow as cities in the short or medium term. Many people prefer suburbia, and that's fine, but it's not fine that they insist on having their suburbia on the only possible city sites.
Yes, they aren't a novelty anymore, they don't screen from other people effectively, cheap clones are almost identical, too many people use them and the cool factor dropped, yadda yadda yadda.

...or maybe most users after some years realized the true costs of having non replaceable batteries.
Making them replaceable on the AirPods would be very easy; and a nice move that would also bring them some more customers including me, but apparently milking users to the last cent pays more.
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This is wildly irresponsible and terrible advice
Thank you! I’m aiming to provide a more polished and user-friendly experience than the alternatives out there, and I have many plans to differentiate ever further. Glad you had a good time playing.
One factor that makes things even worse here in New Zealand is, from what I've heard in the US a home mortgage is usually at a fixed interest rate for the entire term - is that correct? Whereas in New Zealand the rate will usually be fixed for a maximum of five years.

So you might have a 30-year mortgage fixed at 3.5%, but if interest rates go up, then in year five you might start paying 5%, and maybe you can't afford it anymore. I suspect the banks require a bigger buffer between payments and income than they do in the US to allow for potential interest rate increases, but that only works up to a point.