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For me, the closest retail of any value is right around 3 miles each way. Not a convenient walk if wanting to buy more than a backpack's worth. I picked up an eBike, and now I can get there just as fast as if I had a car. I tried the grocery delivery for awhile. It was great at first until they all switched to Instacart, and now it's more expensive and less quality service. This was the main factor in deciding on getting an eBike to just stop using Instacart.
> All the cash that's been "pumped into the economy" has only fueled inequalities.

How do we know that?

> And now the FED can't really reverse it.

By the way, Fed is not an initialism, so it doesn't really make sense to write about them in all-caps.

> We need to erode all that capital concentration, and the only way to do it without hurting the regular guy is through heavy taxation.

What do you want to tax? Land Value Taxes are pretty neat (or rather, the least bad taxation).
I was born and raised in Georgia. I am a former military wife. I have lived in Kansas, Texas, Germany, California and Washington state.

I currently live without a car in an area that gets 76 inches of rain annually. I typically describe it as biblical flood levels of rain. It's a lot of rain.

I routinely go outside in a t-shirt and sweatpants in all kinds of weather, including freezing temps and snow.

Weather is intimidating to people who spend almost all their time indoors and in a vehicle. If you actually spend time outside, you know how to stay warm enough, how to mitigate exposure to wind, rain, etc.

And I'm seriously handicapped by a condition that is known to negatively impact my ability to effectively modulate my body temperature. So I'm not especially impressed by such arguments. I don't think they have much, if any, merit.

Though I would like to see more awnings in the downtown area where I live. I would appreciate that as a means to limit my exposure to rain and I think it's very doable.
US rethoric says that they are concerned about IP theft, unfair economic practices, etc. But if you look at the sanctions then you see that they target pretty much only R&D-heavy sectors. That should be telling.

The semiconductor industry is extremely R&D heavy. You can't just steal your way into success. It is also heavily dependend on a global network of specialized suppliers and is one of the most complex supply chains on earth.

Even Chinese media says that they are not yet self sufficient. They predict that SMIC will become able to produce 28nm and above using only domestic inputs by the end of 2022, but that's just ability and doesn't factor in manufacturing scale to handle the corresponding demand.

Making 14nm fully domestic takes a bit longer -- maybe 2 years more. Chinese media and experts say that if they scale up 14nm and above, then that satisfies 70% of the demand.

To go further than about 7nm you need EUV lithography, which only has 1 supplier in the world, and the US is blocking that. How long it takes for China to independently develop EUV is unknown. Universities have made small breakthroughs in subfields here and there but they're still far away from the full solution.
If you cannot fit the backup on a single tape then you increased the headache and number of ways this can fail. I cannot phantom how you can see this as superior to hard-drive (which will probably end up cheaper too).
Valid point - I was primarily talking to Israeli Jewish citizens from that perspective.
That sound like it, but then again the security problem could be a user issue.
yes that seems to be the point. NAS is over the network, USB is supposedly "cold storage" (unless you keep it connected 24/7). Imagine something like: all drives on your desktop PC are compromised due to a PSU malfunction that causes a current or voltage spike - in that case, both NAS and USB cold storage would be safe.
That would be equivalent to making the interest payments on the share loan you took out to enter the short position, not covering the short.
In India the vast majority of property transfers are off book.
It makes it a nothingburger. Your Israeli barista has past involvement with the security forces. In and of itself it's basically a meaningless statement.
There's a word missing from this article - SaaS.

If you aspire to deliver the same software solution to multiple customers then most likely you are in the SaaS business.

And as Marc Benioff famously observed a long time ago, "Multi-tenancy is a requirement for a SaaS vendor to be successful.".

I think about this often because this was a crucial thing we got wrong at my last company.

We got a few large enterprise customers early on, which was great. But each had some unique requirements at the time. With hindsight, they weren't really that unique at all, but there was only a single customer asking for each one.

We took the decision to use separate databases (schemas in the Oracle world) for each customer. That way we could more easily roll out features to individual customers. We were careful to keep only a single codebase, I'd seen that before. But still, any customer could be on their own version of that codebase at any time, with their own schema that matched the code at that version.

I now think of this approach as maybe getting into heroin (no direct experience). Feels great, powerful, you can do anything. But ultimately it will kill you, and the longer you do it, the harder it is to get back onto the path of righteousness - a decent multi-tenant architecture.
Hyper inflation on things other than housing will happen if you do this…
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The accordion is very popular in Eastern Europe too.

The lead was playing an accordian for a heavy metal band at a local bar in Лесковац (Leskovac, Serbia), and I had a fantastic night there. Great people - rough but really friendly in my limited experience.

Personally I mostly hate the accordion, and too much time around any folk music drives me up the wall, but occasionally it is really beautiful.
This isn't appropriate for Hacker News IMO
Logbooks linked to Antarctic explorers Shackleton and Scott found
How could housing be a free market if no-one produces land?

Land is a zero sum game, you can't pretend same laws apply to it and iPhones
>> Does this mean that cutting down the Amazon rainforest to use the land for farming is net-beneficial for slowing down climate change?

Even if it does, the effect would be temporary. Such land can rarely be farmed sustainably. In the medium termt becomes scrub and barely contributes to cooling

And anyway, the question is largely moot. Resisting climate change is only one of many important services rendered by these forests.
Well yeah. The best carbon capture technology we have is planting trees.

Thankfully it happens all by itself.
The issue is the US military has more than just 2 aircraft. Sure, if it’s going to give up on being stealthy the F-35 can be a relatively slow gun rack with a pile of air to air missiles. Except giving up stealth and it’s lost most advantages over older and vastly cheaper aircraft.

Air to ground benefits from the extra carrying capacity but if you have air superiority then drones etc are again vastly more effective for the price. Sure, it’s got nice avionics right now, but that stuff gets replaced long before the aircraft gets retired.

That said we didn’t actually built that many F-22’s so we really needed something to pick up the slack.
> custom menu with a high-end restaurant

Can you please expand on this?
Dude, I am never suggesting that people like you pay more taxes. Rather you should benefit from tax retrieved from the wealthiest. And by wealthiest I mean a lot wealtheir than you.
Let's say you get paid $100/hr for 8 hours per day of work, or $800/day. Now let's say you have to commute an hour round trip to and from work. Since you need to commute to get paid, it takes you 9 hours to earn that $800. Thus your real hourly wage is $88.89/hr. The person who doesn't need to commute works no harder, but it only takes them 8 hours to earn the same wage. They effectively have an 11% higher wage than the commuter, all else being equal. They could work for $95/hr, making them the more attractive option for the employer, while still being better off than the commuter.
That's a very US-centric viewpoint. I mean, New Zealand didn't have any land-dwelling mammals except for the rat 500 years ago.
>But choosing between a 0% bank account or real estate investing is a major false dichotomy.

Ok, so interest rates are near zero. A ton of money is leaving the bond market and going to stocks. Price of stocks is being pushed up due to the increase in money chasing yield there. These companies didn't get more valuable, your earnings per share just went down. Now you're anticipating inflation as printing money is a great way to get out of the next crisis when your interest rate can't get any lower. This personally leads me to real estate.
> By the way, the F-35 isn't any more expensive than other aircraft.

It is more expensive. And the fact that all "modern" militaro-industriel projects goes over budget is just not an excuse to that.

The F-16 program (which the F-35 is supposed to replace) was around 10x less. Even inflation considered, this does not justify this fiasco.

Same goes for the F/A-18, the Su-35 or the Dassault rafale.

Even the damn entire Apollo program (inflation considered) was currently cheaper with an impact for the society of a complete different scale.

Maybe the question should be: Was the utility of this plane worth the cost ? And I can barely find any positive arguments to that. Specially when considering the conflicts USA has been in the last 20 years.
FYI, Hades was ported from C#/MonoGame to C++ late in development in order to ship on Switch. Their previous titles (Transistor, Pyre, etc) were C# from start to finish though. AFAIK some of their releases use FNA instead of MonoGame (a similar library with more of a compatibility focus.)
Sadly, outdoor cats are so horrifically bad for the ecosystem where I live (Australia), that any owner who allows it is irresponsible in my opinion.

Thankfully, the local government for far north QLD (my state) is now looking into banning outdoor off-leash cats the same way they do dogs, for exactly this reason. They're too destructive here unfortunately :(
It also helps that the country is old enough to have developed before the automobile. Kinda hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube when you've designed entire cities around support the automobile.
> What's the fallout from that?

You mean, what’s the fallout of banning anyone or any business regardless of the circumstances from owning more than one property?

Starting with the obvious one, it incentivizes investors to form multiple legal entities to own multiple properties — thereby entirely defeating the proposed regulations. This is already how it works today amongst informed property investors (though for reasons of legal liability, privacy and wealth protection rather than skirting regulations).

But assuming you could close this (realistically impossible to close) loophole... I’m guessing people in this hypothetical fantasy would prefer buying huge tracts of land, and building ADUs? Rentals would likely become a lot more scarce. Maybe corruption would rise due to the general ridiculousness of the proposed regs. Dunno. What do you think?
I think your argument only strengthens mine. It sounds like you are saying "The Netherlands was kind of the America of Europe in terms of being crazy car-centric and they sucked so much worse than they do currently."

To which I say "So you're telling me if they can become the global poster child for doing this better, anyone can do this better -- even the US."
You might want to consider the “screen” algorithm :-)
The law needs to catch up. We were comfortable with the idea that a person is not entitled to privacy in public when we knew that the observation would simply be from other humans in close enough proximity to see us. But in the day when we can inexpensively put cameras everwhere, take pictures of everything you do, and effortlessly distribute it to the entire world ... maybe the idea of privacy, or at least anonymity, needs to be revisited.

I'm not sure exactly where the compromise point is, though. We want photographers to be able to snap pictures of a crowd, and it is infeasible to gain permission of every member of the crowd. We may not want photographers taking close up shots of individuals, who will do things that they may not want photographed even when they're in public.
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Because the discussion was centered around the decision of whether policymakers should create said risk by reversing previous policies. The risk came from the choice of policy, not from the environment Bob was originally playing in.
I have replaced every switch in my house with GE's Enbrighten series generation 2 (z-wave). I run this zwave network through home assistant and it is rock solid. Can't say the same about anything related to the cloud, this includes Alexa, and Google, both of which seem to think the 'device is not responding' randomly. Meanwhile the home assistant portan app on the phone just works every time.

Voice activation is very handy, in fact I rarely use my phsycial switches anymore. Barking commands at alexa is 90% of my use case. Its just simply 'easier' then pushing something, but voice can be very problematic at times.

What I wish for is a more specialized form of voice recognition where I can speak 'cantations' that do macros or actions. This whole 'big data' 'human intelligence' determination stuff just goes south more often than I'd like.
I mean, depends on how you slice it and what you count, but ITER had an initial budget of 6 billion and updated total cost estimates between 20 and 40 billion dollars or euros. That one fusion project is probably the most expensive human effort since the ISS and its successor is already being planned.

Yes there’s a lot of dumb venture capital going around, but there’s also a lot of money going towards trying things beyond searching for the next unicorn tech fad.
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How far apart are the places you typically go to? Sounds like an e-bike might do the trick for most days.
Office perks like almost free meals and stuff are fair game but wage differences are not going to fly assuming they want the same quality of labor remote.

There might be faster career progression for in office people though, and that will be a harder and longer thing to quantify.
For the most part I would agree with you. But at one startup, we hired an EA when she was 18. She won us over with her can-do attitude. A exceptional fast learner and would charm difficult clients and resolve problems without even having to be asked.

To use sports metaphors: you want a PA who runs interference; skates to where the puck will be; dives to block shots at the goal.
It was the political equivalent of switching over to LED light bulbs to justify continuing to drive a 10mpg SUV an hour a day commuting to work.

It was literally greenwashing his work to undo decades of environmental protection regulations and laws, while also forking over tons of public land to oil/gas/coal companies.
Dutch, British & US private contractors, some ex military working as aircraft fitters on USUK & European military aircraft, informed me. Alot is farmed out to private businesses and everyone likes a drink whilst swapping stories.

I know some of the things these aircraft fitters have to put up with when "upgrades" come through for things that break, the CAD designers are a world apart from reality on the ground and hasn't that always been the case?

However health and safety alongside better record making & taking is constantly improving things... slowly.

Its not British propaganda. I could go into how easily fabricated mill certificates are to keep engineering firms happy whilst maximising profits for metal stockholders. Its hard to trace engineered metals.

The weakness with goods and services is the end user is usually not in a position to test independently due to lack of finance and/or knowledge, so trust is still inherently exploitable.
Congratulations on the launch!

Is Ory targeted at end-user application authentication alone or is internal infrastructure identity management it's goals as well? I understand that any NextJS/React could use this, It's just identity management for internal infrastructure requires additional set of features like those offered by SAASPASS, Auth0...

P.S. I run a curated list of startup tools at https://startuptoolchain.com and I'd like to add Ory to it.
> Most are done internally

You mean with one centralized authority you have to trust?
> Land Value Taxes are pretty neat

Are they? From what I read they’d heavily mess with anyone that bought a family home anywhere near a city more than 10 years ago.

You can argue that their net worth has increased, but their salary is still the same, so increasing their taxes based on the current value of their house just makes them lose the house (and forces them to buy a new house much further from city center).

Maybe exclude property that’s actually lived in?
I don't think that's negative at all. I find it pretty accurate. Cities are so desperate for parks, that they call concrete paved areas named as parks with a minimum amount of green. Parks !== nature. If your only experience with nature is a city park, then you haven't really experienced nature.
I do plan on implementing Updating/versioning of the plugins. As mentioned previous - This is still a massive WIP and I am still working on fleshing the basics out.
> How do you know I wasn't born blind and retrofitted with a silicon eye that gives me both the ability to see and record/duplicate more easily than other humans?

Because this technology literally does not exist. What an absurd response. Your analogy was bad. Take the loss.
NOAA has the data to do that so it's certainly possible, but their app already does it and is very good, and so are many others.

This is an intentionally minimal approach I took and I made it mainly for when I am outdoors hiking, camping, float trips, ect.

I think it demonstrates a simple way to get started on what you're talking about and maybe someone will. NOAA provides great access and detailed documentation for their data and I'd love to see this little app inspire that!
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wealth tax, it’s literally in the name… maybe they should call it “absurdly rich person tax”… are you absurdly rich? if you aren’t… don’t worry about it, and if you are… pay more taxes and continue being richer than 99.9% of the planet
https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-10-the-last-version-of-wi...: a developer evangelist said it at their Ignite conference in 2015, and a subsequent official statement by a spokesperson clarified the context of that statement in a way that strongly implied that it was indeed official policy at the time, but with the explicit caveat that it could change again (“We aren’t speaking to future branding at this time”).
Except that’s not how it often works. sometimes one needs a little motivation to keep up a routine.
Is there a free version
The real problem is that houses carry a monetary premium, but you also need to live in them. Fix the money.
>Living without a car is a privilege

Whatthewhat? Such a privilege postion to be able to say that. Owning a car is a luxury that not all can afford. The fact that you think living without a car is a privilege shows how backwards we've gotten.
> There is no logic to this whatsoever other. If it costs more to support more platforms (which is does) there is no reason users should expect not to have to pay more.

And why should anyone other than the creator of the product that is being sold decide that? If the Epic storefront does not allow for a developer or publisher to charge more for multiple platforms they can choose not to sell on the Epic store, and continue selling the existing way, or maybe a different storefront.

There is no evidence Sweeney wants to expand any monopoly (what monopoly, btw?) other than a deliberate and nonsensical misreading of his statement.
Location close to ERCOT is not the reason.

Samsung for years has had a major facility outside of Austin.

Samsung Austin Semiconductor
https://goo.gl/maps/nX9BFxHoVMCVKBLL7

And ERCOT is also based outside of Austin.

Austin is also the state capital, centrally located & home of one of the nations largest universities (UT), who has a strong engineering & CS program graduating thousands of students per year.

So it shouldn’t be a surprise that major companies have a significant presence in or around Austin.
"suddenly the value dropped by $300k, I wouldn't care"

Imagine you have to move because if job or family, you can't sell the house and buy another - its worth -$300,000
I grew up in the Midwest, experienced a lot of great nature and hiking around the US and Asia, but live in Tokyo and enjoy big cities. From my perspective—if the city is clean and quiet (my Apple watch says 95% of my neighborhood has an ambient noise level of 35dB, and I live near a popular central Tokyo station), and has enough nice parks near me (definitely don't need anywhere close to 1300 acres for that), that does the job—I don't feel any need whatsoever to live in immediate proximity to amazing natural amenities, and when I do go to them, a couple days is more than I need.

Personally I think that Americans just don't realize that it's not cities that suck, it's American cities that suck. Plenty of pleasant cities to live in in the world.
>> And why should anyone other than the creator of the product that is being sold decide that?

> if I buy a game, I should be able to play it wherever it can be played, and that I shouldn’t have to repurchase my entire game library because I got a PS instead of an XBox.

Seems like you want to decide that.

> And why should anyone other than the creator of the product that is being sold decide that? If the Epic storefront does not allow for a developer or publisher to charge more for multiple platforms they can choose not to sell on the Epic store, and continue selling the existing way, or maybe a different storefront.

This silly argument comes up every time. No, developers obviously won’t be able to just choose what storefronts they like.

They will be forced to go to the one storefront that has the customers.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching
Except that Taiwan's ADIZ is not its sovereign airspace, but a unilaterally decided zone that covers large parts of mainland China.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/l...

Except that the border dispute with India was caused by the British, who randomly drew some borders somewhere that parties then later disagree with. India also has border disputes with non-China neighbors. China already tried to solve this diplomatically, for example by trading areas that India claims but are defacto China-controlled and vice versa, but India refused all deals so far because they want to claim in all.

Do note that China (PRC) has already given up land in the past as part of diplomatic deals. Check Vladivostok. Check the whole of Mongolia.

Western coverage of China’s border conflicts are extremely distorted. In the ASEAN summit, southeast asian nations are upgrading strategic ties with China.

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20211028-asean-summit-sout...

Many countries are worried about AUKUS. Malaysia planed China consultations as anxiety simmers over defence pact.

https://amp.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3149713/mal...
On the world scale maybe, but the USA is still one of the most desirable places to immigrate to. So while some countries will be abandoned, the US can just increase immigration which creates the necessary future demand for assets.
You don't seem to be taking into account wealth other than real estate there.