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It's not about regulation, it's about replace-ability. Food prices stay low because corn is corn, regardless of who grew it - it fills the same need. In many cases, even food that's not a direct match is still a perfectly valid replacement (ex: I need to eat 2000 calories, but it doesn't matter all too much what food is providing them).

This is utterly untrue for real estate, which is about as non-fungible as you can get.
I agree. Real estate isn’t a commodity. One house cannot be treated just the same as another even if they are the same price and sitting next to each other. There is too much variation in maintenance, initial construction, terrain, landscaping and presentation.

Essentially you have to treat each house as unique and self judge if the price given is worth it for you.

So trying to treat it as a financial asset is problematic. Landlords have to be intimately aware of their properties condition .
No, I don't know. I major in computer science, not economics or public policy. I just think that it is ludicrous that despite every chief executive said that they will tackle this problem, the price just keep rising and statistics keep worsening. They propose some absurd plans like massive 10+ year land reclamation plan [1] to build more houses, despite that there are actually quite a lot of unutilized land in the New Territories.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantau_Tomorrow_Vision
For me I don't use macro's that much. I remeber they worked fine in the Visual Studio plugin, but not sure VSCode. If I really need it for a file, I can always quickly open gvim itself. If you use it in your daily workflow, then it might be an issue indeed. But I don't see a reason why a plugin couldn't offer that (like the Visual Studio plugin).

Vim multiline editing works fine :). Not sure what the VSCode offers thoug (maybe I'm missing out)
Really glad to see this discussion! My former advisor, Mark Jacobson, is one of the authors of the paper cited in the article. His book "100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything" [1] is a good starting point for folks with a more technical background. I recently started working on my own version [2] for young people and beginners that uses code as a medium to explore these ideas.

Perhaps more directly relevant for the HN crowd, Tom Greenwood's book "Sustainable Web Design" [3] provides simple strategies for reducing the climate impacts of the software systems we build.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSBook/WWSBook...

[2] https://goodenergy.cc

[3] https://abookapart.com/products/sustainable-web-design/
This always comes up, but is not accurate. Streetcars were never greatly loved. They were boiling hot in the summer, freezing in winter, the ride was jarring, and they were crowded with all manner of people. During the war maintenance was deferred to the point that at the end of the war most such lines needed to be rebuilt in order to stay in operation. Ripping them out to build roads for cars was not a conspiracy but a popular transition which at that time had few visible downsides.
I might be concerned about teflon and similar non-stick coatings, but not really about ceramics. Humanity has been using ceramics for ages, and we haven't found any adverse affects yet.
> maybe like... accounting software with a bunch of extra business rules?

Can confirm. This is pretty nasty too. It's really tradeoffs all around.

Personally, I enjoy working on custom/DIY game engine code to unwind from all the banking crap during the week. I have come to terms with the reality that my side projects will probably never be finished in any meaningful way, but at least I feel like I have total autonomy over some complex thing.

Eventually, I may move back into game dev full time. For me it was never about the money. It is about doing something no one else is doing and having fun along the way.

I think financial independence (not necessarily wealth) is a big part of not letting game dev consume your soul.
>For example, it is inadvisable to look up information about abortion from within some U.S. states, war crime in Russia, or democracy and human rights in China.

Not sure about Russia or China, but it is not illegal to look at the definition or spelling of abortion in the US.
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A high land value tax moves the problem around (instead of young people not being able to buy a house, older folk can't afford to keep the large one they spent their lives in).

In the process, it makes land completely unappealing to rent-seekers while incentivizing high-density development of desirable locations.
You can get more powerful burner but you can also reduce your portions.

I have a carbon steel wok on a typical (here) gas burner (~7k BTU). I can make single portion on it. It requires moving the food around the wok surface constantly to parts that had some time to get hot. Forget about throwing more than one portion into it, it will just start to boil. So the only time I get to use it is when my family is away or when I want to make something for myself at an odd hour but pretty much useless for a meal for my family.
> Turn up the heat in every interaction and ask uncomfortable questions. Some of the questions I repeatedly ask:

> Can we re-frame this in terms of the customer’s problem?

> What’s the soonest we could get this done?

> What would you need to get this done tomorrow instead of next week?

Well, that sounds like a recipe for high turnover. I know few engineers who would want to work for this kind of low trust boss and they are all bottom of the barrel consultant types. I thought Stripe was doing better than that.
Vectorworks is still in the thousands. It would be nice if some of the people willing to pay that cost decided to support the BIM developments in Blender instead. Blender have recently shown that they can adapt and change faster than any of their commercial competitors in the 3D modelling space. I'm pretty sure they can leap-frog Autodesk and Vectorworks in a couple of years if they had the funding.
Basically everyone has a carbon tax already, even China. They just had to rename it and hide it because 'tax' is too scary a word for people to cope with, particularly Americans.

https://earth.org/what-countries-have-a-carbon-tax/
Please don't give them ideas. Software freedom is already in a bad enough state.
I remember acid rain coming before the ozone hole problems.
You should probably think about how food gets to the plate before saying commoditization of necessary resources is unethical.
When you say transactional storage do you mean hardware support for transactions? I don't think that would be required. As long as the storage hardware interface (e.g. NVME) guarantees certain low level primitives like atomic sector writes.

I guess what you'd want from hardware is similar to what you get with RAM. Atomic reads and writes of certain size plus read and write barriers.

And then ditch the posix FS APIs, replace with a transactional interface that probably uses io_uring under the hood and build an FS that handles it in a correct and performant way.
Very nice comment. Wraps all of life up in one brief statement.
So what? OP made a question about ethics.
2022 was the first VS in 64 bit, the increase in responsiveness was enough to make me switch back from rider
I season my Neoflam “ceramic” pans. Different (lower temp) process than for carbon steel or cast iron, but similarly improves/restores the non-stick coating.
The parable is very explicitly contrasting taking what you need / taking one seat at the theatre / owning a home to live in, with taking everything and depriving others of the use of what should be common / taking all the seats at the theatre / hoarding homes to extract economic rent, respectively. I'm 99% sure you understood the point too.
I habe been to several of similar lunches and every time it quickly turned into a long monologue by the executive.
> prior HN post "how to communicate to executives"

Can you share a link?
Carbon steel wok is far superior to any flat bottomed pan for certain types of dishes but you need skill to use it.
Chaldni Figures
Agreed.

What most people talking about corporate media and "fear porn" (eyeballs for advertising) fail the mention though is that there's also a ton of independent "fear porn" (fear of government, fear or corporate media, etc.) produced under the guise of anti-corporate or anti-government or anti-random-thing. Meanwhile they're all getting paid by our advertising overlords.

Getting rid of corporate media doesn't suddenly solve this problem. The alarmist torch will continue to burn bright because of advertising.
>How do you propose we would — systematically — provide housing to people who, for whatever reason, are not in a position to buy? Should housing be bifurcated into government-provided housing for renters and privately-owned housing for those fortunate enough to have the money and stability to buy?

So...council estates? Subsidized housing is a thing we have.

>realize that property rentals are a necessary service that is handled pretty well by the private markets and that landlords are no more or less deserving of earning a profit for the service they provide and risk they take on?

Landlords don't create added value. I'm skeptical that it is a necessary service; housing is necessary, but is renting housing necessary? Why would that be?
> Regarding the comment about the debugging. For me personally, I always take the time to study the code first before I start debugging. A lot of times I already find the problem by just reading the code and even if that is not the case, I have a much better understanding about how the code is supposed to behave and that makes the debugging session a lot more useful.

> And I say that because I have the impression that it is common for developers to dive straight into a debugging session without a good understanding of what the code is doing or trying to do. It's like they see the sympton and want to fix the sympton instead of fixing the core cause.

Did you watch the video? He spends a significant amount of time talking specifically about why he thinks what you are saying here is misguided.
It's worth pointing out that when you say "people can't afford to buy homes" you don't mean that they can't pay the mortgage or maintain the building ~as well as a landlord, you mean that they don't have enough credit to convince a bank to buy the house and let them pay the bank monthly instead of a landlord.

Countries like China have ~80% home ownership rate amongst millennials (US is like 40%) precisely because they understand this: just because you can't convince a bank to give you a quarter of million dollars doesn't mean you can't reliably pay a mortgage.
Not easy. It was found several hours upstream, near Oława, but hinting that it may already have come from Annaberg. That's a huge distance to cover, up to the Czech border.
I think R is better at visualization than Matlab. Ggplot2 and Lattice are very good and base R plots are still very capable.
What is TTY?
Yep, Quark Express was the king of DTP until they suddenly weren't. It doesn't take long for the landscape to change.
There's SideFX Houdini. It's a VFX software mainly but it's also like an amazingly powerful CG/simulations OS and tools-collection. It can be tried out for free (the full software with only some fairly reasonable limits in my opinion) With a bit of hacker elbow-grease it can be made to read and write things in wildly different formats fairly easily. It can be hard to learn initially! but I would certainly recommend it!
So a well behaved app is harder to install by your own standards. Not surprised Zoom skipped that for a more streamlined setup. UX is king
What is your region ? Is it referenced on electricitymap ? I don't remember seing any US state in the green zone apart from those having lots of hydro, so I'm interested in knowing about outliers !
I've no idea what your point is supposed to be with this dump of opinionated definitions of economic terms.
Markets and capitalism are a social hallucination.

Biology does not care about our philosophy; it allows emotional bonds between officials and elites that are leveraged against the masses.

Write on paper all the rules you want, collusion will happen.

Your defense of this system that’s also screwing you is bizarre; conviction to spoken traditions versus actual analysis. Very brain dead following orders of you. Very religious missionary of you. Human biology is easily convinced it’s spoken words of power are what rule the world.

I mean so it is; if you get burned by it, oh well. Remember; if this system takes your life from you, none of us have an obligation to you.
Nice condescending comment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_ethics
Very simple.

Any residence you don't live in as your only exempt residence for at least 2 years out of 5 is taxed at 100% pa. Any land with above median value is taxed at a progressive rate if you do live on it.

Any commercial building you don't work in for a similar period is taxed at 20%

You want to develop? Fine. Just have to make sure someone else owns or will own the land/strata before you start and charge them for the development.

You want to rent out a building? Fine. Put it on someone else's land and if they don't renew the lease you have to remove it or give up claim to it.
I think the logical consequence of the first paragraph is the second.

If the land belongs to everyone, but you want to occupy some part of it exclusively, you need to pay everyone else for the privilege. Not just one individual who happens to 'own' it through various historical doings. I'm not sure how you can 'pay eveyone else' except through some kind of 'state' mechanism.
Not any less dishonest as your unsupported scaremongering. You literally did what you're accusing me of doing.
> How many “global warming deniers” (99% of whom just believe humans aren’t the primary cause) are banned from discussion?

First of all, it doesn't matter if humans are the primary cause. Any negative consequences of climate change affect us exactly the same way regardless of the cause. We are in fact much worse off if humans aren't the primary cause, because it would mean simply reducing human emissions would not be enough. We would need to do things to actively reduce greenhouse gas levels from non-human sources too.

Second, humans are in fact the primary cause. We know this because (1) we know what role greenhouse gases play in warming, and (2) we know that the rapid increase in greenhouse gases over industrial times is due to human activity.

We know the role of greenhouse gases because we can measure incoming and outgoing radiation at the surface, at various levels of the atmosphere, and in space. We can measure temperatures at those places too. We can literally see incoming radiation heating the surface, being reemitted as infrared, and getting blocked from leaving by gases in the atmosphere. We can measure the spectrum of the radiation at various levels to find out how much is getting absorbed where, and we can look at the absorption spectrum of the various gases there to see which ones are responsible.

We know humans are responsible because we can look at the gases involved and check the isotope ratios of the carbon in those gases. Carbon from living or recently living sources has a different isotope ratio than does carbon that has never been involved with life or has not been involved with life for a very long time. This is because cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere convert nitrogen into C14 which gets distributed throughout the atmosphere, and gets included in living things, and gets put back into the atmosphere when living things that breath exhale or when they die and decay unless the die someplace where they won't be eaten or used as fertilizer by some other living thing.

Carbon that is not involved with living things has its C14 decay (half life 5730 years). By looking at the fraction of the atmospheric carbon that is C14 we can determine how much of the carbon came from ancient sources. There are geological sources that put ancient carbon into circulation, mainly outgassing from mid-ocean ridges and volcanoes, which do put a lot of carbon into the atmosphere. But their activity has not changed much in industrial times. There is a human source that puts ancient carbon into the atmosphere: burning fossil fuels. That has changed massively over industrial times and correlates nearly perfectly with the increases in ancient carbon in the atmosphere. Hence we can include that the greenhouse gases that are driving climate change in fact come from human activity, specifically burning fossil fuels.
There are no positive natural human rights, only the negative ones (rights to be free from violence, including bodily autonomy, freedom of speech, rights to keep property etc). There are no rights that have to be provided by others for free. If I need my own place to live, I am expected to earn money to rent or buy it; I can’t expect anybody to give me this for free, there is no “basic human right” for me to be kept under a roof.

Having said that, I am of course all for making housing more cheaper, and for disrupting the market in general, up to and including stopping the appreciation cycle. If you sell a used car, you will get less money than for a new car; the same should go for housing. The only thing preventing this are policies biased for existing homeowners; these are unnatural and should be repealed.
Implement a Land-Value Tax, as per Henry George's vision. All of the rent from land speculation will be returned to communities. Relatively easier to implement than other solutions (we already have assessors to determine the value of land + property) and should be an easy sell to most Americans, as most would see their tax burden drop dramatically.
> I wonder what people are doing to their nonstick pans that they need to throw them out every year?

I had a very high-quality non-stick skillet, only used wood/plastic utensils, and the non-stick coating started coming off after about three years (of pretty heavy use).

I plan to have it refurbished, there are (at least in Germany) services where they sand-blast your skillet and apply a new coating. Seems wasteful to throw away the entire skillet for that.
Yes, but is it the “biggest” sort of antibiotic resistance?
> frankly under-utilized in the western world.

they are not popular at home but, even in the western world, carbon steel pans are the most common type of pan used in restaurants, they are also known as Lyonnaise pans. Recently they are becoming more common and you can even buy them at Ikea: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vardagen-frying-pan-carbon-stee...

Not only they (carbon steel pans and woks) are faster to heat and easier to control than cast iron, they are also lighter, and another advantage is that they have longer handles that don't heat up as much, which means you can grab them without using oven mitts or handle covers.
If it's taxed at least 100% of its land value +100% of its rental value they'll sell pretty quick.
A lot of individual contributors probably don't appreciate just how massively scheduled the days of CEOs and other senior executives are. Want an hour to work something in private? It's going to have to be on a calendar. Traveling? Your meals are probably be mostly scheduled with customers, etc.

Many CEOs are, of course, very well compensated. But, whether or not you think it's extraordinarily difficult, it's certainly very demanding in terms of time and schedule.
Side benefit, you get an ergonomic pan. I was gifted a couple a couple of carbon steel egg pans when a friend of a friend closed a restaurant, and I was like, "ah these are pans that need to be comfortable through a shift, not look shiny at Crate & Barrel for amateurs."

I feel like carbon steel is the biggest secret that people outside the restaurant biz are oblivious to. I have cast iron, but my carbon steel gets used much, much more.
Tax land with a big fat rate (LVT) and give primary residence a big fat exception. Problem solved, and bonus, you can probably get rid of the income tax now.
> each of the major variants seems to evade the vaccine of the last major variant

I think that COVID vaccines aren’t variant-specific.
The highlighted sentence is a metaphor and it’s the right one.

You are selling in your academic career. You are selling results, papers, conference presentations, whatever counts among your peers in your field.

You will not have a career as an academic in your field unless you can sell your work to your peers in the field.

No one cares about your teaching, certainly not of undergrads (exceptions exist at some liberal arts colleges). Your department and your dean care about your research. That’s it.

You have to sell it both to get it published and to get it cited. Do that and you’ll be fine. Don’t and you won’t have a career in a university.
> There is nothing inherently wrong with landlords and rent. Anyone that says otherwise is a tankie. Landlords provide a valuable service.

What valuable service would that be, I wonder. Having a signature on a deed?

Also nice, argument: "my opinion is right and anyone that says otherwise is wrong". x)