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Global warning doesn’t care about the aesthetics of your hiking trail. But, no, no, let’s catch it progress towards a sustainable planet on hold because some folks don’t like the look of solar farms.
The biggest thing missed when proposals like that is that not everyone wants to (or does it make sense to) buy a property. Making it 4x more expensive to own a rental property means that rent will be 4x more expensive for those that have to rent.

If I was moving to NYC for 6 months, or 2 years, there’s no way I want to spend tens of thousands of dollars buying-and-then-selling a property.
Yes, and that should be allowed so long as the landlord is an individual.
Competing with a billion people to lower wages and make jobs scarce. Combined with the rising prices of housing due to so many people moving here.

When will other countries pull their own weight with job creation and economic success instead of just takeing from America and Europe?
The financialization of housing is unethical.

Elora Lee Raymond at Georgia Tech continues to document and research the devastation in Atlanta — evictions of tenants, the resulting increase in deplorable rental options, the destruction of the market for working class homes in Atlanta’s Black communities.

https://www.atlantafed.org/-/media/documents/community-devel...
> Why is this inherently bad? Growth and velocity can be beneficial for users.

It's not inherently bad, but if you have velocity and growth build on shoddy foundations, that's not velocity and growth. That's speculation.

> Growth and velocity can be beneficial for users.

100%, with the above mentioned caveat. However, as a user of a lot of products, I find it hard to remember any time where I wished for more growth for the company and velocity for the teams involved in building the products.
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Do you think humans have a right to own a peace of land on planet earth? (Not the labor just the land)

I find it very unjust being forced to buy land from someone else that the only thing they did was being born before.
Exactly what I've been wanting to do, use it as a display for emacs with a bluetooth keyboard. Don't mind if it has to pass through my laptop. Does anyone know how to do something similar with the reMarkable 2?
> What's not to like?

All true, but if you're steelmanning it, you really need to mention the weight. Also it doesn't conduct heat well.
Gotta thank Zoom for supplying a new excuse to not install Zoom on my Mac. I’ve been using it from iOS every time I had to and then deleting it afterwards.

If anyone asks me when I’m on my phone, I tell them I don’t trust Zoom.
You can have a modern one though.

The article doesn't talk about communism because it doesn't have to. It isn't talking about how it happened historically, it is talking about it's ideology, which is independent of its history.

(4) Nazism conceives of the world as a struggle between races.

(5) That's not "race" in the 20c US "black/ white" sense; Jews, Slavs, Britons, and so on are all "races," too.

(6) And Nazis believe that races have certain characteristics, which are passed on through the blood; and that they are bound to some land.

(7) There are a few other articles of Nazi belief: for example, that acting ("the will") is better than thinking (a sign of weaker races).

(8) And that the strength of a race is most strongly exemplified through the untrammeled Will of its leaders.

It doesn't need to talk about communism because it is independent of it.
High reserve heat is the reason to use cast iron. It's certainly possible to learn to do delicate things with cast iron and heat, just as (identical to in fact) it's possible to get the hang of this with resistive coil hobs.

But it's fighting the tool. Unless one has a strong commitment to minimalism, or a kitchen/galley which demands it, one is better off having other skillets for that. Wrought iron, carbon steel, stainless, pick a couple you like.

But to get that deep caramel crust on southern Johnny cake, you'll want cast iron. Fantastic for getting a deep even sear on a sous vide steak.

The reserve heat should be your friend.
Looking at scientific publications per capita shows that currently the research output of a nation is not strictly a function of population. Note that the UK and Germany both appear in the top five per capita. Further, both China and India are nowhere near the top of the list on a per capita basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
The Supreme Court of the U.S. has maintained an absolute ban on photography down to this very day.
From Smil this is a valid criticism in my opinion. He's got the data and he knows how to do the math, so he's basically saying come correct if you want to debate at his level.
I'd say living within your own four walls is less freedom, because it's harder to move, more time spent for maintenance etc.
Yes, I think it would be a good idea to cap how many properties can be owned (at an amount reasonably high per private individual, but low for companies) although of course those intent on being real estate tycoons will find loopholes. I think, like many issues, this would best be implemented locally first. If a city/town has people who want less residential properties controlled by a few big owners (either for rent or to flip) they can demand their elected officials do something about it. Trying to enact broad change federally or even statewide casts too broad of a net with big holes that more likely than not would make it difficult for smaller owners to be able to do things but would most likely leave the international corporations only slightly inconvenienced. There really is no one solution that would be both effective and realistic but I do think it is very important for people to understand and discuss this topic, and not rely on assumptions. The market has changed drastically over time, as has public perception, and it's actually a lot more complicated than just "fill empty homes" and "foreign investors are owning all the houses".
Despite the fierce rhetoric, the primary driver of the financialization of the US housing market has been A) US federal policy that grants preferential financial treatment of home ownership in the way of mortgage deductions and the Home Sale Tax Exemption B) Local and state governments which place supply restrictions on the construction of new homes, especially multi-family dwellings.

The latter is particularly serious. In normal markets, tight supply leads to higher prices. Producers respond to higher prices by increasing supply and prices moderate over time. In the housing market this is not happening: in high demand cities with well-paying jobs it is largely illegal to build new homes. Thus supply does not increase and prices continue to rise. In the oil industry in the 1970s, we saw how OPEC supply restrictions caused oil prices to rise. The same is happening in the housing market: local zoning laws are effectively operating as a cartel.

This government supported financialization of the housing market has created a haven for real estate speculators in the private sector. Continued low housing supply helps insure prices will continue to rise and thus make housing a good investment. This speculation makes the housing market even more frothy.

To break the cycle, we must end federal policies that encouraging housing to be seen as a primary asset investment for individuals; and we must reform local zoning laws that restrict new supply.
That doesn't really answer my question. If you're a modest private person, what can you buy with 20 billion that you actually want, that you can't buy with 300 million?
The idea is the more and better improvements your property has the more you can afford to pay. I figure 50% of the reason they want a permit for any little thing is to ensure the tax assessor has a fresh view of the current state of improvements!
A browser based collaborative CAD tool appears to be a great idea. Rendering is now longer the bottleneck in computation and Nurbs data is actually lightweight. Computation heavy tasks like the geometry engine could be done locally. However developing a geometry engine or nurbs kernel is quite a challenge- harder than any game engine.
Remove depreciation, 1031b, and government backed loans for non owner occupied properties.

That would do the most damage.
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I created this tiny website to experiment with UI/UX. I wanted to offer basic features with minimal UI and no signup.

Under the hood, it’s a Next.js application storing data in S3.
Yes, really. The property tax is a privilege tax paid in exchange for exclusive use of the land. That it is calculated on a basis that includes improvements is a truly meaningless distinction.
we do expect humans to keep getting faster and faster for some reason, so we are expecting nutritionists and coaches to continually improve and move their baseline
So "gun owners" fall into 2 camps

1. Sport Shooters
2. Self Defenders

There are some that over lap, but I am not a sport shooter, i own guns exclusively for self defense, most gun owners that "support reasonable restrictions" do so because they only care about maintaining shooting sports, and are fine with restrictions because normally they are targeted to self defense uses of fire arms.

There is also a small subset of gun owners that are ignorant of the current state of law and believe rhetoric like "closing the gun show loop hole" or other such non-sense.

None of this however changes the fact that the MAJOR organizations that support gun control, and big name politicians pushing for gun control have their implicit stated goal of total ban of the most common weapons in use today, (Semi-Auto rifles and pistols with capacities greater than 8)

So sure maybe they will allow people to have a black power musket, or some other such non-sense and you believe that classifies as "not a total ban" but to me that is a total ban
Sound is inherently air in motion.

- The humidity in air changes its density and therefore the transmission of wiggly energy. Temperature probably does too, and there's always Doppler effects from running across the house.

- I tried to have phone calls in an empty house and people couldn't understand me, now almost all the walls are floor to ceiling with books and people don't understand me either over Zoom. You push wiggly energy, some of it comes back (or it destroys the building's structural foundations? I can't talk that loud).

- And there's also the whole issue of resonant frequencies. I know the resonant frequency of my head and can use it as reference to sing in tune if unaccompanied; I'm also able to entertain my child by finding the resonant frequency of corridors, elevators and so on. You can learn it too, just try to hum until one note is much louder and maybe rattles some bolted-on things. OF COURSE THE RESONANT FREQUENCY OF AN ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT CHANGES HOW MUSIC SOUNDS, jesus. It changes how the same song sounds in different keys.

- And there's the issue of having absolute pitch, which, my dad tells me, ruins listening to music in the kitchen.
I've read it. So that's a chance that's where I got it :)
Real estate in America is perversely incentivized. In America, you are raised often to believe that you have not "made it" until you are a home owner...And, many folks are surprised to truly understand that even if you pay off a mortgage loan, that the government can confiscate your home after you fail to pay taxes. And, then poof, you are no longer a home owner. When i was a young kid, I thought that once you pay off a mortgage, that;s it, you never have to pay *anyone* any sort of "rent" ever again...But that's factually wrong, if one considers taxes a sort of rent. I'm not against government nor taxes, and actually i have been happy (yes, happy) to pay my taxes for the 2 decades that i was a home owner, because i saw directly the great school system and decent management of some (though not all) town infrastructure that came from tax proceeds/revenue...But, this idea that being a homeowner means you never have to pay a sort of "rent" (after paying off the mortgage) is just not true. And, yet, the real estate industry and other adjacent industries keep pushing that idea into your head. Many Americans are tricked into living under concidtions that are way above their means, simply to feel like they have "made it in America". I'd be happy if everyone was just honest about things: that a person doesn't really entirely own their home in the way that the idea is promoted.

Oh, and separate of the decades that i owned a home, I also ran global web operations and digital products for one of America's largest real estate companies...and i can tell you that there's alot that people would not want to know on "how the sausage gets made". While there are plenty of honorable and good employees and real estate agents, sadly there are still enough shady folks...and its not all their fault...mostly because the industry incentivizes bad behavior...and by bad behavior i don't mean illegal (though of course that happens too), i mean simply unethical behavior. And, with this industry having survived the dotcom boom, the great recession, the pandemic, etc....there's just no way that things will get less shady. More and more parasitic behavior is on the horizon for this industry, so it doesn't surprise me that more startups are yet to come. Or, maybe I've just been too deep in the industry?

A nd, don't even get me started on how foolishly many American towns (and of course American homes) have been designed towards suburbia instead of better, densely (and less resource wasting) approaches like towns in other countries.
Food is commoditized to the point where a lot of it involves slavery (Southern Europe) or exploitation of the state welfare system (UK), etc. So not quite the same.

Without homes to rent there would only be homes to buy and live in, taking all the rent seekers out the market would have a positive effect for most regular people because prices would fall to a level of basic affordability as we had had before 'buy to rent' became a bandwagon that everyone was jumping upon.

You can't introduce such wholescale inefficiency into a market without a lot of people suffering the consequences.

My parents bought their first house for about the same as the same house will fetch per month rental nowadays. That can't be right?
Propellers all the way down.
Exactly. It's consistent with the personalities of the early contributors that I've met. Private individuals who enjoy their wealth but don't seem like they really need any more.
Santiago de Chile or Cuba?

I know that’s not the case in Chile for any of the central neighborhoods (Yungay, Brazil, Lastarria, Franklin, etc…) which I think are probably close to SF in terms of size. 325k CLP is about the lower end for a nice, small 2BR. You can get more rooms but the square footage is smaller. Las Condes/Vitacura goes up from there.

You can buy a nice 2BR apartment for $175k USD though.
Exactly, stability is the most important. I don't even care about large paycheck (like you said, 95th p.) if I still need to take a bad loan for 20 years in a country that has recently seen doubling in mortgage payments.

I just want to know it's going to be ok, for me and my family. After that requirement is satisfied we can talk about having kids, creating innovative companies, having breakthrough research. We can't achieve great things without this sort of stability.
How is this isolated to Asia? As a developer in the USA, I’ve seen prioritization of deadlines over quality in nearly every org I’ve worked at.

We would probably all love to hand write encryption algorithms for data transfer, or beautiful animations on user interactions, or perfectly graceful fault handling, or 100% test coverage.

The reality is that kind of work takes far longer than most employers are willing to wait. I doubt heavily that it’s the engineers love of coding that is lacking, rather the employers patience.
After the first thing with the zoom installer and their shenanigans on MacOS a while back I refused to install the app on my devices (except for mobile where I have no choice to use the app if I have to use zoom for something) and always use it via the browsers.
One thing you can absolutely guarantee when it comes to a necessity of life commodity, a black swan event will occur and people will die because they are priced out of the market.

Imagine, if you will, when the Texas grid went all wonky and those people who choose to buy power at open market rates had to prepay for their $13,000 kw/hr electricity because the power company had a limit on how much credit they will give you. Now imagine a drought where there is a disruption in the water supply because a pump burned out due to record setting high temperatures.

I’m no cheerleader for big government but if people insist on having one there are valid activities that they should engage in to protect the citizens from getting bitch slapped by the invisible hand of the market. This being one of them considering how capital intensive it is to provide a reliable water supply.
I use Zoom in FF on macOS daily, and have not had any of the above issues. I fire up the Zoom meeting in a browser tab, and then flip back and forth between tabs and windows with no negative results to the Zoom tab's functioning.

Every time I have to relaunch FF after updates, the Zoom webpage forces me to download their installer (which I delete without using), and working their way through the dark pattern UI BS to get to the 'launch in browser' link to appear.
There is adiabatic compressed air, where the heat of compression is transfered to a thermal store, cooling the compressed air before it's injected into the storage cavern. Then, on discharge, the heat is recovered from the thermal store and used to reheat the air.

This illustrates, btw, that compressed air doesn't actually storage energy! The energy content of a gas is the kinetic energy of its molecules (and some small contribution from the potential energy of molecules at the moments they bounce off each other, but that's typically minor). The kinetic energy of the molecules is a function of temperature, but not of pressure.

What the air is doing is acting as a store of reduced entropy, which can later be exploited to convert that separate heat back to work at high efficiency. However, one could also do this by PTES, Pumped Thermal Energy Storage, where a reversible thermal cycle produces heat and cold, which are stored separately, then brought back together to recover the work. This is like adiabatic CAES, but instead of storing the cooled compressed air, it is expanded through a turbine and the cold of the resulting expanded gas is stored (say in a tank of mild cryogenic hexane).
> There are a few other articles of Nazi belief: for example, that acting ("the will") is better than thinking (a sign of weaker races).

Perhaps this explains the otherwise strange title of the film "Triumph of the Will".

Interesting info here, if these points are true. However, initiating political violence by punching people seems counterproductive. Punching is an act carried out at an individual level, so unless you need to engage in self-defense against a specific individual who is actively physically attacking you, you're the aggressor.
This is a useful chart (though it would be nice if efficiency was included).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage#/media/File:A...
I agree, except E.G. retired 'snowbirds' really love a stable climate and might have two homes in different climate zones. There's also the case where someone is selling one home and moving into another.

The tax break should be made if someone's primary residence is occupied for at least 35% of a tax year. A number intentionally just a tiny bit bigger than one third, so the break can only apply to a maximum of two homes, but low enough to be flexible.
Incentivizing individual home ownership I get, but killing the home flipping market, I don’t. Personality, I don’t want to renovate an out of date home, I just want to move in and done with it. Taxing flippers to death doesn’t seem progressive to me.
What is the point of shifting the focus here? Are you trying to justify Nazism?
Do you use the ironsponge on stainless steel? I assume you mean something like steel wool?

My biggest "pro" for cast iron is that it's incredibly easy to clean without worrying about ruining the pan. Our stainless steel pan gets scratched if I look at it wrong, even using the rough side of the sponge. Not sure if we just have the wrong pan, or worry about scratches more than we should?

For our cast iron I use chainmail if there's every anything stuck on hard. For the stainless steel I feel a lot more out of luck! Metal utensils, soap, rough side of the sponge, I'm never worried about it!
> Integrated calendar that automatically tries to make you join meetings you have not yet responded to (with no way to configure not to happen).

Oh man, that calendar is such a shitshow, and it's also not only on Teams, but also on Outlook.

It's able to detect some other conferencing software and add a "join" button, for example Webex.

But, for some reason, it systematically fails to recognize Teams links sent from a company we work with a lot. If I click the "join meeting" link inside the invitation, Teams will open and join said meeting, but it never shows the "join" button on the event in the calendar view.
Hi, are there Jacobson papers for 100% renewables looking at geographical distribution of generation, storage and interconnectors, then modelling them against weather and demand, or are they cruder than that? If those papers exist, can you recommend an accessible way to understand these models, and their outcomes? For instance, are there areas for wind generation which are more valuable that others, to provide a balance to regional lulls, and is that data published?

Is model code available so that it can be run by any of us?
Aren't rules to a game considered facts, and therefore not copyrightable? The art, story, and names are trademark or copyright friendly.
Gen Z is over Facebook, Pew Research Center finds
I don't like Go error handling either (and I do like Rust) - but if the argument is against exceptions because of confusing flow, then there's a case for it in some languages I think - e.g. it's what you'd choose for Python if nobody had come up with exceptions (or they fell out of favour in time) for example.
> It really feels like open source is something else

Open source was like that and was created to be like that. Parts of it still are, but much of it has degenerated into fiefdoms and lots of developers of larger open source projects have been soured by the prospect of just being free labor for surveillance capitalist mega-corps.

The good corners of the OSS world tend to be small communities doing interesting things. It's just like how the small topical subreddits are still okay while the big areas on Reddit are complete trash.
I'm trying to get xdebug working on AWS ECS... do you think that will qualify?
Apple is blocking Apple News to some Apple One customers
You can own and pay for Apple One, if you do not live in an English country, you will not be able to install Apple News as is.
Anyone who is selling APIs needs to realize this will almost certainly happen when you turn off the old one - those people haven't upgraded to your latest for a reason, and if upgrading is hard enough they'll re-evaluate the whole deal.