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> Building physical houses to sit empty as a financial instrument has to be one of the peaks of capitalist insanity.

I quite agree, and I am therefore very suspicious that this is actually happening in significant volume! I have never seen convincing evidence that this happens, and it, at least superficially, makes no sense as a money-making scheme (Worried about degradation? That just means you should get insurance.) In general, it doesn't make financial sense to keep capital idle, and claims of such should be taken with a grain of salt, especially if the messaging is politically charged as "rich foreigners are screwing the common man over to make money".

I agree that an LVT would be the solution if this were actually a problem. And that an LVT solves many other problems unrelated to evil foreign billionaires.
Look at Singapore, for example. Its situation was orders of magnitude worse than Portugal decades ago. Now they are probably twice as better.

The key is: stop complaining about "the rich is this, the rich is that" and start thinking about how to be competitive in the 21st century. There are many opportunities, but are Portuguese citizens interested in taking the effort and sacrifice to explore them? The answer to this question is the real explanation for the hard time they're going through, not "rich-blaming".
Absolutely now way that the "votes that come from importing wealthy people [...]" are going to be enough to get politicians elected - not enough wealthy people in the world. The real risk is the continued rise of populism which will result in cynical policies rather than real solutions for dealing with the increasing wealth gap.
Oh, yes. One little ~30-member local club which I was in put themselves on Meetup - and soon attracted over 1,000 never-heard-of / never-show "members".
Just for people who didn't watch the video. They could only fit 12 bits in that they determined to be "optimal size" handle by making them half-size. But they disliked the idea of locking people into their bits, and changed the design so that a little rotation can adapt the storage area to 6 standard-sized bits.

Here is a link to the relevant section
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM&t=819s
(Technical founder here)

Pretty boring answer here: Shane (non-technical) was left to put together the website and I think he just picked a wix template that happens to do this.

We are b2b and a majority of interactions with customers take place over the phone, including signing up to be a customer. The website, up to this point, has relatively little utility compared to other company websites. We've prioritized placing technical time and energy on the actual product. We did have a designer spend an hour on making it look better than it use to though.
> it's tedious, annoying, and often hard to debug, but not conceptually difficult

Just to check again, that line is about webpack, right? Not C programs?
Don't worry. I, an engineer, have the solution. We simply make a dating app with at least regex support for message filtering, you get to shoot yr shot and get immediate feedback in the form of being auto-blocked if you didn't make it past the filter.

Just thinking about it makes me want to start dating again, it'd be like ad-block but for crypto bros.
I don't view social media justice as positively as you do. Even when it seems like the person really deserves it, those subreddits etc. that exist for no reason other than to gawk at terrible moments in other people's lives aren't doing anyone any favors. There are no limits on the length or severity or appropriateness of the punishment.

At the same time, the worst of society doesn't seem all that cool to me but it could just be unusual times.
First the linked article would do with a bit of proofreading, it is painful at this point.

The market is mostly driven by portuguese government offering low taxes to people retiring in the country.

This won't be sustainable in the long run as all those people retiring now likely got less kids than the previous gen and will gonna die soon. This is a bubble that will pop in the next 20years when the amount of people dying and properties being put on sale will be much greater than people willing to retire there.

Also it is not like all these properties sold didn't benefit portuguese people.
A lot of the numbers in the paper seem absurd. For example, they claim

> Risk of dying from COVID-19 was 86% lower among regular users than non-users (RR, 0.14; 95%CI, 0.03–0.57; p=0.006), and 72% lower than irregular users (RR, 0.28; 95%CI, 0.07–1.18; p=0.083), while irregular users had a 51% reduction compared to non-users (RR, 0.49; 95%CI, 0.32–0.76; p=0.001). Conclusion: Non-use of ivermectin was associated with a 12.5-fold increase in mortality rate and seven-fold increased risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to the regular use of ivermectin in a PSM comparison of a strictly controlled population.

Which seems to be insanely high. These are the kind of numbers that should be easily replicable by any of the previous studies or research efforts that went into Ivermectin. Nothing here seems to pass the smell test. And given the amount of Ivermectin studies that have used poor quality evidence or outright made stuff up this needs far more rigor before I'm willing to accept it.
Who needs better audio still looks for dedicated sound cards, *but* external.

For example if you produce music, you probably are good with an external USB audio interface like a Focusrite Scarlett.
I think nobody would term it as being "revolutionized". But like many others, I would definitely say that I improved and became a more knowledgeable programmer by learning languages that were different enough from what I am used to writing. Even if I ended up not using them.

Also I find the article's assumption weird that people pick up new languages just because they want to do a new project they feel the language would fit better with. In my experience that applies more to frameworks/technologies, but not to languages.
> I do see a box "Get to know your members — With the Pro registration form, you can get key attendee details like email address and job title"

Is what I was referring to. Not exactly clear what it means, but it starts to sound potentially sketchier than I initially thought.
> I am going to a dance event regularly but so far nothing there and even then, I can't talk while I dance as I need to concentrate on getting the moves right (it's a well known style of dance, not just club dancing)

Are you doing competitive dancing?

If you’re dancing for fun yet you’re more concerned about dancing “properly” than you are about just socializing, people are probably wondering why you’re taking it so seriously.
What evidence do you have for the Less Wrong community’s motivations around climate change? This is the first I’ve heard of it.
Creative still makes very high quality discrete soundcards, they just suffered a combination of on-board audio being enough for the average and wireless headphones not needing a DAC. Also my father's generation was super into audio and had lots of disposable income even for middle class people to invest in audiophile gear, today that income bracket is very very gone, so the markets are much smaller for gadgetheads to spend money on stuff like that.
I've always done tons of side projects, it's a result of trying to build small lifestyle companies. So I'm biased towards any interviewer that hones in on any of the projects and takes interest in hearing about the story. I as well hone in on any particular side projects, especially any that are "real" ie generate money, or is on the appstore or has users.

Although it feels kind of rigid, I appreciate structured questions. I've heard that you should keep the format objective and ask things in the exact same way in order to avoid subjectivity. So when I interview others, I usually have around 8 very structured questions that I ask and then it goes onto the actual coding part. It makes it easier and more fair to compare later. Of course end of the day, apparently nobody can pick performers from an interview as proved by google so maybe it's all just to make ourselves feel better

Any job that doesn't ghost you and even better, give you a specific break down of what you could improve on. I remember doing a takehome where the prompt said there would be a leaderboard and was written with a peppy fun attitude to sell the competition. I got really excited to see how I did compared to others and they just never replied back.
It would be nice if that were true, but also aggravating to me that it's too little and too late. Roe was "on the ballot" in 2016. It lost. Anybody paying attention knew six years ago that Roe was gone.

So voters can get "fired up" here in the off-year election of 2022, but there's little they can do. The Supreme Court majority will last for the rest of my lifetime. Passing legislation is just shy of impossible: it requires a unanimous vote by one party (since it's always politically expedient for the other party to vote against), and leaves no room for legitimate disagreement.

Whatever disagreement (legitimate or otherwise) was had by abortion-rights-inclined voters six years ago, the job is vastly, vastly harder now. It will take decades of voting at "fired up" levels to even begin to fix it.
Does Remote US mean only US applicants or are you also open to, say, a night owl from Europe?
How can you "refuse to pay"? Certainly this should only incur more penalties or perhaps a criminal prosecution against whomever is ignoring the court order?
Ask HN: How to go about building channel partnerships as a small SaaS company?
Used to be that it was only possible for this to happen if the organizer failed to pay, then assistant organizers, then members. During the process the group was locked and no new members could join.

Curious:

- Do you know if the party that took over the group was an member or assistant organizer?

- Anyone able to link to a group that’s currently in detail for payment? (Think I saw something like this before, but I was a member of the group.)

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Edit-001: Yep, here’s the related FAQ for failure to pay and group take overs:

https://help.meetup.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002883171-What-...
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Being bald works well if you have a big frame/size. Then you just look very masculine. Unfortunately short guys are more likely to go bald and it works less well on short men.
If you can tell me that I cannot do something with my property, and I want the freedom to tell you to take a hike, I don't see how that makes me a fascist.
> Almost doubling the price per month already honestly seems like this product doesn't have long left to live. And the price is already expensive enough where only privacy enthusiasts would be considering it.

Well, early-adopters seem to be grandfathered in. But, if this model stops them from running out of money and helps them actually reach sustainability, I'm fine with it! I think that if they can't find 10,000 users who want to pay $20/mo for a really excellent search engine, there's a bigger problem here. There are surely 10,000 privacy conscious people who would pay, right?

The $9.99/mo pricing model is kind of a meme, because no matter what the service is, people seem willing to charge the exact same cost. At least Kagi is being up-front and saying "hey, our service costs more to operate and we aren't making enough money yet".

People willingly pay Superhuman $30/mo for an alternative interface to Gmail. If that niche exists, surely a paid search at $20/mo niche exists?
What is referred to/defined as "interpolation" because as an outsider... isn't "Stable Diffusion interpolating text into images/frames/video" in a "literal" (maybe not technical) sense?
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Britain’s failure to build is throttling its economy
I lived in Venice (Mestre, actually, but born in Venice) and knew what the article was about without even clicking :)
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But if it's a global problem... where are all these rich people coming from? Even if the richest 10% of the global population were going around buying three houses a piece, that would still leave 70% of the housing market left over for us plebs.
I'm not sure how that changes anything? Divide the all raw numbers by 3.5, the rates will stay the same.

The point is, while average-looking men are disadvantaged by the sheer number of men on these apps, average-looking women are disadvantaged because men appear to be far more selective than women are:

"2/3 of male messages go to the top 1/3 of women. When it comes down to actually choosing targets, men choose the modelesque. Someone like roomtodance above gets nearly 5 times as many messages as a typical woman and 28 times as many messages as a woman at the low end of our curve. Site-wide, two-thirds of male messages go to the best-looking third of women. So basically, guys are fighting each other 2-for-1 for the absolute best-rated females, while plenty of potentially charming, even cute, girls go unwritten."
Which is to say, nobody of note is still allowing it; you can allow it if you like, for anyone who is still doing it; but if you don't, and someone sends you a message, and it bounces, then, well, they already know why.
My understanding is what you are suggesting is how it works. The only question is how to measure "slightly different". FAA thought the differences were bigger than slightly and needed more than a little training. So Boeing tried to use software to paper over the differences.
I've never had trouble receiving mail at email on my own domain so user registration is not a problem here. (I did work at a place long ago that, in fact, would only let you register if you had an email at an institution we trusted and specifically blocked webmail which was generally perceived as low-status until gmail came along and had invites and time delays early on to increase its status perception.)

If you sent mail from a private domain you will sometimes have deliverability problems for outbound mail. I've never felt it was a big problem for individual mails I send but I've usually used a deliverability service for bulk mail, transactional mails and verification mails I send.
A few things rub me the wrong way here... first, they don't accept cryptocurrency. Then they go on to say to be anonymous you can use services like SimpleLogin or PrivacyHQ, and they state "We do not log searches or associate them with an account, by design."

The issue here isn't whether you log searches, but whether you log payment transactions and it is almost a guarantee that they do and is probably by law. SimpleLogin or PrivacyHQ offers no guarantees of anonymity when it comes to government agencies. In fact, you can almost guarantee that virtual debit card providers are logging your transactions and from experience usually require you link a bank account.

So even if pay with a virtual debit card and use an email relay, it can still be tied back to your search history if for some reason you are suspected of searching for something that may be investigation worthy. I don't think it is fair to simply trust a company that claims they don't log things, when history has shown that they do in fact even when they say they don't.

So why would they even try to market themselves as more private or anonymous? If you want privacy or anonymity then you'll use a free search engine that doesn't want payment; and you'll search from behind a reliable VPN or via Tor.
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As a relatively poor country (for European standards) with, crucially, a lot of debt, it is very difficult to go for massive public spending projects as would be construction of enough public housing to bring it to the aforementioned 20% goal (there are actually proposals to this effect in Parliament), even though this would (1) help control the housing crisis and (2) actually easily turn up a profit in the mid-long run.

The EU could change all of this and go for true European cohesion with Eurobonds under the blue/red proposal... but that's another story ;)

> Generally, having all these big money foreigners trying to come to your country is a good thing. It sure beats having no industry and you can crank up the tax heat on them as high as you want since nonresident-noncitizens don't vote.

Well but do they? Where is the evidence that golden-visa/NHR recipients have actually helped create jobs, invest, create industry...? In fact, there appears to be evidence to the contrary: https://www.publico.pt/2021/12/25/economia/noticia/vistos-go... (translated: "Golden visa: in nine years, the program created 241 new jobs. Investments which led to the residency permits since 2012 amount to 6000 million euro, the vast majority of which went to real estate")
Why can't they file a lien on the campus and foreclose?
Is it just me or are most of these mainstream media dating articles written from a woman's perspective? I rarely see mainstream media discussing the struggles of modern dating from a straight man's perspective.
But tides aside, which we kind of understand, and you may be correct about in regards to mass and mining, what other effects does this system have that we don't understand? The unknown unknowns are the important things to consider here.

Did people who started burning coal all those years ago ever think they'd have to worry about climate shift driving their descendants from their homes centuries later because of their actions? Did anyone ever consider that the mass use of disposable plastics would cause these chemicals to persist in our bodies, our water, our food supply? Did any of these people proceed slowly and with caution out of consideration of unknown unknowns?

Unfortunately, no.
Just don’t go too far past what you can deliver in person. The matching party could feel catfished and that will just push your failure down-funnel.

I.E. don’t take shots with perfectly styled hair, a leather jacket, and a motorcycle, if your day to day and date attire will be a t-shirt and jeans and you’re going to arrive on an e-scooter.
True from my experience and talking to female friends. Men have trouble at the top of the funnel; women have trouble further along (when, of course, more emotional investment has gone in, and more time too).
Singapore's public housing is propped up by the fact that they have a huge proportion of their population that are totally ineligible for it, but pay the taxes to support it. I think something like only 60% of Singapore has the citizenship or correct criteria of permanent residency to obtain public housing.

If the US can put 40% of its working populace into some lower-rights having class, like strip their citizenship, we would have a comparable public housing tax base.
Indeed there is some weirdness in this article.

For example, it claims Brazillians are going to Portugal in large numbers because Bolsonaro...

Except, Brazillians are going to Portugal in large numbers, because the Portuguese government invited them, out of necessity since the country is depopulated and has low birth rates.

I am one of the Brazilians that intend to move to Portugal, and part of the reason is that I am not exactly Brazilian, yes I was born in Brazil, but my family is from Portugal, and I was raised with a Portuguese culture, I just don' t feel like Brazil is my home and want to try going back to my family hometown (Leiria) to see if it is a place that clicks with me.

Lisbon and other metropolises indeed are bad, but because a incredible amount of people want to live there despite lack of enough land there.
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