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> means that property rights do not exist. As property rights are the basis of free markets, it's important that we understand there is no free market

Surprise! The libertarian dream of free market property rights and doing whatever you want doesn't really exist in many ways, such as, randomly chosen:

a) you need a drivers license to operate a car on public roads

b) if you build a new house or office building, its electrical wiring needs to be done by a licensed/bonded contractor and meets standards of your local city or county electrical inspection and the NEC

c) if you build gas lines in the same place it also gets inspected and needs to meet certain standards

d) that new toyota you bought from the local dealer is subject to a whole host of federal vehicle safety regulations before its manufacturer is allowed to sell in the the usa

e) the entire electrical grid in your area is likely regulated by some state and federal level entities that have an interest in it not falling over on its face, like the texas-regulated energy grid during their major winter storm event a while back.

f) the burger you ate for lunch came from a local food-health/safety inspected restaurant and the beef from a supplier that's also subject to regulations and inspection

g) no, just because you own the land doesn't mean you can start a leather tannery or fat rendering/reduction industrial operation on a small scale in your suburban house's back yard, stinking up the neighbors.

I could go on...
Edward VIII abdicated at the end of 1936, almost three years before the start of the second world war. At that time being a Nazi sympathizer was still perfectly respectable in much of British high society. I think possibly you are getting the timeline slightly mixed up.
I don't want to tell her what to do.
I really don't see how this would solve anything. It'd allow existing areas of SFH to be slowly converted into duplexes. It's not like suburbia is going to line up in droves to have their house converted into a duplex.

This solves basically nothing because if there were pure market forces most of America's cities. would have ceased to be SFH long ago. Slow conversion into duplexes simultaneous pisses off the NIMBYs and doesn't really help add supply in any great deal.

The evening news quote for this would be something like "if it were up to us, we'd build the new high rise today. But the city requires us to build several buildings, have people move in, evict them, then demolish that & start over. Something has to change with this process"
It's probably worthless now. Give it to me, I'll dispose of it responsibly :D
I have faith in their ability to screw up a good thing for no reason.

A couple years ago, they tried to change their whole payment system so each subscription was billed individually, racking up more fees for patrons. They kept defending it and finally backed down at the last minute after a ton of their biggest creators yelled at them.
Hah, I just replied to your comment as well. I appreciate that you pointed out that this isn't a problem unique to YC. At some point, people are just chasing prestige. Considering YCs rapid growth over the last few years, I'm not surprised this is happening, but given the nature of the business it could be a long time before the patterns become apparent. There are more live YC companies today than there are exited/failed ones. I worry the time it will take for issues in the process to become apparent may be too later for them.
I'd argue there's a significant market for the pre-SpaceX rockets--which are still used today. There's just a much larger potential market for significantly cheaper rockets given sufficient reliability as well.

There is on the other hand no apparent market for commercial supersonic passenger flight given the economics. That doesn't mean that some people wouldn't pay the freight but that there hasn't been enough apparent market to build an airplane program around that.
In Finland, already one of the most politically stable countries in the world?

There’s no discernible difference on this count between Finland and its Nordic peers that are constitutional monarchies.
> Both of these quotations are very clearly statements of "fuck you courts, follow the law", which the court has summarily ignored

This is very classic for Californian courts and for Ninth Circuit.
> From commoners to heads of state, the queen has been known to smooth over embarrassing situations with a gentle quip or two. According to Blaikie, at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party, a woman was chatting with the queen when her cell phone embarrassingly started ringing. “You’d better answer that,” the queen told her. “It might be someone important.”

> Then there was the notorious incident that occurred during Charles and Madame de Gaulle’s state visit to Buckingham Palace. “Somebody asked Madame de Gaulle what she was most looking forward to in her retirement, which was imminent,” Blaikie writes. “Not speaking English much at all, she replied, ‘A penis.’ Consternation reigned for some time but it was the queen herself who came to the rescue. ‘Ah, happiness,’ she said.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/08/behind-queen-elizab...
Funny how the same reasonable logic doesn't ever seem to apply to the people saying it.

Those same directors are part of the same organization and are responsible for the actions of everyone under them. That responsibility is supposedly WHY they get to enjoy those big paychecks.

But somehow "everyone involved has to go" still doesn't include them...
It is possible to specify new APIs that say "UTF-8 only, if you pass an unpaired surrogate, you will get an error", and many such APIs already behave that way. They are, on the whole, not a major problem in practice. They are not not fundamentally incompatible with JavaScript/Java/Dart/Kotlin/C# -- it just means that if you wish to call an API that only accepts UTF-8, you must make sure your inputs are valid UTF-8 -- the only lossy case is for invalid Unicode strings, likely generated by accident. It is not dishonest to want to add APIs that behave that way.

It's fine to disagree with me or the committee, but your grand gesturing and your overstatements about how tightening a single bolt on strings will break web compatibility forever is exhausting to listen to, especially when you claim large-scale political conspiracy and use words like "fundamentally incompatible with JavaScript". I don't see any of it.

Your behavior in those threads are absurd, unnecessary, and alarmist, and I really don't have any sympathy for you. Even this reply doubles down on the over-exaggeration.

I think large parts of WebAssembly are mismanaged. I have major complaints about the velocity, instability, and web APIs, I spend a lot of time in them, I'm grumpy, and I'm not usually one to go to bat for any of this. Even within the WebAssembly/JavaScript/WASI interop, there are 20 things I'd put on the list ahead of this. If I have any advice for you, it's to pick a new battle, because this is maybe this is the highest complaint to lowest impact ratio I've ever seen. You lost, just move on.
As a general rule, you don't criticize people who've just died. That's just common courtesy.
It's a single fucking house on a fucking 1.76 acre lot? And these fucking psychopaths feel like that's too much housing? Like a single fucking house, on almost two acres?
Back in the day, Arabs would send their children to the desert so that they would learn proper Arabic, as it was the most pure form, not mixed with other tongues or dialects. Not to mention learning other skills like survivability and patience and so on.

Fortunately, the Muslims went to great length to preserve the history and culture, even as globalization etches away at it. There's a reason we take great pride in how our religion and traditions have been preserved (all by the Grace of God of course).
Marvelously dysfunctional.

Do you know why they banned you?
I believe Elixir is the future AI stack
Why is it likely? I've a feeling William will be as fondly regarded as his grandmother. Charles not so much, but he might not be in his post for very many years. Also don't overlook the fact that the British Empire and Commonwealth have basically fallen apart under QEII's watch, but that's still not likely to mean that the country gets rid of the monarchy. Nobody in the country is of the mind that having President Boris as head of state is a better idea than having King William. Not even the Scots.
It's not that long ago that the actual president of the US suggested injecting it during a press conference.
Not sure what you're referring to, but having a 7+ bedroom that sits on multiple lots in a SFH neighborhood is a single of wealth where I'm at. The fact that it sits in a dense community near a city is a bonus.

I've seen some really beautiful homes out in the country as well, but they aren't that practical unless you are retired.
> I really don't see how this would solve anything. It'd allow existing areas of SFH to be slowly converted into duplexes.

Twice as much housing is a lot more housing.
If property owners have the option to convert single family homes into duplexes, they can do that. Then if there's not enough demand for their units, they lower the rent until they fill the units. If demand is really high, then more property owners will start converting. If demand remains high, eventually those duplexes will be cleared out for some modest apartment complexes.

For areas that don't have a lot of economic activity, I think very few homeowners will go through the expense of converting their properties because they won't be able to make the money back on rent. In those areas it would be more efficient to build new SFHs on vacant lots.

Either way, with byzantine zoning rules out of the picture, the pricing and incentives to build, sell, or rent will match the local area much better.
> Theranos could have easily found a medical lab equipment manufacturer to conduct some similar testing and early stage development.

I don't think they could have. Siemens/etc would have already known that Holmes' idea of running that wide array of blood tests from a single drop of fingertip blood wouldn't have worked. One of Holmes' professors, Phyllis Gardner, told Holmes it wouldn't work before the whole scam even began. Siemens or other lab equipment manufacturers surely would have known it too, since they know what it takes to make blood testing equipment.
It's a life of 'Duty' not a life of 'Arbitrary Wealth'.

It's not exactly poverty, but the 'classist' arguments, to the extent they are rooted in 'wealth distribution' are ridiculous and naive with respect to Constitutional Monarchies.

The 'Head of State' gets a nice home, oh well, it's a drop in the bucket.

That's fundamentally different than some fat oligarch.

BTW Charles will be a fine King. He's nerdy and awkward and everyone loved the beloved Dianna because she was pretty and breezy, which is fine, but I don't believe that 'Instagrammable' qualities are those that fill the role.
If "atomic" means "stop the world running one system, and reboot into a different system", we can easily arrange to reshuffle two or more directories. The program which does that can be easily designed not to be affected by the intermediate states, like where you have a new /lib, but still the old /bin.
Caddy is vastly vastly better in this regard. Traefik config files drive me insane when rewriting anything.
The UK is in a shocking state of decline, so not sure what metrics you are using there?

Widespread unemployment, hunger, life expectancies in decline, 1,000 people are dying a month from the botched "response" to covid. Hundreds of thousands in early graves due to same covid response, and before that already over a hundred thousand in early graves as a result of austerity. The political system seems to have completely collapsed and be unable to respond to crises or meet even the most basic survival needs of its population.

I wouldn't lay this on the feet of the monarchy, cos the elected officials seem to be the main cause of it.

But which republics are you looking at? Because I live in one, and I can't imagine moving back to the UK any time soon. Again, I don't think that's because it's a republic, it just happens to have a basically functioning political an economic system that hasn't (yet) failed.
Maybe a slow break towards corpo-governments? They are starting to realize they can ignore the government and laws without repercussions.
It seems as if you judge the past too positively. The 70s and 80s were also perceived as pretty dark at the time and anything but stable. The sentiment at the time was quite similar to the way you describe the present. You had stagnation in the 70s similar to what is happening today and a general view that the welfare system was losing its viability. The Cold War also became more serious again in the 80s and the geopolitical threats were comparable to today's.
seems like a risk to life (stealing drugs, hiring criminals, etc) when you could just move somewhere where its legal and start a legal business. And all for a fairly low value crop compared to hard drugs.

I mean it doesn't sound impossible it just sounds like it isn't worth it even if you could do it.
Didn't know this was a thing, and it sounds awful and inaccessible.
Surprised at the rigor they had for your process. Just looking at a lot of crypto companies that have joined their batch, I was questioning whether they even looked at the ideas or not.

Maybe they are just better with b2b SaaS and other verticals, with crypto being exceptionally bad.
>and the American export market collapses because no one wants to buy the American version of a Lada.

But you assume in this scenario that America won't still be exporting its high margin high value goods. This is in addition to existing industries.
Ok, so US forces Ukraine to cease fire - thy just stand around and get killed by Russian daily Kalibr airstrikes. What did that solve exactly?
They serve videos. That can be easily more costly than the cut they get.
I dont need to iterate towards stronger arguments. There isn't much else to debate or elaborate on the issue. Indeed you are taking the out in the cold statement too literarily, my comment is not weather related. We as a society, regardless of country or city, need to look after each other to a certain extent. Thats what makes a society. We are not beasts. Competing in boardrooms, politics, businesses, or careers is welcome and healthy, but simply allowing for people to struggle at that level is not. It’s not even about wealth or class, let alone rudimentary compassion. It’s just something i feel. An automated reaction to such societal issues, and a response i can give as a tax pair, voter and very very small donor. Somewhere somehow a circuit is broken and people end up in that situation. We need the mechanisms to prevent that from happening. Sure if some people see homelessness as a positive choice they themselves make then thats their choice and i totally respect that. I am not writing this comment to patronise people, i know nothing of their lives. But i do know that we must do all we can to develop mechanisms to prevent it from happening to those who dont want it. Food, shelter and health care are basic human needs and rights.
It is difficult to truely own something in the ideal sense of the word.
Most people pay a yearly fee to “own” their land. You cannot do whatever you want with your land i.e. you don’t really own it, but instead you own a lifetime tradeable lease. When you die, the land remains.

One definition of ownership I like is “can you freely destroy it without legal consequences?”.

Even “your” body: there are many laws about what you may and may not do with it (alive and dead).

There is even a grey area for whether you own your own thoughts? Maybe you rationally believe you can believe whatever you like, but actually your thoughts bleed through subconsciously into your actions which can have severe consequences. And unless you brought yourself up without human contact, it is very hard to discern the boundary between your own beliefs and those that belong to your society.
Subjective and arbitrary is exactly how the law works.
Heartbleed was in the parsing/business logic areas -- the areas where I said Rust's memory safety provides great benefits. When I say crypto algos, I mean implementing S-boxes in 3DES, etc.
What is the secondary meaning that causes people to choose the .so domain? I get .tv, .ai and finishing the spelling of a word using a ccTLD, but I never understood why people where using so (other than local businesses). Whenever I see them my general impression is one of (a) I'm not hip enough to get this reference, mixed with (b) that company was so desperate to find a good domain name they resorted to registering an obscure TLD in a war-torn third world country.
you are arguing for Git for legislation. not an api.
But the quote does not address the question of whether the government felt that the sovereign were threatening to block legislation, if it were not modified in accordance with the Royal Family's wishes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyqnu6ywhR4).
Patreon takes the lowest cut of any platform. Only something like 12% vs most others taking 20-30% or more.

E: see this video https://youtu.be/bGvfYv5nzs0?t=138
My wife and I, in our infinite boredom, decided to have a contest to see who can get the most helpfuls....after years of buying stuff. So, we were writing too many reviews at once is best I can figure, although it was for things we'd really bought, they banned us both.

But she won the contest by far. She was more willing to take pics and videos despite having much shorter reviews. I guess that's what the people want.
But it isn't. You think all those SFH lots are just going overnight become a duplex? Why would the retired lady who walks her dogs and tends the garden care about building a duplex?

Now when her kids inherit the home & sell it to a developer, sure it'll happen then. But that is a slow, generational process.
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If anyone is interested I setup the bills and committee endpoints in a google sheet, makes it easy to get the data in one spot, manage pagination, etc.. You can simply copy the spreadsheet and it will copy the api connectors, just enter your api key, you can easily add other endpoints, change query params, etc.

Pagination seems to be limited to 250 on the endpoints and some of the data sets are quite large so I set a limit on pagination of 10 pages, if you want all the bills from all time, prepare to wait.

Full disclosure it uses a free addon myself and my cofounders created to easily push any api data into a google sheet. I just find it useful to play around in a spreadsheet very quickly vs setting up a db.

spreadsheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1amnbqb_J9W2r-XaVsrue...
I also have a lot of doubt about the last one. The first two are light users having strong emotional reactions to amounts that would be an un-notable recreational amount for others. 55mg is nuts. Five hits won't really even make you hallucinate.

As old hippies used to tell me in the 90s, pot is 100x stronger than it was in the 60s, and LSD is 100x weaker.
None of them are constitutional monarchies in quite the same way the UK is? The UK has a uniquely intact monarchic system.. But then, the UK is an outlier in many things when compared with similarly wealthy countries.
I immediately installed it, thank you. I really like the dark mode.

However, I couldn't figure out how to comment initially and looked for the comment box, even at the bottom and couldn't find it. I finally realized it is the left facing arrow on the right just under the title. I think that UX could be improved to surface the comment feature.

Also, one feature I really wanted that I don't see on the extension is the ability to "favorite" it without clicking into it. So, I'd love to see that added. I will consider paying for the pro version to support you, but am going to give it a week or so on the free version.

Thanks
If there’s a need in the market someone will step in and fill the void. Probably it’s for the best if they don’t get greedy and keep it simple, shave a bit as a fee and that’s all.
Houston is a disaster. Used car dealerships inside of neighborhoods. Semi trucks on every conceivable road, because there is a factory behind the elementary school. A metroplex that takes hours to traverse, without accounting for traffic. It’s the only place I’ve encountered completely stopped traffic while trying to go to the grocery store down the road. I lived in Houston for a few years and couldn’t bear it.
However, there are secret societies within Freemasonry, such as the Jesters, which is an unofficial offshoot from the Shriners.
I think I'm really going to like the easy access to the history as well!
> myFunc()! panics if there is an err

You can do this with generics today:

func must[T](val T, err error) T {
if err != nil {
panic(err.Error())
}
return val
}

//usage example
file := must(os.Create("out.txt"))
defer file.Close()
bytesWritten := must(file.Write([]byte("Hello World\n")))

We have something like this in our internal utility library. I'm getting some serious mileage out of this when using Go as a script language, where error propagation is not as important as for a regular application or a library.

> myFunc()^ returns the err if there is one

You can also do this with generics:

func geterr[T](val T, err error) {
return err
}

It is true that must() and geterr() are slightly more verbose than single-character operators, but I'd argue having a word instead of a symbol is much more readable. Besides, ^ cannot be used as a postfix unary operator because it's already a binary operator. That would create a grammar ambiguity.
I think linguists have a specific name for the things that people say, where it doesn't carry literal meaning per se but rather in the act of saying it.

"Good morning!" What does that mean? Is it a good morning, this? Am I now compelled to have a good morning? Are you telling me about your good morning? Maybe, but it also conveys friendliness or politeness and or other things.
Also all the stuff like Her Majesty Ship for every british navy vessel.
Why the sarcasm marker? Powerful secret societies have existed throughout history and there's no reason to believe they've stopped now.
OP is not presenting a libertarian dream of unregulated markets, though. They're merely saying that whatever restrictions on the acquisition and use of property exist, they must be predictable, and they must apply to everyone equally, which is impossible when there are rather arbitrary subjective factors such as "compatibility with the neighborhood" in the process.
> Seems like a money printing machine to me.

Only if the creatives are making their money on their platform.

Since Patreon's entire business model is based on taking a cut of the revenue artists make on their platform, they don't make money if the artists make money elsewhere. Many creatives use Patreon only for fan outreach, and sell merchandise outside of Patreon.

If Patreon charged a fixed rate for their software, they could make more money, but they would lose the business of small creatives. That's the dilemma.
Roll call vote data is available from ProPublica's Congress API: https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/

ProPublica took over a number of the Sunlight Foundation (Sunlight Labs') API projects: https://sunlightfoundation.com/2016/11/01/sunlight-labs-upda...
Long live the king.
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