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I think there is a much bigger flaw in the version of the argument stated in the article.

The argument boils down to "here is a bad thing about raising capital, here is a good thing about not raising capital, therefore not raising capital is better".

But there are other pros and cons that this argument is ignoring, so it is not logically correct.

I also think the version in the article is an unfair representation of the original blog post (https://ensorial.com/2020/dont-raise-money/), which explicitly says

> I’m not suggesting that there are never reasons to take outside investment. Obviously there are. But, we should recognise that doing so comes with significant trade-offs and difficulties that mean it shouldn’t necessarily be the default.

(I see that @ilyt already posted this exact quote.)
> How many rich tech people from SV/Cali who paid top dollar for Texas property are now quickly fleeing after the recent political happenings that stripped the rights of half the voting population?

Not very many at all, in my estimation. Those "rich tech people from SV/Cali" moved to Texas in the first place for their bottom lines, not because they thought Texas was the vanguard of progressive politics. I doubt a socially conservative state becoming more socially conservative is going to trigger many reverse moves.

If I had to guess, the extremely restrictive abortion laws (prohibited after six weeks of gestation with very few exceptions) that you're obliquely referring to are not going to stand for very long, either.
> We block most if not all datacentre IPs from reaching our sites, we've seen a huge decrease in attack attempts since doing this.

Is people using iCloud Private Relay get blocked as well?
The only thing I can think of is some bad actor that constantly tries CF websites to try and find a hole that can be exploited. Otherwise that does sound pretty fishy.
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Where are those multi million dollars empty homes?
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Commercial landlords aren't the problem, per se. Ownership concentrated in a few massive entities is.

Outlawing owning >x% of a market's housing supply (for some low x) doesn't sound like the worst idea.

What we'd want is there to be (a) enough rental housing stock, (b) enough rental owning companies of comparable size to create a healthy market on rental prices, & (c) a sane balance between the number of rental and owner-occupied homes.

Part of the current imbalances are a consequence of low interest rates though, as investors could get a lot more leverage to acquire properties for rent.
Land in desirable areas with permission to build houses on it tends to increase in value. In most cases the house itself is a depreciating asset.
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First perfect a closed arcology with minimial inputs on Earth first. Basically upscaled Biosphere II.

Then I'd suggest perfecting them on the moon, maybe in lava tubes or at the poles.
That is just not true in the case of WinGet, WSL, or the Windows Terminal. They are open source, and in theory could be compiled, but they only provide APPX-packaged binaries. WSL itself is avaiable in the Features area, alongside the store. But all WSL distributions that I know of are packaged only for the store.

I did say that the equivalent Add-AppxPackage command could install these without the store, if you really wanted to.
> If it can work for gender, why can't it work for race?

Because pitch/tone is different than ethnolect, and voice changers can obscure differences of the first but not the second.
It’s not a date issue but noise: that’s a super popular term so it gets a bunch of hits even well in the past.
Your’e confused about this specific conversation and the US housing market in general. I read your post several times, and can’t make heads or tails of what you’re trying to say. Sorry.

I will make one point: in the US, it’s never been the government’s job to build homes. That’s always been left primarily to the private sector. Right now however, governments won’t allow the private sector to build enough homes. They’ve made it illegal, especially apartments.

It’s like if the government banned the production of new cars. In a few years time, a 1995 Honda accord would be worth $20,000.
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Pretty much this. I was very anti-REST back circa 2015-2017 when I started doing web dev. I was doing solo work and all my services were JSON-RPC (I can't remember whether that was an actual standard then or if I just rigged it). I was (and still am!) into functional programming, and RPC seemed to fit better: it's just a remote function call. Nakedly PUTting a resource just seemed to violate my idea of good architecture.

In 2017 I left to join Azure, which is REST-heavy (in all this, I mean "modern" REST, not "Fielding" REST). I hated it at first, but eventually saw how nice it is to have the conventions. Less to explain in public API docs, easier to generate scaffolding, common themes of how to destructure incoming requests in middleware handlers and middle-tier services, a standard way to serialize references to resources across the platform. I was a convert.

Moving to google in 2021, they're still very RPC, and it feels so cluttered and arbitrary. I'm not there anymore.

Yes, REST is roughly just some conventions around RPC at the core (though you get things like caching for free), but ultimately it's a really nice set of conventions that are easy to follow and limit surprise, and are standard across the industry. As one user commented, you do sometimes have to work around REST to get it to fit, typically futzing in headers or request metadata, but to me the pros outweigh the cons.
Normal countryside villages actually work really well as an accompaniment to cities.

Ironically, the most desirable villages build densely around a small core and the farms spread out radially around the village itself.

[1] https://www.roadaffair.com/most-beautiful-villages-in-the-wo...
Its more useful to compare the violent crime rate per capita, not strictly homicides: https://www.areavibes.com/compare-results/?place1=Portland%2...

By which measure Portland is safer than both of your examples, even after this supposed apocalyptic crime wave caused by defunding the Police
But D is true though. Housing price is mostly based on the price-to-rent ratio when outside a bubble, and the average investors know it way better than the average Canadian [0]

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price-to-rent-ratio.asp
How long does the initial indexing take?
Key paragraph:

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To put it simply, this will likely be one of the most impactful
systems on a widespread scale that this meteorologist has seen in
a long while. The impacts will include widespread flooding, roads
washing out, hillside collapsing, trees down (potentially full
groves), widespread power outages, immediate disruption to
commerce, and the worst of all, likely loss of human life. This
is truly a brutal system that we are looking at and needs to be
taken seriously.
"""
Car collectors don’t turn around and rent cars. Thought car rental companies do - and they definitely impact prices for vehicles.
I concur, the article is disturbing and reduces to absurdity too much. This level of dehumanizing propaganda must be guarded against.
> Many experts have also said the ban on foreign buyers — who accounted for less than 5% of home ownership in Canada, according to the national statistical agency — would not have the desired effect of making homes more affordable.

"Many experts have also said" : garbage "journalism." Who are these "experts"?
what does rich and textual mean ?
How "upset" I got?
>The idea that technology will always bail us out seems foolish to rely upon in the grand scheme, eventually the disequilibriums we create in these environments we exploit will be too extreme to successfully manage and maintain a system as complex as a local ecology. These disequilibriums are already extreme in many places and policy makers rarely seem to care unless some stakeholder is set to see a profit.

Your assumption that technology may not be capable of helping us enormously down the road is much more of an assumption than the pro-technology argument. Because unlike the anti-growth malthusian argument, the reality so far for centuries has been that technology did indeed make life easier and better for people despite an ever growing population.

There's actual, consistent precedent contradicting all malthusian predictions across several centuries of human development, with entirely artificial political disasters mostly being responsible for any failures. On the other hand, we've not yet seen any concrete examples of human development failing in the face of hard natural limits to growth. Wherever it has failed has been because of mismanagement in some form or another, not lack of possible solutions.
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Phoenix and Unicorn project are essentially The Goal applied to software development. Reading The Goal first helped me get more out of Phoenix and Unicorn, I think. All 3 are great.
The only way to secure a -lot- of BTC. Or you can pay a custodian to do it for you. You have the same options as cash.

Most people do not store millions in cash or gold at home.
I've been inspired by Lean to pull JIT. If there is a clean dish in the dishwasher, I will use that, then one from the drying rack, before going to the put away dishes. Similarly, put away all dishes from the drying rack before unloading the dishwasher, or you may rewet already dried dishes. If a dish is coming out of the dishwasher dry, put it away rather than on drying rack. Remove trash and recycling from the dirty dishes spot before starting on dirty dishes. Put dirty dishes in the dishwasher right away if possible, and only put a dish in the sink if it needs to soak.
> is unlikely to apply to everyone

Me: "Humans are bipedal"

You: "Some humans have only one leg"
Wow; I love this. Thank you for posting it!

USD$90/hr on making content that you love ain't a bad haul. I wonder how much OP would continue to make from their top 10 most popular videos if they decided to throw in the towel and stop making new content.

(I wonder if the USD$90/hr estimation includes 1099 taxes?)

Also, 38.5% average retention seems to suggest that people have really crappy attention spans OR there's so much else on the Internet to barely consume!
Actually, what is the real point? The last inhabitants that the Europeans kicked out had themselves stolen the land from some earlier prehistoric tribe. Such is the circle of life. European immigrants to the Americas were not special in this regard. Someday, it will happen again.
Mid rise is a better solution. Beautiful buildings like the ones in New York. Dense housing, but not so dense that it starts to become dystopian.
Airbnb reviews suck. I once had a terrible experience with an issue. I worked with Airbnb to check out early. The host left me a terrible review which was false. Airbnb knows this because the facts were on their support chat with pictures, but Airbnb did not remove the review.

I stopped leaving reviews after that and have been avoiding Airbnb.
Even your sources are giving multiple years of 24/7 operation under ideal conditions to produce what is necessary for a single launch, that doesn't seem very reasonable to me. How much energy are we able to actually generate on Mars? From what I understand solar panels are not that great in the Mars environment. And any sort of material processing is going to take a whole lot of energy.

I just don't see a Mars colony as a reasonable goal without sending potentially thousands of rockets full of tools and materials, which is too expensive to do without an already existent space mining and processing industry.
You probably just saved my life. I was planning to drive the coast highway on Wednesday and Thursday, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Monterey Bay... Time to replan this trip...
I don't know. I go to partner dances. It's not something you can do at home.
> I've shown you a small library which allows me not to parse anything at all.

I looked at your repo. It doesn't implement JSON-RPC or parse JSON-RPC requests, so I guess you are talking about alternatives to JSON-RPC. An RPC protocol using your library's SICK format may well be efficient (though I'm not sure it's efficient to serialise).

When I saw your initial reply I thought your were saying the criticism of JSON-RPC was incorrect in the comment you were replying to. But now I realise you were saying a different protocol not using JSON can be more efficient than JSON-RPC, using a differently request format which could be used as a drop-in replacement for JSON in JSON-RPC.

> If I use JSON-like data structures I don't have to use classic parsers with intermediate AST representations.

Indeed, but JSON-like data structures are potentially in the "too much overhead" category by themselves, regardless of whether a classic parser is used. Parsing per se isn't necessarily the main overhead: JSON itself can be streamed as tokens. Even with your SICK format, the data structure has to be converted to target language structs, enums, etc, which is a type of parsing, even though it's not parsing text.

> The whole idea of RPC is about "knowing the shape" (typing) and good RPC implementations do that.

Indeed. The type of a JSON-RPC request is known only when the "method" key is read, and that key can occur anywhere in the top-level object. Start, middle or end. Finding "method" requires at minimum a pattern-matching scan of the JSON body. Until that's done there's no way to know what types the other values in the JSON body are to be mapped to in the API's target language.

So we can agree good RPC implementations "know the shape" when reading a request body, and JSON-RPC doesn't have that property.

(A variant of JSON-RPC which uses an array with the method in the first element does have that property though. That one has the merit of the high level of cross-language tool compatibility due to JSON, a 1:1 correspondence with JSON-RPC requests, plus the capability to serialise/parse directly from/to target API structs, variables, enums etc in whatever language without requiring any intermediate JSON-like data structure.)
> How many rich tech people from SV/Cali who paid top dollar for Texas property are now quickly fleeing after the recent political happenings that stripped the rights of half the voting population?

The rich tech people who moved from California to Texas often were doing it specfically because of support for the political party that did that stripping (sometimes centered on tax/regulatory policy rather than culture war issues, but still supporting the party knowing the culture war stance was part of the package.)

So, probably not many.
thank you. I'm glad it isn't the STP you add to your oil-burning engine.

P.S. Do you mean sodium tripolyphosphate?
While getting FHA 203(k) might be easy, the details are a pain in the ass. I got one to get a new roof on my first house.

Imagine all the usual shitty mis-communication and last-minute paperwork of dealing with a mortgage agent... plus last-minute fun with contractors, who are used to answering on a very different schedule. E.g. "Oh, I need 2 more competitive quotes for the same work in the next 2 days, even though you've already found your contractor" or "Oh, these quotes don't specify exactly the same work, so need to be redone."

At the end of the day, the process requires you to waste a lot of contractors' time soliciting bids for work you're never going to hire them for.

Hindsight 20/20, I would encourage finding any other method of financing work. Make your mortgage as simple as possible, so there's a chance the agent might not @&$# it up. Then deal with contractors on your own timeline.
Everywhere in the bay area?
I don't really get the proposal.

Are you saying there is currently confusion as to whether a Mastodon user inadvertently issues a license for their copyrighted content to be included in full text search, simply by using Mastodon?

If not, what is preventing someone from sending a legal nastygram now, given that no such licenses currently being granted?

Or are you saying that Mastadon users are not able to legal prevent indexing based on copyright alone (i.e. fair-use, or not substantial enough to qualify for copyright protection), and thus we need to force followers into some kind of private contract that they would break?
I had an almost identical experience (NN based, cracking SAM files with l0pht, expelled). I always thought the same. My old sysadmins at the school were running (without the administrations awareness) IRC leafs and newsgroup servers, and I would have been happy to be part of that.

I ended up ditching school and starting a business, and I'm glad I did. Despite it ending up positive though, the expulsion still rubs me the wrong way decades later.
Just like any other theft. If an employer is shown to commit wage theft, then they are arrested. I can pull up my GPS on my phone and show them exactly where I was during the prior week, how many hours, and if the hours don't match the paycheck, the owner gets arrested, brought to jail, booked for theft, has to hire an attorney, may get convicted and if it is a regular habitual offender type of thing, maybe get life in prison.

A 33-year-old black man named Curtis Wilkerson was waiting for his girlfriend at a mall. He went into a department store and put a pair of socks in his shopping bag, and walked out. A $2.50 pair of ordinary tube socks. He was put in jail for 25 to life because he had 2 prior convictions - being a "lookout" in a robbery. But parole is denied 80% of the time, and governors override the parole boards decision to parole them at 50% of the time, he wouldn't get out in 25 years most likely. He also got fined $2,500 for the pair of $2.50 pair of socks. Should a wage theft of $2,000 fine the manager or company $2,000,000 which is the same ratio? Sounds good to me, it would put a stop to wage theft fast. In prison, he earns $20/month, and the state takes $11 every month to pay that $2,500 fine. They take over half his earnings - do that to a business. He won't be able to pay the $2,500 fine off until he is 90 years old.

Another guy got life for stealing a slice of pizza. A guy who went away forever for lifting a pair of baby shoes. One got 50 to life for helping himself to five children’s videotapes from Kmart. One guy got life for possessing 0.14 grams of meth?

Why not life in prison for wage theft? How is it any different than anything else? Saying they "didn't know" or "was a mistake" is like a shoplifter saying the exact same thing, but the shoplifter is prosecuted anyways if they say that.
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Yep, tell me about. Part of the reason is that the market is still out of whack from decades of under-building. However, the bigger reason is that new homes have always been relatively expensive. The construction costs have to be immediately recouped for one thing, and they’re often located in more desirable areas.

The beauty of new homes is that they give the Amazon tech bro something to buy instead of coming into your neighborhood and bidding up the price of the older homes. That’s the good things about new homes: They help keep old homes cheaper.
I see value in both.

This name is pseudo-anonymous. I use it everywhere and am still careful not to 'pop off' too much on it. I also own the username for my real name both here and other places. If someone wanted to track down my real identity, it wouldn't be hard. On Reddit, for instance, I use multiple anonymous usernames alongside my pseudo-anonymous and real name accounts.

How honest and close to my instinctual response depends on my level of anonymity. I think there is some value to saying quick & honest ideas so you can be checked rather than having to worry you will look dumb on your real name and never have those ideas checked. Using anonymous usernames also cuts down on potential stalking or doxxing if someone disagrees.

With that said, I try to be nice and not too inflammatory even on my anonymous accounts. I haven't always succeeded but try to avoid raising my blood pressure over internet arguments that gain nothing.
I concur.

Finding a balance is very difficult, any way you tip the scale its difficult to stop it from continuing to tip causing new problems :(

It's easy to point out problems, difficult to come up with solutions.

One thing I believe is that mortgage payments, and accessible mortgages should always be lower than the rental price so those who want to own rather than rent, it makes it a easier/better option. (does that make sense?)
Indeed. I'm planning to purchase two 80486/80386 machines for my kid. Start from DOS as I did many years ago.
I'm glad I'm not some mook like Sousa was, contributing to the nationalism of a country like the United States of America while harboring the futile wish that evolution would just stop with my preferences.
Up and down the Bay Area Peninsula e.g. SF, Hillsborough, Atherton, Redwood City, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Lost Altos, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, San Jose, Woodside, Saratoga, and so on. As well as plenty of other areas around the bay.

Surprising amounts of Chinese investor houses and just plain vacant homes. Some forever vacant due to multi-year ever expanding build and remodel projects.
There are a few industrial detergents which haven't been reformulated (or at least not noticeably). Alcojet [0] does a fantastic job in the dishwasher... but I don't recommend it in the laundry. Turns out modern dyes are colorfast against a lot of things, but not this stuff! It is rather expensive, but for irregular use (machine-cleaning or special-stain problems), that's not an issue.

And, yes, it's loaded with trisodium phosphate.

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