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> I don’t care if I sound like a NIMBY when I say this: it’s not always motivated by profit.

100 agree. I think an LVT would probably not magically fix all incentives around development. What it would do though is create a better alignment between government zoning and infrastructure improvements + people's desires. For example, under an lvt, the government can significantly improve their tax revenues by improving the value of land. So having zoning for parks, public transit, and reducing crime will now directly impact the government's bottom line.

Lvt would help with picking the best backyard, but it doesn't change the fact that it would still be somebody's backyard, and that somebody might not like it. I will never want to live next to a landfill, and anyone gaslighting me into thinking I'm wrong about that is crazy... But the landfill has to go somewhere, and if I am the only person living in a really good spot for it then I probably get the short end of the stick.
> That is of course without mentioning that the only two devices compatible right now

But if you were switching platforms to iOS, you’d be getting a new phone, wouldn’t you?
Human engineers of course never make mistakes, which is why we don't have PRs or unit or integration tests and canary deploys or anything that would catch mistakes before going to production because that would be a waste of time.
>Do aviation parts have traceability? Like a serial number or qr code that can be used to identify suspect components?

Are you kidding? I doubt there is a single industry which empathizes traceability more than aerospace.
Solar and Wind are cheaper unsubsidized. See page 17: https://www.lazard.com/media/xemfey0k/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...

Also, nuclear gets subsidies. They are not on the hook for liability.

Thanks to this policy, should a catastrophic accident happen at one of the 54 nuclear plants operating in the United States, the nuclear industry would be liable for the first $16.1 billion in damages and taxpayers would be on the hook to cover the remainder. The Fukushima nuclear disaster has already been reported to exceed $90 billion. The full value of the Price-Anderson nuclear subsidy is difficult to estimate, but if nuclear operators had to carry the full cost of insurance against a nuclear accident, the plants would most likely become uneconomic to build: https://environmentamerica.org/updates/feds-extend-nuclear-p...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
Except the article says they only tested it after they found corrosion reported back to them (IE they did not discover or test it ahead of time), and that testing they have now done says it is not treated properly.

So it doesn't appear Spirit has sufficient testing, or that the titanium passes all the tests.
Let me do a lazy copy-paste "The phrase "Postgres is the database OS" is often attributed to Bruce Momjian, a co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group and a prominent figure in the PostgreSQL community. He has frequently used this phrase to highlight the extensibility and versatility of PostgreSQL, comparing it to an operating system in terms of its ability to support a wide range of functionalities through extensions and customizations."
Consider burpees alongside squats. Bodyweight exercises for lower body benefit from some 'explosive' motion. There's no true equivalent to the pull-up, because your legs routinely carry your body's weight, whereas your arms do not.
What's Dutch about the "Dutch roll"?
> It also teaches the kids that you should trust one canonical source of information, which is bad.

And teaching the kids to trust the source that cannot give them facts and changes the answer every time you ask the same question is good?
I've been living with chronic health problems and pain for about a decade now, and I just take breaks when I need it. Being a software dev, that is fairly easy to do. Working from home makes it easy to do without even having to inform people, as taking calls from a comfy chair is a reasonable action.

But there are really two options -

1) You can do the job, with reasonable accommodations. So talk to a doctor to see what can be done to help you. Have them write a note of what accommodations you need, and give it to your company's HR. This protects everyone because the company knows your limits and it is treated as a disability, protecting you from being punished for it, and protecting them from being accused of discrimination because there is a formal record of what you need.

2) You cannot do the job, even with accommodations. Still talk to a doctor, but if you decide that you cannot do this role, you can pursue disability benefits instead of doing the work.
> The mistake is "the grid". The spreadsheet as a way to allow IT-illiterate to do stuff on a desktop is a mistake.

But why?
> You seem to have missed that meritocracy has recently become a bad word and undesirable in some political circles

I also did (miss that). Could you explain, or were you just drawing conclusion from the Wang's «There is a mistaken belief that meritocracy somehow conflicts with diversity»?

Edit: I think I found an acronym in this page that I cannot recall ever meeting (at least, never so strongly highlighted), and I suspect that is the reference (to political circles).

Edit 2: but really, has there been anywhere an explicit attack declaring "meritocracy" a "bad" concept? Or is it just an implicit perception/conclusion?
If you didn’t see anything new in the announcement at all, maybe you didn’t actually see all the proposed features they are advertising? I’ve never seen a lot of stuff contained in one personal device or computer before. A single assistant that has access to finding connections throughout your life, emails, photos, etc.?
Tolkien's Languages in the Lord of the Rings Soundtrack
Does anybody know this fractal? (2012)
Weird, I find that I get very good results with GPT-4 and GPT-4o. It helps to be in a position where you can communicate very explicit instructions on what and how to build. Use it like you’re planning what to code each step but just letting this mechanism do the typing. General writing and technical communication skills are a must so I can understand why some developers struggle with LLMs.
I think this is a fine soapbox but also that stating it in this "I think you should care because" style you just did is both better and different than starting by asserting the conclusion from your stance. It's not only more conversational but easier for those who don't already hold your stance to understand how your claim applies to their situation. That's all my example was trying to clarify, not necessarily argue against that people should/shouldn't consider or ultimately care.

Thanks for the clarification of your stance on VPNs and privacy, I appreciate the insight into why one should care.
> The brute fact is that ultimately, might does indeed make right.

Sure. But that’s not “law” that’s the exercise of power. In 2024 we shouldn’t indulge the fiction that it’s more than that.

The way it has been construed, the ATS empowers US courts to do whatever they want if some foreign conduct offends the sensibilities of some Americans. Some feelers in America upset that Bangladesh summarily executes drug traffickers? They can sue for violation of “the law of nations.” I’m not saying the US can’t do that, I’m saying it’s stupid and arrogant.
Nothing will never be better than heavy barbell squats, but if variation is needed there's also (in this order) split squats and front squats to try.

The only exception is low-bar/leg disability, then I think it might be better to keep it bodyweight and machine oriented (such as leg press).
To some extent, but they keep it local as much as they can.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24175985/apple-intelligen...
There are some German articles that do talk about it in a bit more detail [0].

It's a mix of reasons 1) Covid grants that delayed bankruptcies, 2) Increase of VAT back to 19% for hospitality industries, 3) Increase in construction costs for construction companies, 4) inflation, 5) disruption in trade

And this is not just traditional industries, even 1 in 10 startups risk bankruptcy. [1]

[0] https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/konjunktur/studie-insol...

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/insolvenzen...
That is certainly true of most consumer devices i.e. phones and laptops. For example Dell estimate that 85% of the lifetime emissions for their XPS systems come from manufacture [1] and Apple claim 79% for an 14 inch macbook.

For beefy desktops or servers using hundreds of watts on a continuous basis the situation is rather different e.g [3] which is a Dell estimate for a Precision 7000 series tower showing 74% of emissions attributed to use.

This makes sense: if we assume 700kg of carbon emissions to construct a server, but 300W of continuous power draw during use (seems fairly conservative, especially including cooling) then with the US grid intensity of 0.39 kg CO2e/kWh we find that the manufacturing emissions match the usage emissions over ~250 days of use.

Of course the actual numbers depend heavily on precise circumstances; a data center in an area with less carbon intensive electricity will have a correspondingly lower carbon footprint.

So _as a consumer_ it's true that the biggest contribution is not directly in the usage of the (local) device, but in creating that device in the first place: you're almost always better off keeping a device for longer rather than replacing it with a more power efficient one. But on the server side that isn't the case: the emissions due to operating the data center are also substantial. Plus increased demand on the server side also increases the number of servers manufactured and deployed.

Historically improved hardware power efficiency has meant that carbon emissions have increased slower than compute. So I'm somewhat skeptical when I see articles claiming huge factor increases in the overall carbon intensity of the internet in the near term. _However_ that's not a law of nature, and new technologies that cause a step change in demand for server-side compute could indeed dramatically increase the carbon emissions of the internet.

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-uk/dt/corporate/social-impact/advanc...
[2] https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/notebooks/14-...
[3] https://www.dell.com/en-uk/dt/corporate/social-impact/advanc...
If you really mean "pullups" for legs and not just leg training in general, then not much comes into mind aside from leg curls or, as someone else mentioned, Nordic curls. I think the Nordic curls is the only one relatively achievable at home with minimal equipment.
Ironically the Supreme Court further watered down what regulatory actions the NLRB can take against companies retaliating against unionizing workers just a couple of days ago.

US law is actually pretty good as far as worker’s rights are concerned. The problem is that successive U.S. administrations (both Democratic and Republican) have failed to enforce the law. The Biden administration has been a welcome exception in this regard.

The other, bigger, problem is that US law is no longer decided in the legislature and is being unilaterally rewritten by the Supreme Court which is quite decidedly anti union and has been rolling back all sorts of protections which are clearly enshrined in law but have been “interpreted” (in quotes because now they don’t even pretend to be interpreting the text differently) out of it by the Supreme Court.
> smartphone in cost (that most people get subsidized by their carrier)

In almost all cases, this is nothing but an intransparent form of installment payments, coupled with a carrier lock-in that helps keep prices high (because most people or even families can only switch ever other year or so).

Maybe it’s still very common in the US, but many people have moved on from this.
I’m still on the 11 Pro, and I feel similarly. I’ve not seen any reason to update to date, though the new AI functionality might just turn out to be it.

I’m unsure I’m willing to lock myself in to the Apple ecosystem to an even greater degree though - they make it devilishly difficult to extricate yourself, and I already find the enforced storefronts built into their apps obnoxious. The Books app went from being a library to a shop - how long until the Photos app is trying to sell me things?

If anything, I may wind up bifurcating my life to an even greater degree - iPhone for general life admin (calendar, phone book, banking etc), Linux for productivity, creativity, gaming.
Part of the point of Borges is to read more into than what is there. It's why when you meet a fellow fan, you know you are going to need to sit by a fire, perhaps with a glass of something strongly affecting on the soul (I suggest whisky), and talk for a while about the nature of the ideas in his stories. Reading Borges is like going for a deep, strange swim in some deep ideas, not all of which are comfortable.
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every modern injection system that has authority over ignition and cam timing can monitor knock via microphone and adjust accordingly.
Perhaps. I'm simply pointing out the "flaw" in metaphorical breaking someone's kneecaps and then staring down your nose over the top of your glasses, waving a finger, and mocking them for not being able to walk, not able to help themselves, etc.

The Fed and petrodollars have made the US stronger and plenty of others weaker, is the US leadership - gov and private - prepared for a shift in that balance of power? And might there be some looking for revenge, so to speak?

Hint: Correct answers are no and yes, in that order.
Wall sits and plyometric squats (jump squats where your goal is to give yourself a soft landing).
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GenAI is a pipe dream.
It's interesting to read War of the Worlds, and the descriptions of walking between the towns and villages that would one day merge to form greater London. There was all this space between them. Now it's one continuous connerbation.

It's hard to get your head around just how different the geography of the UK was even just in the Victorian/Edwardian eras, and how rapidly it's changed.
Gracefully Handling Third Party API Failures
I bought a pair of adjustable dumbbells that each go from 10 Lb up to 50. About $100 bucks. Pretty much my entire home gym. Worked great for me.
There are different reasons.

Some people are against a technology which isn't mature enough. I don't know about word processors, but take digital photography for example. Some people stuck with film photography even after digital became cool because it was superior in some regards (such as dynamic range). Once digital improved in every way over film, those people moved too.

Another reason is job security. Why would someone support something that will leave him homeless and destitute just because the software will be superior?

Personally, I think that software engineering jobs will go up while AI assisted programming is perfected (10-20 years), and afterwards there will be a huge decline (10x shrinkage) once the tools won't need people anymore.
At the risk of stating the obvious, everything done single-leg is equivalent to an overload of 100% of your bodyweight, along with recruiting more stabilizers.

It's possible to move from an easier form (simple squat) to a harder one by progressively shifting weight on one leg at a time.
If you're looking to be inspired to take the plunge into car repair, check out M359 Restorations YouTube channel[0]. It's a one-man shop in Frankfurt that specializes in BMW restorations. It's a good look into what it takes to do projects like this well: the tools, the space, the knowledge of the secondary market and parts suppliers, and when/how to repair a component rather than buying a new one. He does use repair manuals for some things, especially engine rebuilds, but a lot of what he does is based on "what looks right" to a person doing this for the last 10-15 years.

As a beginner looking to start with minimal infrastructure, he does some of his restorations outside his shop, often in borrowed personal garages of subscribers. Project Salt Lake City is a good example [1]. For someone looking to do a more advanced repair (arguably the most advanced possible) there are some good engine rebuilding videos, especially with Project Frankfurt[2].

One thing I find surprising is that he still uses a lot of 3rd party services. AC dis/charging, wheel alignment, tire mounting and balancing, dynamo measurement, block reconditioning, head and supercharger refreshes, and even car detailing (which he seems to be actively trying to avoid doing despite his instincts because it is a huge time sink). He is a dynamic, adaptable node in a fascinating, specialized capital network.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/@M539Restorations

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a9rCI2zfPM&list=PLBcFoVFuPC...

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyqZoNwKeOM&list=PLBcFoVFuPC...
Thanks, glad that this is helpful!
What do you think is complicated about RAG? I'm not arguing that it's effortless, but it's not that complicated? Genuinely interested to hear other people's pain points.
I think they are pointing out that if the first principles are completely different, everything that follows after will be different also. What is good/bad determines what policies should be pursued, and those actual real-world police’s may be as different as night and day.
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Please just write 'fuck' if that is obviously what you mean.
So we're comparing "property taxes", which are on the value of the empty land + any improvements, against "land value taxes", which are just on the value of the empty land.

_naply asserted that one reason to favor LVT over property taxes is that property taxes discourage people from building on it; and gave "speculators" as an example. We didn't flesh out exactly what that meant, but I took it to mean people who bought some area of land which right now is close to worthless, in the hopes that in the future might be worth a lot more.

(One alleged example of this is in Detroit city proper: allegedly, people bought broken-down old houses near the city center for a song, but didn't actually repair the property; they were just hoping that in a couple of decades things might turn around -- based on the efforts of other people to make Detroit better, naturally -- at which point they could sell the land at a massive profit without having to invest anything themselves.)

At any rate, the argument is that such speculators would otherwise build something useful there, but had decided not to because then they'd be paying more property taxes.

I don't buy it: As long as whatever they built brought in more money than the property taxes, there's more money to be had from building than from not building. The hypothetical speculators in Detroit could certainly build a single-family dwelling and rent it out for 30 years, and extra property taxes would almost certainly be outweighed by the additional rental income.

But the value of speculation is that it's low-cost and low-effort, and low-income rental is distinctly neither. Why bother dealing with contractors and repairs and tenants and whatever before selling it for 20x what you bought it for, when you can just do absolutely nothing and get almost the same return?
To be clear I'm talking about the US here. I actually very much align with the views of some other cultures where land can not be owned at all. I'd much prefer that model, it just isn't what we have today.

> This makes absolutely no sense.

For something to be a right means that we are each entitled to it simply by being human [1]. Free speech, for example, is a right that isn't supposed to be infringed upon regardless of what you say.

Privledges come with strings attached. you have the opportunity to drive a car but not the right to do so. You have to be licensed, you have to pay taxes, you have to register your vehicle, etc. If you don't follow the rules you may lose that privledge.

Many of the US founding fathers wrote extensively about the importance of property rights [2]. They also viewed slaves as property and took land from loyalists after the revolutionary war was over, so by no means am I saying they were perfect. The history of the right to property ownership literally goes back to the creation of our country though.

The right to own property doesn't mean that everyone must own some though, I'm not sure where you're getting that. The government doesn't have to ensure that everyone does own land, only that everyone can own land.

[1] https://helpfulprofessor.com/rights-vs-privileges/
[2] https://www.hillsdale.edu/educational-outreach/free-market-f...
GDP wise Germany economy grew 0.3% in 2023. I think, it's one of the lowest in OECD if not the lowest.
For me, that hassle is essential. It allows me to get into a dedicated workout mindset that I cannot get at home or in neutral locations; I keep it up for one or two or five days, then it fades away. With the gym, I have this dedicated physical location for workouts.