TimPC

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by TimPC 4y ago
Yes. CEQA lawsuits are generally inconclusive initially and the first step of the lawsuit is that the builder has to conduct more expensive environmental studies. The studies may result in easy to implement solutions or small environmental
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by TimPC 4y ago
It’s not so much the planning process it’s literally that small enough developments are exempt from CEQA as of 2018 until 2023. So as long as you’re building below a certain threshold nuisance environmental lawsuits can’t be brought anymore
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by TimPC 4y ago
The US is the only country in the world where standardized testing improves the performance of low-income students. In most parts of the world standardized testing is unfair to the poor. But in the US the rest of the system is so unfair to
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by TimPC 4y ago
The underlying concept I’m getting at is that there is more than just human understanding here. Our understanding of mathematics is highly subjective but it seems to me theorems do have some sort of true value with some of them being more u
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by TimPC 4y ago
Without a doubt the customers will see the bulk of the saved money. But Bezos capturing 5% of it will lead to an even more massive fortune. The minute any sizeable competitor follows suit it’s likely to be back to the typical roughly 2% ret
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by TimPC 4y ago
A significant part of productivity gains went to workers up until 1999. There is no universal law that says productivity gains are inherently captured by shareholders. Of course if this is a possible option capitalists will choose it. I thi
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by TimPC 4y ago
The predictions of the 1950s were wrong because people chose more stuff over less work. Partially because of the rising cost of land due to concentrated demand leading to needing “more home” in wage adjusted terms. Labour saw gains from in
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by TimPC 4y ago
Interesting generally means having some sort of sufficiently broad applicability to be useful and sufficiently narrow applicability to have enough explanatory power. If you are too narrow you don’t get applied in many situations and if you
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by TimPC 4y ago
I think a lot of the reason it happens is that it is no longer possible to hire for many roles in government. The CTO of the TTC was posted at $150k-$180k Canadian not too long ago. If that’s what they can pay the top technical role you can
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by TimPC 4y ago
The right wing characterization isn’t entirely unfair. The fact is if you remove all incentives for the investment of capital and still want growth from investment you need to centrally control capital to allocate it. This does create a lar
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by TimPC 4y ago
I think it is pretty clear from an ethical perspective that whatever rights people have to housing are stronger than whatever rights people have to block housing in their neighborhood. It takes a weird sort of mental gymnastics to simultane
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by TimPC 4y ago
If this were actually true it would never be possible to build more to make housing more affordable. Rents in a market are typically a percentage of the capital investment so what you are saying is roughly equivalent to “building more makes
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by TimPC 4y ago
The costs of suburbs aren’t astronomical in the Bay Area. There is a reason Strong Towns and the like always talk about suburbs in Missouri. The suburbs that are unaffordable are the $150K home owned by the household making $40k/year.
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by TimPC 4y ago
I think a lot of them are. A big change is that start-ups have started to stay private for obscene amount of time making a lot of options into toilet paper. This means unless you are happy to work for a start-up with your options being wort
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by TimPC 4y ago
Start-ups routinely massively underestimate the number of people needed for tasks though. I saw a start-up that thought they could build a Siri competitor with five FTEs. That is just so far off from any reality.
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by TimPC 4y ago
The difference is stocks have a reliable basis for going up based on an underlying asset that generates wealth. Most crypto is backed by nothing, some is backed by other crypto which is also in the end nothing.
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by TimPC 4y ago
For 1) I agree but ChatGPT is a specific purpose sequence to sequence model. It’s fairly obvious to me it’s not general purpose and it even fails sometimes at correctly reading content it generates. It also doesn’t understand correctness an
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by TimPC 4y ago
Every ethical theory is a mess of contradictions but throwing ethics out entirely isn’t the right answer. As for hurting someone to help others, sometimes someone needs to kill someone like Hitler for the greater good.
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by TimPC 4y ago
Why do you think multimodal transformers will get us anywhere near general purpose AI? Multimodal transformers are basically a technology for sequence-to-sequence intelligent mappings and it seems to me extremely unlikely that general inte
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by TimPC 4y ago
This is the dumbest idea I’ve heard. You’ll end up with people paying $0 for infra for 70 years then suddenly having to buy multimillion dollar projects with no cash reserves. The net result will be widespread chaos and huge social pressure
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by TimPC 4y ago
People want to live where the jobs are. It doesn’t make sense for California to brag about being the world’s fifth largest economy but to also plan on housing 0 new people a year.
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by TimPC 4y ago
Rich suburbs do fine. Many suburbs of Boston have high income earners and high property values resulting in sane levels of property tax that actually fund those regions adequately. Most of the suburbs Strong Towns criticizes have $250k home
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by TimPC 4y ago
Even a look at current population densities destroys this argument as cities like San Francisco need far more density from this sort of inner ring. Keep in mind the actual core in this model is only 25 square miles so even if the core of Sa
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by TimPC 4y ago
I left the game as I got older. At the end of the day it just didn’t make sense to spend what magic cost if I could only play a few hours a week. It’s easy to spend over $3600/year on M:TG if you want to play competitively and that jus
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by TimPC 4y ago
It’s honestly perplexing that so many tech companies have stayed private for such a long period of time. Especially in an era of rising interest rates and rising mortgage costs, people really want to be able to sell their stock. The differe
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by TimPC 4y ago
The law requires they actually list the absolute maximum for the position so if they ever pay $900k they need to list it. This means they list a low end that is unrealistic so that people think the whole range isn’t serious and it doesn’t t
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by TimPC 4y ago
We’ve known a less formal version of this for a long time though. People use SAT solvers because most of the time they work very quickly even though SAT is an NP problem.
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by TimPC 4y ago
I'm sure there are many but I haven't used them so I don't know which to recommend.
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by TimPC 4y ago
No but reproducing a copyrighted work is a valid basis for an infringement case which shouldn't hinge on whether stealing the copyright is intentional or whether the methodology to do so is a "copyright stealing machine". Gra
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by TimPC 4y ago
I think you have to find a measure that looks at build times for apples to apples projects. It’s entirely possible more fine-detail work goes into the excessive amount of luxury units we now build and that this time consuming work explains

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