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by burlesona 1mo ago
I’d heard this before, but it’s a fun reminder of how, in a sense, the laws of physics depend on what size you are. (Or rather, which laws have the most impact depends on the size of objects in question) Note that if you disable JavaScript
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by burlesona 1mo ago
Comparing to the 1980s maybe misses that the population was much younger then, and there’s still a general trend of people moving more when they’re younger and settling down when they’re older. I would have liked to see the data broken down
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by burlesona 2mo ago
Zipline is growing fast… it’s drone-based, but it definitely delivers packages to your front door. ( https://www.zipline.com/ )
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by burlesona 3mo ago
It's interesting to me how different the tone sounds if every time he said "users" you substituted "people" (or if that didn't make sense in context, substitute "customers"). I find the post positive
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by burlesona 3mo ago
This is presented as an interesting and kind of positive take on the AI going to surprising lengths to “solve the problem.” But I couldn’t help thinking of the paperclip factory while I was reading this :/
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by burlesona 4mo ago
Property tax is the workable wealth tax. There's no such thing as a perfect policy, but in the context of NYC this seems worth trying. I'll be interested to see if it helps create some liquidity in the housing market (the goal), o
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by burlesona 4mo ago
One nice thing: Denver has already repealed parking requirements, so, they don't have legal standing to complain about it.
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by burlesona 4mo ago
I’m pretty sure those were drawn in SketchUp
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by burlesona 4mo ago
What I said is this is what I struggle with. In general I think too much regulation is what caused this problem. And the question on my mind is, from where we are today, is there a liberalization of the rules that would also help maintain a
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A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan(freerange.city)
32 points by burlesona 4mo ago|110 comments
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by burlesona 4mo ago
I think the case is well-made, but it's not a game of chicken, it's an arms race.
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by burlesona 4mo ago
Mind blown. Thanks for sharing!
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by burlesona 5mo ago
Traveling cross-country at age 10 and 6. Amazing that all they needed was a letter saying they weren't runaways, and people seemed to think this was a neat adventure for them.
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by burlesona 5mo ago
The thing about status pages is they have to be up when you're down, and (if your service is non trivial) they have to be able to handle a traffic profile that basically looks like DDOS. So, you're paying for the hosting infra mor
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by burlesona 6mo ago
There’s a huge difference. Everyone sees the same front page on CNN, or HN for that matter. Nobody sees the same page twice on YouTube or TikTok. That’s a fundamental distinction between human curated media (even with A/B testing), ver
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by burlesona 6mo ago
Each blog you follow in the RSS model you opted in to. And each post comes from a person, or a publication, who can be held accountable for what they publish. Ordinary media, like newspapers, books, radio, and TV, have worked this way forev
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by burlesona 6mo ago
I think a better solution would be to repeal section 230 protection for any kind of personalized or algorithmic feed. The algorithm makes you a publisher, and you should be liable for what you publish. That would make it very hard, nigh imp
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by burlesona 7mo ago
Sad, although I guess I'm not surprised. I think it's fair to say that, if not for Heroku, I would not have had a career in software. I learned how to code web apps from books, and had a breakthrough when I discovered Rails (in 20
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by burlesona 8mo ago
Feels like watching emergence in real time.
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by burlesona 9mo ago
I have a 4-5 year old ultra wide monitor which is a lot of pixels but low dpi. I really like the single monitor containing two screens worth of pixels, but I wish it was high dpi. At the time there weren’t really high dpi ultra wides availa
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by burlesona 9mo ago
My recent Sony TV does this. But also I pretty much never use the TV button to turn it on, I click a button on one of the connected devices to wake it and the TV turns itself on with that input selected. Even if it’s already on, if I want t
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by burlesona 10mo ago
I don’t know why websites even bother having text when it is this badly destroyed by advertising.
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by burlesona 1y ago
Airfare in the US costs less today than it did in the 90s, adjusted for inflation: https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2024-annual-average-domestic-ai...
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by burlesona 1y ago
> The issue with an industry awash with cheap dross, is that it becomes prohibitively expensive to produce high Quality stuff. This seems to be one of the brutal truths of the modern world, and as far as I can tell it applies to everythi
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by burlesona 1y ago
I LOVE this idea. I’ve specifically been looking to buy a tiny truck or van, “can hold sheets of plywood” being a major criteria. I love the idea of that being a simple electric I can charge at home. Beautiful!
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by burlesona 1y ago
I feel like Haskell is easier to use than it is to explain, and in my experience a lot of these kind of tutorial / explanations actually make things seem harder and more complicated than just working with the concepts and observing wha
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Portlander creates AI-powered device to monitor street health(bikeportland.org)
22 points by burlesona 1y ago|4 comments
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by burlesona 2y ago
Neat! I made a library very similar to this once, and I know there are others. Must be one of those itches that’s fun to scratch. https://github.com/burlesona/html_rb
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by burlesona 2y ago
They charged us for our next month of service the day before they shut down. That’s fraud.
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by burlesona 2y ago
Infrastructure for automation is happening: https://www.cavnue.com/

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