johnweldon

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by johnweldon 3y ago
> For those volunteers, that is a great example of doing something to make yourself feel better at the expense of the others you're claiming to help. In this statement, you're subtly doing the same thing - assuming the motivati
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by johnweldon 4y ago
Do you have any references for this statement. I'm not arguing there are no externalities (there are externalities in just about every choice we make). I just haven't been convinced that there are common egregious externalities a
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by johnweldon 4y ago
I think your comment is a bit misleading. Dumping sewage into a creek is an externality that is bad. Someone preferring to live in a suburb does not mean they're generating externalities at that level. The very reason I pushed back on
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by johnweldon 4y ago
Agreed. Although I think it has to do with more than location. For a childless couple, the cost of a 3 bedroom house in the suburbs might be the same as for a one room apartment in the city. If they choose the suburbs, maybe they're
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by johnweldon 4y ago
My somewhat libertarian take is that they themselves are best suited to judge what they should or shouldn't want. Not that there isn't a time for trying to bring a different perspective. But we should do it with humility, rather t
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by johnweldon 4y ago
I think the original comment proposal was (my, slightly sarcastic, paraphrase) "stop incentivizing anything but urban infrastructure and living, everything else is a ponzi scheme" I agree with your proposal. I have no objection to
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by johnweldon 4y ago
Well said - I don't fully agree, but I agree that an automobile centered world is sub-optimal, and fuels our feelings of disconnection. I'm fully on-board with working to make suburbs more self-contained and walkable. As others h
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by johnweldon 4y ago
> A major reason for the preference is the lower price per square foot in the suburbs than in higher density areas. I think that's a big part of it, but also people choose suburbs and rural living for reasons more to do with quality
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by johnweldon 4y ago
> If the individual cost of buying a house "in the sticks" was reflective of that, people might start to think twice. I don't buy that subsidization is what makes buying a house "in the sticks" so much cheaper.
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by johnweldon 4y ago
> pretty heavily subsidize Is a pretty general term that's hard to respond to. Yes there are rural subsidies, but I'm unconvinced that the per-capita subsidization of rural and suburban dwellers is so much greater than their ur
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by johnweldon 4y ago
I called it naive because I believe it is an oversimplification. Strong Towns has an agenda (which I mostly agree with), and in order to promote their agenda they have a straw man argument that broadly categorizes _all_ suburban development
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by johnweldon 4y ago
I appreciate this argument - and there is some truth to it, but certainly not to the point of (paraphrasing here) "anyone who doesn't want to live in the city is participating in a Ponzi scheme"
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by johnweldon 4y ago
I agree with your take.
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by johnweldon 4y ago
I'm a fan of strongtowns too. To the degree that that analysis is true, it will sort itself out. We don't need to do anything to save our neighbor from themself. We can make a lifetime of difference solving our own problems.
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by johnweldon 4y ago
Why do we need to convince someone they don't "need" anything? Each person has the best information about their own situation to decide what they need (or even want - you don't have to _need_ something to have to justify
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by johnweldon 4y ago
Generally speaking, people will always choose to spend money living as close to their ideal as they can, with the resources they are able to give toward it. The fact that so many people choose to live in suburbs, or the "sticks",
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by johnweldon 4y ago
I'll go first (blush): Amazon, HN, Facebook, LinkedIn, StackOverflow, Bank, Bank, Github Probably more self-disclosure than necessary there - but I'm curious what other people have.
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Ask HN: What are your most frequently visited websites
2 points by johnweldon 4y ago|5 comments
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by johnweldon 4y ago
I like Hugo - S3 - Cloudflare. It's simple, fast, and I can move it easily if I want to.
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by johnweldon 6y ago
SEEKING WORK -- I've done freelancing for many years on the side, and now I'm getting a side software contracting company off the ground. Prefer cloud native projects; kubernetes, Go, microservices, terraform, gitops, etc. Experie
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by johnweldon 6y ago
I've written over the years about various things; Faith, Technology, various interests, and solutions to gotcha problems. A number of posts are curated links from interesting articles. Maybe if I post about it here I'll be encoura
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by johnweldon 7y ago
Even opening in a clean incognito window hits the paywall
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by johnweldon 8y ago
I had a hard time finding a customizable UniFi external guest portal, other than ones written in PHP. This is a Go and Docker solution that fits my home needs - feel free to review, comment, etc.
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Show HN: UniFi – Custom external guest portal (go, docker)(github.com)
2 points by johnweldon 8y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Script for cleaning PATH like strings [python,sh](github.com)
1 points by johnweldon 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Serve custom (vanity) Go import paths, with Admin UI(github.com)
4 points by johnweldon 9y ago|0 comments
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by johnweldon 9y ago
I hadn't seen that tool, thanks for pointing it out.
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by johnweldon 9y ago
That's a good point. I may consider a stand alone utility to wrap this[1] code that converts names to indexes. [1] https://github.com/johnweldon/sortcsv/blob/master/main.go#L1...
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by johnweldon 9y ago
Thanks - I've used sort quite a bit, and I like it. I wrote this partly to just fulfil my desire to sort by named fields rather than column indexes.
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by johnweldon 9y ago
I wrote this tool because I don't want to explicitly know the original encoding, I just want _any_ encoding to be converted to UTF8. AFAIK, iconv requires the source encoding to be specified on the command line.

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