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by lbarrow 3mo ago
Interesting that most of the decline happened in the 2000s. The graph shows a large decline from ~2000 to ~2008 which continues after the GFC before going up a bit in the 2010s. The drop off since COVID is comparatively small.
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by lbarrow 5mo ago
I don't think that's what the attacker did here. Vercel is a PaaS product where other developers run apps. The enumerated environment variables were the env vars of Vercel's customers, which Vercel likely stores in a long-ter
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by lbarrow 5mo ago
Yea, I suppose that is fair regarding cook timings.
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by lbarrow 5mo ago
Spitting your food out because the AI generated the recipe is so clearly irrational that I chuckled a bit on reading that
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by lbarrow 5mo ago
For people who support this kind of ban, I'd ask if you would support a similar ban on new factories for, say, car parts. Like data centers, factories use a lot of power -- which drives up electricity bills -- and their construction ca
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by lbarrow 6mo ago
Yea, this sounds like a completely reasonable process to me. They should obviously update their system to accept the electronic submission of evidence, but the process itself is fine.
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by lbarrow 8mo ago
1) Is already how things work. Every single municipality I've ever seen in the US offers an owner-occupancy tax abatement. 2) Would just inflate home prices.
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by lbarrow 8mo ago
Why do you think they aren't on the market right now? These companies buy them so that they can rent them. They are on the rental market!
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by lbarrow 8mo ago
Why would this help affordability? If you restrict who can operate rentals, that will inevitably shrink the supply of rentals, which will raise rents.
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by lbarrow 11mo ago
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by lbarrow 1y ago
My point is that with Google I don't have to learn any of this, it just works logically out of the box. Compare that to Microsoft, where I have to understand the history of their on-prem vs cloud products in order to know the right way
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Don't even consider starting with Microsoft(lionelbarrow.substack.com)
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by lbarrow 2y ago
I don't think this would prevent the session cookie from being sent to tag manager. The tag manager document describes setting up a specific path on the website's normal domain, not using a subdomain.
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by lbarrow 3y ago
Without commenting on the larger issue the article brings up, this specific point doesn't survive scrutiny to me: Some of the company’s tactics post-merger were garden-variety ruthless, like eliminating 87 series from its streaming
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by lbarrow 3y ago
I think you might be missing the context. The scenario we're discussing is a parking lot surrounded by skyscrapers in the middle of a major city. Under a property tax regime, the owner pays little taxes because the structures on the lo
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by lbarrow 3y ago
And right now they can afford to wait forever! But with an LVT they have a big incentive to either develop it immediately or sell to someone else who will. It's no coincidence that people who support LVTs are typically YIMBYs -- we wan
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by lbarrow 3y ago
When you tax something, you get less of it. By reducing the supply of a good, taxes deter otherwise mutually beneficial transactions from happening; the loss of mutual benefit from a tax (or other policy) is called "deadweight loss&quo
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by lbarrow 3y ago
The responses here are all assuming your grandmothers taxes would go up. But bear in mind LVTs are intend to replace the existing property tax regime (at least in the US). If your grandmother lives in a quiet suburb or rural area, it's
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by lbarrow 3y ago
Yes, that's exactly the idea. In Chicago, where I live, there are surface parking lots in the middle of the downtown surrounded by skyscrapers. In a logical system, the owner of those parking lots would have to pay just as much in land
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by lbarrow 3y ago
Yes, that's exactly the idea. We have a problem in the US where many metro areas do not have enough housing, in part because building big things is penalized by the tax code. By changing the tax code to not penalize construction, we ho
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by lbarrow 3y ago
I appreciate this guy taking the time to test this stuff out, but... 2.5 minutes per application seems really reasonable and short? Even the Post Office application that took 10 minutes seems fine. I get that you might have to apply to a lo
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by lbarrow 3y ago
I think it's a fair point that bots should strive to be useful and not just mock people's mistakes, but in the 8 years since this was written the whole "punch up, not down" idea in comedy has gotten a lot of criticism an
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by lbarrow 3y ago
Yea, I just stopped reading when that started up. I don't understand why people intentionally make their websites annoying to read.
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by lbarrow 3y ago
No, that kinda is right - under special relativity, as your apparent velocity from a fixed reference frame increases, it takes more and more energy to accelerate closer to light speed, so _moving_ faster than light is disallowed. Another wa
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by lbarrow 4y ago
I would simply avoid having a housing crisis by allowing people to build more housing. Seems pretty win-win to me.
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by lbarrow 4y ago
It's bizarre. I live in Chicago and don't have to deal with anything like this. The West coast has a really strange set of blinkers on about these problems.
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by lbarrow 4y ago
What's the difference between a human artist walking around in the world, seeing images and videos (many of which are under copyright) and then using those images as inspiration, versus an AI being fed millions of images and videos as
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by lbarrow 4y ago
Does CPSC not have the authority to fine Amazon or otherwise get them to stop selling these things? That seems like it would be much more effective than a post on a website.
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by lbarrow 4y ago
These rankings consistently tell people that Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc are the best schools in the country. Why would they boycott rankings that praise them?
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by lbarrow 4y ago
This is pretty straightforward to explain without any nefarious things going on: * You don't need to take out a loan to exercise your options until you vest some options, which would typically take a least a year * Bolt grew real

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