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Re:The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:24AM (#16480871)
SB-827 is great, but I’m assuming its chance of passing is about zero. Am I wrong? What else can be done?
Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:03AM (#16457598)
/r/CryptoCurrency is best used for entertainment, not technical analysis.
Re:Why Can’t Riding Bikes in America Just Be Normal?
on Monday February 19, 2018 @02:07PM (#16414895)
> For that matter I’ve also never had anyone of any gender implore me to be careful when loading my children into a car, which statistically speaking is far more warranted.
This would be extremely surprising to me. Citation needed.
Re:What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Inves...
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:59PM (#16408585)
Re:What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Inves...
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:38PM (#16408384)
This is why I said, in my original comment, "and the property is large enough" (implying it doesn't interfere with others; or you have a permit, ...).
I'm sure you knew that though. What exactly is your point? Would you like me to rewrite my original post in fully specified legalese just so you can't nitpick? :P
Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Ec...
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:30PM (#16407755)
Does it matter? Do you think we should blacklist people if they allegedly hold or have at some point allegedly held unfashionable opinions?
What a horrible precedent.
Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Ec...
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:21PM (#16407693)
The H1Bs I know that support Trump do so mostly because of economic reasons, and because of the immigration policies, like fixing H1B abuse, and making legal immigrants take priority over illegal ones (Democrats are perceived to do the opposite).
Re:What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Inves...
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:01PM (#16407549)
It doesn’t really matter how discrete or not they are if even if you know about it you can’t do much about it.
I’m also not convinced by a “don’t worry the camera is bad” argument; looking at drone footage online it seems to have plenty of resolution to distinguish people in one’s backyard, for example, and I’d expect those to only get better over time.
Re:What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Inves...
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @01:56PM (#16407517)
Yes, and those could fall under the properties you own exception (or have permission to use from the owner).
Re:What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Inves...
on Saturday February 17, 2018 @09:52PM (#16404175)
USA, which, contrary to popular belief, has lots of restrictions on the use (though not necessarily ownership) of guns. Try discharging a weapon anywhere near a major metropolitan area and let me know how it goes :)
Re:What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Inves...
on Saturday February 17, 2018 @09:09PM (#16404025)
I hope one day drones are regulated similarly to guns, i.e. de facto banned unless some exception applies, such as:
- you're in the middle of nowhere
- you're doing it exclusively on a property you own (and the property is large enough)
- the use case is in the public good (e.g.: police can use guns)
In other cases, the downsides are large given potential for abuse/voyeurism/sabotage, and upsides seem nil.
Re:Musk gets permission to do a tiny bit of digging for his Hyperloop
on Saturday February 17, 2018 @08:13PM (#16403837)
Source article with fewer typos and less political babbling: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dc-...
Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Belgian court
on Friday February 16, 2018 @08:09PM (#16398180)
Related question: is it enough to be a EU citizen, or must one also live in the EU?
Re:Peter Thiel’s Warning to the Valley
on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:40AM (#16390156)
It's not just about left/right.
Compared to SF, LA is a true big city, as close to New York as you can get on the west coast. In comparison SF is a petty small town, complete with the provincial backstabbing and all.
Re:Government to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year 84 percent jump f...
on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:25PM (#16306391)
If the % required to service it was growing significantly, that'd be a problem. The debt outstanding growing, on its own, doesn't matter.
The government is not a human who better pay off their debt by 65 or they're screwed. The government'll keep receiving income "forever", in a pretty predictable way. So there is no reason to ever stop borrowing; it'd be leaving money on the table (utility of a dollar now > utility of a dollar later).
Re:The U.S. government is set to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year
on Saturday February 03, 2018 @09:42PM (#16300984)
The title is not very useful; this quote gives some context: “It's the highest amount of borrowing in six years, and a big jump from the $519 billion the federal government borrowed last year.”
Re:New Startup Working on Software to Help Government Fix Housing Prob...
on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:14PM (#16261117)
I agree, it won’t be enough, but it’s a great first step. Currently, given how difficult it is to find reliable data, one often can’t easily disprove even the most ridiculous of arguments (like the various groups in the Bay that believe, almost literally, that to solve rising costs people should stop building, rent control, BMR, and similar).
Re:New Startup Working on Software to Help Government Fix Housing Prob...
on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:07PM (#16261074)
This is great, it is about time some scientific process was forced into a system that sadly has been largely driven by protests of idiots in large numbers so far.
Re:Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews
on Sunday January 28, 2018 @05:03PM (#16253855)
Obviously. This is why I said "in general".
Re:Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews
on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:47PM (#16253761)
Because, in general, you’re free to enter into contracts that limit your rights if you so desire.
Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes
on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:51PM (#16173232)
Whether or not Apple/whatever was being shifty or not is a matter of opinion. The fact is, though, that nearly every other country already had a territorial tax system.
Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes
on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:57PM (#16172883)
We’re talking about the repatriation part here, not all the others, which are a different debate.
Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes
on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @04:25PM (#16171990)
Because the US is not going “down a path that neglects its obligations”. In fact quite the opposite since it just got a massive tax revenue increase. So comparing it to a situation where the US decided to just stop levying tax doesn’t make sense.
Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes
on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @03:53PM (#16171710)
That makes no sense. Then the government would get nothing, plus give up future leverage, so obviously it will not do that. Comparing what happened to having no tax is a straw man.
What happened here is that the government finally set a rate that is agreeable to both parties, which is of course in its interest and long overdue.
Re:Ford to boost investment in electric cars by 2022
on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:38PM (#16152827)
What’s wrong with a Chevy Volt? (~50 battery only, 400+ total)
Re:AirBnB units drop by 74% due to SF regulations
on Sunday January 14, 2018 @09:19PM (#16147990)
Almost certainly not. Many people in SF avoid long term rentals very much on purpose, because of the city’s comical tenant protection laws.
Re:IoT Sensors Monitor a 1,400-Kilometer Canal in China
on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:53AM (#16138452)
Probably because they'd want to minimize correlation between the thing being monitored breaking and the thing monitoring it breaking.
Re:WhatsApp Encryption Security Flaws Could Allow Snoops to Slide into...
on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @12:54PM (#16117152)
Hah! Meanwhile in Facebook group chats, anyone can add anyone, and they get to see the whole conversation history immediately and completely irrevocably (even if someone removes them later, they get to keep the history until their removal, and you can’t delete Facebook messages either).