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One flow I started to experiment with was using Google's stitch to get some initial designs put together, from there would feed that into Codex/Claude Code for analysis and updates and refine the design to get it to what I wanted. After a couple of screens the patterns that you want start to emerge and the LLMs can start using those as examples for the next set of screens you want to build.

Agreed, I think the simple answer is the tax rate is one thing for a primary residence and another for non-primary residences regardless of who owns it. For example in CA, Prop 13 stays in place for your primary residence, but properties are re-assessed every year like in Texas if it's not your primary residence. In addition, take away some (or all) of the tax deductions for SFH that aren't primary residences.

One of the areas where I've struggled to get effective use out of the LLM's is with UI/UX. That isn't my primary area of expertise (backend) so it definitively could be operator error here, but I use tools like v0.dev and just can't quite get it to do what I need it to do. Anybody have any tools, workflows, suggestions for this?

In my opinion the story here is that AWS allowed them to quickly build and prove out a business idea. This in turn afforded them the luxury to make this kind of switch. Cloud did it's job.

Questions: - Can you do analysis of video captured from Trace cameras? - Any roadmap for exporting the data for both team and player?

In my opinion, which doesn't mean much, we're in a very weird spot where it's like 50/50 on usefulness and uselessness. There are certainly approaches where GenAI can be incredibly helpful, I've seen it in action in the day job. However, there are also avenues where it's complete snake oil.

Was hoping someone would drop a HermitCraft reference!

Slightly off topic, however, the post references the Carlsbad desalination facility. If you find yourself in San Diego and like oysters, I would highly recommend you checkout the Carlsbad Aquafarm. Take the tour and pick up some oysters.

What's really interesting and relevant to the topic is that the oyster farm serves as a pre-filter to the desalination plant and there's an symbiotic relationship between the plant and the oyster farm.

Looks like Wrexham's transfer budget for next season just went up :)

Does this mean Goonies is now based on true events?

Let me preface this by saying I'm so far out of my lane on this, however I have some thoughts on the paper.

- One thing that I've picked up from a number of sources that isn't mentioned in the article, is that millennials entering the home buying phase of their lives as being a big reason why housing was primed to pop between 2020-2024. Basically demographics have played a huge part in this boom. - Most mortgages are actually in good shape from a paper perspective [1] - Most mortgages are 30-yr compared to the crazy ARM instruments [2]

My theory is that home prices will NOT drop, like in 2008, but rather will stabilize. Three reasons why: 1. Milliennials will keep overall demand up 2. Homebuilders will slow down on producing new inventory, and we're already at all time lows for inventory 3. Existing homeowners will be hesitant to sell because most are locked into a 30-yr with most likely a sub 2-3% mortgate

All of that, in theory, will result in less overall supply which will keep prices stable

[1] https://twitter.com/LoganMohtashami/status/15084587889693450...

[2] https://twitter.com/lenkiefer/status/1507870733615214598

Life, finds a way…

I asked my CPA last year what could I do and his suggestion was what you mentioned start a business that racks up losses. The catch is I believe that you have to show that you are making money within 5-yrs. But I'm not an accountant, so get that fact checked by someone who is.

I think there are a number of reasons why you would.

- Built on top of the JVM

- Large number of 3rd libraries, i.e. Jackson, Jetty, Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc.

- Mature, can find support in numerous areas

- Dependency management, I'm sure many will disagree but I've found Maven to work well enough for what i need it to do both from dependency management and releasing

- It's the language I'm the most efficient with and if I'm building something brand new I favor speed of iteration over having to stumble over learning a new language. NOTE: I'd say the same thing about C#, Swift, Javascript, etc. If that either of those were my primary language I'd do the project in that because speed is your friend when starting out.

Hypercard, now that is a name I've not heard in a long time

You never know, they’re app might get the Google Reader app treatment

I agree with you. Self driving cars will become the norm the minute it's cheaper to insure the automated car instead of the human being

Not often a fat finger mistake blows something up

I'm curious for those that do consulting development work how many actually have the types of insurances discussed in the article?

Is there a threshold of revenue before considering insurance or should you have it regardless?

If you have an LLC formed, how much does the extra liability insurance help?

Total novice with regards to this stuff, any opinions are definitely welcomed.

Same argument can be made about buying in the bay area. If you can't afford it, move. My argument is just as unreasonable to make as telling someone to leave their home.

You can do (or I guess proposed to do) what Vancouver did, tax vacant properties. Foreign buyers would purchase homes and then let them sit, reducing inventory and raising prices.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-vac...

How would you explain 2006-2008? There weren't many places that were exempt from appreciating abruptly during that time. Housing prices across all of California were insane.

There are a bunch of things that bother me with regards to the discussion against Prop 13.

- There are older folks that have owned their homes for over 30+ yrs that are on fixed income that wouldn't be able to absorb increased taxes. My grandparents would've been in this case.

- There are folks that are middle class folks, think central California that couldn't absorb increased taxes.

- The variability year to year dealing with the assessments makes it difficult to plan for the potential increase in taxes. Look at what happened in Cook County in Illinois. Some homeowners were facing thousands of dollars of taxes none of them were prepared to pay.

The argument of telling someone to just move if they can't afford the taxes doesn't fly with me. Because I would just put it back on those individuals, you don't like the housing prices... Get out of the bay area. I mean I know you can go to Bakersfield get a palace for 500-600K. Case in point, brand new construction 462k 4BR, 3BA (http://www.zillow.com/community/camden-cove-pinnacle-series/...)

I think there are ways to address some of the issues without a blanket reversal of Prop 13, because this would effect more than just the bay area.

So what potential changes could you make. Couple of ideas:

- Transfer of property through inheritance would be subject to re-assessment. At that point the original owners have presumably passed and the new owners aren't necessarily living in the property. If the taxes were adjusted to the current property value that decreases the profit from just renting the home.

- Remove the applicability to commercial properties. Other articles on the subject that I've read, describe techniques that people use to try to game the re-assessment of a property through exchanges of corporate entities, eliminate that practice, especially for homes that are zoned residential.

- If the issue is around vacancy, do what Vancouver did, tax vacant properties. If there is an abundant supply of vacant homes, force rental of those homes through taxing of vacant homes. That increased the supply of available homes, depressing rent and lowered home prices within a few weeks of its enactment.

I'm not saying at all that Prop 13 is perfect and no doubt there is abuse of the rules. I'd focus on closing the loopholes around transfers of property first before trying to change something that would affect every single homeowner.

Reminds me a lot of BPEL back in the day. Great now I'm having flashbacks

One area to keep an eye on with this is the Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) program. If they do indeed take on UPS/FedEx, the FBA program will now be able to store, sell, fulfill and deliver your product without leaving Amazon.

I'm in a similar situation as the op. I personally enjoy that phase of a company's lifecycle. So long as there is runway (1-2 yrs). I love that edge of the seat do whatever it takes to try and make it work feeling.

I think in my case I've just become more aware of the fact that an exit is the exception rather than the norm. I've also had to educate myself a hell of a lot more regarding the intricacies of equity, i.e. investors preference, etc.

May be naive but wouldn't the emergence of automated vehicles push cities to change their design to eliminate the normal case where pedestrians and vehicles share any road at all?

It wouldn't happen overnight, but I would think that ultimately you would want to get pedestrians out of the way to improve efficiency of travel. I dunno

Can you put this in the invite for May's meetup?

I'm sure like a lot of other things it's open to a countries laws and interpretation. According Corynne McSherry, EFF's Intellectual Property Director, "It's a fundamental principle of copyright law that facts are not copyrightable" State side something like this should be ok.

However, it doesn't sound like the same protection is afforded in the UK with regards to the English and Scottish Premier Leagues based on the link you provided.

Source: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-wins-protection-time-...

For domain search, I personally like https://domize.com/.