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I think it's more than just estimating the count of objects.

We also "approximate" for example a spatial distribution - think about how when running through rough terrain, you instantly know which path to choose to encounter fewer rocks. You are certainly not focusing and counting each individual rock.

> And Tokyo, by the way, does a pretty good job with housing

Only in the sense of getting more bang for the buck. It's the 10th most expensive city to rent in the world: https://infogram.com/1prdmkx1zvdve1sg79z2vp56vmsm2ygmn90

Or a more comprehensive study here: https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000049...

Notice something in these list? It's all famous cities. The fact that they have wildly different housing regulations doesn't affect the rent prices, any supply is immediately absorbed back.

Fundamentally this problem is not fixable.

Everybody wants to live in NYC/SF/LA/London/Paris/Tokyo/...

The moment rents drop for whatever reason (more building), a new batch of people will finally afford to move in.

> More empty home taxes and secondary home taxes.

Then "professional renters" will appear, one person renting and living in a 20 room apartment, and the actual rent money will come in a convoluted way from the billionaire.

But that's not what the article proposes.

They want removal of regulation regarding parking spots (free market), but building of rent-controlled social housing on the freed space (non-free market).

So many mistakes, not doing a clean checkout before a build, setting up a new build server by literally copying everything from the old one, including checked out directories!!!

As an optimization git doesn't check files with an "old" date.

Running git status in an 1 GB checkout directory will return instantly. Do you really believe it has hashed all those files?

Which was killed by streaming, not by people storing songs locally.

> No, but they would download their content once and store it locally instead of repeatedly re-streaming it every time.

That's like saying "people don't need to listen to the radio for the same pop songs, they can just play a CD with them"

> website will run fine on most 10-20 year old computers

20 years ago computers had 32 MB of RAM. So no, they won't run a modern website.

So, did they tried weaving a 1-cm diameter rope, and testing it against a similar diameter steel rope?

It's probably extremely expensive, so you need to use it in very high value products.

I had the same problem as you.

I also highly recommend "Modern JavaScript Explained for Dinosaurs" for a high level overview of why the JS tooling is like it is.

This is also a good overview of the whole ecosystem, together with suggested learning paths:

https://frontendmasters.com/books/front-end-handbook/2019/

It started on celebrity Instagram.

In three days it expanded until it forced the global media to report on it. It didn't before, because fires like this happen every year, so it was considered just ordinary fact.

I saw some Instagram posts which suggest that some big influencers were DMed with the story from local activists, and then influencers started copying eachother and spreading it further.

I think it's the first time a thing started on Instagram became G7 agenda.

Let's not forget this classic:

> Chinese nationals inside Google have at times clashed with its techno-libertarian culture. One infamous example, detailed in a book by the former head of Google’s “people operations,” comes from 2008, when the company cafeteria offered employees a “Free Tibet Goji-Chocolate Creme Pie.” This offended a Chinese national at the company, who sent an email to Chief Executive Larry Page. The chef was immediately suspended — then, after a companywide email thread that at the time was the longest in Google history, reinstated. An engineer who was at Google at the time told me the whole controversy was “ridiculous.”

The purpose of this article is different - someone will say "the safety situation in Seattle is terrible because of ultra-liberal drug policies". Then you are supposed to reply with this article as a counter. And New York Times beats The Seattle Times, so you've won the argument.

It's all about providing a counter-narrative to prevent cognitive dissonance.