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Re:Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:47PM (#39206921)
> relatively high crime

You mention crime in regards to safety within a city, but there is a study floating around Twitter that factors in traffic fatalities in suburban and rural areas, and the dangers of cars make suburbs and rural areas MORE dangerous that urban areas! Take a look at this article detailing urban vs rural deaths: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-rural-a...

Re:Microsoft reveals IRS notice asking for $28.9B in back taxes on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:16PM (#37859239)
A good financial advisor will recommend keeping 3-6 months of non-negotiable expenses saved, not revenue. 6 months of revenue would be a quite significant amount of savings for most people.
Re:Autopay Is Making Us Worse at Managing Credit-Card Bills on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:59PM (#37822493)
This article seems a little fearmongering. Autopay is great, and several credit card companies offer a variety of nice features to help reduce the likelihood of temporary cash flow management issues. Citi for example allows you to split your payment in 2, so if you are paid biweekly, you can arrange your payment dates to align with your paydays.
Re:Weight-based motor vehicle tax on Thursday August 31, 2023 @04:26PM (#37343237)
> have very little tax for people's primary residence

Homeowners already get crazy tax breaks that our society bears the cost of. This would just be an even bigger shift to funding government services on the backs of renters rather than homeowners, as any increase in taxes that "landlords" are assessed is passed on to renters.

Re:Weight-based motor vehicle tax on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @12:40PM (#37324762)
> which is every human activity

A lot of human activities don't use that much energy in the grand scheme of things. Playing board games, walking around a neighborhood, going to concerts or shows at the theater, these are all things that use very little energy when compared to heavy manufacturing, transportation, and most agriculture. Since most humans will bear the costs of climate change as it begins to destroy our past investments, I think it's fairly reasonable to fix that damage based on how much carbon activities generate.

> now you have to pay more tax

I mean I buy a cheap stock and it's value goes up, why should I have to pay tax on that too!? The value of the land has gone up because it has more amenities and benefits as well. If you feel you are not benefiting from the increased investment around your land, then you should sell it so it can be put to better use.

> it was EPA mandates

Correction: it was the exemptions from EPA mandates that created the huge truck situation. The fix would be to remove the exemptions for "light trucks"

There are some startups, but they seem to be very limited in their growth potential given the very cyclical nature of construction. I believe this hampers their access to VC and debt funding, so they don't make as big of a splash.

My city has a local construction startup that is trying to drop the cost of housing units by fabricating panels and rooms offsite and assembling at the construction site: https://www.modulehousing.com/

On mobile Firefox, the app captures the gesture to go back to the prior page, so I couldn't come back to here until I typed in the URL box to navigate to Hacker News
Re:Apple Rankings on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:30PM (#33645197)
I love Super Juice! If I'm going to have friends over for a get together or party, I'll make a batch (or multiple if I want more than 1 fruit) a few days ahead of time to increase the speed in which drinks can be made. The downside is that garnishes still generally tend to need peels, so I still need to have a couple real fruits hanging around.
Re:Worldwide Rail Network Map on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:55PM (#32844579)
There's this, but it doesn't appear to be fully complete: https://www.infrapedia.com/app
Re:A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:33PM (#31112569)
I feel like this linked page has more info then the page that OP posted: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.2874
Re:Detailed Assemblies for an Airtight Small Home on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:59AM (#31097926)
Matt Risinger is a builder based out of Austin, TX that has a lot of videos detailing how to build high performance, airtight homes. https://youtube.com/c/MattRisinger
Re:Improving GitHub Code Search on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @12:42PM (#29487845)
I wonder if it is the followup to this conversation from last year when https://grep.app was released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22397728
Re:Facebook chooses profits over people on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:19AM (#28956852)
Zuckerberg is a minority shareholder in Facebook with majority control due to dual-class Founder's shares he possesses. The only person he's accountable to is himself.
I agree that it's a potentially dumb idea, it sounds like just another kind of Jim Crow era law that could very easily be misused to prevent people from running for office for any reason that people in power see fit (e.g. racism, sexism, other -isms). The only way I see it being a good idea is if you just need to answer the provided questions, and not necessarily "pass" the exam, but that would necessitate voters actually caring if their lawmakers know anything about tech (or the other variety of topics included).
Re:How to win at CORS on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:21AM (#28878695)
> remember, the 's' in 'IoT' stands for security

I don't know why, but this cracked me up. :D

Re:JWT should not be your default for sessions on Thursday May 13, 2021 @09:32AM (#27141863)
I believe refresh tokens are supposed to be HTTP Only
Related video from City Beautiful on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TaU1UH_3B5k
tldr: Robinhood got offended that Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger called their company out for incentivizing gambling and not investing... which seems particularly obtuse since Robinhood makes their profit from the r/WSB community and not the people who use their platform for long term investments.
I found that video fascinating as an example of how pernicious myths can be. Makes me wonder how many myths I've propagated to others without verifying them myself.
Re:Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:40AM (#26889543)
Over a year ago, I was investigating using Prisma to be the ORM for a GraphQL API of a Postgres database. When doing a proof-of-concept, I discovered that under the hood @prisma/client was spinning up it's own GraphQL server that it would send requests to in order to generate SQL to send to postgres. This extra middleware layer between my frontend code and postgres generated some pretty poor performing queries that took 50% longer to complete than the queries generated by using Hasura as our whole GraphQL API.

A quick glance at the @prisma/client code makes it seem like this pattern is still the case, since they have an "engine-core" package that downloads a binary server behind the scenes and runs it on a free port in the background.

Re:Robinhood Files S-1 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:57PM (#26880620)
Why did you post this? Their S-1 still hasn't been publically released yet, and this news that they filed it with the SEC is from ~1 month ago.
Re:Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:37AM (#26875259)
> deep learning team for Capital One

What!? Capital One has a deep learning team? As a long-time customer of theirs, I can't even begin to guess what that team might do for their set of products, except maybe to optimize their credit card offerings.

Re:Word usage guidance and alternative terms on Monday April 19, 2021 @10:56AM (#26863418)
Technically, America is metric in that our units are based on metric units now. So 1 yard is defined as 0.9144 meter and 1 pound (avoirdupois) is 0.45359237 kg[0].

0: https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.p...

Re:Just Be Rich on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:19AM (#26792463)
see page 199 in this dataset[0] which is the dataset used for this list of countries on Wikipedia[1]. If you sort on Wealth Gini (2019), then Netherlands is ranked first.

0: https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq...

I was super pumped for this tech to start being used in human clinical trials, but a couple of years ago, there was a study[0] that raised some key concerns about CRISPR therapeutics increasing the risk of cancer due to some edited cells self-destructing once their genomes have been modified, leaving behind cells with a higher risk of cancer due to not being as sensitive to genomic edits. Have these challenges been overcome yet?

[0]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crispr-edited-cel...

Re:Yellen calls for a global minimum corporate tax rate on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:55PM (#26704602)
So 2 ideas, 1) make capital gains over $1 million a year taxed as regular income and 2) get rid of Stepped-Up cost basis from estate tax exemptions

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