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I don't think the issue is that landlords are protected from competition. No matter what they do they're competing with the rest of the country. The issue is that there's massive demand for housing in one particular area. As such, the price of housing will increase in that area until the market will no longer bear it.

One interesting and slightly mitigating factor to consider is that during the same period of time far more people have moved from middle to upper class or lower to middle class than have moved down in income class. Part of the reason inequality is increasing is that as a whole we're largely moving up in standard of living, but the bottom tail of the distribution isn't really moving. And I'd argue that you wouldn't really expect it to. It's a lot more difficult to drag the destitute out of poverty than to increase the standard of living for most, but not all, people

This still feel relevant today in explaining the push back against modern liberalism and social justice movements. Emerson was apparently not a fan of virtue signaling.

Ooooh. I've seen this page before, but it is a great submission. Fascinating article about something I'd never heard of before. Thanks for the link.

Facebook's search function actually just doesn't work for me. I'll search for someone by name and it just returns me a list of friend suggestions that's the same no matter what name I search for. It may as well not have a search function at all.

Let's say you generate the identifier for the upload based on the file hash. If you add a timestamp or random nonce then they'll have to redistribute the link to the file every time they re-upload as it will change every time.

Which makes sense for large software systems, but for small tools that you might want to carry around on a flash drive or that you need to always work across multiple machines without having a vm, static binaries make sense.

I'm guessing this was supposed to be a link, but it doesn't go anywhere and now I'm curious.

Heck, it's already halfway implemented in China.

The way that's worded makes it sound like they will go on to try again, but are very likely to fail again. It makes sense that that would be the case, but I don't think it's the point you're trying to make.

I'm really curious to see more information on how the therapeutic value has been demonstrated. Everything I've read has suggested it has little to no therapeutic value and that suicide rates post transition aren't lowered at all.

Why would the attentiveness monitor be tied to autopilot? Some modern cars without autopilot already have attentiveness monitors. It's ridiculous to require people not to wear sunglasses. Just for the sake of attentiveness monitors. Anybody driving east to west in the afternoon or west to east in the morning wouldn't be able to use it at all.

Switching from rye to white bread is a whole lot less bad for you than switching from water to soda. At some level we have to make a decision about what an acceptable level of "bad for you" is and I think white vs wheat is way below that line.

Wow, standards of delight have come up a lot in this country. I've probably had more delightful sandwiches than not

FYI typo: mlflow.log_atrifact("roc.png")

So being blinded with autopilot on is safer than being able to see, but allowing the possibility of inattentiveness? That's ridiculous.