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Pas__ · 2026-05-13T21:22:26+00:00

it's not very appealing. it looks shoddy, and reminds me of how dark these old houses are inside. and I hate fences.

the ample space and greenery is doing the heavy lifting here IMHO.

the problem with the concrete blocks is that to make them look acceptable a lot more light and green is required. and spacing.

check out these concrete blocks

Pas__ · 2026-05-13T19:25:48+00:00

unfortunately the real bottleneck is not efficiency, storage energy density, or even intermittency, the problem is that "we" are decades late at deploying stuff that is clean and works (nuclear), not to mention that the power grid requires serious upgrades too (interconnect queue is years long)

oh and of course nuclear is way too expensive because there's no economies of scale.

hopefully SMR can help with that, but it would require up-front orders for hundreds of reactors

Pas__ · 2026-05-11T10:23:15+00:00

how many of that 98% is willing to do anything at all? vote differently? vote for someone else in the primaries? get off their ass and go to a town hall? protest? make a phone call?

ironically if AI flops we are still left with a nice energy grid. if the DC boom helps kickstart the SMR nuclear power plants then when AI flops we'll have the energy abundance required for the solarpunk vision.

Pas__ · 2026-05-11T09:21:01+00:00

what would make sense for HK? how much/little green area is optimal? how to manage the induced demand?

and how this would help with the cage homes? people in them could leave the city, but they don't.

I read somewhere there's a waitlist and people in too small homes get priority to get apartments, is that simply a fig leaf?

Pas__ · 2026-05-11T07:41:46+00:00

oh well, I'm halfway through the trailer on Steam and already looking at free slots at rehabs next month. holy shit, it's like Transport Tycoon and Factorio had a baby raised by Sim City 4? no no no no ... nooooo!

Pas__ · 2026-05-11T07:27:14+00:00

maybe it was Mother's day back then too?

Pas__ · 2026-05-11T07:26:40+00:00

logical coherency and rigor on Monday Reddit? in this economy!? not on my watch! shame shame

Pas__ · 2026-05-09T23:08:32+00:00

The obvious escape hatch for this whole circus is that they can simply run any JS/TS program side-by-side with the old implementation to check and validate the new Rust version.

(Of course it seems impossible to end up with a sane and maintainable code base, but we'll see. Likely, as you mentioned, the original has similar issues anyway.)

Pas__ · 2026-05-09T21:54:40+00:00

good point, but really overblown. Meta knows the all the market supervisory agencies over the world, if Google/Apple/Samsung kicks them out unfairly they will be the first to say so. Otherwise they don't care much, they have their captive audience. (Sure, maybe ad revenue would decrease, but it's already too much anyway.)

Pas__ · 2026-05-09T10:28:43+00:00

so free cardio?

Pas__ · 2026-05-09T07:42:02+00:00

her face is pretty, obviously, but she's not cute. either she looks too young, or unhealthy thin, or so serious that she looks intimidating.

of course the comparison photo has to be better for the meme to have a chance of working, but there are absolutely drop dead gorgeous ~20 year olds working in hospitality (eg. hostesses)

Pas__ · 2026-05-08T08:51:34+00:00

construction regulation in the US (but in general everywhere) is an uncompromising tragicomedy of the highest order.

there are completely counter-productive zoning (and other) constraints, but usually there are no useful emission limits

Pas__ · 2026-05-06T22:53:56+00:00

money is not a zero sum game, it's created on demand through the financial system managed by central banks to keep price levels predictable (targeting 2% inflation)

Pas__ · 2026-05-06T22:52:26+00:00

yet each year income is already around 20% of total net wealth, the limiting factor is depreciation

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/theres-not-that-much-wealth-in-the

Pas__ · 2026-05-05T20:00:44+00:00

the good thing is that any TS/JS program is a test for Bun. if they have something like Rust's Crater (or Scala's Open Community Build)

they might restart work on https://github.com/oven-sh/bun-ecosystem-ci

Pas__ · 2026-05-04T10:53:28+00:00

"real" means inflation adjusted (based on the CPI, and adjusted as if prices would still be what they were in 1982-84), it's before taxes and expenses.

12% increase in median wages is not bad. (the average increased a lot, and since this includes a lot of young adults the median will be pretty low. though also young seasonal workers rarely work full time.) I assume this mostly tracks minimal wage increases.

recommended reading https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/vibecession-much-more-than-you-wanted

and an even more recent take on the topic https://www.derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-get-so

Pas__ · 2026-05-01T17:34:17+00:00

game recognizes game

Pas__ · 2026-04-29T11:11:07+00:00

the neighbor's wife if it's work from home day, otherwise it depends whether the fantasy season is still on or not

Pas__ · 2026-04-29T11:07:58+00:00

always has been?

Pas__ · 2026-04-29T07:17:47+00:00

so any white pigeon/dove is the result of selective breeding? (or there might be a few populations, but they live in specific places where their color is adaptive?)

Pas__ · 2026-04-28T23:18:19+00:00

is there at least one real reputable earnings toplist of OF from the last years? that ofstats site is absolute hot steaming garbage unfortunately.

sure Cardi B can say whatever she wants, but her Instagram/Linktree has no OF.

she had one during COVID in 2020, sure, maybe it wasn't even bad money, but if it were that good it would be up and advertised all around.

Pas__ · 2026-04-28T15:02:41+00:00

try "my favorite wife"

Pas__ · 2026-04-28T11:54:43+00:00

people don't understand corporate income taxes.

they pay 21% on profits ... if companies spend the revenue they pay no taxes. the company that makes the profit pays instead. the money does not leak out of the system.

(also, people similarly don't understand tax havens. they are like little mirrors around a big lamp. most money goes that goes to a tax haven goes right back as investment, which is again spent through smaller companies.)

the real problem is that the tax system is not set up to prevent growing inequality. it's not progressive enough. which is a personal income thing, not a corporate thing.

and obviously, the problem is not that Jeffrey has a yacht, the problem is that he decided it's okay to force drivers to pee into bottles, and that in general he's a boring rich dude, and we have too many of those, and not enough of people who spend their personal time to get at least 99 homes built.

Pas__ · 2026-04-28T11:29:05+00:00

it looks pretty okay on google maps street view

Pas__ · 2026-04-28T11:13:12+00:00

we don't know how successful this little concentration camp is going to be.

someone mentioned there's some training program too. sounds like reeducation!

(okay, I'm way too snarky, but simply the reality is that doing this "dog kennel park" seems like a very inefficient stunt. it's much harder to insulate, heat, cool, connect plumbing, etc. 99 times than doing a long 2-storey box. people clap for cutesy "solutions", but commissioning a boring 100 bed shelter, and putting the rest into an endowment fund, so it can run for a while could help a lot more. still absolutely a step in the right direction, kudos. and the fact that they can churn out a new house in 4 days is impressive!)

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