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Yeah, I've done this. I've bought records for years but only bought a record player recently. I would want to buy something at the merch table for a small band I like. They don't a…

Good move, gotta watch out for complicated contractual claims in Schleswig-Holstein. Microsoft might ally with the Danes and claim Schleswig, and then we'd have an 1864 situation o…

> What is the precise qualification for which illegal alien is permitted and which one is deported? I don't think I raised choosing who gets to stay and who gets deported. My big o…

This is a common objection I hear raised, so I think it's good that you raised it here. Respectfully, I think there is a lot of rhetorical slippage in your argument. First, I did n…

There are some who voted for Trump and do celebrate the cruelty on display in Chicago. But I also think many wanted to deport "the worst of the worst" and that is what they thought…

> Can it be brutalist when you have the richness of wood in full display, veins, shimmer and knots all apparent? Insofar as brutalism is about showcasing the raw building materials…

https://detroitzoo.org/animals/zoo-animals/pig/

I enjoyed the framing but to each their own.

I can't decide to use Rust at my current job, but there are a lot of people on HN for the last ten years telling me that I'm doing it wrong with memory-unsafe programming languages…

Slipping the phrase "consider the lobster" into a place where it was germane to the conversation made me lol. Well done.

Yeesh, thanks for sharing all this. I would eagerly read that blog post! I've gotten really into Ableton this past year and I've been curious whether I should get into Max for Live…

Can anyone in the know compare and contrast bespoke's feature set with Max for Live? ( https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/ ) It also has a circuit diagram-ish UI and supp…

Contrary to the author's claim, the photo booth at Rainbo Club is still there.

Yes, "community areas" is bureaucrat-speak for neighborhoods. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago ) It's useful for city planners and the like because "neigh…

FWIW Youngstown has also placed some big economic development bets on white collar industries. Last I checked, the Youngstown Business Incubator had a solid success with at least o…

Yeah, specifically the GM plant in Lordstown, which is not in city proper but is in the metro area. They made Chevy Cruzes there. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/podcasts/the-da…

Agreed on most of what you're saying here. > For me, a house isn't an investment but it's a place where I house my family. I really want to view the world this way :) I wish housin…

I think some smart companies in "third tier" cities are tapping this. There are some hilarious targeted ads I see for an Austin company (HomeAway) that prominently shows the median…

Let me try and complicate this :) First, I submit that $430,000 is still expensive. Instead of buying the median home in Pittsburg and commuting 60+ minutes on BART to downtown SF,…

Hear hear! It's a good solution for this domain using reliable, free tools. And other folks without a lot of compute resources or experience setting up Spark clusters or whatever c…

"If you owe the bank $100,000 the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100,000,000 you own the bank." Not a perfect parallel to this situation, but a nice aphorism.

That's useful to foreground and I agree that's his target. There is a reasonable argument to be made that a constellation of policies targeted at courting big businesses will bring…

Yeah. IMO the stakes aren't super-high because, as the journalist mentions, Chicago already has decently fast and consistent service via the Blue Line from downtown to ORD. Given t…

Check out The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein for an extensive treatment of this topic. (His focus is not on Jim Crow per se, but on the entire web of policies used to enforce se…