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Yeah, corruption hurts all of us. There's also a lesson in there for the "this sucks, they're all corrupt" type nihilists. It turns out that it was possible to be a lot more corrup…

I don't think Taco Bell are the villains of this story. They got right on tracing the problem down and were open about it, from what I understand. Taylor Farms... not so much.

> who these models reward/empower The easy, straightforward answer is "the people who own the models". Who else benefits feels like a more complex question and we'll have to see...…

Except no one died because Twitter malfunctions here and there.

It's a bit ironic to talk about key parts of the toolchain being open source while making black-box, closed source LLM's, controlled by external companies an integral part of all o…

That's what 'FuriouslyAdrift' is saying. Those are the people he/she does not want in the neighborhood.

Most NIMBYism isn't about sprawl - at least in the US. It's about stopping the types of housing that use land more efficiently from being built within cities, and therefore actuall…

If you are building outwards, 'sprawl', the environmental concerns have some validity, I think. But most of the NIMBYism I see is people opposing, say, an apartment building right …

Meanwhile, someone elsewhere in this thread is talking explicitly about 'white flight'. For the record I think it's both racism and classism.

I explained two kinds of change, one that is more visible, where housing is built to accommodate people moving in, and a second kind where supply does not meet demand so the people…

This is not actually a thing that happens because 'someone built an apartment building'.

You bought a property, not the entire neighborhood or city. Those do not belong to you. Cities change and adapt over time.

"Destroy" - see, that's the kind of rhetoric we hear when it turns out they're building like a small apartment building or something. Change happens one way or another. If a place …

It's pretty frustrating to see the downvotes for someone who has actually been to housing hearings, something I doubt most people on this site have taken the time to do. This state…

I think their concerns about automobiles are actually genuine if overblown. People freak out about car stuff. I do see 'concern trolling' as well. For instance I live in a place th…

My experience is mostly with the car-oriented city I live in; I can't speak as much to what it might look like elsewhere.

I'm skeptical. People seem to complain most of all because 1) they view the function of a city as moving and storing automobiles and anything that might hypothetically get in the w…

I just took down part of our trampoline this morning, and it gave me the sads, because our kids have used the heck out of it over the years. When they were smaller they'd ask me to…

Oh that's good news. I wrote in to support HB4080 here in Oregon, but it didn't go anywhere during this year's short session, so will hopefully come back around for the session nex…

How does this work legally? I thought balcony solar was only legal in Utah in the US?

They seem to have tried and given up in the US as well outside of an online presence. It's a pity, as they make 'ok' gear at good prices. It's perfect for if you're getting into a …

Breaking things is also a lot easier than building complex things.

"No shit?" jokes aside, it seems like a bad corporate strategy. Rather than owning up and doing what they can to protect their customers, they kept trying to hide, and now Taylor F…

What are the rules around pacers for this kind of thing? Are there separate records for with/without pacers?

Elixir/Erlang works very well in a semi-embedded environment where you need a higher level command and control component that behaves in a deterministic way and is pretty robust. I…