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Anywhere you could build a hotel you could also build more housing, so they pose the same issue. There is necessarily some tension between using space for permanent housing and usi…

Feels like a possibly important but unrelated issue. Is there some connection to billboards?

Baldur’s Gate 3 is recent and very much doesn’t follow the Bethesda model! It’s also turn-based which was a big plus for me as well.

Seems the App Store link isn’t working for me (in Spain). Would love to give it a try!

The budget for this has very little bearing on the debt. See where the money actually goes here: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

I think it’s reasonable not everyone feels the same way about this. I’d prefer for my body not to be washed nor placed in a coffin.

Counterproductive, and makes Garry Tan look like a real asshole. Now people will have sympathy for the Supervisors whereas a thoughtful criticism could have put real problems with …

> If your self-driving car kills or maims someone in a situation where a normal sober person driving wouldn’t have What if it does this while also _not_ killing/harming in many oth…

You’re paying them to rank and collect information from things on the web for you. People can’t subscribe to everything and it’s nice as a user of a search engine to know if it’s a…

No, to clarify the salary is being paid but the stock liquidity program ended. However, single trigger RSUs mean tax may still be owed on those RSUs at the market value when they w…

In addition to not getting paid, the employees are left with a tax burden for the RSUs they are now unable to sell since the cancellation happened abruptly in the window between ve…

Yes, but the IP itself is not personal without the connection to other information. I do think considering IP address personal is a bit of a reach, especially given the common case…

Thanks for sharing this story. I love when I can learn a little more about the experience of something fascinating like Caving but that I don’t have any personal experience with th…

This is about your view of morals as they relate to religion though, right? Legally speaking priests are employees and the church is the employer. I think our government system sho…

Who is “they” in this situation? The issue in this article is developers wanting to build housing being blocked by misuse of an environmental quality law. If you live in a city wit…

This could be really useful, but it feels like the bootstrapping phase might be difficult to get past -- on one hand you need to reach the size and level of repute for companies be…

> Using authority to force cooperation is tyranny. Wow, this is an odd definition of tyranny. The elected representatives of the people of our state wrote these laws. I personally …

How easy would it be for researchers to differentiate deliberately fabricated abstracts written by humans from abstracts of peer-reviewed scientific papers from respected publicati…

These policies stem from elected officials, as far as I can tell. How else would you propose they make policy decisions? My impression is these decisions are related to genuine con…

> Work is something I reluctantly do to fund the things I actually care about. It sure as hell isn’t my entire life or cause for existence. Some of us prefer to care about our work…

I would add that if you want a quick intro to her writing style and diversity, her short story collection “Bloodchild and Other Stories” is great.

You’re assuming being born into an affluent family is the cause of the higher pay. Is it possible that the employees from affluent families are higher performing? I assume there’s …

Maybe Scala : Java :: Elixir : Erlang