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Interesting that most of the decline happened in the 2000s. The graph shows a large decline from ~2000 to ~2008 which continues after the GFC before going up a bit in the 2010s. Th…

I don't think that's what the attacker did here. Vercel is a PaaS product where other developers run apps. The enumerated environment variables were the env vars of Vercel's custom…

Yea, I suppose that is fair regarding cook timings.

Spitting your food out because the AI generated the recipe is so clearly irrational that I chuckled a bit on reading that

For people who support this kind of ban, I'd ask if you would support a similar ban on new factories for, say, car parts. Like data centers, factories use a lot of power -- which d…

Yea, this sounds like a completely reasonable process to me. They should obviously update their system to accept the electronic submission of evidence, but the process itself is fi…

1) Is already how things work. Every single municipality I've ever seen in the US offers an owner-occupancy tax abatement. 2) Would just inflate home prices.

Why do you think they aren't on the market right now? These companies buy them so that they can rent them. They are on the rental market!

Why would this help affordability? If you restrict who can operate rentals, that will inevitably shrink the supply of rentals, which will raise rents.

Carefeed | Senior Software Engineer and Senior Data Engineer | Chicago, IL Carefeed makes software that makes it easier to operate senior centers. Our mission is to help make resid…

My point is that with Google I don't have to learn any of this, it just works logically out of the box. Compare that to Microsoft, where I have to understand the history of their o…

I don't think this would prevent the session cookie from being sent to tag manager. The tag manager document describes setting up a specific path on the website's normal domain, no…

Without commenting on the larger issue the article brings up, this specific point doesn't survive scrutiny to me: Some of the company’s tactics post-merger were garden-variety ruth…

I think you might be missing the context. The scenario we're discussing is a parking lot surrounded by skyscrapers in the middle of a major city. Under a property tax regime, the o…

And right now they can afford to wait forever! But with an LVT they have a big incentive to either develop it immediately or sell to someone else who will. It's no coincidence that…

When you tax something, you get less of it. By reducing the supply of a good, taxes deter otherwise mutually beneficial transactions from happening; the loss of mutual benefit from…

The responses here are all assuming your grandmothers taxes would go up. But bear in mind LVTs are intend to replace the existing property tax regime (at least in the US). If your …

Yes, that's exactly the idea. In Chicago, where I live, there are surface parking lots in the middle of the downtown surrounded by skyscrapers. In a logical system, the owner of th…

Yes, that's exactly the idea. We have a problem in the US where many metro areas do not have enough housing, in part because building big things is penalized by the tax code. By ch…

I appreciate this guy taking the time to test this stuff out, but... 2.5 minutes per application seems really reasonable and short? Even the Post Office application that took 10 mi…

I think it's a fair point that bots should strive to be useful and not just mock people's mistakes, but in the 8 years since this was written the whole "punch up, not down" idea in…

Yea, I just stopped reading when that started up. I don't understand why people intentionally make their websites annoying to read.

No, that kinda is right - under special relativity, as your apparent velocity from a fixed reference frame increases, it takes more and more energy to accelerate closer to light sp…

I would simply avoid having a housing crisis by allowing people to build more housing. Seems pretty win-win to me.