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No matter what we do on the supply side it will be eaten up by the unlimited demand from people coming here. Unless we slow down immigration housing will always be too expensive. T…

Funny, without js all the specs say "0." I guess they wanted it animated for dramatic affect and now you get something very much the opposite, like they're sarcastically selling yo…

Some of us don't want to give Microsoft our phone number just to play a game we bought from another company.

I think you should try rereading my comment.

I was working out of a studio apartment until this year and I honestly didn't feel like my WFH set up took up any real extra space: In the beginning I would use the breakfast bar a…

Case in point.

Pretty much nothing (including emacs!) We're only supposed to use our work computers for IM, email, and ssh to the VMs (hosted by the VM team) where we do the actual work. IMO: thi…

Often != always.

>Racism is a form or subset of bigotry. If you look closely you'll notice that this isn't how extremists (on both sides) use the word. Racism to them means something closer to oppr…

Yes, that's not incompatible with what I said.

My employer brought in a Harvard University professor to preach at us for ~45 minutes about how the US is awful and White people should feel guilty just for living their lives. I h…

>Something you can't really do anymore. People seem to do this sort of thing pretty often in the Arctic. There's a lot more empty space than some people think.

Being told you should feel guilty for being a particular race is as valid as being told you should be proud for it. Moderates stepping into arguments about racism made by extremist…

This is extremely reductionist. It's like saying untying a balloon doesn't cause it to deflate, the deflation is caused by the random motion and collisions of the air molecules.

But we do try to make things right for US citizens (and often foreigners) inside our own borders. What happens inside your borders is way more important than outside. I don't think…

> i ve never seen one. Really? At least the Walmart here stopped selling PC laptops and only sells chromebooks now.

My understanding was the raspberry pi was supposed to be the modern zx80: cheap above all else to make it easy for kids to get a computer.