Redoubts

Honestly this is one of the best technical audio forums. I always really appreciated how they take their rules seriously, like

> TOS 8. All members that put forth a statement concerning subjective sound quality, must - to the best of their ability - provide objective support for their claims. Acceptable means of support are double blind listening tests (ABX or ABC/HR) demonstrating that the member can discern a difference perceptually, together with a test sample to allow others to reproduce their findings. Graphs, non-blind listening tests, waveform difference comparisons, and so on, are not acceptable means of providing support.

Deadweight loss of needing to maintain a patent portfolio to defend against other infringement cases?

Sad, isn't it?

this blog has a history of "interesting" takes

> The way you get that is taxes and eminent domain to tear down and rebuild.

Can we try not making it illegal to build densely on the property you own first? The government doesn’t need to do anything; no tax breaks or incentives. It just needs to stop taking the opinion that any amount of profit taken by a real estate developer is necessarily immoral.

> Really not sure what to make of this

There’s no reason you shouldn’t take it at face value. There’s no reason to believe these are “normal city problems”.

Could you imagine more problems if you physically strung 33 cars together and tried to drive them in unison?

> He's just listing preferences

to be clear, there are multiple examples here of varying politeness.

> so many gay men report great satisfaction from it.

Yeah man, love this app, who wouldn't...

https://imgur.com/a/Ff0qaPn

sure, but why pay money for functionality you're just gonna turn off (components, higher clock speed)

Yeah, you should probably use ponder https://we.phorge.it/ponder/

> Michael Lewis covered this beautifully in Flashboys

That was actually quite a bad book

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P0QI2M2

“Do this, or we’ll nuke you / let the soviets invade”

-e-

Less flippantly, those countries gave it their all and lost. In most other places, the real struggle started after the government was toppled.

South Korea and Taiwan were autocracies until relatively recently

Why?

> and leave only people who can't get a new job working for Grindr.

isn't that the case already?

> The down arrows appeared for me suddenly a couple of weeks ago but not for every post.

I believe you get access to downvotes after 500 karma, and only for up to a day after the comment was made

After using Trio, I would regret asyncio too

> The reporting by traditional media had a lot of „not independently confirmed“ details.

Because (US) foreign correspondence is a hollow shell of itself.

https://twitter.com/ChrisBuryNews/status/1672410476364300288...

> At @abc we had foreign bureaus in Beijing, Beirut, Berlin, Cairo, Frankfort, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

> Only London is left.

?

There's a difference between not wanting to interact with this news, and not wanting to interact with this news on this forum.

What… is this site and what’s with the swiftlang logo

> Do you hate jwz, too?

I mean, he definitely needs to look in the mirror.

> for whatever reason

But there's a very specific reason here, and it's easy to avoid.

> Even if somebody struggles with solving an unfamiliar problem off the cuff, you can see if they they take some logical problem solving approaches.

I hear this a lot, from the likes of Google on down, but does any interviewer ever take away anything positive from "almost" solving an interview question? In my experience, most interviews are pass/fail and getting close isn't a pass.

Sorry, that sounds closer to stenography than journalism.

> Do you have the same reaction whenever an organisation has a scandal and they ‘don’t want to comment on an ongoing investigation’?

Yeah, kinda

Every municipality in the bay wants it “somewhere else”, that’s why municipalities are losing discretion to say No.

Yeah that’s what local review has been doing for years, hence this counter offer; not to mention the state stripping zoning rights from municipalities. There originally was a serious offer on the table, yet it wasn’t entertained either.

> Even if they have a lot of SFHs, they are counting Victorian row houses that are placed next to each other

Is that supposed to mean something? Most housing there doesn’t look like a The Painted Ladies anyways, and being denser amongst the most middling cohort possible isn’t an accomplishment.

> I lived in Beijing for 9 years, and it was plenty dense

What’s plenty? Why do you think it’s enough? And idk if you’ve noticed, but China has had an insane urbanization rush for the last 20+ years, so high housing costs in their cities isn’t surprising.

> San Francisco is already a dense city

The vast majority of residential there is single family homes. Why do you think this?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-map-single-family-...

> 38% of the city’s land is zoned for single-family homes, which is almost two-thirds of all the land zoned for residential purposes.

You can’t say building density doesn’t work when it hasn’t even been tried in the last 30 years.

> spent much of 2022 under a supervisory review.

Yet they weren't even on the FDIC Problem Banks List?