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>If I were still a high school kid, I hope I would be wise enough not to vibe-code an app that handles money. Because any time your app handles money, all kinds of laws and regulations may end up applying to you. How do you handle refunds? How do you handle claims (true or not) of fraud? How do you handle actual fraud? If your app has a bug that means someone's payment didn't get sent to the city / parking lot owner correctly, and the customer's car gets towed, you're going to have an angry customer calling you and demanding that you reimburse their towing fees, or threatening to sue you for negligence, or something.

The difference between a highschool kid and an adult is that the highschool kid thinks you need to handle all that and the adult knows that having all the exception paths be broken and require a call to a customer support rep that can't actually fix the problem is actually a revenue increasing feature, not a bug.

Equality under the law in just about every area of law would go a long ways. Divorce and family court stuff is just but one example of many

Men and women have different mental health crisis spirals.

It's like the difference between killing yourself drunk crashing your car into a pole vs winding up in a wheelchair because you crashed into everything of value on the street before hitting the same pole slower. Which is worse depends on who you ask.

All of the superiority, snark, self importance and toxicity.

None of the juvenile humor.

I mean if I'm gonna be preached at by jerks who think I'm stupid I'd rather they be funny jerks.

That's incorrect. To have "All tires rotate at the same speed." you need 3 locking mechanism, which very few vehicles do.

The "locking mechanism" known as traction works pretty well most of the time and has the nice side effect that it only wears an easily replaceable consumable when you break it.

It's all marketing wank with overlapping venn diagrams. Nobody for whom the difference matters engages in hair splitting over language.

At some point it's clear enough where the road is going that good intentions are not an excuse for having put a brick or two in.

>asking if things are "allowed" or assuming things are illegal by default.

There are plenty on HN who are "old enough to know better" who do it anyway. The most evil know that's not how things work and do it as a performance to influence others.

He got out of healthcare because the system is fucked up and predatory and mostly tangential to keepinng people healthy.

The feds tried to disrupt the civil rights movement by faking a bunch of correspondence that made it seem like they were all cheating on their wives. They thought it would work because it worked on the commies in the 30s-50s. It didn't really do shit because their wives all already assumed they were from the get go.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

> It will prevent many tax evasions and crimes.

Careful now, useful idiots will come out of the woodwork to cheer for it when you phrase it like that.

This is the kind of thing people say when they've never seen someone die over several days from burn injuries.

Plenty of the survivors of the nuclear bombings and the fire bombings writings went on to be published. You can read them yourselves but generally speaking the fire bombings were way, way, worse.

In my state if your wide load is big enough you need a police escort. That means you drive 70-80mph because that's what the police do. Of course, the highest speed limit in this state is not that high.

>(e.g. obviously a lot of non-Latin ethnicities adapted Roman way of life),

If you wanna tell the romans to GFY you're gonna have to adopt a lot of the structures that make them competitive in order to resist them. There's a fairly large "you wrestle the pig you get shit on you" factor going on.

>If I understand the article correctly, there is DNA evidence of mass migration from Scandinavia to Northern Poland, but going further south, the evidence points to migration of a smaller elite rather than mass migration.

I.e it wasn't fashionable, didn't make for good career advancement for anyone to look into it let alone say it.

>In this comment section it seems people really want it to be one or the other, evidence be damned.

I'm just here to remind everyone that the "professionals" are fallible and subject to industry circle jerks.

I's not that simple. Look at New England. Initially de-populated and left to grow over thanks to western agriculture then intentionally key that way by environmental policy. It's not inching toward anything resembling pre-colombian forests. It's turning into an impenetrable thicket. But hey, plenty of food for the asian long horned beetles and gypsy moths so that's a win. /s

There's a lot of bits of biodiversity you don't get without humans putting their thumb on the scale and forcing a different equilibrium.

Unless it's so small it roughly equals the utility capacity of a half ton truck a trailer is a big hassle. People choose to pay more for a truck because it "just works" with "no thinking" for a wide variety of stuff.

Those sound hard and boring. This sounds easy and flamboyant. You're not thinking like a politician.

Trailers aren't a silver bullet. I own multiple trailers (one even has a crane on it) and will still use anything else given the chance because it's just such a hassle once the empty weight of your trailer gets above what's convenient to move around by hand (which it will if you want to beat what a half ton truck can do, not what's within the rating, but what it can do).

>The very best LLM can answer is the answer you can expect from an online forum like Reddit or a book/paper published more than a year ago.

The LLMs are vastly superior for any subject matter with even the slightest hint of danger or otherwise high stakes because while both LLMs and Reddit will whine at you and talk down to you the LLM will actually knock it off when told.

Like I'm asking you about sheetmetal thickness vs joist spacing for re-skinning a goddamn carport with roofing steel, read the room, this is not the time to whine about permits and snow loads and whatnot because the project is happening with or without your advice.

And it's not just mundane stuff. Some guy who's retrofitting new chinesium controls onto 50yo industrial equipment that had a prior generation of controls cobbled on 20yr ago doesn't need to get talked down at about stainless on stainless corrosion when he's asking a question about a solenoid or something. If the LLM talks down to him he can brush it aside. If he tries that on reddit they'll dig in their heels and fling poo.

Cutting out the "negative value" middle man of having to painstakingly make the case about the validity of your big picture goal before getting answers to simple questions is of substantial value. Stuff that people would've painstakingly researched themselves rather than ask Reddit or HN or Stack Overflow because dealing with those people is so onerous they now just punch into their LLM of choice and get the best of both worlds.

>As a hungarian: agent would imply a member of the secret police which have already been released years ago. These are informants, regular people like students and teachers to members of the churches to actors and musicians etc.

Yes and? That they did it for free instead of for pay is supposed to make it better?

>High-trust Anglo civilization is not compatible with the attitude towards civil authority common in the 19th-century Mezzogiorno. It took literal generations to fix.

Waspy paternalism gave us eugenics, multi-generational welfare and plenty of other great stuff so it's not like the alternative is all that much better.

>but has been allowed to fester b/c the Mob was (so far) worse.

It's been allowed to fester because the late 20th century was (so far) the high water mark for societal tolerance of that sort of thing and it hasn't been abused enough since to really see much legal scrutiny.

> Plus jars of marshmallow goo called “Fluf” for some reason?

The fudge recipe on the back is actually really good FYI

Also the containers are a nice pliable rubbery plastic so they're good to repurpose for garage use.

That happens because development is so absurdly regulated that the only way to get it done is to amortize your fixed costs over the whole "village" and then once that's done there's no subsequent infill development because those little things can't absorb the fixed costs.

There was a case in the US some months, maybe a year or two ago where some stairs in a park were garbage for too long due to red tape BS. Some guy just said fuck it and build new ones. PT construction, standard deck type construction. Same stuff you see in all sorts of nature preserve land, state forests, etc, and that the useful idiots who I will mention in a minute love to circle jerk about being "low impact" in environmental contexts.

And how did HN respond? Well of course everyone the comment section were screeching about how the sky was gonna fall because he didn't pay his way through an environmental impact assessment, he should get the electric chair as a warning to other vigilantes, he's just a dumb idiot and can't possibly fathom all the considerations that the government would, etc, etc,. I'm exaggerating here, but a hell of a a lot less than I wish I were. Basically a bunch of ideologically driven jerks who were pissed that he made the .gov look bad.

It's not right but it's at least understandable that the municipality themselves were pissed that he did it because it made them look bad (which is the reason the story went viral in the first place) but it's a whole 'nother degree of bad moral character to be not just pissed off in this unjustifiable way, but to be pissed off in this unjustifiable way on someone else's behalf.

>This’ll cheer you up: Northampton is used as a case study for a successful post-industrial town.

That same bent of evil people came to my town to peddle some "looks good from my ivory tower" type municipal trash policy that incentivize all the wrong things. They cited an adjacent town that adopted their stuff and is renown locally for its filth as a "success story". The public's reaction was literally "hahahaha, oh wait you're serious, hahahahahahahahahah". City councilor literally had to bang the gavel a bunch and tell the crowd to be serious. It was glorious. The city council is not likely to adopt it at this point.

This. People forget how much more stuff was niche or industrial/b2b only before ecommerce came along.

Industrial businesses were less rigid about avoiding retail sales than today but it was still way more hassle and generally "the dark ages" comparatively.

>. I don't know how to "disprove" a defensive posture. And yes, our city government has been sued in cases on the grounds of poor street design (though they've only had to pay out once in 20 years.)

You ask them how much money they'd pay out to lawsuits, how much money they were paying out before adopting those policies. You ask them how much these policies cost (I bet they haven't even calculated it because they'd rather not have that number exist). Etc. Etc You make them spell out the math for you.

>And yes, our city goverment has been sued in cases on the grounds of poor street design (though they've only had to pay out once in 20 years.)

Suing the .gov is often the only way to get them to shape up and do the thing they should have in the first place. Getting sued doesn't mean much. It's all about the results.

The fear might be real in the minds of the decision makers but that doesn't mean it's well founded or the policies that arise out of it are not wasteful.

>Do you have any real experience in city or local government?

Worse, state. MIC prior to that.

I expect them to pivot to selling tips for civil enforcement as the police stuff dries up due to public outcry. There's already companies in this space doing Flockish stuff but they're not as prolific. It's way less regulated than the law enforcement stuff Flock is currently selling to. The accused's rights are basically nil. Unlike policing (in the typical case, yes speed trap towns exist) it's potentially also a huge money maker for municipalities so if the customer gets hooked on the revenue public outcry is less likely to uproot it. Another "pro" (if you call it that) to civil enforcement is that way more useful idiots will go to bat for it.

Edit: Here's an example of the sort of slimy services Flock could start selling: https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/investigations/nbc-ct-respond...