garyrichardson

To answer the title: They aren't make more land, but they are making more people. And people like to live where it's nice and they can get jobs. I don't think land values are a Ponzi scheme. From a supply and demand perspective, it does seem like a good investment.

The rest of the article is meh.

While that may be true, it’s only part of the situation here. Residential schools in Canada were part of a system by the gov of Canada to eliminate/assimilate the First Nations people. Many argue this was genocide.

In the US I’m assuming the CIA? Not sure what group manages this in Russia. To be fair, gp could be applied to many countries also including China, Russia, the US and I assume the UK.

Although bringing some batteries to market this year indicates it is quite far along. Most of the battery/energy news I’ve seen on hn is “breakthrough will hit the market 5+ Years”.

Or does fb not actually need the tracking id to track us at this point? Do they need make a big deal to distract us from how accurate their passive tracking is?

Don't tell Suncor or Alberta. They'll be happy to build you a pipeline anywhere.

Great article. Brings me back.

I also learned something, I thought it was an ne2000 driver as in "any 2000" as in "it works with all these generic network cards."

Where I live the numbers your suggesting would be amazing!

In Vancouver proper, Average 3 bedroom house price is $2.1M. A townhouse or condo of that size is $1.5M. Your typical house payment is going to be much higher than $1500/month. Rents are probably in the $3K+ range -- I don't actually have data on this. Lots of factors there. I don't think zoning is one of them as there is constantly land assemblies and razing blocks of houses for town houses and condos. I suspect it's more geography: we're up against and ocean, a border and a mountain range.

No. I'm making two points:

1) Bikes aren't environmentally free either. Over the lifetime of each is the environmental impact of an ICE car -> EV the same as EV -> bike? Maybe not percentage wise but the data I've seen implies getting the ICE car off the road is the most important step. It's like the comparison of going from 10mpg SUV -> 30mpg compact car is more important than a 30mpg compact car to a 50mpg hybrid.

2) convincing everyone to switch to bicycles isn't realistic. More bikes is better. Wholistic solutions beyond just bikes are required.

Ah. interesting. I generally agree and fully support this method of urban planning, but the results here haven't resulted in more cycling.

What you describe is exactly how my suburb is set up. There are several clusters of mixed housing (single family, town houses, apartments) built around a few retail centers (and the retail centers usually have housing built on top of them). There is also both light rail and regular rail for transportation from the retail centers. I live 3-5K from the various central areas.

Here are my observations:

* cars are really only avoided for people in the residential apartments above or directly attached to the grocery stores. Nobody here rides their bike to shop (based on never seeing bicycles at the grocery store).

* there's still ~ 200M of elevation change inside of that 3-5K range. Only the most hard core are interesting in cycling that on a regular basis.

* It's a 5 minute drive or 30 minute bus ride to get to the light rail centre from my location (others are closer, some are farther). Some are content to take a bus, but many others drive. There are some who cycle but it's a tiny percentage.

* It's wet here all year long, but uncomfortably cold 5 months of the year. Those who cycle for transportation tend to only do it during May/June/July/August.

I live on the west coast in Canada. We have lots of bike lines. It's 30KM of them up and down multiple hills (most people would consider mountains) for me to get to work.

Realistically, you've got to convince me to leave my 3000+sqft house (with bedrooms for all my kids) and yard to move to a 1000sqft apartment in the city (and make my kids share a room) and take on a bigger mortgage so that I'm closer to work. Also how do I get groceries for a family of 5 home on my bike?

Life for the majority of people where I live has not been set up to be bicycle friendly and bike lanes don't change that barrier.

> This is partly because electric cars aren’t truly zero-carbon – mining the raw materials for their batteries, manufacturing them and generating the electricity they run on produces emissions.

Ok. But then unless you're hand making the bikes out of wood you scavenged from fallen trees and don't use rubber tires, neither are bikes.

Like many pro cycling articles this one is one sided and assumes there is one solution to our environmental problems. Sure, we need people to cycle more, but we also need electric cars, changes in how and where we live, changes in what we eat, etc.

Probably the fastest way to impact all of this is internalizing the cost of carbon into all of our activities.. ie a big fat carbon tax.

It's all fun and games until your next whale of a customer asks for your SOC report. Then the auditors are asking you to prove you've audited your code and dependencies. They ask "who has access to customer data? Who can deploy code? What about your perimeter security and intrusion detection? Are you running virus scanners on all of your servers?"

Then you realize it's easier to have a complex deploy pipeline that does all this stuff that isn't just writing your app for you. And containers are a decent enough way to abstract your app away from all the cruft.

I guess the answer is don't write enterprise software?

I live near the forest. Deer constantly eat our garden. I've seen motion sensors products that hook up to a sprinkler but I'd much prefer this tuned to deer with a water cannon instead of a laser.

Making CQL SQL-Like was the worst possible thing the designers could have done. Newbies want to do SQL joins and filtering with it until they've been a few times.

C* is essentially scaled/automated MySQL Sharding and blob storage.. except you pay a huge cost for any server side filtering.

The Partition Key would be the equivalent of your MySQL shard id. ClusterKey is your primary key. if you treat everything like PUT $paritionKey, $primaryKey, $data and GET $partitionKey, $primaryKey you get a slow and massively scaling redis. If you do anything else with it you'll likely start regretting your choices and looking for a replacement database.

Twitter tells me: "This is not available to you."

Anyone know why? Was it deleted? Suspended? Region locked (I'm in Canada).

I’m in Vancouver. We haven’t closed our schools at this point so my perspective is of how we move forward and not fixing what’s broken with those locked down today. I’m more thinking at the grade school level.

My kids have started exploring outschool.com. I’m impressed with what I see. They can follow paths that interest them at their own pace with interactions in small groups with teachers. Combine this with regular school and the quality YouTube content and I think all the pieces exist. Maybe the final piece is a syllabus as a service?

Agreed, except for one point.

Please don't call it a windfall. Anyone in that company that would have seen life changing amounts of money has likely put incredible effort and hard work into making this happen.

Additionally I believe wholesale banning the leader of a country from a platform like twitter is not black or white. Their persona is different and requires different treatment than any other given account.

I suspect two factors went into the calculus this time: he has proved himself desperately dangerous AND he's got less than 2 weeks left in his term.

That's the thing. If you're in the market for a Tesla priced car today, buy a Tesla. It's amazing. In 3+ years re-evaluate the DC charging networks when you're ready for your next car.

On top of this I also believe that companies prefer the RHEL opinionated implementation of a linux system vs Debian's.

RedHat is a company that sells to other companies. Therefore it has to implement their linux and make decisions in a way that works well with how other enterprises think. Big companies aren't comfortable depending on "the community" to do the right thing for them.

I've tried really hard to not use google for search. But DDG is bad. I have it set as my default search. I find myself either:

1) trying duck duck go and then immediately re-searching in google to actually get relevant answers.

2) skipping the search bar and going immediately to google when I know DDG just isn't going to work.

Feels like back in the olden days when you had to try Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo to find what you're looking for.

I can live without chrome, calendars, gmail, maps and all the others. But they're still the best at search by a lot.

There's lots of negative reaction going on, but this has happened before. CentOS grew out of RedHat Linux going away and Fedora being the feeder for RHEL. At the time there were a bunch of competitors that were building the RHEL source. CentOS ended up "winning".

I fully expect this to happen again. CentOS will wither and die because no one actually needs the cutting edge repo -- Ubuntu has a way better process for this. RHEL is build on open source. They publish their SPRM packages. A bunch of people will grab these and start bootstrapping DentOS and everyone will move to this. IBM will be sliced up by PE and RedHat will be owned by someone else. 10 years will go by and RHEL will acquire the leading "DentOS" and today's DevOps will be tomorrow's greybeards and will patiently wait for EentOS to emerge.

I experienced some of their meeting monitoring stuff several years ago on a visit to Microsoft Labs. I noticed the meeting score stuff and made a joke about how the meeting room was watching us. One of the MS people responded with "Yes, it is." And then they showed us the "telemetry" the room was taking.. IDing us with facial recognition, guessing at our moods, etc. I definitely felt uncomfortable for the rest of the meeting.

A mesh of micro-monoliths would have been much more resilient to this sort of thing. Just saying.

I can stack on my personal anecdotes about how the BC health care system has treated me incredibly well. I've gotten fast access to surgery. I've had quick access to specialists. I have a family doctor.

If you're not a citizen/landed immigrant/registered with a visa/etc anywhere in Canada you're going to see the raw costs of medical care for sure. You mention being in between visas. Depending on your accent and skin color you may have also experienced the systemic racism that exists in Canada that no one likes to admit exists.

At the end of the day, BC medical care works great if:

1) you can navigate and advocate yourself through the system 2) you have extended health coverage (usually through an employer but can be bought privately) 3) you have a doctor/nurse that can help connect you into the expedited route in the system 4) know when and how to access the secret private health industry (ie pay $700 for an MRI tomorrow instead of waiting for years for free ones) plus having the ability to pay for it.

I've seen this over and over. It's super charged squeaky wheel syndrome.

BC specific.. usually a political tool of bring it back and then cancelling the MSP. It's happened several times over the decades.

Other provinces in Canada have different but similar things.

My current microwave (a Miele) has the time dial. It's not as simple as the Argos, but I basically don't touch buttons on it otherwise. If only it didn't have the clock built in.

My second best microwave was a Samsung. It was terrible in the way all Samsung products are EXCEPT it had a "sound off" button so your microwave didn't wake the whole house when it finished cooking your 1:00am burrito. After about 3 years (standard for Samsung products to become garbage) it stopped working and I replaced it with the 3 year newer model that didn't have the volume kill switch.

I'm not sure I follow. Assuming I have this right, there are no "off year" elections in a parliamentary system like in Canada. Elections occur when the government in power receives a vote of no confidence. In a minority government situation this could be the first session after an election. In the rare occasion that a government makes its 5 year term limit, the PM will "drop the writ" at a strategic point to queue up an election.

Municipal elections do occur on a schedule here, but I don't think that's relevant since it's hyper local.

Right. That's this year. What about the last 20 years of US elections?