This is silly. We need to start viewing gas as a precious resource and treating it as such which means creating cities that don't take a car to get around in.
Living in sky scrapers sucks and is not enjoyable. Same with living in suburbia. The sweet spot is densely packed urban areas that are built on the human scale.
I'm in an east coast city. I've visited big west coast cities numerous times. I feel our problems are very different. You have policies that support the homeless and people with drug addictions so people facing those challenges flock to cities like yours from all over the country. The nations problems are then dumped on places like San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. It's not fair and it's not right. We need better federal safety nets to prevent people from getting into these positions to begin with and if they do safety nets that allow them to stay in their hometown.
I'm in the suburbs but like you an older one and more densely packed. I'm maybe a mile from a major highway that goes to the city center. It's dead straight and major thoroughfare. If they dedicated one line to rail, none of that mixed BS, and had stops say every mile into the city my god it would be amazing.
You're leaving how a key part, at least in America which is racism. Whites ran to the suburbs to escape particular groups and quite frankly still do albeit now it's more in the form of urban sprawl.
worth visiting an old city like Rome. I was shocked by how walkable it was. It was maybe the second night we were there, we causally strolled around after dinner and just happenstance managed to walk by all the major attractions. That's no mistake but honestly when you experience it's so magical. To create a tech analogy I remember the days before Google when search when would have 20 buttons and could take regex and what not. Most people had no idea how to use it and even pros questioned if they were correctly searching so to speak than Google came along and just gave us a box. All that complexity hidden away from us. That was kind of how I felt about Rome. Just wander, you'll get to where you want to go.
I feel like we live in a world w/ to many "high level people". At least in the world of software development. We need more people in the weeds. 20 Different high level ideas from high level stakeholders benefits no one. It's also way easier and maybe even more fun to be a "high level" abstract thinking. The devil and quite frankly the work is in the nuts and bolts but others want to to dismiss that as "sausage making".
I think this is a good argument but also an example why it should probably be technical people defining the product and requirements rather than this made up role we've created of product owners.
I think at the team level most individuals do want to make change and work in the most efficient way possible it's just at big multinational corporations what you can modify about your environment can be extremely limited.
I feel like the value of crypto going up is backed by solid economics. There is only ever going to be so much of it so losing your money to inflation isn't a risk. People die and don't tell anyone their keys, people forget their keys so we're constantly losing crypto too, w/ currency this is taken into account and print new dollars not w/ crypto. I also think it reflects a general sentiment here in the states and probably China too that we're barreling toward a fucked up never world and crypto is some kind of safe guard against that. In times of uncertainty people turn this gold, this is very much a digital gold.
It's weird b/c in most parts of our day to day lives we have no say. We live in a democracy but for the most part none of us can vote on anything meaningful but in this one particular area everyday citizens have a ton of power and they're voting to protect their owns means. I don't know man I look at the decisions made by politicians and they piss me off but when everyday citizens get a chance to make policy if you will they do shitty stuff like this blocking affordable housing. If I come across as bitter it's b/c I am. My town tried to build affordable apartments and NIMBYs blocked it.
Feel this speaks how to the social classes omnipresent in our world. We want to pretend we live in a classless society but we really don't. If you have to work for a living you're working class. Too many people these days have become corporate sympathizers trying to justify this absurd bonuses to CEOs.
Here in the US and many other first world countries the population is getting very old. We'll need to bring in younger people who look different to keep the average age down. This obviously has all sorts of side effects. The other problem is the wealth inequality it creates. Wealth compounds with time plus the older generation grew up in a boom period. Add in the fact that they were able to buy cheap housing which has appreciated by a large amount and are effectively blocking new affordable housing from being created in many areas (NIMBY's) and we have a very interesting predicament.
10% should beats the current 0% most of them pay. The unfortunate truth is we have a system that allows you to legally bribe politicians called campaign donations. The corporations and the politicians are totally in bed w/ one another and typically they're the same people e.g. the revolving door of going back and fourth. It's fucked up.
There's a lot of bullshit in this space. There isn't enough lithium in the world to move everyone over to electric. 80% of grid still runs on coal so it's not clean either. I'll also head for heavy duty towing electric is not where's it at, and forget EV 18 wheelers.
The simple truth is gas is a precious resource and we are wasting it. We need more public transportation and more sane use. Notice I didn't say EVs. They create another set of problems.
I started my career on Wordpress. In a lot of ways it was where I learned to program. I'm surprised you stuck w/ it as long as you did, guessing the cash must of been pretty good. To me once you're deep into the internals and writing your own plug-ins you might as well just build something custom. I think it's a good middle ground for someone technical and willing to put in a lot of time but not the know how to truly make something custom.
so the logic implication is this implies we don't/didn't need a divine creator to create man right? Like the molecules were capable of it all by themselves?
This is a good point. I remember about 2005 time frame and probably even after everyone thought the front end was easy and the "real" work was on the server. What a joke.
I mean you could if you rationed access to fossil fuels. Obviously the framework to do that isn't in place today in the US but it probably will be at some point as reserves thin out over time and just letting the market handle it is going to result in chaos when it's no longer profitable for private ambulance companies to fill their tank or local police department can't afford it.
That's a good point. Delete the repo and start over I suppose? W/ git wouldn't it possible to find and restore that info anyway? Guess it becomes what do you care about most at that point.
100%. We spend more money working on cures for erectile dysfunction than ebola. We spend more money working on cures male pattern baldness than we do diseases that plague the third world. How many smart amazing engineers have worked for the auto industry over the last 100 years when their expertise could of been used in a civil manner to improve infrastructure and our overall existence? This is capitalism and whoever has the money can buy up the most talent. Whether that is a good use for that talent doesn't seem to matter.
I still despise Microsoft but I'm old although I'm old but I think most people on here too. They do make some good development products VSCode and Github in particular but I'd still rather avoid them as much as possible.
A lot of people borrow against their house in the form of a HELOC. If you run into the case where people owe more than it's worth a lot of for better or worse are going to walk away and the real estate market will crash. This is where home owners have a lot of power.