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About 8 years ago I tried working with Wordpress and half built a site for my then boss's portfolio bc he insisted he wanted it.

I just quit my last job which was a RoR/React shop. I've been working with NodeJS and JS frameworks for the past 10 years. I never really got into PHP.

Now, I'm working in PHP again and specifically making Wordpress sites for a non profit agency as a contractor. It has been a joy. In particular, we're using root.io with Valet and heavily relies on root's version of Laravel blade system which makes building websites super fast and seamless and I've gotten a lot of satisfaction building things this way.

You can also have the best-in-class health insurance and flat out be denied coverage for whatever reason the insurance provider says.

I believe you can Google "landlord history" and you'll get a plenty of results with some brief history of the term.

If you want to read further, look at history on colonization or apartheid which sets up these types of infrastructures or variations of it. History w/ Native Americans and what is going on in Israel are two recent/ongoing examples.

As for pre-capitalist history, you can look up "feudal land tenure", and before that is just different concepts of modes of land ownership across different geographies.

All throughout history, it is usually another society who comes in and takes an already occupied land by force and then charges a fee for the previous people to continue using it. Then there are complex laws set up to make it impossible for these previous people's to own their land again, becoming indebted in one way or another. After a while, after this land has been transferred, typically amongst the families of those who first took the land (or their friends), some people forget this history or are ignorant of it, and just go along with what has been done for years. Inevitably, those with the excess monetary value gained from rent is used to expand and establish these kinds of societal institutions so that it is part of the zeitgeist and thus a controversial take to think this kind of institution is an immoral, or bad, or exploitative one.

Yeah, I think there is a balance. Lawns are for play, so if you're using it that way, great. Many people have front lawns that they don't use. I live on a hill where lawns are sloped and useless. It's nearly impossible to play on something that steep. The children that live around here don't ever play on their front lawns that are like this. The space could be put to better use.

I hate the sweetgum tree. Those balls are the most annoying things ever. Pretty tree, but the Western Sycamore is better and native.

Ideally there is a balance between native trees and plants that help cool the environment for one's lawn. One particularly amazing native California tree/shrub is the Manzanita which branches have an extremely cool-to-the-touch feel. They truly cool the air around it and the birds and small animals love it in the summer. Many California native plants have these amazing properties that promote a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.

That sounds awesome. How do you do that?

Learning is good to whom? Knowledge is good to whom? Even if all the research says it is good for economies and countries at scale doesn't deter others from saying otherwise.

I just looked it up, according to usgc.gov, Californians use on average about 181 gallons of water per day. There are about 22 million Californians. That's several billion gallons per day. Just pointing that out.

a cool extended feature of that would be to have pre-built unoptimized cities with a budget to update existing metro areas to more walkable and efficient metro areas (with metrics that track things like CO2 emissions).

Who is saying that?

I want to make a StumbleUpon clone again.

Pretty sure a lot of it has to do with this:

> Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California, to lawyers John W. Spiegel and Melissa Ann Thomas. He grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, where he was raised Episcopalian. He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel

One of the absolute best websites out there for getting native plants. I use it every single time I go to the nursery.

i have been working professionally with ruby on rails for about 3 months now, coming mainly from a javascript ecosystem.

im still struggling. there's a lot of magic happening. i'm not bad with the ruby language itself. but i"m so used to first principles. im open to suggestions on improvement here

Here's my real life example:

I bought a house in 2009 @ 3.75% for 480k fixer-upper 1922 craftsman home in East Los Angeles area. My monthly payment was about $3200 because I could only afford ~4% down so we had to get PMI. At the time I made $110,000 and wife made $60,000. We put in about 50k into the house using my dad who is a general contractor (basically only paid for materials).

In Dec of 2021, we refinanced for 2.75% and our fixer-upper was valued at 750k which meant we could get rid of PMI and now our monthly payment is $2500 (including taxes). It's a massive drop for us now that we have a baby.

Literally none of this is possible right now. It feels like we've won the lottery. On top of that, we had a ton of help making this place a home because of my dad. For most families in the major metro areas, this is just totally out of reach now.

> And if you don't see reasons why giving very powerful, authoritarian regime full access to huge amount data about people is a problem - well, history books can show you some.

Curious, are you referencing IBM and The Holocaust?

Yeah, I tend to agree.

I've watched a couple and they ask pretty good questions if the answers he gives require some additional research/critical thinking/knowledge of history.

The last documentary I watched, Hypernormalization, seemed to give platform to and justify the need for _more_ individualism via Trump-esque critique on Leftist ideologue. That is totally fine, but I can see how people can watch his documentaries accept many of the leaps in logic.

Ah, yes, the ol' write your congresspeople. Part of the problem is that for years they are running on these platforms saying they will help the people but end up not doing any of the things they say they are going to do.

Americans pick and choose which media to listen to. And the media across the spectrum is aligned on one thing: China Bad, US Good. However, if you listen to NPR, it _does_ matter that we're locking up immigrants in the South. But did you hear that NPR story about Uyghur genocide? Then you look for other non-American affiliated publications on the matter and they are slim pickings. Why does the United States focus so much on China? And yeah, it's mostly to manufacture consent.

Absolutely great article. One thing I always see missing is why front-end applications can't use sessionStorage or localStorage? Why is this generally frowned upon?

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You can memorize a lot of them and forget everything in a year.

This resonates with me. Waiting for people to message me. I have had so many issues trying to figure this one out. Zoom fatigue, slack fatigue, etc., etc. Maybe that's all it is just killing my energy.

They're only barely being subject to society's laws though I think is the point.

My own anecdotal and I'm sure many others have experienced this before, but getting the culture right for remote work has been a great experience. I get to know people at a meaningful level. I remember being younger in high school and making meaningful relationships on the internet through chat rooms and video games that last to today.

Is it irrational to care about/for your neighbor? I don't think so.

Isaac Asimov wrote a great critique on 1984 which includes a few thoughts on Animal Farm: http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm

Did you expect HN to have that same drive for countries like Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine?

This applies to people who are gamblers.

Most people who are the poorest are usually the ones who know exactly where their dollars are going. They can tell you exactly how much a carton of eggs and milk are.