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Technocrats love to imagine that their laws are infallible unfortunately laws must always be challenged regularly or else you will end up with too much regulation over time as political momentum encourages new laws to constantly be added while old laws are rarely reexamined. That's why you've got places where anal is still illegal.

Not worth it. They can be violent and it happens daily. It's not my job.

In real life SpaceX is a company that gets paid by other companies and organizations to launch rockets into space. They also have the first reusable rocket which is a clear and direct technological improvement for the human race. It is also likely to ensure we won't go extinct from one rock hitting our planet.

The fact that you can't get over yourself for two seconds to comprehend this kind of shows you have no clue what you're even talking about.

Musk has done more for the world than you ever will.

No one cares about your little opinions

No I'm actually pretty sure that I do. Get out of the way of progress.

Lol this is hacker news. I could care less what you think about my privilege. It's hilarious that you're assuming my so-called privledge when my family came to the USA with almost nothing. I'm not here to be your little social justice pawn while you make assumptions.

Just to be clear so there's no ambiguity. I don't care about the poor in america. I seriously could care less. My entire family immigrated to the USA in the 90s and none of them are poor. They all self made themselves into upper middle class lives within 20 years. Meanwhile Americans born in America with every advantage and privilege just whine all day and want more more more for nothing.

Also sick and tired of constantly having social justice internet warriors tell me I'm privileged when I'm literally self made from zero. It's not privileged when you work your way up from fast food to six figures tech work. that's called "earning" things. Please learn the difference.

Maybe headlines like this are necessary to create change?

This is why I always pirate TurboTax and deleted my Mint years ago.

Fuck intuit.

Oh and before someone asks me why I feel comfortable doing that security wise...I do it on an airgapped machine and print the return out and mail it in. Ezpz

I'm not confused lol. In America homes are just bigger now than they used to be. You can still go small though. No one said you had to take on a huge mortgage. That's why discretionary is a bad metric to use.

Laymen versus technical. If I'm talking to a random person on the street I'm gonna say disposable. But yes I mean discretionary. My discretionary income is still huge. Well over 50% of my paycheck. It's also not even fair to say though because it's still my choice to have upgraded my living situation. Sure I'm locked in now but I could sell my house and downgrade at any time and my discretionary will go up.

I spent a month in Japan. Most Japanese people live closer to how Americans live. Low density suburbs and very low density cities. Even in Tokyo you can purchase a small single family home in the suburbs with a driveway for what would be considered a very cheap price by American standards. You would take a 30-45 minute train into Tokyo. They also sound proof the nice condos in downtown really well and you can afford a fairly large two bedroom for around $1500 USD per month. They are also more creative with the dense city space and parking and allow parking on the sidewalk in designated spaces.

One thing that struck me walking around Osaka was a 7-11 that had parking like an American style one would with parking in front.

Driving into Kagoshima (bullet train was out due to landslide so we drove down) you're gonna see basically single family style dwellings all the way down hill into the city where it gets instantly dense but for only about 15 city blocks. Was dead AF at night. In a city like that you can own a car no problem and commute in. And that's how most Japanese live. Don't get it twisted. Japanese folks enjoy privacy as much as anyone else. Tokyo is the exception, not the rule. And even in Tokyo they will go to retreats out in the mountains regularly.

Tokyo is a great model for proper zoning in high density urban areas to prevent high costs but it's not how you live everywhere

I mean do you really want to compare my disposable income with my great grandparents? They'd hit me up side the head if they knew how much I blow on weed a month and random bullshit like latex Halloween costumes. To them eating out was a luxury they could afford maybe once or twice a year. I eat out like every other day.

Our standards are way higher these days cause the truth is we're all spoiled.

Lol the amount of times I've seen a tweaker snoozing on my septa ride to work or some idiot going "hey I'm sorry to bother you folks but [insert fake sob story]". No thanks. Plus have you noticed there's a pandemic? The last thing I need is to be in a tube with strangers. Do you realize how miserable subway stations in east coast cities can get when the AC is broken? If they even have AC?

The whole system would need to be rebuilt for me to even consider going back to that.

Most riders before covid were office commuters. Now with remote work what reason is there for it to be there? Oh right for the guy asking for hand outs to ride it all the way up and down the line all day while no one does anything about it.

Trust me it's not an issue of denser housing. I do not want denser housing. I don't even want to know my neighbors exist. Seriously.

I lived in a dense city for a long time. It sucked.

It's a combination of cleanliness, social responsibility, and police presence true but I've also heard what happens when there is a disturbance and it's dealt with quickly either by police or conductors. Someone begging on the train is not tolerated at all. Japanese culture views that as an unacceptable imposition by that individual on the other riders. Western culture tends to shame you in the other direction which is its own whole set of insanity.

I just bought a 1600 sq ft home and it's honestly too small cause both me and my wife want our PC gamer setups so we have a dedicated room for that but then I need an office too so we end up hanging out all day in literally the smallest room in the house.

I'll be doing a major remodel to address this among other issues. But yea if we had a game room or a loft or something similar it would be a lot better.

The appraisal came in with the lot being 600k and the home itself is only 350k.

Half an acre though.

Even my relatives in Germany who live in a very public transport friendly city still own two cars.

There's actually way more disposable income today than even 100 years ago. We just spend it on things that didn't exist before like car insurance and iPhones.

The thing with Tokyo is that the cops do their jobs. A homeless person asking for money on a Tokyo subway is unheard of. I'd love something like Tokyo in the USA but it will never work because crime on American public transport is rampant. Hell just last week a women was raped on a Philly subway and no one did a thing.

Adult hood in America is coming to terms with the fact that I'll never live to see this cleaned up version of the USA everyone is dreaming about so instead I'm scooping my single family home and getting the hell out of dodge.

Pretty much this. I bought a house with half an acre to get away from the walkable city where I'd have constant harassment from homeless and drug addicts. Yea when I have a kid this house might be boring for them but to me... At the moment ... It's like a paradise of peace and tranquility. I can actually work on my woodworking hobby or blast my music and it's a non issue.

Shared hosting is kinda bottom barrel these days. Even one off static sites I'd isolate into $5/month digitalocean droplets over shared hosting precisely for this reason. PHP is optimizing more for large sites that use multiple servers because frankly that use case is more important.

You mitigate this by taking boxes out of your response pool, deploying, then putting them back in. I generally do 50% deploys at a time.

Solves this issue elegantly.

To be honest I fessed up for no reason. All they knew was I logged in to some box. I could have made some stuff up about doing some legitimate work and I'd probably have gotten away with it. At the time I was extremely naive and dumb. My advice to kids is not to stop doing things but to simply downplay what you were doing. "No I wasn't hacking. I was securing the system." Etc. Come up with plausible reasons and the benefit of doubt will generally keep things from escalating beyond the IT staff. Once admins start talking about hacking you've lost the war of words.

It's as much social engineering as anything else.

Eh I mined a lot of it and it's thanks to my computer skills that I was able to do so. Most of it was from that.

Also my stock positions predate wsb by like 7 years.

Combination of 401k growth, having a six figure income, cryptocurrency investments, and early investment in AMD and TSLA and a few side income streams.

I got expelled from high school because of this program.

I'm a millionaire now though so shrug

Yes. I've literally seen it in action on Maui and in Japan at Yakushima. But this system requires constant input from the ocean trade winds.

Eh you can find a two bedroom outside the city for like 3. You're still making like 2-3k more even with the higher cost of living.

That's only half of it. It rains in the Amazon so much also because of the Andes pushing air from the oceans up where it condenses. You can see this happening in Hawaii in real time everyday where one side is a lush jungle and the other side is Mediterranean style desert similar to southern California and there's no way it's purely from the jungle. It's mostly coming off the ocean

It's quite amazing isn't it? One minute you have the ability to direct wealth towards enriching your children's lives and then you're dead and the state says no we get to take 97% of all of it. It's no wonder wealthy people hoard wealth in none cash forms.