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If you want to help solve this problem and you live in NYC, consider joining Open New York, a housing supply advocacy group!

Membership form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDTgY0TDZ5wz73_3Wf...

Slack: https://slack.opennewyork.city

Anecdotal, but I have seen this trend also. My sister-in-law is Vietnamese and this is the plan my brother and I have for our folks if finances get tight. The cost of living is just so much lower there, especially when compared with a HCOL coastal metro.

I would love to see these in more rural areas without great transit options. I would love to be able to take a driverless car to and from a bar when there isn't population density to support many taxis.

Semi-related: Does anybody know of a way to export iMessages from your iPhone?

This is absolutely wrong. Pretty much every single piece of evidence we have shows that zoning has a massively impactful effect on the supply of housing. Similarly, the vast majority of studies looking at the issue show that induced demand doesn't occur for housing (that is, adding housing supply does lower prices, rather than simply causing people to consume more).

With regard to NYC, even though it has added around 250-300K housing units over the past fifteen years or so, it has added around three times that in jobs. If housing supply isn't increasing in line with people, you will see increases in prices.

Some links:

- https://www.planetizen.com/news/2019/06/104783-doubt-cast-in...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FB_xI-U6w

- https://furmancenter.org/thestoop/entry/supply-skepticism-ho...

- https://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/SOC_2017_FOCUS_Changes_i... (the key quote here being: "In 2016, NYC had 8.2 percent more housing units, 11 percent more adults, and 16.5 percent more jobs than it did in 2000.")

I just hope don't try to tie this into SharePoint somehow.

But did it actually help? It's not clear to me that suspending the rule had the intended effect.

> Haugen will urge lawmakers to take action to rein in Facebook, because, she says, it won't do so on its own. "The company's leadership knows ways to make Facebook and Instagram safer and won't make the necessary changes because they have put their immense profits before people," she will say.

Very curious to hear what those necessary changes are.

I love the pun on the front page. Will definitely be keeping an eye on this.

Make housing abundant by building more of it, like we used to.

It's on Slack. See a previous comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24981397

Just to clear up a common misconception, you can run F# on Windows, Linux, or macOS. I worked at a company for two years writing F# and never touched a Windows machine.

I don't think I get this April Fool's joke.

The number is 40% in Manhattan (buildings, not homes though).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...

Hm...I'm not able to access the status page, but some of my coworkers are (as of 5:35 PM EST).

Incredible that he was only 25 when this was recorded...

I hope we start terraforming Mars in my lifetime.

I feel the same way. I think I've listened to Discovery hundreds of times.

With any luck there will be a reunion within a decade or two.

Here are a few: https://github.com/Kavignon/fsharp-companies

I wonder what the chances are that they take on insulin.

In the .NET embedded space there's also Meadow from Wilderness Labs (which is based on Mono, as opposed to NanoFramework which is a rework of MicroFramework[0]).

There was (semi) recently a "dev day" for Meadow which I found super interesting[1]. The founder of Wilderness Labs has also been doing a bit of streaming on Twitch[2].

They also have some great docs if you're interested in learning about electronics in general[3].

[0] https://community.wildernesslabs.co/t/lay-of-the-land/362

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE8qWhiz8Vw&list=PLoP9Fu9zn7...

[2] https://www.twitch.tv/wildernesslabs

[3] http://developer.wildernesslabs.co/Hardware/Tutorials/Electr...

Is there an easy way to export ALL data (voice notes, photos, video, and text) from WhatsApp? Last time I tried to do it there was a 10K message limit (which I have significantly exceeded). And I saw some tool to try and get access to the Google Drive backup[0], but I couldn't get it working properly.

[0] Something like this https://github.com/fingersonfire/Whatsapp-Xtract , although I can't recall if it was that exact one.

Can anybody recommend a good WhatsApp alternative?

I would love to hear the inside scoop on why this failed.

How can mere mortals like ourselves prevent this kind of thing from happening in our companies? I'm thinking specifically about builds being compromised.

This is absolutely false. Every three years, by law, NYC does a housing and vacancy survey of tens of thousands of apartments (the most recent survey was in 2017). The raw data is here[0], and selected findings are here[1]. You can see in in the selected findings that the vacancy rate in NYC in 2017 was 3.63%, which is INCREDIBLY low. A "healthy" vacancy rate is closer to 7% or 8%[2].

[0] https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/nychvs.html

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/about/2017-hv...

[2] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/30/what-vacancy-r...

High housing prices are mostly explained by lack of housing. Here's one good article on the subject, specifically written to address the arguments of people who are skeptical of this claim:

https://furmancenter.org/research/publication/supply-skeptic....

As someone whose main exposure to stocks is investing via retirement accounts, can someone explain if they're really leaving $4 billion on the table? Can't they just issue/sell more stock to drive down the price to their originally targeted price? Or is that some kind of breach of fiduciary duty (or something else)?

At my previous company I developed on Ubuntu/macOS and deployed to Linux on AWS. Never experienced any issues, never had code running on Windows.