NorthOf33rd

Texas is good at mythologizing its patently terrible origin stories. See the Alamo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forget_the_Alamo:_The_Rise_and...

This is just good marriage (and general relationship) advice.

Cars aren’t the only option in the solution space.

That’s a problem with your bank, not with the regulation. They decided how to implement aml, and it sounds like they’ve done a bad job and can’t deal with internal organizational barriers.

Milwaukee to Chicago please!

I was hoping this was going to be about this kind of industrial hammer.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-tonight/exploring-one-of...

“I’m sorry” - Most managers I know when finding out I was promoted from IC to manager

Obviously delivered tongue in cheek, but it’s a hard job and it’s not for everyone. I second everything the parent says and also add that your timescales are different. If you think waiting for a build is long, try waiting for your efforts to improve a directs’ communication skills to take hold. generally the most important, and the most fun, work of being manager takes years for feedback instead of hours.

The entire list of contributors look like bots to me. The commit history is sketchy. This seems like a giant leap beyond nomic’s main project which itself seems… thin.

The entire thing is fishy.

The data other posters have responded to your post with show exactly the opposite. Policing in America and its potential negative outcomes are skewed toward black men. It’s undeniable. Traffic stop, arrest, incarceration, and shooting data all show the same story.

But I guess that’s not really what you’re arguing here, you’re saying “black men being killed by police at a rate 2.5 times higher than white men, but people think it’s worse than that,” and “people are making too much noise about black men being killed by police at a rate 2.5 times higher than white men, and they really ought to cut it out.”

I disagree with this viewpoint completely.

Are you responding to a different message entirely?

Going out into the desert and looking up to the stars and seeing satellites everywhere is a big change.

As Are drones at every non-national monument Awe Inspiring Place.

Is it a problem that when the author writes “and there’s the war” I have no clue what they are talking about?

I wish it was this simple, but looking through the last month of “show hn” posts makes it clear that the tech community can’t be trusted either. There are countless examples of authors promoting their latest toy (startup idea) to shoehorn chatgpt into a high stakes environment.

This is the scariest real life attempt to use the bullshit machine I’ve seen so far.

Nothing like “subtly wrong” clinical notes to affect positive medical outcomes. And time pressed medical professionals are certainly well suited to vigilance tasks like correcting machine generated errors. /s.

I sincerely hope this never sees the light of day.

The FFIEC would almost certainly stop such stupidity, though they’ll have to catch it on an audit first.

So first, you didn't call the comments "objectively wrong" you called them deranged.

Deranged: 1) Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. 2) disturbed or upset, especially mentally 3) insane

It's not "my assumption," that it's a personal attack, it's the english language. An idea can't be disordered in mind, disturbed mentally, or insane. Only a person can be.

Second, go back and reread your comments and omit the derision. It adds nothing at all to your argument, in fact, it's much more compelling without it.

I just don't care enough to argue with you about the meaning of "communal" to try and change your mind. Your language choices clearly signal me that you're not open to changing your mind. Instead it signals that you're more interested in dunking than engaging. The Coddling of the American Mind is not about hacker news or my personal choice to ignore you for being rude. It's about institutions. If you want a more relevant book to this conversation, I'd suggest How To Win Friends and Influence People or The Elements of Rhetoric -- How to Write and Speak Clearly and Persuasively.

In the course of these comments you've referred to me as deranged and laughable. I'm going to bow out and let you hold onto your opinions, it's clear you're not interested in a conversation.

Communal societal or economic structures don't preclude "highly stratified civilizations featuring warfare, state religion, slavery, and pyramid building." Centralized control is a common theme.

Read the Egalitarian Continent chapter in Pekka Hamalainen's Indigenous Content. Cahokia is specifically covered including how the communal nature of the civilization shifted over time to something more autocratic and materialistic, and how the shift contributed to the collapse of that society.

Most of the population of North and Central America remained communal until colonial contact. there were plenty of examples of agricultural societies within that group, and they were farming because it was easier than than other food supplies.

That may have been true 20 or 25 years ago but the technology gap technologically between a “cheap” bike and the highest end bike you could buy was much much smaller than it is today. Same with tires. You can still buy a 200 euro bike. It’ll be better than the 200 euro bike from before. You just don’t want it.

Authoritative and the intro is even poetic.

The author and the book pretty clearly lay out what they mean by conservatism and yes it's aligned with fiscal conservatism.

The key messages of strongtowns are unambiguous 1) fiscal conservatism and 2) small-scale self dependence.

Small scale self dependence is a significant problem in the US (and many parts of the world) where the poor have been, through intentional historic policy, ghettoized. If you first scale back spending to maintenance levels, and then push against state level redistribution, you end up with pretty predictable results that look alot like the ghost of redlining come back to life. Even if you excise #2 from the platform, it's still the end result. By explicitly adopting strongtowns brand fiscal austerity, there just wont be money left to fund schools in poor neighborhoods.

Look, I'm not saying what we've got now is a perfect solution, far from it. I even think that if we could start from absolute scratch, there are some aspects of strong towns that would solve some of today's ills. But we have poor cities, of every makeup, size, demographic, and skin color, and I don't think that "market urbanism" (ie the same market forces that got us to where we are today albeit with stronger federation) can get us out.

Edit: I guess I should clarify that my criticism of strong towns applies equally to economically destroyed rural communities, who make up the largest recipients of food stamps in America.

Yes. American infrastructure has explicitly been deployed time and time again as stimulus spending to shore up the American economy. Nothing in their argument is novel.

What these folks are quietly calling for is Conservatism. What is novel is wrapping conservatism in new urbanism psudoprogressive language.

It’s more like “fuck subsidizing anything other than the 1st ring suburbs.” Strong towns’ fiscal philosophy looks great if you’re in a stable or growth market without any significant poverty. I’m all for investing in small walkable communities, but while their policies rail against the exurbs, they would be just as detrimental to our inner cities as they would be to 1970s onward suburban development.

yes that is their official policy but surprise, they don’t do as they preach https://www.kuer.org/politics/2015-04-06/carl-wimmer-opens-u...

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/08/04/former-utah-...

Those are two examples behind closed doors. Other legislators don’t want to excommunication, so they’ll never speak up. And then there’s the times the church has made direct public statements or direct cash contributions to political causes like gay marriage in Utah or prop 8 in California.

70% of Utahans listen to a living prophet who shapes their ethics, morality and world view. If you think politics ends at the state house doors or at the ballot box you’re sorely mistaken.

In 2016 the first presidency published a letter urging members to vote, and vote with their morals. The church and the living prophet dictate their morals. It’s a pretty straight line.

It’s a theocracy, the church always gets what it wants. The U.S. government has turned its cannons against the state house because it recognized that it was a theocracy. The organization and methods have changed significantly since then, but the people in power have not.

That'd be true if there were fair maps. But the metro has been diluted so significantly with rural voters that I stand by it, SLC has approximately no power in the legislature.

The giant dust storms are new too. I was just driven out myself and it was with a heavy heart, but I couldn't take the air quality anymore. I was there because I loved the outdoors, but there were just too many days I couldn't even be outside.

The reality is that Utah is a theocracy, and BYU (the LDS Church) publishing this is actually a huge step toward positive change. Now the First Presidency can take a stand. If they do take a strong stand I'd expect to see radical changes. If, on the other hand, the LDS Church continues to remain silent, I would expect the environmental catastrophe to continue to lurch forward.

Rural voters absolutely do run the show though. SLC has approximately no power in the state legislature.

https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/state-level/districts/m...