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bdastous··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
> He is freezing rents only for select controlled units

45% of apartments in NYC

bdastous··on Equinox.space
Please add a "reverse y-axis" option for mouselook!
bdastous··on Household size and the housing stock
A land value tax would be a more efficient way to fairly distribute the benefits of land.
bdastous··on In Economics Do We Know What We're Doing? Nobel Prize winner grows disenchanted
Meanwhile, there are plenty of disciplines in which practitioners would never seriously consider posing this question.
bdastous··on Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
I wonder whether this applies to actual donors.
bdastous··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
They should rename it KSD.
bdastous··on A public school in Florida built America’s greatest math team
“It turned out there was value in putting a bunch of smart kids in the same room: They feel empowered to make each other smarter.”

It’s too bad this is no longer in fashion with the educational establishment.

bdastous··on Master’s Degree in Computer Science
"I don’t have time or energy to study for and take the GRE right now."

Good luck with compilers...

bdastous··on Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately?
100% yes for Chrome in iPadOS. It seems like it wants to register some type of selection event rather than a tap.
bdastous··on John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
This assumption strikes me as ageist.
bdastous··on Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag
Do not taunt the happy fun laptop.
bdastous··on The Two Classes of Software Engineer
One could just as easily say that the two classes of software engineer are those who care about business problems and those who don’t.
bdastous··on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
If Facebook made it this hard to cancel, there would be a New York Times article about it.
bdastous··on AirPods Max
AintPods
bdastous··on Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing
Before the advent of Windows XP, keeping your PC fast and reliable meant reinstalling Windows at least annually.
bdastous··on Regulators Have Doubts About Facebook Cryptocurrency, and So Do Its Partners
It’s the New York Times. You don’t even need to read their Facebook-related stories to know what they will say.
bdastous··on Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data
Yet more anti-tech hysteria from the New York Times.
bdastous··on Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
I concur on the MIT edX Probability course. I spent at least 15 hours a week on the exercises but it was well worth it.
bdastous··on The scale of tech winners
You mean the gentrification brought on by restrictive municipal zoning laws?
bdastous··on What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
Similar to your third example: "Without loss of generality, [ our argument can proceed with the following assumption... ]
bdastous··on Ask HN: Has anyone implemented a zero-maintenance system?
This seems analogous to a perpetual-motion machine.
bdastous··on Ask HN: How do you curate and keep up with general news?
I recommend checking out NPR One if you haven't already: http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/

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