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kowabungalowon Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse

Yes and no.. Slashing the problem completely is no worse than not fixing it since a climb into the stratosphere also has to burst.. I.e. with a new generation rejecting traditional lifestyles.

I think the solution is to artificially build new cities with ideal logistics. Distant cities inevitably draw away housing consumers but by least influential first and are outside each others influence for NIMBYs.

kowabungalowon U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law

I'm no state judge, but I think the states do have jurisdiction on kidnappings where the crime doesn't cross state lines.

kowabungalowon US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

> So let's not pretend these institutions are noble

If only the noble deserve a reasonable state then welcome to hell.

kowabungalowon US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

Let's not pretend that was the topic.

kowabungalowon US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

Foreign students interested in a US education have diverse motivations and Universities in/of other countries have done well selling programs that compete with the US' institutions for students that don't have that motivation. Soon that may also be almost all of them.

kowabungalowon US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

Trump is a disease, the tools he uses are the opportunities given to adapt Putin's template for the American Empire.

kowabungalowon US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

Universities had better hurry up with opening up their foreign campuses.

kowabungalowon Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain

Hence 'for .us'. The trouble with this form of pedantic is that the nicer way to interpret the misunderstanding is that the pedant is ignorant either of language or the structure of dns.

"He runs the Internet routers for our company." -> "Your company doesn't run the Internet" -> wtf?

kowabungalowon ChatGPT 4.1 Jailbreak Prompt

I think the question of why it works triggers some kind of stroke in some people like when a child swears and the only rational interpretation says something about the environment that they don't want to hear.

kowabungalowon ChatGPT 4.1 Jailbreak Prompt

An LLM is applying a statistical model.. If 4chan has fren with right wing rhetoric in hundreds of thousands of threads and other sites like HN use these only in occasional discussions of 4chan, you are hinting an LLM to generate content like a right wing diatribe.

kowabungalowon Decline in European Travelers to U.S.

The US has been fucking Latin America for decades, you just mean that it isn't El Salvador..

kowabungalowon Decline in European Travelers to U.S.

It is fucking El Salvador, I think you meant it isn't El Salvador.

kowabungalowon Decline in European Travelers to U.S.

I've talked to plenty of people who regret having future tickets for travel to the US. I assume they were aware of the costs and considered them in their itinerary just as people have always had to for NYC, etc.

kowabungalowon Tesla rival BYD launches five-minute battery in $30k model

One has to make a lot of capacity decisions around how well the unreplaced battery is going to perform years out if they are complex to replace, lugging around all that extra is also not good for (the environment or) a consumer who may be better served by half capacity batteries replaced twice as often, etc.

kowabungalowon Tesla rival BYD launches five-minute battery in $30k model

Perhaps the streets of the US will start to look more like Cuba to the rest of the world.

kowabungalowon "Adulting" courses in America

The world changes so parental advice may need some adaptation, but the general idea is that they show their child when they make decisions. This may have been more about what job they took for what pension it came with and what car they bought for which labor price and now it is which car to never buy.

This kind of thread bothers me with it's hand wringing. Parents and teachers often spoke of their lives in casual conversation when I was growing up and it was pretty clear to me that, aside from it being a response to having no adult around to make a more useful conversation with for them, there was an element of educational intent.

kowabungalowon Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a

Also, this is the first pixel after this announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485950

kowabungalowon Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

The goals are petty profit, some extortion, some illegal trading. Destroying 80% of the value of the US isn't meaningful if he gets to own a lot more of the remainder. Everything is profit for the broke real estate conman of 2015.

kowabungalowon Palantir Is Helping Doge with a Massive IRS Data Project

Government overreach was endangering America thanks to the tireless work to conspire by government employees who barely want to do their own job, but an organization legally aligned on gaining independent financial advantage can provide oversight that won't misuse access?

kowabungalowon America's financial system came close to the brink

I think the biggest issue is that you have to put the assets somewhere and usually that meant a relationship to US currency. China has to go further with a proposal for how it is going to do a US proof global system. Telling the EU to stand up in unity will only work when the proposal makes the same kind of sense to the EU in the longterm as whatever the US is doing makes sense to the Republicans.

kowabungalowon Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

I think you place too much emphasis on US spam.. It's had its day and anyone susceptible to it is heavily in crypto that existing holders go heavier if they have more money to allocate to it is still a fragmentation away from actual usage where normal funds and banks add small percentages in longterm funds as a precaution.

I.e. GameStop is all very impressive until you compare it to anything finance actually dumps money in by default.

If the pyramid is isolated it tops out somewhere a lot higher than now and then collapses for lack of a place to sell to next or an actual return.

kowabungalowon Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

When the IRS left it in the grey zone it wasn't really going to the moon because every financial advisor couldn't say 5% of you retirement should be in an investment we can't sell you. It would take a lot more and richer people with oppositional disorders to make up for some universal retirement "just in case" advice.

kowabungalowon Trump announces 90-day pause on 'reciprocal' tariffs with exception of China

The President of the US believing it wasn't was never sufficient to make it independent, but what is the opposing force if the President of the US believes it is part of China?

Whether he is an actual idiot or a selfish asshat (if those are even independent properties), China's calculus is influenced by the benefit of the US treating Taiwan as part of it.

kowabungalowon Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

I'm also not sure why other countries aren't moving to criminalize trading crypto to try to tank him and his cronies since the US has given up on preventing presidential conflict of interest.

kowabungalowon US forges ahead with 104% tariffs on China

China seems like the obvious one to propose the new free trade agreement for countries that adequately tariff the US.

I'm sorry.. I meant place export controls, is that better?

kowabungalowon Bodega cats make New Yorkers' hearts purr, even if they violate state law

Federal agencies suggesting easy to enact laws that should be affected by both parties is a strange bogeyman to have when you actually have private companies dictating legislation with a BS cash as speech argument and federal storm troopers illegally acting within the jurisdiction of states. Why are the republicans so afraid of agencies with no teeth and all for federal agencies that could really illegally enter their state and kidnap them?

(I think this is the end of the thread so I will answer you question here.. You have always had perfectly reasonable local options if the FDA code has something you disagree with, because everything is a partnership with your local government, you have absolutely no power to stop a group like the CBP from illegal road stops in your state because your State would have to start succeeding. Therefore, I find the republican claims of priorities as hypocritical as democrats given indifference appearing where it would matter if the priorities were real.)

kowabungalowon Bodega cats make New Yorkers' hearts purr, even if they violate state law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...

Everyone is not running away with theories. Journalists are documenting facts about the actual conspiracies while internet trolls are making up the separate but equal viewpoint.

kowabungalowon Bodega cats make New Yorkers' hearts purr, even if they violate state law

They usually have a corporate employee write the law but a federal code that has been researched is the problem?

kowabungalowon Bodega cats make New Yorkers' hearts purr, even if they violate state law

"The model Food Code is neither federal law nor federal regulation and is not preemptive."

kowabungalowon Why Do Domestic Prices Rise with Tarriffs?

The US will probably keep adjusting its tariffs to make sure it is the supposed cheat, so a better move is to give it as little real value as possible for your quota.