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Yeah, I think there is a balance. Lawns are for play, so if you're using it that way, great. Many people have front lawns that they don't use. I live on a hill where lawns are sloped and useless. It's nearly impossible to play on something that steep. The children that live around here don't ever play on their front lawns that are like this. The space could be put to better use.

I hate the sweetgum tree. Those balls are the most annoying things ever. Pretty tree, but the Western Sycamore is better and native.

Ideally there is a balance between native trees and plants that help cool the environment for one's lawn. One particularly amazing native California tree/shrub is the Manzanita which branches have an extremely cool-to-the-touch feel. They truly cool the air around it and the birds and small animals love it in the summer. Many California native plants have these amazing properties that promote a wonderfully diverse ecosystem.

That sounds awesome. How do you do that?

Learning is good to whom? Knowledge is good to whom? Even if all the research says it is good for economies and countries at scale doesn't deter others from saying otherwise.

I just looked it up, according to usgc.gov, Californians use on average about 181 gallons of water per day. There are about 22 million Californians. That's several billion gallons per day. Just pointing that out.

a cool extended feature of that would be to have pre-built unoptimized cities with a budget to update existing metro areas to more walkable and efficient metro areas (with metrics that track things like CO2 emissions).

Who is saying that?

I want to make a StumbleUpon clone again.

Pretty sure a lot of it has to do with this:

> Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California, to lawyers John W. Spiegel and Melissa Ann Thomas. He grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, where he was raised Episcopalian. He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel

One of the absolute best websites out there for getting native plants. I use it every single time I go to the nursery.

i have been working professionally with ruby on rails for about 3 months now, coming mainly from a javascript ecosystem.

im still struggling. there's a lot of magic happening. i'm not bad with the ruby language itself. but i"m so used to first principles. im open to suggestions on improvement here

Here's my real life example:

I bought a house in 2009 @ 3.75% for 480k fixer-upper 1922 craftsman home in East Los Angeles area. My monthly payment was about $3200 because I could only afford ~4% down so we had to get PMI. At the time I made $110,000 and wife made $60,000. We put in about 50k into the house using my dad who is a general contractor (basically only paid for materials).

In Dec of 2021, we refinanced for 2.75% and our fixer-upper was valued at 750k which meant we could get rid of PMI and now our monthly payment is $2500 (including taxes). It's a massive drop for us now that we have a baby.

Literally none of this is possible right now. It feels like we've won the lottery. On top of that, we had a ton of help making this place a home because of my dad. For most families in the major metro areas, this is just totally out of reach now.

> And if you don't see reasons why giving very powerful, authoritarian regime full access to huge amount data about people is a problem - well, history books can show you some.

Curious, are you referencing IBM and The Holocaust?

Yeah, I tend to agree.

I've watched a couple and they ask pretty good questions if the answers he gives require some additional research/critical thinking/knowledge of history.

The last documentary I watched, Hypernormalization, seemed to give platform to and justify the need for _more_ individualism via Trump-esque critique on Leftist ideologue. That is totally fine, but I can see how people can watch his documentaries accept many of the leaps in logic.

Ah, yes, the ol' write your congresspeople. Part of the problem is that for years they are running on these platforms saying they will help the people but end up not doing any of the things they say they are going to do.

Americans pick and choose which media to listen to. And the media across the spectrum is aligned on one thing: China Bad, US Good. However, if you listen to NPR, it _does_ matter that we're locking up immigrants in the South. But did you hear that NPR story about Uyghur genocide? Then you look for other non-American affiliated publications on the matter and they are slim pickings. Why does the United States focus so much on China? And yeah, it's mostly to manufacture consent.

Absolutely great article. One thing I always see missing is why front-end applications can't use sessionStorage or localStorage? Why is this generally frowned upon?

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You can memorize a lot of them and forget everything in a year.

This resonates with me. Waiting for people to message me. I have had so many issues trying to figure this one out. Zoom fatigue, slack fatigue, etc., etc. Maybe that's all it is just killing my energy.

They're only barely being subject to society's laws though I think is the point.

My own anecdotal and I'm sure many others have experienced this before, but getting the culture right for remote work has been a great experience. I get to know people at a meaningful level. I remember being younger in high school and making meaningful relationships on the internet through chat rooms and video games that last to today.

Is it irrational to care about/for your neighbor? I don't think so.

Isaac Asimov wrote a great critique on 1984 which includes a few thoughts on Animal Farm: http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm

Did you expect HN to have that same drive for countries like Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine?

This applies to people who are gamblers.

Most people who are the poorest are usually the ones who know exactly where their dollars are going. They can tell you exactly how much a carton of eggs and milk are.

Uhh, this is a model minority myth.

https://thepractice.law.harvard.edu/article/the-model-minori...

Thanks for writing about your experience. It's kind of nice to see some wisdom being dropped about the current/long term affairs of what makes many company experiences very similar. It seems extremely difficult to find something that breaks the mold.

And congratulations on retiring! What do you think you'll do now? Given that you're wholly self-taught, I would assume you would dive in to your interests.

You know, I think you can interpret Nietzsche's slave morality as the process to master morality. For example, the enlightenment was supposed to free society up from faith-thinking and introduce rational thinking, but (and he right criticizes it) it did not. I think the movement instead brought society out of older slave morality institutions into master morality and which are now considered slave morality again.

You also might enjoy this: http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/nietzsche1313/4-13/

EDIT: it's worth pointing out that Nietzsche also criticizing master morality too.

$20 for skilled labor in this industry seems very low. The bump to $22.13 when CEO gets a bump in the millions is really throwing the finger to workers everywhere.