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We are in violent agreement. Creating new condos will still keep the prices increasing, but it will be better than the situation where no new housing is built.

But the article specifically says "new homes reduce house prices." This is patently false.

Toronto is growing because there's no real business centers outside of Toronto for the 1 million immigrants a year that are coming in. We need to create viable options by expanding business outside of Toronto in new land, so that housing demand lessens.

In Toronto, the number of condos that have been built is staggering. There must be hundreds of thousands of new condos in the last 20 years.

The prices have only gone up. The idea that new housing reduces cost is insane. All of the condos being built are at the top of the price range.

What needs to be done is NEW CITIES need to be created with business centers. Not adding more housing into already packed cities.

I have been saying for a decade that large tech employers like Google and Facebook should have created offices in the middle of the US, which cheaper neighborhoods, better schools, etc. Create opportunities for families to move out from the tech areas and enrich other parts of the country. But they keep doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on the Bay Area.

New cities need to be created with business centers, not new condos in old cities!

100% agree. For example, theoretically a housing crash will lower prices. But it won't because hedge funds will come in a swoop up all the houses so that people become renters. The 0.1% won't be happy until everyone is giving them money every day for something that they own a part of.

Giving money to Kickstarter on high profile projects is like flushing your money down the toilet. I'm never going to ever back a kickstarter again.

Kickstarter really did themselves a disservice by not clamping down on the borderling fraudulent kickstarters that disappointed the backers. They should have split it up into phases where money gets released when certain milestones are reached.

The fact that drug companies' "tests" indicated that it worked shows how corrupt the system is. There is in fact no way it could have worked, yet the data they provided decades ago showed that it did. This is why we should never, ever trust drug companies, it's just kind of funny that somehow in the last few years some people decided that Pfizer was a hero instead of a psychopathic (in the purest clinical definition) money machine.

VB6 morphed into VB.Net but then the web took over and anything that could be accomplished as a desktop app was replaced by a web page.

The article says that the range would be over 700 miles and charge in 10 mins. I think if we could reliably charge a 300 mile car in 5 mins, akin to filling up a tank of gas, that's all we would need, we don't need the 700 miles.

Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement is one of the most exhilarating songs I've ever heard, if not the most. I can't believe a piece of music written a few hundred years ago still sounds so modern and exciting and new, it's an incredible work.

I urge everyone to listen to it, specifically the 3rd movement. It really shocks me that Beethoven or anyone could write a piece of music so brilliant like that!

I'm sorry but is anyone surprised? I haven't trust reviews in a long, long time. I'll take a look every now and then knowing they are largely fake and with an agenda. But to be shocked that some critics are being paid is pretty laughable in this day and age.

When I worked at Yahoo during the mid-naughts, I had about 1 day of work a week, if that. Most of the other time my entire team spent playing video games, watching the stock market, getting food (food wasn't free at the time but I believe the smoothies were), etc. It was a bizarre environment and couldn't wait to leave.

I personally love working in the office and I hate working from home. I worked at a remote-only company during the pandemic and I never felt so unproductive, twiddling my thumbs waiting to hear back from my coworkers because I didn't know where they were, or they would be MIA for hours on end.

However, I don't understand why WFH isn't a discussion entirely between the manager and the employee. Why is this something that's being mandated from high above like the Ten Commandments. If someone wants to WFH and the manager is okay with it, and the employee can justify it with performance reviews, why does anyone care?

This should strictly be a performance issue, and if the employee is unproductive at home, then either force RTO on her, or fire her. It feels more like the higher-ups don't trust their own performance review system, but it seems like that's really the answer. If the manager is unproductive because of unproductive employees, then fire the manager as well. This is NOT a hard problem to solve, what it requires is accurate attention to performance on all levels. It shouldn't be a blanket edict because this is 2023 and we've already shown that WFH can definitely work for many people.

First step is to forgive yourself. You might feel a lot of shame and blame yourself for being in this situation and that shame is counter productive. So first thing you do is wipe the slate clean emotionally and mentally. Without this step, you will keep getting off track. Accept the situation you're in mentally, but know that hard work can get you out of most situations.

Next step is set goals and do whatever it takes to meet those goals, no matter how small they are. The more goals you accomplish, the more you'll realize you can do it. Then set larger and larger goals, but make sure they're going in the right direction. Also understand that all you can do is put in the effort, and the outcome is out of your control. Sometimes the outcomes are great, sometimes the outcomes are not, but don't kick yourself over the outcomes as long as you put in the effort.

For me, it was in my early 30s. I had a shitty job, I went through a divorce, I was so fat I couldn't walk up stairs without losing my breath. I thought that being in my 30s there's no way I could recover by finding a girlfriend/wife because all of the good ones were taken. I spent about one month feeling sorry for myself, playing video games all day and then I decided that was it. I found a new job, I lost weight, I went to school and changed the trajectory of my life. I accepted that I was at fault for my part in the divorce, I said I would be a better person and forgave myself and moved on. I left the past in the past, and just looked forward to the future. Over the next ~20 years, I got better jobs, got married, had kids, etc.

One step at a time, and if you put in an honest effort, then learn to celebrate each win no matter how small, and move forward. You can do it!

This is another anti-science post trying to spread misinformation about how vaccines work. I suggest you educate yourself more on how all this works before posting more misinformation.

> No vaccine prevents an infection. None. Zero. Never happens.

As quoted from the CDC:

"A new CDC study provides strong evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections in real-world conditions among health care personnel, first responders, and other essential workers."

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0329-COVID-19-Vacci....

Here is your entire post in case you try to change it:

>"they" didn't change the narrative. >No vaccine prevents an infection. None. Zero. Never happens.

>The best a vaccine can do is train your immune system to identify and react to the infectious agent before it gains enough of a foothold to impact you. Often, especially if you've been vaccinated with the specific strain that infected you, it can do this before you notice you've been infected. Practically giving you an immunity, but not truly, you still got infected and your immune system still fought it off.

>For viruses though it's a different story. Viruses mutate, the strain you got vaccinated against may not be the one that enters your body, but the vaccine means your immune system can mount an effective response. In these cases, it significantly reduces risk of hospitalizations and death from the vaccine, but does not mean you won't have some effects from the virus.

Wow. This is 100% false and misinformation.

The initial vaccine was absolutely tested for infection and was based on infection rates, not based on "severity of symptoms." They changed the narrative after it was clear that vaccination did not provide protection from infection from variants but did maintain protection from severe symptoms.

This study is ridiculous. The way it's worded, it makes it sound like Omicron is immune to previous infection. What they didn't study specifically was immunity of Omicron to previous Omicron infection.

We all know that Omicron defeated previous immunity, but once you get infected by Omicron, you're immune to Omicron variants. This is basic science, and the fact that some doctors were trying to convince previously-infected people to get vaccinated was anti-science.

He deserves it. Basically one of the people pushing mRNA since 2011, more than 10 years ago. Regardless of the politics behind it (I'm particularly anti-covid vaccine myself after the dust has settled), it's indisputable that this technology has a pathway that works and could solve many diseases in the future.

And what exactly does OP have over and above the artist marketing themselves and keeping 100% of the money?

This is my point. A "music label" with zero money and zero strategy for marketing as the above seems to indicate won't be successful. The technology behind it isn't as important as the money needed to market it.

99% of any successful music artist is marketing. Getting people to hear and listen to an artist's music is the extremely hard part of it. Why would anyone need a music label when they can release everything on Youtube or Tiktok by themselves?

"Rare" to a global company probably means 100,000 cases a year. I think they only way they will look into something like this is being forced by legislation. I think if a global company takes actions that removes you from their service, there needs to be a way to dispute this with an independent ombudsman that isn't paid for by the company. Otherwise it's simply not fair.

The problem that global companies like FAANGs have is that they aren't dealing with global scale properly. They have bugs or issues that affect 0.001% of people, but the results are catastrophic. But because everyone can't fathom the importance of P99999, no one in the entire org cares. But they really should because it's so catastrophic. I think there should be regulations that force these globally relevant companies to have proper customer support that will figure things like this out, because losing your entire digital library or history is malicious but no single person has the power to do anything.

What's to stop Confluent/Kafka from simply implementing a feature like this themselves?

Thank you! A lot of the context was lost for me!

If this gets big, most companies won't like the idea of their internal company calls being used to train AI, and they will switch off ASAP.

Why on earth would Zoom be responsible for the legal burden if one of their millions of users uses a copyrighted image?

Can someone summarize the issue with JPEG XL? Is this something that really matters? I've seen this mentioned a couple of times in the last few days but I don't see what the big deal is, is it really that necessary?

How do I shut off Nvidia telemetry? Can I block IP addresses or DNS names?

This is why I have stopped going to theaters and wait to either pirate the movie or buy it on iTunes.

First cousins once removed is the relationship between yourself and your cousin's children.

You and your children are first cousins. Your children and your cousin's children are 2nd cousins. Your children and your cousin's children's children and 2nd cousins once-removed.

This is an easy thing to quantify. MIT does not have legacy admissions, so you can do a comparison between Harvard and MIT to see the effects of legacy admissions on career growth.