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That was an extremely well written explanation of his viewpoint on the future. Government providing guarantees leads to a weaker central bank and all the ramifications that would have.

Not specific to Twitter but as I understand it. Generally a data engineering team will setup the pipelines and ETL processes to turn transactional data into aggregate data necessary to run analytics.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned this so, I’ve built a very easy to use and modify stack based on PostgreSQL (or SQLite) depending on needs fed into a Flask Python BE. You can ORM it with SQLAlchemy if you like or just run raw queries. You’re running that basically out of as little as one file and you have your API and DB.

At that point you’re free to decide how you want to run your client side, I tend to start with HTML and avoid JS until it’s necessary, then convert where relevant into React. As other posters have mentioned Tailwind is awesome for avoiding writing custom css, there’s a class for literally everything.

Clear separation between your API and your FE pays off down the line.

What's the very old con?

Probably a part of it, but a not insignificant part was the buying of it by eBay who had no clue what to do with it, then selling it back to the founders.

By that point or soon thereafter Garrett Camp had co-founded Uber which obviously worked pretty well and had less interest in the site.

Unfortunately no, the underlying systems companies such as Zillow use require basically joining to access to the local Multiple Listing Services (MLS) of a certain market. All of these have different rules of how data can be used.

Are you doing anything with the back button behavior I’m not able to return to the previous site on mobile safari. It’s quite frustrating.

Other than that it seems nice and responsive. The popups for level complete are immersion breaking, perhaps a little more subtlety there.

Interesting choice maybe just for beta but LinkedIn is the only signup option?

Other than that nice snappy rendering, which is something that isn’t always the case, and decently legible out of the box on mobile.

Seems to be seeded nicely with content to start conversations.

The problem with the JMAP standard is that nothing seems to actually implement it. There is their proxy which was built in like a week and not updated and Cyrus. The latter which I couldn't (not for lack of effort) implement, and went back to dovecot which doesn't have an implementation.

That’s just insane, whomever negotiated the sale of that corpse of a company either had some crazy inside pull at TTWO or should be made America’s top negotiator.

As for anyone unlucky enough to still be playing a Zynga game, ( I think words is still active ) the micro transactions frequency I can imagine is going to go through the roof.

Maybe the plan is to mine crypto using the userbase of something as aweful as that, otherwise the old Sony building must be valued at 12.5BB

Definitely something to consider, but as envisioned this company would actually greatly reduce the attack surface for this information, by eliminating it from a huge amount of third party companies with unknown security practices.

As to your direct question. there are obviously the “best practices” around security and risk tolerance. There are some times a users personal information might be necessary, but likely there’s a lot where it wouldn’t.

One could for example anonymize is the primary data graph away from the user. The key piece of information is directed data flow not the information.

Another question is whether or not that is an acceptable risk given the alternatives. For a single consumer to realistically opt-out and keep track of all the companies benefitting from their data, it’s an impossible task.

That consumer would be safer since the target vector is only themselves, but if you want to make a dent against this industry you’d have to do it at scale.

There are lots of services doing pieces of the puzzle, but the issue is larger than just the burner setup.

A one stop shop if you will that does all the above as far as I know does not exist.

The unique value proposition in a nutshell is the be able to regain privacy by tracking and disrupting the flow of information between the data brokers.

Seems super practical for something that likely is difficult to create a one-size fits all conveyor.

FYI since you mention Lease Documents. Specifically for Lease Documents Zillow has an upload and sign ( or in some states a free lease builder ) you don’t have to list a property just go straight to the leases section

Good counterpoint, but your examples are referencing things that we have a strong scientific understanding of. Economists just don’t. If something is out of band of their models I sincerely doubt the claims made beyond that are even quality pseudoscience

Interesting how quickly the people responsible for minding the levers of inflation call out that it will be temporary when at the same time saying what’s happening is unprecedented...

Waiting for the inevitable explanation of why this is fatally flawed and won’t work at scale?

Yea, seems like it would center it without much fuss. That might be a bit too big for mobile browsers, so choosing that width might be a bit of an odd choice.

Anyone have any experience with this? Seems to be MIT Licensed...

https://github.com/robertleeplummerjr/Leaflet.glify/blob/mas...

It’s applied problem solving. I often think of programming as invisible legos that you put together that build some sort of Rube Goldberg machine.

At many times during the process the formation isn’t expressed in code yet, so it’s up to the mind of the programmer to keep the pieces fitting together as intended until the code can be written and take a little bit of the lift from the programmers brain to expressed code.

Pretty difficult to make film and television with the level of polish expected by Netflix Customers without being able to be in close proximity.

Seems a bit like Elon promoting ideas that just so happen to align with the sequence of events which makes the company literally billions of dollars.

I'm going to be that commenter. Given Google's history I want to mark this date so we can start the countdown clock.

Three S-1's in one day, and the AirBNB prep last week. Is there just light shining, or are these companies worried about the future prospects of the IPO market?

If you take zip code level as granular enough https://realbloc.com has some data for ya.

Can’t say I’m surprised there wasn’t much movement on that project in a coordinated fashion it had all the makings of a project without adequate staffing to complete its vision.

MIT License, well done! It's so refreshing to see things released with no strings attached. Yes there is value being created, and the creator should be compensated. But, it's such a breathe of fresh air as a potential end user to not have to worry about intricacies of GPL etc. inclusion.

This is a great way of articulating this issue. A engineering group I interact with loathes to document or version their code, and they maintain this in-crowd mentality that I call Arms-Length development. It works great when everyone is in the know because they’re so close to one another but breaks down quickly, and will see increasing frustration with this attitude as we remain remote for longer and longer and forever, eventually. It seems like the engineering in one place as the rule rather than the exception is flip flopping.

Society as a whole had a system that largely dealt with this called public school. Most had some version of 3-5pm after school care to allow working adults to have readable inexpensive childcare. With Covid we’re going through for most states the second school year / semester at least of closed physical space schools. It’s just a reality right now that the kids are going to interact with WFH adults during their workday until schools get reopened. Say nothing of the kids mental state after being isolated for so long.

All the things that the article mentions are true, but the conclusion that the author comes to is not. Yes, the landlords have all the incentives in the world to try other shenanigans other than a straight rent reduction, but it feels like everyone is so used to housing increasing forever that the thought of an actual market correction is so foreign. The incentive to lower rents is to get a renter to move into the unit.

The threshold of where they'll lose more holding the unit off market do to trying to squeeze last years rent price will be equalized quickly.

This isn't 10 year business leases. If a renter moves out and the rental market recovers they can go right back to their preferred number.

Hmm... looks like the boycotts are having an impact. It's always surprising (but shouldn't be) that lip service often turns into action only and if the bottom line is impacted.