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13 points·by lbarrow·10 mesi fa·6 comments

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lbarrow
·11 giorni fa·discuss
Interesting that most of the decline happened in the 2000s. The graph shows a large decline from ~2000 to ~2008 which continues after the GFC before going up a bit in the 2010s. The drop off since COVID is comparatively small.
lbarrow
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I don't think that's what the attacker did here. Vercel is a PaaS product where other developers run apps. The enumerated environment variables were the env vars of Vercel's customers, which Vercel likely stores in a long-term data store. Rather than running `env` on a Linux box somewhere, the attacker may have just accessed that data store.
lbarrow
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Yea, I suppose that is fair regarding cook timings.
lbarrow
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Spitting your food out because the AI generated the recipe is so clearly irrational that I chuckled a bit on reading that
lbarrow
·3 mesi fa·discuss
For people who support this kind of ban, I'd ask if you would support a similar ban on new factories for, say, car parts.

Like data centers, factories use a lot of power -- which drives up electricity bills -- and their construction can have local environmental impacts. Data centers have a reputation for not providing too many local jobs, but modern factories are often highly automated and also don't provide too many local jobs.

If, given all that, you'd support factory construction but not data center construction, I'd be curious as to why.
lbarrow
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Yea, this sounds like a completely reasonable process to me. They should obviously update their system to accept the electronic submission of evidence, but the process itself is fine.
lbarrow
·6 mesi fa·discuss
1) Is already how things work. Every single municipality I've ever seen in the US offers an owner-occupancy tax abatement.

2) Would just inflate home prices.
lbarrow
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Why do you think they aren't on the market right now? These companies buy them so that they can rent them. They are on the rental market!
lbarrow
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Why would this help affordability? If you restrict who can operate rentals, that will inevitably shrink the supply of rentals, which will raise rents.
lbarrow
·8 mesi fa·discuss
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lbarrow
·10 mesi fa·discuss
My point is that with Google I don't have to learn any of this, it just works logically out of the box. Compare that to Microsoft, where I have to understand the history of their on-prem vs cloud products in order to know the right way to make a distribution list. Forcing this complexity onto users when it's irrelevant to the task they're trying to accomplish is bad design.