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The Limits of the Singapore Housing Model https://marketurbanism.com/2020/08/05/the-limits-of-the-sing...

imho the key concept is in-process rest as in representational state transfer as an interface. instead of an imperative interface it's more of a protocol based interface. think http middleware built around a standard interface like ruby's rack, asp.net's owin, or python's wsgi. once you have that style of abstraction it becomes pluggable and you can chain them together.

here's a past discussion on in-process rest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560626

metapsj

há 3 anosdiscuss

You have to follow Marcel Weiher's work on combinators aka connectors.

The following article references his work on in-process rest, polymorphic identifiers, and storage combinators.

What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects

https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/11/what-alan-kay-got-wrong-...

Here's an ACM SIGPLAN talk he gave on storage combinators...

Storage Combinators @ SPLASH'19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFlmkFS1YY

The ACM SIGPLAN talk is a very good starting place to get an understanding what he is talking about.

metapsj

há 3 anosdiscuss

here's a couple more to throw into the mix.

Hypertext allows you to write HTML from Ruby. https://github.com/soveran/hypertext

rbexy - A Ruby template language inspired by JSX https://github.com/patbenatar/rbexy

imho, hypertext has a great deal of potential especially the DSL.

metapsj

há 4 anosdiscuss

maximum employment is a pandemic period objective. they aren't intending to crush the labor market. the fed has largely behind the curve in addressing inflation.

metapsj

há 4 anosdiscuss

appreciate your response.

i get the impression dense urban environments are ripe for various types of capture not to mention the variety of competing interests that end up diluting the effectiveness of policy to address these issues.

also, i get the impression incentives for housing developers aren't aligned to addressing this problem because in the end it would mean lower margins and a smaller pipeline of future housing development projects effectively putting them out of business.

metapsj

há 4 anosdiscuss

are there other options besides increasing the density of housing?

metapsj

há 4 anosdiscuss

along the same line...

freemesh for wifi AP based mesh networks. not as convenient as briar, but considering the situation having multiple modes of communication seems like a good hedge.

  https://freemeshwireless.com/

also, if you can get a hold of lora wan based devices, e.g. esp32 w/ lorawan, you can set up a lorawan based mesh network with wifi entry points.

  https://meshtastic.org/

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