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Are you maintaining a single long lived spec for an entire repo/project and trying to have AI implement against that, or are you creating a spec for each feature addition or piece of work you want to AI to do? What you say I hear commonly from folks who are trying to maintain a single spec for a repo and finding it falls over as that spec gets complex and what’s being asked of the AI is muddied by you asking it to figure out the diff between what was already in the spec/previously implemented and what it’s being asked to do.

So you support a move to make American tax and social services policies more like Western Europe?


“The state should replace community” is an interesting take. What other powers should be added to the state? Should they cook our food too? Do you think there’s any downside to the government having these powers?


> Should they cook our food too?

Unironically, also GP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559004

> > The bad food is a plus. The most orderly civilizations generally have the blandest food. Almost all societies with good food are chaotic and disorderly.

So yes, the state should probably take over cooking to maintain order!


The food doesn't cause the mindset; not caring about food is a consequence of the mindset.


Hopefully one day society can lift itself to your lofty ideals of tasteless food, oppressive surveillance and no crimes against the state. I wonder if anyone has written about such a world before.


... Right, so explain Singapore.


I would like to see him try, yes.


You think someone in California making 200k is paying an overall 30% in combined federal and state taxes? That seems out of touch with reality to me.


I was making a guess based on having earned less and more than that amount. Just checked with ChatGPT and its estimate for a single person with no mortgage interest was $46k in income taxes and $13k in payroll taxes.


> In a 7-2 decision issued in June 2026, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bayer and Mosanto, ruling that the Montana state law cannot coerce the labeling of Roundup as containing carcinogens since federal regulators have not identified a connection. The ruling overturned a prior jury award and is expected to end most other ongoing litigation over Roundup.

Another anti-states right ruling that will be championed by the states rights crowd. As long as it’s in corporate interests, states have no rights.


It seems like not quite.

The width is 50 some inches but the wheel wells are there so you may need some 2x4 or something to keep plywood from flexing over them. And the length of the bed isn’t near 8 feet so you’d need the bed open and the boards strapped in.

This jalopnik article had some helpful measurements: https://www.jalopnik.com/1845231/slate-pickup-bed-fit-every-...


There isn’t a hatchback option. Did you mean fastback?


Yeah, whatever the 4-seater with a notchback style is called.


Landlords typically have insurance coverage for damage by tenants, including lost rent.


It’s hard for new landlords. People that bought houses to rent compete against property owners of paid off homes or people with 3% mortgages.

Tacking on optional insurance products on a property that’s already in the red further encourages landlords to push up rents prices.


Well yeah, it's also hard for any random person to start an oil conglomerate having to compete against ExxonMobil


Maybe people shouldn't be buying homes for the purpose of renting them then?


This form of insurance is exceeding expensive and exceedingly rare. Large buildings self-insure (by having a ton of doors) and small landlords don't want to pay it.


Depends on the country I guess, but in France it's about 3% of the rent.

For that price they will pay you the rent if the tenant is not paying, and take care of the getting paid by the tenant.

If landlords don't want to pay that, then they accept the risk of having to deal with a tenant who doesn't pay.


It might be more common in Europe, I've never seen it in the US (but maybe some property managers offer that as part of their 5-10% cut of the rent).


I think “amount of houses” misses many important parts of how people decide where to live and what they struggle with that results in unaffordable or unavailable housing.

Where do you increase supply? The most desirable places to live like urban centers, or more likely more and wider suburbs. In a vacuum many people will say it doesn’t matter and poor people should move to where they can afford; but many people have strong connections to where they grew up and are not inclined to abandon their lifelong support systems because the pricing in one area has gone up.

How do you increase supply? Ugly 5-over-1s are cheap to make but not desirable, not particularly dense. Single family homes are even less dense. Most supply proponents are talking about these or luxury condos.

How much is the new supply? If we build new homes but they are still unattainable to the people who need them, then we didn’t help much right? Which leads me to

Who gets the new supply? Are they put on the open market for speculators/investors/landlords/private equity to gobble up or are there provisions for ensuring the housing goes to people who don’t already have housing or are physically real people not llcs etc.

Tl;dr we could build a million houses but if they are in undesirable places, unfavorable designs, or allowed to be snatched up and resold at the same high prices we already have, then supply alone wouldn’t fix unaffordability of housing across the nation.


A quick google shows news articles and even videos of Ukrainian drones destroying Russian planes.


The original comment was made in relation to guillotines, popping unoccupied jets on the ground isn't what the commenter I was replying to was referring to. Taking down an occupied jet without using a sidewinder missile is a different capability.


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