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All of that shows systemic discrimination against men.

This is often touted, but I just doubt that electricity, water, and sewers are more expensive outside of the city.

My father managed several factories in the LA area. Upgrading the electrical for new equipment in the close to downtown factory was going to cost something like a 6 to 7 figure sum. The factory in the boondocks upgrade was a quarter of the price.

Ah. Yes that's about right for a panel swap. Upgrading the service conductors is what costs $$$.

Overhead service is definitely the cheapest upgrade. No trenching and underground conduit required.

Do you think they build skyscrapers and two-story houses the same? That's like saying Honda Civics and Abrahams tanks are built the same because they're both vehicles.

That's probably the cheapest upgrade in the history of the state. PG&E claims the average service upgrade in California is costing somewhere between $8k to $25k.

Where do you live? $40k in concrete will get you your concrete driveway in California.

but that was never actually an economically viable product

It is the most economically viable product, which is why they dominate.

for four to sixteen units that seems like it could be fine?

Those costs have also skyrocketed because now you have additional requirements like fire, egress, additional structural when going over two stories, etc.

It's why most new apartments are "luxury" apartments. The costs have grown so out of control that the only way to break even is to make them outrageously priced.

This Twitter thread hits the nail on the head. Imagine this process in California, where just working with PG&E to get utilities to the site may be a six figure adventure, then another $40-60k for an electrician to wire the house. That could be close to $200k for electrical alone. This could be for a 1,000 square foot shed in Oakland, not somewhere around Malibu.

Add on the planning costs that the Twitter author goes on about, and your "affordable housing" is now near a million dollars. Is that really affordable?

I would think technology did far more work pulling people out of poverty

Thanks to capitalism!

And capitalism is only like 250 years old.

And the rate of humanity leaving poverty in that time span is greater than any other time in history.

You could have made your same argument 500-1000 years ago about feudalism pulling people out of poverty

Err, no? If anything, that pushed even MORE people into poverty. No one sane would ever make that argument.

yet I doubt anybody would be all that happy to switch to a feudalist system and would heavily criticize any claims that feudalism was the main driving factor behind improvements in technology and living standards.

Because you're inventing a fictional strawman. Feudalism did the opposite of your claim.

China and Malaysia are capitalist, and none of those aforementioned countries are in the top 25 for life expectancy. China isn't even in the top 50, and Cuba is ranked below the US. Swing and a miss.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_ex...

And? The countries with the highest lifespans are capitalist.

Then using HashiCorp Vault isn't the silver bullet

Except it practically is.

That's like saying Linux isn't a silver bullet because ls doesn't make filesystems... You wouldn't use Vault to create SSH keys, nor should it. You wouldn't use ls to make filesystems, nor should it.

I thought it was because there are at least a dozen ways to securely encrypt/decrypt data, most of which are audited.

Any yet people still implement on top of and leverage those lower-level libraries poorly.

Skimming their site they seem to offer some sort of encryption + service hosting?

I believe they have a hosted SaaS solution now, but Vault is FOSS: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault

I don't see how this is much different than any of the other options out there.

Vault manages your application-level encryption so you don't have to. That's a lot different than most of the options out there.

And not really an equivalent to using RSA as it looks to be tied to their hosting.

It's not tied to their hosting. Spin it up on some VMs or a kubernetes cluster.

I also tend to not trust for profit companies with things like this (esp. if it's closed source or I can't know what the servers actually run).

It's open source and HashiCorp... That's like saying you don't trust Linux with things like this because of RedHat.

Has this service been audited?

Yes.

Has it withstood against the US court system like veracrypt has multiple times?

Yes.

Do their founders have any history that goes against good data security?

How do you not know who HashiCorp is?

Your post sounds like an ad if I'm being honest.

Nope, just a happy user.

From what I can tell, Vault doesn't handle generating SSH keys in the first place

Nor should it. That's managed by ssh-keygen. Hello UNIX philosophy!

so reading the docs or finding an expert on the allegedly easiest security tech wouldn't be of much help.

If you're not an expert or feel confident in secops, find someone who is. Security is obviously something that shouldn't be taken lightly.

There is no joke? Stop implementing your own crypto. Vault has transit encryption out of the box, among other things.

"The transit secrets engine handles cryptographic functions on data in-transit. Vault doesn't store the data sent to the secrets engine. It can also be viewed as "cryptography as a service" or "encryption as a service". The transit secrets engine can also sign and verify data; generate hashes and HMACs of data; and act as a source of random bytes."[0]

[0] https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/transit

I would like some citation for this one. Pretty large claim. For example China brought out 2/3rds of their population from poverty to middle class, pretty large number.

Yes... Thanks to capitalism. Communismn killed tens of millions in China when they attempted to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes.

Now there can be a debate on whether Chinese system is communism or not,

There is no debate. There are billionaire capitalists in China.

but it definitely is not capitalism the way people in US like to define it.

It is 100% the way people in the US define capitalism. Sure it has it's Chinese spin, but it is undoubtedly capitalism.

Sorry to sound cynical but it's a question of funding. Flint city council (Democrats) almost unanimously voted to switch the water source to the Flint River to cut costs because they did not have funding for a renegotiated contract with the original water source. The city was effectively bankrupt.

Michigan just gave General Motors $2 billion to build two EV battery plants, one in Lansing and the other in Detroit which will create 3,000 jobs.

This is fake news, Michigan state did not give money out to GM.

The state caused Flint's problem by discontinuing water from Detroit and pulling from a local river without adding a required chemical.

This decision was made by an emergency manager appointed by the then governor to save money.

Voted almost unanimously by the city council. Everyone loves to leave that detail out.

There is plenty of money, they just don't want to give it to people because capitalism.

Capitalism is the best system ever invented to get money into the hands of people. It's done more to take people out of poverty than any other system in human existence. Capitalism isn't to blame here.

It's ironic as well given how they spend a trillion in the military which seems like an unprofitable investment.

Military is federal, Flint water is municipal. This is basic civics. The military is not designed to be a profitable investment.

They coax kids into joining the army to get or pay for an education, instead of the much cheaper and more profitable option, just pay the kids' education directly.

They do both, federal government backs student loans, grants, etc. that literally pay for kids' education directly. And again, most education is State, not federal.

There isn't a will among state government to tear up the houses to replace all the pipes.

Nor is there money to fund such a project.

Good luck trying to get five 9s when you're limited to a single DC. Cross-DC SYSPLEXing (GDPS) got us to five 9s and beyond without breaking a sweat. Our systems can never go down, ever.

From VISA with love.

Sure, it's 1.5% instead of 2.5% (Florida). The average house price is $800k vs $200k... do the math.

Property tax is much more in total, and percentage of household income in California than Florida.

I love when self-deluding yourself into believing that men who get cosmetic genital surgery and wear women's clothing are magically women is liberal gospel.

Agreed. In a year the entire reddit thread will be [deleted] and [removed] and the post will be edited and completely redacted, etc.

Reddit is cancer.

Roughly 15kW, so quite a bit more than that.

I've ran our induction range on our solar panels for about five years now. This is news to me.

Phone support is a good example. You may have 20 support reps that have unique numbers, but when they call out to you, the number that shows up is the support dispatch number.

Support dispatch may be subcontracted out to an entirely different company (that may change over the months/years), so you'd still need to ability to spoof numbers you technically don't own.

I agree there needs to be more controls and regulations in place though. The status quo is unsustainable.

Fuck him. My cousin was killed by a "delinquent" (criminal) youth who was out for a joy ride in his mother's car.

Hungary is more open to refugees from a nation that it shares a border and cultural heritage with. News at 11!

Using PHP in 2022+ should be considered a crime of negligence.