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People say things like this, and yet housing has -- for most of history -- been a viable asset class, including in the times that people idolize as the great boom times of America.

The main issue is mismanaged regulation, as always. Real estate is probably one of the best examples of that. For example, in my city of Portland, OR, it's easier to keep an existing structure and not build new housing than to build new housing (because then you can do things by right). To build new housing, you have to hire a company called 'faster permits' (seriously, that's what it is called, look it up) which promises to 'expedite' the process of having things approved. If you, like me, are skeptical of engaging in investments in which you have to bribe your government to approve housing, then you won't put your money into building housing. Portland is probably not alone in these sketchy arrangements, which is why real estate developers often seem sleezy -- due to how the government manages itself, only the sleeziest people are willing to engage at all.

This is family law though. That's different. The op said he was defrauded which is criminal.

If both perp and victim are indian then the tribal courts can handle a criminal case

But if one is not then it's an automatic federal jurisdiction I believe

If you're not an Indian (us legal term) then I believe you can file a federal case, can you? Tribal law can't supercede basic American law from what I understand especially not when there's a non Indian involved.

Unless you're divorced or super rich there's basically no reason to worry about kidnapping.

What mortal danger would necessitate a smart phone versus a dumb phone? I don't understand

I get nothing but depression from online interactions with other people and nothing but joy with my in-person interactions. I'd rather my kids start drinking and hang out at a bar or develop a smoking habit and hang at a hookah cafe than make 'friends' online to be perfectly honest -- at least that's normal in the grand scheme of things. They wouldn't be the first teenagers to do that and it's healthier for your social life.

online content

There is nothing that they get from online content on a phone that they would not get better on an actual computer. My children already have computers (raspberry pis) at home and don't need a phone to access content. Plus, unlike a phone, they are able to use a computer to create content which is a much better perspective with technology than the mindless consumption that is now commonplace.

You can do this right now with an iterator adaptor and some range trickery. The c++ range based for loop already enables the same behavior as python. The only thing missing is a standard enumerate function.

This is a Fine addition to c++ due to how c++ uses lifetimes for resource management but the syntax is convoluted and the claim that this is intended to enable enumeration is... Just silly.

Do you do research? Because if you don't, then you're not the target market for general purpose AI compute chips.

Kids shouldn't have smartphones until much later, like late teenage years.

A flip phone for kids who are out of the house regularly with some contacts is fine.

No need to be a Luddite, but what do kids possibly get out of a phone? If I didn't have work and to chauffeur people around, id toss mine too.

Have you ever actually had anyone work with these chips? Developer ux on amd is terrible.

In fact, contrary to the competition, one can play with CUDA even on laptops, go figure.

This is the part people don't get. You can program cuda anywhere on any Nvidia card, unlike other companies' chips you don't need a data center gpu to have full programmability. It's been this way for over a decade

They don't though. Money for ai is pretty much free in America to anyone who can demonstrate a modicum of competence in the field.

The only people who are without access are students or hobbyists really.

Nvidia has a moat. Hardware is hard. No one really competes with them for general compute

Because high school is what we fully fund as a nation

Perfect pitch is a hindrance because it is an inability to perceive relative pitch.

However relative pitch people can hear perfect pitch with training. I can do this for the most part. I typically always start singing in the same key after years of practice and base my pitch off of that. At this point it's automatic for the most part. I always start my songs on middle G. And Bs are extremely distinct.

But I agree the obsession with perfect pitch on here is weird. I'm guessing someone saw a friend do a parlour trick and is convinced this is some great advantage. It's not.

I understand now

They're not picking. They're rewarding.

Shifting the goalposts. For most of american history a high school education was considered sufficient to be part of a functioning democracy. If a music education (or whatever) is required to be part of democracy, then everyone should have it.

I agree with you on the goal of education. But whats the goal of government education subsidies?

If they've not offered you anything, the non compete is certainly not valid.

Just ignore them completely unless you're an executive.

All financing is circular. This concern is beyond the pale contrived

Financing is circular because creating a liability for one party (debt) creates an asset for another (the bank) off of which more debt can be secured

A bank / financier sells trust and reassurance. They otherwise invent most money from thin air.

Computation is the study of infinity. That is how I like to think about it. It doesn't seem that way when you're building a website (well, in some ways because it's not at that point), but every algorithm, data structure, etc is an investigation into a certain part of infinity. Think of the way in which we generally categorize algorithms (Big-O notation)... that's just characterizing infinity.

If the memory is bounded then your software is a simple finite automaton, and can be decided in finite time. The issue is with unbounded memory. The issue with the halting problem is a simple characteristic of infinity. This is actually what people are noticing when they say that computation is a fundamental part of the universe. They are correct! The universe deals with infinitisemals all the time. As humans, we have only discovered ways of dealing with certain classes of infinitesemals (calculus). The others remain beyond our ability to characterize. Indeed, some have been proven to be uncharacterizable.

I've been to India many times (visiting family) as someone born and raised in America, and most people on the internet have bizarre views on India. I'm someone who is generally 'down' on travel to India because it's just a lot to ingest and I prefer easier places, but I personally would never worry about the sorts of things people online claim. It's not particularly dangerous in terms of violence. Food is amazing obviously. Hotels are out of this world if you're willing to pay the totally normal rates and not stay in hovels -- in fact hospitality is miles ahead of most western countries. Chaotic, loud, dirty at times, sure. You have to be used to seeing visible, sometimes shocking, poverty. And of course, if you don't know the local language and are not traveling with someone who is, it can be even more overwhelming. But I mean people are nice, and in some places, it's really nice and there are even some places I've been where I could see the appeal of living there.

I think India tends to defy common categorization. It's a developing country, but also quite advanced in many ways. Certain things work better. Trains are great. Metros are now really nice. Payment is great. They mostly do their own thing and it seems to be working for them.

To be totally honest, a lot of the India negging is from accounts associated with 'rival' countries. This has become more obvious as places like X have started showing the origins of many accounts. And before people start bringing up caste or whatever to explain my neutral-to-positive disposition towards the country, my 'community' in India is technically an 'otherwise backwards class', so it's not like I'm basing this based off of my family's non-existent wealth. By far, I'd rather stay in actual accommodations in India rather than with family because the accommodations are legit nice, and staying with family can be really hit or miss.

Oh sure I run about 10 miles / week, but that's only like 2 hours max running. I still sit most of the day and have tons of 'sitting' problems. I don't know what everyone else's experience with tech work is, but sports is max 4-5 hours / week, and about 20 hours is spent mostly sitting even with a standing desk. Still have the lower back issues that most sitters have.

I have no idea what 'sedentary' even means. I work on a desk mostly but I also walk 15 - 20 k steps per day because that's just my life and I accomplish most daily tasks (shopping, going to park, coffee, etc walking). Is that sedentary?

I usually kexec into new kernels, but rarely, I do reboot for firmware updates.

My system is rebooted sometimes due to power, and while it comes back just fine... there's no need to reboot a computer that works.

I use NixOS and haven't restarted my machines in years. Always on. There are power outages once in a while but everything is set to restart when power is available so it comes back up.

It's a bit messy and gives away too many details of my setup (including IP addresses and such). I'll see if I can eventually release something like it. I've thought of developing a tool that lets you auto-generate network topologies and such. My main use case is testing failovers with switches.