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This article seems a little fearmongering. Autopay is great, and several credit card companies offer a variety of nice features to help reduce the likelihood of temporary cash flow management issues. Citi for example allows you to split your payment in 2, so if you are paid biweekly, you can arrange your payment dates to align with your paydays.

have very little tax for people's primary residence

Homeowners already get crazy tax breaks that our society bears the cost of. This would just be an even bigger shift to funding government services on the backs of renters rather than homeowners, as any increase in taxes that "landlords" are assessed is passed on to renters.

which is every human activity

A lot of human activities don't use that much energy in the grand scheme of things. Playing board games, walking around a neighborhood, going to concerts or shows at the theater, these are all things that use very little energy when compared to heavy manufacturing, transportation, and most agriculture. Since most humans will bear the costs of climate change as it begins to destroy our past investments, I think it's fairly reasonable to fix that damage based on how much carbon activities generate.

now you have to pay more tax

I mean I buy a cheap stock and it's value goes up, why should I have to pay tax on that too!? The value of the land has gone up because it has more amenities and benefits as well. If you feel you are not benefiting from the increased investment around your land, then you should sell it so it can be put to better use.

it was EPA mandates

Correction: it was the exemptions from EPA mandates that created the huge truck situation. The fix would be to remove the exemptions for "light trucks"

There are some startups, but they seem to be very limited in their growth potential given the very cyclical nature of construction. I believe this hampers their access to VC and debt funding, so they don't make as big of a splash.

My city has a local construction startup that is trying to drop the cost of housing units by fabricating panels and rooms offsite and assembling at the construction site: https://www.modulehousing.com/

Apple Rankings 4 years ago

I love Super Juice! If I'm going to have friends over for a get together or party, I'll make a batch (or multiple if I want more than 1 fruit) a few days ahead of time to increase the speed in which drinks can be made. The downside is that garnishes still generally tend to need peels, so I still need to have a couple real fruits hanging around.

Zuckerberg is a minority shareholder in Facebook with majority control due to dual-class Founder's shares he possesses. The only person he's accountable to is himself.

I agree that it's a potentially dumb idea, it sounds like just another kind of Jim Crow era law that could very easily be misused to prevent people from running for office for any reason that people in power see fit (e.g. racism, sexism, other -isms). The only way I see it being a good idea is if you just need to answer the provided questions, and not necessarily "pass" the exam, but that would necessitate voters actually caring if their lawmakers know anything about tech (or the other variety of topics included).

How to win at CORS 5 years ago

remember, the 's' in 'IoT' stands for security

I don't know why, but this cracked me up. :D

tldr: Robinhood got offended that Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger called their company out for incentivizing gambling and not investing... which seems particularly obtuse since Robinhood makes their profit from the r/WSB community and not the people who use their platform for long term investments.

Over a year ago, I was investigating using Prisma to be the ORM for a GraphQL API of a Postgres database. When doing a proof-of-concept, I discovered that under the hood @prisma/client was spinning up it's own GraphQL server that it would send requests to in order to generate SQL to send to postgres. This extra middleware layer between my frontend code and postgres generated some pretty poor performing queries that took 50% longer to complete than the queries generated by using Hasura as our whole GraphQL API.

A quick glance at the @prisma/client code makes it seem like this pattern is still the case, since they have an "engine-core" package that downloads a binary server behind the scenes and runs it on a free port in the background.

Why did you post this? Their S-1 still hasn't been publically released yet, and this news that they filed it with the SEC is from ~1 month ago.

deep learning team for Capital One

What!? Capital One has a deep learning team? As a long-time customer of theirs, I can't even begin to guess what that team might do for their set of products, except maybe to optimize their credit card offerings.

I was super pumped for this tech to start being used in human clinical trials, but a couple of years ago, there was a study[0] that raised some key concerns about CRISPR therapeutics increasing the risk of cancer due to some edited cells self-destructing once their genomes have been modified, leaving behind cells with a higher risk of cancer due to not being as sensitive to genomic edits. Have these challenges been overcome yet?

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crispr-edited-cel...