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I am completely at a loss to what your referring to then.

I know of eviction moratoriums that occurred after covid. It was sold as a way to avoid a massive surge in displaced people from job loss.

At the time I thought it was strange that this was the best solution because as you said it put the cost on landlords which in my opinion hurts smaller landlords the most.

I don't really see what else could have been the cause but I guess I will rephrase:

- Why do you think this tool was used if not for Covid? (It was as least sold to the public that way right)

- Do you think now that it's been done once that it will happen again?

I mean your are assuming that with free housing you retain a right to live where you want to live.

I am NOT saying we should build this free housing in one area and stick people there: (see the many failed public housing attempts) But there are more options available than everyone getting free housing in the bay area, CA.

Do you think this tool will be used again for less urgent issues than Covid was?

As someone from a Western country, what replaces it?

How do you buy a car on a loan for example?

It's not perfect but unlike both your examples it isn't based on things that could be consider political. You can't lower your credit score by attending a protest for example. Or posting things for or against causes on the internet.

I am just honestly wondering what else is our there? It has always seemed like a tool that can be used by both individuals and lenders.

Would you consider not loading facebook and google for logged in users? I understand there is a difference but your selling privacy.

This is sound logic and probably be the case but I wonder if this effect will be less than what we have seen in the past because of the reduced TDP of the M1 processors in general.

Maybe the cooling and power delivery difference between laptop formfactors and PC formfactors will be less with these new arm based chips.

65%

This just isn't what the tweet shows? Unless you are counting AdSense as sponsors? That doesn't seems to make sense.

You seem to be saying LTT is beholden to their sponsors? There is always an argument to be made there but misrepresenting: floatplane, AdSense and other sources that I don't see how you can call sponsors, which make up another 33% seems very disingenuous.

Unless I am misinformed about how AdSense works.

Yeah, I didn't even consider this. But at what point does orbital solar energy start to make sense?

I wonder what the $/kg before we can just send up solar panels that last 100+ years and provide continuous microwave beams of clean energy to ground stations.

Your math seems off, 1 ton is 1000kg, but your point still stands at $200 million plus the overhead of containment and transport to starship. This is far more economical that I expected.

But also this is the price to orbit. As the escape velocity is 1.5x higher we can probably assume the same or a greater increase in cost. Maybe you could just justify a really high orbit? It would take a long time for it to build up.

I didn't account for the decreased gravity over time as you chip away at the planet. Woops!

I can't tell if this is sacarstic or not but I decided to do the math.

Mass of earth: 5.972 × 10^24 kg

Launch capacity per year: 15,500 tons

Years to get rid of earth: 385,290,322,580,645,161 years.

I think if we every have to worry about this it becomes more a question of where are we going? And do we have enough carbon to cycle for fuel to do this.

Will this ever be safe enough to use as a hazardous waste disposal system? Can we just send the worst of the worst into the sun without too much risk of just spreading it out through the atmosphere in case of an explosion.

I don't think it is impossible that launch capabilities become safe enough to lower the risk to something some people might consider acceptable. However the physics of it won't change. To even get into earths orbit we have to accelerate anything going up to an average of 7.8 Km/s, where to escape orbit to anywhere else it's 11.8 Km/s.

I think the amount of energy to do that will always be the primary reason why this just isn't practical. Assuming you are advanced enough to be considering this, I would hope that your society is stable enough for long term containment and processing.

Do you have to reveal who you are to Apple to use an airtag though?

Or with decent operational security can you purchase and activate airtags in an untraceable way?

If you can that undermines your point, however if you can't then your making a very good point.

This is exactly the kind of tool I was hoping to find. Thank you!

I wasn't really expecting to be having novel ideas here and as usual someone built something close and someone on hackernews can tell me about it.

This service isn't perfect and doesn't seem very kid friendly to me. But it exists and is free so it's something to learn from and recommend.

Your comment made me sad to read. I don't really feel like that's a fair take at all.

I love libraries and the experience they provide. These memories are core to who I am today.

For me this is about access. I want every kid who doesn't live near a library or who's parents don't have the time to take them there to have something more than nothing.

I don't think that we can make it remote without taking a lot of the magic out of it. But I don't think it's a bad idea to talk about what we might do to try.

This looks really cool and is exactly along the lines of what I was thinking. I will explore it later after work.

Thank you for linking this.

I couldn't agree more. I have 0 desire to replace or limit libraries. They are some of few places where you can feel the progress of humanity in a physical space.

I just want to allow people who can't access libraries easily to experience some of that.

Sure, I don't go to libraries to find anything about code or even computers. I go to find old fantasy series and enjoy the physicality of the library.

I would say the internet is almost always better at everything non-fiction for adults. But I am talking about 4-8 year olds here mostly, and by extension anyone older that wants some of the library experience.

I completely agree. I don't think you can fully replicate this experience remotely.

I am just trying to imagine what you need to do to get as close as possible. Maybe I make this a project happen if I end up with something actionable. Maybe these ideas inspire someone else, maybe they fade away into memories and do very little.

I love the it doesn't matter what you choose you can check it out part. I think it would be really important to have a filter where all the books the kid can see, the kid can have right now. This of course could be disabled by older kids that understand sometimes there is a wait but I think for the younger kids this would be an important detail.

I don't want to replace libraries, I want to make it so every kid that has access to the internet on some device or gaming platform can get 30% of that experience. Or whatever is possible.

I think you are highlighting great ways to impress upon a kid the: "visceral experience of the vastness." Which is the core of what I want. That's a really good way to put it by the way.

I really like the idea of taking kids to really impressive libraries as well. My parents did that for me and it really did create lasting memories.

But I am more thinking of something that can emulate that experience remotely. Your focus on the space made me thing of maybe a library on Minecraft or Roblox? Maybe it can be a space where you can somehow see the books in a virtual space and design something that allows you to explore the collections. I know this would be really hard in Minecraft and I don't know how hard this would be in roblox. But I really like this idea because it would be easy to create, easier to maintain, and be a really cool thing that a teacher could say take a class trip to.

It would be important that you where presented with a way to checkout the books you found in this virtual library from a real library near you that has ebooks for children. This would also allow you to checkout the public works books from the awesome sites you referenced instantly.

This reminds me of how instrumental just going to the library was as a kid for my love of reading. It was the only place that was like a store to me at the time where I could have anything I wanted. It felt like a fun challenge to find as many books that I might want to read as possible.

I wonder how we can create this experience more easily remotely. There are tons of library eBook apps that are all pretty awesome, but discovery of new content just isn't the same. I find myself going to the library still. Or even to book stores to write down interesting looking titles.

I know this seems like a boring problem because you can just go in person then put a hold on the eBook version while you are there. But there has to be a way to present a curated selection of books that inspires children to:

- enjoy the adventure of finding a good book

- fosters the idea that reading unlocks knowledge or stories about anything they want

- makes the process of sampling a book as easy as it is on Amazon, or in person

Why? When schools are remote, or to serve children that don't have a local anything nearby.

Does anyone know of services that provide this now or have any ideas for how this would best work as an enhanced UI over say Libby or overdrive, or even hoopla all of which are great for if you already know what you want to read.

At the same time, it seems foolish to tell them not to use blind spot monitors, or to even expect them to "check their blind spot" the old-fashioned way if their cars have monitors.

I have never owned a car with blind spot monitoring. Do people really just rely on them completely? Even in dense urban environments with bikes around? Or is it more of a judgement call? Different perspectives on this would be nice.

I have never seen the little light on the mirrors fail to detect me while I am riding but I never trust a driver not to just turn right cutting me off anyways.

I am not trying to pass judgement just understand how these driver aids change the way people drive.

I get what your saying.

But on the other hand we are just talking about celebrating this. I feel like those sub-communities are probably more aware of the impact HIV than the average cis straight person and are probably going to celebrate this as well.

I don't get what's insensitive about it at all so maybe I am missing your point.

It's important to remember that any community can spread it. Needle sharing among intravenous drug users comes to mind. However, you can't deny that HIV has struck a generational blow upon the LGBTQ+ community.

If this works it will be the end to an era of fear. Many will remember those that where lost and wish this only happened sooner. A new reason to celebrate is underselling the impact this will have.

People celebrating Spotify don’t realise that they’ve selectively gone through Rogans more spicy episodes historically and removed on edited them.

Wouldn't it be interesting if someone compared the current cuts with past cuts to see what they wanted/needed to remove.

Thanks, that makes sense. I haven't experienced that myself yet so I wasn't sure.

Wow, that makes complete sense for something that is impacting this many people and by extension lots of money.

Thanks for the answer, I have only ever worked with such a small team that we are all on a call every day.

I can imagine it can probably get a little hectic in large group calls? On the engineering side is there a command structure? Like say the root cause was found and RC team is rushing to fix it. But another team wants to mitigate in the mean time in a slightly risky way. Would their manager make a case with leadership? Would the proposed plan just be put out for general comment as a response to that main ticket?

I am sorry, I didn't have enough context to understand what your saying.

When you say: status update chain: ceo --> me. What information is flowing from the CEO to you? or is it the other way around?

BoltDB author here.

How does this happen so often? It's awesome to get the authors take on things. Also thank you for explaining and owning it. Where you part of this incident response?

Big props to the on-calls during this.

Kind of curious about this. I know this is probably company specific but how do outages get handled at large orgs? Would the on-calls have been called in first then called in the rest of the relevant team?

Is their a leadership structure that takes command of the incident to make big coordinated decisions to manage the risk of different approaches?

Would this have represented crunch time to all the relevant people or would this be a core team with other people helping as needed?