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walls commented on A graph explorer of the Epstein emails   epstein-doc-explorer-1.on... · Posted by u/cratermoon
Bender · a month ago
Yeah I have not a clue what is going on behind the scenes or why the previous admin did not release them.
walls · a month ago
They were sealed at the time, and the admin was following the law.
walls commented on Craft Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP) commands with new command editor   developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/keepamovin
Un1corn · a month ago
I haven't used the devtools protocol of Firefox but CDP is one of the worst protocols I had to work with. Everything is "experimental", inconsistencies between different domains, multiple ways to do some stuff and revealing internal stuff.
walls · a month ago
Yep, in certain cases requests/responses will only show up in the Fetch domain, sometimes only in the Network domain, and sometimes neither!
walls commented on     · Posted by u/cod1r
walls · a month ago
The DMV isn't exactly validating heights, I think we need more evidence.
walls commented on Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists   theguardian.com/inequalit... · Posted by u/prmph
kamaal · a month ago
>>Where do you think the money that is accrued by the most wealthy will be spent/invested/parked?

In most advanced economies today, that's equity. The ordinary person thinks of wealth as money lying around in the bank, which the rich person refuses to spend on anything useful. And instead either hoards, or spends on luxury things which cause resentment to the remainder.

The real question is for most people today its easier than ever to invest and then give it to their children. Why aren't people doing it?

walls · a month ago
Your mistake is thinking that the ordinary person is sitting on a pile of cash.

The median person in the US has about $8k, which is basically enough to cover one emergency.

walls commented on Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules   apnews.com/article/pentag... · Posted by u/pjmlp
TimorousBestie · 2 months ago
> (how do I write this in a way that won't get me downvoted?)

It’s sad that your speech has been chilled by the misuse of the karma system by some large faction of users here.

walls · 2 months ago
dang is, at best, oblivious to the fact that that this site has become a battleground. At worst, he's intentionally chosen sides with his selective removal of flags.
walls commented on Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home (2023)   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/paulpauper
alephnerd · 2 months ago
Raleigh-Durham Metro, Metro Houston, Metro DFW (imo not the South), Charlotte Metro, and Metro Atlanta off the top of my head and based on median household incomes.

That said, assuming you could afford a 2k square ft house with a backyard in a highly desirable neighborhood similar to what Palo Alto is today on an average person's salary 50 years ago doesn't seem realistic.

Also, 50 years ago, redlining and race as well as gender based discrimination in most jobs was the norm, so unless you were a white (which itself was a narrower term than today) man, there was a glass ceiling, and most jobs that were supposedly high paying in reality largely limited hiring to a subset of Americans.

Additionally, the rural-urban divide then was more severe than it was today. People from those households like Marc Andressen literally didn't have piped water growing up back then in the 70s (he's recounted the story a lot).

Long story short, I don't buy a lot of the nostalgia for the 70s and 80s I'm seeing in this thread - it's very boomer urban white man coded.

walls · 2 months ago
'Household income' would imply that 70k jobs are not at all the norm.
walls commented on Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home (2023)   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/paulpauper
asdff · 2 months ago
Depends where of course. All over the south and the rust belt midwest home prices have been more or less stabilized over the past 35 years or so. Even if they "went up 30% in covid" that could mean they only went up another 30k or so realistically. The land of 70k jobs and 150k 3-4br houses where all is well.

Then you go to the hot markets and salaries for comparable positions are only like 20% more but the exact same home (actually on west coast, subtract the full basement and lot large enough for a detached two car garage) is 10x in price or more.

walls · 2 months ago
> The land of 70k jobs

What are these 70k jobs in the south?

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walls commented on US opens Tesla probe after more crashes involving its "full self-driving"   apnews.com/article/tesla-... · Posted by u/c420
keeda · 2 months ago
Yes! This has happened to me once as well. The car slowed down to a rolling stop because it saw a yellow light... and then just as the light turned red, the car took off and broke the red light. WTF! And just as you said, I had mentally switched off in anticipation of a long wait, so I was in absolutely no state to react.

Fortunately there was no accident and there were no cops around or apparently traffic cameras. Somehow I think "Sorry, the car broke the red light, not me!" would not have been a compelling thing to say to a cop or a judge.

The only thing I could do was hit the dashcam record button as some sort of proof, but the video itself has no indication FSD was engaged. I suspect I would have to subpoena or forensically extract any data that could exonerate me, which is just not practical if the worst I got was a ticket.

walls · 2 months ago
It still wouldn’t exonerate you, it’s your job to pay attention and be ready to take over. This is why FSD is a joke.
walls commented on Fascism can't mean both a specific ideology and a legitimate target   astralcodexten.com/p/fasc... · Posted by u/feross
drivebyhooting · 2 months ago
I feel like you snuck in some of your pet issues into that list.
walls · 2 months ago
The (linked) list is from 2003 and the points are copied directly.

u/walls

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