As a US citizen, it's not clear to me that Elon legally can set up anything overseas without starting from scratch, and going that far might just make him the next Gerald Bull.

I'm pretty close to a geolibertarian, given that it's otherwise hard to allocate uncreated value, but this method of valuation seems really arbitrary. If some outside developer wants to buy a piece of land that the owner would rather not sell for the community-derived price, and both are stubborn, and eventually it's sold for 10x the Somers system price, then the value of that land is (evidently) far above the community consensus. There has to be some way of getting this updated value besides everyone who lives in the area this month spending more weekend afternoons arguing about it.

> That strip is the most valuable piece of real estate in the whole city, a fact anyone who’s lived there for any amount of time knows intuitively. Take a moment and imagine yourself attending such a meeting in your own town, what would your answer to [what the most valuable stretch of street frontage in this city is] be?

I am astonished that the author thinks this is intuitively obvious.

Anyway, some kind of "registering a value for property is the same as putting in an offer to buy/sell that property" is needed to avoid subjective and perceptively unfair valuations.

Any time during the launch window is "on time".

Browsers used to commonly support user stylesheets. Chrome removed it a long time ago, and I'm not sure what the status of that is in Firefox now. The issue is that there's no single common use case for them, and if there were, it would be simpler to build it in. But maintaining that level of flexibility has a continuing cost...

I am referring to the fact that there are more or less simple algorithms you can use to determine the dark version of colors, or rather, perceptually darker variants (e.g. APCA). The browser could make the contrast threshold configurable.

Oh, and there is inverse(), but I have no idea how good that is.

Firefox appears to support a light and dark mode, custom foreground and background colors, and setting a default font face and size. Nothing like full user stylesheet support, at least not without extensions.

It does support the userContent.css file in the profile, there's just no UI for it.

safari still supports it on mac

I dunno. For one thing, those companies are paying GitHub a lot of money for the enterprise version, separately hosted (right?). The data isn't actually available to Microsoft employees or LLMs, absent some security flaw or backdoor. For another, companies that pay for this also (sample size is small, though) have automation that scans GitHub repos, issues, etc for any secrets and require them to be removed and scrubbed from history, implying that they don't trust even the self-hosted GitHub Enterprise as much as you do.

I see secrets as a different issue. Putting those in an issue or repo exposes them to potentially hundreds of people within your own company, that's bad practice.

> Temperatures hiked as high as 31.1[C] degrees in August 2024 [...]

So, I can imagine that this is a long-term problem, but it seems odd that the panic is setting in already, when some platforms in the NYC subway regularly exceed 40C / 104F every summer? This article seems in a similar genre to the breathless advice to remain inside in Britain when the outside temperature might get above 27C / 81F, otherwise known as a not-particularly-warm spring day in much of the US in most years.

> This article seems in a similar genre to the breathless advice to remain inside in Britain when the outside temperature might get above 27C / 81F, otherwise known as a not-particularly-warm spring day in much of the US in most years.

It’s really not breathless, because high temperatures and how to handle them is completely absent from the cultural baggage. I don’t live in the UK, but in a place which similarly does not have much in the way of high temperatures historically and low AC penetration, and during heat spikes I see a significant fraction of my neighbours with windows wide open at 4PM.

Habituation is also a significant factor. The UK does not get a smooth transition into higher normals, it gets heatwaves.

I live in the UK and a lot is down to the tabloid newspapers trying to get some sales with 'Horror Heatwave!' type headlines when it's 27C. Brits go on holiday to Spain, we are familiar with heat.

Statistically we know that humans who live somewhere that you'll just die in the regular environment due to climate behave very differently from humans who live in a temperate climate like the UK when the actual temperature warrants the same behaviour. If you live in Nunavut or the Iran / Pakistan border you already knew that you can just die from temperature extremes and so you need to ensure you stay at a survivable temperature, in Wales it's quite unexpected.

As a result you actually get many more deaths from extremes in countries where the usual climate is temperate like Britain, even when the actual temperatures aren't as extreme as in countries where that would be more common.

I'm only in London occasionally but I can confirm that some lines are unbearably hot, in the summer I have no idea how people commute in that heat every day. And I'm originally from a much hotter country than the UK.

I commute on the northern line 3 times a week ... it's not fun, but it's bearable ... just.

The trick is, if the window at the end of the carriage isn't open, make a beeline and open it, as the air moving past does help keep you cooler.

Surely that says more about how NYC than it does about London?

If I had to suffer overcrowded trains with standing room only, people’s armpits in my face and all, at 40C temperatures everyday in the summer, then I wouldn’t be laughing at London for trying to avoid the same fate. I’d be complaining that my own city isn’t taking their problems seriously enough.

NYC Subway trains have AC. They feel like refrigerators in the summer. Platforms get hot but can be avoided if you time carefully.

London Tube trains largely do not have AC, so heat in the tunnels is a big problem.

Yeah I’m familiar with the tube.

If NYC Subway has AC then it’s silly for the GP to compare the London Underground to the Subway.

> They were expected to complete 2-3 tickets per day.

Based on my experience with sprint teams, breaking things down into just a couple hours of work per ticket implies that someone else is doing an enormous amount of prep work to create a dozen tickets per feature. I agree that your friend is performing the work of a development system. I've heard this called "programming in Developer" as opposed to whatever language the developer is using.

I lived in NYC for a few years, and there are definitely lots of New Yorkers who would find themselves described in the quoted passage.

Well, a single all encompassing deep ocean of something in which waves could travel 1600 km/h, since that's one of the major constraints, too.

Typically cutting is a top-down decision, while hiring is organic. If they think they can justify budget for it, managers want to hire. Managing more people has direct rewards apart from anything the headcount is doing for the organization overall, so incentives are misaligned.

All the big FAANG companies that did major layoffs have rehired to the original amount since then.

I really believe the layoffs were not about needing less people, it was about gaining some ground in the employee/employer dynamic.

From a pure economics perspective, this is healthy for the business.

There are always low performers. Periodically transitioning out the bottom 10% or so, and rehiring different people, possibly in a different departmental distribution, is always net beneficial to the company.

Using regional/national/global events as the explanation is always better than blaming yourself.

Of course, it's impossible to segregate people into performance bins with perfect accuracy, and it's always bad for individual humans in the short term.

Arguments are made that it's good for society in the longer term, and wars are fought between opposing sides of that opinion. :)