Even if it is only 0.5% I would prefer that large institutional investment firms not be allowed into the housing market.

actually, they are actively beneficial owners. They can do things more efficiently than small time owners.

More efficiently extract cash from renters

> Unless hands are tied by work or contract.

So most people.

Unfortunately

I’ve been to the big European cities and I am not sure I’ve seen anything I’d say was nicer than the big American cities. What specifically are you referring to?

In this case, cycling infrastructure. But in general, measures that support walkability, non-car transportation, and pedestrianisation.

Lisbon, Porto, Amsterdam, Dublin, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris are all nicer than any major US city from an infrastructure perspective imho. NYC gets close, Chicago gets an honorable mention (CTA, Metra, bike and bus lanes). TLDR People > cars.

Lisbon, Porto, and Dublin (that I know of among those) are all car-centric hellholes though. The only advantage they have compared to something like Houston Texas is old medieval / historic centres that force those zones at least not to be turned into parking lots and strip malls.

Did you start using Linux on the Mac hardware or on PC hardware? I have a late era Intel Macbook and was considering switching it to Ubuntu or Debian since it is getting kinda slow.

Not the OP, but I have a 2015 Macbook Pro and a desktop PC both running Linux. I love Fedora, so that's on the desktop, but I followed online recommendations to put Mint on the Macbook and it seems to run very well. However, I did need to install mbpfan (https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan) to get more sane power options and this package (https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd) to get the camera working. It runs better than Mac OS, but you'll need to really tweak some power settings to get it to the efficiency of the older Mac versions.

I switched to a new x86 machine. Running Linux on Mac just made things unnecessarily complicated and hurt performance. Im still open to using docker on Mac to run Linux containers but once you want a GUI life was simpler when I switched off.

Yes but many of us love it all the same.

I work in state government and while contractors don’t get benefits that FTEs receive, they are usually paid close to double in salary.

Just curious. How does that benefit someone like Ellison?

It benefits him because that's the thing he wants.

I find it hilarious that hn is so money focused that a lot of people here will straight up deny that people some times do things for reasons other than money. But it's true, money is just an end.

Lol edit I meant "money is just a means, not the end".

He's a staunch Zionist

I always describe the smell like a cross between a skunk and a Christmas tree.

Hey if developers and office jobs get fucked by AI “promises” then fuck blue collar as well. You need a united population to destroy the interests of the 1%.

If so then call me a NIMBY. Not a Chandler but in Gilbert, the town next door. No need for data centers here or anywhere else around here either.

where would you like them to be?