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  • If you squint a lot, HOAs could be a mechanism for bringing neighborhoods together. It allows them to self-govern over the shared resources for the neighborhood. Want to get a company to run fiber to everyone's home, or build a solar/wind farm for fewer dollars per MW than rooftop solar could ever do? An HOA is a legal mechanism to setup the financing and agreements to make that work in an affordable way for the residents.

    Most HOAs are not setup for anything like that. They're for requiring what fencing contractor you have to use and banning natural lawns.

  • I basically don't think you should be able to create a government by using a contract.

    It's basically what Anarco-capitalism wants to do. Incidentally, HOAs form the best real world argument against Anarco-capitalism.

  • The loopholes on the farm bill are so big that I don't know why we're debating legalization at this point.

    To meet the 2018 farm bill requirements, your thing needs to have <0.3% delta-9 THC by weight. This opened up the delta-8 market--less potent but you can just add more of it--but that was only the start of exploring the new legal territory this opened up.

    10mg of THC delta-9 is considered a good sized dose in edible products. A standard can of soda is about 225 grams. So do the math: 0.01g / 225g = 0.004%. Close to two orders of magnitude under the farm bill limit, and a lot of THC seltzers come in bigger cans than that. You can sell that in every state that hasn't specifically banned it otherwise.

    It gets even better. To get 10mg of THC delta-9, a gummy only needs to be about 3g to make the 0.3% limit. Not that big at all.

    That mostly leaves smoking/vaping as the only methods that don't have an easy loophole.

    Just legalize it already. This is stupid.

  • Speculating here, but taxes are one reason.

    Almost all the rules about what counts as wine, beer, whiskey, etc. comes from some country making definitions for tax purposes. Often from hundreds of years ago.

  • Meh. Even hosting static files in a RAM disk over localhost, you're 99% as good as you can be by using the sendfile() system call. The kernel can copy data from one file descriptor to another faster than any userspace program can. Implementing the Length header is a stat() call.

    If you're not on a RAM disk and not on localhost, then disk access or network throughput will predominate.

    Assembly is not magic go faster sauce.

  • They throw people in concentration camps without any process, much less due process, get giant tax breaks while taking away people's healthcare, layoff thousands of workers while getting a generous bonus, dump toxic waste in the rivers, use 45% of the corn grown to make ethanol that doesn't solve anything, and say there's not enough room for solar panels.

    But don't post Luigi memes because that's inciting violence.

  • And the most important advice is to leave the money the fuck alone.

    I got lucky in that I started having enough money to invest after the 2008 crash. Those years had crazy good gains. The real test comes when the market crashes 30% in a few days. Can you stick to the plan? That happened in 2020 when lockdowns started, and if you stuck to the plan, you still did very, very well that year.

  • They aren't worth the money they're being paid. It's really not hard to do the most long time proven plan, which is to balance a portfolio between higher risk things like an SP500 index, and lower risk things like bonds. You weight it towards the index when you're young to get high average returns, then back it off into lower risk as you get older to lock it in.

    "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" goes into how this strategy has been proven out over decades when so many others have failed. You technically can beat the SP500 (and be sure to include transaction costs), but only by taking on even higher risk.

    The best investment advice for most people is really, really boring and not particularly difficult. Shouldn't even try anything else until you're maxing out all of 401k, HSA, and IRA and then have some leftover to try the riskier strategies.

  • I could see your perception of it changing based on how you watched the movies. If your first time watching the movies was in numerical order, you might come away thinking the Jedi mind trick doesn't work very well. It's not really explained until episode 4. IIRC, it's shown two times in the prequels, once against Watto (which fails) and once against a rando drug dealer in a bar (which works). It later works against Bib Fortuna but not Jabba.

    The explanation of "works against the weak minded" doesn't come until you're several hours in. If the movies were produced in that order, it would almost come off like a cop out explanation.

  • Trump can't take NYC. Even a military/ICE takeover is off the table. Even with a 20x increase in the ICE budget. There are just too many people and not enough random masked ICE "agents".

    Just like with tariff negotiations, Trump thinks he has all the cards when he doesn't. He wants you to think he does, though. Fascism is always weaker than it looks.

  • The issue is putting power back onto the grid. If power is out otherwise, the guys who come out to fix it want to assume there's no power on it. If someone's solar panels are still putting power into the local connection, it can be dangerous for those workers.

    It is possible to have an automatic disconnection so that in a grid outage, your house will still be powered, but nothing is going out to the grid. They usually don't put those in unless you also have a battery backup. You may be able to ask your contractor to put one in, anyway.

    This goes for generators, too. You're supposed to use a power transfer switch with those.