Of course Prop 13 is distorting prices. It affects all kinds of things. It limits the revenue stream of local governments, causing them to do things like encourage big box store development to get more sales tax. Prop 13 has tons of unintended consequences. Or maybe its framers knew exactly what they were doing.
I ALSO think rent control and airbnb distorts prices too. The Airbnb threat maybe overblown, who knows, but airbnb has maintained in the past they have no way of telling cities how many customers they. Databases are hard I guess.
For the "irc is just as good as Slack, you should just use irc" crowd, Slack's mobile clients are pretty good. Ever tried to get a non techie person to use irc on a mobile device? Ever used irc on a mobile device? The experience is terrible.
Slack's clients also have persistence, as in shows the most recent history of communication.
Not everyone uses screen/tmux with irc (though they should).
I hate this argument. Yeah, IRC is open and there are tons of clients for it, but Slack is the only one that I've used that a) retains history without you having to think about it, and b) is actually really really REALLY nice to use.
That said, if all you need is simple team communication, IRC works great
Take for instance Intel's addons to IPMI "Automatic Management Technology".
Let's say you have a server, reachable on a certain network address on a LAN.
I can turn on AMT, I can set up server management answerable at the SAME address. network traffic to and from the machine and network is undisturbed.
I can install bios updates, configure aspects of the machine, all kinds of things, just with AMT. I have read in some cases you can configure the machine this way even if its powered off.
