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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
I agree on liquidity, but housing, occupied or not, is quite illiquid anyway. If you care about liquidity, you'd rather invest in other asset classes. Property prices and rental income in London are extremely high. I cannot see how any
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
The article is a bit sketchy on the methodology used. The fact that not everybody flat investigated has somebody on the electoral register can easily be explained by several factors. - The central London population is very transient. Many s
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
Use diminishes value, but this is nicely compensated for by rent, and more than compensated by London rental levels. Leaving a property empty is also not without problems (think heating, burglary, squatting, taxes). The number of people ric
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
I seriously doubt that 40% figure. Why would "foreign buyers" who by flats as investments not take home the (very substantial) London rents? It would be financially imprudent. I suspect that this is really a form of xenophobia, us
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
I had no idea that Ada has regions. The Wikipedia article doesn't mention it. Maybe somebody who knows about it wants to edit the article?
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
I understand that 1.0 was / is a priority. But I wonder what the state of discussions about HKTs in Rust is: is this addition believed to be an easy problem in the sense that it may be a lot of work, but no major roadblocks are expecte
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
Just a historical note: Rust's ownership system has much historical pedigree, such as the Cyclone language and the work on ML compilers with region inference, following Tofte and Talpin's pioneering work. The Wikipedia article ( h
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
Is anybody actively working on this? I suspect that doing this well is non-trivial. Neither Tofte/Talpin nor Cyclone, both of which heavily inspired Rust's lifetimes, have HKTs as far as I'm aware.
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
Krugman claims "Germany, [...] has had much too little wage growth" and offers no argument whatsoever to support this claim. It's pure stipulation! Indeed, if he were to take his own figures seriously, he would have to argue
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
You are right, Germany has already flooded billions to Greece. But they didn't use it to make themselves competitive. Instead the retired early.
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
Typing a the message-passing part of a language like Erlang is very much an open research problem. I spoke about this at length with the session type community. They are thinking about this, but it's at least a decade away.