Stasis5001

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by Stasis5001 10y ago
It's a matter of zoning. If an area is designated as residential, then the city can stop you from building a hotel there. From there, it's at least a little reasonable to consider that a house used as a rental unit with new, pay
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by Stasis5001 10y ago
This article is incoherent, because the notion of dead equity being unfair doesn't make any sense. If I buy a share of Microsoft, that's 'dead equity' since I don't work there and am not contributing to the company
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by Stasis5001 10y ago
There are very good reasons why Susan should be against a prenup. Suppose her and Daniel have a child, and they both agree that it makes sense for Susan to quit her job and raise the child at home. If they have a prenup, a divorce is devas
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by Stasis5001 10y ago
>"From the perspective of natural selection, once you’re no longer able to reproduce, you might as well be dead." Both today's article and yesterdays said something to this effect, which is blatantly wrong. A now-infertil
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by Stasis5001 10y ago
If possible, it's much better to handle physical units with the type system. If your timeout is a timedelta class (or duration/difftime/interval etc.), then this whole issue disappears.
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
That definition makes it very clear why people are disagreeing with you. Switching costs are those incurred by the difficulty of switching, and not the marginal cost of one provider or another. If internet provider A is $80 / month,
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
2D arrays that are laid out as a linear array of m n elements are faster to iterate through. That's what happens when you declare e.g. int a[5][4], you get the same layout as int a[20]. A vector of vectors is fairly sprawling in memo
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
Wait, what? The article actually derives the conclusion that 8 people live in the same zip code, are going to the same destination, in the 10% technophile bracket, and leaving in the same 20 minute window -- and this makes it impossible?
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
Sure but even still, suppose an analyst saves all of Fidelity's clients 1M in two days worth of work. We can't dismiss that as silly because that savings is so small compared to 5 trillion AUM, right?
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
That's not exactly fair. They hold many assets, so of course any action on any individual asset may not have a significant effect. However, if they behave similarly across all similar assets, it will have an effect on the overall fun
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
Your Toyota is more of a commodity. There are millions out there that are functionally identical, and millions more can be made. A given piece of real estate with proximity to a major city is very different in this sense, as there are onl
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
I just tried sending "Attached is my photo". Then "I've been feeling less attached to you". One warns, the other doesn't. This is also more than a single if.
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
The problem is different than that. It's that the measurement of performance is susceptible to differences in the conditional distribution of disparate groups, given that they were selected. We can illustrate it by modifing the GP exa
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
Dumb question. When, say, setting up a new server, you need to set up the environment variables to have your production credentials. How do I automate this process if the variables aren't stored in a central repo? Keeping a static f
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
If you tell your boss "I am going to take tomorrow off", and they say, "Actually, you're scheduled for an interview, can you please come in? But take Thursday or Friday off by all means", you're going to still
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
Permission from one of several founders at a 10 person company is proportionally equivalent to letting your team lead know you'll be absent. That's not exactly an excessive standard, is it? Further, an open expectation of 45-50 h
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
Not at all. If the company doesn't grow, there is no way any of the common stock shareholders get a noticeable payout due to liquidation preferences. Whether their ownership is in the form of options or stock does not matter.
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
I agree. I came across this once, and ran the following model. Assume you assess the expected value of the equity grant to be, let's say, $100k over 4 years. Then this means your total comp will rise by $10k a year, which probably i
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by Stasis5001 11y ago
So for those of us who rent our primary residence, we now have to take out loans to buy property and heaven help us if we want to move?
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by Stasis5001 12y ago
That's literally what the original article argues. The rent control leaves a smaller supply of houses to be bid up by a fixed pool of people who want to live in SF. Whether the toy model the author uses to illustrate this is correct
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by Stasis5001 12y ago
The problem there is not with auto, it's with the function naming. If you don't know what the function lock does, how would writing Lock l = lock() help? Also, stage1 and stage2 are awful function names in this context.
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by Stasis5001 12y ago
Sure. But to clarify, it seems like for most people, the ratings they receive consist of mostly 5s, with rare outliers (anecdotally in this thread, it seems most ratings are >= 4.5 and most are ~4.8). In that case, the odds of one outl
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by Stasis5001 12y ago
At the very least, if you're like most users who rate between 4 and 5, you can most likely tell if the driver rated you a 5 (rating goes up) or below a 5 (rating goes down). It would take a pretty strange algorithm to violate that. O