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by alexpetralia 2y ago
Downtown areas in Tokyo have virtually zero public parking spaces. They made it very, very inconvenient to drive.
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
But actually, it does, because more housing supply (even on the high end) means fewer higher earners are forced to bid up generic housing for the masses. On the other hand, refusing to build any housing at all (for whatever the reason is: t
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Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework(textualize.io)
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
Indeed, it's tautological
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
How about Uber vs. Lyft, for example? Do you think there is competitive pricing here?
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
Is there a word for "creating an air of certainty around that which is otherwise mostly speculation?" This entire article is chock full of speculation.
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
Asian countries have a lot more people and build a lot more housing.
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
I think a useful enhancement of the motto "move fast and break things" would be "move fast and break things, but consider the PR consequences".
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
I think something can have a lot of detail (granularity) but not necessarily be appealing. I imagine it's more like patterned detail, so fractal patterns which can expand into substantial and endless detail.
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
If the original agreement offered equity that vests, then suddenly another future agreement can potentially revoke that vested equity? It makes no sense unless somehow additional conditions were attached to the vested equity in the original
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
I think the inevitable conclusion is returns to capital is rising versus the returns to labor. Put your money in investments because that's what we (as a society) reward. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
Patrick is reading these comments. Hi Patrick
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by alexpetralia 2y ago
I recommend the Fujitsu Quaderno. Great for marking up textbooks on A4 size pages, and far lighter than a book itself.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
While I agree in general with much of this post, there are a few other things I'd keep in mind: * If you always focus on growth, sometimes you focus less on maintaining what you already have. It tends to be the case that when you'
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
I think it really depends on where the Masters is. I personally have noticed a lot of degree mills at the Masters level that are superficial academically and primarily designed to lure in candidates to the most profitable part of a universi
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
My opinion is that this is not really a tech problem, this is a business problem. Will the traders at Cargill, Vitol, Exxon, Trafigura, Glencore buy it? Do they want to take the time to "learn" another tool? Does it "just wor
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
I am surprised nothing about sociality shows up in your list.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Do most data-driven decisions need to be made daily? Sometimes you just need to see the data once or month or once a quarter to make a decision. Sometimes, you just need to see the data once! (an ad hoc analysis in Excel) We should think of
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
You are a slave to many systems - labor markets, product markets, food markets - all of which are not controlled by you. You can be cut off "just like that" if the powers that be choose to do so. In the modern world you simply can
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
That is sad to hear, but hopefully you do not feel too much regret over it. 9 times out of 10, your advice would fare better, but you happened to roll the die in an unlucky period.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Great compilation of tips
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Personally I am studying linear algebra lately so I was scanning roughly what % of the problems I could solve. Though, I also went a bit into the other areas to see if I still recalled other areas of math that I haven't studied in year
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
This is basically Bayes rule: the probability we have an accurate test given perfect conditions. But what is the baseline rate of perfect conditions? If it's less than 1, then our "posterior" probability will not be one in a
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
I actually did exactly this, plugging the questions into Google and seeing the step-by-step answer. I found this useful.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
Spot on. Everything is fun when the scale is small and the consequences don't matter, and everything is serious when the scale is large and the consequences matter.
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
> And while I'm totally an armchair scientist here, what comes to mind immediately is that the resources needed to describe such a system analytically would grow exponentially with a very high value of that exponent. Yes, this rel
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
I think of causality as generally linked to our notion of invariants. We can arrive conceptually at causes in physics because we have "laws of physics", which are invariant over all conceivable conditions (except in the most extre
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
I think this is basically Simpson's Paradox. If you take an average across the entire population, that is actually the average if you were to randomly select an individual from the population (i.e. the long-run value after repeated sam
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by alexpetralia 3y ago
I'm very excited to watch this! I've seen your other talks, which were all fantastic, and highly recommend them others.

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