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by asfasgasg 8y ago
The person who wrote it was probably serious, but it is not correct.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I'd actually be moderately surprised if there were no extant hotel companies that have commissioned a typeface. They might not have bragged about it, and you might not have heard about it, but it's not like it's an unthinkabl
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Counterexamples: asbestos, tobacco, alcohol, fossil fuels, climate change. (On the latter two, the studies mostly have the correct outcome. What is difficult is convincing half of the American population that that matters.)
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Is this seasonally adjusted, or just raw? Most big internet properties have peaks in the winter and troughs during the summer.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I think you may be confused. I suspect everyone in the thread knows that English is a natural language.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Fortunately, Duplex's purpose is booking salon appointments, not to provide a conversation partner about statistical theory.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
The whole reason I made my comment was going through a back and forth with myself about whether there was a case to be made here. I'm still not positive, so I hope I'm not driving that bargain harder than it deserves to be driven.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Most of the time, I agree with you. Especially with a lot of the pointless pedantry that people argue about on here. However, the question of whether X should be termed an investment or speculation can be quite important in people's li
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
My first question would be: how much experience do you have with other languages? Because C and C++ are the only two major languages that have this separation, and everybody else seems to get on fine without it. If you're knowledgeable
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Redundancy in C++ chiefly arises from textual inclusion as the mechanism for communicating about the capabilities of other modules. It's not because of a bad preprocessor or programming skill.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Little difference from the charts they already put up today?
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
>The problem with this dismissal is that "knowledge" is not just a word "Knowledge" is just a word. It references many different concepts. > In the real world it is impossible to find human experiences that are &
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
If all philosophers are talking about is how underspecified words are, that is fine, but there's little value in it. Language is not designed. So a word is underspecified. Nobody can fix it. But I was under the impression that philosop
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
You do not know that they are going to start tracking you.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
The clock problem is, as it seems most philosophical problems I seem to encounter, one of definitions. It's a game with words. It doesn't change the underlying facts. You had a good reason to believe proposition X, and X happened
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Cynical fatalism plays better when the supposed perpetrator isn't NPR. Speaking of organizations I would trust with my personal info, it's hard to think of any better.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
No. Read it more carefully. There is someone who asks that they be allowed to register which political view they favor. There is no such system to actually register one's political views.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
> Its wasn't exactly compulsory; but if you wanted to advance in the company you pretty much had to attend. Even that seems unlikely. Certainly, managers have to be trained about compliance and inclusiveness, but was JD a manager? I
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Anyway, it's not clear that anyone is making any attempt to "claw back" this sense of entitlement. It's always been this way and there isn't any evidence I'm aware of it's doing damage to the bottom line,
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
It's hard to get a read on the politics of the "typical" HNer. As people are always quick to point out, HN is not a single person, but a group of people, each of whom may have ideosyncratic positions. All the same, people are
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
This is the secret genius hypothesis. I don't give it much credit, considering how the administration is flailing on almost every other front. It is possible that all of this was Trump being very clever. But it is as easily explained
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
A possibly highly irrational US president in a world where other US ground conflicts are winding down? I wonder this too. I expect we won't really know until we have a decade or two of hindsight to try to understand.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
There are many western countries without a single-payer (socialized) system. E.g. Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Greece. That said, almost all of them have national price setting, almost all of them ha
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I'm not from such a country, but I do listen to The Weeds (a policy podcast) and they have discussed how it works. Roughly speaking, there are committees that look at the efficacy of new treatments and their costs, and they decide what
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
> That's not a true equivalency. Unless your loan has language or provisions for "mailing back the keys", doing so is an act of default and regardless of how well (or poorly) the lender(s) has/have hedged against the
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
> But houses in all but a few markets are and remain "good investments" by any reasonable interpretation. To argue otherwise is to argue in bad faith. Stop it. What about the interpretation that I don't want to be subject
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
I'm sorry, but the numbers you're putting out there indicate that you might be a person who does not understand how to value their investment property. The typical baseline number to have is one of the expected or historical cap r
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
At the time I didn't think of it as speculating. I thought of it as "buying a house because that is what people do at this age in these life circumstances." But I agree that there are some interpretations of your word choice
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Normally the homestead exemption would protect the homestead from creditors other than the mortgage lender. Otherwise, it would be substantially impossible to induce banks to give mortgages.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
> potentially leading to their bankruptcy Whoa, you have to go bankrupt to stop paying a mortgage in Canada? In the US, these are (in my experience) secured, non-recourse loans. That means that the bank's final option is to take the

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