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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Stocks lack most of the weaknesses listed in the article. Point by point . . . - Not an ongoing drain on cash. - Liquid. - Cheap to buy and sell. - Simple to buy and sell. - Have historically generated high returns. (Although see my earlier
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
I bought a house in 2013 and sold it in 2016 for a total return of probably close to 50% -- not including leverage, after factoring in avoided rents and all costs. If you include the leverage, the ROI was probably >100%. What's more
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
You don't really need to do both to diversify. There is a lot of exposure to real estate in the stock market (rental companies + commercial real estate + construction), and REITs can be used to gain more exposure if desired.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
I am generally sympathetic to the idea that homes are a bad investment. The fundamentals are terrible, as discussed in the article, the most important one probably being the lack of diversification. But I wonder how it meshes with the resul
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
> In pass by reference (also called pass by address), a copy of the address of the actual parameter is stored. Use pass by reference when you are changing the parameter passed in by the client program. Your understanding of "what ha
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
This is the answer. Under the definition proposed in the article, all languages where the "=" operator can copy the values inside referents are "pass-by-reference." Languages where the "=" operator lacks that c
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
This person has to be familiar with the concept of "cost of doing business," but I guess they just haven't made the logical extension to this domain. Everyone knows there is some amount of fraud. Advertisers price it into the
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
In that case, hopefully, and probably, justice will be served.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
> Google keeps their data private because they've already secured their advertising/search territory. That is one possible self-interested reason for them to keep the data private. They could also just care deeply about guard
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
> In fact many resources can be discovered by programmatic access, and there is no inherent reason to think this is wrong. Agreed. There is no inherent or intrinsic reason to expect that any given document or any given URL ought to b
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Ok, KG is not what most people who work with and on it would consider AI.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
How long ago was 2008? It's 2018, so about ten years. Now what's another word for ten years. It's on the tip of my tongue.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
KG is not what most people think of as AI. It's more of a very large triple database with some confidence metrics than anything like what would pass for machine intelligence today. It's not even in the same org at Google.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
> (Now consider that in the golden age of oil before the oil shocks in the seventies, oil consumption was growing more like 8% per year.) At that time, per capita energy use in the US was growing by 3% per year while population would gro
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
> Let's combat global warming by producing even more heat, converting 40% of it to electricity. All the wattage produced by humanity is utterly insignificant in the face of the energy we receive from the sun. It will still be insign
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Given the choice between losing my hearing and a slightly unpleasant interaction with a service professional, I would typically choose the latter.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
> getting an entry level job out of college is harder than it's ever been. I take it you were not looking for a job in '09-'10.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Communities are things. Just because they are made up of individuals does not mean they lack group properties and tendencies. Saying that would be like claiming a glass of water can't have surface tension because it's made up of i
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Are you top talent, though? Facebook recruiters email everyone with a pulse, and some without.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Facebook is known for being a little more profligate with their spending, especially for senior and up. On the other hand, they will fire you faster. I have heard that Netflix is even more in that direction, if "excitement" is som
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Oh, well, if a song has been written about it. Next you're going to be telling me about yellow submarines and octopuses' gardens.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
> claiming that someone in his position never will is at best wishful thinking, at worst self-delusion Recall that "never will" is a colloquialism for "very unlikely will." I wouldn't call that assertion delusion
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Buy a home in the Bay Area four years ago and sell it today. You might even exceed the exclusion.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Most new taxes come about at times when the locality creating them is under financial stress. Wars are financially stressful. Thus you'd expect that any given new modality of taxation would be created, with some relatively high probabi
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Isn't it the case that all bitcoin transactions are in some kind of . . . what do you call it . . . ledger? And don't we know roughly the price of bitcoin in USD at all times? It seems like it would be pretty easy to import all th
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
The most damage you'll do is -4 points per instance of this comment. So, not that fast. I do think the hysteria is getting to be a bit much, though. We get it. Also, Zuck is not going to run for President. I really doubt he ever was.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Probably less than you think. Heat loss or intrusion from the environment is linear in the difference between the environmental temperature and the interior temperature. Since it is cooler at night, it will generally be less expensive to tu
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
I'm not telling you whether tariffs are good or bad. I'm just telling you what I expect most economists think about it.
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
At least, you can cherry-pick two who think so (that is how many economists are quoted in the article). On the other hand, you can probably find two economists who will say almost anything. I'm more interested in surveys like the ones
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by asfasgasg 9y ago
Why not all employees? All humans? :) Sometimes subsets are usefully distinct and are better suited to certain purposes. In this case, it's because game workers are so poorly treated compared to the average worker of a similar tenure i

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