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by civility 7y ago
As an example, buyer's agents will not show, or disparage, homes where the agent's get less than their approx 3%. For instance, Trelora in Denver offers a discount to the seller, but they'll offer full rate to the buyer&#x27
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by civility 7y ago
Redfin looks like they're trying to be a "discount agent". Here is a quote from their front page: > We're full-service, local agents who get to know you over coffee and on home tours, and we use online tools to make
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by civility 7y ago
There's already lots of healthy competition in moving companies. Imagine if the movers wanted a percentage of your home price instead of few hundred for the day's work. The problem with realtors is that they've got a lock on
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by civility 7y ago
I wonder if Amazon would ever dive into the home real estate market. With modern day search, realtors provide very little value above doing the paper work, and that seems very automatable. There's just no reason to pay 6% of every ho
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by civility 7y ago
That bothered me for a while until I figured it out. After a while, I learned that underspent projects are your opportunity to learn new things, mentor junior people, and provide cushion to people waiting for their next projects. The only
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by civility 7y ago
Newer versions of Chrome OS are able to run Linux in a container. You can install Firefox with the "firefox-esr" package in that Linux. Unfortunately, audio doesn't work yet (at least not on my PixelBook), so it's not
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by civility 7y ago
If you think I said anything like that, then you're not as good at natural language as you think. Why would I defend an argument I didn't make?
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by civility 7y ago
I guess something requiring discipline and effort makes you defensive. You can't really think all programmers are equal. How do you think the good ones got better?
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by civility 7y ago
You can say how you wish comments were done, but in practice a section of code with a lot of comments tends to indicate unresolved complexity. The worst is when you can tell the original author used comments to indicate how they wished the
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by civility 7y ago
About 1 in 4000 people has problems with blue and yellow. If you try to accommodate everyone, you just can't use color for information. I think using blue and yellow is a reasonable compromise.
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by civility 7y ago
> except it was a little harder to get a hold of people I certainly don't miss using the yellow pages to find a store or service, or looking on a paper map to find where the street is.
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by civility 7y ago
I guess you missed the part above where I mentioned C++ templates as a cautionary tale about accidentally creating an awkward metalanguage. Besides, Go and Rust are both clearly responses to C++, so it makes sense they would try to provide
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by civility 7y ago
I think Bayes theorem might be worthwhile here. Besides, going with the majority or authority as a principal is almost the definition of dogma. That's not likelihood in any rigorous sense.
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by civility 7y ago
> No - I think having a pro-economic growth bias would be helpful, [...] I like how that sets the bar higher for extraordinary claims and extraordinary proof. Although honestly, I'll always be skeptical about extrapolation and pred
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by civility 7y ago
> I suspect the majority would do the opposite and deny/understate the problem. I don't know. I've seen so much fear-mongering in my life. We're all going to die from zika, n1h1, ebola, killer bees, aids, mrsa, ter
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by civility 7y ago
Because there isn't any reason for me to jump to a conclusion. For other reasons, I already have a carbon footprint and voting record almost anyone in that consensus would approve of. Is it really important that I "believe"
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by civility 7y ago
> and have a pro-economic growth bias Sarcasm? Forgive me, but it's honestly tough to tell. Amusingly, I think anyone who can make a model of the climate which can predict 100 years into the future really should make a model of the
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by civility 7y ago
Heh, you got me there.
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by civility 7y ago
> Then you obviously don't know basic physics. Ugh, if you're going to just attack me, why not jump to the big guns and call me a shill for the oil company or some other cliche. > The average temperature is much easier to pr
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by civility 7y ago
Yeah, in the absence of information or understanding, a lot of people like to imagine the worst. I guess that's a good defensive instinct.
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by civility 7y ago
That's a very reasonable position, and I won't argue with you there. Many times you need to make a decision with imperfect or incomplete information. However you go one step further and attack anyone who dares question that view,
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by civility 7y ago
I'd believe the simulations are reproducible. However, re-running the atmosphere of the earth is certainly not an experiment anyone has reproduced. There's at least some room for questioning whether the simulations have sufficie
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by civility 7y ago
Following the consensus is a fine choice if you're trying not to get lynched by the mob, but it really has very little to do with science. The scientific method does not say, "get everyone you think is smart to vote on it, if the
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by civility 7y ago
IMO, Rust has a very nice macro system, and this is a good thing (although I'm not familiar with any changes they've made in the last year or two). It's a bad thing that sometimes one needs to resort to the macro system beca
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by civility 7y ago
I have a Pixelbook too, and agree it is a really great tablet and laptop. I love that it runs Debian Linux in a container, along with Android apps too. The security model keeps random Android apps from messing with my shell, and X11 apps
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by civility 7y ago
I wonder if they'd ever consider adding hygienic macros instead of templates/generics. To me, that solves the problem of needing to write the same code for float32+float64 and so on. And it doesn't require so much careful t
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by civility 7y ago
> A language doesn't have to be black and white text I agree. I'd like to be able to insert pictures to explain data structures and algorithms, or equations for the mathy bits. I'd like to be able to choose different fon
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by civility 7y ago
Rich Hickey has some nice talks about why separating the data from the methods is really beneficial.
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by civility 7y ago
Which part are you reacting to? I can't speak for "many" users, but all three parts you quoted apply to my usage of Python.
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by civility 7y ago
I always liked the way Objective-C added the message passing syntax in a way which fit in well with C. The [squareBrackets means: "we're in SmallTalk land"] looks nice to me. The @ (at sign) sigils I don't appreciate a

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