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by el_nahual 4y ago
Key takeaway here: > evidence that for every 10% increase in the housing stock, rents decrease 1% and sales prices also decrease within 500 feet. In addition, I show that new high-rises attract new restaurants, which is consistent with
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For every 10% increase in the housing stock, rents decrease 1%(academic.oup.com)
76 points by el_nahual 4y ago|88 comments
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by el_nahual 4y ago
I saw on another HN thread that when a bank has bonds designated as "hold to maturity" they are not allowed to hedge against rate risk--because there isn't any! The bonds will be held til expiration for purposes of the coupon
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by el_nahual 4y ago
A bailout protects the equity and debt holders of a bank. This has nothing to do with that--it's about making sure the depositors of a bank get the cash they were holding there.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Sequoia has $85B AUM. Despite its insanely large bet (hundreds of millions) into FTX, it didn't "bet the farm." Far from it.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Options expire after 10 years, so employees that got grants in 2013 have to exercise them now.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Ravens live 10-15 years in the wild (much longer in captivity). I don't believe we know of any very intelligent animals that are not mammals or (maybe?) some long-lived birds or octopuses.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
> Having these handicaps (growing up without parents and short lifespan) is one possible explanation for why they developed their high intelligence. That argument makes sense, but is exactly the opposite of what we see in nature in eve
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by el_nahual 4y ago
> it's not a problem worth solving. Exactly. Farming on mars is not a problem worth solving.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
How do you know it's time to switch? How are you finding the therapist you switch to ?
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Ask HN: How do you find and choose a mental health therapist?
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Call me callous but that's the point at which it's ok to die. There is very little quality of life and very little sense in being alive in a hospice, surrounded by strangers, hooked up to machines, living a lonely existence.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
objectively this means you still get ads just less releavnt ones, no? It's not like the button says "Don't show me ads."
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by el_nahual 4y ago
I would accept just the test suite! For a given set of inputs here is your tax owed.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
LiveView is great but IMHO it's easily abused. "No JS, ever" is a mistake. IMHO it works best when there's very clear rules with where one should use LiveView vs JS.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
That's why proponents of "semantic css" (RIP) would have said the correct classes would have been "secondary-image" or "main-image" or "accent-image" or something like that, with the stylesheet d
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by el_nahual 4y ago
> On another occasion much later, I learned by chance that putting certain provocative information on a security clearance form can greatly speed up the clearance process. But that is another story. Talk about burying the lede! Charming
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by el_nahual 4y ago
There's more bacteria in your body than your own cells. That means that by cell count, you are more bacteria than human.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Mama's Too has delicious toppings but is overall an oily mess (Detroit style?). Mama's Pizza two blocks away on Amsterdam & 107th is run by the parents of the guy that runs Mama's Too and is a traditional NYC slice, and d
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by el_nahual 4y ago
I would love a hardware version of this made for kids.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Those are called "weirs", and often known as drowning machines. Practical Engineering on youtube has a great video about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkR79oDAgOg&vl=en
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by el_nahual 4y ago
If you like Nomograms or other mechanical mathematical curiosities, do check out @ChrisStaecker on YouTube. He does short, funny reviews/how-to videos for his collection of nomograms, measuring tools, mechanical and paper calculators.
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Usually PMF has a very simple metric: are people using your product, in increasing numbers, and talking about it? ( This doesn't mean you have a business, but it means you have a product ). But with "web3" so many projects ha
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Implications for parenting: If your kids grade is ~100 people, five parents will be absolute pieces of shit. Figure out who these are and avoid at all costs.
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We use LiveView extensively and one meaningful issue we have is users with intermittent connections on mobile. On a "normal" req/resp page, their intermittent connection would manifest as a blank then slowly loading page: thi
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Whenever I think about migrating my "primary" email to be at a domain I own, I come up with the following risk calculus: What's more likely: A) That i get locked out of Gmail for some byzantine reason I can't get out of
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by el_nahual 4y ago
The stardome reminds me of the Boyne Coracle, a small rudderless raft made of willow and ox hide. Here's a video from 1935 showing its construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCWFDMnKLyM
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by el_nahual 4y ago
There's a sibling comment to this by @Someone1234 that explicitly contradicts this: > The Musk Foundation in particular has donated less than 1% of the "charities" assets (most donations less than $500K, most years less th
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by el_nahual 4y ago
right! I was struggling to translate "libertine" into the noun related to the act itself. ie, free -> freedom; hedonist -> hedonism; libertine -> ? In romance languages there's a word "libertinaje", but the
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by el_nahual 4y ago
Often VCs will have a seat on the company's board--in which case they might be liable. However, it doesn't seem that Sequoia et al had seats on the board, at least from this early 2022 press release [1]. Holding shareholders that

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