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by em500 4y ago
> If you have built on the property and are getting a rental of 5%, you are now getting 4%. That is a 20% decrease in property valuation, ignoring expenses (which make the figures much much worse). In developed countries the government t
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by em500 4y ago
Apparently not obvious enough for people to estimate in advance if they should avoid looping. Pike point is not just to avoid premature optimization. It’s to measure bottlenecks. Because due to changing language and hardware developments
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by em500 4y ago
So Rob Pike’s rule 1 and 2 again: Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that'
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by em500 4y ago
Aldous Huxley had it mostly right. We're amusing ourselves to death.
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by em500 4y ago
> I need to see these "I take full responsibility" people actually punished. Sundar Pichai has an estimated net worth of 1.3bln. There is no lawful way to "punish" a billionaire unless they've done something ve
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by em500 4y ago
I'm guessing that historically toggle switches would (immediately) close some electric circuit, whereas checkboxes were used to mark things as done on some paper list.
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by em500 4y ago
Focusing on the phone seems like missing the mark. The addictive thing is not the phone, but the internet. Even with a dumbphone you can easily waste as much time on your laptop's web-browser (and people did: FB and Youtube were alread
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by em500 4y ago
Labor prices are much lower in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines among others, than they are in China. So there is a bit more to the story than "the CCP keeps labor prices low".
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by em500 4y ago
Not completely sure, but AFAICT in post-1990s towns like [1], 45 to 50 floors are fairly common. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Shui_Wai
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by em500 4y ago
I think the majority of residential towers in Hong Kong are well over 40 floors. Even in the 1990s I remember most buildings that I visited were already over 40.
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by em500 4y ago
You can add a 512GB micro-SD for $50.
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by em500 4y ago
It also happens frequently on economic topics, especially regarding inflation and monetary policy, which seem to be fertile topics for conspiracy theories.
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by em500 4y ago
Sometimes a useful heuristic about what items really are durable is, do your parents own anything that you are using / would want to use? (In my own case the answer was: nothing.)
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by em500 4y ago
It should be well known by now that at the high end performance scales very poorly with power consumption (and also with price). (Same reason why you couldn't straightforwardly extrapolate the great laptop performance of Apple's M
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by em500 4y ago
But navigating between functions / classes / paragraphs / sections is also trivial in most real editors.
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by em500 4y ago
But is it generally easier to read and understand, say 10 files of 1000 lines or 100 files of 100 lines or 1000 files of 10 lines, compared to one 10,000 lines file? (I don't know the answer, and don't have any strong opinion on
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by em500 4y ago
My question was mostly retorical. I know that prioritizing fellow citizens is common in almost every country. But I think it is in most cases not morally justifiable, especially in the US where almost everyone is descendent of low single
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by em500 4y ago
Why is that the real concern? Are Romanians (or Indians for that matter) somehow less deserving of higher pay than Iowans?
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by em500 4y ago
I heard that on Uber and AirBnB, 4 (out of 5) stars is understood as bad. When I worked at a large non-American internet company, I know there were some internal discussions on how to deal with different cultural interpretations of numerica
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by em500 4y ago
It is. But in the giant sea of other uneconomic things the US does, this is only a tiny drop.
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by em500 4y ago
You don't recall correctly. All the standard inflation numbers in the newspapers, economics papers, COL adjustments etc. include gas prices (as well as food prices). You're probably confused with "core inflation", which
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by em500 4y ago
> The most annoying thing to me was how certain neighborhoods flat out do not accept Visa / Mastercard. Basically every other developed nation accepts Visa, I was annoyed and decided to not go back to areas where they literally cou
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by em500 4y ago
It's also 0.37kg (0.77lbs) heavier, which is almost +40%.
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by em500 4y ago
It's not a capital gains tax. The Netherlands has been taxing net wealth (with some exemptions, most notably for primary residences and vehicles) at around around 1.2%/year. This was implemented as a 30% levy on an assumed 4% in
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by em500 4y ago
Straight from the source: https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/en/income-in-... Summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Netherlands#Bo...
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by em500 4y ago
Hong Kong actually had famous cases of kidnap-billionaire-for-ransom in the 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheung_Tze-keung#Kidnappings
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by em500 4y ago
The highest denomination notes are €500. They don't print new ones anymore, but there are still plenty in circulation.
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by em500 4y ago
A Dutch pension fund will have all its liabilities (future payments to pensioners) in Euros, but they typically invest a lot of the current pension contributions in USD stocks and bonds. This exposes them to exchange rate risk (uncertainty
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by em500 4y ago
Anecdotally it seems that American reviewers tend to give mostly either 1 or 5 stars.
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by em500 4y ago
Apple is selling 250-300m iPhones per year. With seasonal variation, there are months where they need to churn out over a million iPHones every day . Such scales are hard for any human to internalize.

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