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by esja 10y ago
Or a trapezoid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuVh36vQkSI
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by esja 10y ago
Agreed. And compounding the problem: she also put Trump in that basket. "Well, she said I was deplorable, but couldn't be more wrong, because I'm a good person... she must be wrong about him too"
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by esja 10y ago
He also did this at a time when he should have been focused on finishing the job with banking reform.
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by esja 10y ago
More than a second actually. If you read both my comments, I think we agree. The Democrats managed to persuade themselves that the public would elect the most "establishment" candidate imaginable. This after their own anti-establi
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by esja 10y ago
Just to add: Trump won despite being massively out-spent, despite his party being against his nomination, despite the entire mainstream media being against him, despite his business "issues", and despite all the publicised gaffes
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by esja 10y ago
I didn't want this to happen, but I believed it would. There were a lot of signals, for those ignoring the group-think. e.g. Clinton needed a lot more help than Trump to get big crowds to her rallies, and Obama had to get involved at t
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by esja 10y ago
Same situation, but Australian. Australia is quite a few steps ahead of New Zealand on this delightful journey toward outright social and generational conflict. At least in NZ you now seem to have a real public debate and perhaps some hope
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by esja 10y ago
You can train a racehorse without being one.
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by esja 10y ago
IARPA ran something like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregative_Contingent_Estimat...
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by esja 10y ago
"It's different this time"
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by esja 10y ago
Barings Bank gave Nick Leeson responsibility for a) trading, and b) settling his trades. $1.3 billion lost and the world's second oldest merchant bank destroyed.
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by esja 10y ago
The Little Manual of API Design (Trolltech/Nokia): http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~jblanche/api-design.pdf How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters (Josh Bloch): http://static.googleusercontent.com&#x2
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by esja 10y ago
I didn't say everyone would need licensing, just that it's coming. Safety critical areas will probably be first.
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by esja 10y ago
You are right, but the consequences of hiring bad developers are rising every year. I think licensing is coming whether the industry wants it or not.
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by esja 10y ago
Well if it already turns a profit, imagine how great it will be for the new owners when they start charging more for public access to public data. And imagine how hard it will be for Private Eye and others to dig into the corruption which i
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by esja 10y ago
It was announced (cynically) just before the Easter break. I think it's their second attempt to do this. Considering the Panama Papers etc. it's ridiculous that they are making moves to reduce transparency and accountability.
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by esja 10y ago
Understood, and thanks. I misunderstood the context - I was just referring to ownership of the building, rather than all the companies registered there.
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by esja 10y ago
Simple: require that beneficial owners (humans) are listed on the title at the Land Registry. These can be private but they must be real. No name, no sale.
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by esja 11y ago
So do both.
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by esja 11y ago
Of course you can control where it flows, if you want to. Just one example: China doesn't allow Canadians to buy Chinese houses. I agree monetary tightening would help but it's a long way off. In the meantime Western governments a
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by esja 11y ago
It's worth noting as well that houses don't disappear when landlords sell them. Most landlords don't build new homes to house people. More commonly they compete with owner-occupiers to buy existing property. Remove the landlo
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by esja 11y ago
It's also worth noting... the normal multiple used to be around 3x a single income. Now that many/most women work, the measure has changed quietly to "household income".
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by esja 11y ago
Populist anger is justified… low rates are a key driver of wealth inequality. 1. As interest rates approach zero, asset prices approach infinity (via "Discounted Cash Flow" valuation). The wealthy own most assets. 2. The wealthy t
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by esja 12y ago
You're right... I copied it from the top search result ( http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html ), which seems to be the 1920 version. There have been others since, and Wikipedia uses the newer wording.
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by esja 12y ago
So many... but recently... Shelley, Ozymandias: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, w
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by esja 12y ago
With a bit of work their Enterprise product could be huge... it's a real shame they've not invested in it properly.
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by esja 12y ago
As do many. And many others had that option but now don't, thanks to crazy housing policies (and lack of).
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by esja 12y ago
There is no "different market" though. It's all one market for occupation of land, and one of the least regulated in the world... a place where speculators compete with residents, where locals compete with foreigners, Panama-
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by esja 12y ago
You already live there. What happened to the price of housing in your area?
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by esja 12y ago
You may have noticed that everywhere commutable became 20% more expensive last year. There is only so far people can move.

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