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by freyr 11y ago
No. There is constant churn of long-term apartments being leased and vacated. If you increase the total supply of long-term apartments, this affects the rental market from that point forward.
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by freyr 11y ago
You need to make sure you have the following software installed on your computer: - Python 2.7 (not Python 3.x) I've read some of your remarks about Python 3, but it seemed like you were (at least begrudgingly) accepting the shift
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by freyr 11y ago
> The network and credibility you get are clearly important. As is the network you go in with.
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by freyr 11y ago
Yes and no. According to Amazon, "EC2 is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud." Really, an EC2 instance is just a virtual computer. You can, with the click of a mouse, create a new EC2 instance and
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by freyr 11y ago
AirBNB involves a negligible fraction of the city's housing units. A more relevant metric would be the AirBNB rentals relative to the vacant rental units. A rough estimate indicates: - There are 300+ "Entire home" units ava
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by freyr 11y ago
The housing measures that help reduce the housing supply by allowing apartments and condos to serve as short-term AirBNB rentals for non-residents? Certainly, it's pro-growth (for AirBNB), but I don't see how it's pro-housing
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by freyr 11y ago
> Labor does not receive (or insist on) percent-of-value or percent-of-transaction compensation. This is true of pretty much all engineering jobs, and more broadly, most non-sales jobs. Commission becomes feasible when you can directly
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by freyr 11y ago
> Is it possible for a large and dominant system to innovate without competition? AT&T held a monopoly during the golden age of Bell Labs, which was one of the most prolific centers of innovation in the 20th century. Google has a d
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by freyr 11y ago
Absolutely, and my claim is that height gets overrepresented in studies on attraction because it's so easy to measure. This leads to borderline-absurd statements like: > heterosexual womens' unspoken but critically important c
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by freyr 11y ago
You've arrived at my original point: we see so many studies that focus on height because height is unambiguous and so easy to measure. This "scientific proof," in turn, makes it seem like a bigger factor than it is. Handsomen
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by freyr 11y ago
> So why, in your opinion, did no women step up earlier to create a dating app Why haven't women stepped up earlier to create apps in all categories? It's a complicated question and one I cannot answer. But among women-create
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by freyr 11y ago
An app being "cofounded" by a woman and an app being "made" by a woman are two different things. For example, perhaps her input was dismissed by her male cofounders (who, incidentally, tried to strip her of her cofounder
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by freyr 11y ago
And tall and average-looking men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were tall and handsome. What's your point? Poor and handsome men are nowhere near as attractive as they would be if they were rich. And rich and t
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by freyr 11y ago
> "A Better Tinder", to me, would be one that actually supports its original function, of being "a hook-up app." For ages, there have been sites catering to people looking for casual hook-ups. And they all run into
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by freyr 11y ago
> heterosexual womens' unspoken but critically important criteria in mate selection is height. Your impression may be biased, in part, because it's easy to measure height and create studies based around it. My friend is hands
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by freyr 11y ago
I can't speak to other sites, but there are lots of stories online about why the Tinder founders are dicks.
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by freyr 11y ago
Whether or not the premise makes sense, I've landed way more actual dates with much more attractive women (physically, and also in terms of personality, education, career, etc.) on Bumble than Tinder. It might have nothing to do with m
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by freyr 11y ago
> YC has a very high problem flux at this point From this statement and, more generally, YC's focus on creating high-growth businesses, I'm guessing they'll be focused on long-term research with potential to disrupt mark
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by freyr 11y ago
> How does an organization get to that point? Raise $1B in private capital and another $2.1B in an IPO. Now you have billions to burn and sky-high expectations and no path to profit. Hire lot of people and hope for the best. But in the
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by freyr 11y ago
> Even a 10% slower speed differential from a baseline human is a big, big disadvantage. This would make sense if all thinking is equal and only the rate of thinking varies. In practice, the quality of thought processes seems much mo
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by freyr 11y ago
Interesting, my interface is extremely laggy and the video stutters. The apps and remote are nice though.
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by freyr 11y ago
> Wouldn't want him to get in trouble at work for comments like that In the off chance that he wasn't one of the engineers who took the fall.
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by freyr 11y ago
> The US stock market is ... a financial center for earth This is true currently. But again, there's no reason to assume this will continue forever . > If we talk about civilization at this point in time then its the global c
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by freyr 11y ago
> Not my area of expertise but I'd imagine it's a function of population and interconnectedness of economies. So the population growth rate of the U.S. is declining, and many developed nations now have negative population gro
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by freyr 11y ago
> What else would you have us expect? I wouldn't expect unsubstantiated claims that have no basis in reality to be stated as plain fact, as in: > the trend over a decade or more will always be "up". This statement i
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by freyr 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the phrase was just used in terms of the nature of a free market. Are you suggesting that because the U.S. stock market has risen during the tiny blip in history that the U.S. has been an uncontested world superpower, w
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by freyr 11y ago
Except that, in many nations around the world, the population growth rate is negative. There is no shortage of space, or food, or energy, but the populations are aging and couples are having fewer children. This is the situation in Japan, G
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by freyr 11y ago
> the wealth of the nation goes up. What is the scientific basis by which we can expect this to continue indefinitely? In fact, all evidence points to the contrary.
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by freyr 11y ago
How long of a time period? Is 20 years sufficient? 200 years? Historically, most empires rose to greatness and then imploded in fewer than 200 years. So I guess we shouldn't look over too long a time period. We've enjoyed the re
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by freyr 11y ago
Some apes have already learned to speak. We call them humans.

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