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by hibikir 3y ago
Skyscrapers are the natural result of extremely high permitting costs, which don't scale well with building size. Your average real estate developer is just trying to get a return of investment, and a 7 story building is set up to be l
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by hibikir 3y ago
True, although I expect that the US healthcare system is more than competitive if we consider its bad outcomes and overall inefficiency per dollar spent. Systems where there is competition, but where efforts are made to make the service pro
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by hibikir 3y ago
Most people's idea of the ad marketplace is not unlike that of a person that believes that they could rewrite Twitter in a weekend. Reality is orders of magnitude more complicated than it appears. The easiest shortcut to expand one&#x2
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by hibikir 3y ago
Even among private schools, pricing differentiation happens. My local catholic parish has many schools: Some are very affordable, but those are not the good ones. The ones that are competitive with the secular private schools charge just as
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by hibikir 3y ago
I can tell you about the test in Spain: Ultimately it's actually testing what you learned in school, vs the SAT's IQ + Vocab proxy. Since it asks for so much, in practice it's testing for the quality of your school too, as if
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by hibikir 3y ago
Back when newspapers involved paper, providing an ad-free experience for people that subscribe would have been extremely expensive: A very large part of a newspaper's footprint was actually setting the paper into pages in a sensible fa
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by hibikir 3y ago
Online advertising is even more fun than that: There's the merchant/website, the advertiser, the ad network, and the public. You can even add the advertiser's competitors! The public gets ads they don't want, the merchan
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by hibikir 3y ago
It's not really the entire world: See Spain [1]: Until the financial crisis in 2007, the country liberalized building, often quite dense as opposed to plain sprawl. See, for instance, the growth in the towns surrounding Madrid around t
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by hibikir 3y ago
Not for profits are equally unaligned: It's just a matter that instead of giving money to shareholders, it's all about the whims of whoever controls the non-profit company. Those whims can be good, or they can be quite bad. Americ
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by hibikir 3y ago
Netflix might be a good example of where GraphQL is good: There's not one frontend, and one working app, but many, just by hardware platforms they support. Add to that changes in behavior for different regulators, licensing agreements
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by hibikir 3y ago
Some people will use the term castellano as a way to refer to Spanish, as spoken in Spain, as opposed to 'español de España". They probably aren't looking too deeply into the differences between speakers in Spain though, as w
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by hibikir 3y ago
There are some practical quirks to the realities of chess tournaments, and who wants to play who, which I bet lead to a lot of deviation. In practice, a super GM in their late 30s would hate to be playing up and coming teenagers that just m
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by hibikir 3y ago
In other countries, there's often reasons to go adjustable rate, as the discount for doing so vs the fixed rate can be pretty large at times. Ultimately, on every loan worth decades, one side is carrying the interest rate risk, and you
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by hibikir 3y ago
It's pretty easy to do, other than the politics, in the highest growth cities. They tend to have so many areas that are severely underdeveloped that it would be economical to upzone them with transit in mind. Many a European city is fa
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by hibikir 3y ago
This isn't applicable to Spain however, thanks to what is known as the Iberian Exception. Since gas for Spain and Portugal comes from northern Africa, and in practice is priced differently. You will see that Spain's energy prices
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by hibikir 3y ago
In general, the big advantage of going in network is the much higher chance of passing interviews vs the random person off the street that hands you their resume. I've seen this done all the time in fortune 100 companies, but it only r
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by hibikir 3y ago
Unless you are a homeowner at an expensive metro. It used to be basically every homeowner, but the changes in 2018 led to a massive reduction of people itemizing. The standard deduction went up a whole lot, and along with it, the deduction
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by hibikir 3y ago
Oh, boys can absolutely have image problems for looking at instagram models. In general, comparing oneself to the photoshopped version of people that are already in the top percentage in the good looks lottery is bad, regardless of gender.
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by hibikir 3y ago
But it's precisely that handwaviness that should make you not have to do research at all and smell a rat, as ultimately rate of interest and risk come hand in hand. It doesn't matter whether the instrument is based on crypto, real
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by hibikir 3y ago
The talk of essential and incidental complexity is, in practice, far less useful than it seems. It's just very easy to just agree in trying to just get rid of incidental complexity, in the same way that it's easy for people to agr
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by hibikir 3y ago
You are comparing with the least efficient form of transit, and looking at cities that are not really designed for transit anyway. So yes, bad transit in cities not designed for it isn't that efficient. Note, on top of this, that you a
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by hibikir 3y ago
It's far more complicated than that, and pro-CEO, as ultimately even a very bad CEO is going to get paid outrageously. See good old Steve Ballmer, who was basically running Microsoft into the ground. He was still very well paid, even t
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by hibikir 3y ago
Not even most hedged investments at large scales. Hedging doesn't make risk disappear: It just shifts it somewhere else, either to someone even larger, or dispersed among many parties. When the risk is correlated with the risk from oth
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by hibikir 4y ago
The weird thing is that, if you look for stylistic differences in super-grandmasters, Fabiano is one of the most combative in tournament play. In any random day, he is far less drawish than Ding himself, or Anish Giri, the commentator earli
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by hibikir 4y ago
Always remember that the vote buying process is more about guaranteeing further alignment, instead of straight out buying. I can't imagine, for instance, Kagan receiving similar gifts, from similar donors, to make her vote with Thomas.
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by hibikir 4y ago
In the US, the biggest issue with meadows is legislative: In my entire county, my ordinance, I have to have a lawn, not dirt, and it has to be no greater than 8 inches tall. I couldn't avoid it by moving my property closer to the road
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by hibikir 4y ago
You must be in a state that remotely aligns with your perspectives, but many are not that lucky. While theoretically the smaller the government, the more responsive it is, US states are a great counterexample. They associate people under th
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by hibikir 4y ago
An interesting choice. From where I stand, they have a pretty bad sudoku implementation. While the UI is generally fine, it has iffy definitions of difficulty, an woeful hint system, and does nothing to make you get better. I compare it to,
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by hibikir 4y ago
In the 80s, the Soviet Union was criticized for being a gerontocracy. Brezhnev came to power in his 50s, and died in charge at 75. He was replaced by Andropov, 67. Then came Chernenko, 72. They had worse medicine than we have today, but the
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by hibikir 4y ago
But what is The Witch of Mercury really about, other than some amazing mechas, which make for cheap, amazing looking merchandising? It's about a bunch of teenagers trying to live a good life in an apparently sensible high school/m

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