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by iguy 8y ago
Yes absolutely. My objection is only to people claiming the opposite causality; apologies if I misread you earlier.
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by iguy 8y ago
> rental properties must provide a positive return on capital To new investors. GP's point is that the causality is from rent to sale price. In any year any owner (or agent) more or less tries to charge the rent they can get. If thi
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by iguy 8y ago
Well, are you really claiming that the cause of high interest rates on payday loans is poor morals? Unusual greed? Which mysteriously descends on all who enter the trade, every time? That's the whole reason I used the example of loansh
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by iguy 8y ago
Ah the variance is a good point. In addition to the these higher average costs (unpaid rent, extensive repairs). Especially since the average landlord is small, an cannot average over hundreds of properties.
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by iguy 8y ago
You missed the "because", see my other answer. I don't doubt, however, that being really thick-skinned is a necessary trait for surviving in that business. Soft-hearted types also don't last long as drug dealers, surpris
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by iguy 8y ago
But the article doesn't seem to have a measure of profit. They look at rent and purchase price, and later throw in something for maintenance. If they actually had the books, and could count how many employees were needed to deal with s
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by iguy 8y ago
My point is that a theory that says their business practices follow from moral failings doesn't explain anything about the world. Some businesses just mysteriously seem to always be run by bad people. Conversely, assuming that every bu
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by iguy 8y ago
It seems they literally define "exploitation rate" as rent over purchase price. Then later they add in some estimate of costs of repairs. But it would be much more interesting to actually see the books. I'd bet a lot of money
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by iguy 8y ago
This is pretty much the whole story of automation of work, running in fast-forward. The robots, I mean compilers, took 90% of the jobs which used to be performed by humans. And here we all are.
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by iguy 8y ago
> But it's something I'd prefer to believe regardless and be wrong about. This is fine so long as you are judicious about what actions follow from such beliefs. If it motivates you to seek opportunity and encouragement for all,
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by iguy 8y ago
> but in the end it basically guarantees that the service will be expensive because they have to make back that investment Isn't it exactly the other way around? They bid high because they estimate that they will be able to make bac
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by iguy 8y ago
Maybe the expensive part is spectrum -- it's pretty limited, and is usually sold at auction. So the cheap bandwidth (double meaning intended) in India is ultimately a reflection on the average customer not being able to afford much. Th
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by iguy 8y ago
I had to check but it only closed in 2001, I'm sure it was really awful to use by then! Never went there, but can confirm air travel was not very Mad Men by that point.
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by iguy 8y ago
The main buildings are just big blocks, maybe nothing to show. But they must contain all these restaurants etc, not just rooms -- so guests will probably only walk through the lobby a few times. Have a drink there, I guess. Still, it's
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by iguy 8y ago
Well, not an expert, but have you got any information here? The technology was pretty mature in 1921, there were a few rounds of refinement before that. Machinists definitely talked about "one thou" back then. The same M2s which f
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by iguy 8y ago
Right, but it sound like the aerodynamics have been deteriorating model-by-model, as they move away from the original design. This creeping change must be really hard to regulate right. A terrible new design you could refuse to certify, but
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by iguy 8y ago
Lots of ammunition is really old, e.g. 1921 (but really a slight tweak of a 1906 design): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG
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by iguy 8y ago
OK, I think we're fully in agreement here, modulo terminology. You are using "true positive" to mean that the watch correctly predicted a positive score on the medical test. And these are the people who may be treated, some o
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by iguy 8y ago
Thanks, that sounds entirely sane. You cleared this up while in the US? The article makes it sound like living in Korea, and at the exact time some pop star was in the news for seemingly abusing privilege, was part of the reason. Although I
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by iguy 8y ago
Where do you get 5:1? Maybe I don't know enough about heart disease but the numbers in the article seem pretty hard to parse. It sounds like many of those who got a bleep from their iWatch subsequently had some effect detected by stand
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by iguy 8y ago
I wonder if, had he asked a lawyer before going to Korea, he could have found this out at all? Knowing that Korea has conscription, it wouldn't have been a stupid thing to do, to try to get this 100% clear. But if the crucial piece of
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by iguy 8y ago
If I understand right, one of the problems in the case of cancer is that we don't have great data about the people without symptoms who wider screening would catch. Once we catch them, we treat them, and many recover. But to say how ma
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by iguy 8y ago
There's no zero-cost way to have food, and it seems important to look at the total, not just packaging. If (as I seem to remember for cucumbers) the un-wrapped version means significantly higher waste, then the film (which is completel
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by iguy 8y ago
It's entirely possible that a test which was net positive when applied "with probable cause", can even become a net negative if applied without. Because testing the whole population will produce many more false positives. I d
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by iguy 8y ago
I suspect this trick is already harder to pull off at a university in a big city, compared to one in a little college town.
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by iguy 8y ago
I think that one of the under-rated aspects of having classmates is finding out how little they understand. From the professor it's easy to get an idea of what the perfect student would know, in week 5, but it's much more helpful
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by iguy 8y ago
And a forced pace, to keep moving instead of disappearing down every passing rabbit-hole.
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by iguy 8y ago
> both the left and right ... partisans of genetic determinism, though of which aspects ... varies I agree, but that's enough. In any one area, scientific fact will run into serious opposition. In a different area, the opposition ma
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by iguy 8y ago
In many ways this resembles 3rd-world democracy. People vote for "their" party on the basis of some historical or ethnic division, not on the basis of policies or results. Voting against it would be seen almost as some kind of tre
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by iguy 8y ago
Being that someone appears to be my regular job :) It's absolutely true that, if all you know about an individual is membership of one of these populations, then you know very little. Any new information about the actual person will qu

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