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by irq11 10y ago
unless you take the other, equally valid perspective, where the huge demand bubble is the problem. that's the nice thing about the "law" of supply and demand: there are two ways to promote balance.
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by irq11 10y ago
Yes, I'm sure. First, that FT article is terrible. It uses a "desirable 20 sq km slice" of Tokyo as a proxy for the city's population growth, but in reality the city's population growth, by its own accounting, was
603.
by irq11 10y ago
Japan's property values haven't risen in the last 20 years because their economy is in the toilet, they're struggling with deflation, and their population is declining. When the economy was growing like crazy in the 80s, Japa
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by irq11 10y ago
After you've had success in the valley, people are willing to fling money at you for just about anything. This factor alone accounts for a large percentage of repeat successes. Square probably never would have obtained the capital nece
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by irq11 10y ago
He probably built a viral thing during the initial land-grab and then sold it. There were tons of people selling sheep-throwing apps and whatnot back then, and it wasn't uncommon to hear of deals in the hundred-thousand dollar range. T
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by irq11 10y ago
for any domain using ruby? you mean like webservers, where GC has been the #1 cause of operational problems for essentially forever?
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by irq11 10y ago
Instead of "massive wealth transfer", I think you meant to write "slight dent in disgustingly fat profit margins", because - just based on aggregate metrics - most landlords are making a stone-cold killing in this mark
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by irq11 10y ago
I'm still waiting for him to deliver on his original promises. Like creating a profitable electric car company. I give him credit for SpaceX, but Tesla's main product so far has been hopes and dreams.
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by irq11 10y ago
The costs of being a landlord don't change that much from year to year - especially in SF where property taxes are capped by prop 13. New tenants aren't "subsidizing" anything. Whats happening is that landlords are makin
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by irq11 10y ago
You're being incredibly unfair. I read the article, and found the parent's comment to be almost a verbatim restatement of what it said. Your observation that A16Z's tactics were presented as more nuanced than this strategy
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by irq11 10y ago
The costs he is citing are fixed. They don't have anything to do with zoning or past decisions by San Francisco.
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by irq11 11y ago
You folks have a big team, and have been working on this for two years now. Promising another language in the future doesn't mean the title is right.
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by irq11 11y ago
The title is a bit misleading. This only works for Python and OSX.
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by irq11 11y ago
No it isn't. The land cost goes up, because now it's possible to use it for a much more lucrative purpose. This is called the zoning windfall problem. At some point, in theory, the greater supply begins to bring down land costs in
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by irq11 11y ago
It also says explicitly that there are about 10,000 people per square mile elsewhere in the same page.
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by irq11 11y ago
It's the answer box on Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=population+density+brooklyn&... http://www.brooklyn.com/population.html
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by irq11 11y ago
You have it exactly backwards. The density of SF is almost double Brooklyn. 18k/mi^2 vs 10k/mi^2
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by irq11 12y ago
In the case of vaccines, phase one trials tell you if there's an immune response to the antigen being used. This is a good first approximation of effectiveness. The level of response could still be too low, but at least there's so
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Shikaeshi Bento: The Japanese Wives' Revenge Lunch(iromegane.com)
1 points by irq11 12y ago|0 comments
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Why is Symbol== slower than String==?(omniref.com)
7 points by irq11 12y ago|0 comments
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by irq11 15y ago
"Restauranteurs are very clear and vocal about why they hate yelp -- it is because Yelp uses reviews as a way to blackmail them into buying advertisements in Yelp. That is pretty fucked up behaviour and has been confirmed by many people ma
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by irq11 16y ago
I've written plenty of Rails code, and I don't know where you find these well-documented libraries that are magically readable. Most Rails libraries are as abysmally documented as any other project.
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by irq11 16y ago
I think DDG is a great example of why Google doesn't have a BOSS-like API. It seems pretty clear that DDG is violating the TOS of the Yahoo API by mixing search results. Yahoo seems to be looking the other way (for now), but you can bet
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by irq11 16y ago
Your position is as biased as any other -- you're just choosing to focus on Zuckerberg's age, and consequently assume that he was victimized. Perhaps that's true, perhaps not. When I look at this, I see an incredibly unsophisticated legal
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by irq11 16y ago
While I think you're probably absolutely correct from a legal perspective, I also think that you're missing the point. This is interesting precisely because the contract is so amateurish, yet it appears that Zuckerberg actually signe
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by irq11 16y ago
That parenthetical only applies to the clause about result ordering. if you read the whole TOS, it's quite clear that Bing doesn't want you to do what DDG appears to be doing. In particular, mixing results from different services is a no-no
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by irq11 17y ago
Of course! Everyone assumes that Bing is just a drop-in replacement for Google, but it doesn't come without costs: Google has a massive brand identity. The phone with Google search has an implicit advantage over the phone with "Bing".
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by irq11 17y ago
Your second term is wrong. There are 16 matches in the second round, and you have a 1/2 chance of picking the winner in each, not a 1/4 chance. The first term (.5^32) is the probability of picking all of the winners in round one (p(A)). Th
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by irq11 17y ago
No. The chance of being incorrect in the first round is factored into the first term (since that term is calculating the probability of picking an entirely correct first bracket). The second term need only represent the chance of picking co
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by irq11 17y ago
I don't assume that the options are mutually exclusive. That said, I'm pragmatic enough to know that someone has to pay for a system like the Danes'. It comes at the expense of high taxes for all. But if we're talking about curious, all-o

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