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by jwarden 2y ago
> If something goes up more than inflation - it is a good investment It’s not that simple. First, risk is a also factor. But a real estate investor is not just looking for capital gains. They are looking at rent yields against costs (tax
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by jwarden 2y ago
Taiwan is not some small random island in the Pacific. It is a country of 23 million people, one of the best-functioning democracies in the world, and the only Mandarin-speaking democracy. It would be a tragic loss for the world if it were
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by jwarden 2y ago
I am Spanish, and I can tell you there is a lot of Spanish media claiming rent control is making things worse in the cities that implemented it. Just do a Google search from within Spain: almost all the results discuss negative impact. Try
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by jwarden 2y ago
I am also raising a bilingual 3–year-old in Spain. I speak to him only in English. But i have recently read The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, which argues convincingly that his English will be limited in certain important ways
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by jwarden 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35183317
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Show HN: Updates to Quality News, Our Alternative HN UI(news.social-protocols.org)
1 points by jwarden 2y ago|3 comments
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by jwarden 2y ago
Hi HN I thought I'd announce some updates to Quality News, our alternative HN client: 1. Retention of Story Stats Charts Story Stats/Charts pages (example: https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=42802210 ) no l
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by jwarden 2y ago
Yes good point. The module/unit acts as the singleton instance, in a sense, though that might be the incorrect way to put it. In any case, I think variables that are “global” but encapsulated in this way lose the potential for harm we
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by jwarden 2y ago
A singleton object can encapsulate the global state, converting global variables to private fields. How would this be different? Because a counter singleton can for example disallow directly setting the count field, only allowing the count
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by jwarden 2y ago
Yes exactly those checks. Even if your characterization of the independence of the three branches of government is valid, the circumstances are far from unique in history.
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by jwarden 2y ago
The US president is not all-powerful. If he was, Trump would not have been forced to hand over power to Biden in 2020. Certainly he is petty and vindictive. But there have always been petty and vindictive people in power, and people that we
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by jwarden 2y ago
A president can't end democracy just because they want to. There have probably been many presidents in the past that would have liked, in their secret heart of hearts, to be dictators. But they didn't end democracy because they
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by jwarden 2y ago
I remember being so upset reading Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics, which starts with a very clear and concise review of the basics of supply, demand, surplus and shortage, which leads directly to an overwhelmingly simple and convincing
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by jwarden 2y ago
> The only universal code all humanity agrees on is might makes right. This is a cynical and unjustifiable claim. Obviously some people disagree. In fact in my experience people almost universally agrees might does not make right.
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by jwarden 2y ago
Read the article but I still think the criticism of the title is valid. The claim is that the way we talk about AI will be different in 5 years, not that AI will be dead. Likewise recommender systems, Neural Networks, and Statistical Learni
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by jwarden 2y ago
Something doesn’t have to be perfect to be good. Most American’s recognize and lament the erosion of freedoms over the years, while still valuing the many that remain. I don’t think they should be be laughed at for that.
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by jwarden 2y ago
But there is such a reliable source, it is right in GP’s post — the AP article with the cosst guard interview. I don’t understand these comments. https://apnews.com/article/fbi-drones-new-jersey-a978470fa3b...
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by jwarden 2y ago
GP also provided this AP article as a source. This article quotes a coast guard official directly. https://apnews.com/article/fbi-drones-new-jersey-a978470fa3b...
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by jwarden 2y ago
This is still a very civil society, but these hysterical cries to abandon civility aren’t helping.
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by jwarden 2y ago
> Twitter isn't perfect because people aren't perfect. There are trolls, toxicity, and extremists because the world has trolls, toxicity, and extremists. Well put.
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by jwarden 2y ago
I have heard this theory before, and it seems too simplistic. I have a lawn, and I don’t care a bit about looking wealthy, and don’t think I lack personality. The lawn is an important part of my lovingly crafted landscape, along with trees,
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Quadratic vs. Pairwise(blog.zaratan.world)
4 points by jwarden 2y ago|0 comments
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by jwarden 2y ago
Another architecture might be that the service responsible for Seat Selection emits a `SeatSelected` event, and another service responsible for updating bookings emits a `BookingUpdated(Reason: SeatSelected)` "fat" event. Same for
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by jwarden 2y ago
I can. But I do this by visualizing the taps as a group. I don't have to label them with a number. I can see them in my mind, thus recalling the taps. If I tap with any sort of rhythm I can see the rhythm in the way they are laid out i
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by jwarden 2y ago
> Most people who want to get rid of Jones Act are economists and other types who sole concern is "How much more money can we make from cheap shipping" while ignoring any national security concerns. I read "economists and
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A Bayesian Inference Primer(jonathanwarden.com)
2 points by jwarden 2y ago|1 comments
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by jwarden 2y ago
I've written yet another primer on Bayesian Inference. I hope this way of explaining it clicks for some people who have struggled to understand it in the past.
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by jwarden 2y ago
Very interesting strategy. Unfortunately, I think this is not an equilibrium strategy. An equilibrium strategy profile is one where, given everyone is using that strategy, no single individual cannot profitably deviate. But if I know everyo
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by jwarden 2y ago
There’s a difference between a point in physical time, and a coordinate on a calendar. UTC works great for points in time, both past and future. So UTC is very appropriate for logging, including of financial transactions, where often what m
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Deliberative Consensus Protocols(social-protocols.org)
23 points by jwarden 2y ago|8 comments

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