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by lkrubner 5y ago
Absolutely true, and I was in no way suggesting that rising prices for homes was good or bad. I've tried to stay neutral on that issue. The point, which is important to this conversation, is that nominal increases in the price of an as
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Your nominal profit is 5% and your real profit is 0%, good point, but unrelated to the conceptual issue of whether an increase in the nominal price of an asset can be coherently understood to be a form of "inflation."
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by lkrubner 5y ago
That is a valid issue that you raise, but unrelated to the conceptual issue of whether an increase in the nominal price of an asset can be coherently understood to be a form of "inflation." Hopefully everyone on Hacker News is sma
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Those are all valid concerns, but unrelated to the conceptual issue of whether an increase in the nominal price of an asset can be coherently understood to be a form of "inflation."
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by lkrubner 5y ago
"If the real value" The word "real" has no meaning in this sentence unless you've first developed a concept of consumer inflation that is separate from asset values increasing. If you say that asset "inflation&
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Houses are not consumer goods, they are assets, like stocks on the stock market. If the stock market goes up 2%, we do not make a habit of saying "Terrible news today, the stock market suffered 2% inflation." This sentence is unma
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by lkrubner 5y ago
While your concerns are valid, that is simply not the definition of consumer inflation. Houses are not consumer goods, they are assets, like stocks on the stock market. If the stock market goes up 2%, we do not make a habit of saying "
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by lkrubner 5y ago
" Anyone with a web browser knows that home prices have experienced a monumental increase. " An asset cannot experience inflation. The word inflation suggests something that loses values. A home that gains in value is clearly not
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The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy(demodexio.substack.com)
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Two things: 1. Left out of the essay is how much this is a world-wide phenomena. This suggests that the world is more homogenous than before. Europe, China, India used to be truly different civilizations. Now the children of the wealthy all
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Failure Is a Complex Event(demodexio.substack.com)
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by lkrubner 5y ago
There are several libraries that implement variations of deque for Clojure, but Clojure also allows transparent use of Java, so when necessary you can just use the Java deque, which I think is highly optimized.
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On managing others: learn how to walk before you try to run a marathon(demodexio.substack.com)
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Don’t make a fetish of having a flat organization(demodexio.substack.com)
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I strongly agree. I wrote something similar here: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/a-master-craftsman-will-hav...
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by lkrubner 5y ago
“You are TOO DAMN SLOW. You are a bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS and…DUMB DOLPHINS get caught in nets and eaten by sharks. SO STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE EMBARRASSING ME.” That last part, “you are embarrassing me,” suggests an elem
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Every energy company that I know of makes substantial R&D investments in an effort to patent the most likely technology paths forward. They all hope to develop a portfolio of patents that will allow them to sue any new competitor that b
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by lkrubner 5y ago
“You are TOO DAMN SLOW. You are a bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS and…DUMB DOLPHINS get caught in nets and eaten by sharks. SO STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE EMBARRASSING ME.” That last part, “you are embarrassing me,” suggests an elem
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Absolutely. And the non-standard handling of NULl and defaults. I think they might have fixed this, but for the first 15 years I interacted with MySQL, I never knew when a field would default to an empty string or a NULL.
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Right, it's important to keep "worse is better" in mind, but also keep in mind that the philosophy fades in importance the longer that a technology has been around. For instance: "C is a programming language designed for
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I got into programming in 2000 and right when I did Tim Perdue wrote a very important article comparing MySQL and Postgres. He concluded that Postgres was the better database. [edit] Thanks to DocTomoe for finding this: https://p
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by lkrubner 5y ago
For awhile I insisted that all cryptocurrencies were bullshit and also Ponzi schemes, but given how many people take pleasure in buying them, selling them, and talking about them, I've come round to viewing them as a kind of in-game cu
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by lkrubner 5y ago
The starting point of this article is misleading. It would be more accurate to say that most Western nations saw historic and extraordinary productivity gains for much of the early 20th Century, building up to the astonishing economic activ
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by lkrubner 5y ago
While simplifications of complex ideas are often necessary to begin an essay, this level of simplification does violence to the historical reality. Having read a lot of economic history, to read this essay's simplifications, I feel a b
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by lkrubner 5y ago
It has a long history in anthropology. If you take a course in anthropology, especially if the focus of the course is on the so-called "primitive tribes" who were the focus of so much research in the early and mid 20th Century, th
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Excellent question. If one accepts that no hiring process is 100% objective, then one is left with the conclusion that the only way to have a hiring process that is fair to everyone is to deliberately aim to overcome one's subjective b
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by lkrubner 5y ago
And a bit more from the book I'm writing: --------------- Beware of fake, dishonest attempts at establishing an "objective" hiring process In the tech industry, I've seen good people, full of good intentions, invest seri
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by lkrubner 5y ago
And a bit more from my book: ---------- Homework assignments and personality quizzes won’t give you excellence This year I was once again hiring junior level developers, and the same dynamic was at work, but I got a surprising reaction from
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I'm currently writing a book on the subject of bad hiring practices, and other management mistakes. Allow me to share some of what I wrote: --------------------- Homework assignments and personality quizzes won’t give you excellence Th
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by lkrubner 5y ago
You are equating historiography's increasing focus on "questions of gender, race, or generational relations" to "identity politics". That is quite a leap. One can, and should, draw political conclusions from history

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