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by mafribe 10y ago
please don't think I'm being rude By saying that you remind the interlocutor that being rude is in fact an option (indeed a widely used one) and you may simply be rude ... ah the subtleties of communication.
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by mafribe 10y ago
You are right, I'm only familiar with central London. I doubt Croydon currently has enough glamour to attract the super rich to park their money with empty mansions. I imagine that the main reason for property to be empty in Croydon is
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by mafribe 10y ago
things are still closer to "normal". What do you mean by normal here? Everything is left empty by fabulously wealthy owners, or everything is packed to the rafters? I guess the latter.
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by mafribe 10y ago
10% of real estate being held by the top 0.01%. First I doubt the veracity of such claims. Second, yes, you are right, there are real estate tycoons owning a lot of property, but they typically make their money by renting and s
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by mafribe 10y ago
Far less than you'd pay to a hedge fund or other investment manager to hold on to the money. And yet, renting it out or AirBnBing it would be what? +$10k per month? There are not many people rich enough not to care abo
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by mafribe 10y ago
tax land values higher If you don't also remove, or at least weaken, strict zoning laws, who would be able to pay high property taxes?
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by mafribe 10y ago
Neighbourhoods I grew up in were lit and ... This is often a generational thing. Most people move to a bigger dewelling when the form a family and stay there until the end of their life. Often young families move to newly built
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by mafribe 10y ago
current owners want to keep the inventory low [...] owners are afraid tall building I'm slightly sceptical of this argument, because every individual new building isn't enough to impact the market. In big cit
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by mafribe 10y ago
Where I live it's about 5x difference in annual income. Is that 5x in total income over the year, or 5x in rent charged? Shorterm rentals have various costs that long-term renting doesn't have, like cleaning, higher r
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by mafribe 10y ago
If you found C++ natural, then Scala should be even easier, because C++ is orders of magnitude more complex and messy than Scala (speaking as somebody who's comfortable with both languages and has written both professionally).
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by mafribe 10y ago
It's certainly true that today (3 March 2017) there is still a gap between DOT and the current Scala compiler (version 2.12.1) -- just as there is a gap between Haskell and the lazy lambda calculus. However, as a conceptual guide what
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by mafribe 10y ago
The only thing that keeps FP and OOP from integrating properly is the "Everything is an Object" mentality. Actually ... in Scala everything is an object. Functions are special cases of objects. That's Scal
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by mafribe 10y ago
I echo "oelang"'s request: please explain why you think scala is inconsistent. As far as I an see Scala has achieved something no other language before did: 1. For the first time, achieves a successful marriage between ML-sty
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by mafribe 10y ago
While agree with the general sentiment, there are exceptions. The Shang dynasty had the longest reign in China (554 years). The Habsburg family ruled Austria for about 600 years. Paraphrasing [1]: The Japanese ruling 'family' rec
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by mafribe 10y ago
Your (1) is a very good point ... as the saying goes "It takes one to know one!". But I find "were manually fact-checked by professional journalists..." a bit of an unfortunate way of describing BF's expertise. I
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by mafribe 10y ago
I'm not quite sure what your style/rhetoric distinction refers to. I conjecture that the underlying mechanism why we can often easily predict political content from style is that most writers in general, and journalists in particu
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by mafribe 10y ago
manually fact-checked by professional journalists from BuzzFeed. The article seems to accept -- uncritically -- "professional journalists from BuzzFeed" as arbiters of fake news. Not a good start. That said, and ane
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by mafribe 10y ago
to mentally subjugate them. This is a daring proposal. What you are essentially saying is that we could simply walk into another country, tell the population: "Hey we are better than you, do as I tell you" ... and voila,
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by mafribe 10y ago
Economies of scale do not exist in the urban housing market, because supply is pretty much fixed. The more demand, the higher the price. This is not the case, and the issue has been discussed many times here on HN with
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by mafribe 10y ago
this part of the city is going to be too expensive for normal people to live there, is nothing short of theft. I'd recommend not using terms like "theft" here, as it is factually inaccurate, and goes back
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by mafribe 10y ago
How empirically adequate is the claim implicit in your criticism that Airbnb is primarily used by the rich? Au contraire, Airbnb is primarily used by the young and (comparatively poor), students and young adults. The kind of person who come
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by mafribe 10y ago
While there is truth to everything you say, I question the importance of horses in the Andes. Horses are not really at all useful at the kinds of altitutes where the Incas dwelled. The key to the Spanish conquest was that the Inca empire wa
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by mafribe 10y ago
As I said in another post: this begs the question: why did the Europeans manage to be so much better at brute military conquest/colonisation than anybody else? Rest assured that everbody else also tried ...
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by mafribe 10y ago
Europeans got the bubonic plague from Asia as far as we are aware.
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by mafribe 10y ago
I'd venture a different theory: Germany and Italy were not unified and pacified states at the time (and Switzerland is tiny and doesn't have a coast). In contrast, the European empire builders, Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, and
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by mafribe 10y ago
This begs the question: why didn't nobody else succeed in looting the Europeans. It's not like the other Empires around the world were Gandhian paradises of peaceful coexistence. They were waging war on each other, looting, and go
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by mafribe 10y ago
This overlooks why Europeans were able to achieve colonisation. Let's remember that e.g. the Inca empire, one of the biggest empires the world had ever seen at the time, was essentially colonised by 168 men (with one canon) [1]! And in
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by mafribe 10y ago
If you want to look at good SAT solvers, look ... CryptoMiniSat. Any personal relationship with CryptoMiniSat? ;)
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by mafribe 10y ago
There is quite a bit of work on parallelising SAT solving, as it's one of the most important algorithmic problems, both in theory and in practise, but (as far as I'm aware) the top sequential algorithms still beat parallel solvers
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by mafribe 10y ago
Loss of motivation and drive is quite normal and happens to everybody from time to time. I'm inclined to think that success in life depends to a substantial part in how one manages productively to overcome (or at least manage) lack of

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