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by maximilianroos 2y ago
Having non-profits pay property taxes — similarly to how they pay employer taxes — seems like a good step. Property taxes are in part a fee for benefits which non-profits receive. It would also incentivize local governments to encourage the
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by maximilianroos 2y ago
I have the opposite reaction — I'm not surprised at all! The short-term benefits seem really high. And ADHD sits at one end of a normal distribution — lots of people suffer from elements of it, particularly when doing solitary work whi
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by maximilianroos 2y ago
If landlords were restricting supply in order to increase rents, we'd see higher vacancy rates in locations with higher rents. But we see the opposite — NYC has a vacancy rate of 1.4% and peak rental pricing.
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
It addresses the problem of housing costs for long-term residents, we agree. It does that in two ways — it prevents tourists from competing for their house, and it reduces tourism, reducing local wages, which reduces housing demand from oth
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
> You could approve more building, but then more people would move in until prices were high again. The area is so appealing that no matter how much housing there was, people would flood in until it became saturated again. If supply has
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IBIS hotel check-in terminal keypad-code leakage(pentagrid.ch)
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
[PRQL dev here] Love what you've done and thanks for building on PRQL! We're very happy to add something like a PIVOT statement. In the long term, we'd have to think about how to make it work deeply in PRQL, since the column
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
If an asset goes up in price, who loses? One model is "total assets go up, no one loses". Another is "those who want to use the assets in the future will have to pay more for them".
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
That's a very different discussion! If any discussion of AI build-out collapses to "Will AI lead to dystopia???", then we're not going to make much progress in discussing AI build-out.
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
For context in WWII, industrial defense production reached 10% of GDP in the US. World GDP is now $100T. If the $5T is spent over 5 years, that's 1% of GDP — incredibly high, but within the realm of possibility if we become singularly
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
Why would we put something heavy on the thing we're moving around? And which would be impotent much of its time, in a garage? One of the great benefits of electricity is the efficiency of scaled production. ICEs can only be as efficie
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
No — the Supreme Court will often review circuit splits in law, but these are splits in facts
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
"In past years your performance would have been sufficient to give this more time. But conditions have changed and we're letting X% go today. So we need to make very imperfect judgements for those who are new, unfortunately includ
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
Getting laid off in December is tough. But it's better than getting laid off in January after coming back to work from holidays, with plans for the year ahead. At least this way, folks can recuperate with their family, and then hit the
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
For those using mypy and wishing it were a bit faster — dmypy is really good. I often leave this running, so I can see live errors on every save: watchexec -rc -e py -- dmypy run
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
As the person who came top of a round using GPT-3 last year: 1. The policy makes sense to me. 2. It would be fun to have an AI leaderboard too. It was a decent amount of engineering work to win last year — I had 25 LLMs going in parallel, t
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
Right — we could decide whether each transaction should take place by voting on it. But that would be really inefficient! So instead, we generally let people trade with each other as long as it doesn't intrude on others. Not sure wheth
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
Right, no one is rejecting the notion of regulation. But personal preferences are a bad way to choose regulation — businesses can aggregate preferences much better than the state can.
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
...then don't buy things from those businesses? We need a stronger reason than "I want that" to force businesses to give us things — otherwise how do we decide whose preferences we should mandate?
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
This is really cool — great work. J & APL are elegant but not easy to get started with, and difficult to install. This looks like a newer, nicer, more open version. Would be great to see some Advent of Code puzzles in Uiua..
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
Yes, much easier. Check out "What’s this aggregate function?" at https://prql-lang.org/faq/ . Without much context, we can understand the shape of a result. And because queries can be longer without becoming u
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
OK, so we agree they're not fully equivalent
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
I appreciate the lengthy response. I won't address every point here, but a couple of thoughts: - To close the syntax point — I opened https://github.com/PRQL/prql/issues/3518 . We're currently using
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
I opened an issue on this here: https://github.com/PRQL/prql/issues/3518
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
Quoting from https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/ : --- There are many cases where a small change to a computation requires totally changing the structure of the query, but subqueries are my favo
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
Again — we agree — with omniscience, it's possible to statically analyze everything. My claim is some languages can be statically analyzed with much less context than others. Check out "Expression substitution" at https:&#x2
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
I don't know where this aggression is coming from — we're an open-source project, only volunteers, trying to do something that makes it easier for folks to work with data. Critical & constructive feedback would be really appre
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
Yes, this is fair. Though I'm not sure how to find consensus on what is the best representation of SQL without asking folks to make a reviewable suggestion. I had thought the examples are currently in their clearest state — I definitel
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
I posted a link to the issue discussing this on the repo. That gives a good overview to those interested in this issue. To take one point from there: > Is fully equivalent to: They're not fully equivalent — `USING` combines the two
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by maximilianroos 3y ago
[PRQL dev here] I strongly think we should have the best examples of SQL to compare against. I've ironically made this complaint for other libraries, so I'm alarmed that folks think we might have done the same. We would take PRs f

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