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by mseebach 8y ago
First, rental yields are actually very low in London, so it's not actually very expensive to rent vs. owning -- the benefit of owning comes from equity growth, and it seems prices are finally plateauing, so it's not an obvious inv
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by mseebach 8y ago
The pattern in this case is the connection between surreptitious listening and the suggestion.
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by mseebach 8y ago
You have to start one step before this: Are there convincing arguments that this is a failure at all ? Children's entertainment isn't an exclusionary arena, nothing about the number of options Disney provides prevents someone els
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by mseebach 8y ago
> the multitude of easily avoidable deaths that lie entirely on the auto manufacturer's shoulders Ah, but that's not quite how it works, either. There is a certain, small risk involved with being in the world, we can't off
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by mseebach 8y ago
Try making a controlled experiment. Humans are notoriously good at seeing patterns that aren't there.
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by mseebach 8y ago
No, that's just spending legal money on alleged illegal activity. Laundering is making illegal money look legal, to enable eg an embezzler or a drug cartel to participate in the formal economy.
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by mseebach 8y ago
The same is true for a blockchain where the same organisation controls all the nodes, which is the scenario at hand.
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by mseebach 8y ago
> The reason I mention that is because I was nearly paying 1.3k/mo for someones basement room in 2011, that same room is now on the market for twice that, I can't imagine how anyone can be comfortable paying that much for such
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by mseebach 8y ago
Ah, the old "my hateful violent behavior isn't literally racism " defence.
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by mseebach 8y ago
The kind of culture that comes with being a place where young, highly educated, liberal, high earning people come to work and live. It seems like that final bit is the problem for these campaigners, they seem pretty enamoured with the idea
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by mseebach 8y ago
After all, democracy is the idea that the people know what is best for them, and deserve to get it good and hard. I prefer Munich anyway.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Yeah, that's common knowledge but like most such knowledge it may contain a nugget of truth (yes, there are certain structures that reward shorttermism), it just doesn't stand up to scrutiny as a general framework. In studying pra
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's only a contradiction if you think short term. Long term, it's clearly in Google's interest to engender sustainable consumption. People who are comfortable with the role their smartphones play in their lives are much more
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by mseebach 8y ago
Hmm, not sure I understand what you're saying. Figure 5 in that paper is the situation I'm describing: at a certain latitude (52 deg north in this case, incidentally that latitude is my 'hood) there are no satellites visible
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by mseebach 8y ago
You mean pick up the signal from earths GPS? Off the top of my head, it would require earth to be in view, and it would be very inaccurate - GPS is already less accurate the further from equator you get, as all the visible satellites are in
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's fiction: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/08/woolwich-foo...
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by mseebach 8y ago
> BoFa and JPM Chase, which has both consumer and IB/trading operations can do this in a week. They can "do it" in the same way everyone on HN can build a Facebook clone in a week: by skipping all the parts that make it ha
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by mseebach 8y ago
> but other coworkers who prioritize these active issues, are ultimately more visible, promote faster, and get bigger bonuses. That's an opportunity. Your company doesn't have a structured process for determining bonus sizes, b
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by mseebach 8y ago
I don't know what their numbers are exactly, but the math often comes down to something like cost of customer acquisition being $10, and customer lifetime value being $80 over 10 years. As long as there are customers to be acquired, an
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by mseebach 8y ago
Honest question, this seems to be a long term issue for you, why don't you disable autocorrect? I've found that the "half-way house" of seeing the suggestions, but having to manually select the one you want, is a good co
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by mseebach 8y ago
This does hint at the root of the matter: letter writing is a format dictated by the constraints of communication. These constraints changed between 1815 and 1915, and are all but gone today - so the format of the communication changes acco
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by mseebach 8y ago
Actually making good, meaningful recommendations isn't a solved problem. Google has mass, and anything with more than ~4 stars generally isn't going to be awful, but it's a blunt instrument. Searching just slightly more speci
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by mseebach 8y ago
If you have access to a local who's tastes (and temperament and budget) are calibrated to your own, it's a good strategy. If you are in a place for a while and want the most out of it, researching on blogs etc is absolutely the ri
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by mseebach 8y ago
On my Pixel 2, and the 1 before it, the Maps UI is sometimes weirdly jerky. Purely anecdotally, it feels like there is some blocking network IO on the main thread.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Basically $1000+/day consulting rates. You still have to do the legwork of getting the gigs, but justifying those kinds of rates are much easier when you literally wrote the book on the subject of your contract. Having written it for a
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by mseebach 8y ago
> work 40 hours a week just to feed yourself and pay the rent The problem isn't actually doing that, the problem is when you can't actually pay the rent on the money you earn. Both you and your potential employer lose out whe
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's certainly too early to declare "mission accomplished", but people actually going to work and actually earning their own money, rather than being clients in a welfare system, is tremendously important for long-term social
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by mseebach 8y ago
If you're optimising for "emotional stress", London still wins over China, for someone who speaks English and not Mandarin, and is comfortable in Western culture. The government has made pretty strongly phrased guarantees for
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by mseebach 8y ago
Depends on what you want to do with your career. If you want to go to China and work, even a little, jump on it. In terms of a "classic Western career", ie money and status, go to London. Brexit might still be uncertain, but the j
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by mseebach 8y ago
I actually assumed that it was a term I hadn't heard yet for a ghost edit that doesn't change the substance. Not a ghost, just a little mist.

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