nybble41

92 ms·

841.
by nybble41 6y ago
> Profit and risk must be in balance. Risk is one factor, but not the only one. The main factor in low-risk investment returns is time preference . In essence: People are willing to pay rent (interest) in exchange for access to money no
842.
by nybble41 6y ago
> Landlords used to have to maintain and fix the property. While they still do in theory, in practise they often just threaten one of the two options above to anyone who wants a repair done. That's not very smart. So the current ten
843.
by nybble41 6y ago
> The problem with the council house sell off was not replacing them on a 1:1 ratio -- for every house sold, a new one was built. At least you agree that there is a problem with supply. > It also reduces the number of people renting,
844.
by nybble41 6y ago
> … before trading any for a home or land -- I'd be happy to rent. You're still trading for a home and land even if you rent. It's just a more temporary arrangement.
845.
by nybble41 6y ago
> We're talking about people who have more than $50m in a big money vault. "Those at the top" don't generally have that much cash. They have shares in companies, often ones they started themselves, which happen to be
846.
by nybble41 6y ago
That sounds like a systemic problem with democracy, not wealth inequality. You want to put people in charge of making decisions both for themselves and for others, but you don't trust them to make those decisions properly. The issue he
847.
by nybble41 6y ago
> our commits document the diff, not the materialized snapshot That's not actually true, though. This is what a raw commit object looks like: $ git cat-file commit bfc766d38e1fae5767d43845c15c79ac8fa6d6af tree 99768f8965d5382d
848.
by nybble41 6y ago
> But frequently, that is not possible… And that is where we disagree. Aggression is often an easier path to achieving your goals—maybe the only viable path in some cases—but it's never "unavoidable". You just have to ac
849.
by nybble41 6y ago
No, for ratios less than unity most people would use a shorter, more convenient fraction ("nine-tenths") or percentage ("ninety percent") which has exactly the same meaning as the decimal ratio ("zero point nine tim
850.
by nybble41 6y ago
Which inconsistency do you prefer? • "90% less than x" does not equal "10% of x" • "90%" does not equal "0.9 times" • "0.9 times less" means multiplication and subtraction (x - 0.9x) but &qu
851.
by nybble41 6y ago
"5x less" would be "x - 5x" or -4x, which of course is nonsense as density can't be negative. "5x as sparse" works if you define sparsity as the inverse of density.
852.
by nybble41 6y ago
> 20% less energy dense than lithium ion That's 20% as dense (1/5 the density), not 20% less dense (4/5 the density). As for replacing the chassis—a Tesla Model S has 1,200 lbs of batteries, and the aluminum chassis we
853.
by nybble41 6y ago
Any situation where one group is forced to go along with what another group wants is tyranny, regardless of the sizes of the groups. When the first group is large and the second group is small you have an oligopoly or dictatorship. When the
854.
by nybble41 6y ago
Yes, these quotes are indeed very well known. Thank you for reinforcing my point. Matthew 5:38 — He advises his followers not to retaliate when attacked. He does not tell them to go out and disarm anyone else, or petition the Roman govern
855.
by nybble41 6y ago
> To me the Culture novels always seemed precisely the projection of a certain kind of old 19th-century Socialist (or Anarchist) utopia into the far future: no capitalism, no corporations, no state, no money, no exploitation of labor, th
856.
by nybble41 6y ago
You can suspend vim. If you try to run it in the background (e.g. with the bg command) then it just suspends itself again. To actually run it in the background on a shared terminal you need something like screen or tmux… which assigns the
857.
by nybble41 6y ago
Same here. Frankly if the GP's "Cliff Notes" version tells them that the Bible says to agitate politically for taking away other people's means of self-defense, or for seizing other people's property by force to be
858.
by nybble41 6y ago
That just means the court itself issued a warrant by granting permission to perform the search, whether they called it that or not. However, that warrant doesn't meet the constitutional requirements—it lacks probable cause supported by
859.
by nybble41 6y ago
> The constitution doesn't outline what a search without a warrant should look like. Only because a search without a warrant is by definition not backed by any legal authority, and without legal authority the only way they get to do
860.
by nybble41 6y ago
> Late function binding allows you to operate over heterogeneous inputs where the only thing you want to enforce is that they obey a protocol… You can do that in typeclass-based languages as well, e.g. in Haskell: {-# LANGUAGE Constr
861.
by nybble41 6y ago
Lua is another one. The following expressions are all equivalent: object:method(arguments...) object.method(object, arguments...) object["method"](object, arguments...) Lua objects are tables (associative arrays), the d
862.
by nybble41 6y ago
> in most languages I'm pretty sure the language being referenced was Common Lisp, which supports multiple dispatch (in CLOS). In a multiple-dispatch OOP system methods can be specialized based on any argument—this is somewhat lik
863.
by nybble41 6y ago
> Strangely a lot of the functional programming advocates are fine with closures, which are guilty of all the same issues -- private state, hidden state, combining data with functions. In functional programming closures (like other funct
864.
by nybble41 6y ago
> For example, if a team says they need $100 a year and comes in at $90 then I don’t think next year’s budget should be $110 while some people in this thread think it should be. IMHO it depends on why the expenses were less than the budg
865.
by nybble41 6y ago
The profit in speculation comes from correctly recognizing that a good will be worth more if consumed in the future than it would be if consumed in the present. It can be annoying to those who would have preferred to use the good in the pre
866.
by nybble41 6y ago
The value placed on a good is measured by what a person is willing to give up in exchange. Naturally only those things one actually has available to give up count—not what one thinks one might be willing to pay in a hypothetical world where
867.
by nybble41 6y ago
The way to resolve this particular tragedy of the commons, like most other such cases, is to privatize the commons: make people pay for the disk space they use. If you want a nice big balloon.txt file to reserve space for the future, fine,
868.
by nybble41 6y ago
> Say you budget $100 for dinner tonight and you go out and it costs $75. Do you owe the restaurant $25? No, but if you accurately forecast that dinner will cost $100 on average , and this time it only happened to cost $75, you should
869.
by nybble41 6y ago
I think the point was that there is quite a bit of opinion to be found outside the designated opinion section, not that the area for officially acknowledged opinion pieces isn't clearly marked.
870.
by nybble41 6y ago
You can't transfer ownership of the domain in your fork without either changing the rules—in which case it won't be accepted as a valid Ethereum blockchain by any other Ethereum node—or else rewinding the blockchain back to a poin

More ›