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by screye 3y ago
> I guess you could try to argue that but I still feel like that's going to hurt folks. Imagine a scenario where I live somewhere for decades. Suddenly there's a new subway or some other factor that increases the value of the l
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by screye 3y ago
These redevelopment plans are fairly common in Urban Asian countries. Single family homes are redeveloped into 7-8 floor condos and 4-5plexes are frequently redeveloped into 12-15 floor condos. The residents are paid handsomely in rent for
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by screye 3y ago
This only happens if zoning limits housing supply. As urban demand goes up, builders are incentivized to keep building denser ...... until equilibrium is reached. LVT's main benefit is that it helps remove zoning confusion. It makes ho
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by screye 3y ago
House prices don't change at the drop of a hat. If gentle changes in taxation are too much for a person, they might just have purchased a house they couldn't afford in the first place.
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by screye 3y ago
It isn't an extra tax. It is a rebalancing tax. The rich have nothing to do with this. It is purely about how much land you sit on and where. That's it. > Basically you're asking for normal people to work, get raises forev
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by screye 3y ago
Land value tax often goes hand in hand with lax zoning. In your example, if the grandma's house went from 200k to a 1million, then she isn't poor anymore. She is very rich. She doesn't have to leave the neighborhood. She can
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by screye 3y ago
Huh, my experience is the opposite. Indians work themselves to death, while Americans have very clear boundaries on when they stop working. Chinese Americans & Indian Americans work about the same as Americans, but 1st generation Chines
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by screye 3y ago
No, Transformers are not a silver bullet. As much as Transformers feel like the state of the art universal function approximators, people need to realize why they work so well for language and vision. Transformers parallelize incredibly wel
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by screye 3y ago
Becoming an ML engineer is about 6 months of work for a competent backend engineer. But becoming an X-Scientist (Data/Applied/Applied Research) is a whole different skill set. Now, this kind of role only exists in a proper ML comp
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by screye 3y ago
It is getting doubly weird with the LLM/Diffusion explosion over the last year. The applied research ML role has evolved from being a computational math role to a Pytorch role to a 'informed throw things at the wall' role. I
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by screye 3y ago
An onion hoarder can only exist as a job in an onion shortage.
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by screye 3y ago
Not sure if I agree here. Langchain's LLMChains while initially popular, is not what people have been using. With function calling and agent+tools, both langchain and chatgpt do quite a lot of the same things that semantic kernel does.
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by screye 3y ago
Seconded. Not upper caste, never came up in the US. This entire bill feels so alien to the lived experience of every Indian I know in the US.
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by screye 3y ago
I would urge HNers to watch this detailed video on the issue - https://youtu.be/UcHf0SsR790?si=pKvkc0fCR5AsU9ku Caste discrimination is an issue in the home country, but it is pretty cut and dry here in the US. I have the r
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by screye 3y ago
2/4 of those were in better conditions before the US invaded them for oil interests. Venezuela's bloodiness is in part because of CIA funded violent opposition. Venezuela while a basket case now, is still a "what if" in
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by screye 3y ago
When hardware companies fail to provide sufficient competition to an extortionate monopoly, the layer1 companies react after feeling the burn for too long. If Nvidia, Amd and Intel were in a battle for offering the best VFM, none of these c
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by screye 3y ago
Genuine question, doesn't the ultra-orthodox wing reflect the popular opinion of the country ? My understanding is that Iran has among the greatest Urban-Rural divides in the world, and that the rural population is large enough to demo
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by screye 3y ago
The mishandling of the entire middle-east is hard to ignore. If anything, Trump's only consensus wins came from cleaning up the mess in the middle east. > shored up the self-image of the Western world Which tells you everything you
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by screye 3y ago
It does feel more like the 'Western moral prize' rather than a Peace Prize. Truth is, the most peaceful transitions are usually military coups. 'Peacefully' won transitions are often the bloodiest. Fear is a terrible thi
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by screye 3y ago
You might like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWC4VxolWAk Blog on the same topic - https://blog.langchain.dev/evaluating-rag-pipelines-with-rag...
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by screye 3y ago
Everything about Bayarea housing feels so contrived. All the space in the world to build, but all you're allowed is dystopian cells or millionaire mansions. Best weather in the world to walk outdoors, but walking feels miserable due to
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by screye 3y ago
I don't see how that is true. > mountain biking The mountains are where the mountains are. Being the suburbs or cities changes nothing. > road biking I would never dare road bike on American roads. If anything, cities have more p
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by screye 3y ago
No offense to Phoenix, but the difference between NYC and Phoenix is "radical" in every sense of the world. Often times, Random neighborhoods in NYC have better food scenes than most major cities in the US. (including Phoenix).
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by screye 3y ago
Broken record time - Surely people see the straight line that is zoned car culture suburbia ---> American food culture. Drive in foodchains are a response to cars. Supermarkets & weekly out of town grocery runs are a result of cars.
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by screye 3y ago
How are airplanes so cheap ? Airplane fuel is expensive, it takes a larger crew to operate and the planes are more expensive too. Who foots the bill for operating expensive airports ? Are trains mor expensive purely because regulation costs
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by screye 3y ago
> tiny country Japan spans the length of the US, and has more than 100 million people in it. Tiny isn't exactly what I'd call it.
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by screye 3y ago
You're correct. It isn't a direct solution. For the most part, it makes the selection experience easier, which then makes the editing experience easier. But I wouldn't underestimate how big a difference it is. One difference
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by screye 3y ago
I'd say purchase a folding phone. It's great.
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by screye 3y ago
No, but framing them as a religious crusade is. > almost fascist in the classical sense, ethnic absolutism I would be very careful with using Wikipedia as a source for politically fraught & contemporary issues. > https:/&#x2
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by screye 3y ago
A good starter would be by drawing parallels (or lack thereof) to the Quebec referendum. The patron saint of the Khalistan movement never gained majority support in Punjab. > In 1979, Bhindranwale put up forty candidates against the Akal

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