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by snidane 5y ago
Land != land. Gresham law applies. City center land > suburban land > rural land > land on Mars > land in faraway galaxy. There is always scarcity of land even though there is an infinite capacity of it across the Universe.
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by snidane 5y ago
In the 21st century, even if country population stagnates or even drops, population still grows in cities compared to rural areas.
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by snidane 5y ago
This is not an innate trait of capitalism. This is due to tax favorability of land speculation compared to other options. Add zero interest rates to it and accelerate flows of all the extra money to into further land speculation. I can easi
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by snidane 5y ago
The disease is not a black swan. The global reaction to it certainly is.
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by snidane 5y ago
Afaik, a crazy amount of rentals is negotiated without a contract so that the landlord avoids regulation and taxes and the renter agrees because they get a discount. Nice idea, but has loopholes.
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by snidane 5y ago
You're right, it's the community and its actions that made the land appreciate. Surrounding dwellings and their occupants are just a part of that. You can be entitled to inheriting the value that you and your parents created, wchi
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by snidane 5y ago
The apparently only empirical study relating interest rates and growth was done by Richard Werner, concluding growth actually historically happened in high interest rate environments, whereas the current economic dogma states exactly otherw
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by snidane 5y ago
Even worse than rising interest rates is a society addicted to the fentanyl of zero interest rates. There is a reason major religions regulated debt in general, because that is how societal slavery develops. Of course we, the modern people
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by snidane 5y ago
Unfortunately none of the modern economic theories apply to real estate, because it is a land market in disguise and has little to do with housing. Price of land is determined when looking at the world as a whole (margin of production), so
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by snidane 5y ago
I think his point is, you don't get to pass wealth not earned by you to your heirs. You had nothing to do with 300k to 10m appreciation, so you nor your heirs are entitled to it. The appreciation is in land, not in the small improvemen
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by snidane 5y ago
It has many loopholes, such as assigning each of your 5 properties to your wife, daughter, aunt, shell company or a dog to avoid the 5x rate. Still much better than status quo. In the end it approximates land value tax, is more politically
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by snidane 5y ago
No, real estate suffers from inelastic supply per area. It's not a market for bananas going by basic supply/demand equalization.
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by snidane 5y ago
Houses do depreciate in value. In Japan houses depreciate to 0 after 30years. Land on the other hand under the current system only goes up. Don't confuse the two.
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by snidane 5y ago
Housing is a special story. It doesn't behave according to the standard economic theory of equalizing supply and demand like yogurts or bananas. Housing is strongly inelastic market, meaning you can't increase supply when there is
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by snidane 5y ago
Remove csv header. sed 1d Select line 123 sed -n 123p # or sed -n 123{p;q}
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by snidane 5y ago
By 'agile', as one of the first people around the manifesto, Fowler means product development applied to software. If you're curious which fields benefit from it and which don't, it is all fields in which you create a pr
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by snidane 5y ago
Partially. The problem with Apache Arrow and Parquet is that you have two - one for storage and one for computation - but in the end you only want one for both. You want to run fast algorithms on memory mapped compressed columns. Not doing
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by snidane 5y ago
It's just a matter of parser implementation. These changes are backwards compatible. If python decided to add support for comments and trailing commas in json.loads, that would become the new standard, at least for data scientists, not
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by snidane 5y ago
Json is a good format to represent results of aggregation queries (group by in sql) using nesting and storing data in a single file. Without that you would need to either 1. store multiple not-nested (tabular, eg. csv) files and join th
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by snidane 5y ago
Needing to build more houses is a myth pushed forward by nimbys and developers. You can achieve the same and more by releasing unused housing back to market instead of sitting idle for speculative reasons. Increasing property taxes seems li
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by snidane 5y ago
It can't be O(1) because to just search for a memory location you need at least a binary search. Since memory lookup is implemented in hardware it is treated as constant access. Of course this is all obscured by magnitudes of the memor
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by snidane 5y ago
Academic computer science tends to model a 'computer' as a simplified pointer-machine with O(1) memory access everywhere. In reality computers actually have a memory hierarchy and no memory access is ever O(1). In RAM it only loo
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by snidane 5y ago
(design) patterns are an initial step in the process of automating the automation. You, the automation engineer (programmer) notice you are using the same way of solving a thing and the code of the solution at all occurrences looks somewhat
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by snidane 5y ago
https://wiki.c2.com/?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeature...
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by snidane 5y ago
Egyptian pyramids might be more controversial, even though it makes a lot of sense that the clocks would have been molded in place from concrete. The large granite blocks inside the pyramid don't seem to be concrete based. The South Am
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by snidane 5y ago
Every generation went through some kinds of struggles which they had to fight through. Our generation's is this one and it is not an excuse to not push through it, despite the incredible costs of having children. We could've had a
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by snidane 5y ago
I'm struggling to understand what the feature store is. Is it another name for an OLAP or BI cube? Ie. a huge precomputed group by query with rollups. The only new thing I see is that it combines both historical and recent data. Kinda
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by snidane 5y ago
You can only run superficial tests like is not null, is unique, to prevent row duplication in sql join for example, but not much else. You simply don't have enough information about what to test at the stage of the initial ETL/ELT
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by snidane 5y ago
Welcome to the future where only big companies survive. As a small business you don't have means to avoid taxes. As a multinational corp you just invent research, marketing and other fictitious expenses between your branches and always
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by snidane 5y ago
Good points. Maybe there is a difference between a SQL script embedded occasionally somewhere in python, for which this style probably makes sense. For heavy SQL codebases found in data analytics, there are better styles.

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