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by snidane 5y ago
Economy hasn't changed much for what matters. Real estate/land is still the dominant market. Economics changed however. Land is no longer a factor of production like it used to in classical economics. Real estate market, despite i
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by snidane 5y ago
Henry George's philosophy extended from land monopoly to general monopoly.
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by snidane 5y ago
No, that's basic feudalism. In which you trade privileges for infinite time spans and inherit them across generations. Infini-time auctions are a symptom. Corrupt anti-monopoly office another. Free Market Capitalism actually designs ma
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by snidane 5y ago
Have you exhausted all options for why prices will only increase? I can see a scenario in which inflation rises and increased mortgage rates deflate the current overvalued housing market.
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by snidane 5y ago
Since the new breed of "data scientists" using R and Python dataframes replaced Excel "data analysts" they realized the "big" of big data hasn't disappeared and started hiring data engineers for developing
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by snidane 5y ago
My gripe with all schools of economics is how real estate/land market is completely abstracted away. Even though it is the largest financial market of them all, with everyone except homeless involved. In mainstream economics it is trea
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by snidane 6y ago
Same for me. My fingers remember dvorak and can't work with qwerty with just using the fingers' memory. I use qwerty on mobile just fine. I don't think dvorak on mobile would be of any help since I type with thumbs.
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by snidane 6y ago
The tooling is simply not there, so every software project keeps pushing the boundary of what is possible in its own unique fragile way. People don't want solutions to yesterday's problems. These are considered trivial and already
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by snidane 6y ago
The outcome is the same. Except that it is not declarative, because 'you' are the machine who codes up that logic.
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by snidane 6y ago
It very much depends on which context the pyramid is applied. I see two types of code review typically done 1. mandatory code review as part of automated workflow. Eg. ticket in jira won't be closed or git branch won't be merged t
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by snidane 6y ago
He advocated for a fix to a tax on vacant property owned by foreigners by imolementing it also on citizens, but only for second, third and so on properties. Which is just another compromise which will alleviate the problems a bit, but it wi
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by snidane 6y ago
It's funny and hard to believe for many that it wouldn't matter if such tax on land is 2% or 50% or 90% and still effective. - at 0% the price ceiling is infinite, so the price tends to climbs up to infinity, up to affordabili
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by snidane 6y ago
Did you try hard enough? Inplement a small annual fee on the parcel based on market rate and watch the vacant housing appear back on the market in the blink of an eye. You can't clear the housing market without this. Instead of supply&
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by snidane 6y ago
True. However 60 lines of bash would amount to 300 lines of Python.
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by snidane 6y ago
"Best practices" are often just "common practices". In other words, this is how we do things here, adapt. Nobody ever investigated how "best" they really are. It's actually the more senior devs who go beyo
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by snidane 6y ago
Good point about VC industry. Would there even be a distinction among various types of funds if not for regulation? Ie. pool money and invest? No matter if it is VC fund, hedge fund, pension fund, mutual fund, they all just pool money and i
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by snidane 6y ago
I believe poetry was the default way to write texts in ancient times because texts were spread by mouth, not by transcribing it. There was no printing press and it was costly. I'm no expert on this by any means, but songs which rhyme s
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by snidane 6y ago
Env vars are a built-in for key-value command line args. Why introduce some custom convoluted way into your app for kv args instead of this standardised approach. I can understand why some heavily used cli app would support a custom paramet
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by snidane 6y ago
You need only one man with healthy sperm and 1000 women to repopulate the world. The infertility crisis is certainly not due to sperm quality as the title suggests. Postponing pregnancy to later age on female side seems more like the culpri
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by snidane 6y ago
Btw. there is a Distributed Systems lecture series by MIT from Spring 2020. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...
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by snidane 6y ago
You are doing interface/function level testing and calling it unit testing. That's what industry converged on, that a function/method = a unit, but it apparently used to be that a module meant to be a unit. It can be that bot
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by snidane 6y ago
If you cook and have to clean large pots and baking trays, then dishwasher doesn't help you with that as much. These items cannot fit into a regular home dishwasher and these take the most time to clean and dry compared to washing plai
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by snidane 6y ago
I agree that array processing probably doesn't need to live in a database, but I think databases should base their foundations on arrays. In kdb you go from primitives to arrays to tables. In SQL you go from primitives straight to tabl
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by snidane 6y ago
This is Stonebraker's argument for shared-nothing architecture and it applies well for interactive ad-hoc analytics on well structured data. Many orgs these days store all data in data lake shared-disk architectures and pull down the s
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by snidane 6y ago
systemd is great. I used it successfully for operations on many projects that I ran. It provides the standardized way to reliably run and manage services on a single machine. I also agree with opponents that shell was the de facto standard
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by snidane 6y ago
It seems the article suggests piping around and querying tabular data in postgres. I don't see a need for the data lake part. Data Warehouses are used to store and process anything which looks like a structured table, or nested tables,
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by snidane 6y ago
Isn't it the case everywhere in the world, in the post 2008 crisis world, to have society's prosperity tied directly to the real estate bubble? Most exacerbated in metro areas. Only the most stupid politicians would want to kill t
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by snidane 6y ago
I'll bite. I believe the consensus for the 20s for error handling is to have both exceptions and error types (or just error pairs). Without exceptions the code starts to bloat up with various try's, ?s, unwraps, pattern matches on
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by snidane 6y ago
ELT means: let's focus on moving data between from system A to system B and skip the transform part, which is a business of whoever has access to the target system. Which is usually a sql database so you can then do arbitrary data tran
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by snidane 6y ago
That's actually land monopoly problem. Ie. whoever came first to claim the land has exclusive use rights on it forever, or as long as his descendants go. It's yet another monopoly problem even though it doesn't look like it a

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