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571.
by xapata 5y ago
Zillow Offers team was isolated from the Zestimate team. They didn't share algorithms.
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by xapata 5y ago
A good example of why allowing for stress tolerance can make a system more efficient in the long run.
573.
by xapata 5y ago
I suppose a single example can't contradict "a lot of people," but I am one such person. I live in the city, because I like cities.
574.
by xapata 5y ago
Perhaps a tax that scales with the frequency that someone uses social media? If you rarely use it, the marginal tax is near zero. As your usage increases, the marginal tax applies increasing friction.
575.
by xapata 5y ago
> It's not a stable source of revenue That's fine. Revenue can be routed to externality abatement. When there's no more revenue, there's also less need for the abatement.
576.
by xapata 5y ago
> even if these items were taxed at the standard rate, these percentages wouldn't change Back in school, we read studies that reached the opposite conclusion, suggesting that "sin" taxes are effective.
577.
by xapata 5y ago
> First, how ever cruel and wrong doing so may be, letting nature take its course isn't murder We disagree on the definition of murder. I suppose the law might call it negligent homicide. That sounds like a type of murder. > bi
578.
by xapata 5y ago
No, it's the injuries you can't afford. Property damage doesn't add up to much (for some definitions of "much").
579.
by xapata 5y ago
Let's start with the hypothetical that a pregnant woman is expected to die unless her fetus is aborted. In this rare, but frequent enough situation, society must choose between murdering the fetus through action and murdering the mothe
580.
by xapata 5y ago
I wouldn't call them moral values, because the values expressed are so context-dependent.
581.
by xapata 5y ago
You want Google to direct you to the correct anchor on the page. That makes sense, Google should do that. The docs shouldn't be broken out to 1 page per method because Google likes to link to the top of the page instead of the relevan
582.
by xapata 5y ago
I'm not sure why that's happening to you. Perhaps you're being misled by some SEO to click on pages that are sites trying to put advertisements in front of you?
583.
by xapata 5y ago
I can't speak for Java's docs, but Python's have good examples in the documentation that are not present in an IDE's tooltips. Further, there's often a handy link to the source code of the module.
584.
by xapata 5y ago
You might like the writings of Yanis Varoufakis.
585.
by xapata 5y ago
You haven't met a wide range of economists.
586.
by xapata 5y ago
Moreover, the premise violates one of my first principles.
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by xapata 5y ago
Real wages have been stagnant or declining for most professions since the 70s. Coincidentally, interest rates have been declining over the same period. Could it be that as capital becomes cheaper, companies are less willing to pay for lab
588.
by xapata 5y ago
Remember SARS-CoV-1? There will be more. It's like "the big one" earthquake, just a matter of time. But, I suppose we stick our heads in the sand for all sorts of things, so we might ignore this one (again).
589.
by xapata 5y ago
When were times all that good? The stock market was doing well, but I don't remember seeing great comments about wages until this year.
590.
by xapata 5y ago
The housing market dynamic has been (not enough) building for decades.
591.
by xapata 5y ago
While we may have some uncertainty about SARS-CoV-2 specifically, it seems clear to me that in the long run we'll need to treat coronaviruses in general much like influenza viruses. So, yes.
592.
by xapata 5y ago
That'd break my regex.
593.
by xapata 5y ago
I add a letter to distinguish between updates made on the same day: 2021-10-08a, 2021-10-08b. So far no one has been so quick with updates that I've gone past z, but I'll have my y2k moment someday.
594.
by xapata 5y ago
Depending on your definition of a mistake. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_ches...
595.
by xapata 5y ago
Both statements are false.
596.
by xapata 5y ago
You can't get there from here.
597.
by xapata 5y ago
Yes, "Zuck".
598.
by xapata 5y ago
Not so simple. People like cheap goods.
599.
by xapata 5y ago
Thus the practical benefits of progressive taxation: it decentralizes.
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by xapata 5y ago
Yes, but that doesn't apply in my case. Both of us had plenty of recommendations independently. I'm pretty sure we would link to each other's profiles. More to the point, we didn't have trouble finding hosts as a pair

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