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by zamfi 6y ago
> I think we're mostly arguing about how useful the various approaches are. Ah, that's fair. > At least for me print debugging is a measure of last resort Right, and I think this depends on the domain. For lots of mature env
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Like I said, different tools for different uses, and really depends on the context We totally agree, and I'm not sure what we're arguing about--perhaps you can fill me in. I'm arguing that print is almost always worse th
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by zamfi 6y ago
> in my experience they're different tools for different use cases Exactly! Debuggers are very useful tools, and typically not as general-purpose as print. I don’t view “not as powerful” as a meaningful distinction, because it requi
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by zamfi 6y ago
I’m not sure when no-code became a pejorative, but that wasn’t my intent! Only that most of these tools, unlike print, are special-purpose, exceptional for that purpose, and often even useful in other circumstances. A data breakpoint is a g
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by zamfi 6y ago
Print debugging always works, but also: it lets the programmer customize their view of the program’s (very, very large) hidden state in any way imaginable. Step debuggers are the “no-code” equivalent: extremely useful for the purposes for
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by zamfi 6y ago
What is your point exactly? Yes, the same house is no longer affordable, but “housing” is affordable because you can now buy an apartment at a reasonable price. The areas where housing is no longer affordable are the areas where you can’t b
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by zamfi 6y ago
We have made it extremely expensive to build new housing in much of the United States. Between Byzantine development regulations, density and growth caps, local zoning boards that allow any development to be dragged through years of negot
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by zamfi 6y ago
Fun fact: SF has a higher population density (18k/sqmi) than either HK (17.5k/sqmi) or Tokyo (16.5k/sqmi). Mind blown? Truth is, density is super nonuniform — when people fear “Tokyo” they just don’t want to live in Shibuya
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by zamfi 6y ago
Not smaller houses — apartments that can be equally large.
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by zamfi 6y ago
In my argument, one view of the asset (“a unit of housing suitable for a family”) remains affordable, while another view of the asset (“this particular detached 1200 sqft house on this 5000 sqft lot”) outpaces inflation in value growth. The
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Unless you tax in a way such that the maximum capacity must be used Indeed, there have been proposals to address this!
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Housing can’t be simultaneously an investment and affordable. This just isn’t true, it is only a contradiction if the type of housing remains constant, which it does in zero-development, extreme-construction-cost markets like San Franc
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Not everyone is like you. Very true. > I do not stream my music. My phone does not even have mobile data plan. I have hard copy. Since my phone has high capacity SD card all my music fits though. I just play it on random using fooba
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by zamfi 6y ago
Didn't Tesla try this for the Model 3 (a fully-automated factory) and it turned out to be a total disaster? Are they too far ahead of the curve? Or is it just rare that your task remains identical enough (i.e., textiles) for the decade
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by zamfi 6y ago
The sign could easily be tied to location, no?
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by zamfi 6y ago
See also Monty Python. Different crowd (fewer suits, less whiskey) but same phenomenon: work deliberately created to be avant garde now repeated as canon.
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by zamfi 6y ago
I mean, yes? Do you believe that if there was no voting that the money would get spent in better ways ? 40% is a lot, but also the vast majority of federal spending goes to the safety net: unemployment insurance, social security, Medicare,
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by zamfi 6y ago
Historically in the US, the judiciary has interpreted laws, and those interpretations are codified as case law and create precedents that bind future court actions in many, if not most, cases. We could argue about scope, but we can’t really
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by zamfi 6y ago
Yelling fire in a crowded theater is a metaphor. If the theater is on fire, the situation is obviously more ambiguous. > And that's the whole point: we're not worried about people arguing over most things. We're worried wh
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by zamfi 6y ago
I’m not sure we’re interpreting that passage the same way, and I know nothing about this incident beyond these two articles, but I imagine most people involved would agree on these values: 1) “Academic freedom” should include the ability to
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by zamfi 6y ago
It’s worth reading the piece that inspired this one [0] too, through. [0] https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-academic-bullies-clai...
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by zamfi 6y ago
Funny you should mention coffee... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26571129
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Basically, you are charging people to contribute to herd immunity, rather than paying people to contribute to herd immunity. No one in the US is being directly charged for any COVID vaccine.
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by zamfi 6y ago
Could also be that appraisers are being conservative (their "customers" are the banks, after all, not the buyers) in their estimates and haven't caught up with the higher bidding? But isn't "recent sale prices of co
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Of course it’s amazing that a pile of rocks can outperform the world’s best companies as an investment vehicle I guess it depends on your definition of amazing. If you assume -- and I'm not saying this is true -- that the value of
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by zamfi 6y ago
> homes selling for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars over appraisal Except appraisal is an estimate of what a house will sell for, not any intrinsic notion of value. Selling over appraisal implies that the appraisers expect the v
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by zamfi 6y ago
This is not amazing, and false for almost any other 15-year period. Gold's value fluctuates a lot over any 20-year span, but the long-term trend is not really comparable to the S&P 500 with reinvested dividends. (At least, since it
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by zamfi 6y ago
> A few months later the debate will turn to this being leaky vaccines Made a bit more complicated by the fact that not all vaccines have the same properties here...somehow seems the mRNA vaccines do better at preventing shedding than th
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by zamfi 6y ago
Everything you say is true, but an additional part of the problem is that books/papers/whatever tend to lag behind thinking and discussion by 1 to 5 years too. If you’re not an insider, it can be extra hard to have a voice in the
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by zamfi 6y ago
This is a generational thing. If you’re over 30-35, you treat texts as asynchronous. If you’re under 30, you assume someone who hasn’t responded within minutes is dead. At least, in my limited experience.

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