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by zamfi 3y ago
The markets for short-term housing and long-term housing have historically been different markets. People are much more willing to pay higher amounts (per unit time) for short-term housing, and this demand is primarily driven by tourism, wh
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by zamfi 3y ago
Isn't Vancouver famous for instituting a vacant-housing tax? https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/speculation-vacancy...
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by zamfi 3y ago
Not to mention the Vanity Fair piece that led to this interview here: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-f...
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by zamfi 3y ago
I suspect they didn't say "you're SOL", they probably said "file a warranty claim". Retail stores aren't usually on the hook for items that arrive non-functioning from the manufacturer -- the manufacturer
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by zamfi 3y ago
They're producing hardware...there are physical limits to growth rate. Is growth decelerating because there's only so much chipmaking capacity available, or is it because of a demand slowdown? The net income levels suggest maybe i
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by zamfi 3y ago
No one — including Apple — made the claim that it’s impossible. Just that it’s not worth it.
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by zamfi 3y ago
They don't say it's a technical limitation, they say it was too much work to do for a relatively underused feature? > Addressing the complex security and privacy concerns associated with web apps using alternative browser engin
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by zamfi 3y ago
Hmm -- are you suggesting that Apple is lying in their rationales here? That they should have instead kept supporting PWAs but only on WebKit, in violation of the DMA? Or that they should have argued the DMA doesn't require PWA support
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by zamfi 3y ago
Same with TV decades years ago, and radio before that. Just a different generation.
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by zamfi 3y ago
How can you identify a mechanism of action if you don't have any idea of what the possible agents are? Don't you first have to identify some of the molecules that may be involved, before you figure out which ones are causal and
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by zamfi 3y ago
Hmm. Are you saying that the fact that some knowledge is wrong means that it doesn’t represent progress? Correlation isn’t “cure” — we don’t even know if it’s predictive — but that doesn’t mean it’s not progress.
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by zamfi 3y ago
> Naturally I’d prefer professional programmers learn the cognitive tools for manageably reasoning about nondeterminism It’s not an either-or here, though. Part of the challenge is you’re not always thinking about all the non-determinism
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by zamfi 3y ago
...is this real? It reads like a parody.
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by zamfi 3y ago
Ah, fair. The US national average for “completion within 8 years” is not far off, about 60%. At US “elite” schools there is definitely an expectation of completion in 4 years, though not much stigma if you take longer—and students go throug
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by zamfi 3y ago
Interesting. Is this true consistently across institutions, and across disciplines? E.g., at TU Delft, VU, etc? In the US at least, the 4-year graduation rate at e.g., MIT and Harvard are well above 90%, quite a bit higher than the national
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by zamfi 3y ago
> Prop 13 wasn't passed as a law to help the unfortunate No, but it was sold to the public that way of course.
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by zamfi 3y ago
1) I'm not sure this is the right metric -- by acres burned, depending on the source, natural fires are comparable to human-ignited fires. 2) Fully natural wildfires are typically caused by lightning -- which of course often also means
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by zamfi 3y ago
Look, your original post claimed “terrorists” but now you’re pointing to an article that merely says that most wildfires are caused by people. I even included accidental human-started wildfires (sparks from powerlines) as an example in my o
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by zamfi 3y ago
I'm not saying it's impossible that arsonists are starting some of these fires, and sure, some may be started in this way. I'm just saying that "lightning" is a simpler explanation than "well-coordinated major
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by zamfi 3y ago
Isn’t the simple explanation the fact that non-human causes of wildfires are likely to start more than one in a given area? - Lightning? - Hot, dry winds + sparks from nearby power lines? (Debatably non-human, but usually not terrorists.) A
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by zamfi 3y ago
Huh? There are plenty of systems where the difference between 0.04% and 0.03% is dramatic, after all it’s an increase of 30% — and what matters is not the paltry decimal representation but rather the effects. For example: consider concentra
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by zamfi 3y ago
Oooh, good example! Thanks!
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by zamfi 3y ago
Forgive me if I missed the joke, but Cauliflower and Brussels Sprouts are in fact both cultivars of Brassica oleracea ...
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by zamfi 3y ago
Sure, but I think this is a bit apples-and-oranges. 2008-era restarts were overwhelmingly completed by the original owners, with < 2y pauses, and most were pretty small. We’ll just have to wait and see I guess!
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by zamfi 3y ago
I mean, sure, legally. But how many large-scale structures like this, that were paused for 5 years, end up completed? I only know of 22 Bishopsgate [1] — and that’s with the big caveat that they gutted the structural core of the building an
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by zamfi 3y ago
Unfortunately, it’s been abandoned (and likely unmaintained) for nearly 5 years — with incomplete weatherproofing, etc. Who knows what’s been damaged or destroyed, invisibly? It would be a major liability.
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by zamfi 3y ago
Nowhere, of course -- but 20TB drives can be had for a bit over $300 these days, that's $15/TB, not too far off.
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by zamfi 3y ago
> The cool thing about Vitalik’s blog is that it is decentralized. I’m not sure how you could read this post and conclude that “the cool thing” about it is that it is decentralized. By far, the coolest thing about Vitalik’s blog is his
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by zamfi 3y ago
…did you read the rest of it? I recommend it. (And I’m far from a crypto-optimist.)
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by zamfi 3y ago
Depends on how much respect you have for each other, and how honest you can be expectations-wise on both sides.

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