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by zemo 7y ago
An asset is just anything that has value that can be bought and sold. Those are all depreciating assets, but they're assets nonetheless. Are you thinking of securities?
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by zemo 7y ago
I said "can be", not "spontaneously cease to exist due to their non-appreciation". Homes don't explode the moment they stop appreciating in value. > An asset isn't necessarily an investment. E.g. cars, merch
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by zemo 7y ago
you're making this way too complicated in your head. Capital gains aren't paid on an ongoing basis. Gains are only realized at the time of sale. It's literally just the difference between price at which you sell an asset and
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by zemo 7y ago
> It would be interesting to see how this played out during medieval era during black death era. pretty sure the vast majority of people did not own any land at all at that time, and that land was not bought and sold in the way that it i
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by zemo 7y ago
yeah I'm not sure anyone is arguing that the appreciation of housing values is a good thing, just that it's an emergent thing and it's not that surprising. Much of this paper is corroborating Piketty, whose central thesis
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by zemo 7y ago
you're ignoring everything other than the intrinsic worth of the house itself as an object. E.g., if you had a house in North Dakota in 2005 and then they discovered the Bakken formation in 2006 and the shale oil boom started, the valu
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by zemo 7y ago
it's the change in price at time of sale. The price of the asset is only known at the time of sale. At all other times, the assumed price is speculative. The capital gain is just the difference between the price you sell it at and the
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by zemo 7y ago
that's not what rate of return means. You might as well say "why do real estate assets appreciate in value on average?" Why should a real estate asset that does not appreciate in value continue to exist? Assets that don'
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by zemo 7y ago
... it's literally the first sentence of the second paragraph of the introduction. The rate of return on real estate is the appreciation in its value plus the amount of rent you can charge for using it versus its cost to purchase. If y
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by zemo 7y ago
unit tests without integration tests are no good, and people generally don't test their UIs at all. You can have 100% test coverage of your code and still wind up with a broken system if it composes differently in production than it do
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by zemo 7y ago
depends a lot on the industry and what you're building. Like when I was in the web/startup space, literally nobody worked how you're describing; everyone wrote tests. Transactional systems are naturally testable. It's ea
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by zemo 7y ago
> I bring up PL/I here on HN occasionally just as an example and lesson in programming language design. PL/I influenced B, which influenced C, which influenced so many things that literally every person on HN has used a languag
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by zemo 7y ago
> What's wrong with VB.NET? nobody in the startup space is using it, so it'll be hard to hire for people that have the skills. There's a feedback loop there. Because no other companies are using it, people that don't
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by zemo 7y ago
> wait until all its key-value pairs have timed out and then just shut it down you can do it that way but it often winds up making the server's shutdown dependent on a client behavior. For example, the liveness of a key is determine
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by zemo 7y ago
yes, redis is single threaded. The author's stated position is that if you want to use more cores, you run more instances of redis on the target machine (but then you have a scheme to map keys to running redis instances as if it were m
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by zemo 7y ago
that's ... literally what people do with redis and memcache, you just wrote a slower memcache with fewer features. that's on one server and the data is all in process memory?
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by zemo 7y ago
the main function of a multiplayer game server is to contain the game state. Depending on the game, it may also run a simulation. You couldn't, for example, write a database record every time someone shot a gun in an FPS, the whole thi
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by zemo 7y ago
ha, I ... also am working on a stateful game server in Go, the multiplayer servers that power Jackbox Games' line of games. I don't currently need disk persistence though, I just do it all in memory. It's also way easier than
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by zemo 7y ago
> Stateful servers run into huge problems when other people try to access them from non-static ip (usually sticky sessions are IP based). We, at least in apps I work on, stuff all the shared state into JWT tokens to avoid this. They&#x27
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by zemo 7y ago
you're ignoring the audience and the platform. The audience is people whose only computing device is the Raspberry Pi. Compiling a Qt app on most of the rpi models would take forever. The lower-end models are pretty resource constraine
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by zemo 8y ago
> I wrote code that finds these pictures or videos ah, so you don't even make the content, you just wrote a content-reposting bot and then set it to automatically catfish restaurants. Behavior like this is why more and more people h
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by zemo 8y ago
yeah I agree with this strongly. My experience with HN is that HN comments are essentially that HN users view non power users with contempt and dislike everything that can't be expressed through logical axioms. It's almost like it
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by zemo 8y ago
it's almost like Bezos intentionally issued the microservices mandate at Amazon to discourage Amazon's engineers from unionizing.
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by zemo 8y ago
poop + politician = craparatchik. the math checks out.
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by zemo 8y ago
agglomeration is not unique to VC and it's not simply a matter of people being lazy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration
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by zemo 8y ago
that only holds true if financiers have no relationships with the companies they fund, but that isn't the case. E.g. people want to get into YC for the network and the relationships.
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by zemo 8y ago
"please jump through these assorted hoops while I move the goalpost and ignore your points"
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by zemo 8y ago
except there's VO and mocap talent that are already unionized, so games engineers have wider exposure to unionized peers. For example, I would assume that Norman Reedus is in SAG-AFTRA since Scott Wilson (his costar on Walking Dead) wa
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by zemo 8y ago
no, in terms of the fact that they literally ran away because of harassment. That's important, and if I have to explain to you why people leaving due to serial harassment is bad for communities, we have nothing to talk about.
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by zemo 8y ago
The entire premise of this study is not useful, because what you're asking is "what is the numerical occurrence of quantifiable harassment" and not "what is the rate and which players abandon playing the game as a conseq

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