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by zhdc1 5y ago
A lot of this also had to do with the Chinese going all in with their lockdown effort, which made it look like the situation was significantly worse than it actually was (it was bad, but some of the rumors going around at the time made it s
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by zhdc1 6y ago
Ownership is a legal fiction. In the context of common law countries, the state originally held final "ownership" over all land. People largely weren't allowed to own property in the modern sense of the term until after the S
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by zhdc1 6y ago
A lot of older condominiums in the states were originally housing cooperatives because the legal structure at the time didn't have an easy way to handle communal living (e.g., apartments). There are even more of them in Europe, althoug
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by zhdc1 6y ago
Expanding on this, there are already similar schemes out there, and they've done nothing to stop property price inflation. Abstracting away ownership from the property to a collective legal entity ignores the main reason why people &#x
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by zhdc1 6y ago
How is this any different from owning shares in a housing cooperative? Aside from the risk being - possibly - divided across multiple properties, I don't see how this would solve the main issues driving appreciating housing prices any
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by zhdc1 6y ago
The article mentions Baltimore in particular, which may have had something to do with it (Johns Hopkins notwithstanding).
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The article is largely talking about academic success (with one or two exceptions) which imo is much easier to normalize across countries. The context to this article is that "grit" is used as one of the characteristics that cha
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by zhdc1 6y ago
There are several meta analyses you can find on Google Scholar that show a weak to moderate relationship between grit and educational success. The issue appears to be that there are conflicts over what grit actually represents in this conte
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by zhdc1 6y ago
University programs manned primarily by 18-21 year olds are supposed to compete against for-profit companies with highly experienced and specialized engineering talent?
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by zhdc1 6y ago
These sort of comparisons should always be crouched in specifics. The US is a country, while Europe is either a continent or an intranational union, depending on what you're talking about. Would the average person rather live in, say,
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by zhdc1 6y ago
Voting patterns in the states are very polarised by party membership, so I don't know if the comparison is completely ill warranted. European parties can probably count on a higher level of active participation, but when it comes time
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by zhdc1 6y ago
Great recommendation. I somehow managed to go from the House of Intellect to Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad to James Baldwin's Stranger in the Village over the last couple of hours.
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Very rejection-heavy is saying it lightly.
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by zhdc1 6y ago
The Commanding Heights by Yergin and Stanislaw is another good book that makes a similar argument.
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I'd say they're closer to Samsung, honestly. They make their own components and sell an upscale, premium product in high quantities. I would be more interested to see who eventually becomes the Apple of the EV works.
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by zhdc1 6y ago
VW has Euro 7 and a lot of customers who only buy local. They don't need to compete on quality to do well, they just have to beat a certain price point once the next round of EU emissions kick in.
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by zhdc1 6y ago
Europe is more heterogeneous than the states, so it's not a fair comparison. However, if it's worth anything, there are no capital requirements for starting a company with liability protection, which isn't the case in several
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by zhdc1 6y ago
> bureaucracies in East Asia and Continental Europe tend to be better-staffed and more empowered to make professional decisions Not from what I've seen. The highway I drive every day is in the middle of an extensive refurbishment. T
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by zhdc1 6y ago
It looks like Zen 2 processors about about to become even more of a bargain than they already are. I'll take a 7702P at $2-3K over a 7713P at $5K ten times out of ten.
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by zhdc1 6y ago
I think a lot of new cars come with it. Both of ours did, and it wasn't something we looked for.
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by zhdc1 6y ago
> It really breaks the tidyverse You may want to look at tidyfst. > Are the programmers of data.table just that much better? Pixie dust, R's C API (and yes, they're just exceptionally good).
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by zhdc1 6y ago
I'm convinced that data.table is wizardry. For anyone who's turned off by dt[i, j, by=k], Andrew Brooks has a good set of examples at http://brooksandrew.github.io/simpleblog/articles/advanced-d... . Data
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by zhdc1 6y ago
> I can’t be trusted to drive 120 miles a day and keep my speed in check If it's a matter of occasionally going over or under the speed limit (or if the speed limit on your route has sudden changes), you may want to look into gettin
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by zhdc1 6y ago
> As regards, climate studies. Where have we heard the term "peak" something-or-other before. Ah yes, "peak oil". Well that didn't happen: we found more oil, we substituted gas, ... "Peak CO2": I nearly
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by zhdc1 6y ago
I don't intend to downplay either Stata or SPSS for exactly that reason - they're very good at what they do. However, they have a limited scope (which isn't a bad thing), and if you want to go beyond it, you have to turn towa
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by zhdc1 6y ago
Julia's already making (fairly substantial) in roads. It's just not as visible as Python, since the niche it's occupying is much smaller and out of the way.
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Julia has advantages over Stata and SPSS as well. The main thing holding it back is its ecosystem. R has better libraries and a much better IDE (RStudio), while Python is still the best option for machine/deep learning (and general pro
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by zhdc1 6y ago
From the text: > Multiple confidentiality issues arise in the production of the CPI. One set of issues arises out of the need to prevent unauthorized access of data that are embargoed, or yet to be released to the public. because the CP
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by zhdc1 6y ago
One of the arguments in favor of having sustained, moderate inflation is that it forces people to invest for precisely this reason. Anyway, assuming a 3% inflation rate, the original $1K still turns into $30K after fifty years. It's al
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by zhdc1 6y ago
There are some people who can beat the market. Vanguard owes it's success as much to John Neff, who ran the Vanguard Windsor Fund and consistently out performed the S&P500 by ~3% a year for almost thirty years, as it does to John B

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