mattgibson

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by mattgibson 2y ago
It would be interesting to know if land prices have changed over the same period. Also whether any other comparable cities have had similar falls in price.
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by mattgibson 2y ago
I wonder if every generation is doomed to feel this way. Socrates was horrified about the corrosive effect of reading upon young people's ability to memorise speeches. Plus ca change etc. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/h
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by mattgibson 2y ago
Democracy isn't just blind voting. The votes mean nothing if people don't know what the candidates stand for. Manifestos outlining intent and reasoning are part of the process but so is explaining what a policy is intended to achi
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by mattgibson 2y ago
This looks horribly like failing to understand Chesterton's fence https://thoughtbot.com/blog/chestertons-fence The agencies were democratically put in place for a reason. Removing them with no public discussion o
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by mattgibson 2y ago
You really need to provide data to make that assertion. Shortages of buildings are not the only reason that property prices can be high. Properties are made up of a building and a plot of land that it's attached to. Whilst we can nake
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by mattgibson 3y ago
The reason for this is that the rent they would pay will fluctuate with the market. If a city grows and an area becomes more expensive, the landlord captures the uplift by raising the rent and WeWork would operate on a thin margin. On the o
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by mattgibson 3y ago
Given it's already been done before by Iridium [0], it's hard to see how it would take centuries for a more efficient version of the same thing to emerge if Spacex was not around. Especially given the general technology progress s
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by mattgibson 3y ago
Given it's an auction mechanism, it's hard to stop people offering to pay for the land they want. The options seem to be either allowing that money to flow into private hands so someone gets a free lunch, or to capture it as tax,
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by mattgibson 3y ago
Land prices go up when poeple have more mooney and go down when people have less. The root cause is that land is unique in the economy because it both cannot be manufactured and cannot be moved. Each piece of land is therefore unique and no
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by mattgibson 3y ago
Fully agree. To add to this: I initally had the assumption (no idea why) that I was supposed to spend most of my time standing if I had a standing desk. Initially I thought standing desks were not for me because I'd start to feel tired
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by mattgibson 3y ago
TBF I don't think this is bad. The "cheating" involved seems a closer match to the actual real world conditions of the doing the job than the artificial "no internet allowed" assessment. If the candidates can get st
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by mattgibson 4y ago
> It is a cliche, but kids are only young once. Enjoy that time. This. So many times over. Everything else can be done later or slowly. Don't miss the good bits!
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by mattgibson 4y ago
IP geolocation is horribly inaccurate in my area. Why not let the user specify where they are manually?
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by mattgibson 5y ago
These calculators seem to miss the point for me. If I spend less overall by renting, I don't care because I can't pass the property as an inheritance to my kids. If I buy, they get a house for free when I pass on. Also, if I rent,
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by mattgibson 5y ago
Generally, you can ask for these clauses to be taken out of the contract when negotiating whilst interviewing. They are often just part of a boilerplate. Directly competing products seem like a fair thing to want to restrict, but other stuf
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by mattgibson 5y ago
>There are entire groups of people in history that were documented to be obese, especially in religion or sports This is also a very strong claim that is lacking a source :)
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by mattgibson 6y ago
I'd recommend finding something that combines programming and whatever your prior career has been, so you can bridge the gap. I moved from teaching to coding by first working on open source teaching software in my spare time, then usin
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by mattgibson 6y ago
Three finger drag on the trackpad was a game changer for me. I was getting RSI before and that eliminated it entirely.
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by mattgibson 6y ago
I never asked for figures, but he kept doing it despite being in a reasonably well paid job as social media manager for a restaurant chain. Which brings to mind another of his tricks: He set up a lunch voucher trading scheme for all of the
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by mattgibson 6y ago
A friend used to have a great ebay sideline in reselling poorly listed items at a higher price. He'd search for reasonably high value items that had been listed with spelling mistakes in the name so that they didn't show up in sea
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by mattgibson 6y ago
I think this is often undervalued. It's not necessarily the typing speed, but the far larger slowdown caused by distractions like error correction, using the mouse, getting irritated and taking a break etc. Meauring words per minute in
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by mattgibson 7y ago
Solar power towers can be built with molten salt heat stores, which continue to power the turbines during the night, so they do work after dusk now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower
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by mattgibson 7y ago
One way to make the most of your country of residence is to exploit the timezone difference as a positive. Look for companies that have 24/7 operations and need to have someone available for troubleshooting when their main team are asl
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by mattgibson 7y ago
There is a British English version of this, which has been around on the internet for a few years. A friend of my partner's, who works at a high level in the European commission told us that it is passed around in diplomatic circles as
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by mattgibson 7y ago
For clarity, there is a significant warm up time for the DB to load your data when you cold-start, so this is sadly not suitable for use with serverless lambda functions in a web request cycle. A good use case for this would be batch proces
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by mattgibson 8y ago
This appears to no longer be true: http://gregpytel.blogspot.com/2009/04/largest-heist-in-histo... By financialising the mortgages and other loans, the banks can now treat them as if they were lendable cash. A bit
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by mattgibson 8y ago
Currently, after trying quite a few other things (Basecamp, Confluence, READMEs, just not bothering to document things), we've now settled on using a simple git repo of markdown pages which auto deploys to a mkdocs site from master. We
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by mattgibson 8y ago
Curious as to whether you have found a better Rails-type framework or have moved on to a different type of dev work that you prefer. Any recommendations?
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by mattgibson 8y ago
The board game Monopoly was originally based on the Landlord's Game by Elizabeth Magie, which was intended to show how property ownership ruins free market capitalism. Land can't be created or moved, so is not a free market (accor
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by mattgibson 8y ago
For comparison, the ingredients of OpenCola are probably similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)

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