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There are multiple that do that. `mz` is the most popular I know of.
Yes, and here at least, I think indentation is a BIG win over parenthesis.
The average is a bad metric for this, if you consider how much it might cost for someone to stay in a hotel v. someone who makes a day trip.
I wonder whether a hostile government could print enough $100 bills to damage the currency? A single T-Bill auction would affect the money supply more than printing presses running 24/7.
>> You would think by now people would have learnt their lesson and stopped thinking of housing as a 'great investment'.

Especially at a price of $1.5 million!!
That is a really poor comparison. Imagine you built a piece of software that had tens of thousands of man hours of industry specifications, templates, calculations, symbol libraries, and regulatory compliance built in. Now imagine an american company was 'offshoring' their piracy to Chinese subcontractors who used that software illegally to produce intelligent CAD files (i.e. not just a CAD drawing, but bills of materials, specs, and calculation tables) that literally could not be produced to the same standards without that software. And then sold those files in the US market for major profit, without ever having payed for any licenses of your software or tools.

I am all for open standards, and I don't really care about individual piracy. But a company should be held responsible for the ethical production of their products no matter if they subcontract the work or not.
...for now. Sudden spikes might be a warning of an emerging problem, and some problems have a way of bursting their containers. I remember a lot of similarly sanguine comments when the next of the Fukushima disaster first broke.
Well, a GFCI (elsewhere known as RCCB, residual-current circuit breaker) is a circuit breaker in the very literal sense that it breaks the circuit when it detects a current leak.

But it's not exactly a fuse: if all current goes where current is supposed to go, a ground defect circuit breaker does nothing.

About the previous post: that ""a laptop so powerful that it blew the fuses"" is rubbish. Even a powerful laptop doesn't eat so much current that it would blow a fuse - unless the circuit is already nearly overloaded, in which case even the slightest power consumption may blow the fuse, and that tells nothing about the power consumption of the laptop.

(Used to have a kitchen where the tumble drier had to be turned off if you wanted to use the microwave or a tea kettle.)
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Fair enough. My personal workaround (though, hacky, I guess) is to use screen for preserving the shell. It has a slight advantage of being more accessible, since more people know screen than tmux.
There is/was nothing outrageous about antimatter except the name. They could have called them "complimentary particles" or something more tame sounding. All particles can interact with other particles and produce reaction products. There was nothing novel about that either. Just because the reaction products here happen to be only photons instead of a mixture of photons and other new particles isn't much of a leap in surprisingness. They already knew about mass defect and E=mc^2, so the idea of converting part of a particle's mass to photons was already established.
It's simpler than that. Given that the idiots running the Federal Reserve for the past 10+ years have no plan to obsolete even the oldest notes, all an enemy has to attack are the simplest notes (pre-modern anti-counterfeit techniques).
I'm completely unfamiliar with the Canadian real estate market, but where I live your ability to get a loan depends on your income and ability to pay the loan.

Given that, why does it matter if someone in Canada had a $200K home and the market dropped 30%, v.s. someone who had a $2M home and the market dropped 30%? Surely their earnings were priced into the loan?

Or is the Canadian real estate/loan market so insane that nobody asks you if you can plausibly pay for the loan you're taking?
I'm currently working on a gig in OC and living in Laguna Beach. I've found it to be one most exclusionary communities I've ever lived in. AirBNB is effectively banned, and, as a renter, I didn't feel like I fit in at my gym which is dominated by wealthy and long time home owners.

Like many areas, there are laws which prevent increased development which further puts pressure on housing and rent prices.

Overall I like Laguna, but while I think most people who live here would consider themselves liberal, their local politics are more reactionary.
>pay no attention to the fact that I actually named a piece of the brain involved in exerting willpower."

You seem to have payed little attention to the fact that the author refers to several experiments that point to the absence (or severe limits) of willpower as such.
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For most people your house is one of your largest investments .
I think the author makes one mistake that unravels the entire piece - the US has 3 branches of government, and even if it ignores federal limits, it's hard to fire judges and congress.

These checks and balances are built into the legal foundation of our country, and are extremely hard to undo. So while any given president may be able to get his way for a while (FDR being the best example), the idea that Trump or anyone else being able to turn this country into a dictatorship really cannot be taken seriously.

Throw the country into a constitutional crises or put us on the verge of revolution/civil war? Plausible. But to get to dictatorship without going through all that? Hard to even comprehend.
Agreed. How many people have been made millionaires through tech companies? 10,000? 20,000? Even 50,000?

There are 7 million people who live in the greater Bay area and they live in ~2.5M owner-occupied housing units. I can't see tech millionaires making that much of a an impact on housing prices. Sure, they could push prices up by 10-20%, but SF housing prices have pretty much doubled since the great recession.

I think it's the "now or never" mentality of home buyers. they think that prices will only ever go up, so if they don't buy now (even if it means overextending themselves) they'll never have a home. I'm sure a lot of people thought the same thing before the housing crash of 2007.
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> Here, people use Renderman, Arnold, and in-house stuff mostly.

Disney has Hyperion and Weta has Manuka, although I'm not sure if they license them out to other shops.
I think that would be true if all potential locations had the tax. As they are just parking their money, the exact city they buy into doesn't matter too much to them outside of the economics.
The Vancouver housing market is one of many. If all it takes to avoid the tax is to buy a place in Toronto or Seattle, then why not?
If you are worried about it, just make a "backup" system which will dump your sqlite DB to CSV or "text" or even raw SQL commands every so often.

That way you get to have all the convenience of any tools you might want right now, and have a very easily "parsable" copy that you should be able to write something to put it in something in the future.
Me too, and it's great and even works on Windows with Babun :-) If I use tmux as window manager, I don't have the problem with installing fluxbox etc. on Windows :-)
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This just goes to illustrate what is, outwardly, one of the core values of conservative politicians in the US: trust in the market. The problem is, the market tends to stratify people by means, which goes against the good "Christian" value of generosity -- Christianity, of course, being something that American conservatives hold dear, although selectively as everyone can see.
I agree, but this is why I ways point to the states involved. For every state that benefitted from this more open economy you can see a clear set of decisions that embrace that change. For every failed one you can see a state that did almost nothing in response to those changes.
Based on what I've seen you should assume most nation states have this ability. Take the NSA's back door into Cisco routers as an example. The NSA made use of this exploit for years before it was exposed. In all likelihood they are still making use of it as there are likely unpatched routers still in the wild.

Now sidestep to phones. Nation states can tap into your calls and to your location through the GPS info tied to your phone. So if you want your calls to be anonymous you pay cash for a burner and only turn it on and use it in large crowds. Ok, that seems ok, but burner phones are specifically targeted since they are more likely to be associated with behavior a government would want to track. So now what happens is as soon as the burner comes on you are triangulated, phones near you are identified and these are used to start to pinpoint who you are. Social media of everyone near the burner can be mined. Over time if you continue to use the same burner the higher likelihood of being identified.
Actually this wasn't a random thought, as I noticed Iran said they won't need dollars but would keep pursuing missile tests, hmmm. Then I thought denying $150 billion isn't as same as denying anything on earth.
Not only on relative ratings, but on your performance in the tournament as well.
If investors are buying with the intent to flip properties for a profit in the future then the tax significantly limits that profit. It'd make more sense to buy in other markets without such a tax.

If the intent is to just park money then a 15% cost to do so might or might not make sense.
I just stopped reading after this sentence:

> We split the adults aged 50 or older into groups reflecting their average level of drinking, from non-drinkers through to those drinking three or more drinks a day.

The decision to split a naturally continuous or interval variable into discrete groups and then compare those groups has no valid statistical purpose. It serves no advantage over the regression alternative but it does lower the power of the analysis. ANOVA really just needs to die already. It became popular in the social sciences because it was a feasible way of doing inferential statistics back when computations were done with a pen and paper. Now we have computers and there's no excuse not to use better methods, an obvious alternative being linear regression.

Boycott bad stats. If you are a reviewer then hold the field to a higher standard.
> I think most people who live here would consider themselves liberal

orange county and san diego county are the two most politically conservative counties in california.
No its fine and Im certainly no genius. I just dont need whitespace to 'reinforce' code expression - its a visual familiarity thing, quite a general reading skill.

The only confusing thing in this line is the % operator being overloaded on Vecs to mean the cross product. What the calculation is actually for is what takes time to grok, but you cant expect that to be revealed by familiar formatting and expansive variable names.
Generally, you are correct. However, you need to take into account someone's down payment.

If you're making $300K per year and you buy a $1M house, then yes, a loss of $100K-$200K is probably manageable. However, a lot of people don't make that much money. What they did is scrap together a down payment, sometimes borrowing from Mom or Dad. They get a mortgage payment they can just afford on a salary of $100K.

The other thing that happens is that some people will get a 2nd loan to cover the down payment requirement. There are regulations against it, but it does happen.
OK. I'll bite - what is exactly the problem when someone rebases master and force-pushes it? As far as I understand all other people have to do is: git fetch; git rebase -i origin/master and remove everything that shouldn't be there. Does not seem like a that big of a deal.
Care to speculate? Besides, if there are unintended consequences, the laws can be changed...
Well sure, that would pretty annoying, this sort of thing shouldn't even be the federal government's job, let alone the President's. Note that this was done by the government of BC, not Justin Trudeau. Which makes a lot more sense.
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"That means only 1 out of 8 homes were bought by a foreigner and 7 out of 8 were purchases by resident Canadians."

1 out of 8 is more than is necessary to create a massive bubble, and is the driving factor - along with low interest rtes.

In a housing market - nobody knows for sure which direction it's going to go.

So how do they price? They price on 'similar properties'. So when 'the similar house down the street' sells for '5% above asking' that sends a 'validating pricing signal' to other buyers of homes in the neighbourhood.

It's not so much that it's 'foreign buyers' - if they were normal buyers it wouldn't have much on an effect - it's that they are generally 'price insensitive'. They need to get their money out of China and into something and they generally com e in and buy above asking, and out-bid everyone or whatever.

In a 'normal situation' a house may not sell for some time, it gets buyers skittish, and they wait, and maybe give low-ball offers. Sellers may be weary and then sell it.

But all it takes is for a few 'over asking bids' to come into an area and it props ALL of the homes up in price. Local buyers feel confident taking out their massive loans because 'that's what the house is worth, i.e. it's an investment'.

Without some upward driver on prices, they'll collapse to a different level - and guess what that level is? The level that people earning the local Houshold income feel comfortable buying at :) given all the variables.

Especially when the word 'bubble' is floating around, it means the only way local buyers will buy is if there is the 'up signal'. So - no 'foreign inelastic buyers' -> 'no up signal' -> depreciation.

As for: "What people seem to ignore is the absolutely shocking way that Canadians are overextending themselves when it comes to real estate"

This is rational behaviour. If the market is going up-up-up - and you're a family in Van - you either buy a home now while you can barely afford it - or be left out of the housing market forever, and rent - and within a few years, rents will be too much - and you have to leave Vancouver!

So the effect of 'price inelastic foreign buyers' is forcing otherwise normal people into a serious economic quandry - the system is forcing them to gamble their entire life of 'net worth' in a crazy crapshoot - when people just want a place to live.

Globalization is having a crazy effect on real estate - and outside of maybe a few 'globalist' cities like London and NYC - I believe that every nation should have a 15% tax on foreign buyers - so that local citizens are given a kind of advantage - or rather just a 'protection' from foreign blips of money coming and ruining them all. The local banks will pay a price as well. A serious Vancouver housing crash could kill a bank, in which case taxpayers have to come in and bail it out.

When the entire world is interconnected, the bad decisions of one government can send shockwaves through the world. That's why 'some kinds of walls' are good. Think 'economic firewall'.
Granted, short-term losses are undeniable.

But long-term, ordinary Canadians living in these properties stand to make out alright (indeed - assuming this is not a long-term depression in prices). They get their utility out of the property (if city rents are 2-3K/mo for a 2 bedroom, that's 480K over 20 years in "cost of renting the space" which they don't end up incurring).

I cannot speak for Vancouver, but scenarios in the US where cities saw non-trivial % declines had those % returned in-kind within a decade. So we're seeing short-term losses, it will impact folks selling today or tomorrow, but not in 10 years (as I've caveat-ed along the way: probably).
You have to remember that Vancouver was the hottest housing market in Canada. Toronto is #2, but prices there are maybe 60-80% of those in Vancouver. And Toronto is a massive city with a ton of high paying jobs. Vancouver not so much.

As I stated in another reply, I have no doubt the foreigner tax had an impact. But even without it, the Vancouver market was poised for a downturn.
Perhaps, as some other persons commented on the thread, the housing price at Vancouver was pushed high by oversea money? The other cities were not like this?
I don't think that the anguish that someone feels due to having photo/video of them distributed justifies censorship, and I think that there is even less justification in the case where the 'victim' (I put that in quotes, because they may not have been victimised by the act itself) consents to the distribution (if they are able to consent).

Granted that we probably have different standards for what we deem to be enough to censor people, I do not believe any curtailment of freedom of speech or expression ought to be allowed in a free society. This is one of the reasons I am an anarchist, actually. Laws that prevent me from sharing materials once I have received them I believe to be inherently unjust.

The act iteslf of child abuse is heinous, very few people deny this (though I believe there ought to be a good debate and scientific and philosophical and psychological investigation into the concept of 'age of consent', and what age that is), though I do not believe that to merely create a video of the act should be illegal, unless it has been demonstrably in order to cause psychological anguish, and I certainly do not believe that distribution of such video should be made illegal for those who have not contributed at all to the act.

I think that it is totally disjoint from privacy laws, and just as I believe copyright is unjust, so too I believe any kind of censorship is unjust. Child abuse may be illegalised, so too may cracking into a bank account, so too may installing secret cameras in someone's home - but the distribution of the materials obtained therein, unless demonstrably causing harm (and even this is a dubious concept, though worthy of debate as if it justifies censorship) should not be illegalised, at least in my opinion.

Not only does it set a dangerous precedent that censorship is in fact OK but it also causes people to police what they say for fear of censorship, and furthermore influences truly stupid laws such as those criminalising drawn pornography of fictional characters who appear to be under the age of 18. Such a law as is present in the US, UK and many other countries, would have no basis at all if it were not for the fact that people think censorship is OK at any level.

And if you do not think these are bad things, observe that in Canada a man was let off a criminal conviction which would have given him jail time. His crime? Importing a sex doll torso from Japan, which appeared to represent one of a personage under the age of 18.

When people go to prison for having certain drawings or sex dolls, there is a problem with society.
This. In Spain, where the housing bubble bust is still widely felt, economic and finance newspapers are starting to report (or pitch, I'm not really sure) that "Spaniards are starting to invest in housing again".

We don't learn.
Tax laws are hard to change. Prop 13 sure had unintended consequences...
Being new to HN and PH, I feel like influencers' help is needed to promote the story on such communities.
Is it really so? Investing lots of time to boost karma does not sound like a good strategy at first glance.
Expression Templates are a big reason for Eigen's (and Blaze's) success compared to older linear algebra libraries -- I think something similar should be doable in Rust.

Most commercial software packages (e.g. Maya) expose their APIs via C++, though, which makes the use of other languages trickier.
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AFAIK the problem often is that the home is collateral for the loan, and when prices fall the bank demands more collateral to match the loan (even if you could still pay your monthly payments). If you can't pony up, the bank may take over and sell with the current (lower) price. You're left with no home and still have to pay the part of the loan that remains due to price difference.

Disclaimer: not sure this is how US/Canadian mortgages actually work, but this screwed lots of people in a certain financial crisis I know of.
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I would imagine that one unintended consequence is that very few homes (read: zero) actually sit empty for a whole year. In fact, I would imagine there's a local property manager right now offering to rent your house out with "very light use" for exactly 31 days every 6 months while offering "maintenance services."
Largest, sure, but not most effective. A house is for most people primarily a purchase they intend to use (live in), with the added benefit that over the long term is likely one of their few material possessions that will appreciate instead of depreciate.

Granted, even if the 1.5M house falls by 30% this year, over decades it is likely it will still come out ahead, adjusted for inflation, compared to say, a savings account. But chances are, on average, it won't beat an index fund.
Says there it uses sqlite.
This may have been what may memory was dredging up - "fsdb, a flat-text database for shell scripting" :
http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/FSDB/Fsdb-2.23_README.htm...