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Have you ever tried negotiating improvements with a landlord?

Often what happens is one of (a) they don't like it so you can't - "I think no, let's stick with white for the walls so the next tenants won't be put off".

Or (b) it's a disruptive improvement with no obvious benefit to them while you're there - "no, let's keep the useless and ugly blocked-up fireplace that nobody can use but takes up a wall, I agree it's in the way but the next tenant might like it". Or "I'm not going to invest in solar panels, this is a business not a charity, and it's you paying electricity bills not me".

Or (c) it's a genuine improvement they go for, which makes the property more valuable to rent. So they kick you out at the next renewal (no reason given), and raise the rent by 30% when they advertise next.

Sometimes you're lucky. Most times, you're lucky to have working facilities and no mould, be grateful scum etc. I once had a wall knocked down onto my bed by builders while I was away. When I got back there was rubble on my bed, big chunks of wall on the floor throughout the house, old plaster dust in the food in the kitchen, and my bike which was kept indoors was making a grinding noise. The landlord's representative turned up and said they saw nothing wrong with the place, what was I complaining about... It was cleaned up eventually, but the cockroaches remained. Did I mention my friend whose landlord-provided bathroom has no floor, only broken-up rough crumbly concrete, no hot water, mould throughout the house, no door on the bedroom, etc... And my other friend who moved out of one place and into another, only to be told after getting there that she would need to "stay away at the weekends because we use your room to 'have girls over'"; we had to move her stuff out and get her to safe, temporary accomodation very quickly. Then there was that time I was about to fly home for Christmas, and my landlord told me he had sold the flat and I had 2 weeks to find somewhere else, which of course was impossible.

Such landlords do not budge when it comes to improvements, unless they think it will make them money.

I personally live in a nice enough place these days. But honestly, in 30 years of renting about 15 different places, negotiating anything but negligable improvements has been unrealistic most of the time. Even with the nicest landlords, who can be very kind, negotiating is usually limited to minor, cosmetic things. I've known some exceptions, but it's rare.

Curiously, commercial landlords (business rentals) are different. They will do all sorts of major works as part of a deal with the tenant.
If you want to get into data then at least cite the most recent numbers. I'm not going to bother doing the due diligence you should have done on your numbers, but at least for the USC acceptance rank, the most recent figure is 11%.
WRONG.

Murder is a negative to society.

A loser going to Harvard is not, may even improve society if they study well.
In my experience, it felt appropriate.

We (the developers) were tasked with enormous responsibilities. I was back office, but responsible for managing a client/server for all non security reference data. There were easily over 200 data objects modelled. No direct DB access was allowed except for the owning service. Although it ended up around 3M LOC, it wasnt as bad as it seems, because only about 10% was manually written code. A lot was generated C++ (and aside: I was able to write a C++ wrapper around a generic API that exposed some 300 types through a home grown reflection esque API amd the Python wrapper never had to be updated necause it could use this reflection and run time cose generation to generate a strongly typed API at
runtime; to my knowledge, the Python code has remained unchanged since about 2006 despite the underlying C++ API changing constantly, when I first wrote it - I get occasional updates from former coworkers).

The big problem was the dependency management and scale. At least at the time I was there, neither were done well.

Scale was a problem because of tight coupling between libs. Upgrade a core lib? Everyone had to rebuild. Want to upgrade a 3rd party dependency? Firm wide rebuild that took a min 2 weeks. It was a mess. We were supposed to be client/server to minimize dependencies, but we so tightly coupled our clients to our servers, we just exacerbated the problem. A few us could handle multiple client versions with a single server, but most couldn't. Don't recommend.
You dumb fucks, didn't you know that you could just spend a little more, buy a building, and be assured of your kids getting in forever?

The number of Faheys, Wheelocks, Wheelocks and Fairchilds I went to college with is stupid.
Investment returns on German, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Zimbabwean, Austro-Hungarian stock exchanges since 1910 look pretty awful. More generally you’re assuming away political risk. Once your investments go to zero you’re done.

As an investment housing does much better when compared to equities than we thought until recently and it’s less risky. If the Communists come you’re screwed no matter what but if there’s regime change there’s a decent chance you can keep real property, especially if it’s local.

> The authors of the aforementioned study — Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor — have constructed a new database for the U.S. and 15 other advanced economies, ranging from 1870 through the present. Their striking finding is that housing returns are about equal to equity returns, and furthermore housing as an investment is significantly less risky than equities.

> In their full sample, equities average a 6.7 percent return per annum, and housing 6.9 percent. For the U.S. alone, equities return 8.5 percent and housing 6.1 percent, the latter figure being lower but still quite respectable. The standard deviation of housing returns, one measure of risk, is less than half of that for equities, whether for the cross-country data or for the U.S. alone. Another measure of risk, the covariance of housing returns with private consumption levels, also shows real estate to be a safer investment than equities, again on average.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-21/buy-a-...
Is there some tax benefit beyond the deduction, or do these people not understand how marginal tax brackets work?
So like when a manufacturer puts a label on a set of knives saying “warning, bottom edge is sharp” something like that? Except popping up on the screen as you drive every five seconds so you can read about the hazards you are seeing outside the windows?

Nanny car, anyone?

I think drivers are already well aware that roads contain an ever changing variety of risks, and they can see the signs of these risks with their eyes.

The driver in this case was acutely aware that the beta software could not yet properly handle that segment of road. So much so that he even visited the Tesla service center specifically to let them know about the issue.
I'm renting in Manhattan right now and this is absolutely the case for me. At the same monthly cost, I'd have to live farther out in a less desirable location. A lot of apartments cost more to own in monthly taxes and fees than my entire monthly rent cost when I first moved here (though admittedly I had roommates). Note, I'm not talking about a mortgage; that'd be way more. I'm just talking about coop fees. You can spend more on them buying an apartment than it costs to rent a bedroom in a shared apartment. And as people like to say about rent, that is also just "throwing money away".
Buying hedges against the market when you intend to live in the house. When the market goes up, your rent will increase, but the price to stay in the house you own is still zero.
Yep, there is.
You can't prove that. I also can't prove Damore or someone who agreed with him did it on purpose.
Maybe they could just update the safety messages. "Remember to keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road" is too bland.

How about, "I'm doing my best, but I still might swerve into a concrete barrier any second..."?

Or, "I wonder what would happen if a deer jumped into the road right now"?

Maybe "Don't tell me the odds"? "Was that your left or my left?" I dunno, help me out here.
It's close enough to being a legal problem that an internal lawyer immediately responded, specifically with the issue of 'why did you put Chrome first'?

That there were options, doesn't absolve them of possible anti-competitive acts.

For example, imagine that they did this to a browser made by a small company? Or another search engine?

Google has enough power that it doesn't need to form an overt strategy in many of these areas. Just by having assertive employees, loose rules, and Engineers not considering implications beyond their noses ... they can make all sorts of little 'wins' like this.

Today, the Chrome/Mozilla market share issue is fundamentally about power, not about 'the better product' and has Google has an infinite amount of money to subsidize that layer of the market, they will dominate, much as they do with Android. If the iPhone weren't one of the greatest products of a generation, and it were just some other thingy ... then Android would be fully dominant as well. Arguably the only reason that Mozilla exists is to allay concerns of competition.

Google has an incredible amount of power, I'm actually thankfully it's not aggressively abused, but soon as the founders leave, culture erodes, other priorities sink in, I believe there's little doubt that bias will creep into search engine results, for example.
Well, being a legacy student can absolutely get you into the school. You can't buy it for yourself now, but someone can have bought it for you earlier.
I mean, you've still got quite a lot of time to do cool things?
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The whole scandal only happened because these families paid the wrong person. Instead of paying the doorman, they paid for a disguise to sneak into the backdoor.
I found the cost similar to Lenovo, almost cheaper.
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But that misses what's going on here. Some of the indicted parents certainly did have the means to donate a building. But social status is now built on at least the appearance of a meritocracy. Donate a building, and everyone says your kid just got in because you donated a building. Bribe a coach secretly, and sure, everyone knows your kid had tons of advantages growing up, but you can at least keep up the facade that the kid deserves to be there.
When designing a procedure with default parameters, you should always choose the parameters based on how the procedure is most likely to be used.

Defaults you usually must change are hardly defaults at all. This does differ somewhat with tools, though, perhaps.
Autopilot arguably prevents more accidents and deaths than it causes, just to keep this in perspective. So the tobacco analogies can only go so far here.
The sensor technology is a big factor here. You can use LIDAR for perception without needing a neural net. On the other hand with radar + ultrasound + vision you'll need a neural net to try to detect things like obstacles, since the raw data from those sensors doesn't directly tell you whether there is an obstacle in the way.
Its almost as if we shouldn't let 4000 pound metal boxes drive themselves
I've got the opposite "problem" right now -- I have a 30 year fixed mortgage at 3.375% (and since that house is rented out now I can deduct the paid interest against rental income). So basically there's no point whatsoever in paying it down early because there are much better uses of money.
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I kind of suspect that the eight or ten people that made Bell Labs influential might have had some kind of leverage.
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You continue living with your family.
However the rest of the thread explains that Teslas are "trigger"ed to capture imagery data (in rapid succession, almost like a video) in a variety of situations like being close to pedestrians/cyclists not just disengagements.
Where do you claim there are favorable conditions? As far as I am aware the homeless are everywhere; some places are simply impossible to live without shelter due to exposure.
I think that the comparison of an aircraft autopilot to a car autopilot is just apples to oranges. They both operate in completely different environments, with different amounts and types of noise, are designed at a high level to do totally different things (yes they both "steer", but the problems they solve have no overlap), and are functionally completely different. I see this comparison a lot, and it doesn't add anything to the conversation, other than pointless bickering.
that's reasonable, I guess... though I can see a point where they want to sell things, rather than engage in endless discussions about everyone's opinion of what "ethical" means ;)
The new headcount is coming from cloud. Lots of sales people in particular.
Ideology is no match for entropy. Best response I can come up with is to be still and rely upon providence.

Software is another tool.
Regardless of the initial intentions, it is only a matter of time before a Zuck or a Parker picks it up and uses it to abuse people.
My understanding of this particular anomaly is:

1. The majority of market money is handled by institutional funds, which also have leverage constraints

2. Institutional funds are generally measured by their ability to beat a market benchmark, like the S&P500, on a short term (quarterly or annual) basis

3. To beat the market, fund managers must invest in stocks that diverge from the market. This means high beta stocks - aka stocks with higher systemic risk (by definition, if beta=1.0 it will match - but not outperform - the market)

4. Most fund managers display an overconfidence bias. In other words, they think they can pick the winners of the high-beta stocks. While they may be able to do so in a particular year, rarely do the same funds pick winners consistently over a long stretch of time.

So the low-volatility anomaly is the convergence of incentives (you are measured by your ability to beat the market) and the overconfidence bias of behavioral economics (you think you can pick the winners of the high-beta stocks). As large amounts of institutional funds are funneled to high-beta stocks, it leaves low-beta stocks relatively undervalued
>This is only a problem if you take the view that a nation needs to (and is able to) save for its future in terms of a currency it issues.

If you track the real goods and services involved, nations are essentially incapable of saving for the future. Ignore the financial claims and just look at the goods involved - today's retirees are consuming the fruit of today's labor, essentially. They're not making a car in 1980 so that they can drive it around today.

>Increased taxation is not required to support a growing population of retirees, increased production is.

Increased productivity definitely helps (see point 2 above). It has to grow in excess of the rate of growth of the gross retiree consumption, though, or else you're just facing a less intense version of the prior dilemma.

>Taxation is neither here nor there: it is required as an inflation control

Saying you don't have to tax workers and can allow inflation to rise instead is solving the problem through point 1: reducing the consumption of retirees (by inflating away their purchasing power).

> It's not true that current consumption is created by current workers.

Apologies for saying things in an unclear way - I probably should have used "produced" instead of "created", because I was getting at the physical act of producing goods and services for consumption, rather than the desire and means to consume goods and services.
What? I have three cars with AEB/adaptive cruise control and I've experienced two of them doing exactly what you describe and saved me a bunch of damage.
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I'll take "oopsie."

Google did an "oopsie" and blocked Firefox users from using Gmail

Sounds great.
Landing a plane is fairly trivial considering that autopilot simply guides the aircraft down a radio beam, cuts throttle and raises its nose a bit when on-board radio altimeter crosses below 50 feet. First fully automated landing in revenue service predates the first microprocessor, which should give an idea of the tech used.

The difficult part is decision-making in non-standard situations like Sully landing on the Hudson with his A320.
"can't be evicted by the landlord" is a pretty good benefit. Also, if rents go up a lot in your area, renters end up spending more on housing. When you buy, your cost of housing becomes more predictable in the long-term.

Interest rates can change as well but are less volatile than rents, and become less of a concern as you pay off more of your principal.
Don't you need a special landing system for the system to automatically land the plane?
Nope. The sales tax is imposed on the retailer, and is collected at time of purchase.
In India, UPI is making major inroads and has cut the rates drastically.
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The student bodies aren't all that comparable. Although they both have 45k students, USC has twice as many graduate students as UCLA and they even outnumber the undergrads.

But really, its pretty foolish to compare an entire school to another. A given program against another given program? Sure. There are fields that USC and UCLA each might be at the top of, and there are fields where they are going to be much worse. That's the real rub with these rankings, combining and binning aspects of schools that aren't related at all. The only thing that's worth looking at is the rigor or research output of a specific program.
>Being in America they will more than likely face legal action of some sort over this.

Which America are talking about here? The one that let Equifax off scott free for leaking the entire countries personal financial info with security that resembles geocities?

Dell won't get punished for shit.
Ah, sorry it took so long to respond—I was at work. I used KeyHero[1], mostly because the passages were interesting enough to keep me from getting _too_ bored.

I studied a few charts beforehand, but the repetition is really what made it sink in.

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And as long as you don't consider google a spyware company, which they are.
Bad games are playable and “partially successful”. And given that the full game won’t be finished unless ever-more money is wrung outnfrom die-hard fans or naive newcomers - a brazen state of affairs that has dragged on so long that, yes, I dare say “pyramid scheme” is an appropriate way to derisively analogize it.

Preaching honesty and offering a free taste of snake oil is a ghastly display of chutzpah (but just what an industry that fell for thos grift deserves)

Meanwhile, Star Citzen continues to entertain the world by vastly enriching the YouTube genre of wacky game bug videos, so it’s not all bad news!
>several purposes

You're thinking of purposes as an investment. The point of the article is precisely that it is not beneficial for it to be seen as an investment, but first and foremost as a practical human necessity.
I'd be more likely to pay attention to someone who'd already laid down, say, a $100 million bet on this idea.

AI's are still running cars into freeway barriers and firetrucks. The 'big 5' can't even hold on to "their" own data (yours).
No one else sees things this way?

The link to the article I referred to: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523847/instagram-hide-l...