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> good example in the book explaining why a tick size is needed. > Say that the current bid in the market is $20. If you want to buy at that price, you will be placed last in the list of orders. But since the sorting order is first by price, then by arrival time, you could get first in line by putting in an order with a price only slightly better than $20 (say $20.00000001).

I don't buy the argument.

Removing tick (or at least reducing it 100x) would put more emphasis on price discovery instead of speed.

Making building more homes easier addresses this.

Price-fixing that is not done via consolidation is ultimately unstable from game theory point of view.

There's very strong incentive to defect from "optimal vacancy rate" and eat outsized profit compared to the rest of competition. Making building easier makes consolidation harder, as outsiders are now potential defectors as well. AFAIK we're not in monopoly situation (yet?) for rental properties.

Most of YieldStar value proposition on the other hand is ultimately just a price discovery mechanism. Prices raise because people *are willing* to pay that much for apartment. People are willing to pay that much, because supply doesn't keep with demand.

Interesting.

Probably won't work for harder queries, but would be a good tool to make simpler queries, or parts of harder ones.

> Trust me, we would not want to live in a world where you can't kick someone out of your business

To the best of my knowledge - this is the case in big chunk Europe, with a "for no reason" added on the end. You can't kick out someone out of business unless they are actively malicious. And no, working for a company that is suing an owner is not considered malicious.

I think it that particular case they just didn't do error analysis.

The task was to output answer with `10^-6` precision, which they solution didn't achieve. Funnily enough the number of other teams went the "correct" route and passed (as they were doing additions in same order as original solution).

Story time.

Back in university I was taking part in programming competition. I don't remember the exact details of a problem, but it was expected to be solved as a dynamic problem with dp[n][n] as an answer, n < 1000. But, wrangling some numbers around one could show that dp[n][n] = dp[n-1][n-1] + 1/n, and the answer was just the sum of first N elements of harmonic series. Unluckily for us the intended solution had worse precision and our solution failed.

It's a different tradeoff. Systems that fails and *executes recovery path* from time to time tend to be more resilient to catastrophic failures.

Ideally you would want the combination of both: system doesn't usually crash/fail, but you force it to do so regularly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering

> that place was 38°C in my living room with all windows and doors open in the summer.

If your window is open you will have the same air temperature as outside, potentially higher. I saw a lot of that in my apartment block this summer. People don't have experience dealing with high temperatures, and intuitions they have are wrong.

What you want to do is

1. Open windows at night to create draft and cool down your dwelling.

2. During the day close windows and block sunlight as much as possible. Blocking sunlight on the outside of window is better than blocking it inside. If blocking inside with something like thermal curtains you may need to leave window a crack open. Sunhouse-like conditions may cause temperature next to window increse by a lot (60+) which is not good for glass.

3. (1) and (2) can be supplemented with AirCon, but it's not that popular in UK.

I parse "N% faster" as "N% more fast" as in "delta is positive and N% of base". I parse "N times (or Nx) faster" as "ratio of after/before is equal to N". So "50% faster" is equivalent to "1.5 times faster". I genuinely don't understand the point you're making.

> What is 1 times faster? If your interpretation is correct, that's not faster at all.

I'm no OP, but I would stand by this, yes. In <= 1 case "as fast" instead of "faster" would probably be preferable, but for 2.5x I see no problem.

> But then you will probably get an even worst bill with a gas boiler

Quick google shows that electicity in France[0] costs roughly 1.6x more than natgas. For Washington State this ratio is around 2.45x.

Eyeballing this graph[2] that corresponds to breakeven outside temperature of <-20℃ and -8℃ respectively for 40℃ output (~-18℃ and 0℃ for 50℃).

[0] https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/France/ [1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/averageenergyp... [2] https://support.sefaira.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000249971-A... -> scroll down roughly 2/3.

Per TFA: *Vacancy rate is lower* than in other region.

At least for MANGA I work at SV office is way emptier than London one. Which is not surprising if you take commute time difference into account.

Universal approximation theorem stays that neural nets can approximate any function[0] (size of that network may need to be arbitrarily big though). I'm not aware of any restrictions/limits on that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...

I remember seeing cubes that have solid inside that has melting point around (good temperature to drink coffee).

You put them in a cup and it

1. Quickly cools coffee to that temperature (by increasing temperature and melting). 2. Keeps coffee at that temperature for some point (doesn't go lower until liquid inside is back solid).

I've gave it a cursory google and can't find a name.

> Of course, this list may well just be other companies that are overseas and you can't drill down into their owners.. ;-)

And this is a crucial difference. UBOs (Ultimate Beneficial Owner) registries list, well, the ultimate beneficial owner(s), the person at then end of chain. See examples in twitter thread [0] (already linked a couple of times).

[0] https://twitter.com/pevchikh/status/1597588206874157058

Progress in the space is at breakneck speed. Check out this comparison of 5 months (!) of midjourney progress [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1595846677591904257

"Modern principles of economics" start with great anecdote how British Government changing payment from £/prisoner boarded to £/prisoner delivered reduced death rate on Australia convict ships from ~30% to less than 1%.

It's actually pretty good.

Better than chat for fostering async-style communication. Better than email at discoverability.

Designing Data Intensive Applications is one of the most useful books if you work with big systems.

Doubly so if you're actually working on a system like that.

Nicely threads a line between too dense and too watery.

> where the scientific papers are coming from and what companies are doing research of value.

Genuinely curious: what are the companies that are doing research of value?

> Why should a random citizen get paid more just because in their country there's heavily polluting industries? It makes no sense.

I'm not following. Random citizen also pays more in tax.

> landscapers would be paid more

Landscapers with leafblowers would outcompete landscapers with rakes.

> Even in the successful vote, there were still a lot of "no" votes.

I'm gonna steelman those no votes. BigCos don't like unions to the point they can and sometimes do close the place/warehouse alltogether. This is worse than working in non-union shop, especially in economically depressed area.

1. Key is 256 bits K

2. Half of K is a random 256 bit X

3. Other half is (K xor X), still 256 bit

Having half of key is still 256 bit bruteforcing.

rot13 is text cipher (for a-z). XOR 0x50 is a number operation.

Most of egregious stands are caused by principal agent problem.

You have

1. Person designing stand. 2. Person approving/ordering stand (usually business or city). 3. Person locking their bike.

If you're lucky (1) or (2) is also (3) at the same time. Otherwise, you get bunch of metal that at best looks nice.

> Would Ukrainians really want it

Yes.

Yeah, UKs train tickets are ridiculous if you compare it to rest of Europe.

And that's not even case of UK just being generally more expensive, e.g. cheapest StAlbans - London (~25 km) yearly pass costs around £4k. About a 1000 pounds more than Switzerland GA travelcard which covers basically any form of public transport in Switzerland.

> If SWE was the only non-NATO country in Northern Europe it would be quite open for an attack.

EU has a mutual defense clause [0]

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/...

@dang can we get a change "away for" to "away from"