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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.

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 chan…

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 …

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…

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 so…

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 ca…

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 standin…

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" asses…

> 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!

IP geolocation is horribly inaccurate in my area. Why not let the user specify where they are manually?

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…

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 product…

>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 :)

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 op…

Three finger drag on the trackpad was a game changer for me. I was getting RSI before and that eliminated it entirely.

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 tric…

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 mista…

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 irritat…

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/S…

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 ava…

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 to…

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 r…