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So they saved $0.000006 per record, it's really about the little things...

It depends on what you mean by free market, it's often used interchangeably with with laissez-faire capitalism but an important concept in a free market is that the barrier to entr…

You're only saying this because you don't like the outcome of economic research. So called "soft" sciences are the best way to get close to the truth in those fields even if it's h…

In our use case (rebuilding tables from Postgres CDC logs), Delta Lake was significantly faster than Hudi.

This is monthly rent, not yearly...

Aside from whether this is "cheating", this shows how having connections can give you an advantage in your career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deducti...

That's literally what people do when they buy a house, except in that case, that debt is probably backed by Elon's Tesla stock.

What's the benefit over just using the main database?

If a customer has 1000 employees all using your app, it is.

A lot of these things can scale vertically rather than horizontally. If you allow denser housing by building higher, schools and hospitals can also build higher.

Namedtuples also behave like tuples, which is great when you want to incrementally turn tuples into classes but if you want an easy way of creating classes, it's probably not a goo…

Coal, oil and gas kills people https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

What are the good alternatives for an XPS like laptop that runs Linux?

The book "Why nations fail" makes the claim that centralized institutions (among other things) are necessary for building a prosperous country. It's a very interesting read.

Absolutely not, they protect current renters, not people with the lowest wages, people with the shittiest jobs have been priced out already. Rent control protects the millionaires …

I don't support policies that actively entrench the status quo. I'm for taxation that's as high as possible without causing too much negative impact on investments. We're having a …

There's a limited supply of housing in those high demand locations, not everyone who wants to live in London can live in London because there just isn't enough units, with that lim…

That'd be great of course, for a ton of jobs, that's not possible though.

If you can afford to rent a flat in London, you can afford a flat anywhere, it's not about homelessness.

Ah yes, the classic "I got here first so it's mine forever".

In 20 years, you would hope plenty of buildings were built, if you go to places like Whitechapel though, it's all 3-5 floor buildings.

That's not how the market sets prices.

> Kicking grandma out of her rented apartment If she's retired, she can move somewhere cheaper so someone who actually needs to live there for their job can move in. The rest of wh…

Source on the "plenty" of empty flats in London? The number I found is 29,242 which is hardly something that'll get the prices down.