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Bold move putting in the lvl 3 Pidgey against Gary's Blastoise at the end there (~14sec in... integer timestamps insufficient here).

> "1. People have wildly incorrect intuitions about where land value is concentrated" Fwiw this sort of land value gradient has been studied in economics for ages. See papers on mo…

Land and "improvements" are assessed separately, and I believe this is plotting just the assessed land values. In the small text about each map, it says to use the settings to swit…

Its market cap is about $58b right now. Tripled in three years!

Nice. Very light-weight compared to proper local routers like Graphhopper, OSRM, etc., which can be overkill for simple tasks. Although the 'routing' here is nx.shortest_path, whic…

Makes sense! Heads up that Graphhopper’s matrix algorithm isn’t open sourced so probably won’t work for this use case. I’ve had good experiences with it otherwise.

How did you decide on routing engine? I’ve used Graphhopper in the past — is OSRM an improvement?

Ohhh. That makes way more sense. I was surprised “contigo” was only difference that came to mind haha

People from both countries can speak a version of Spanish that is mutually intelligible. But if you go into a high school (or even listen to adults that are being very casual) then…

It's worth noting that the author (Christopher Brunet) is an intentionally inflammatory right-wing commentator, not an economist. Do not take this blog seriously. The short story: …

In the US, inventors (not the same as entrepreneur, but often related) are also disproportionately likely to be immigrants > We find immigrants represent 16 percent of all US inven…

You can have weak inequalities in the preferences over alternatives -- e.g. you're indifferent between all rankings where your preferred candidate is number 1

Oh, definitely not! As with all RCTs, gotta worry about generalizability. He has a lot of other work showing correlations between management and productivity at much more scale, bu…

He's referring to research by Nick Bloom, an economist at Stanford. They've worked together. Ctrl-F management on his research page ( https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/research ).…

I'm surprised more apps with maps don't do this, like Uber.