Every single, new building puts downward pressure on the average price. The moment supply outstrips demand, prices goes down, housing market stops being reasonable asset, money outflows causing further collapse of the market and houses are dirt cheap.
I think that evidence from China's real estate bubble suggests that no matter how much of a supply excess you build, it might not bring down prices as long as the macro environment favours real estate as an investment, because demand for perceived-as-safe and fast-appreciating investments is nearly infinite. (The excess supply can probably make the eventual bubble pop more dramatic, though, but it seems like it won't be triggered simply by a supply excess).
At the very least, a supply-solution proponent would need to explain how China's property supply glut didn't bring prices down until the government cracked down on credit.
There's a difference between setting a price in good faith that you think the market is going to accept, and setting a "f u" price that you think no reasonable person should accept.
There is no such thing as "one reasonable price". You may value your time arbitrarily high and don't need explanation for that, and there may be someone that value money arbitrarily low and has literally random reason to hire you.
This checks as long you give your rate/price upfront. This would be a scam if you DO the work and THEN charge non-market rate/price.
> Anyone like Lyn Alden that is offering premium stock tips is by definition a fraud
I've been reading everything I could on economy and finance in my early twenties and Lyn Alden blog is the only thing I needed then and wasn't available. She is pure gold — I know no one that is able to explain complex topics in this context with such clarity.
There is no such thing as IT skills shortage. There is a shortage of skills in some manual labour sectors, where you need to wait a few weeks to do the job because there is not a single (even non-)competent person WILLING to do the job.
There is no shortage of skills in markets where employers can filter people by 'culture fit'.
Yes but that's not records that they actually have. The reason you need a wake word is because that processing is done locally on the device, it's not until you say the wake word that it starts streaming the audio data to the central server for processing.
Its certainly possible for Amazon/Google/Whoever to send your device a firmware update that turns it into an always-on microphone, but it doesn't do that by default
Voice recognition is 'on' all the time as it needs to recognise 'keyword'
Not to say it's not a concern, but that's not really how these devices work – at least in the Alexa case. They're just matching for a specific hotword, rather than constantly performing speech-to-text (which is computationally expensive and done remotely). Think of it more like Shazam or the other audio fingerprinting services – you don't have to actually transcribe the text to understand if a particular word has been heard.
You think it is phoning home with transcriptions 24/7? My understanding is that this is probably inaccurate, and it only phones home when the on-board electronics recognize the wake word.
How many kb of text do you speak per day? It is just gonna be noise compared to when the JS framework of the week is updated. Amazon and Google can hide that.
This may be anecdotal [and sleep deprivation may impact different people differently] but it has a huge impact on me.
I used to use memrise [flash card style memorisation] to learn new words/concepts for years [25minutes, the first thing after waking up, every single day] and I know from experience how sleep, food, hangover, etc. impact my performance.
Sleep has a gigantic impact on my memory, focus and creativity — I believe it is responsible for really high variation in IQ points [10 - 20, but that's my rough guesstimate]. This is a more qualitative assessment but whey I sleep 4 hours it resembles a high level of depression — I lose motivation and all of my natural curiosity is gone [eg. usually, reading/learning brings me happiness, but it's all gone when I'm sleep deprived].
That's why I haven't used an alarm clock for years now.
I have similar results and opinions. I feel that there is some kind of "back-end processing" that happens during sleep that is crucial for learning. Also, my sleep tends to be better when I'm doing some kind of workout regularly, although I need to sleep more. If I'm not working out, I can get by easily with 6 hours but if I am, absolutely need 8 hrs min. Makes sense to me since a lot of repair, healing and growth occur while sleeping.
Every single, new building puts downward pressure on the average price. The moment supply outstrips demand, prices goes down, housing market stops being reasonable asset, money outflows causing further collapse of the market and houses are dirt cheap.