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And dot-coms! And real estate! Hmm.


Ships can't ever sink when all you look at are the ones that are still floating.


This is a beautiful description of immortal time bias.


I don't remember any innovation around real estate that changed our lives within the past few decades (or millennia even).


I think ~100 years ago they really got into vertical construction but other than that (and possibly central plumbing) your point stands..


CDOs

they literally turn bad debt good


Those aren't commodities (unlike tulips, beanie-babies, and crypto).


Real estate is as old as humanity


No. Its only as old as modern society.

The idea of a private citizen owning land was not generally accepted in the medieval age of kings. Only lords and other nobility could own land back then. Technically, the king owned the land, and the Lords were simply stewards of the King... probably indirectly (King -> Count -> Lords)

Eventually, real estate could be owned by the common peasants and merchants, but that starts to get into modern capitalist style society.

For some details, see this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quia_Emptores


> Technically, the king owned the land, and the Lords were simply stewards of the King

This varies from culture to culture. Romans owned their land. Egyptians did not.


I suspect you could build such a thing if you could more rigidly define edit operations on source code files. The way we edit code now is roughly "insert/edit/delete string <x> at position <y>", which doesn't really carry enough context to auto-merge.

If edits carried all the semantic information of what they were doing to the source: "rename symbol <x> to <y> everywhere" "perform step <x> after step <y>", then we could probably build a zero-maintenance revision-control system.


You will probably be interested in this explanation of how xi-editor does it: https://google.github.io/xi-editor/docs/rope_science_11.html


Thanks! The entire site is very interesting.


A friend and I have a podcast at https://www.youtube.com/fungineering


I beat the authors of this paper by a few months in my podcast: https://youtu.be/s0jD4IMaHHs?t=1h3m54s


I did a podcast with a friend covering a lot of these points here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffQEoSJW4w

I think a big myth people need dispelled is that cryonics is really expensive. It's not a very expensive gamble to take, and it's pretty easy to see that it's worthwhile for many people.


From what I've seen, the point of Tesla is to burn money as fast as possible. I have two episodes of a podcast with a friend about exactly this topic:

First episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQW1fEUsbk

Most recent episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXyIriINVK0

I highly recommend them if you're interested in investing in Tesla (long or short)


I enjoyed your podcast and I agree, it looks dire for Tesla.


I could do $50.


I think this is because you view yourself as more of a code author, and people excited for this announcement more frequently find themselves in the role of a code reader.


Do you think he might have changed in 13 years? I don't really feel quite the same as I did 13 years ago.


Maybe,

But publicly denying your platform[0] did not affect the recent election; After research have confirmed prior to the election that Facebook have a fake news problem.

Does not do his credibility any good.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11...


based on his public appearances, no


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