Local NIMBYs and landlords love constrained supply. They leverage zoning codes, claims about aesthetics, parking and traffic concerns, and worst of all affordability percentages to constrain local supply so that their home values and rental incomes will rise. This happens with so much political strategem that the only obvious thing about it is how vested and deliberate it is.
Yet when we look at ultra dense cities around the world where parking or traffic aren’t concerns (because of good public transit), the housing prices become even more crazy.
Tijuana doesn't have those problems, and yet for some reason people that can afford it prefer to live in San Diego. Maybe ultra high density isn't that great? It certainly isn't if you want to swim anywhere near the Tijuana river.
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Mentioned in the article: As an accomplished programmer and a bit of an anarchist, Audrey Tang is a super interesting government minister. I just came back from regularly scheduled office hours, which I find really rad for a minister to have (both walk-in and by appointment office hours are available).
I wanted to compliment her g0V org on a great rewrite of the online dictionary published by the Ministry of Education: really clean URLs, using open data for translations, publishing the original data under a nice license, behind a CDN – and she commented, oh yeah I just deployed an update (!).
https://www.moedict.tw/
Many years ago, Audrey also elucidated Chinese language Twitter users living in 2x the density of English users, which foreshadow's Twitter's decision in lengthening limits to 280 chars for English but not for Chinese: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875414
I already read this page. It does not address my question. My interrogation is around the fact that mixing several dictionaries in the same page is considered a derivate product or not. Intuitively it is, so I don’t understand how this does not break the ND clause of some source material. So they must be some non obvious legal loophole I want to know about, or this website is breaching some licences.
It's a fair question. The Ministry of Education's interpretation for its use of ND clause scopes specifically to the individual items, not the compilation:
"The use of words, radicals, strokes, glyphs, phonetic readings and interpretations of the individual items in the Revised Mandarin Dictionary may not be modified or converted into simplified forms.
However, the change of the code according to the contents of the reference table provided by the Ministry of Education, as well as modifications unrelated to the specific items in the Revised Mandarin Dictionary specified above, are deemed as outside the scope of prohibition of modification."
Thank you very much for your reply and for the source link. This is indeed different from my previous understanding, which was based mostly on English/French CC explanations website.
I'm surprised but pleased by the clause concerning the transformation in simplified characters, and all in all this is less restrictive than what I thought.
The idea is pretty cool! NY state has an open data initiative where anyone can access public information through the portal [1]. Though I haven't seen many public services being offered using the data from the site. Having an initiative like g0v in NY would be awesome!
Can you be more specific on why you think the t-test is invalid when the data is non-normal? Duration data may be non-normal, but given finite visits and a reasonable number of visits, sampling for the mean surely is.
You are right that in the presence of sufficient data, everything converges to the normal and we're fine.
However the difference between the t-test and the normal to which it is an approximation is that the t-test takes into account corrections the rate of convergence to the estimated normal. The details of that convergence is dependent upon the distribution of individual samples, and the t-test is predicated on the assumption that each and every sample is from a normal distribution.
But why pay the doctor less than the hospital for the same treatment? The doctors can figure out themselves whether it makes more sense from a cost perspective to join a hospital, a clinic, or to remain independent.
Perhaps, but why is there an attitude that doctors are evil and that all of them are so well off that we shouldn't care what happens? Seems to me that's the prevailing attitude. They're continually getting pinched: Tens of thousands for malpractice insurance. Hundreds of thousands in debt just to get to the point where they can practice. Seems reasonable if you have a good upside, but that upside keeps getting pressed on. I don't see how that can continue without serious reform in the other direction (tort limits and forgiveness of student debt for medical school)
> They're continually getting pinched: Tens of thousands for malpractice insurance.
Incidentally, the hospitals' liability cap is several orders of magnitude lower than doctors' in many cases (tens of thousands vs. millions). This makes no sense when you take into account the fact that the hospitals, not the doctors, are often the ones setting policies as to which procedures will or won't be done in response to a different result on a test, etc.
So, the hospitals get to set policies to keep their costs low, shielded by the benefit of a ridiculously low (corporate) liability cap, shifting the liability instead to the doctors who will be performing the operations, at significant (personal) liability and for a significantly lower payment than what the hospitals receive.
I think its rather lucrative and a secure way to make big bucks. If you can memorize and work hard you can succeed. In many fields you need talent, especially to reach the 200k level.
By that reasoning, we should work to close small independent stores because it's more efficient to deliver and retrieve products to one central location like Walmart.
How overbooked does Amtrak get? Maybe Amtrak should be selling subscriptions. Or bulk discounts, but the passes are per person and expire end of the month.
