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At a higher level of abstraction, arxiv is an attempt to fix problems with the review process. Attempting to fix more problems with the review process would.... Etc

I wonder if they could use some of it to make an experimental post-publication review system. I'm not sure what the future of peer review is, but I doubt it would hurt for them to try.

Or they could, you know, spend some of their billions on employing humans to review these cases.

> The entire notion of any sort of property tax is also predicated on the idea that individual land ownership is a tradeoff between the interest of the individual and society at large.

Indeed, and I like this concept, I don't think we should ever "own" land in the same way as I own, say, my phone. All we ever do is borrow it from society (or even nature).

However, some aspects of land ownership are a net positive for society at large. In particular, the incentive to look after it better if it's really yours until you sell it or you die. With this in mind I like some proposals I've heard whereby unpaid land value tax can be accrued to be paid at death or on sale. That way the stewardship aspect of ownership is reinforced without the freeloading on land value increases.

Returning to the valuation question. I think you're assuming an efficient market when it clearly isn't one. It would be like having to reapply for your own job, except it's rebidding for your own house. Not a kind thing to do to anyone.

So you want people to bid for their own homes? Glad you're not dictator mate

Given the friction (inconvenience) in having to move house/business etc, that hardly seems fair. It also defeats the object of land ownership if you can be kicked off it at any time.

Does anyone else find that self editing a linear memory evokes images of the theoretical Turing machine with its infinite tape?

This mostly sounds good but I wonder if you'd make it better by dropping the strict postgres requirements.

I've never used postgres. I've worked with umpteen technologies over the years, including lots of gis, just never needed to use postgres yet. But I know it's out there and I'm confident if I needed to, it wouldn't take more than a few days to catch up.

Not a dig at you specifically but a lot of companies seem to look for specific tech experience rather than a track record of just learning whatever tech is needed.

Ice cream for 3 meals a day, obviously.

Thanks. You got me thinking back to when I started programming. Realised it wasn't until 9 or so. There's no rush is there.

Nah mate. Following discussion of the above, we are now going with an iNothingAtAll for the time being ;-)

The article seems to discuss manipulation (a valid concern) but the research focuses on duplication. I'm not entirely clear what the link between the two is?

You should start a Wikipedia page for misidentified tense.

Down votes are being used reddit style, I see. I'd love to know what the disagreement is exactly?

These issues are key. Thanks for raising them.

In some recent transport modelling work we decided there wasn't yet enough evidence about wfh, specifically because people may move further from the office. If this study fills some gaps, it's good work.

...edit: ok so it doesn't address causality. Alas. We need a study following a cohort for a few years after wfh became available, vs another cohort denied wfh.

On arxiv, of all places ;-)

All this doom and gloom, I say let's go for it though, most of us would benefit from a few extra hours in the day right? We can switch off the tidal power once it gets to 26 hours or so ;-)

I often think the same, in fact in my todo list is (in the background) think of more ways to reduce the bureaucracy I face on a daily basis, which takes many forms - from arguing with reviewer #2 over whether or not my finding is notable, to trying to convince a panel that my idea is worth funding.

From a system design perspective, alas resources are limited and have to be allocated somehow, and in the absence of any metrics at all as you suggest, it would ultimately come back to who can tell the better story about their work. This is still at best only weakly correlated with the actual quality of the work.

And so we run up against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...

The situation could definitely be better than the current one, but alas I don't have any magic solution.

Isn't the modern consensus that Sean Bean being cast to play a character carries that information implicitly?

Iirc if you get close enough to a black hole for time dilation to be substantial, then things are going to be pretty inhospitable in other ways. We couldn't survive the gravitational field gradient, for example. Strong imagination required to imagine aliens that would cope with it.

This. Ideally we'd have jitted python loops be efficient. I love array syntax for simple examples but for more complex ops a loop is often clearer.

Fair. My appropriate point of comparison (if I wasn't currently nitrogen drunk) should in fact have been mountains <1000m. Which I also love, but they don't have that clear headed altitude feeling.

Probably not in my case, haven't measured co2 but I am lucky to live in a small village.

Anecdotally, as a mountaineer, I love the effect of a little less atmospheric pressure.

Not loads less, above 3000m it starts getting inconvenient. But 1000-2000m my mind feels more clear and focused than at sea level.

I wonder if this is related?

Meanwhile in the UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57947635

In the UK I suspect it would qualify as unfair terms (ianal)

Well I don't know New York but in a proper pub they will be fine with whatever trousers and shoes you have. For that matter I once walked into a country pub (not one where they know me) in only wet swimming trunks and we persuaded them to serve us on credit.

Interesting perspective!

On a light note, ... You don't own any pants or shoes at all?

Closed as duplicate of "how do I do that using X" even though on close inspection that!=this

I wonder whether this time round the price will be high enough to actually change anything.