One problem with housing is everyone *thinks* they're an expert & yet almost everyone is just trusting (misleading) gut instincts & anecdotes.

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American cities are getting left behind just like American automakers are.

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Services Australia's hold music for their dedicated older person's line is a yacht rock instrumental cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart which seems... on the nose.

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this reference checker is built on top of lots of excellent open source work, like GROBID, so the plan is to tidy it up and make it freely available at some point (when I have time to write up some documentation!)

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the really offensive thing to me here is that BLS statisticians collect almost all this data at great effort, little remuneration, and no public recognition, and if you email them as a random citizen they will explain it all, for free

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