CapstanRoller

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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>It is a drain on society. This does not factor into any calculation about housing prices, unfortunately, and will likely never be factored in until there's a literal revolution (highly unlikely). Just like pollution, the homeless a
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>The tragedy of the commons is a real sonofabitch. The "tragedy of the commons" is a propaganda tool used to justify privatization of the commons. The commons were reasonably well-managed until a small number of people decided
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Smaller houses would be very helpful for several generations of would-be homeowners. Most people do not want a McMansion as a "starter house" nor can they afford it, but that's typically what's available.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Nostalgia overload, especially with the UI
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
I hope they don't take all their writing ideas and atmosphere from the Bethesda games. Fallout 1 and 2 have a very different vibe than the subsequent games by Bethesda (with the exception of New Vegas, which was made by the Obsidian En
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>Is there anywhere that doesn't consider a house a depreciating asset? The USA
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
House prices do go down! Take Japan as an example: houses are considered a depreciating asset, like cars. It makes total sense: wood rots, metal rusts, etc. The land value is another matter, though. For many people, the primary goal isn&#x2
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Most people don't need larger houses, they just need some kind of house . A tiny house and a small shed/garage would be a huge boon for many aspiring engineers.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
The same reason you no longer see artist spaces or other hubs of creative activity: real estate prices. Cheap commercial real estate is really hard to find. It's no longer viable to get a little warehouse on the edge of town and turn i
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>Personally it boggles my mind how this isn't the single issue among the relevant voting bloc. It is the single biggest issue, and is discussed constantly, but there are no "fight the landlords" or "lower rents and bu
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
What sort of jobs do you look for in order to be able to do this work?
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Unfortunately, knowing all this won't help you get a job when the market demands an army of React devs and little else. Under our current system, knowledge that cannot be monetized is useless. Worse than useless, in fact, because time
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
How can this correction take place? Individual home owners and business interests have a vested interest in maintaining a very tight grip on the status quo with regard to zoning, which is the primary tool for driving housing reform. They wi
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Some of us are first-generation immigrants to the US who already speak two languages. You're right, though: it's arrogant to expect another country to adapt to USAmericans. I wish this country took better care of its people.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
No, none of us are okay. The "push harder" comments are either from workaholics or younger folks with more hope for the world. I'm 37, never figured out an exit plan from a dead-end tech career (QA & test automation), and
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
I'll take C&C barracks (a basic Quonset Hut) at this point, as long as I can own it and it's legally habitable. I don't care about aesthetics. In fact, something like that would be ideal as I could customize it completely
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
I'm a dev (SDET) who is considering taking a job at a grocery store or warehouse just to have some cash flow. Yes, it really is that bad. A couple of years ago my LinkedIn inbox was flooded with recruiters. Now it's a ghost town.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
What part of the world would take English-speaking Americans?
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
People have been dying from wet-bulb heat events for years. It just hasn't been widely reported because those people tend to be the disabled, sick, and elderly.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Some portable A/C units do send hot air outside, and some don't. The two-hose models AFAIK are the latter type (although the un-insulated hoses are wildly inefficient) https://youtu.be/_-mBeYC2KGc
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
/r/collapse (is it unpopular to mention here?) has been discussing wet bulb events for years. They are occurring with increasing frequency and are very hard to survive without air conditioning or an underground shelter (e.g. cool
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Blockbuster Video is back!
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
WFH jobs are now only a tiny percentage of job listings. Remote work seems to be going away for the most part, unless you're in the upper echelon of devs at FAANG
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
WFH doesn't seem to be "taking hold" anywhere. As an actual jobseeker in the current marker, almost everyone now requires hybrid or fully onsite work.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Who is "we"? Why would the wealthy keep the poor alive? Just look at all the people dying in tents on the sidewalk in any major US city.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
I made an error in my original comment. Please check out the reply. I vaguely recall a climate scientist disappearing under odd circumstances but I can't recall where. Maybe this was a scientist and activist in Latin America.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
We know that bicycle usage in places like the Netherlands doesn't result in frequent serious accidents like you describe. The safety culture is totally different, and injuries like that are low despite a much more casual approach to he
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
My apologies, I must have gotten things confused with the climate scientist who self-immolated in protest. Comment has been edited to reflect this. Still, climate activists are routinely targeted: https://www.bbc.com/news&#x
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
I completely understand your point, and I agree with it. I just don't trust laissez-faire economics. We've got entrepreneurs trying to put SF techies into communal bunks. If that's how they're willing to treat engineers,
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
1.5C is actually a pretty conservative estimate, and there are suggestions that we have breached well beyond that point already. Many climate scientists sounding the alarm get attacked and silenced (and activists get killed!), so there&#x27

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