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by abdabab 4y ago
Why do you think it’s just the beginning?
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by abdabab 4y ago
> bought in a pro-growth city Which city is it? A pro-growth city in USA is a news to me.
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by abdabab 4y ago
> I've been teaching myself car repair so I can do more and more myself because I know it will be done right and with extreme care. Is there a book you’d recommend? I want to learn car repair as well.
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by abdabab 4y ago
When most people are sitting on 2%-3% mortgage APR, it possibly won’t happen.
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by abdabab 4y ago
> I replied "everyone thinks you're a search engine, but you're and ad engine only..." Why did you answer it that way if you wanted the job?
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by abdabab 4y ago
Is lobbying the same in China as it is in USA?
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by abdabab 4y ago
> I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being. This almost sounds like a Buddhist vow.
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by abdabab 4y ago
I think you meant, “This guy FAANGs”.
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by abdabab 4y ago
https://archive.ph/DwD1p
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by abdabab 4y ago
Ray Dalio explains it here https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0
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by abdabab 4y ago
> During the 1940s, the colonial government printed extraordinary amounts of money for military expenditure. All this new demand caused prices to soar, particularly for staple goods. The price of rice increased by 300 per cent. But becau
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by abdabab 4y ago
https://archive.ph/hljO0
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by abdabab 4y ago
So Google had roughly x% attrition rate for many years, for real. Even when a lot of engineers were leaving, it didn’t put a dent because of their hiring. That x remained almost constant for years. That might be what OP is referring to. &gt
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by abdabab 4y ago
> there's always someone who sees opportunity where others see danger and who will move money around to the corners that are generating a return. That makes sense. It won’t be just traditional lenders who’d be funding new investment
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by abdabab 4y ago
And that’s not just VC money. Often they have borrowed through issuing bonds.
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by abdabab 4y ago
NYTimes summarized it better [1] > What’s causing the shortage itself is complex. The home-building industry lost about 1.5 million workers in the Great Recession of 2007-9 and has been in a labor shortage since. Land has grown more expe
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by abdabab 4y ago
I disagree. OP’s observation was interesting. When did it become common that websites would show you nothing if js is not enabled? Or to see nothing on a website about nothing?
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by abdabab 4y ago
Because that often happens under company’s political umbrella. People don’t do shitty things unless they think they can get away with it.
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by abdabab 4y ago
> We need more houses, which means construction and jobs. So construction needs labor but also lumber, land and financing. We don’t have the last three enough right now. We don’t have enough land to build near the bigger cities where hou
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by abdabab 4y ago
> They're just trying to hold on to them until the securities they sold mature. So if those were 30 years mortgages the collapse should be fairly far away?
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by abdabab 4y ago
Their product is still better designed than the ones came out of Google, Amazon and Apple.
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by abdabab 4y ago
Shouldn’t that take only a few minutes?
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by abdabab 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Wi0hm
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by abdabab 5y ago
From a visitor’s perspective Portland seems cool and hip. What actually goes wrong when you live there?
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by abdabab 5y ago
We’re employing crows with health benefits.
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by abdabab 5y ago
Are you fishing with a boat? I’m interested to read your blog if you have one.
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by abdabab 5y ago
Or you could get an Amex card and link it with your Venmo account.
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by abdabab 5y ago
It’s funny that you could ask the same question to anyone living in San Francisco, particularly Tenderloin.
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by abdabab 5y ago
One time I received 30ish calls everyday for a few days and each one of them was from a different number but with same prefix. It bothered me that I couldn’t block that prefix.
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by abdabab 5y ago
Your approach and their approach. It sounded like you have a different perspective about who is responsible for an outage.

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