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by asdff 2mo ago
$10k rent on a hollywood hills mansion isn't so bad when you have it sleeping 10-15 20 year olds.
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by asdff 2mo ago
Obsession was shot entirely in Burbank for chump change.
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by asdff 2mo ago
Over an hour away and paying $4k for that? I'm guessing you were renting an entire house. If we were talking 1br apartments you could be in santa monica for about half that today.
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by asdff 2mo ago
Europe doesn't seem to have this financing environment. There are places that you don't even need credit or down payment to finance a used car here.
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by asdff 2mo ago
And different orgs may arrive at different efficiency levels in different time scales. Says nothing about the merits of for profit vs nonprofit business.
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by asdff 2mo ago
You equated nationalizing spacex to flapping ones wings to get to outer space...
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by asdff 2mo ago
This is only true if spacex is losing money on everything they build. They aren't, so no, buying is not cheaper than building.
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by asdff 2mo ago
This has nothing to do with my point and I think you know that.
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by asdff 2mo ago
Not sure, you cited one of the most popular surnames in latin america.
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by asdff 2mo ago
So what? If you needed precedence for everything to happen, nothing new would ever happen.
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by asdff 2mo ago
There was a time when american steel was inefficiently made too.
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by asdff 2mo ago
So what? I'm guessing spacex can be even lower dollar per kilo if they didn't have to make profit. That is my whole point. People are missing that point and going "well nasa doesn't have the talent blabla" that just
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by asdff 2mo ago
It exists here too in small subsets of government. A parks dept that hires their own landscapers instead of contracting with a landscaping company is such an example of this utopia. A municipal power company with greatly reduced rates in co
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by asdff 2mo ago
They are still building new soundstages as we speak.
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by asdff 2mo ago
If they don’t, capital will put in an executive that will. You will notice profit has strong alignment. No one gives a shit about you or me or this green earth. All those execs give a shit about the next quarter.
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by asdff 2mo ago
Mostly because government today pays out the nose for contracted labor rates as doing anything in house has been blown apart by free market reaganists over the years.
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by asdff 2mo ago
Theoretically, absolutely. Of course it gets messy in reality. But theoretically there is no reason they couldn’t. If someone in a certain office snapped their fingers they could nationalize spacex for example and remove profitability requ
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by asdff 2mo ago
If they can one shot that, so can you, and you can custom tailor that tool to your needs not wait for them to add features they think might fit their collective customer base’s needs.
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by asdff 2mo ago
Those costs are baked into the invoice price.
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by asdff 2mo ago
It is a for profit company. Therefore profit margin must be achieved. What is profit margin but waste? Government is allowed to actually run at cost or under cost. Contracting with for profit entities therefore makes no sense, other than to
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by asdff 2mo ago
This is in fact what is being said. Executives really don’t have free will. They are slaves to capital all the same. Every move is in light of furthering the interests of capital and not actual people or humanity. Hence no meaningful effort
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by asdff 2mo ago
Depends if you did something after work the day before
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by asdff 2mo ago
There are people in those cities that don’t have cars and might rely on bussing, biking, sourcing rides from others. That being said you can get cheap cars in the US really easily.
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by asdff 2mo ago
A decent amount of odyssey was actually filmed on the universal backlot
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by asdff 2mo ago
I still see it. Idk what the seller is thinking but I’m guessing they aren’t too smart.
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by asdff 2mo ago
So you forget to plug in one night and are screwed for work the next day it sounds like
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by asdff 2mo ago
I can fill a gas car in 3 mins basically anywhere within reach of civilization. It is frictionless pretty much. People I know with ev and no home charger have to plan their entire life around when they take the car to charge. Sometimes they
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by asdff 2mo ago
Doesn’t matter the price really. People will lease new cars for a couple hundred a month. Or finance them to about that monthly. No one is paying $50k day one. This makes it so people you wouldn’t expect to afford a 50k asset actually do ha
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by asdff 2mo ago
Sounds terrible if that is your only car.
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by asdff 2mo ago
I’d guess a greater percent of car owners in the US are working class. A lot of cities car modal share is like 85% or higher which shows how much car ownership is democratized in the US compared to asia or eu, where ownership might be highe

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