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by awillen 5y ago
This is definitely true in large apartment buildings, where units are very comparable and leases are identical. Not so much in commercial where lease terms may vary widely, and even units in the same building may be meaningfully different i
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by awillen 5y ago
It still appreciates if it's rented out, so that doesn't change anything. When it's rented, you get appreciation plus income, and when it's not rented, you get appreciation only.
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by awillen 5y ago
Guess what? The government has decided that NASA isn't important. If they're taxed more, that doesn't magically send money to NASA. The government has had first dibs on space for a very long time, and they've done nothin
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by awillen 5y ago
I think that for a lot of businesses, it's a question of what will happen when extended unemployment ends in September. If employees are going to flood the market and you can keep paying the wages you were paying pre-pandemic, then it
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by awillen 5y ago
I'm generally less anti-lobbying than most - I think there's value in corporations being able to express their desires to elected officials - but this is the case that just completely destroys the validity of it. It's just un
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by awillen 5y ago
I'm shocked by the clear, simple and thoughtful advice this booklet gives. It just feels like the antithesis to the kind of official government communications today that use needlessly complex language and seem to try to avoid actually
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by awillen 5y ago
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive - if we were going to liberate North Korea, the point would be largely to let the North Korean citizens live free of their horrifically oppressive government. You just have to distinguish be
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by awillen 5y ago
To channel my money towards anything I have to make money. To make money I have to sell things to customers. The world prior to 20 years ago was a very different one in terms of the scale and reach companies could achieve. Pretending as tho
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by awillen 5y ago
I don't think you're right about this. Highly targeted advertising disproportionately benefits the little guy. I say this as a little guy, running a small dog treat e-commerce company. Almost all of my new customer acquisition is
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by awillen 5y ago
Once I was taking a weekend trip down to San Diego with my now wife, and we decided to look at some open houses. It started raining - not super hard, but a fair bit. Most of the open houses we showed up to ended up not happening as a result
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by awillen 5y ago
First off, removing 2% of greenhouse gases isn't something to scoff at - it would be a really important accomplishment. Secondly, your back of the napkin math doesn't seem great - you're just making up that gases would be cut
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The other one I'm aware of is BlueNalu: https://www.bluenalu.com/
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by awillen 5y ago
I think an interesting comparison is lab-grown diamonds. To me (and I suspect a lot of others here on HN), the idea of getting a mined diamond is just lunacy. Why on earth would I pay twice as much for something that is literally the same a
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by awillen 5y ago
The cuts are exactly what I wonder. Burgers seem like the easy starting point for the same reason that the Impossibles of the world started with them - the texture is fairly easy to achieve. But I would think here that it would be possible
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by awillen 5y ago
This is the way. Selling is about solving someone else's problem. Some of the answers here say to start with benefits, not features. Those are missing the first step. If someone comes into a car dealership and the salesperson starts se
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by awillen 5y ago
Yeah, this is just the VC-backed model, not specific to YC. The reality is that for startups that choose to go this route, if you can't raise then you're dead. Happened to the last company I worked at. It's not great (though
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by awillen 5y ago
C'mon, you have to see the flaw in this. There's a difference between making a monthly payment and having a large amount saved up.
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by awillen 5y ago
Outlaw owning property that one doesn't live in means that anyone who can't afford to buy is homeless, because renting is illegal. That's not a sensible solution. You say "us renters would be able to buy" but you&#x
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by awillen 5y ago
Sure, but when the government is the one that expressly puts these rules in place, the government needs to take responsibility for the impact of them.
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by awillen 5y ago
Incorrigible literally means they cannot be helped, and the fact is there are kids for whom that is accurate. Giving them one on one instruction doesn't help, because they genuinely do not care. It does take up the time of teachers and
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by awillen 5y ago
This right here is the thing that nobody wants to say but is just true. I had some good friends in high school (a large, below-average public school in CA) who were solidly middle class or better, had supportive parents, and were just shith
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by awillen 5y ago
That just seems strange to me, but hey, I wouldn't begrudge a pet robot if it makes anyone happy. Maybe I'll look back at this post in 30 years and chuckle at how little foresight I had when they're incredibly popular.
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by awillen 5y ago
I don't think the intended use case is dog replacement. Human beings just can't help but anthropomorphize, thus it's a robot dog instead of a quadrupedal load-carrying robot.
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by awillen 5y ago
Yeah, that's fair. I don't think it's quite like HR because it's a situation where your interests and your VCs' are better aligned, but that's not always the case. Maybe better if they could just refer some ind
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by awillen 5y ago
I don't know about a wealth counselor, but get a therapist. So many people, especially founders, would benefit from talking to a professional. Honestly, I'm surprised that there aren't a few therapists who work exclusively wi
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by awillen 5y ago
This really rings true with me as someone who's interviewed a few failed founders for PM roles. This was always at early-stage startups, so it wasn't an issue of skills (generalists tend to be great fits for early-stage PM work) b
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by awillen 5y ago
I don't know that they really deserve credit for not testing for marijuana. It increases their potential pool of hires and saves them money. Add to that the fact that a positive test for marijuana doesn't necessarily indicate that
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by awillen 5y ago
You're saying that from the perspective of someone who's not currently stranded at an airport. Your points are valid, but I think the irony is your expectations aren't reasonable. These are people stuck in strange places who
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by awillen 5y ago
Right now my understanding is many of the eVTOL companies are trying to make the UI simple enough that it does not require a pilot, but rather an operator, which is a much lower bar in terms of training. The objective is then really to use
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by awillen 5y ago
I never understood why going to a movie was supposed to be a group activity. You sit in silence for two hours... how is that somehow enhanced by the fact that you're with other people?

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