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by badpun 3y ago
It’s simple economics. Immigrants want to rent houses, which increases rents, which increases rental yields, which in turn increases properties values.
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by badpun 3y ago
Similarly, some people hook up onto the UK branch of multinational corps, and then get transfered into US via the L1 visa. Works best for Indians and Pakistanis, as emigration to UK for them is fairly straightforward I believe.
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by badpun 3y ago
It's a Rube Goldberg machine.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Don’t see people in other professions or older age groups (>35) as obsessed by it. Because most of them don't make enough to even dream of FIRE?
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by badpun 3y ago
> Physical labor is great for the mind, as it leaves all kinds of time to consider the world. Really depends on what kind of labor is it, not all of it is equal. I've had a new doors installed in my apartment yesterday, and the amou
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by badpun 3y ago
Have you programmed as a full time job before?
907.
by badpun 3y ago
Apparently rodents avoid places that have a scent of a cat. So, cats don't even have to hunt them to have an effect on the population.
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by badpun 3y ago
> 70% of US household debt is mortgage debt I wonder what percentage of that was mortgage taken on an already paid off (or partly paid off) home in order to be able to buy consumer trinkets.
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by badpun 3y ago
> What's surprising is that with all these resources made available to the world, we still have systems that allow hoarding of wealth to such a degree that most people can't afford to own a home and many can barely afford rent
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by badpun 3y ago
> The Soviet Union was still a union of different countries. Calling it "a union" may be a bit misleading for people who don't know Russia's history. The countries in USSR were formerly (before the Bolschevik revoluti
911.
by badpun 3y ago
Looks like it, given that Russians army started kidnap Ukrainian children by the thousands from the very beginning of the invasion. These children are then adopted by families deep in Russia, and gradually turned into Russians.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Ideally, we would not classify the work week in terms of hours worked, but rather by productivity. This is exactly what is happening, but on a slower and more noisy timescale that you'd expect. That's why we work less than p
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by badpun 3y ago
Tipping being like haggling is a feature, not a bug. It basically allows companies to price discriminate - they get maximum value from pushovers and people who want to "be nice", while not losing the customers who are more price s
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by badpun 3y ago
> Automation and technology should be reducing the need for most people to work. I think it does. Many people working office jobs are barely doing anything, esp. compared to manual labor in hellish factories just 100 years ago. And, for
915.
by badpun 3y ago
> It's a welcome change from the insane hustle culture of the last 15 years, and that they want to live simply and pursue higher meaning and purpose in their lives is great. "Pursue higher meaning and purpose" is still str
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by badpun 3y ago
> - 40% some dude in Siberia, Is this remotely true? There's just 33 million people in Siberia, it would be strange for them to dominate OS like that.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Unfortunately condominiums have intractable governance problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse > specifically seniors on a "fixed income" will never vote to make capital i
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by badpun 3y ago
> profit based property renting as a form of income in heavily populated areas should not be allowed, or at least it should be regulated. Your scheme also generates profit, but there's only one monopolistic landlord - the city.
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by badpun 3y ago
Your life is only wasted in the paradigm where men are supposed to accomplish things through lots of work. This paradigm is very recent in our culture, a couple hundreds of years old at most. I recommend reading for example Alexis de Tocque
920.
by badpun 3y ago
> I want to study more, read more, and finish my coding projects. Revise your goals. It seems you don't actually want to do those things, you just want to want to do them. It's a big distinction.
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by badpun 3y ago
> The high quality of discussions (thanks to moderation) helps the site show up in search engines, which is how most people discover it. How do search engines recognize discussions as high quality?
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by badpun 3y ago
Isn't Hacker News social media though?
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by badpun 3y ago
> 1. Found a goal early in life. Comparison: I'm almost 41 and still not sure what I'm passionate at so I dab on a lot of stuffs which can be seen on my github acc, but I never drilled deep in any of those; Same age and similar
924.
by badpun 3y ago
I don't know about the others, but Wozniak worked incredibly hard (in terms of hours per week). I recommend his biography "iWoz".
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by badpun 3y ago
Here's a (part of) PhD thesis covering this subject: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&c... It speaks about how, since most people in Cuba have roughly equal (equally low) salaries, pr
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by badpun 3y ago
Berlin is not a Tier 1 city in Europe, at least not when it comes to rental costs.
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by badpun 3y ago
Some of those physicians (mostly young and female) take second jobs as prostitutes, because their baseline pay makes it hard to survive.
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by badpun 3y ago
> surveillance devices on my person or have them in my house. Unfortunately, even if you trust your "basic" phone to not be compromised, it still means you can't have a personal computer. From what I've read, that&#x2
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by badpun 3y ago
These companies are raking record profit because they've managed to place themselves as de facto monopolies in their respective areas. The software world is a winner-take-all in nature, where the last man standing becomes a super profi
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by badpun 3y ago
> At the scale of Netflix, as long as keeping this guy around for $40m improves the value of the business by 0.02%, The question is also, would he quit if they cut his compensation in half? If not, it's free money for the business.

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