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by baskire 6y ago
They’d just be underwater. But if the property is cash flow positive, over time they’d recover.
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by baskire 6y ago
My belief comes from personal experience. That social mobility is alive and well but can take multiple generations. There’s Plenty of VCs who came from poverty, who’s parents came from poverty, or who’s grandparents came from poverty. When
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by baskire 6y ago
Inflation means that prices go up. Mortgage rates for conforming loans are a few points higher than fed rate. That’s cause the government owns the actual loan.
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by baskire 6y ago
what is racism? To me giving someone a benefit due to their skin color is racist. Affirmative action is racist in nature. A good test is to replace the race with “white European”. And if the statement offends it’s racist.
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by baskire 6y ago
Mortgage interest rates are close to yearly inflation. Soon it’ll be free money to own Realestate, even if it’s not cash flow positive. We could see a huge run up of property values as people shift to taking advantage of real estate leverag
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by baskire 6y ago
I believe police cannot pull someone over just because they look to be a certain age.
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by baskire 6y ago
Here’s two examples of power grid failures in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_European_blackout https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-blackout-raises-questions-over-...
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by baskire 6y ago
There’s no skills shortage. Just an unwillingness to take a risk on someone outside the normal profile. I’ve done interviews where we passed on a candidate who’d be educated and onboarded within 1.5 years. Except nobody wanted to take that
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by baskire 6y ago
Gcp doesn’t have a 1st party Kafka offering. Confluent cloud is still 3rd party just with some nice integrations with GCP. If you have an issue it’s not GCP support or GCP’s eng job to fix the cluster. There’s real service uptime implicatio
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by baskire 6y ago
Out of naivety, do you believe that a black person cleanly shaved wearing a button down and slacks would still have that experience? Do you think a white person dressed in gangster clothes would be unscathed? My current opinion is that the
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by baskire 6y ago
Comp on this deal is likely less than 1 million usd. There’s a cap to the payout a sales rep can get.
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by baskire 6y ago
Makes sense. It ensures google faces repercussions from removing tiktok from the Android play store.
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by baskire 6y ago
That BOM doesn’t include r&d either. Something which the intel chips baked in. Arguably the r&d costs would still exist for just their iPhone line. And I’m sure the cost to add a Mac line isn’t as much as the intel premium
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by baskire 6y ago
I’ve noticed it to be the primary defense mechanism of China sympathizers. Funnily enough USSR used similar arguments
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by baskire 6y ago
Surprised trump doesn’t use this to place sanctions on China and up his base’s support.
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by baskire 6y ago
Hospital deaths are down to their lowest ever, yet cases are high. Could just be that we are testing whereas previously we were not. And the past case volume was much higher, we just didn’t capture an accurate data point. Doesn’t help that
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by baskire 6y ago
Happy to as well. Able to reproduce on my iPhone 8. Type in “sketch” to safari. Hit enter. End up at sketchers.com
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by baskire 6y ago
Some of us have been in unionized industries prior. It also lead to promotion based on years served. Pay scales. And the protection of low performers. Right now engineers have incredible leverage. What do they gain by a union. Don’t like wh
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by baskire 6y ago
See country = federal government. If California has a perfect homeless solution that it’s peer states don’t share in. California will see immigration of homeless from other states.
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by baskire 6y ago
Where do you suggest housing these people. What if they refuse accommodations. Not sure if sf can legally just ship them to say Modesto where housing is cheaper
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by baskire 6y ago
Don’t forget the pension issue https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/genuine-solutions-for-san-fr...