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by bpt3 7mo ago
Holding costs of land are far from $0 in any major metropolitan area. Sitting on it involves its own form of risk. Vacant land that's desirable is often held back from development due to zoning or infrastructure issues.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
> Grocery stores don't require millions to billions of dollars of capital to execute each new transaction. Neither do homebuilders, because homes don't cost millions to billions to build (high end custom homes can cost million
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by bpt3 7mo ago
It's not "basic land economics", it's your personal opinion about how things should be and whether you think current policies are fair. The tax code does favor home ownership, because people want to support it. Less peop
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by bpt3 7mo ago
> Politically, we must stop prioritizing the views of homeowners at the local level. They already got their reward, massive unearned capital gains on their residence, there's no need to give them priority on land use over the genera
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Can you define razor thin? Grocery stores have very small margins, as little as 1%. Homebuilders make at least an order of magnitude more on a very expensive item.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
I read it. My take is unchanged, because again you are equating Musk with a much larger group.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
You are projecting your thoughts on Elon Musk (which you do have some evidence to support) to a much, much larger swath of individuals.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
All you have to do to disprove this claim is look outside.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Then train your model elsewhere and size it as appropriate for the runtime environment. If that really isn't an option, then yes ML/AI isn't for you in this case.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
You mean the warehouse that was built to code and was hit by a tornado? Is Bezos supposed to use his billions to build some sort of machine to control the weather?
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Good thing the US already has the most progressive tax code in the developed world, and what you described above already happens.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Nope, they can just buy one of the millions of less expensive homes that are available.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
> how about Amazon warehouse worker who is squeezed so hard for profits that they live in a car, work 7 days a week without healthcare or vacations or anything? Them being poor is what enables jeff to be rich. Amazon warehouse workers ar
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Think what about it? Is Bezos taking money out of my pocket or preventing me from buying food, shelter, healthcare, or other services I need or want?
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Good news, you can buy a house for a million dollars most places in the US, and basically anywhere in the US if you are a millionaire and employed.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Why are you assuming we're all dependent on the billionaires in the first place? I pay for my child's education and healthcare myself, and expect to continue to so whether Bezos is a trillionaire, a pauper, or anything in between.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
How does "I can build Firefox from scratch and review the source code if I want" mean “I am going to compile an alternate solution without looking at the source code”?
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Neither, I'm just not catastrophizing my life or everything around me to obtain Internet points. What the original poster was describing is exceptionally rare, which is why neither he nor you have anything meaningful to say about it.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Good thing no one has proposed that solution anywhere other than your own mind.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
I have kids, and I know hundreds of parents across large portions of the country. None of them have these issues. A person driving down a private road and threatening to call CPS because they can't see the parent is not rare? And the p
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by bpt3 7mo ago
What exactly is your issue? Once again, I'm not the one who said they would like to design a new browser extension framework, but I have created custom versions of Firefox that have all ability to phone home removed and modified extens
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by bpt3 7mo ago
> What I find extraordinary is y'alls bullshit theory that it is extraordinary to claim the CPS apparatus wasn't used more before when it didn't even exist until like ~1974, and before then as a much different process. You
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Did I say I trusted Firefox? I'm not the person who wants to redesign the browser extension ecosystem, but I can build Firefox from scratch and review the source code if I want, unlike Safari.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
You need open source extensions (they are now, as the source is included) and you need to personally audit them, or you need to find a browser with every single feature you want. Or do you want the browser to enforce permissions on extensio
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by bpt3 7mo ago
Yeah, except the now redacted comments didn't indicate that was the case which is why I was asking more questions. It really was an extraordinary story without any extraordinary evidence.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
I'm sorry, the "Karen" drove onto your private road to interrogate your kid? These things don't happen on a liberal/conservative axis in my experience. I've lived all over the place, though not as much with kid
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by bpt3 7mo ago
It's solved if you trust Safari. I'm not sure that's the case for the parent poster.
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by bpt3 7mo ago
You live in a very strange area to say the least. None of those are true in my area, and how did the "Karen" even get to your child on your private road?
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by bpt3 7mo ago
What would a safe extension model look like to you? At some point, you have to implicitly trust someone unless you audit every line of code (or write it yourself) and build everything from source that you run.
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by bpt3 8mo ago
I don't have to, or want to, put anyone anywhere. In a meritocracy, it will sort itself out, which is what I would prefer.

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