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by bushbaba 4y ago
Here’s a hot take. China did it right by not selling land and only selling a 75 year land lease agreement. US would be better off if land was owned by the people and reclaimed by the people after a generational time period.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Yet the bubble can keep continuing as There Is No Alternative (TINA). That is so long as the fed doesn’t push above their ~5% interest rate target.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Comcast doesn’t give you dedicated bandwidth. Their spectrum is a limited commodity just like starlink. Lots of similarities actually.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
I don’t think the 1B/year shows issue on cloud pricing. It’s instead bloat of twitter’s setup. That’s way in excess of what should reasonably be spent. I suspect there’s a lot of bad coding practice going on. Of which the bulk is data
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by bushbaba 4y ago
If you break down the latest jobs report by industry. You’ll see jobs are declining in all sectors but hospitality and transportation.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
My Alma matter literally does everything in their power to boost female admits. It’s grown from 1:4 to roughly 1:3 after a decade of new majors, new scholarships, lower admission scores. This all comes at the cost of well qualified Asian an
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Universities adopting such an approach would be a huge boon to lower tier schools. As a parent you’d question if it’s better to pull your “average” student at a top tier school to be a top student at an “average” school.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
For engineering degrees for working within industry, the IVYs don’t get you much. There’s lots of highly ranked STEM universities that’ll open the same number of doors. Where IVY undergrad matters is if they plan to pursue a PHD. And even t
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by bushbaba 4y ago
I think CORS first sends an HTTP OPTIONS request. The headers received in the response dictate if the actual POST/PUT/GET/etc is sent to the server in a subsequent request.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Could the shift to hybrid/WFH be attributed?
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Merit admissions never existed. Affirmative action is just the modern way to discriminate https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/10/12/task-force-repor...
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by bushbaba 4y ago
You assume 200M+ human daily active users. A large portion of Twitter's DAU & MAU are bots.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
> they would one day be able to monetize their e-commerce revenue. They make more on Amazon Ads than Alphabet makes on Youtube. So yes it looks like it's monetized. Even retail has profit. It's just being spent on other growth
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Inflation means GDP can grow, with expenses growing faster.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Impact of not cleaning is minimal. Maybe 10% at worst. There’s been multiple studies that show the cost of cleaning is greater than improved efficiency for home owners.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
They can’t in California. Not without voter approval. Same is true in many states.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
It has motion. The cylinder rotates. All boils down to how long that mechanical part will last prior to needing to be replaced.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
If home values decline by 50%. So do property tax revenues. You’d have stated needing to layoff a large portion of their police and education staff.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Same markets offer 5% or 0% down loans. Financing isn’t the problem it’s the monthly cost. Rent is cheaper than owning in Seattle, LA, and SF metro areas for a large portion of the housing stock.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Always thought this was predatory. California does it right in being a no recourse state. CA mortgages cost the same as elsewhere.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Low rates meant that people could cash out refi at lower rates. Don’t forget there’s a small but still notable number of homeowners with ARM mortgages.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Demand was high. It’s dropped by 50% since the peak with inventory up by over 2x from the low
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Solar panels are fairly set and forget. No moving parts. For wind curious what kind of maintenance is needed
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Amazon is the new Google. Google the new IBM. MS seems to be doing fine. What is Google's next cash-cow? Google's Cloud pitch sure reminds me of IBM's "Big Data" push.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
It is. You also tend to tarnish your company's brand with the ad-hoc remarks. Let your Marketing, PR, and CFO handle the comms on this.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Google does not use GCP internally. If they did they'd be bragging about it.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
...they killed some productivity apps. Don't say never. Hangouts, dead. Keep App, dead. Enterprise Search, dead. etc
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by bushbaba 4y ago
makes you wonder, what exactly the headcount is going to. Double the headcount, but sure doesn't feel like double the innovation/product-growth.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
The silicon would be to save money compared to general purpose compute. The savings should overcome any fixed cost. Doubt it's having that great an impact to R&D cost growth.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Doubtful. Suspect Google departments get headcount proportional to the department's revenue. Google over-hired, simple as that. Pausing hiring in a booming economy gives warning signs to current employees. Over-hiring allows leadership

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