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by c0vfefe 7y ago
> in the long term housing can only increase an amount equivalent to inflation or wages. This assumes the lack of a bubble created by anti-competitive regulation, like SV's cap on new development.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
> Renting...generally doesn’t work in old age Can you expand on why this is the case?
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> To own a home is to be in a state of constant stress over the value of your home, and the more levered up you are, the worse this gets. This source of stress is why I believe NIMBYism is so prevalent. This is a major argument for livin
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
To me, all the recent advocates for "renting & owning cost similar amounts" that I've seen have no decent counterargument for building equity, which is the single greatest benefit of owning vs. renting. This article hand-
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
> You make your money when you buy, not when you sell. That's a false dichotomy - we should "buy low, sell high." Obviously both events contribute to your total ROI.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Those who own so little Tesla stock as to not be aware of it will also not be noticeably impacted by their failure. One could say that's the whole point of diversification.
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Perhaps people are beginning to look at the downsides of innovation at all costs. Tesla's and Google's technical contributions can't be divorced from their failings. I'd think this would be a refreshing shift in startup
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Often that's what it takes to achieve significant progress, even as an individual. Shoot for the stars and you'll likely see modest progress, but if you aim for mediocrity, you might not even attain that.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
There's more to plant quality than output alone. I'd expect a "disneyland" factory to have other metrics, like low rework, safety, worker satisfaction/retention, responsible procurement & disposal of raw materia
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
The problem is not the argument, but the conclusion of willful negligence. Firefox neglecting Linux is not an underhanded business decision because Mozilla stands to gain nothing by ignoring Linux; but Chrome does directly compete with Fire
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
This is semantics - he's saying that the individual "oopses" were accidental, but you're saying the overall strategy of neglecting Firefox support was intentional. This jells with what others here have said about individ
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Yeah, "stalling."
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My guess would be that the close of small shops is due more to sales lost to online shopping than the natural rise of rent costs.
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Thus advertisers are our adversaries!
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Right - growing up when the world was becoming fascinated with social media led my brain to constantly seek reward & imagine an eager audience for my fascinating adolescent thoughts. Now I see the freedom in the fact that no one really
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
> I feel like people often view the world with rose-coloured glasses when they write these anti-screen messages. With all due respect, perhaps they're viewing through the glasses of "not having neglectful and/or impoverish
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Well, there's definitely utility to you in creating things, even if it provides no value to anyone else. Not only can you solve your own problems this way, but it develops your skills, creativity, & general sense of well-being.
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
I can attest to that - on an hour commute I often listen to 45 min worth of podcasts until hitting material that prompts self-reflection. Then the voice memo comes out.
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This also applies to meeting one's neighbors when moving houses.
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I hope you get some good answers, but just consider that you'll never achieve satisfaction by having infinite goals (in any part of life). All the tips and self-discipline in the world might only take you from X to 10X, and somewhere d
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
I think most of us are highly invested in the value of easily-rehydratable knowledge, because an incredible amount of the first third of our lives is spent learning facts that we'll forget. If we admitted there might be a better way, w
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Judging by your parent's comment, HN would've been wrong to assume that the reason for Dropbox's decline is a mass movement of users towards rolling their own linux hosting stack.
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Not speaking from experience, but the earnings seem relatively linear. Two hours a week would tend towards the thirty hrs/wk hourly rate, I'd think.
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> much much more generous with its free tier And thus became the buy-ee instead of the buy-er...the price of altruism!
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Small shops multiply instead of swelling because their capacity limitations are either a high barrier to individual growth or an essential feature of their service ('coziness').
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> If OSS wants to be widely used, it needs to take UI seriously, and not dismiss it as frivolous “eye-candy”. More than this, if mass-market OSS wants to be widely used, it needs a mass marketing budget. Not many deep-pocketed stakeholde
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by c0vfefe 7y ago
+1 for Matrix. Awesome technology.
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Not even "the set of science-based Lorem Ipsum knockoffs," huh?
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It's the age-old tension between "do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life", and "the best way to ruin your hobby is to make it your job."
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> If you haven't heard of any one of them by the time you are done conceiving it you are in the exact same position as the other companies are This assumes that you can do meaningful research without ever Googling the problem space,

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