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by chadash 4y ago
Two problems with this: 1) Like a car mechanic, these people get paid to sell you solutions and they are incentivized to sell you more. 2) Plenty or honest people have biases because of what they do. If you spend all day thinking about secu
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by chadash 4y ago
> Disruptive children are caused by parents who frankly just don’t give a shit. Throwing more money into schools won’t ever fix this problem. I was a disruptive child and my parents were the opposite of people who didn’t give a shit. Bot
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by chadash 4y ago
I don’t think this is quite right. If the interest rates are low enough, even the most financially savvy people will take this deal. For example, I have a friend who can easily afford to pay cash on a $1 million house, but he has a 30 year
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by chadash 4y ago
We talk a lot about separation of powers, the constitution, etc. in the US, but until pretty recently, we failed to appreciate the fact that democracy is largely a cultural thing. It works because we believe it works. Go and read the Soviet
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by chadash 4y ago
Is this really true though? Sure a tech worker can move to rural Arkansas and live very easily, but in general, housing prices often correlate with local wages and most people can’t work remotely.
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by chadash 4y ago
Well, it sure got me interested in hearing more about the story. As far as competition, as the article makes clear, it wouldn't be that easy to compete. You'd need to be located in Japan, read English (or you are unlikely to have
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by chadash 4y ago
> Adam Neumann is basically Elizabeth Holmes... With one big difference. I've worked in a WeWork. I know many people who have. The product is real and it did fundamentally change the idea of coworking (you ever heard of Regus befo
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by chadash 4y ago
once you count consumers, you get into semantics. Like is C/C++ more used than javascript, because all the javascript essentially runs in browsers compiled from C++?
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by chadash 4y ago
Excel is "written" by many more people than javascript
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by chadash 4y ago
Not to say that this is authoritative, but an article in the Harvard Law Review argues that "caste discrimination is a type of racial discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination — all covered under Titl
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by chadash 4y ago
Last I checked, Florida has about 6% of the total US population, but more than 75% of property insurance litigation. The situation is insane.
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Axios to sell itself to Cox Enterprises for a reported $525M(cnbc.com)
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by chadash 4y ago
in general, I use my computer for taking notes. But I recently started using pencil and paper for designing quick low-fidelity mockups for things that my team is going to implement and it's wildly better than working on the computer fo
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by chadash 4y ago
> Are they counting the 4-6% real estate real estate commission the agent would take that Opendoor customers arent paying? your overall point stands, but Opendoor does have a 5% "service charge" that's on par with an agent
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by chadash 4y ago
I mean it's all relative, but yeah, $429 starting price for a phone coming from a company that is known to support their products for a minimum of 5 years is really not bad. Especially since these phones hold their value far better tha
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by chadash 4y ago
There are necessary protections in place for minority shareholders in public companies. For example, I can't just buy up 51% of a company and then vote that the company is now going to give all of its profits to me. The same situation
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by chadash 4y ago
This seems like wishful thinking. Why assume that academic intelligence makes you less creative? Do you think that people who graduate with high grades out of Harvard/MIT/Stanford are less creative than people who graduate from se
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by chadash 4y ago
To add credence to this post, I once heard an interview with an incarcerated burglar who claimed that dogs where the one deterrent that scared him off. He said that an alarm as only as good as the response times of the police and he's
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by chadash 4y ago
Yeah, but probably with lower total comp.
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by chadash 4y ago
Sorry for being pedantic. Response wasn't directed at you specifically, but at the wider audience, some of whom might not understand the distinction. But my guess is that John Carmack does get the distinction and was intentional with
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by chadash 4y ago
I think you are conflating marketing with advertising. Advertising is a subset of marketing, but wouldn't include things like: - Writing clear and effective home pages (e.g. the Get Started button is the most prominent affordance on
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by chadash 4y ago
It works because they just need to come up with a total value and how it divides between land and house doesn’t matter much. My property taxes also separate out land and it puts the land at like 25% of the total value, but in reality someon
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by chadash 4y ago
I looked there and a bunch of the examples show places where it used to be used (which is probably a good indication of how hard it is in practice). The rest have very vague details and none of the examples there really go into any depth
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by chadash 4y ago
Because 90 year old grandpa can't move as easily as us youngins and it's not his fault that the neighborhood gentrified around him. At this point he can't afford to the taxes on a studio either. But anyway, the process of mov
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by chadash 4y ago
My point is that a lot of (and maybe most) 90 year olds are not really capable of moving. Moves are a pretty big pain in the ass in your 20s and 30s, but doing the process of finding a new apartment and physically moving are much harder at
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by chadash 4y ago
The biggest problem (IMO) is that it's not so simple to value land. Where I live, being two blocks over can make a huge difference. It's easy to say "you paid $500k for your house, so we're gonna tax you on $500k".
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by chadash 4y ago
> You can always choose to live in a cheaper home. So your 90 year old grandpa has been living in a two bedroom apartment on the lower east side for 65 years. When he moved in at age 25, it was considered a crummy but affordable neighbor
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by chadash 4y ago
I don't know much about this, but some quick research shows that it was actually for $525 million [1], and interestingly, they put up their intellectual property as collateral ("a batch of 10 Marvel characters, including Captain A
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by chadash 4y ago
A revolving line of credit with a bank. Basically, bank says you have (to make up some numbers) revenues of $15,000,000/year and profits of $5,000,000, so we think it would be pretty safe to lend you up to say $1,000,000 that you can
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by chadash 4y ago
While I am not a fan of Facebook/Meta, I actually hope that they do not lose this case. If you want to name your company after a word that is in common usage, then you should have to deal with the fact that others may use the same word

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