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by cudgy 3y ago
From a macro perspective it certainly was predictable given the trends that have been mentioned. From a micro “make as much money from the most suckers now” and “build it and sell it to a REIT” perspective it was able to be ignored.
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by cudgy 3y ago
There are many once-in-a-century possibilities like flooding, fires, terrorism, pandemics, structural failures, wars, ecological disasters, eminent domain, etc. Add them all up and you actually have a many-in-a-century event scenario. Compa
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by cudgy 3y ago
> All of it could have been avoided if cities actually let housing be built. Perhaps to some extent, but the type of housing in cities is mostly restricted to apartments, which is not satisfying for everyone, especially those that prefer
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by cudgy 4y ago
“We've seen that pace of innovation matters and if your goal is to maximize the pace of innovation, you want that fast response even if it means overshooting somewhat whenever there's a step change.” Does the pace of innovation re
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by cudgy 4y ago
“Suddenly being able to largely automate so many formerly human-only tasks using plain language instructions makes me feel like the nature of the computing experience itself may be evolving profoundly.” Can you provide some examples of the
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by cudgy 4y ago
He still likely lost money. What if this guy did this process 5 times over the 5 years (build/sell) instead of sitting on a single property, taking his time?
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by cudgy 4y ago
DR Horton (largest US home builder) is doing something similar right now. Instead of lowering the prices on their homes, they are including incentives by buying down the interest rates on the mortgages of their home buyers. This helps keep
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by cudgy 4y ago
“Houses can sit empty without tenants for years but they’ll only go up. Companies can be unprofitable for literal decades but they’ll keep finding funding and buyers. Commercial properties can bleed tenant but the prices will only be up.” T
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by cudgy 4y ago
Summary is “free money gone; now private equity has to actually invest” instead of throwing cash around, buying everything like a teenage girl in a trendy clothing shop with their parent’s credit card.
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by cudgy 4y ago
Mehdi Hasan proved nothing in the “debate” other than he is a shill for the security state trying to score a hit for the losers that watch bloviating garbage like MSNBC. You keep going on about a super secret contract like that means anythi
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by cudgy 4y ago
My guess is once the date sees a nicer house, car, and bank account, the college degree bump drops like an anchor.
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by cudgy 4y ago
Plenty of cars less than $15k in the US; they’re just not new. Plenty of houses less than $300k; they’re just not near any hot urban centers.
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by cudgy 4y ago
That’s how Apple became great: following trends and executing them better.
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by cudgy 4y ago
This assumes that Google is able to identify the highest talent. Given the poor performance of the company (relative to its size and funding) and your point that they chose one of the weakest leaders to lead them, are they truly effective a
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by cudgy 4y ago
Your view on the content of the Twitter files is false. There were clear communications demonstrated by the investigation including the hiring of an FBI lawyer as a top legal employee of Twitter. Further, Taibbi and Musk are currently feudi
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by cudgy 4y ago
By that definition, the US invasion began in 2014 too. Who do you think primarily supplied Ukraine with weapons and training? https://www.npr.org/2019/12/18/788874844/how-u-s-military-ai...
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by cudgy 4y ago
“By that standard, the UK, Spain and France are also in civil wars.” Nice try. How do these compare at all to the Ukraine Donbas conflict? During the span of 2014-2022, the war in Ukraine (pre Russian invasion) between Ukraine and Donbas re
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by cudgy 4y ago
“Some 70% of the information on Yandex News was coming from state-controlled media sources pushing propaganda” This article reads like US propaganda. “Russia imposed increasingly restrictive laws, arresting social media users over posts, de
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by cudgy 4y ago
I am inclined to agree, but I applaud the effort. It is worth investigating the size of this market, which might be large enough to support a few of these phones. It might even push the technology envelope further so that standard smartphon
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by cudgy 4y ago
True. I imagine many crypto startups have desperately pivoted to AI with their last gasp of cash given the recent blowup.
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by cudgy 4y ago
Who’s job is it to predict the future hiring needs at companies? The staff software engineer or the CEO’s and executives? This is a primary role of a CEO and failure to predict this is a failure of their primary role.
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by cudgy 4y ago
Because it expands this discussion into yet another area I never intended to address.
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by cudgy 4y ago
It’s more complicated though, because many universities are defrauding the students as well with overpriced tuition and degrees with limited value. Basically, it is a circle of fraud with the Kenyans, in this case, selling the shovels to th
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by cudgy 4y ago
I wonder if this is true in reality. Isn’t it possible and maybe even likely that a non-neutral party is providing the most accurate version of the story? For example, a person or reporter living in a war zone, experiencing the actual war i
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by cudgy 4y ago
Ok. Can we agree that some people are expected to be more perfect than others? Say the janitor versus the brain surgeon? Or the CEO versus the staff software engineer?
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by cudgy 4y ago
Moving generally sucks. Moving is traumatic whether it is forced or not and whether a migrant or not. It can be almost the same trauma when moving to the other side of a large city as moving to another country. Kids still change schools; sp
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by cudgy 4y ago
You can argue till your blue in the face that it opens doors and another can just as easily argue that it closes doors for reasons not worth discussing. My point had nothing to do with either argument as it not interesting to me. My critici
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by cudgy 4y ago
“For years, I worked on the E.U.’s privacy policies, and I came to realize that we don’t know what privacy is. It’s a term we use every day, and it can make sense in context, but we can’t nail it down well enough to generalize. The closest
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by cudgy 4y ago
“they exist for the benefit of shareholders” How does paying a CEO so much money benefit the shareholders? Do you honestly feel there aren’t millions of people that could do his job (and likely better) for a fraction of what he was paid?
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by cudgy 4y ago
“just stupid short term populist moves for the simpler minds who don't think much ahead or in complex fashion” Surely it was stupid to not realize that the last few years were temporarily fueled by Covid work from home trends and huge

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