dcdevthrowaway

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   by dcdevthrowaway 6y ago

   Utility has many dimensions. How fast a car can go is one, how many people it can transport is another, how few emissions it creates is another. Someone might be willing to drop big bucks on a Tesla Model X to haul their family around rathe
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   by dcdevthrowaway 6y ago

   Yeah, it's high time the adage "you get what you pay for" was amended: "You get at most what you pay for". You know the $20 shoes won't be great, and sure, it's possible the $200 shoes will be better than
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   by dcdevthrowaway 6y ago

   > Does anyone else have difficulty understanding why anyone would pay this much for a car? Not really. I mean I've never spent that much on a car and I'm not sure I ever will, but I did spent $5000 on a computer one time. Tha
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   Ask HN: What Is Snowflake's Software?

   2 points by dcdevthrowaway 6y ago|1 comments
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   by dcdevthrowaway 6y ago

   > Among my friends that have bought houses, many of them have gone into significant debt just to buy a 3-4 bedroom house, even though they have no kids and only use one of the bedrooms, because they think that at some point in their life
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   by dcdevthrowaway 6y ago

   You say mistake as if it were an intentional choice that turned out to be a bad one. I don't know my history of this subject very well, did policymakers really sit down and encourage homes to be treated as investment, leading them to
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   Ask HN: How to get DC rates for remote work?

   2 points by dcdevthrowaway 7y ago|2 comments