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by dougmwne 4y ago
And I would pay quite a bit for borrowing that 800k since the era of rock bottom interest rates is over. I have run the numbers multiple times. After the property taxes, utilities, maintenance, debt servicing and insurance, I’d be spending
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I mean, we know for a fact that audiophiles are delusional, but I remember computers of the time had terribly noisy audio output affected by all kinds of EMI, from fans to hard drives to CPU utilization. The noise floor was a mess on most d
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I guess this is about me! I am renting for a reasonable rate. There is a similar house on my street for 1 mil. While I could buy it, I could also live off that 1 mil if it was in liquid investments for the rest of my life. The dividends wou
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Just to clarify, the bank in question did fail. Their bad decisions wiped out all shareholder value. Probably everyone working at that bank will lose their jobs, including the executives. All the bank’s customers did make a mistake to trus
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Sounds like my opinion of mac users should be dropping.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Unvalidated ideas are worthless, validated ideas are gold, execution is everything.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes, and VCs have been exposed for the leaches they really are. Years spent being actively hostile to government and regulation, encouraging their companies to break the law at every turn, only to come begging when it all threatened to impl
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Wow, the engineering team wanted to delay the headset by 3 years!? That does not bode well for the product.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is quite a funny question. Sort of impossibly broad and vague. It’s a big country and 300 million people is really a lot of people. I guess I am taking it as a challenge to say something helpful in spite of it all. America is an odd so
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by dougmwne 4y ago
The VCs took a risk by choosing to use the same bank, not insuring the deposits beyond the FDIC minimum, then stamping toward the exit every man for themselves instead of looking after their own community. Privatized gains and socialized lo
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by dougmwne 4y ago
What about the VCs? Why were they made whole? They are the ones that owned all these businesses.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This was posted on Saturday. Which first republic bank branch in LA is open on Saturday? The tweet says “today.” Is this real?
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by dougmwne 4y ago
First they yelled fire in a crowded theater, then they want to tax payers to clean up the mess. Disgusting. But this take really misses the forest for the trees. Bailout or not, this is the nail in the coffin for the SV tech startup ecosyst
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Honestly, you should be going back to the lobbying drawing board. This is going to be enormously unpopular with the general public. VCs are already very rich, even if they take a haircut. They already have huge resources to be able to exten
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I honestly can’t think of a sector less deserving of a bail out.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
If there was ever an industry that had less support for a taxpayer bailout, it’s tech startups. Lots of regular people loath these startups. By definition, it only affects a bunch of rich VCs, overpaid coastal elites, Saudi money, and elite
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by dougmwne 4y ago
What you are talking about here is the financial apocalypse. If a hundred million people all lose the money in their bank accounts, then we go back to the barter system overnight. The thing you will be bartering will likely be seeds and amm
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes, another way to think about this is that if you bought an .80 t-bill today it would have the return on investment equivalent to a 1.00 bill bought last year. That’s because the new t-bill has a much higher interest rate. So in effect, a
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Maybe, which is why I suggest countering with a discussion of neurodivergence.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
The trouble in a bank run is that it’s impossible for everyone to have gotten their money out yesterday. Those first in line caused the collapse, the rest are out of luck. Nice to hear you have lucky friends.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It really is a handicap and not a superpower. Resources in groups are given to people that are liked, not those who deserve them. Maintaining positive relationships is the best way to secure resources. Using aggressive communication is goin
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by dougmwne 4y ago
He would not perceive it that way, but if the recipient was a woman and perhaps fighting a lifelong battle to be a respected technical contributor, then it could be perceived as mansplaining and sexist.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I agree with the spirit of this. I just think it’s a bit heavy handed in the communication. It will be perceived as aggressive and that’s not a good look for a man that has just been accused of sexism. Getting HR involved and framing it tha
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by dougmwne 4y ago
You might be “mansplaining”. Think if you may have told her things or explained things she may have already known. She may perceive you are insulting her intelligence. Given that you have Asperger’s, this is likely something you do to every
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Bingo. And California is responsible for funding and administering many of these safety net programs.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
These are not those infamous bendy bananas. It’s just a plan to have TVs ship with eco mode enabled by default to limit power consumption to 90w, not a ban on 8k. Most consumers will never know the difference and those who do can flip it of
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Thanks for the spellcheck. By saying my argument was a strawman, you are implying that no one is actually saying that, when it’s truly one of the most common things that comes up when you talk to people in SF about homelessness.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yeah, I think you’ve got it. Poor competitors lose the competition. Sounds like you are better off somewhere else, especially if you want public transit.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
The thing is that Florida and a few other top destinations seem to have a monopoly on attracting remote workers. No state income tax helps a lot, but that’s not going to make Wisconsin a major destination for remote workers. If the place ha
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Potentially you could use some kind of Wi-Fi/Bluetooth device ID system to identify that cell phones were not in airplane mode. Any kind of signal blocking system seems like it would be illegal and dangerous.

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