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811.
by ericd 3y ago
As it's become easier and more lucrative, you see more people crowding in to becoming a realtor, and they spend more of their time competing for clients rather than doing productive work for those clients.
812.
by ericd 3y ago
Title search is incredibly important, though...
813.
by ericd 3y ago
Not sure that's changed for millenials, maybe it's more acceptable in gen z/alpha?
814.
by ericd 3y ago
The thing is, antique stores are stuffed to the gills with heirloom class furniture, and it doesn’t cost 100x the amount. Gorgeous solid cherry, mahogany, etc, where even the backs and drawer bottoms are solid can be had for a song. We rece
815.
by ericd 3y ago
I’d add that it has a huge decentralized network of purpose-built hardware securing it, and a huge swarm of decentralized nodes enforcing its rules, and making it hard for a small group of people to change its rules. That’s worth something,
816.
by ericd 3y ago
For another data point, we bought 19 kW of new panels from SignatureSolar for $6k shipped in the US not too long ago, so a bit more than 0.30/watt. Not top of the line efficiency at 20%, but high quality all-black monocrystalline Canad
817.
by ericd 3y ago
If you look at the graph of different countries' birth rates, it looks like the US rate declined rapidly in the years following 2008 (it was a local maximum before that). US birth rate also had trouble during the 70s energy crisis. So
818.
by ericd 3y ago
The nitrite is probably the most objectionable part? Linked to colon/stomach cancer iirc. My non-expert impression is that there’s a growing body of research that suggests that preservatives generally aren’t great for your gut microbio
819.
by ericd 3y ago
That’s a bit hyperbolic, its trivial to hard boil some eggs, and there are a number of similarly simple dishes that you’re not going to need to retry a bunch.
820.
by ericd 3y ago
Awesome, thanks!
821.
by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, I guess many people started to think of the copay as the true cost, since that’s what they paid most of the time?
822.
by ericd 3y ago
Is there any reason for this to be less heavily regulated than fission plants/waste? Seems like that’s the major driver of cost? Are ridiculously massive containment vessels less necessary, since it’s very off by default/without p
823.
by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, they’re a partner. I can believe your stat for specialists, but not for the general practitioners you’re most likely to be emailing.
824.
by ericd 3y ago
It’s both much harder and more expensive to become a doctor than a lawyer. And usually I’m paying my lawyer to protect me from risks to my financial health, not because I think checking with them will make me money. My doctor helps protect
825.
by ericd 3y ago
A 15 minute email from my lawyer costs about $150, I don’t see why we should be outraged about $25? It’s much harder and more expensive to become a doctor.
826.
by ericd 3y ago
This is the best news I’ve seen all month. I think one of the great near-term dangers of AI is the bulk of the economic benefit going mainly to relatively few companies. That risk seems substantially reduced if they have to compete with a g
827.
by ericd 3y ago
I doubt it, Jeremy’s been walking the walk for quite a while now, when it comes to opening up access to AI, especially with his excellent, free fast.ai course, it seems pretty clear that his primary motivations are in helping others. (If yo
828.
by ericd 3y ago
Really well, I just have Reddit pinned so it’s (almost?) always one of the top results, without having to add “Reddit”. HN is another. Similarly, I have lots of domains that I’ve always hated seeing in results, nuked, so I never see them an
829.
by ericd 3y ago
Eh, I ran preterminated point-to-point single mode fiber through my house, wasn't that hard, and I didn't find them very delicate. I ran smurf tube (ridged blue plastic conduit) first, then just pulled them through by their ends u
830.
by ericd 3y ago
Especially important if you want to compete in training base models - if they were using 1500 H100s like the quote somewhere above implies, the market rate for that right now is something like $7500-$10k per hour (retail, on demand, so pr
831.
by ericd 3y ago
Good points, all. But you'd still need to overbuild solar by quite a bit in order to make a reasonable amount in winter, in many areas.
832.
by ericd 3y ago
Right, you can just wrap it into the cost. I'm not sure, I'm not an expert in this, but my impression is that permitting and labor are a really big portion of the cost in the US, rather than eg panels being the driving cost. There
833.
by ericd 3y ago
Solar generation is much, much lower in the winter than in the summer, so we need to massively overbuild solar to have reasonable generation in the winter. And there are many times when there’s very little generation for a week or more beca
834.
by ericd 3y ago
Not what I mean, just mean to say that they’re not free to give the money away, like you were suggesting they do.
835.
by ericd 3y ago
The people in charge of Apple don't own the company, or that cash. A large portion of that represents many peoples' retirement savings.
836.
by ericd 3y ago
I'd just like to point out that you're talking about the most expensive form of housing in the most expensive pockets of one of the most expensive housing markets in the country, with the highest tax rates. This is not representat
837.
by ericd 3y ago
>That's a societal problem, it can only be solved by society, not by cryptocurrency peddlers and tech-bros. And in any case: at some point that "wealth" has to enter the real world, and it's there that governments can
838.
by ericd 3y ago
The thing you’re not seeing is a)how much pent-up demand there is. b)how many people are moving in daily. It might look like there’s a lot of housing going up, but if there were 1.5x that many households trying to move in during the same ti
839.
by ericd 3y ago
They were the first to "good enough", which is what the GP is talking about.
840.
by ericd 3y ago
Moats have never been uncrossable, they just make it harder to get to the walls.

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