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by esseph 1mo ago
> the so called left HUH? When did that ever come up?
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by esseph 1mo ago
> I was at a gas station today that sells tobacco. No ads. Its because even displaying tobacco products, let alone advertising them, is not allowed. We clearly don't live in the same states.
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by esseph 1mo ago
> When was the last time you saw an ad for cigarettes? Today at the gas station on the outside of the pump and the store door.
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by esseph 1mo ago
> That would buy you thousands of square feet and often several acres within 20 minute drive to a lot of US city downtown areas. This is my direct quote. Let me break this down: 1. That would buy you thousands of square feet True, clearl
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by esseph 1mo ago
First if you us the convention center, you place the housing center off of where most of the housing actually is. Maybe 40% is in Kansas, with another 60% in the metro being on the Missouri side, roughly. The population density of the metro
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by esseph 1mo ago
Yeah, and top is a crunch. Real men visually parse /proc/ output in realtime.
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by esseph 1mo ago
I'm just looking at Kansas City as an example right now. Tons in the $200s btw, and this is in the city less than 20 minutes from the Nelson-Atkins Museum, WW I museum, the river, farmers market, KC Chiefs / Royals / Sporting
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by esseph 1mo ago
These are midrange. Most of the homes in those areas are around $225k. You'd be surprised how much house and land you can get for that price.
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by esseph 1mo ago
I was coming to comment just on that average, but I'm glad you caught it.
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by esseph 1mo ago
> is it possible to buy a reasonably nice home located in a reasonably nice amerikkkan city… for $300k in 2026? What does "city" mean to you? For some, it's 500 people, or 5,000. For some, it's 5 million. Define that
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by esseph 1mo ago
You didn't read what I said. I mentioned acres of land. You normally don't have multiple acres of land in the suburbs.
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by esseph 1mo ago
That would buy you thousands of square feet and often several acres within 20 minute drive to a lot of US city downtown areas.
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by esseph 1mo ago
Lol, so true
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by esseph 1mo ago
You have a very bleak view of the world, I'm sorry. I have hope for you though.
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by esseph 1mo ago
Not at all, I just don't fucking care at all. It's irrelevant. Race is not something I care about, and cultures come and go. The groups we were 10,000 years ago are not the groups we have now, which are not what the groups will be
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by esseph 1mo ago
> On Twitter there is a highly active community of space enthusiasts. Absolutely none of them would post slop like "Elon is not an engineer" You live in an algo bubble! TONS of intelligent people with backgrounds in space, defe
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by esseph 1mo ago
> but the only remotely European people not going extinct are some subgroups of Israeli Jews What?
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by esseph 1mo ago
For a lot of Americans, more than you might think, there is this belief that America is #1 in everything because it was Chosen By God, and Manifest Destiny is still real. They were born in the US because god wanted it, so they are the best.
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by esseph 1mo ago
> Are there that many people managing their dns by hand that they need this? How many thousands or millions of employees does your org have? And how many projects deployed over the decades?
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by esseph 1mo ago
> I suggest you talk to an entrepreneur sometime. Or, better yet, do it yourself before judging others so harshly. I've been a founder, CEO, and combat leader under fire in Iraq. > Or is it too hard for you? I guess, clearly, it
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by esseph 1mo ago
"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by esseph 1mo ago
I see you've found us, your kin!
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by esseph 1mo ago
> Markets solves the resource allocation problem Then why do we still have homeless and jobless?
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by esseph 1mo ago
Do you shop at a third hand store?
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by esseph 1mo ago
> Number of people who think that a leader or a CEO can be replaced by AI and who themselves have actually risked everything to start a company, be a leader, or do anything similar: exactly 0. Prove it. > be a leader There are a lot o
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by esseph 1mo ago
> It is scary for me to see how many well-educated people here on HN are so conspiracy-theory minded. The basis of so much of the era of computing I come from was basically based on a 70s Berkeley hacker mindset, which had a strong hippi
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by esseph 1mo ago
Ohhh like the thing restaurant servers did with their cash tips until recently (only claim your credit card tips or part of your cash tips).
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by esseph 1mo ago
Maybe they're trying to see how big the market actually is before considering shutting it down, maybe or getting lawyers and politicians to try and outlaw or restrict open models if they see a big enough opportunity.
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Network effects. It's like a social network for LLM nerds as well as hosting and rating models, etc.
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> I barely knew anyone who smoked 10-20y ago What country? In a lot of the US, smoking sections still existed in restaurants then. Just checked my home town, some bans were enacted in 2014 and existing restaurants and bars are still gran

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