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by gen220 3y ago
In bureaucracies like this, the fish inenvitably rots from the head. The people who offer the faculty positions are incompetent or indifferent. And the people who hired those people are incompetent or indifferent. As such, it's a mes
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by gen220 3y ago
The idea is that you're converting some % of developers' salaries into intellectual property (i.e. code), and that intellectual property is a capital asset that depreciates over time in the same way that a tractor or a widget-maki
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by gen220 3y ago
Anecdotally among friends working in NYC, people don't walk as frequently as they used to because they're not commuting into the office 5 days per week (which generally involves 10-20m of walking). Some are working totally remote
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by gen220 3y ago
> I think you would be hard pressed to give me a counter factual world that is believable where not doing this had a meaningful impact on Netflix's future. Some scale for perspective: if this had a 10x ROI, they'd get $10mm for
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by gen220 3y ago
I'm not sure you need to. Not picking on you at all, just going on a tangent because I've been thinking recently about the good ideas that end up on the cutting floor because their impact, while positive, is intractable or complet
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DatPiff Uploads Whole Catalog to the Internet Archive(rollingstone.com)
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by gen220 3y ago
Like it love it or hate it, but this is what Apple does. They sell premium hardware with a walled garden of software that meets the full expectations of 80% of people in general and 90-95% of people who can afford these devices. For their t
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by gen220 3y ago
These stories of justifying great expenses amuse me, because I can't help but compare them to Warren Buffet's office (which is mostly sports memorabilia, loose papers, a telephone [1]). >That said, in most cases day trading is
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by gen220 3y ago
Living in a big + damp city for years, roaches are unavoidable (especially in the summer months). We adopted cats in 2020, and haven't encountered a (living) roach since. I'm afraid our cats aren't very cost effective as pest
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by gen220 3y ago
Inside the sleeping bag, it will definitely be quite warm! Even quite mediocre sleeping bags (by modern standards) are positively toasty at 32 degrees. It was common in my group for people to sleep in their underwear in the caves! Our sleep
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by gen220 3y ago
You have to poke holes in the ceiling, and make sure the they’re clear every day. If you light a candle, the snow will melt and freeze into a film of ice. The holes are important for ventilation in general, but it also allows vapor to escap
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by gen220 3y ago
I camped out like this once per year in my teens! It was lots of fun. We’d hike into the snow pack set up a tent the first night, and spend the second day building snow caves and sledding. Then we’d build a bonfire that would melt down to t
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by gen220 3y ago
New York’s history of progressivism is checkered and contradictory, so the real irony is (unfortunately) that this is not ironic, but rather a highly predictable weave in its tapestry. New York might have abolished slavery in 1827, but they
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by gen220 3y ago
I think we pretty much agree! For context, I grew up in a "ring" that was quite inner in a global sense but quite middling or even outer in a local sense. I've been in several inner rings since, and they were disappointing. N
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by gen220 3y ago
I think it's less the decision-maker and more the ring that's built around the decision-maker. It's also true in my experience that decision-makers are often pretty solid. Decision-making is its own craft, many CEO/VP-ty
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by gen220 3y ago
HTMX is stand-alone from PostgREST, should be judged on its own interface and merits. I’ve been using it to build a nontrivial site for a few months. It has some surprises coming from a background of experience with SPAs but it’s been pleas
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by gen220 3y ago
Just curious, how did you find the rental? i.e. through Zillow / the regular listings culprits or was it something more localized? I've been interested in the idea for years, but I haven't seen any on Zillow that match the in
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by gen220 3y ago
It's a really poignant piece, and I think having a strong grip on its ideas is the hallmark of a transition to a socially-constructive adulthood. For me, personally, it was quite depressing & disillusioning to recognize that there
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by gen220 3y ago
Corporate entities are an obvious scapegoat, that we should definitely preclude from SFH (and MFH) ownership, and I'm sure that bill would be really popular among the electorate. In most locales, from what I've seen, it's the
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by gen220 3y ago
If you see my other comments in this thread, does that help contextualize my position? Basically, my thesis is we probably don't need to increase physical supply, we can probably get away with increasing market supply, and that the
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by gen220 3y ago
Yes, this is the way. Unit-profitability and patience. It's a long game. You won't grow nearly as quickly, but most middling-sized markets (you mention 1Password as an example) favor the tortoise over the hare in the long-run.
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by gen220 3y ago
If you can outlive the capital returns cycle (10 years is the standard for VC), you'll beat all but the 1-2% of the investor-funded competitors that eventually develop into self-sufficient, "going concern" businesses. Obvious
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by gen220 3y ago
I think it's a more complicated supply/demand story than that. The median price of units currently on the rental market is different from the median rental price. The supply side for "current rental market prices" is dif
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by gen220 3y ago
Can you elaborate more on the distinction between property values and acquisition price, and how that relates to housing prices? I wish I knew enough to consent to or refute your statement, alas here I am! I'm interested in having urba
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by gen220 3y ago
You're very right to be skeptical. Increasingly, "homeowner" is becoming strongly associated with class, especially in urban and suburban California. Eventually the older/wealthier people pass away and the younger people
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by gen220 3y ago
I guess I'm not very inclined to believe that there is more primary residential demand than there is real estate. I think the renter population is the most straightforward proxy for primary residential demand. Those are people who are
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by gen220 3y ago
From present values? I think the answer for "society" is definitively yes, because present values exclude all but top, idk, 5% earners from homeownership in urban and suburban areas. It's extra pronounced in CA because of pro
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by gen220 3y ago
Not trying to kill rentals, I'd have the tax only applied to single-family and multi-family homes, not apartment buildings. I agree that a supply of quality rental housing is an essential part of a healthy housing system. I think anybo
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by gen220 3y ago
You could go further and say this was the plan for California writ large. This is the natural conclusion of Prop 13 (1978).
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by gen220 3y ago
I think that's a good criticism. It assumes that rent demand would be perfectly elastic in response to the step-up in property tax, but I'm not sure if that holds provided you pick a high enough differential tax. If a family is pa

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