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by gozur88 9y ago
Bubbles always last longer than you'd think, but at some point they all end. Absent some kind of crazy government intervention, prices are ultimately supported by rent.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's the classic real estate bubble.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Might have something to do with the fact that SpaceX's ambitions seem to undergo major revisions on a monthly basis. The things they've accomplished to date have been pretty impressive, but they're not even in the same leag
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by gozur88 9y ago
>So Synergon is really better than the current open-plan office? Sadly, it really is.
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by gozur88 9y ago
While I'm no fan of Cuba, I have to point out doctors come to the US from a lot of different countries because they'll get paid more. That's just human nature.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I think it's understandable. They see parts they like and either ignore or don't know about the rest. The most anti-communist places you'll find are in Eastern Europe where the old people remember going through sub-zero win
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by gozur88 9y ago
The best UIs I've used have two ways to do almost everything - the obvious way, and the fast way. You can almost always accommodate both sets of users.
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by gozur88 9y ago
The banking system would shut down in the US as well when the bloody revolution started. People would simply not tolerate a deliberate internet shutdown by the government.
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by gozur88 9y ago
If you can't make enough money to survive doing what you do, you should probably look at doing something else. It's not like someone smart enough to be a college lecturer can't possibly learn a different skill.
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Why would we?
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by gozur88 9y ago
There's a resource that no other large company has, though - Jeff Bezos. Don't underestimate the importance of having such a brilliant guy in the #1 spot.
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by gozur88 9y ago
A relative of mine worked with a guy who was seduced from retirement by a company desperate for his particular skill set. One of those guys who does something I don't even have the context to understand. Skill set is key. What you do
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by gozur88 9y ago
>If I have a hardware wallet, I'm essentially betting that I am better at opsec than coinbase, a >$1billion company who devotes a non-trivial amount of resources to opsec. I'm sure people who were using Mt Gox felt the same
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by gozur88 9y ago
When I was a kid my mother had a dozen different department store charge cards, and you could only use them at that store. What a nightmare that must have been when it came time to pay bills. It's really crazy when you look back and t
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by gozur88 9y ago
I can barely recall details of projects I worked on last quarter. 1989 is almost thirty years ago, and the people who developed the process were probably long gone when it was shut down.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I think that's likely. If it was microwaves, and they were still transmitting at high enough power to injure people, you couldn't miss it if you looked.
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by gozur88 9y ago
It may not be happening any more.
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by gozur88 9y ago
If the South Koreans wanted to go nuclear there isn't a damn thing the Chinese could do about it. It would serve them right, too, since they're mostly responsible for the mess that is North Korea.
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by gozur88 9y ago
So... spending time networking and developing your most important job skill, that of interpersonal communication, pays dividends later in life at the expense of a small hit in your GPA? Color me not at all surprised.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That movie illustrates my point, though. Domestic box office for Get Out was $175m with foreign receipts coming in at just $77m. Compare that to Guardians of the Galaxy , with domestic box office of $333m and foreign box office of $440m
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by gozur88 9y ago
I grew up in the bubble where a few addicted people I knew managed to kick their addiction when the alternative was sufficiently grim. Did you grow up in a bubble where that never happens? What a depressing bubble.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Hollywood movies are getting objectively worse, and there's a good reason for it. The market is global now - the North American box office is just a vehicle for pricing deals when the international rights are sold. So they have to mak
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by gozur88 9y ago
Yeah, I think not. I could see letting them drop the delivery onto an enclosed porch and maybe putting a refrigerator (or ice chest) there, but the idea of giving delivery people the run of my house is a nonstarter. Have to believe that&#x
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by gozur88 9y ago
What's really sad about this is when I graduated from college HP was a highly sought after place to work because they had a lot of "cool" products and prided themselves on never having had a layoff. Then they spun off the int
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by gozur88 9y ago
Sometimes they don't want the product at all (or the employees). Rather, they're buying customers. I worked for a company that wrote logistics software and we got bought out by a much larger company. They stopped all new develo
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by gozur88 9y ago
>There are still quiet a lot of statues of him. That I find kind of odd. His treatment of the locals in the Belgian Congo is sort of the gold standard for imperial oppression.
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by gozur88 9y ago
My medical group has a website which allows you to send text messages to your doctor. It all gets filtered through staff, of course, but you usually get a response from the doctor. Sometimes the response is "you need to make an appoi
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by gozur88 9y ago
He describes himself as an expert two or three times in the short article. When I see that it makes me wonder if it's really true. It's like when people repeatedly describe themselves as strong or independent - who are they tryi
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by gozur88 9y ago
In most cases a secondary infection is going to be more of an annoyance than a danger, so for otherwise healthy people it probably makes sense to treat a secondary infection when it appears.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I'm with you. Labor shortages are what incentivize business to train people and pay more. You can't simultaneously complain about worker pay on the bottom end and advocate policies that reduce the value of their labor.

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