hnboredhn

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by hnboredhn 3y ago
The one counter is that commercial real estate is way cheaper than it used to be. The potential savings of putting everyone in a full open floor plan aren't as high as they used to be. (Still don't think it will happen - but that
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I do think everyday behaviors have more single point of failures than they used to. The complexity has just gone up (with the example of needing to use the internet to get a parking spot) so almost by definition there are more ways it can g
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
If you were a random person in a town 1600 - how many people do you think you could buy meat form? I honestly dont know. I guess if everyone had subsistence farms with some chickens it in theory could be a lot, but not sure if it would be o
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I am not too in the weeds on this particular issue, but it seems not that crazy to me that "the biggest four companies" produce 55% of the US's chickens. Presumably that means there is much more than four who register in at a
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
>But Mayor Femke Halsema complained last year that cruise tourists were let loose for a couple of hours, ate at international chains and had no time to visit a museum, consuming the city but doing little for it. My guess is most of HN is
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
Harvard posted that 70% of their legacy admits were white and 30% non-white. That's higher than the population of 18 year olds but maybe not as extreme as some would think.
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I'd actually love to see more data on this. My cynical take is that now people donate to schools they didn't even go to - and are concentrated anyways in a few big donations a year. So banning legacies could still just allow wealt
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
The other benefit is simply seeing the current subscriptions, even if you had to cancel elsewhere. I should be able to see on my Bank of America credit card which companies are going to bill me within a month - and either be able to block i
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
That double dipping doesnt make sense unless they are doing something more complex - like limit supply or time swings in the market. Let's say there cut is 2%. If I sell a ticket for $50 list price to StubHub and then they sell it for
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I almost feel like it is competing more with FB than anything, which could possibly work. None of my friends use Facebook but presumably there is still a need for people to ask what restaurants or good or if anyone is available to be a baby
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I am surprised by how little takes on this seem to address the fact this is likely to be bureaucratic. There are many people or departments who would benefit from increased fundings in these areas. Not seven saying its overt corruption. But
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I guess I'm still not convinced the "reasoning" has anything to do with it. If a company says the reason is inflation they can only maintain that pricing power if every other firm does the same thing. If no firm decides to ke
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I still don't find the argument persuasive. Companies have always tried to maximize profits, as you said. To me this highlights more companies realizing they have pricing power similar to monopoly power or cartel power. A company tha
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
Agreed. In particular the fees paid to Booz Allen should be disclosed. Looking back earlier this year I paid $40 for two cave tours of a national park through the site. There are no listed fees. It is a reasonable price for the tour and the
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I sorta hope they find some streets or avenues to convert to bike lanes. I do sorta feel like having a congestion fee without much added ways to get around for pedestrians leaves the typical person unchanged from this.
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I suppose to expound on my point more - the graph is by people not housing units. Presumably if a cheap city, like Detroit, had a bunch of unused units the graph would not credit it for the built-in density because if its not being used.
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I realize he is arguing for that but I think its pretty silly to have the chart there showing the correlation if so. He does address the point I made in the article but I think he dismisses it too fast without much evidence.
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
Isn't the obvious arrow here that high prices drives density? The fact that NYC is the densest and most expensive seems to be an obvious story of high prices incentivizing people to build up. The question is whether or not an old build
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by hnboredhn 3y ago
I'm curious what the legal restrictions are here. I would imagine if a hamburger from a fast food restaurant could replace half of its meat with plant protein that I may not really notice if no one tells me. At the same time, the price