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by irq11 7y ago
Schwab has a great website, and has for a lot longer than Robinhood has been a thing. Also, they stopped charging commissions on trades as well. Schwab is pretty great. If your only frame of reference is Robinhood, you should really look in
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by irq11 7y ago
Definitely. Happens so often that I always warn new students off of using GT as a dictionary (which is a super common thing lately). I use GT to figure out the most probable mapping for words and simple grammar points when there are multipl
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by irq11 7y ago
I’m talking about written text. Even for humdrum stuff like business emails, the lack of nuance and contextual understanding is crippling for JP/EN translation.
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by irq11 7y ago
That’s true...people are lazy and costs want to fall, but it’s a little disconcerting in areas that require nuance and detail. I’m by no means a translator, but it isn’t difficult for me to find sentences where Google Translate simply butc
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by irq11 7y ago
Except that they’re losing a billion dollars a year at that level of quality. Cut the perks to make it a viable business, and you’ll probably end up with...Regus. Markets are pretty efficient that way.
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by irq11 7y ago
That’s not the demand curve. That’s the increase in demand curve. The increase in fossil fuel demand, however “lumpy”, is more than current total renewable output. (Who is downvoting? this is a statement of fact, from the article.)
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by irq11 7y ago
Agreed, but phrasing it in the “here’s what changed that most people don’t understand” language that VCs love: “in the age of cheap money, scale is not a defensive moat” When Fry’s was founded, it was so prohibitively difficult to get the
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by irq11 7y ago
Right. And next you’re going to tell me that the majority of their users don’t just download the software and deploy it without paying. Gitlab as a company is about a precarious as Docker as a company . Most of its users are using it f
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by irq11 7y ago
I love how the gitlab fanboys try to have it both ways. When arguing why it’s better than alternatives, the talking point is that “it’s open-source!” But when it’s (rightfully) pointed out that this doesn’t leave much of a defensive moat,
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by irq11 7y ago
Maybe you haven’t noticed this, but Gitlab is an open-source project. It’s pretty hard to claim a technical moat when most of what you sell can be replicated with a repo fork.
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by irq11 7y ago
no matter how much you torture your logic to redefine “root cause” as “cause”, your interpretation is wrong.
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by irq11 7y ago
Facts disagree with your theories: non-white people disproportionately live in parts of the world that are prone to droughts, flooding, famine, etc.
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by irq11 7y ago
“exacerbate” does not mean “is a root cause”.
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by irq11 7y ago
That quote in no way says that racism is a “root cause” of climate change. It should be obvious that the impacts of climate change impact different races differently, but also, there are actually pretty good arguments to be made that racism
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by irq11 7y ago
Being a net exporter of electricity does not imply that a country does not need nuclear. Yes, some tiny European countries can rely on hydro or geothermal for baseline generation. Most countries can’t, and even if they’re a net exporter, th
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by irq11 7y ago
IRR takes into account the investor valuations of the unicorn investments. It would be absurd to do otherwise.
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by irq11 7y ago
The article I cited found a minimal impact of rent control on new construction in SF. The costs of this were accounted for in the numbers cited. You should read the article before you assert that your opinions rebut its contents.
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by irq11 7y ago
It is absolutely pathetic that HN’s mods continue to allow politically biased censorship of factual comments using downvotes. Mods, if you can’t control the ideologues, it’s time to get rid of graying of downvoted comments. People are jus
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by irq11 7y ago
I took the summary quote directly from the Cato institute website; I am in no way misrepresenting their top-line conclusions. As I said, you can certainly dispute the goal of favoring incumbents over new residents. There are also issues
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by irq11 7y ago
Rent control in SF is not really a problem: https://www.cato.org/publications/research-briefs-economic-p... Pretty much the only study I’m aware of that took the issue head-on, from the Cato institute. They found that
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by irq11 7y ago
You keep saying this, but you can’t possibly know it unless you have inside knowledge. So either state your source or just say that you’re guessing.
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by irq11 7y ago
Nonsense. You have hundreds of employees and a multi-billion dollar valuation, and you keep making the same excuses. I have been watching you folks spam threads, over and over again, for years, with the same things: “we’re fixing performanc
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by irq11 7y ago
So you (like 95% of the commenters here) prefer Gitlab be cause it’s cheap. Bodes well for the business model. Commodity pricing only works when the market gets bigger as the price goes down. Otherwise, it’s just a race to the bottom.
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by irq11 7y ago
whatever you want to call it, it’s spammy and more than a little desperate.
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by irq11 7y ago
please stop astroturfing.
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by irq11 7y ago
The excitement for gitlab on HN has always been a combination of “open source enthusiasm” and astroturfing. From personal experience, HN is filled with tire-kickers who will hug the crap out of any halfway-usable product that they can “migr
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by irq11 7y ago
Well, now that you’ve agreed with everything I wrote, you’re stuck with arguing trivialities: landlords are failing en masse because of maintenance, water, roommates, etc. Math lesson: If my mortgage is $X (which I more than cover with my r
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by irq11 7y ago
You need to exaggerate less. The maximum rent increase rate is 60% of the trailing twelve months CPI in the bay area. But landlords’ costs do not scale with the CPI. Mortgage rates are fixed (if a landlord has a mortgage at all), taxes ar
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by irq11 7y ago
Nope. Because then you could donate the price of two books, and not buy one!
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by irq11 7y ago
The rent control laws in SF aren’t even as bad as HN comments would have you believe. Rent control doesn’t apply to new construction in SF. It also allows a regulated annual increase, and rent automatically jumps back up to market upon a

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