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by irq11 7y ago
Again, consumers have absolutely been harmed by the skyrocketing cost of health care. But every bit of evidence shows that the ACA slowed that growth. The only connection you’re making here is that your own costs went up after the ACA. It’s
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by irq11 7y ago
My point is that right now, for most units, it’s financially smarter to rent in Manhattan. It’s not even close. I’ve been doing a search in Manhattan this spring. On nearly every property I see, mortgage + hoa / taxes + insurance easil
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by irq11 7y ago
I don’t think it’s fair to compare renting a room to buying an apartment (even a studio), but you don’t need to do that. Right now, most properties in manhattan rent for less than their monthly carrying costs (including HOA fees). People ha
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by irq11 7y ago
I’ll tell you two cities the OP could be in right now: SF and NYC. Lived in both, tried to buy in both, gave up both times because the numbers were silly. Neither one makes much sense from a rent/buy perspective. New York is closer, bu
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by irq11 7y ago
You’re just trolling now. Other tools are not useless, but improving them will not replace talking to humans.
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by irq11 7y ago
”Exactly my point. It shouldn't be necessary to spend all that time futzing with tools, the tools should be there, ready to use.” It isn’t necessary. The tools are fine, and/or improving them won’t solve the fundamental proble
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by irq11 7y ago
If you go to language-learning forums (e.g. the Japanese learning subreddit) you’ll find a lot of people who spend 95% of their time wanking with learning tools, and 5% (or less) actually studying. Everyone thinks the tools are the problem.
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by irq11 7y ago
”Up until the late 70s, watches were tools to keep you from being late.” That’s not true at all. There have always been a lot of reasons to wear a watch that have nothing to do with getting the time. Cheap movements expanded the market
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by irq11 8y ago
There are Donki in totally residential parts of Tokyo that get almost no tourist activity. You’re overgeneralizing from limited experience. Not everything in Japan is like Shibuya or Roppongi.
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by irq11 8y ago
”Japan doesn't really need complex or quota-based immigration laws because foreigners are not super happy to live there forever once they've tried it.” You’re just making things up now. People are clamoring to get into Japan. It
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by irq11 8y ago
Japan just passed a radical (for Japan) change to their immigration rules, to allow in more foreign workers in a number of low-skill categories. It’s also comparatively easy for skilled workers to get visas. (The bigger problem is making Ja
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by irq11 8y ago
I lived there ten years ago, too. You’re remembering selectively. Yes, the Mission has gentrified and mid-market is a bit cleaner. But now there are widespread homeless camps, and open defecation and needles (formerly isolated to certain ne
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by irq11 8y ago
This is a good discussion of rent control, even though the title is unfortunately click-baitey. The great thing about this episode is that it actually does something that most popular discussions of rent control don’t do: it acknowledges th
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by irq11 8y ago
Because there are two or more sides to every debate. The “most appropriate tool for the job” is exactly what the article is arguing for.
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by irq11 8y ago
I have no idea. But saying that you feel like you need a project is not a counterargument to the thesis: most teams don’t need it, even if some do. Maybe that’s right, or maybe it’s wrong, but your original comment was not a rebuttal.
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by irq11 8y ago
Because your team is the exception. Isn’t that implied by the title?
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by irq11 8y ago
It’s a little of both, and like most debates with that answer, it’s not a particularly interesting question. Some PhD-holders were self-motivated before. Others learned it at school. Still others were motivated, but unfocused, and had to be
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by irq11 8y ago
You contributed one more thing to the set of knowledge we have about the world. Science is about discovery, not outcome.
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by irq11 8y ago
Housing, startups, art, cars, watches...pretty much everything collectible or rare has seen its value skyrocket since the great recession. The big pool of money has been sloshing between asset classes for a while now, but it doesn’t get ref
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by irq11 8y ago
Japan’s rail lines were almost entirely developed by the government, and transferred to private companies later. Private enterprise is great when taxpayers pay for the expensive part.
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by irq11 8y ago
Patreon is the gateway for content. It has to be, or it doesn’t work. If I subscribe to a creator, then one of the first things I want to do is go through that creator’s content. Patreon makes this exceedingly painful. Sending you the mon
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by irq11 8y ago
People like to claim that arguments like mine are cynical, but what’s actually cynical is reaching far into the past for a quote, snipping it out of context, and then extrapolating to pretend that the quote is just as relevant today. Or s
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by irq11 8y ago
I don’t think the issue here is “signal”, so much as it is that the arbitrage is gone. For a brief, golden period, startups were new and innovative. You could stand out from the crowd by taking some risk and working hard. Early YC reflected
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by irq11 8y ago
Not to mention the fact that the product is objectively terrible. It’s unbelievable how slow Patreon is, given that “website that shows images” is a well-solved problem. Couple that with the all-dynamic-all-the-time, continuous-scroll-all-t
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by irq11 8y ago
...or that the crashes are related. Too many people are skipping the step where the cause of the second crash is actually determined. This twitter thread, in particular, is just summarizing information available in news articles, and leapin
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by irq11 8y ago
It’s a reasonable question, but any comment that even remotely appears to “side with” Boeing is now downvote-bait. There isn’t much room for reasonable discussion on this thread.
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by irq11 8y ago
Yeah, the article seems to be changing with new information. If Boeing requested it, it’s obviously a different thing, but it wasn’t clear at the time I wrote the comment, and the original comment was phrased conditionally anyway.
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by irq11 8y ago
It wasn’t inevitable ; if it happened solely because Trump made them do it (edit: the article now seems to contradict this, but did not when I wrote the comment) it’s truly a red-letter day for rationality and evidence-based reasoning. The
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by irq11 8y ago
You skipped a step: demonstrate that the risk estimate is real, and not merely a guess. I can’t help but draw the parallel to anti-vax logic: ”if it’s at all possible that my child might be seriously injured from a vaccine, then I must avo
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by irq11 8y ago
Median studio rent in Manhattan is around $2500. $4700 is a good price for a daily rental with housekeeping.

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