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by jjav 4mo ago
> Increasing housing supply will absolutely decrease housing prices. > That’s so obvious it’s nearly a truism. And that is why Manhattan, due to having the most housing units per square mile, is one of the cheapest places to live in t
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by jjav 4mo ago
> What kind of unreasonable process you have that people dont have time to think? AI is making this much worse. Executives expect you to be managing a herd of AI agents working on a dozen things at once, 24/7. Good luck trying to fi
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by jjav 4mo ago
> "Most of what a skilled engineer does is recognize, sense problems, and feel things that may not be obvious." This is a great way of putting it, love it. At the end of the day, that's it. A lot of people are very good at
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by jjav 4mo ago
> Both Tesla and Nvidia valuations are irrational from a market perspective. Different levels though. NVDA P/E is 31 which is slightly high but not crazy. The AI datacenter investments might dry up and then earnings drop, but who
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by jjav 4mo ago
If the company is losing all its humanity, leave. I've done it twice. First when an $evil company aquired the place I worked, and the second time when an $evil company aquired the place I worked (the second one being Oracle and Sun, as
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by jjav 4mo ago
> They weight by free float so it would been something like 0.3%. Hardly the end of the world That's one way to look at it. At a personal level, it's a small sliver and if it were to drop, its influence on your balance isn&#x27
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by jjav 4mo ago
> Only dividend stocks have some base value connected to how well the company does. That's not how it works. If the company has profits they can distribute it in many ways. Dividends is one, but not a great one because it forces you
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by jjav 5mo ago
> So my trade on IPO day will be long $X SpaceX, short $X Tesla. Wait 1 month. Wish me luck. Risky, IMO. I've been closing my TSLA shorts because I think he'll just use spacex stock to buy tsla at a very overvalued price, just
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by jjav 5mo ago
> Why does SpaceX warrant a change of existing trading rules? It does not, of course, but when oligarch corruption runs supreme, it is whatever they want.
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by jjav 5mo ago
This is going to be very... "interesting". SpaceX will IPO with minimal float, while at the same time forcing every index fund to buy a fixed percentage. A long squeeze, so to speak. I can't picture any scenario where this en
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by jjav 5mo ago
> There is absolutely no reason for a doctor to make over $1000 for a 15 minute conversation. The doctor isn't making $4000/hour, although you might be getting billed for that. That doctor (unless some exotic specialist) is pro
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by jjav 5mo ago
Options are not initially available. Conveniently.
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by jjav 5mo ago
> since large IPOs are automatically included in index funds No, this was not allowed. Until a certain someone with deep connections to the corrupt government (coughspacexcough) changed the rules for themselves for the upcoming IPO. It&#
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by jjav 5mo ago
Full self driving guaranteed here before the end of the year (every year).
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by jjav 5mo ago
> I've done that math too and the other reality is that most of those costs are optional in the US. If you're very young, single and childless, sort of. You can pick the lowest tier of health coverage from your employer which i
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by jjav 5mo ago
> you will need to pay short-term capital gains taxes on any gains Stating the obvious here, but only in a taxable account. I rebalance frequently and on small divergences in the IRA, which has no trading fees and obviously no tax conseq
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by jjav 5mo ago
> Rear view cameras are better than rear view mirrors. The field of view is better. As long as they work, yes. This is part of the trend to make everything more fragile with lots of failure conditions. There are many electrical parts + s
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by jjav 5mo ago
> You can do that just be aware that you will eventually be spending more than just buying a new car just to keep the current one in good repair. I'm pretty sure you haven't run the numbers on this assertion. That would be esse
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by jjav 5mo ago
> You can leave your bike unlocked because if anyone stole it the police would find them and return it since they can track the thief on a network of cameras. In the US it is actually even worse than that. The government and large corpor
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by jjav 5mo ago
That is the only solution unless something radically changes. For me, I will never own a car with any kind of screen on the dash.
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by jjav 5mo ago
> We live in a hell of our own creation Well not "our" creation since only a few oligarchs control most of the companies that engage in this. > and only new legislation and regulations can get us out of here. The same oligar
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by jjav 5mo ago
> One of the most amazing things happened during the day long power cut in 2025 in Spain and Portugal After hurricane Maria in 2017 in Puerto Rico, most people had no electricity or internet for many weeks, some for many months. This kin
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by jjav 5mo ago
> Nilay Patel argues that law is undeterministic (and its application ambiguous) I argue that of all things, law should be as deterministic as possible. I've always thought that we (as a country) should maintain one single ordered l
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by jjav 5mo ago
> > AI is only as good as the person using it, that's why we have such vast range of what people "claim" AI can do and why everyone has way different opinions of it. > Banger statement. True, but it's even a bit
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by jjav 5mo ago
> It's the masked guys that hide behind them, waiting for the chance to set stuff on fire, that I am worrying about. Those are ICE thugs.
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by jjav 5mo ago
> and our elected government The elected government is cashing in through corruption and insider trading at a pace never seen or even imagined before. Everyone else, is in for a very bad time.
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by jjav 5mo ago
> I would be in favour to say that out of the box OpenBSD is more secure than Linux. Also important to remember that diversity builds strength. Just as in biology, if all organisms are the same, they all succumb to the same virus. I have
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by jjav 5mo ago
> (I just pay $24/month and this was one of my MANY uses), to find bugs in OpenBSD Bugs, or exploitable security vulnerabilities? If the latter, have you reported them all?
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by jjav 5mo ago
> You premise is that "something that last long can't possibly not appreciate"?? Not "something", housing. A pebble may last billions of years and not appreciate, but we're talking housing. Yes housing which
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by jjav 5mo ago
> >I'm sure we can count that as a given. > It's very unlikely, he has pledged to give away most of his wealth in his lifetime, The ultra rich give away donations in the form of stock, so they never sell it, just transfer

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