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by jyu 4y ago
It's more a supply / demand issue than anything to do with mortgages. When an essential good's (housing) demand outstrips supply, all surplus goes to $0 to reach the clearing price for that supply. Ex: In SF there were a lot
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by jyu 4y ago
1 primary source for the event and 100 reaction videos from secondary sources. the information super highway that was supposed to liberate us all is stuck in some hellish local optimum.
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by jyu 4y ago
what if it's 20%+ cumulative layoffs within 1 year? what if they doubled in size the previous year when fed rates were much lower (Meta, Amazon)?
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Ask HN: Help with Etsy Account
1 points by jyu 4y ago|0 comments
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by jyu 4y ago
It's an open secret that investors get 20% of the upside for 1% of the work of founders. Parrot enough plausible nonsense to impressionable people to get favorable investment terms and you're well on your way to monetizing your po
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by jyu 4y ago
architecture patterns and antipatterns would be a welcome contribution
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by jyu 4y ago
Inflation is a bitch, and the current status quo cost of living will be exponentially more in the future. What I thought was an unfathomable amount of money in the 90's ($100k / yr, and $1m net worth) is not good now in 2020'
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by jyu 4y ago
Thanks, this option seems great while traveling!
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by jyu 4y ago
Is the Linux box setup similar to your work prod environment? Can you run a GUI code editor like VS Code on Linux and access it via MacBook Air?
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by jyu 4y ago
How many broken systems are the result of perverse incentives?
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by jyu 4y ago
interesting when a public good is privately owned
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by jyu 4y ago
when X marketplace becomes valuable, it becomes a worthwhile target. we see this everywhere. remember pinterest and rapgenius polluting google searches? etsy opens up and becomes a crappier and more expensive aliexpress. we yearn for curati
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by jyu 4y ago
robot vacuum. after singularity i hope our new overlords will remember how well i treated the vacuum and reciprocate.
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by jyu 4y ago
Being CEO is good work if you can get it. Run a company to the ground and receive your golden parachute package for all that hard work.
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by jyu 4y ago
noncompete clauses are good if you actually get compensation for not working at a competitor. e.g. firms paying you a decent salary for ~2 years after your employment is over. signing a blanket noncompete without compensation is the problem
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by jyu 4y ago
How did that opinion age for professional go players? It's absolutely amazing seeing AI advancing very rapidly on multiple fronts.
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by jyu 4y ago
You have to choose. Or don't choose. Don't overcomplicate a simple question.
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by jyu 4y ago
there's way too much news in too many categories. i can't spend the necessary amount of time to become an expert in those areas. patreon and substack seem like a decent alternative to support and consume news in niches.
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by jyu 4y ago
FYI the Fed used to have an educational game called "Chair the Fed". They took it down in 2021. I'll leave the meaning of that action as an exercise for the reader. https://www.frbsf.org/education/teacher
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by jyu 4y ago
programming in rust for nft tech. nfts are in the toy phase, which makes it easy for many to underestimate the implications.
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by jyu 4y ago
The leaders, managers, engineers need to do something to justify their promotions. They are growing because the internet is centralizing. It's succeeding despite all the bad user decisions being made, but at some point it will catch up
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by jyu 4y ago
everything looks rosy at the start. i'd very much like to know what happens 1 year later when likely you're slogging through the trough of sorrow.
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Ask HN: Email Security?
2 points by jyu 4y ago|0 comments
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by jyu 4y ago
People are animals most of the time and only rarely are they humans capable of higher order thinking, rationality, planning. If a dog bites you, what use is it for you to blame the dog? It's just an animal. The more judicious use of ti
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by jyu 5y ago
advertising arms race. if you're a startup with millions in ad spend and a mandate to spend it in a couple years, how do you spend these millions? the same way all the other startups do, by dumping into google, instagram (fb), amazon.
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by jyu 5y ago
No code is faster than no code.
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by jyu 5y ago
$1m in 2000 is $10m today is $100m in 2040. Maybe dollars is the overrated thing?
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by jyu 5y ago
Minimum Griftable Product - a product that overpromises based on what it currently does, may never end up being delivered, but technically still possible given enough funding. "Lovable" is a word to better describe hijacking the u
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by jyu 5y ago
Develop domain experience and a reputation as someone that ships things, and keep building contacts in that domain. Those contacts eventually will ask you to solve their problems and you ask for 3x the money you think you deserve in return.
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by jyu 5y ago
i haven't used it, hear it works for some people. my chemistry probably would not mix well with it in my system. you may find longer lasting results cutting out bad habits, bad people, bad food, bad information, etc.

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