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by mactrey 7y ago
Maybe because > owners can get a positive return even if rent doesn't pay the full mortgage
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by mactrey 7y ago
Which is unfortunate because while that decision works out for their bank accounts it is a worse result for the entire rest of society.
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by mactrey 7y ago
CloudFlare banned a site that was far, far outside the American political mainstream. Blizzard banned a player for saying something that is completely within the American political mainstream, to the point that supporting Hong Kong is a rar
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by mactrey 7y ago
If you scrolled through thousands of actual stock photos I'm sure you'd find plenty that seem "off" in some way. Those just cost a lot more.
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by mactrey 7y ago
GDP growth rates are generally reported "real" i.e. inflation is taken out. But yes you want GDP to grow at least as fast as population to maintain a given standard of living. The US population growth rate has been below 2% since
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by mactrey 7y ago
From the article: "[The measure] was unopposed by the state’s biggest landlords’ group." It shouldn't be a surprise that more landlord-friendly rent control measures get less resistance from landlords.
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by mactrey 7y ago
10 percentage points, 25% relative improvement (40% non-5 stars to 30%), seems quite good to me. Although I wonder if seasonality is important here - obviously Phoenix isn't Minnesota but could driving conditions have been worse in Q1
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by mactrey 7y ago
This line implies otherwise, since we can safely assume mortgage originations overall didn't double YoY: > Some $2.5 billion worth of subprime loans, those with FICO credit scores below 690, ended up in mortgage bonds in the first q
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by mactrey 7y ago
Kids in Japan lead carefree "be home by dark" lives up until late middle school and high school, when they start studying 4+hrs/day and sleeping <5hrs/night to prep for standardized tests. I don't think Japan is
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by mactrey 7y ago
I hear this a lot - but are people really watching longform political YouTube videos and passively letting the algorithm choose their next video for extended periods of time? I very rarely watch a political video on YouTube but when I do it
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by mactrey 7y ago
So it sounds like we can be less sympathetic toward game developers because they have lots of other career options
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by mactrey 7y ago
The status quo is you either have to pay someone ~$10/hr to drive for you, or you have to focus and keep both hands on the wheel and actually drive yourself, and it's still pretty dangerous. Self-driving cars could improve on th
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by mactrey 7y ago
Simply clone the brains with the fewest plaques
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by mactrey 7y ago
https://i.redd.it/i3ndx7dhc5x21.jpg Historic, historic, architecturally beautiful, indescribably beautiful San Francisco...
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by mactrey 7y ago
I think you mean: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14384/arm-announces-cortexa77... https://www.anandtech.com/show/14385/arm-announces-malig77-g...
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by mactrey 7y ago
No, the market can still expand, it's just that shareholders (as proxied for by boards and management) would today rather have the marginal dollar in pocket rather than invested in some growth opportunity. Companies have invested billi
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by mactrey 7y ago
Doesn't the UK have something equivalent to TANF/food stamps?
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by mactrey 7y ago
And how exactly would allowing H-4 spouses to work be a threat to their future and the future of their children?
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by mactrey 7y ago
It doesn't validate their behavior but it points toward the issue being systematic within the U.S. economy rather than due to the corporate governance at Lyft and Uber.
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by mactrey 7y ago
But how are Uber and Lyft specifically exploitative in ways that e.g. WalMart, McDonalds, Starbucks, local landscaping companies, etc. aren't? Those jobs all pay roughly similar wages.
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by mactrey 7y ago
What do the yacht builders do with the money?
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by mactrey 7y ago
Probably has more to do with the fact that people preferentially engage Autopilot when road conditions are fair to good.
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by mactrey 7y ago
To play devil's advocate, imagine a drug that costs $1b to develop and would only break even in costs - obviously drug companies wouldn't pursue the drug. But suppose spending $1b to develop and then $2b to market the drug does be
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by mactrey 7y ago
Hah, you think medical practitioners aren't already googling best practices right after they step out of the exam room...
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by mactrey 7y ago
Yeah, obviously "in the aggregate" everyone is average-looking and of average height. When looking at a single individual in a first world country genetics will be the primary determinant of their height and physical attractivenes
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by mactrey 7y ago
False dichotomy. You can get strenuous, competitive, healthful physical activity without ever risking brain trauma. Swimming, tennis, track and field, etc.
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by mactrey 8y ago
> "...[glitches] break the system and every player is hated for using them." That's not my experience, having played numerous competitive games. Bhopping in CS, wavedashing in melee, all of the various glitches necessary w
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by mactrey 8y ago
Or any life form, really.
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by mactrey 8y ago
Lots of things are unhealthy if eaten in excess. Is the argument really just that bacon is unhealthy because it tastes so good?
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by mactrey 8y ago
What a joke. To claim that for example using Chrome is “inescapable” is pure hyperbole. You’re worried about Google tracking your credit card purchases but not worried about credit card companies tracking that? Because I assure you they do.

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