maxsilver

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by maxsilver 2y ago
Where are you? Generally you can petition for re-zoning, as long as your lot is urban enough to have proper power/water/sewer infrastructure, and meets the hypothetically split requirements. (They allow it maybe ~90% of the time h
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by maxsilver 2y ago
How exactly are you doing that? The average price of a standard-feature line (i.e., not a MVNO with strict deprioritization) is approximately $70 USD a month (including taxes and fees, but not including any phone subsidy or equipment plans)
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> , are there that many places a kid isn’t safe in the US? It depends on what you mean by "safe". In most of US "normal suburbs", your kid isn't likely to get like, murdered. But if they leave a bike unlocked and
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> The city it basically new york, which the director believes is the center of the world. To be fair, this seems like a commonly shared belief among many real-world New York City residents as well.
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Except for the iPad Pro (which has no fans), and the iPhone Pro (which has no fans), and the AirPods Pro (which also does not have any fans). "Pro" meaning "has active cooling" only works on 3 out of the 6 things current
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Do they actually care? This sort of discrepancy has never bothered them before. (see how the "Air" used to mean "ultra-premium thin and light", but now the iPad Air is heavier than the Pro, and the MacBook Air is just
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Sure, but in 1995 you could also get a nice house for like 40k. An equivalent home today costs about 400k. 8% interest on 40k is only $63k interest paid (A 1995 home had a total cost of $123k) 8% interest on 400k is $633k (that same home in
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by maxsilver 2y ago
The problem is that "investment firms have a finite purchasing capability" is only true over the long term. (like, "many decades" long) Investment firms have effectively unlimited purchasing capability in the medium te
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> What data do you store on an iPad Air? Games. You can put maybe three or four significant games on an iPad Air before it maxes out. (MTG Arena is almost 20GB all on it's own, Genshin Impact is like 40+ GB)
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> It seems take homes are mainly geared towards pre-selecting young single people with a lot of free time to code on the side besides their main job and other responsibilities, or who have no other responsibilities. (snip) I question th
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> An accountant could then use a computer in service of them embezzling a serious amount of money from their employer. Should Apple be held accountable for that? You joke, as if we didn't do exactly this -- regulate accountants and
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Or maybe an MSU grad with a sense of humor?
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> I’m very unclear on why these (rabbit and humane) aren’t just apps. That's the one thing that seemed really clear to me. People's phones are too locked down so these can't be apps, you'd either hit Apple restriction
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Fun tidbit: There's a point in the tech demo where he asks the rabbit device to "filter job candidates to ones that are LA-based" When the r1 address replies to him, it attaches a new spreadsheet, and he opens it on-stage. Bu
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> public libraries in Michigan are thriving (another place I know well). I have no idea why the difference is so stark. I can't speak for Philly, but Michiganders have a long long-standing community tradition of fighting to defen
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> The Meta Quest app can connect to a headset and show what the player is seeing, both video and audio. Been watching my kid play various games for years. You don’t have your kid on a child account, you have your kid using an adult accou
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by maxsilver 2y ago
The Quest is insanely good, for a single person in isolation, once it's up and running . But there's a ton of friction that shouldn't exist before that happens, and Meta hasn't nailed most of the UX here yet. For exam
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Farmers (i.e., Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers) make a lot more than $450 a week. Average salary for these folks is $70k/yr. A farm hand only makes like $15/hr on average, which puts it on par with a job at Mc
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> people don't actually want to tradeoff their labor time for leisure time all that well. They value consumption too much. We don't actually know that. Most people don't have the option. For all but a select few industries
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> but driving software engineer salaries out of reach of otherwise profitable, sustainable businesses is not a good thing. I'm not convinced he's actually done that. Pretty much any 'profitable, sustainable business'
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> I have a chemistry degree that's technically from a liberal arts college and it was super confusing to my immigrant parents how that could happen. I kind of get it. The english words "liberal" and "arts" used t
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> there are oodles of ways to get a libarts degree without incurring student debt. For folks who don't know, would you be willing to elaborate? Is it a real degree (fully accredited, so you can actually use it?). Even using residenc
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Well, where "liberal art degree" often means "high-skilled labor". People struggling to pay off college debt includes: - teachers and childcare workers - special education and/or disability workers - librarians - so
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> No, they did not. Yes, they did , and you can see it in the metrics. If "new housing" is "not legal", how are we at a 30-year-high in new residential construction? - https://www.reuters.com/markets&
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by maxsilver 2y ago
By this broken logic, "Movies are fungible". Because you can turn money into a John Carter, and you can turn Dune: Part 2 into Money. You can borrow against Star Wars, and you can license out Barbie. But everyone knows, movies are
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> The macro picture is still supply and demand and we have to intervene there if we want housing to be more affordable in the places people want to live. legalizing a variety of housing is very much a step that your local city council ca
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by maxsilver 3y ago
We are seeing a similar effect across all socioeconomic backgrounds. Or at least locally here, Hospital admissions for Winter 2023-2024 almost hit another all time high (nearly hitting the same numbers as peak COVID) - https://
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by maxsilver 3y ago
Most people use the term "artificial inflation" to reference the price of products going up for no real-world reason, or when the company lies about the reason. (As in, the price increase is explainable entirely -- or almost entir
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by maxsilver 3y ago
> I'm curious how this is otherwise an improvement on the old planning model of swathes of detached homes? It's not. (Or at least, I'm not arguing it's better). My only point is that "more density" isn'
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by maxsilver 3y ago
> There should be (light) commercial development. There is. (both example pictures above have a commercial development less than 10 minutes walk away). The problem is that there isn't enough commercial need for every single develop

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