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by mdorazio 3y ago
Here’s an actual link to the census data. What you want is “owner occupied housing” as another commenter said. That’s % of people who live in the place they own. And it’s 65% as of 2022. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts&#x2
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I haven't found direct hiring data, but the second chart in [1] tells a very interesting story - job postings in tech are now below pre-pandemic norm. I know that resignations in tech have been falling steadily the last several months
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I love how "science fair" this writeup is. Personally, I would have looked at more options before going for the (rather large) motorized wheel route. Two that come to mind are reusing the ball-type powered typewriters from the 80s
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by mdorazio 3y ago
SpaceX does not stream on YouTube anymore. You can always get the official X broadcast link off their spacex.com launches page. Here's the one for today: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=star
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by mdorazio 3y ago
The mortgage interest tax deduction by itself is enough to refute you.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Side entry powered wheelchair access like from BraunAbility. Ramps generally require assistance or a large amount of space around the vehicle.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
It’s even worse. Wheelchair accessible vehicles are extremely expensive. As in, a basic wheelchair retrofit to a standard minivan adds over $30k of cost. And then the modifications to the vehicle prevent the cabin space from being used to
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by mdorazio 3y ago
They already realized that. New cars are owned for an average of 8 years before selling them [1] and that number has been increasing with the rise of new car prices. It’s one of the reasons the US peaked on new car sales in 2017 and might n
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by mdorazio 3y ago
White dude making coding videos with the usual modern algorithm-inspired cringe thumbnails and titles. It definitely seems to be working, though - over 500k subs is impressive.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I really hope you’re making a NIMBY joke because the thing that’s needed is housing, not more parks.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
It's worth considering that stock market valuations are supposed to be driven by revenue and profit, not by population (valuations have gotten completely out of whack since the financial system effectively broke in 2008). There are m
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Roughly 27 years with dividend reinvestment (yes, really).
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Looks like the Nikkei 225 average dividend yield is around 1.4%. If you bought in 1989 and reinvested dividends it looks like you would have briefly broken even in 2015 (ignoring inflation), then hit solid black sometime in 2017. This is co
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Season 2 already started (episode 3 aired this week). I'm with you, though, thinking it's getting stretched out.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
That's great, but private insurance and out of pocket accounts for almost 2x the annual drug spend that Medicare does [1]. So there's nothing stopping pharma companies from shifting the costs to maintain profits. In a way, this is
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by mdorazio 3y ago
So... what is Congress actually going to do about it? Fix the broken patent system? Put a ceiling on pharma profits the same way health insurance profits are limited (80/20 rule)? Or just point fingers and continue taking campaign dona
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by mdorazio 3y ago
FWIW, you've basically described at a high level exactly what autonomous driving systems have been doing for several years. I don't think anyone would say that Waymo's cars are really close to AGI.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Your numbers are likely outdated. The Tesla grid battery installation in Australia was so profitable that Neoen is building more as fast as it can: https://reneweconomy.com.au/neoen-aims-for-big-batteries-in-...
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Easy enough to get around - don't update your BIOS/drivers when they do. Same game that used to be played with pirated software and even iPhone updates for jailbreaking.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I wish US sellers would start doing this, too. Nvidia's continuing refusal to put higher amounts of VRAM into its "affordable" cards combined with AMD's head scratching resistance to entering the ML space leaves average
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Do you also love to maintain the tools you build? That's at least half the reason you buy instead of build.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
As someone who works in the autonomous driving space, it is absolutely mind boggling to me how much blind faith Tesla fans put into FSD. When you compare it to any true L4 system it’s not even close and very unlikely to get close any time s
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Ownership is not affordability, which is the point of the parent poster that you're ignoring entirely. Recent headline: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homes-for-sale-affordable-housi...
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Value to society, which is different than value to companies or individuals.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Really wish the author would have commented on salary. I personally think the reason more people don't end up on the hardware/robotics side is that the questionable-value fintech/adtech/socialtech pure software side of t
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by mdorazio 3y ago
You're describing something similar to what TRI has been working on for several years and seems to be making progress on: https://www.tri.global/news/toyotas-robots-are-learning-do-h...
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by mdorazio 3y ago
The Kentucky plant will produce the upcoming 3-row BEV called bZ5X. Additional BEVs have been announced for 2026 and will likely share battery components from Kentucky and the new battery factory being built in North Carolina.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Are we talking about non-Apple laptops? Because the used market for those is abysmal. My 5 year old Asus is worth about the cost of shipping and a new battery.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Definitely. Hootsuite is the one I’m familiar with but it’s targeted more at agencies or larger content creators and is priced for that.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
You're conflating startups with the broader business world. Startup models are shit because there are so many unknowns and it's in the interests of the people making them to fluff them up as much as possible. In the other 99% of b

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