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by mrep 5y ago
Should have just said 4x cause the 2x condos I saw where acceptable to me but way worse. This website [0] lists about a 4x price difference on average price per square foot. That is a ridiculous cost of living difference for the most expen
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by mrep 5y ago
I really doubt it. The bay area has the most absurd housing prices I've ever seen. Looking on zillow, I've seen places that aren't as good as mine in Chicago go for 2-4x the price I paid. It is absurd and Illinois isn&#x27
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by mrep 5y ago
He invested in paypal with it right when he started it and it was worth like nothing. After that IPO, he then doubled down and invested the paypal returns into facebook with it. It's talked about in this article. https://w
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by mrep 5y ago
Why? I probably do produce more than 6 times value. Their work only impacts one individual customer at a time whereas mine scales to over a billion customers. They can retrain and join my megacorp if they want reducing the supply for thei
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by mrep 5y ago
All my friends have STEM or business degrees and I'm pretty sure I make 2-6x more than every one of them because I work at a top paying software company. I don't want to talk about that.
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by mrep 5y ago
For everyone responding that smokers cost the government money, it is actually the opposite in that they save the government money because on average they die sooner. From the manning study: "In this analysis, the federal government
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by mrep 5y ago
Lots of people interested in the event and normal web response queries their sql database for user data like upvotes which is their limiter. Logout which I believe they just forced for all users sends you to the cache and it'll be fast
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by mrep 5y ago
> Maybe the internal FB Messenger app has a slide button to switch to the backup network for those in need. Having worked for 2 FAANG companies, I can tell you most core services like which FB Messenger would be using internal database s
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by mrep 5y ago
Bain supposedly does not work with competitors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_%26_Company#Reception
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by mrep 5y ago
For the corporation, it depends on the fine. Normally they cannot write off fines but apparently it does happen if it is not considered an official penalty or fine: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/
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by mrep 5y ago
Are you being sarcastic? The food industry is generally used as the textbook example for the market most resembling perfect competition which as defined straight from wikipedia: "Such markets are allocatively efficient, as output will
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by mrep 5y ago
Not normally. I've personally never heard of anyone tipping at a fast food joint here in the US.
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by mrep 5y ago
This website [0] will offset your carbon at $5 per 1000 pounds which is about 50 gallons of gas giving a per gallon offset cost of only 10 cents (just an example). Roads on the other hand at whopping 416 billion dollars in the US in 2014
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by mrep 5y ago
> if you think that Epic is going to drop their prices 30% in lockstep with a hypothetical elimination of app store fees, I have a bridge to sell you. While not 30%, they did drop 20% when switching to their own payment processing [0].
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by mrep 5y ago
From their latest earnings release [0], they had 61.880 billion dollars in revenue for the second quarter and 144,056 employees so a simple annualization of that quarter would put them at 1.718 million dollars in revenue per employee. [0]:
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by mrep 5y ago
Not op, but PG&E shut off the power to over 2 million people for 3ish days due to high wind fire risk back in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_California_power_shutoffs...
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by mrep 5y ago
I am extremely doubtful of the claim that an apartment that only nets 36,000 in rent per year is somehow worth 1,800,000. That's a 2% return before any associated costs. I literally just looked at another rental property that was net
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by mrep 5y ago
I got a 30 year fixed at 3% back in march. My first payment had 40.7% going towards principal which is not bad at all in my opinion. Also, I wouldn't count property tax and homeowners insurance as something additional about owning as
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by mrep 5y ago
Your link is for income, not wealth. For wealth inequality, sweden had the 3rd highest gini in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_in...
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by mrep 5y ago
I mean, France currently has a 7 PM curfew and until 3 days ago was restricting people to their own region and within 10 km of their residence: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-pm-confirms-covi...
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by mrep 5y ago
Instagram was bought for 1 billion and is now estimated to be worth over a hundred billion dollars. Facebook has acquired 89 companies according to crunchbase so even if all of those cost a billion each which they didn't, Instagram wo
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by mrep 5y ago
In france, it is GAFAM: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
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by mrep 5y ago
From the article: "The genetically engineered males carry a gene that passes to their offspring and kills female progeny in early larval stages. Male offspring won’t die but instead will become carriers of the gene and pass it to futur
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by mrep 5y ago
With that accounting methodology, between the 30% apple store cut and the 70% music publishers cut, Apple music is left with no revenue whatsoever to fund their service, therefore running it at a 100% loss and thus price dumping which is al
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by mrep 5y ago
> You may lock in 3% for 5 years now but nobody is giving you that for 30 I literally just closed on a condo last month and got a 30 year fixed rate jumbo mortgage at 3%.
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by mrep 5y ago
No wonder my steam shower is the most power hungry appliance in my place at 10 KW.
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by mrep 6y ago
Interesting quote from the article: "The top 0.05 per cent of earners — just 1,786 filers — accounted for 16 per cent of its income tax revenues in 2018"
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by mrep 6y ago
Not sure if they are at v1.0 yet, but "Raptor cost is tracking to well under $1M for V1.0" [0]. Assuming they are, 3 million dollars worth of engines per test isn't that much. [0]: https://twitter.com/elonmus
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by mrep 6y ago
Old term for americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee
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by mrep 6y ago
The canal generated 5.61 billion USD in 2020 [0] so it is costing them 15 million dollars a day in lost revenue. Shipping companies now have to go around Africa which costs uses more fuel and has other costs but now they don't have to

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