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by nocoiner 3y ago
I just posted a comment elsewhere to this effect, but as a extremely light Twitter user (have an account, don’t post, click on a handful of links to Twitter posts a week), really basic functionality has become mostly unusable for me since t
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by nocoiner 3y ago
This is true, a lot of people do seem to me laboring under the misapprehension that Reddit is a coop. Probably more than any other factor, that explains 95% of the current controversy (the other 5% mostly being that spez thinks he’s Elon Mu
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, I think you’re exactly right. My guess would be that as a public company, Reddit looks a lot like Lyft - not a terribly differentiated product, cost structure out of control, poorly performing stock, but still a multi-billion dollar c
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I haven’t liked Reddit’s actions so far, but I figured that they were just taking a heavy handed approach toward achieving profitability or a state where they could take the business public. But to hear that they’re looking at social media
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Depending on prevailing circumstances (basically how long has it been since there’s been a financial crisis, or how frothy are the markets currently?), it can be a pretty common product. Like Patrick wrote, smaller lenders and private bank
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Ha, I think I’m probably in a pretty similar boat as you. I don’t have the expertise to evaluate any of the underlying science, so all I can really do is try to logically evaluate whatever I read about it (taking into account the author’s p
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Brilliant. Thank you for this.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, web view is paywalled unfortunately. I wish I could read it via RSS, but it’s pretty much the one newsletter/blog type thing that I don’t mind getting in my inbox.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think the May thing was a glitch - I’ve continued to receive mine, but I’ve heard from at least a couple friends who stopped receiving it around then. If you want to re-subscribe, it’s still free and don’t have to deal with the Bloomberg
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I came here to ask the same question and say this. I can’t believe that Money Stuff is free.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Really interesting post, thank you. I looked at the linked page, and had a really hard time figuring out what this, well, is, or how it’s supposed to work. It sounds to me like some of my naive initial reservations are impediments to actual
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Also, no support at all for Mac OS or iOS seems like a deal killer at the price point. Maybe it’s just the circles I run with, but I think it would actually be pretty unlikely to select a group of (say) three friends chosen at random and ha
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Don’t worry, the industry has at least one more act in it. That’s when the stagnant industry that is nonetheless critical to daily life is taken hold of by a new generation and relentlessly optimized for maximum profit extraction. Hope you
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Reader probably made “sense” too for the axe-wielding CFO, in that I can’t imagine it generated any meaningful revenue. But I also can’t imagine it consumed much in the way of resources either… I still use Gmail, but that’s it for me among
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Thanks for the detailed responses. A couple follow up questions. Or I guess two variants on the same deeply held instinct I hold, but maybe I need to expand beyond animal brain thinking? OK, so real profits (due to a real pricing discontinu
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by nocoiner 3y ago
So I suppose when commercial real estate investors are making boatloads, then that performance should be similarly attributed to local government policies? Just making sure causation’s arrow is getting pointed consistently around here. Othe
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, 95 looks really good. So does OS 8. Can’t believe how pixelated OS X looks in retrospect. That didn’t age super well, but it looked pretty at the time.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I mean, there has to be actual capital at risk somewhere in this transaction, right? Something can’t come from nothing. Otherwise, someone could keep running this trade on repeat until they’ve accumulated an amount equal to the gross produc
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Clearly the pennies couldn’t have been real or someone would have picked them up before crypto bot got to them.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The loans are non-recourse to the developers , so while they might have to turn over the keys to the property at the end of the day, the bank isn’t coming after them for their other projects or personal assets. A busted deal isn’t a happy
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think we are possibly just completely talking past each other, or perhaps just merely in violent agreement with each other.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
OK, so whatever numbers you want to use, whether it’s $2 in direct Reddit api access charges or $5, same order of magnitude, probably neither moves the needle that much relative to the other. But I think there’s a huge difference between th
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by nocoiner 3y ago
thatsnothowanyofthisworks.tiff But back in reality, of course we all know that the commercial real estate market is by and large looking at a world of hurt. But I think by and large they’re going to muddle through. Some developers will lose
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yup, that’s consistent with what I remember from back then. I remember having to give my new landlord a check for six or eight grand when I picked up the keys. Sounds about right for first + last + deposit + 1 mo broker’s fee.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Eh, at some threshold, of course a lower price would have changed the outcome. It sounds like the Apollo dev thought API costs came in at 10-20x what he’d been expecting. I think there’s obviously a huge difference between paying Reddit, sa
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Well, maybe, but the API is free only until the end of the month, so… seems like a very temporary problem for Reddit (assuming that the mods generally fold, as I assume they likely will).
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Fascinating. Thanks for answering that aspect of my post. So similar excuse if you were to exercise a right to be forgotten? (Would that even apply in this context? Or is that what you’re describing?)
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I believe it. That said, even when trying to adopt that frame of mind, it was still basically impossible for me to identify anything I had said that would have been at all offensive or upsetting even to an extremely sensitive person. Who kn
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I actually think I would have been pretty bummed by this week’s events if my long-time Reddit account hadn’t been banned last year for literally no reason. (I know everyone always says that - and then it turns out that they’re inevitably ex
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by nocoiner 3y ago
It was a thing in NYC last time I rented an apartment there, though that was 15+ years ago. But, it was deeply ingrained enough at that time I can’t imagine it went away, unless it was legislated out of existence.

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