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by nospice 9mo ago
It's segmented. If you don't have a whole lot of capital but want to invest in real estate, you buy a rental home or two. If you do have a lot of capital ($100M+), you don't, because you can spend that money to build or buy a
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by nospice 9mo ago
They were using Jaguar I-Pace for a good while, right? That was nearly 400 hp.
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by nospice 9mo ago
Right, and when people share stats such as "60% of homes are owned by corporations", they're either clueless or are trying to deliberately muddy the waters.
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by nospice 9mo ago
> it hardly seems worth influencing a major decision like what legal entity to purchase a home with. Until you have a stalker who will harass you, your parents, siblings, grandparents... and that stuff isn't all that uncommon.
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by nospice 9mo ago
"Corporations" is meaningless in this context. If you want to own a rental home in the US, you should set up an LLC, both for liability reasons and because it makes it easier to deal with taxes and expenses. In the parts of the co
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by nospice 9mo ago
> You don't get tech without negativity. This is something we tell ourselves to rationalize bad behavior. How come that 3D printing forums or woodworking forums or car maintenance forums can exist without toxicity, but tech somehow
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by nospice 9mo ago
I'm saying it's aggressively moderated in some respects (off-topic content, politics, etc), but it's not moderated to root out a certain breed of snarky, I'm-smarter-than-you negativity. Many other forums police that sec
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by nospice 9mo ago
This claim would have been a lot more credible if Stalin didn't keep control of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania after the war.
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by nospice 9mo ago
About the most important tenet of communism is collectivism. When you attempt collectivization on a national level, there's always a significant portion of the population who doesn't want to play along and wants to keep doing thei
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by nospice 9mo ago
After making a secret deal with them to partition Europe. They didn't come around on principle, it's just that Hitler eventually decided to invade Russia too. And after winning the war, Stalin proceeded to kill millions for good m
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by nospice 9mo ago
> And they are heavily moderated against negative discussion/ragebait. So? You have to do that because it takes one toxic person to poison the well. HN is aggressively moderated to get rid of articles and opinions that don't be
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by nospice 9mo ago
I think this is a common view, but it assumes that most of one's negative hot takes are good. And frankly, I've seen HNers being confidently wrong more times than I can count.
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by nospice 9mo ago
Four things that give me a pause: 1) The maze on the carton can't be solved. 2) Two of the maze walls appear to be smudged, but nothing else in the image is. 3) The floral pattern on the plate is messed up - it repeats, but berries ran
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by nospice 9mo ago
Some folks might enjoy writing for the sake of writing. But I'd wager they don't enjoy, say, plumbing for the sake of plumbing? When their toilet is clogged, they call a pro and don't treat it as a journey of personal growth.
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by nospice 9mo ago
Right. I often end up on Stack Exchange when researching various engineering-related topics, and I'm always blown away by how incredibly toxic the threads are. We get small glimpses of that on HN, but it was absolutely out of control o
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by nospice 9mo ago
The way HN works, you basically need a couple of habitual submitters to subscribe to your RSS feed. Blogs that have that appear here frequently, so there's definitely a positive feedback loop. I had a blog that used to fare well on HN
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by nospice 9mo ago
I don't understand what you're saying here. First, yep, countries act in self-interest. There's no war in the history of the planet that was started out of the kindness of one's heart. That doesn't mean that the out
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by nospice 9mo ago
If you want a real answer, it's because the president is the supreme commander ("commander-in-chief") of the US armed forces. He can order them to, and it's unlikely that they would refuse to carry out an operation like
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by nospice 9mo ago
Right, and that's what the Allies did in Germany in 1945. I don't think it's helpful to paint everything with such a broad brush. Russia is trying to annex Ukraine. They took part of it in 2014, then came back for more, and t
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by nospice 9mo ago
I don't think you can meaningfully answer this without knowing the military goals or the ultimate outcome. The worst-case outcome for the US is that it gets pulled into another unpopular, long-term conflict that undermines its internat
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by nospice 9mo ago
> ... go into the official statistics. There are no "official" statistics. None of this matters. If we judged projects by the number of security holes they had, then no one would be using ffmpeg, which had hundreds of serious v
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by nospice 9mo ago
In general, yeah. The hard-to-replicate benefit is professional editing, but this is something that most tech publishers skimp on. There are some "premium" outlets where you get some real attention, but the default Wiley experienc
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by nospice 9mo ago
Yes, because as far as I know, they don't behave like that.
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by nospice 9mo ago
I am honestly a bit puzzled by this description and I wish they had named the publisher. I'm fairly familiar with this space and the usual experience with tech publishers is that they don't get all that invested in what they publi
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by nospice 9mo ago
If it feels like I'm reading a human essay that received some help from a copyeditor, no. If it feels like I'm reading the output of "hey LLM, write a contrarian take on the use of AI in business"... yeah, I think it mat
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by nospice 9mo ago
Another day, another evidently AI-written article about AI on the front page of HN...
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by nospice 9mo ago
That sounds evasive. I share the parent's view that the article appears to be largely LLM-written. Given that you cite "your AI assistant", I'm guessing you did lean on an LLM here, perhaps without realizing that it impa
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by nospice 9mo ago
"Linked theoretically, conceptually, and politically, both to each other and to their unacknowledged or obfuscated ideological origins in accelerationism and nihilism, these endeavors, and their proponents in government and technology
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by nospice 9mo ago
I don't even think this golden age actually exists today. Aask Google AI mode for the best product in some category - say, the best kitchen range - and it cites... a bunch of spammy "review" websites and a YouTube video. If y
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by nospice 9mo ago
FWIW, these markets are largely separate. Keyboards and mice typically use relatively simple microcontrollers made at "yesteryear" node sizes (100 nm+), so they can't start making high-density DRAM or GPUs even if they wanted

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