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   by nyeah 1y ago

   Not all reasonable-sounding developer complaints are legitimate business complaints. For example technical debt is bad, but there are much worse scenarios. For example consider "no customer." (Not picking on developers in particul
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   by nyeah 1y ago

   We never ever see this scenario happen with code :-)
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   by nyeah 1y ago

   It would be neat if we could divide programming into (a) software development; (b) other labor-saving automation that's less serious. When a tool crosses from (b) into (a), we'd have to acknowledge that too. (Or ignore it and invi
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   by nyeah 1y ago

   I claim the article is about solid-state physics. Otherwise, any claim that doesn't appear in my comment ... ? Not my claim.
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   by nyeah 1y ago

   This is solid-state, not particle physics.
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   by nyeah 1y ago

   You don't seem to be reading my comment. Of course lower interest rates tend to push prices up, everything else being equal. The claim was that prices will rise so fast that buyers will be worse off with lower interest rates. That&#x27
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   by nyeah 1y ago

   Yeah, that is the point. But it isn't necessarily correct. It's an idea. Sometimes it's true.
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   by nyeah 1y ago

   I'm afraid this discussion is in danger of sinking from finance into economics. Sure, what you describe is one thing that happens. Interest rates affect demand. Demand affects price. If you pick your data, you can find times when that
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   by nyeah 1y ago

   Sure. I dig. Affordable would be better. I'm a little tired of conflating "major metro area" with SF and Manhattan, but I dig. I'd love to own a home in either of those places. It's a surreal thought but very appeal
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Much love to whoever downvoted this absolutely drab and incontrovertible comment. Stand up for what HN means to you.
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    If it's meant to be an example, then it's wildly cherry-picked. Very few of the nation's homeowners live in NYC or SF. Even fewer home buyers are serious about those markets. The exceptions are often in co-ops where down paym
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Agreed, anybody can ask for more money. Traditionally the face value of bonds is fixed. The sale price is continuously repriced as rates fluctuate.
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Agreed, sure, alleging.
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    For a fixed loan term and fixed price, less interest means lower payments. (But of course if you assume that prices will do whatever you want them to, then you can prove anything you want.) Bonds do not work like houses. Typically bonds pay
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Who is buying a home in SF? Can we come down to Earth?
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Parts of that are true. Parts of it are a bedtime story to help Americans cope with the reality of what our nation did. EDIT: Recall that Iraq had nothing to do with the WTC attacks. Some people truly try to protest all the horrors of war o
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Sorry? Do you not remember Fallujah?
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    I use Logic but I should try Ableton again. It's been years.
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Nyeah. Maybe. Please don't make me mention an even deeper issue on the US right that is shifting as we speak.
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Good point. I'm not convinced that support for Israel was the issue, though. There are lunatics in the US who seem to have completely forgotten the 1300-1400 Israelis killed by Hamas just last year, but who can see the human disaster i
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Agreed, but not what I asked.
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Sorry, that is a mix of speculative fiction and self-contradiction. The GOP supports Israel at least as strongly as the Democrats do. So how did Harris' support for Israel cost her the election? Supporting Israel, including acknowledgi
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    So I hear. But how much has that really affected medicine, math, physics, chemistry, engineering? And is destroying universities altogether really the solution?
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    The Democratic party supports Israel just fine. The party is not run by weirdo academics who can't even remember the Hamas attacks. The worst that serious Democrats might do is publicly compare Israel's current behavior to the US&
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Do you really think the Trump administration is committed to its pro-Israel position? If they flipped sides, how long would it take for 90% of their voters to adjust and be happy again?
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    It was not like this. Nixon was not dismantling science and engineering.
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Yeah. We've coasted for a long time on importation of geniuses and on being the only un-bombed industrial nation ... in 1946. And now we've largely closed the door to geniuses from wealthy countries. (Why take the risk of living i
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Stop and think about this rationally for a minute. A first-rate school needs to have an American football team. Otherwise it's basically not in any league.
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Damn slacker. Who does he think he is, defrauding the people by being an eminent mathematician who also does massive outreach to folks at the almost hobbyist level.
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    by nyeah 1y ago

    Ok but I think we're talking $400 not $150. And there are lemons in every price range, which a beginner can't really detect. Correct me if I'm wrong.