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by richwater 3mo ago
The new Airbus Project Sunrise aircraft also set the record for longest passenger aircraft flight
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by richwater 3mo ago
Yep. > We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. "We consume all intellectual property for our model but you cannot do the same"
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by richwater 3mo ago
This is a whole lot of words to say "we don't support open weight models". It's so obvious they are hoping to regulate out their competition rather than compete
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by richwater 3mo ago
Rent Control is a settled topic in economics, bar some fringe theorists. It would be impossible for me to explain all the negative externalities that rent control has on both existing and new housing stock in a single comment. I implore you
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by richwater 3mo ago
The policies she chooses _results_ in the failure to implement them because the ideological obsession clouds rational judgement and it loses in court
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by richwater 3mo ago
> Mamdani explicitly campaigned on building more, especially housing You can't claim to support building or improving housing while implementing rent freezes on 40ish% of all units in the city.
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by richwater 3mo ago
She also failed to secure wins when suing most big businesses because their strategy and evidentiary standards were subpar. Her ideological positions haven't really held up to court scrutiny.
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by richwater 3mo ago
Removing tiny pieces of red tape (a permit to sell ice cream) is a token gesture when he decided to install Lina Khan as Chair Of New York City Economic Development. Her entire reputation is built on being incredibly hostile to business. Ge
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by richwater 3mo ago
Why are we writing articles about some random, single-event rental ad. What are we doing here?
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by richwater 3mo ago
The NYCHA is the largest slumlord in the city. The country has proven over decades that it cannot operate public housing with any measure of success.
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by richwater 3mo ago
You cut out the insurance middlemen but you introduce government bureaucracy. There's absolutely no way the government operates more efficiency in this space.
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by richwater 3mo ago
Naive.
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by richwater 3mo ago
Anyone who modifies their car to "sound like a fire breathing dragon" is a mouth breathing loser.
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by richwater 3mo ago
The Nasdaq is a shit index to begin with. There are so many other options.
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by richwater 3mo ago
Hi there, how do you know Amazon's bond offering was "challenging"? Curious to learn more. Thank you.
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by richwater 3mo ago
Grid upgrades would have to happen no matter what. Data centers are just the catalyst and boogeyman at the moment. This utopia that everyone has about electric cars will never come to fruition without grid upgrades. This country has systema
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by richwater 3mo ago
The ability to make a case is directly related to how much free time you have and how much money you are able to spend. We cannot just wave this away when the vast majority of people cannot take off time from work or afford to hire attorney
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by richwater 3mo ago
> gas turbines would only be the rational choice about 5-15% of the time Even at this rate, most rational homeowners would still push back. I absolutely do not want to be listening to gas turbines 10% of my life and I don't think pe
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by richwater 3mo ago
I seriously can't believe all the commenters here advocating for mandated ability to spy on people
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by richwater 4mo ago
The SP500 (the index the article is using for their example) literally requires profitability. Tesla wasn't includes for years and years because of it.
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by richwater 4mo ago
The only index that I know that float multiplied is Nasdaq which no one should even be investing in via their 401k anyway. Shitty index. Most consumers are utilizing some type of fund that tracks the CSRP, which float adjusts with no multip
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by richwater 4mo ago
float adjustment results in any CRSP tracking fund/etf having a $10,000 investment being approximately $17 worth of SpaceX. This isn't a real problem the media is trying to push it as.
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by richwater 4mo ago
I see you've discovered California high speed rail
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by richwater 4mo ago
Maybe you're right. Maybe we should just continue to burn coal and let people die of black lung mining it and millions of people living in the pollution zone. Safe, clean energy is overrated.
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by richwater 4mo ago
The decade of zirp between like 2013 and 2021 created a lot of shitty realtors because anyone with a pulse could sell or buy a house with ease. The true value of realtors is in bad economic conditions where serious work is needed to market
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by richwater 4mo ago
Like it or not he founded (sometimes in-part) but drove these companies to success by demanding deliverables others thought were crazy.
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by richwater 4mo ago
> He has nothing good to offer anyone in 2026. Falcon launches cost dramatically _less_ than comparables like Ariane. In Fact, Ariane had to beg europe of subsidies to keep the program competitive. Meanwhile, Starship is well on it'
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by richwater 4mo ago
Boom is not a serious endeavor. They have not committed to an engine. There is no engine commercially available to buy and no engine producer has committed to creating one.
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by richwater 4mo ago
Yes, because the bottom 50%, mostly impoverished or near impoverished folks were spending money on Claude Code subscriptions instead /s
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by richwater 4mo ago
You can use the word fundamentally all you want, it doesn't make it true. Explain _why_.

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