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by sclarisse 3y ago
> The advice that you should "always buy the biggest home you can afford" is often perversely accurate, especially if you believe property values will keep going up. Ehhhhhhhh too much of that return goes straight to Consumptio
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Japan is notoriously xenophobic with regards to matters of immigration. Many analysts speculate that this attitude will cost them dearly as their demographic trends continue and the population ages, or expect attitudes to change. The same i
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The reason for the first is that the US has a much, much better environment for conducting business, compared to Mexico. This is on many levels, starting with education, continuing along to infrastructure, but also things like “low levels o
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by sclarisse 3y ago
If you’re running cables through the space in your walls, you will find a hole saw and a little plaster/paint is pretty cheap. Some kind of an access panel for the entire length of the wall? That’s a lot more expensive, and uglier to b
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by sclarisse 3y ago
I am under the impression that I’ve read about something in Texas where they would outsource this class of approvals to people who were qualified and able to apply the same rules that the government would. Unfortunately, I can’t find it.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The US government actually tried this explicitly. For a lot of land out west they gave every other parcel to the railroads for free, on the premise the railroad company would then make things boom, and they’d both profit. It mostly didn’t w
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Mexicans in construction can feel like wage slaves every day in Mexico. Those temporarily in the US get to feel like they’re making bank, absolutely just cleaning up. Typical roofer in the US makes $50k (BLS figure). Not sure what he makes
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by sclarisse 3y ago
I think the sponsorship story is particularly overrated. You don’t see small banks lending to the sandwich shop guy at these great below market rates and then see customers being informed that the owner used that that bank and thus choosing
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Naah, we’ve got the more militant types in a few spots, most notably Seattle. They’re not just figments of the Fox News imagination. To some extent they’re even an inspiration for the right wing militants. Substantially fewer guns thoug
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by sclarisse 3y ago
… yes, that is in fact the point
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by sclarisse 3y ago
If you think you’re gonna organize that many bits and not lose them for centuries at a time, you’re seriously underestimating the need for data replication and error correction algorithms, first of all.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
To support our next-gen machine learning system, we need a 10 exabyte storage array. It should host a system accessible over TCP/IP or Infiniband that can stream random-access 1MB blocks of data to 65,536 different computers, at contin
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Might be more difficult in a cargo jet.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
It really depends. Sometimes people try to stuff way too much strategy-picking in if-conditions when they ought to delegate the behavior to some strategy-objects instead, where each code path could be better understood and tested in isolati
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Ah! I was misled by the general comparison to an unpowered balloon that they make a few times. It’s not much propulsion and they take special care to differentiate it from a submarine that can actually travel the world.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
- Main hull of the craft is a tank filled with gasoline: lighter than water and only a little compressible. It is not a high pressure enclosure. A membrane keeps these two fluids apart mostly, but some maneuvers dump gasoline into the ocean
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by sclarisse 3y ago
And that these building codes are actually expensive things, and that some - but probably not all - are worth it to the homebuyers. Especially worth thinking about in the most extreme cases, like when it’s a state with very high housing cos
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Yeah; there’s a case for the ninth and tenth, but that’s about it. And those never really work.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Bank loans are tied to US government interest rates because borrowers are competing with the government to borrow money, not because the banks are relying on it in some economically fundamental way. (It might be fundamental to some bank’s
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by sclarisse 3y ago
It’s pretty bad, but when the door accessible from the inside implodes from the insane pressure of the water around it, that’s even worse.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The particular reason is “450 atmospheres of water pressure.” This is a lot. You don’t have this type of threat to the structural integrity of your gear at Everest, etc.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Why? Cash. Next question!
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Your link goes to the top of the USGS subsidence page.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Regular day, or sidereal?
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by sclarisse 3y ago
If this were true “by definition”, no bank would issue loans, no pension fund would buy bonds, and the only place you’d find landlords renting out homes are in cities with massive price appreciation. There would be absolutely no business oc
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The thing that demands growth is private equity investors. They demand that growth because they borrowed a ton of money and have to pay it back. No one demanded they borrow the money. No one demanded the bank lend them the money. They could
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by sclarisse 3y ago
Sounds like the instant pot succeeded; it’s the company who owned the brand that failed, in no small part because of its overreach. Play capitalism games with borrowed money, win capitalism prizes.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
The key point in that is that many IPO buyers are willing to believe in imaginary revenue that will never be extracted. Extracting revenue as a goal in and of itself uses a different playbook than IPOing.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
It’s less about extracting that revenue and more about extracting that sweet IPO capital with a story about being replacement-TikTok.
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by sclarisse 3y ago
I understood the previous remarks as suggesting problem isn’t strictly defederating the-underscore-Donald. It’s that defederation is an incredibly blunt tool, but one of the few tools available, and so you end up with some pretty obnoxious

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