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by seoaeu 5y ago
The problem is that “the tippy top of the seniority ladder” are the only ones eligible to earn close to 170k
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The people Musk said he had funding secured from for taking Tesla private immediately denied it. To the point of saying they’d only had a single conversation with him, and never discussed price
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The amount to housing you can fit in a given metro absent zoning is basically unlimited. Manhattan has a population density of 75,000 people/square mile, and could be much higher without “air rights” limiting construction or the abnorm
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Faster than what? It takes a handful of years for a non-profit or government housing agency to build new affordable housing. At the current pace of market rate construction, it’ll take many many decades before newly built “luxury” housing f
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Seattle is actually a good counter example showing that more supply does bring down rents: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/01/apartment-rents-...
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> Affordable housing is and will always be a horrible idea. This is like saying food banks are a horrible idea, and we should just focus on job growth so everyone can afford to buy their own food. It comes across as really tone deaf to i
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by seoaeu 5y ago
We’re not anywhere close to this in any of the high cost markets. But once we do get to that point another thing will happen: the lower demand for high end housing (there’s only so many vacation homes and short term rentals you can sell) wi
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by seoaeu 5y ago
This isn’t true in all markets. Higher labor costs (for instance, caused by higher rents…) makes it more expensive to construct new homes. That makes any existing homes more valuable, potentially even accounting for depreciation
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> Then it's even easier to move. Moving requires finding a home somewhere that they can afford. The fact that they’ve been subjected to rising rents rather than a financial windfall like nearby homeowners… makes that far more diffic
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by seoaeu 5y ago
No, the number of homes has to be slighter higher than the number of residents . If a renter is living in a home then it isn’t going to waste! (Slightly higher because it is mathematically impossible for anyone to move if there are no empt
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Except that the same political actors who passed these laws have spent decades working to stack the Supreme Court with justices who will let the laws remain in effect…
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by seoaeu 5y ago
That’s like saying that the New York Times editors’s choices spill out into the offline world because they choose what appears on the pages of the newspaper
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by seoaeu 5y ago
No, the problem is that a string of spam calls could be a false flag attack. If you wanted to drive your competition out of business, you’d just pay some spam callers to dial everyone on the do not call list and lie about who hired them
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by seoaeu 5y ago
It does keep a log… of caller IDs. The problem isn’t the volume of data, it is that the system isn’t setup to authenticate callers so you can’t tie a spam call to any persistent identity to block
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by seoaeu 5y ago
People are defined by what they say though. And a quick google search reveals that RMS’s “emacs virgins” comment wasn’t just an out of character remark he made once in passing
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The amount (and cost!) of maintenance to get a car to last 15 years is going to vary significantly based on how much it is driven
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> Uber may be exploiting drivers, but it's still meaningfully better for them than the alternatives. That’s how exploitation works! You take someone who has few/no other options and leverage that fact to get them to agree to an
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Amazing for whom? Certainly not for the gig workers who don’t get employee benefits and are now sometimes making sub-minimum wage after accounting for gas and deprecation
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Saying that bitcoin has a stable algorithmically defined inflation rate is a hilarious redefinition of terms. Over the last year, one Bitcoin lost approximately 40% of its purchasing power relative to a basket of consumer goods and services
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Hard mode doesn't change the optimal strategy much. It just makes a small fraction of words "insta-lose" because if play one and get unlucky, you'll have to switch to eliminating one letter at a time and probably run out
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by seoaeu 5y ago
In some buildings, installing a heat pump is "only" a matter of swapping out one large appliance with another (since you're able to reuse the ducts, etc.) but that's still widely expensive and logistically complicated to
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> In theory, but in practice when did a billionaire do these things you’re worried about outside of a Bond film? Looking at fossil fuel oligarchs shepherding in global warming, international human rights setbacks, and Tesla's "
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Really? You think that the PR cost is more than a super bowl commercial, 50 New York Times full page ads, and a few hundred million Facebook ad impressions combined?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Important to whom? The same power that lets a billionaire develop spaceflight can also be used to instigate an ecological disaster, roll back human rights, or unleash killer robots.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The "not even worth ingesting" part suggests they don't hold the product in high regard
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by seoaeu 5y ago
How is this different from answering the query "2+22=?" with "4"? There's a factual question that was asked and the answer provided is objectively wrong. Whether the user meant to ask a different question is irrelev
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> Much harder to get rich by saving money now No one was getting rich by saving money with interest rates basically zero and the stock market posting record returns. > it's not like corporations are in a rush to give matching r
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> the challenge is knowing beforehand what the most impactful engineering work is going to be If the payoff in the 1% case is high enough, then you don't have to know beforehand! Just do all 100 changes and the one winner pays for a
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The whole premise of #metoo was that if victims had individually attempted to directly confront their abuser they'd have faced serious and potentially career ending retaliation. I have a hard time labeling someone cowardly for preferri
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by seoaeu 5y ago
"If cooperation is actually the better choice in the prisoner's dilemma, why do you care if I defect?"

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