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   by skew-aberration 5mo ago

   Maybe OP is saying when you buy from a landlord, they still get their profit (you pay them the NPV of the expected future rents - it's neutral from their perspective). In cases like your example, what forces landlords to lower the rent
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   by skew-aberration 5mo ago

   I don't follow this logic. Homebuyers do deduct these costs - I certainly did. House price is still tightly coupled to NPV of rent - expenses. People are a) predicting higher growth in rent over time (there are sound economic reasons t
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   by skew-aberration 5mo ago

   If you were renting, you would still be paying for the fence, utilities, roof, etc (quoted prices for fence/hvac are very high btw). If every renter on the street had significant free money to invest, why wouldn't the landlords in
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   by skew-aberration 5mo ago

   I've tried solid and it's much nicer on small projects. How well does it scale though? Modern React is also 'more functional' (for some definition) but it comes at a cost of cumbersome and leaky abstractions. Classic Rea
5. 125.▲
   by skew-aberration 5mo ago

   There's always work available if someone is asking for a low enough wage, that should be self-evident. How does this prove that the population at large benefits from more people being willing to work for low wages? Classical economics
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   by skew-aberration 5mo ago

   Recent SpaceX IPO filings put that 'tiny fraction' at about 1/3 or 1/2 of SLS. $15B total investment with about $4-5B of that figure from US gov. Is starship more than 1/2 or 1/3 of the way to a human rated Art
7. 127.▲
   by skew-aberration 5mo ago

   With AI + robots all you really need is the starting capital + land (minerals, energy, etc). The value of land will not decrease when human labor becomes obsolete.
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   by skew-aberration 5mo ago

   I was expecting a link to this paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...
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   by skew-aberration 6mo ago

   I can't help but feel that this article is burying the lede. According to FERC, Home Depot sold 'Environmental Attributes' to America Efficient, not mere sales data. 'Environmental Attributes' are intrinsic to the e
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    by skew-aberration 6mo ago

    ASML actually did develop new (understanding of the) laws of physics, the so called Extended Nijboer-Zernike theory in the early 2000's (which extended diffraction optics to work in the high-NA regions relevant to modern lithography) a