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by smugma 3y ago
Ever increasing price? In the US and much of Europe, one price change since launch.
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by smugma 3y ago
Inner London population peaked over 100 years ago.
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by smugma 3y ago
Most new Apple hires are not in Cupertino. It’s “full”.
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by smugma 3y ago
Norway isn’t in the EU.
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by smugma 3y ago
Agreed. It's actually much worse in LA than SF (I've lived 20+ years in each).
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by smugma 3y ago
A more extreme example—- I had an 8GB M1 Air that outperformed my 64GB Intel MBP that was less than a year old when I got the Air.
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by smugma 3y ago
All that crap they make you deal with and you're still a heavy user? Why?! Is it still that much better than the alternatives (taxis, Door Dash, eBike, picking up your own food?)
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by smugma 3y ago
Or nicer hotels where they ask “did you use anything from the minibar?”
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by smugma 3y ago
Battery swap probably makes more sense here.
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by smugma 3y ago
This is a novel insight that the article doesn’t touch on. It’s absolutely a class indicator. You could order a steak well done at The Factory and you’d fit right in. It fits in with people who have a concept of “fine dining”, which they ma
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by smugma 3y ago
That’s more aligned with countries that follow civil law work. They define the law and what it covers. In contrast, common law is more open to interpretation, changes over time, etc. Yes, this is super generalized, but the dichotomy explain
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by smugma 3y ago
Dan Ariely is not a great source to reference these days.
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by smugma 3y ago
Makes sense. Heineken, the world's #2 beer producer, bought them for ~$1B (half in 2015, rest in 2017).
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by smugma 3y ago
I’ve never heard anyone from Netflix or Apple describe this phenomenon. Netflix loves to fire people and Apple likes to starve its teams of headcount to force efficient use of people resources.
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First line: “Santa Cruz County has vaulted over the San Francisco area as the most expensive market in the country for renters”
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by smugma 3y ago
This makes sense. The few times I’ve tried to help someone with Android, I had to go very slowly through every single step. The two look pretty similar from afar but are quite different. I can still make my way around Windows because I’ve u
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by smugma 3y ago
I listened to the whole sample video. At the end, the (Indian sounding) telemarketer (assuming it’s real) calmly says “I’m here to fuck your daughter. I’m here to fuck your wife and daughter” before hanging up.
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by smugma 3y ago
I’ve seen this happen many times in LA. Never in SF, and once in Oakland. I don’t have much experience outside California but helped friends in Chicago buy a condo. It definitely helped that they didn’t have an agent and leveraged the listi
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by smugma 3y ago
Agents are the friction that increases transaction costs.
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by smugma 3y ago
Realtor top credentials? That made me LOL.
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by smugma 3y ago
It’s the opposite in California. Even if prices drop 30%, if a property wasn’t traded in the last few (5-7?) years, it’s probably worth more than the assessed value.
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by smugma 3y ago
As a Westerner who doesn’t live in Japan, Apple Maps is infinitely better there (2023). In the US, I use Google Maps / Waze / Apple Maps about 50/20/30% of the time (Google by default / Waze if I care about shaving
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by smugma 3y ago
You also need to pass a test (and find a broker to oversee your license) to become a real estate salesperson.
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by smugma 3y ago
“Tell me about a time when Engineering changed the product direction…” Open-ended questions like that.
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by smugma 3y ago
It’s not your tax dollars at work, it’s the opposite. The CA lottery generates about $2B, 1% of total funds that go to public schools. It encourages dumb behavior but brings in money for the state. Is it a net win or net loss… depends on ho
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by smugma 3y ago
I remember seeing prostitutes on Capp street (and Polk St) 15-20 years ago in the aughts. Not anymore. I routinely ride my bike with preschooler in tow on Capp at 8AM and 5PM and haven’t seen any in the past two years.
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by smugma 3y ago
Off by an order of magnitude, <$3.99 each: “Funk & Wagnalls volumes were typically sold in supermarkets as part of a “book-a-week” program. When Mr. Moser came up with the idea of reducing the normal charge to just pennies for the fi
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by smugma 3y ago
Why should evidence not be hard to find? It’s why we have detectives (to find evidence of crimes) and why lawsuits have long discovery processes (again, to find evidence).
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I’ve never heard anyone say they think the US and China have similar business environments.
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Reading through his notes, I couldn’t help but think “I don’t know this guy, but it seems like he has spent years thinking deeply about interfaces. Also, he sounds ex-Apple.” It made me smile when I got towards the end and my suspicions wer

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