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by spikels 7y ago
Physics dictate that only one factory/office/home/bakery can occupy a particular location. So without the particular land for that particular bakery the bread wouldn’t exist either. People get all confused about basic economi
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by spikels 7y ago
This is a simplistic analysis of the situation with some misconceptions. Landowners supply land, one of the key inputs to the economy. It is part of the capital behind almost all economic activity. Trying running a business - or even living
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by spikels 7y ago
This is incorrect. The impact of supply on housing prices has been shown over and over again in the real estate economics literature. The concept of induced demand in real estate is quite different than in transportation. The theoretical me
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by spikels 7y ago
Did they edit the article? Now it says: > per-capita gross domestic product of $14,000 to $18,000 a year
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by spikels 7y ago
> The James Webb Space Telescope will move into this region in 2018. Was that still the plan in August 2017? Now it scheduled to launch in 2021 at the earliest. Always interesting to read old articles for what's assumed about the fu
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by spikels 7y ago
That story was clearly fake. The Guardian reporter and his source have both proven to be unreliable in the past, no other newspaper could confirm the claims and the Special Council looked into it and found nothing. And the Guardian has now
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by spikels 7y ago
You got that backwards. The government didn't step aside because some billionaires wanted to do this important job. Post-Apollo, politically compromised NASA bet everything on dumb systems like the Shuttle and struggled managing its co
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by spikels 7y ago
> a lot of people in the US believe it is good for the US government to have absolute power in the world Seriously? Name one person making this argument? Perhaps you are just misusing the phrase "absolute power". Typically thi
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by spikels 7y ago
One of the things I kind of knew but has been clearly exposed by the Trump-Russia-Mueller episode is that humans are not nearly as objective or rational as we pretend. Once you start to realize this you begin see it everywhere. It explains
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by spikels 7y ago
This is news?! All software has bugs. NYTimes is taking advantage of the general public’s ignorance of this fact to imply something sinister. Without additional information - such as it specifically targeted certain transactions - that is m
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by spikels 8y ago
The 2.0 version is available at some restaurants in SF. I haven’t got to try it yet but was told about it.
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by spikels 8y ago
For growth companies equity analysts look at forward ratios - projected several years out. 10x in 2018 will probably be 5-6x in 2019 and 3-4x in 2020 and maybe 2-3x in 2021. Still very high but at least approaching sane levels.
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Lyft Aims for Valuation Near $20B in Biggest U.S. IPO(bloomberg.com)
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by spikels 8y ago
How does the average worker make a loss? People are not going to be working for negative wages. Only investors or business make loses.
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by spikels 8y ago
“Inaccurate” means false. Do you think Mueller would have made has first and only news comment on an article that was essentially correct but had minor errors? Do you think the NYTimes and WashPo are simply ignoring this “bombshell”? Cognit
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by spikels 8y ago
That Pulitzer winner is Anthony Cormier, the author of the “bombshell” story Mueller said was false. Either the Pulitzeris not all it’s cracked up to be or Buzzfeed selects the worst - likely both.
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by spikels 8y ago
By your own references the EU28 transports around 75% of its freight by truck while the US is around 40%. Seems like a huge difference to me. And EU28 stats are distorted by Northern and Eastern Europe where rail freight is big. Italy and F
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by spikels 8y ago
In these discussions there is always a lot of griping about the US’s poor rail infrastructure when the US actually has the 2nd most used rail networks in the world. It’s just almost entirely used for freight. An equally valid question is wh
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by spikels 8y ago
Actual Reason: Bloomberg is planning to announce his presidential candidacy soon.
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by spikels 8y ago
Title: Oil Demand for Cars Is Already Falling 2nd Paragraph Text: Oil use for cars peaks in the mid-2020s... Ugh!
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by spikels 8y ago
Is there anything in the actual content of the article you disagree with?
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by spikels 8y ago
Completely missing is any mention of the housing supply shortage. If Bay Area governments had simply gotten out of the way developers would have build more than a million new units of housing over the past 40-50 years. Real home prices woul
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by spikels 8y ago
$19 billion for a train signaling system and 50 elevators seems outrageously expensive. There are less than 1,000 trains in the entire system and their movements are highly constrained. A WiFi based system could both easily communicate with
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by spikels 8y ago
The beauty of Bird/Lime is that you just grab one when need one then leave it at your destination. For this to work you need lots of scooters/users. The more users/scooters the better the services becomes. This situation wher
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by spikels 8y ago
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-assets-make-wealth/ Keep in mind that when referring to real estate the value is often the equity (asset - debt) not the asset value itself. Pretty sure that is the case with SCF d
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by spikels 8y ago
Fair enough but I was reacting to the clearly idealogical. To suggest Marx has something to add in this issue is both provocative and ridiculous. To entertain drivel this degrades HN.
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by spikels 8y ago
Marx!? Marx can teach us very little about economics and almost nothing about science. Science is NOT “a relationship between capital and labor”. If you see everything through a such a strong lens, you see very little.
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by spikels 8y ago
What’s fascinating to me about this history is that most of NYC’s subways system was built by two private competing firms, the IRT and BRT. The city then became heavily involved first by creating the competing but government financed IND, t
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by spikels 9y ago
The reactions to this information are quite interesting. The evacuation 63,000 people is now known to have resulted in 2,202 deaths, cost $74 billion and still displaces 34,000 people seven years later. All for the benefit of a potential li
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by spikels 9y ago
6,200 units on Airbnb in city of 3.4 million homes. Airbnb is also rounding error. If you are concerned about affordability, the focus should be almost entirely on barriers to housing development.

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