spoonjim

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by spoonjim 5y ago
> Encouraged by her supervisor to expand her academic horizons, she considered studying in the U.S. but was unable to obtain a visa. > > Her father suggested she think of Canada.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I can't speak for everyone. But I definitely think that a lot of people are put off by buying a house next to a Beware of Dog guy even though they know that one could move in tomorrow. Also, in California, a lot of people are in neighb
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Sure, these houses exist everywhere, but most people avoid buying houses next to them. If Zillow bought such a house they’d take a loss to unload it unless they baked it into their model.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
This neighbor has external signals of the kind of person he is.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Two covered cars in the driveway, bushes growing out halfway into the sidewalk, house in disrepair, taller than allowed fencing with Beware of Dog signs, it’s sometimes not hard to spot someone you don’t want to live next to.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Totally. There’s a surly creep who lives on our street and the houses next to his are worth less because of that. But Zillow would never know that.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
When we were looking for a house we rejected many because of the “wrong sort” of neighbor, ascertained entirely (and possibly erroneously) without meeting them. I doubt Zillow can model that with public data.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Even a Rolls Royce is cheaper than building your own equivalent car.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Looks like it's for industrial processes so it probably doesn't matter how loud it is. Like photographing the inside of a storage tank for defects, where you won't get a reliable GPS signal (or likely any other RF).
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Yes, because the movie industry has made it pretty hard to pirate. You can certainly do it but it's not nearly as easy as it was in the Napster days. Even the entire concept of a torrent is a lot for many people to grasp.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
AWS is a luxury product and the outbound charge is the delivery fee. You will also find that the delivery fee for a Louis Vuitton bag is more than for a pizza.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Yes, but you can only do this because the industry has used the courts to squash things like Napster.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Nobody is going to make a $50 million movie for $12 of revenue from the first customer who then pirates it to the rest of the world. The end outcomes here are 1) Piracy remains manageable in scale 2) Production costs go down tremendously an
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Fantastic. They’ve been ripping off people who couldn’t afford it for decades, they deserve to suffer in penury.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I think the laws need revising on the issue of “visible from a public space” because of the technology available today. I’m OK with people being photographed on the street but not through their bedroom window with a 600mm lens from half a m
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by spoonjim 5y ago
At the top end, performance levels are determined by intrinsics perhaps genetics, perhaps not). If I had been coached in basketball every day since birth I could have become a very good basketball player. I would have probably been the capt
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Exactly. What employees want and what they have the leverage to get can be worlds apart.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Most YouTubers are not geographically scoped. How do you know he has a small audience? His views or his subscribers?
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by spoonjim 5y ago
How do you get your writing seen though? It’s largely by being promoted by your friends and acquaintances when you post something, which requires... networking.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
“What employees want” isn’t really relevant. I’m sure employees also want 10x the salary. What matters is 1) can they use their brand, their balance sheet, their luxury office, or other parameters to maintain the workforce of the size and s
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by spoonjim 5y ago
There's also the very small market for the drug. There's a lot of administrative and logistics cost in making a drug available on the market. If they could sell 1,000 doses a year they would have found a price that worked.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
> We live in a country that has special programs for certain races. Yes, and those programs are immoral if they give a boost to the child of a Nigerian immigrant cardiothoracic surgeon for reasons ostensibly rooted in the oppression of A
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Well the “armies of homeless” are also a public policy failure. If the homeless policy across the 50 largest American cities was identical, there would not be so many homeless in SF.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
So if I set my thermometer to a super warm luxury temperature, my neighbors have to pay for that?
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I was putting my stuff on the belt when a TSA guy came up and slipped a lighter in my shoe. He did the “Shhh” gesture to me indicating he was testing the X ray guy but as a brown man I wasn’t having it. I started loudly yelling “he slipped
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by spoonjim 5y ago
Well the blood thing is just a complete nonsense way of assessing oppression/opportunities. Someone who is the child of a full blood Native American who was working as a bartender when she met a white corporate lawyer that she later ma
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by spoonjim 5y ago
> I didn't check both white and native only because a local organization would be dispersing the funds and I live in a rural area. I don’t see the logic. Are you saying that you’d become persona non grata in a small community for cl
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I consider Roberts a liberal for a case like this so I think the court is 5-4 now and if Breyer doesn’t retire before 2022 (when Republicans are 99% likely to take the Senate) it will be 5-3 until there’s a Republican President.
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I don’t disagree with the idea of “building” with friends but over the history of civilizations, humans find the most meaning in building families and communities. So, yes, build with friends, but think “village” and not “SaaS.”
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by spoonjim 5y ago
I feel like with a 5-4 Supreme Court (6-3 if Breyer doesn’t retire) the explicit rationale of race percentages sets this up for a Supreme Court defeat.

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