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by thunky 3y ago
> I'm kinda happy for her that her punishment is fairly mild - I mean after all she'll have to live with the guilt for the rest of her life - but she's definitely responsible for it. This is an odd statement. She killed so
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by thunky 3y ago
> I'm totally in favor of a vacancy tax There already is a "vacancy tax": the landlord is losing money when the property is vacant. They can't do that forever so that "tax" will naturally force them to adapt
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by thunky 3y ago
"Organize the world's information" is also what Google does. The point of the exercise is to point out why they do it (their true mission).
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by thunky 3y ago
It's not version 2 if it's an independent project.
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by thunky 3y ago
> But remember, this same equation applies to the employer. I don't think it does. > So they can't tell the market "hey we can now produce this same product 5x more cheaply but pretty please will you keep paying the sam
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by thunky 3y ago
So if they don't face adversity when deliverying your package it's just not good enough? That's crazy. Maybe give them a break, they're working hard.
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by thunky 3y ago
> So you give a 5 star review when someone does their job? I always assumed such reviews should be reserved for those who go above and beyond But why should they have to go above and beyond to get full marks? If they put the undamaged pa
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by thunky 3y ago
> The investors entering the market today will make prices go up today, but have the effect of reducing prices in the future The flaw in this argument is that it assumes markets are perfectly efficient, when in reality they are affected
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by thunky 3y ago
> Someone who understood basic economics wouldn't assert that investors are ruining the housing market for individual family buyers So you don't think that adding demand without adding supply makes prices go up? Or you disagree
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by thunky 3y ago
> As an aside I think most users across all platforms use Google’s ecosystem Yeah this is what I was thinking. Apple users will tend to use two ecosystems instead of one. Personally, I wouldn't even think about my laptop when choo
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by thunky 3y ago
> it just makes sense to pick an iphone instead of an android due to the ecosystem value Honest question: what ecosystem are you referring to? Apple watch? Additional hardware you bought? Or are you talking about software? Because my gue
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by thunky 3y ago
I think that's a stretch. Energy is 4.5% of the S&P. Even if they weren't invested directly in Exxon they would not want to be associated with killing an industry and the jobs that go with it. They could have made money backin
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by thunky 3y ago
I don't see anything wrong with them owning total (US) market indices.
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by thunky 3y ago
> then what else are they getting wrong by 1%? They could get 1000 things wrong by 1% and they're still 1% wrong. You can't really add them up.
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by thunky 3y ago
You're welcome. But don't take my word for it: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffe...
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by thunky 3y ago
> You must be a much better investor than I am > returns have been all over the place, from tripling my money to losing it all and everything in between. Yes you are a bad investor and you should stop what you're doing and buy VT
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by thunky 3y ago
> In my experience, engineers who don't use one are a detriment to the entire engineering organization wasting time and money Well that's a strong opinion and probably a closed minded one. Maybe you exposed your mindset and thi
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by thunky 3y ago
To add to this, if you think of a dividend as a forced sale of some of your shares (because that's effectively what it is), it doesn't look quite as appealing. A dividend is not free money. That said, I do think that companies wit
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by thunky 3y ago
It isn't done, though. That's the problem.
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by thunky 3y ago
It's not like they built the app in one day. Anecdotally, many are trying the app, realizing it's half baked (for various reasons), and dropping it right then and there. They only tried it because they were curious and now they kn
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by thunky 3y ago
> Threads, as an MVP, > It's extremely premature to write it off Meta isn't exactly a startup. I think it's fair to hold them to a high standard.
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by thunky 3y ago
> pay raise to match inflation (at a minimum) each year is mandatory by law So it's illegal to give someone a pay cut? I guess they lay them off instead, but probably that is a legal issue too? Luckily going out of business is perfe
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by thunky 3y ago
Me too, but usually after I already have 15 GH tabs open and have wasted a bunch of time.
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by thunky 3y ago
My dad got an iPhone despite us being an Android family because word on the street was that they're easy to use. For the life of him he can't he can't look at a text message while in a phone call and then get back to the call
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by thunky 3y ago
> Then I bought macs for everyone Chromebooks would have been cheaper.
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by thunky 3y ago
It's not Airbnb's fault though. If the law wants to ban short term house rentals it can. If not, it's fair game for everyone. Banning would have to include VRBO because they do the exact same thing.
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by thunky 3y ago
> Airbnbs only make sense in rural areas. Not in my experience. The competition between hosts in cities make Airbnbs a much better value vs hotels in many cases.
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by thunky 3y ago
I don't think it's a cheap criticism to say that it's a negative to have a computer strapped to your face for long periods of time (which is one of the points the article makes). If Apple Vision was the form factor of a pair
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by thunky 3y ago
Every criticism of the Apple Vision is met with this same empty defense of "remember the iphone", instead of an actual response to the criticism.
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by thunky 3y ago
Perhaps. But like it or not, money (or the absence of it) has a huge effect on lifestyle, health, safety, procreation, etc. So pretending that the only purpose of marriage is to enter into an oath of true love, even though marriage itself i

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