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by vinyl7 4y ago
I sure hope so after the insane 50-100% bull run of the last two years
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by vinyl7 4y ago
I noticed that this became more and more common back when ACA was passed. It's cheaper to hire a lot of people part time than it is to hire fewer full time people because of the benefits they would be required to cover
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by vinyl7 4y ago
My theory behind snowden is that the NSA "leaked" a bunch of stuff through him that isn't actually true. It was there to provide a chilling effect so that people would use the internet with fear. After all that came out peopl
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Right, that's the big question. In a perfect world, people won't sell if they don't have to. And so we'll have to see how everything else plays out. With 2.5% interest rates, people have maxed out what they can afford fo
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by vinyl7 4y ago
The fed fund rate won't, but increasing mortgage rates will. The fed is set to roll off their MBS holdings this month (starting tomorrow iirc), which should increase mortgage rates. People won't be able to afford homes at these ma
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by vinyl7 4y ago
There shouldn't be a buffet of build systems. How much time is wasted bikeshedding on different build systems, not to mention writing in their proprietary language/api and having to maintain a separate program? There doesn't
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Imo, it's way better than Slack or Teams. Discord I understand, teams and slack took me a while to grok. It's a chat room, a person can't follow every conversation in every channel in every server. I just hop around between s
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by vinyl7 4y ago
It seems pretty straight forward me. Straight people want to attracted the opposite sex. As people become more equal, people have to embellish their other characteristics in order to stand out. Straight men don't want to be like a woma
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by vinyl7 4y ago
I volunteer to help manage parking lots and I've definitely noticed that vehicles are getting larger and larger. The emissions rule was relaxed/revoked by Trump, however California maintained the higher standard (and the auto manu
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Is it really growing if it's a fake overstimulated economy?
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by vinyl7 4y ago
I hope not, I'm tired of this bubbly fake economy of the past decade. Massive misallocation of capital into pointless unprofitable tech companies
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Square knot
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Free money is over, time to get back to reality
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by vinyl7 4y ago
> But the people in the soup kitchen see me serving the food. Anyone walking by might see me in the window. The nuance here is that there's a difference being observed doing a kind act versus purposefully making it a public spectacl
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by vinyl7 4y ago
The problem with public displays of virtue is that it comes off as seeking return value for the action. Virtuous acts should be done in quiet/secret and for the simple reason for it being virtuous. Seeking some other sort of value out
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by vinyl7 4y ago
> Arguably, no one could really have seen this coming Maybe 15 years ago when all this was new....but it's been pretty obvious that this was the course of things over the last 6-7 years. It makes business sense when there is no comp
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We Aren’t Asking for the Moon – Millennials on their real fears about money(nytimes.com)
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by vinyl7 4y ago
> every single home has at least one large A/C unit, most of which draw the amount or more as an electric car being charged and yet the grid doesn’t fall over when it’s noon and everyone’s air conditioning is running full blast dur
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Economic enemy
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Purchasing cash wasn't really straight handing over a fat stack to the seller. A lot of "all cash" purchases were people who got loans through non-traditional means. So instead of getting a regular mortgage, they got financin
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by vinyl7 4y ago
The Fed did a study on the housing market and found that there is no supply issues with housing, rather the housing bubble was caused by too much demand from cheap debt. https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Guerilla warfare is extremely effective
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by vinyl7 4y ago
He's probably talking about the PPP loans that executives took as bonuses.
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Make the web ui horrible so that people will use the app. If people use the app, they cant hide the ads
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Modded minecraft like Feed-The-Beast is fun because of the automation and logistics needed for the higher-tier recipes. It's kind of like Factorio or Satisfactory
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by vinyl7 4y ago
There are no fast native IDEs, which is why I just use vim. Fast native programs is up to the programmer, not necessarily the tools.
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by vinyl7 4y ago
> I start Visual Studio, which doesn't feel faster than Electron Well...Visual Studio is a part of the horribly written software collection. Here's an example of actually good software: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by vinyl7 4y ago
The reason is this: To make money in a gold rush, sell shovels. Everyone wants to bank on the software craze, and so everyone develops pointless middleware solutions.
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by vinyl7 4y ago
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me"
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Its only going to blow up because of the extreme emotional stress forced on people through the news and social media. Its a non-stop rage machine. Its not the policies that will set off a civil war, but the people who make money off causing

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