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by xenihn 5y ago
Japan also doesn't have the problem of huge pension funds being able to influence and control housing markets in major metros. They don't exist because there isn't a need for them.
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by xenihn 5y ago
From what I've seen of SF rentals and landlords, that's potentially the most money he had spent on maintenance & renovations in a decade, while collecting some of the most profitable rent in the country.
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by xenihn 5y ago
Note that "investors" in this case also includes massive pension funds. This isn't the type of entity that most people have in mind, but it's one of the most pervasive in California, especially in San Francisco. I think
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by xenihn 5y ago
>For most of history, women were basically the property of their fathers, then traded for dowry to become the property of their husbands. They couldn't own property, they couldn't vote, they could be stoned to death for disobey
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by xenihn 5y ago
This brings up something I've never considered before. Would you still need to traffic if the jobs were legitimized, and you could sponsor employees?
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by xenihn 5y ago
You can say this about literally any group that wasn't classified with elite status, like royalty or clergy. Replace "women" with "men" in your post, and it's still just as true.
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by xenihn 6y ago
I enjoyed reading that far more than I expected to. Thanks to the author! I'm now realizing that, yes, I do feel completely entitled to my FAANG bonus. But...the recruiters for all of the companies (FAANG and non-FAANG) involved in my
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by xenihn 6y ago
>For some reason, cream of the crop CS graduates usually veer towards systems, compiler, DB, back-end infra, language design, back-end, ML, etc ... >But not front-end. im going to go out on a limb and guess that it's because non-
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by xenihn 6y ago
This article is literally the "government-mandated gf" incel meme, except it's real. I don't know how to define prostitution. Is any form of exchanging sex for money ("sex work") prostitution? Like acting in po
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by xenihn 6y ago
I mean, yes, but that's not a bad thing. We aren't going to be able to stop catastrophic climate change without authoritarianism.
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by xenihn 6y ago
the golden mummies make a statement
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by xenihn 6y ago
There's also the option of only allowing automated cars on the road. This obviously won't happen on a national level in any country any time soon, but I could see it being on a city-by-city basis. The biggest issue with autonomous
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by xenihn 6y ago
North & South Korea, Vietnam, and Japan absolutely share common culture with China. Korea used Chinese characters (Hanja) before Hangul. Japanese Kanji consists of adapted Chinese characters. Pre-1900s, Vietnam used Chinese characters.
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by xenihn 6y ago
Won't that bias the search towards showing you NSFW content? Since you specifically made it clear that that's what you are interested in.
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by xenihn 6y ago
Coinbase would still be around if current cryptos devalued significantly but maintained high trade volumes.
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by xenihn 6y ago
Just tried this and did not get a single NWS result. Skin care was #2
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by xenihn 6y ago
I think top-tier law is still overwhelmingly male. Read up on the double bell-curve for the legal industry, which is quickly becoming a problem for tech as well. Though for the legal industry, there's gatekeeping in the form of school
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by xenihn 6y ago
They're not going to wind up homeless or in prison, but they still care about their reputation. If that's harmed, it's going to affect their ability to get richer.
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by xenihn 6y ago
>Now life is very hard for them. Not them, but people physically similar to them. An important distinction. The people you're actually describing are generally retired or dead.
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by xenihn 6y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/29/us/justin-ross-harris-trial-u... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2681390/Cooper-Harr... Search for 'reddit' on both pages
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by xenihn 6y ago
That's possible and likely. It would obviously be worse.
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by xenihn 6y ago
You're missing the point. No one is saying that they're not legally allowed to do it. The issue here is that it's possible, and that it was done at least once.
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by xenihn 6y ago
I'm still traumatized by how difficult it was to find a job after college in the wake of the great recession. I haven't been unemployed since I started working in tech, and I'm going to make over 300k this year (half of which
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by xenihn 6y ago
this industry is full of people who have been working as professional software engineers for years and are still ineffective
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by xenihn 6y ago
Any chance of single-seat pricing? I would like to buy the font pack exclusively for personal use in editors on a work laptop, for myself only, on only one computer. It seems like the cheapest license is $50 for one font, 5 seats, and a lim
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by xenihn 6y ago
>academic skills have no bearing in getting high paying jobs This is a big part of it. Let's look at what "academic skills" means specifically in the US: - you perform well on standardized tests - you perform well on rubri
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by xenihn 6y ago
how is it an outlier? it is absolutely competitive when it comes to pay. benefits and WLB are comparable to Amazon, e.g. no free food (except for the infamous amazon bananas). you could make the argument that neither of them belong on the l
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by xenihn 6y ago
China will be able to temporarily convert its commercial industrial factory output into wartime use and just spam drones at Taiwan. All of the infrastructure is already there, a switch just needs to be flipped. The US did the same in WW2, t
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by xenihn 6y ago
can you be more specific about what exactly you're asking here? are you asking "would an ordinary person encounter events in which game theory would be applicable on a normal, day-to-day basis?" or are you asking "would
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by xenihn 6y ago
Dark ages Europe wasn't the only example of feudalism in history.

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