derenrich

Gold's price floor is not the cost of production. It's more like its industrial value.

The speculative value is well out of line with its use value.

you can easily live on the peninsula with 6-figures (in a shared apartment). No need to go deep-east bay.

That is not in the definition of a bubble. Nor does it preclude there being a bubble.

by pure luck?

wait do people actually think this position requires Unix (not linux) experience? I assumed the recruiter must just be wrong there.

Eh, honestly I would've been similarly frustrated. The recruiter seems like they are being needlessly bureaucratic. Either they are familiar with Unix and thus should know that Unix-like is synonymous with Unix nowadays or they aren't and they should take your word.

Maybe you were a little condescending but it happens and rejecting someone on the basis of this exchange seems mad to me. If FB doesn't reverse their decision here I'd be surprised/disappointed.

In a few years when the windows linux subsystem has more traction I expect putty will become mainly unnecessary.

Gated communities mean they are unimpacted? What is it you think the impact of the wall is? Most of it the justification for the wall I'm hearing is based on economic ("they're taking our jobs") or fairness ("they are stressing our social safety net") arguments. Gated communities don't shield you from those things.

Basically gated communities shield you from some kinds of crime. If you think Mexican immigrants are causing lots of crime then you should also think people in Maine or Michigan shouldn't have much say because of the lower concentrations of immigrants there.

I almost never post here but this "mansion walls" to "Mexico wall" false equivalence bothers me. They are totally different things.

Mansions have walls/hedges for lots of reasons: privacy, sound isolation, blocking unsightly views and sure perhaps some security. None of that has anything to do with whether we should build the world's longest modern wall to help enforce immigration policy. Sure they are both walls but that's where the similarity ends.

Example 1: Mansion walls are unlikely to create diplomatic tensions with one of the US's major trading partners whereas a wall with Mexico would likely do that.

Example 2: The Mexican wall will likely require lots of eminent domain seizures of private land. Mansions walls require none.

Example 3: The mexican wall will impact net flows of illegal migrants between the US and Mexico. Private walls do not.

Sane arguments for or against this wall are inapplicable to private walls. This equivalency is pointless. Your argument is spurious.

Not sure if you are joking, but Pauling was pretty wrong when talking about vitamin C. His ideas were repeatedly rejected by actual research studies and yet he kept pursuing vitamin C. I assign him very little credibility in this arena.

Also he was making money from the sale of his books.