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Comment · 4 years ago
$125,000 for 7% is still exploitative, not even considering the inflation of the money supply we’re seen recently. So much money chasing deals and this term hasn’t budged.
Comment · 4 years ago
Increasing housing supply is like building more roads to reduce traffic: it doesn’t work. Humans reproduce to fill all available habitat. More humans, no tangible benefit, worse Earth.
Comment · 4 years ago
More housing decreases homelessness in the short term, but not in the long term. Humans breed and will always reproduce to fill all available habitat, like any animal.

Building more housing reduces homelessness like building more highways reduces traffic.

Comment · 4 years ago
Does Slicer work with range partitions?
Comment · 4 years ago
Tesla's investor relations department leaks these sandbagged estimates to the press at the end of every quarter so that they can beat them. It's an old game.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Author is willing to use Windows, but no mention of macOS. This article reads like someone trying to convince you that vegan chicken tenders taste like regular chicken tenders.
Comment · 4 years ago
Y Combinator managed to convince startups that would have been founded anyway to give up expensive equity to them. I'm not sure they would have failed without YC.

Put another way, if you take a piece of every startup on the planet, can you claim influence if some of those startups eventually succeed?

Comment · 4 years ago
Discord functionality is driven by market forces, which is more than I can say for FOSS. FOSS is less likely to offer a product that works for mainstream users.
Comment · 4 years ago
More sermons, and it isn’t even Sunday.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's shameful that Dell's 8K monitor is sabotaged by Apple.
Comment · 4 years ago
“excluding mountains”

Further, the aggregate for all of North America hardly excludes the possibility of regional snow drought.

Comment · 4 years ago
Retirement is a near universal human goal. Why would people work instead of retire? That seems at odds with observed behavior.
Comment · 4 years ago
The equivalent of universal basic income during the pandemic has caused the labor force to shrink, and inflation to increase.
Comment · 4 years ago
Web 3.0 is a stock pump.

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