ultraluminous
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Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you for the informative reply. I definitely agree on all counts, especially re "ponzy" etc.
I think that the pandemic forced the entire sector to focus on profitability and cut most loss-leading initiatives, so hearing they're trending towards core profitability makes sense!
Comment · 5 years ago
I agree with the gist of you're saying, and I didn't personally dig into their last few fillings, but I suppose what the parent comment is trying to express can also be stated as "Uber's core ride-sharing business model is not cash flow positive", which can be obfuscated when arguing GAP vs EBITDA.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yup. Essentially, housing is an in-elastic demand, and livable land is a finite resource, further exacerbated by the realities of emigration. Combined with extreme wealth inequality, it brings us to this type of dystopia - https://ssir.org/articles/entry/tackling_the_housing_crisis_...
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not a question of "would it work", the point is that real-estate prices are rising in dozens of countries, and thousands of cities. Zoning is a local issue. Assuming that the reason homes prices are out of control in Santiago, Chile and in Tel Aviv, Israel for the same reasons as in San Fransisco is, well, silly.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've seen this argument touted frequently in housing related threads and it always confuses me. Housing prices have soared over the majority of the developed world - dozens of countries[1]. Is NYMBYism and prop13 driving the housing crisis in Luxembourg? Chile? Estonia? Do you think the entire world property market, taxation and legislation is structured exactly like in the California bay area?
The whole "just zone more high rises" argument is so obviously reductive, I can't help but think it's pushed primarily by property developers and speculators.
Housing prices continuously rising to slurp up any marginal income has been studied by economists for a couple of centuries (rent extraction), and taxation solutions such as a Land Value Tax were suggested by Adam Smith himself.
https://blogs.imf.org/2021/10/18/housing-prices-continue-to-...
Comment · 5 years ago
Are you an immunologist by any chance?
Comment · 5 years ago
Arkansas was one of the last states to seceded the union. The very second sentence in the ordinance linked is "In addition to the well-founded causes of complaint set
forth by this convention in resolutions adopted". You are more than welcome to look up those "causes and complaints" and let me know whether they are slavery related or not.
Comment · 5 years ago
If only the slaves had any appreciation to the important component they were in their slave master's culture, they'd probably complain a lot less and try harder to accommodate their agrarian needs.
sadly necessary /s
Comment · 5 years ago
Except that it actually didn't?
Comment · 6 years ago
This has to be satire right? Right?
Comment · 6 years ago
"they accomplish the same goals as full VMs in a different way."
They are explicitly not that. Docker containers do not provide you any real isolation guarantees from a security POV and make no attempts at such. This is extensively documented. [1]
"If you're running Docker in a VM on a bare metal server you're doing it wrong. "
Ummm... Running Docker inside a VM is by far the most common deployment type of Docker there is. What do you think is an EC2/ECS/GKE deployment? Hint, there's a VM running your containers in all of them. This is also what Docker the company recommends - https://www.docker.com/blog/containers-and-vms-together/
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta... https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/containers-vs-vm...
Comment · 6 years ago
Not OP but - https://qz.com/1811291/jack-welch-was-the-best-and-worst-thi...
GE’s breathtaking growth under Welch was fueled in large part by its transformation into a financial services superpower. By 2000, nearly half of the company’s revenue—$96 billion—came from GE Capital
GE’s exposure to finance proved to be an enormous vulnerability after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and particularly during the financial crisis of 2008. While Welch’s successor, Jeff Immelt, tried to diminish GE’s reliance on finance, his efforts came too late.
Comment · 6 years ago
"in my time there I worked during the weekend 3 times (i don’t count oncall here)"
Why wouldn't you count it? Do those days not-count somehow?
Comment · 6 years ago
And if the real world could even hypothetically fulfill such a requirement, you would have had a point.
Comment · 6 years ago
Lynching slaves was immoral, unethical and "blameworthy" before it became illegal.