Kephael

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by Kephael 1mo ago
Bike equipment is ridiculously high margin. Motorcycles and mopeds are extremely common commuting vehicles in much of the world, yet i'm surprised motorcycles aren't more popular since they offer much more capability and are a bet
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by Kephael 3mo ago
Jassy needs to go back to being a sportscaster. All he knows how to do is keep Amazon stock down and money-pit projects running in perpetuity.
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by Kephael 6mo ago
The bridge flyover reminds me of SimCopter, some of us like retro gaming and don't mind a little jankiness. Especially since this can give you a convenient base to work with.
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by Kephael 8mo ago
Exactly, interest rates must come down due to the government debt burden. This debt burden creates a strong incentive to force rates to zero, but we have to pretend the Federal Reserve is independent. Separately, I think Jerome Powell is on
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by Kephael 8mo ago
I don't understand the cost either, apparently it only costs around a billion dollars to build a skyscraper? The Burj Khalifa only cost one and a half billion dollars when completed in 2010. I don't know that there's criminal
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by Kephael 10mo ago
Children and teens don't buy their own smartphones, they get them from their parents.
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by Kephael 11mo ago
The Bay Area companies have been driving the economy forward for several decades now, it's been economically dominant since the mid 1990s. Consider more 'recent' companies like Google, Facebook, and older companies like PayPa
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by Kephael 11mo ago
It's not the overall metro area GDP itself but rather per capita, the people in the Bay Area are simply much wealthier and higher income. This is also true in the Puget Sound region, but not to the same extent. This difference in popul
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by Kephael 11mo ago
The Bay Area is far wealthier and much more economically relevant than NYC. NYC has a very large low income population. NYC doesn't have nearly as strong of an economy, financial services and trading firms are increasingly leaving. Whe
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by Kephael 11mo ago
Seattle upset their police force and made them quit, they then had to pay overtime to fewer remaining officers which increased their spending.
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by Kephael 11mo ago
There's no shortage of 'talent' in the US, particularly Amazon tier L4/L5 talent. Also, it was always less expensive to hire offshore regardless of H1B fees.
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by Kephael 1y ago
This is a bad marketing idea to compare a golf cart like this to a Toyota Tacoma. There is practically zero ground clearance and a unibody frame, this will high center in places where I regularly drive my Tacoma. Tacoma wins on ruggedness,
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by Kephael 1y ago
That will kill the open web for conversations. It will be a sterile, censored place and real conversation will move elsewhere.
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by Kephael 2y ago
This is nonsense, you could buy a nice car and a home 50 years while working at the post office. Because we have faster computers and smartphones does not make us wealthier.
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by Kephael 2y ago
There were cranes everywhere back in 2017, now the cranes are mostly gone. My rent increases every year, generally by 10%.
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by Kephael 3y ago
Google has been doing the same thing. The fact is that these companies simply have too many employees and they aren't able to properly utilize everyone.
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by Kephael 3y ago
It's the same deal in Seattle, I don't even bother reporting this stuff to the police. Elsewhere, the police would respond and it would show in statistics.
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by Kephael 4y ago
Depositors failed to do their due diligence, the bank offered 'sweet heart' deals to get customers. Depositors should lose their pants and have to wait for the FDIC to liquidate before getting any funds. No one deserves free, unli
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by Kephael 4y ago
Funny thing is, part of why SVB blew themselves up was they bought a bunch of long term mortgage backed securities paying low rates so now those securities have lost a ton of value if they were to liquidate them (which the FDIC will be doin
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by Kephael 4y ago
Sure you do, banks fail and you shouldn't expect more than $250,000 of coverage.
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by Kephael 4y ago
Yeah, you can short eurodollars or maybe something else to hedge risk. At a certain point, you need to be sophisticated enough to manage your funds.
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by Kephael 4y ago
The bank has long term bonds that they loaded up on during the Covid interest rate lows. It's not possible for the uninsured depositors to get anything near 100% of their deposits since these bonds have lost much of their value. Unless
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by Kephael 6y ago
There's no such place, smart cameras will be ubiquitous. They are too useful and inexpensive.
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by Kephael 6y ago
There are very specific coding expectations for applied scientists and research interns at these companies. They are not going to allow someone to skip these.
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by Kephael 6y ago
This is wrong, for a programming interview FAANG and friends care greatly about mitigating legal risk and would not treat them any differently. Interviewers typically have their own questions and may have only glanced at the resume.
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by Kephael 6y ago
I haven't been to a physical bank to do any business in close to a decade. This looks like a USPS bailout package for what's largely another useless service other than doing package delivery. The "unbanked" can sign up f
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by Kephael 6y ago
Yeah, the US has nothing like the "Soccer hooligan" culture that's found in Europe. I'm not sure why someone would think high school sports are a massive deal. I think it's due to media depictions of small towns bei
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by Kephael 6y ago
Why is it inherently good? If we import 50 million poor people what do you think would appeal to them? Why wouldn't large groups just vote themselves access to other people's wealth? If 51% of people vote to steer a ship into an i
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by Kephael 6y ago
Why has this peaked? If you don't think there is a far-right that is suppressed, angrily stewing, and heavily armed you are living in a fantasy world. The kindling is all there, just because they have been deplatformed from mainstream
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by Kephael 6y ago
Yes, the fact that this is happening due to demographics and not positions "evolving" is obvious. Many recognize immigration as a tool to help Leftist parties all throughout the Western world. Eventually those who have been disenf

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