QIYGT

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by QIYGT 2y ago
The complexity is also what allows loopholes to exist for rich people.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
Only if you define "good life" as having a big house with a big yard.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
This "middle class life" really isn't middle class if a top 10% income can't afford it.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
That person could probably be making 500k+ at a FANG with less variance in the stock component.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
Even if the money is lit on fire, the reduction in cars entering the city will be a huge benefit.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
Looks like autocorrect got to them: > the cheating involved multiple suspects and occurred on the Azure Roll to Win Electronic Craps table It's actually Aruze: https://aruzegaming.com/table-games/roll-to-win-cra
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by QIYGT 3y ago
There are not nearly enough homes yet. > These 12 cities alone say they will need a total of more than 250,000 new homes built over the next five or 10 years to meet demand from current residents who are inadequately housed and future re
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by QIYGT 3y ago
There is a reason, but it is not geology. https://www.6sqft.com/the-bedrock-myth-the-evolution-of-the-...
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by QIYGT 3y ago
Skyscrapers are very expensive to build. What would actually help is allowing ~10 story buildings everywhere in the five boroughs with a fast and simple permitting process.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
Even if it could run forever, just keeping it running isn't good enough. If you never make any improvements, your users are going to go to a different service that does.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
> input for an Apple TV and maybe 2 more hdmi plugs Add more input ports than you think anybody could ever want, and I'm in.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
Why would the casino need that, when they can have anybody who wins arrested?
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by QIYGT 3y ago
Indeed the police and courts exist mostly to help rich people keep their money.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
> If Americans want room to drive and get places and park A whole lot of Americans don't want that. You can tell by how much more expensive it is to live in walkable city centers than in suburbs.
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by QIYGT 3y ago
You can learn everything most devs need to know about Kafka in a couple hours. I can't imagine why companies would ever hire based on current knowledge rather than problem solving skills and ability to learn.
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by QIYGT 4y ago
Not sure how large you mean, but for <=3 kids: walking, metro, bus, cargo bike, taxi. I'm in NYC, and I'll take a 10 minute walk to the supermarket with my kids over a 10 minute drive any day.
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by QIYGT 4y ago
I don't think that's common. Our pediatrician, who is part of a US major hospital, never mentioned this and basically said "introduce new foods on days without much going on in case you need to go to the ER."
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by QIYGT 4y ago
Yes, but sadly still better than 99% of the US.
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by QIYGT 4y ago
A whole lot of people who can afford to live anywhere in the world and choose to raise their kids in NYC disagree with you.
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by QIYGT 4y ago
That basically never happens with strangers on the street. If you're worried about that, pay more attention to teachers ("nearly 9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct") and your partner ("of the girl
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by QIYGT 4y ago
> If you work at a FAANG you can afford to live anywhere, including in places that would give you a short commute to work. Not necessarily. If you're an E4 with kids, good luck paying $150k a year for a 3br apartment in walking dist
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by QIYGT 4y ago
Business owners are notoriously terrible at understanding how street usage affects their business. https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-over-bike-lanes-needs...
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by QIYGT 4y ago
> I’m also an Urbanism nerd and don’t want to see cities revert to the 70s-era trend, which is clearly and noticeably happening, destroying decades of progress on livability. There's more demand than ever before to live in NYC, as e
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by QIYGT 4y ago
They're a logical and predictable outcome of zoning laws that make the most efficient and desirable forms of apartments illegal.
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by QIYGT 4y ago
> It’s a high risk, high reward business with tons of uncertainty. What's the high reward side of that for a typical dev? Do you get a percent of the game sales or something?
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by QIYGT 4y ago
Yikes. I could understand it if the limit was like $250k per year, but $900 per week is nuts.
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by QIYGT 4y ago
Really hoping this kind of tech to ends up in window AC+heat units soon for those of us in apartments.
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by QIYGT 4y ago
I don't know details about Germany, but you can't just look at national population trends. In the US for example, the problem is made worse by a trend of people moving from rural areas into cities. And re the "huge margins&qu
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by QIYGT 4y ago
> our bylaws are based on the US Constitution The same constitution that consistently puts a the party that gets fewer votes into power? If I were to every start a business, that's the last place I'd look for inspiration.
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by QIYGT 4y ago
As it turns out, the best villages have neither lawns nor garages.

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