pascalxus

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by pascalxus 7y ago
using the ambulance for a free ride is a huge risk: you'd have to be insane to try this. If they get your name, you'll be out 4000$!!!!
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by pascalxus 7y ago
What else can he do? There's not many high demand industries.
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by pascalxus 7y ago
Top 20% is the new middle class in CA and other housing regulated markets
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by pascalxus 7y ago
oooh but look at all that "Dwell time", that's how google's algorithm knows you're having a great time. I switched over to duck duck go several months ago. it's just as good as google for almost everything.
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by pascalxus 7y ago
Almost all the low hanging fruit has been done, at least in software. It's time to do hard stuff now
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by pascalxus 7y ago
but, are we really so susceptible to advertising and marketing now? I know the baby boomers were with their enormous cars, boats and house purchases and their materialism stuff homes and maxed out credit cards. But, I see the millennial n
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by pascalxus 7y ago
It's commonly thought that the so called first world is rich. It's not true. For example, the US on average is twice as poor as the average person in China in terms of housing cost. On average China spends 8% of their take home
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by pascalxus 7y ago
i wonder how much work life balance plays a role in this. Since we're at a point of record low work life balance maybe people simply aren't making enough time to enjoy themselves in groups? Imagine if we live in a world where pe
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by pascalxus 7y ago
He said several sites use your voicemail for password reset
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by pascalxus 7y ago
Look up CAPE Schiller index. It doesn't predict bubbles but does give a clue on 10 year future returns
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by pascalxus 7y ago
The auto industry is increasingly regulated and cheap cars are becoming illegal to produce
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by pascalxus 7y ago
I suspect there's price anchoring going on there. They don't actually need to pay such high wages. The unemployment rate amongst MBA people is over 30%.
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by pascalxus 7y ago
There's already a vast oversupply of high skilled non engineer white collar labor. Adding more would just exacerbate the situation
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by pascalxus 7y ago
Houston and Chicago put the bay area to shame with populations over 2 million, high growth and super cost effective housing. The secret is no zoning laws in Houston
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by pascalxus 7y ago
Consumers, make no mistake, This will drive up costs of using uber just like everything else in CA And it will reduce the # of uber driver demand / work pool
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by pascalxus 7y ago
Namecheap has great intro prices on domains and ssl but it goes up a lot when you get to the 2ND and 3ed year. 1at year was about 4$ now 2ND year is 26$ Just FYI
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by pascalxus 7y ago
Why is everyone so worried about a Tesla not surviving? Their stock price (although a little down), is still way above it's initial IPO price.
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by pascalxus 7y ago
If he's really serious about making a dent in expenses, he should definitely consider hiring outside of Fremont, CA. There's much more cost effective labor outside the bay area, up to 1/3 cheaper in the rest of the US and ev
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by pascalxus 7y ago
it depends on the business model of course. if you're product makes more than 5000$ per month per customer you have other options available to you. And, virality is not unheard of, even this day and age, but incredibly rare. I'm
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by pascalxus 7y ago
I've posted on hacker news (avg 5-15 page views), Reddit (avg 2-5 page views) and Quora (no pages views that can be tracked anyway). Most of my Product hunt launches are completely dead, getting almost 0 traffic, although there was 1
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by pascalxus 7y ago
or simply ask them to take out a second mortgage. with everything their house is worth, i'm sure their net worth is high enough to afford it.
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by pascalxus 7y ago
the in-migration is because employers choose where you're job is, not the other way around.
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by pascalxus 7y ago
Every state and city has it's own challenges: TX is hot, Chicago has crime, Detroit lost way too many jobs, Baltimore is drowning in drugs, etc. But CA is one of the few states that caused it's own problems: it's all self inf
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by pascalxus 7y ago
if housing is appreciating, it means it's more expensive. For example if the price of milk were to appreciate and it goes from 2$ to 2.50 a gallon (inflation adjusted), then we're getting worse at producing milk. And if that pat
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by pascalxus 7y ago
when the price of something goes up, it means we're getting worse at producing it. It doesn't matter if you're using new technologies. what matters is results. If a gallon of milk goes from 2$ to 2.50$ inflation adjusted,
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by pascalxus 7y ago
He's right to fear this. I've seen it happen. someone can be locked up real quick if they say they will kill themselves. And, he/she will be stuck with a truly astronomical medical bill after it as well, so then they'
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by pascalxus 7y ago
I'm talking about ONLY the capital gain part.
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by pascalxus 7y ago
Why is the real rate of return on real estate anything above 0? If so, it means we're getting significantly worse at producing housing/shelter. Sure, some of it can be chalked up to land value increase. But, much of america is
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by pascalxus 7y ago
no need for such rudeness.
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by pascalxus 7y ago
I agree with the notion that every human being should have a fundamental right to shelter. Maybe not in the location of their choosing, but somewhere on this d * planet there really ought to be a place where they can be. The solution is,

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