postpawl

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by postpawl 8mo ago
The dark fiber analogy doesn't quite work though, because unused fiber just sits there harmlessly. Nuclear plants have massive decommissioning costs ($280M-600M+ per plant), ongoing waste storage requirements, and if the companies go b
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by postpawl 8mo ago
You can substitute cocoa sources globally, but you can't substitute a house in Charlotte with one in Phoenix. If cocoa prices spike, you buy less chocolate. If housing prices spike in your job market, your options are: pay more, endure
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by postpawl 9mo ago
That's surprising given the data. Were these transactions recent? Investors focus on entry-level properties, so if you're buying above that tier you'd see less competition. But California overall has high investor activity: “
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by postpawl 9mo ago
The St Louis fed did a study about this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2020/2020-04... “We find that investors' purchases increase the price-to-income ratio, especially in the bottom pr
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by postpawl 9mo ago
Most people can't build their own home (time, skills, land access, upfront capital for materials). It's like responding to “healthcare is too expensive” with “I just treated my own broken arm”.
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by postpawl 9mo ago
A mom and pop landlord with 5 rentals doesn't have pricing power. A firm owning 1 in 5 homes in a neighborhood does. That's why antitrust thresholds exist in other industries.
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by postpawl 9mo ago
Building helps, but without addressing who gets to buy the new stock, you're potentially just building inventory for PE portfolios.
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by postpawl 9mo ago
The national average obscures that institutional investors own 1 in 9 rental homes in Charlotte, 1 in 10 in Tampa, and one-fifth of all houses in some Atlanta neighborhoods. It’s likely to get worse too. Have you tried buying a home recentl
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by postpawl 11mo ago
The worst customer service is usually for things where you don't have a choice, like when your mortgage gets sold to a new servicer.
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by postpawl 11mo ago
I think you're conflating the Democratic Party with "left-wing philosophy." Actual left-wing ideology (Marx, Lenin, the socialist tradition) focuses on material conditions for workers: who owns the means of production, labor
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by postpawl 11mo ago
Boeing was the prime contractor for the SLS core stage and upper stages, and Northrop Grumman builds the solid rocket boosters. The entire rocket was outsourced to private industry.
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by postpawl 1y ago
They’ve added support for a lot of switches. https://svanheule.net/switches/models
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by postpawl 1y ago
Project author here. This project is 4 years old at this point, and now it probably makes more sense to use Mac minis or mini pcs. I also wouldn’t rely on cheap colocation for anything security sensitive or critical. They gave my same block
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by postpawl 1y ago
GM announced a $10 billion stock buyback in November 2023, literally weeks after claiming they couldn't afford worker raises during the UAW strike that cost them $1.1 billion. Since 2015, GM has authorized $37.7 billion in total buybac
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by postpawl 1y ago
You're right that Medicaid subsidizes employers who pay poverty wages rely on taxpayers to provide healthcare for their workers instead of paying living wages themselves. But the solution isn't to eliminate Medicaid and leave work
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by postpawl 1y ago
What's the point of making requirements even stricter if they cost more to administer than they save and don't increase employment? The Congressional Budget Office estimates 5.2 million people would lose coverage by 2034, with sav
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by postpawl 1y ago
You're right that a lot of the NOAA cuts target climate research specifically. But think about who benefits from attacking climate science. Oil companies and existing wealth structures that profit from fossil fuels. Climate research th
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by postpawl 1y ago
It's not about whether they can work 20 hours. Most already do. Arkansas found 95% of people either met the requirements or qualified for exemptions, but 18,000+ still lost coverage due to the paperwork maze. The requirements are desig
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by postpawl 1y ago
Why frame it as ideological though? That doesn't explain which agencies get protected and which get cut. The NTSB stays funded because rich people fly on planes too. But Medicaid gets cut because wealthy people don't need it. Look
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by postpawl 1y ago
The work requirements force people to file paperwork proving 80 hours of work monthly, and Arkansas showed this paperwork maze caused 18,000+ people to lose coverage even though 95% already met the requirements or qualified for exemptions.
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by postpawl 1y ago
A culture war on poor people who need Medicaid? That doesn’t seem like class war to you?
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by postpawl 1y ago
I'm not sure why you're focusing on PUCT having “final say”. This Texas Tribune article shows ERCOT kept market prices too high for nearly two days after outages ended when their own market monitor said they should have reset pric
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by postpawl 1y ago
You're technically right about ERCOT's limited role in gas pricing and the regulatory distinctions. But ERCOT did have some direct failures beyond just being a scapegoat, like ignoring federal winterization warnings, the $16 billi
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by postpawl 1y ago
There’s already a lot of studies about this > More than half of excess U.S. health spending was associated with factors likely reflected in higher prices, including more spending on: administrative costs of insurance (~15% of the excess)
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by postpawl 1y ago
They were negotiating their way up from zero paid sick days per year.
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by postpawl 2y ago
This article seems not bad, but I’m skeptical of the Dynomight author because he previously downplayed the recent rise in homelessness as just returning to 2011 levels. Newer data from late 2024 shows homelessness actually surged 18% to a r
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by postpawl 2y ago
Those developers are working on “Internal Development Platforms” and building their own abstractions on top of tools like Kubernetes and Grafana to simplify things for developers. This page explains it pretty well: https://intern
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by postpawl 2y ago
A lot of important devops tools like Kubernetes and Grafana are written in golang, and it’s often handy to be able to import their code to use in your own code to automate those things.
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by postpawl 2y ago
Allowing the Sprint-T-Mobile merger in an already competitive-limited market was a mistake, especially when we see how these companies react to regulations meant to benefit the public and data breaches.
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by postpawl 2y ago
Saying things were “much more open” before GitHub is wild.

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