samlevine

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by samlevine 4y ago
> If every house is overvalued by some metric, then maybe the metric is wrong. We're seeing people moving, and supply limits are influencing both rental prices and purchase prices. It's a weird housing market. The question of t
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by samlevine 5y ago
Posting a contrarian take can get you fired. There is little point in peaking out from whatever novel thing you're interested in and discussing it when there are people who get their fun out of ruining lives. This selects for people wh
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by samlevine 5y ago
I don't want social media to censor me, people I want to communicate with or people I don't ever want to communicate with. I want tools that help me communicate with other people. Learn things, get exposed to new ideas. And we can
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by samlevine 5y ago
I do this in Twitter with lists. They don't make it obvious, but lists actually make it quite usable once you've set them up. Facebook (or Instagram) don't seem to have good options for this so for the most part I don't
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by samlevine 5y ago
Facebook should focus on giving tools to individuals and communities to communicate with each other and speak freely with one another. Communities and individuals should determine their rules, not Facebook. Platform wide content moderation
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by samlevine 5y ago
> You still need a physical machine to access "the cloud", so don't you still have all the expensive problems related to managing a fleet of PCs, but now you have to do it x2? Microsoft Intune/Endpoint manager is actu
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by samlevine 5y ago
> I realized the truth of the Appleton model. Thirty years from now all the new homes she’s selling will slip into the “old” category and will gradually fester as taxes rise and the middle class migrates to new greenfield developments. T
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by samlevine 5y ago
Microsoft doesn't break down sales figures, but overall their Surface business is a couple billion a year. Surface Pros are about as good as you can get right now for a general purpose computer that is also a tablet and also are not in
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by samlevine 5y ago
High level, there are basically four paths to getting revenue in journalism: - ads - subscribers - donations from small patrons - donations from large patrons These cover a lot of different business models. If you want to make money at jour
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by samlevine 5y ago
You are not immune to censorship. The things that you say and write now are very likely going to be put under a microscope in the future and be found wanting. And you will have to choose between lying, keeping your mouth shut, and having yo
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by samlevine 5y ago
Dating isn't fun. At least it isn't for me as a middle aged divorce. I get matches, I meet interesting people and go on dates and the process is just emotionally exhausting. I would rather put in time into my job, or my friends, o
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by samlevine 5y ago
Unfortunately, the people that I care about mostly want to talk about what they're outraged about.
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by samlevine 5y ago
Famously capitalist Sweden has a lower tax on corporate income than the US. It's a good policy, and you should be for it even if you want to soak the rich.
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by samlevine 6y ago
> What happens when nothing can be discussed? At that point, not discussing anything clearly means that you're a witch.
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by samlevine 6y ago
> Basically, honesty is expensive and cheating is cheap. Why would we trust it? We shouldn't. And indeed, if you look at a random legitimate review of something it's unlikely to be particularly helpful. More users does not make
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by samlevine 6y ago
We have a coming of age passage where 18 year olds already spend absurd amounts of money on consumption goods, frequently with loans they cannot discharge in the event the passage fails (university). In principle, just giving new adults the
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by samlevine 7y ago
The virus doesn't care about our posts. It does not read them, does not try to influence them. It is mindless and it may not even be alive, depending on the definition of life. The tools you use to counter a disinformation campaign are
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by samlevine 7y ago
This is good advice, especially for folks who entered the workforce during the Great Recession. You have to take risks and be uncomfortable to grow. But you also have to accept that your choices have opportunity costs and it takes time to m
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by samlevine 7y ago
It's great advice, but if I'm not sometimes tempted to skip a day for a hobby (hello running) it doesn't feel as fulfilling to me. I'm under no illusions that I will ever be a great runner, for example, but pushing my bo
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by samlevine 7y ago
This one is actually kind of complicated. Healthcare costs are weird. In general marginal costs to make drugs you already know how to make are usually low, so you can and do see a lot of free riders on the expensive part (R&D). It would
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by samlevine 7y ago
I'm sure they're quite nice jackets, but they're a flex. You're telling the world you can drop a grand on a jacket. Nothing wrong with that, or enjoying a great jacket in the process. But it's clearly a signal of we
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by samlevine 7y ago
It was, but Active Directory wasn't. If you put your DCs on the Internet you're asking to get hacked.
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by samlevine 7y ago
Another point worth mentioning is that as we move towards zero trust by default, AD getting replaced by Azure AD is a logical step towards that goal.
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by samlevine 7y ago
Make everything illegal and selectively enforce against people the state doesn't like is a viable strategy for an authoritarian government. This might be a problem for the HK government, but I'm not sure rule of law is as big of a
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by samlevine 7y ago
> This is of course Amazon’s model, which underpriced competitors in retail and eventually came to control the whole market. Amazon's model is to be better at ecommerce and logistics than everyone else, including Walmart, which itse
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by samlevine 7y ago
To the best of my knowledge the corporate tax in question is a tax on income, rather than revenue. Any would-be competitor to Google is going to want to plow most/all of their revenue back into growth for years, perhaps over a decade.
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by samlevine 7y ago
It's basically a tariff. There is no European tech company that's going to compete with Google. They could ban Google entirely and the result would be Baidu etc. coming in and doing the exact same things.
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by samlevine 7y ago
This will encourage landlords to tear down existing properties rather than renovate them, as well as to not maintain them well. Rental housing quality will bifurcate further, with poor and lower middle class people living in worse housing.
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by samlevine 7y ago
> I think Facebook's goal is to make it so that you have one persona you show to everyone. To me, that seems like a cultural thing unique to Silicon Valley that the rest of the world does not necessarily want. I'm from Seattle
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by samlevine 7y ago
Humans evolved to be really good at long distance running and given proper training, time and discipline you can run an absurd distance compared to most mammals.

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