starclerk

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by starclerk 5y ago
FYI, Redfin publishes the average percentage that homes in an area sell for relative to last asking price. For Sunnyvale, it's 9% above [1]. (I'd argue that highest asking price would be a better comparison, since the seller might
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by starclerk 5y ago
> but only if we all agree. "we all" in this case refers to the top single-digit percent of holders [1]. It's no small feat to get consensus there! But it's also not very decentralized/democratized and sounds a l
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by starclerk 5y ago
I was locked out of my account for 3.5 years before they worked through the queue far enough to get to me. I stopped using Coinbase long before then though.
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by starclerk 5y ago
Hyperbole doesn't help here. Legalizing four-plexes in your neighborhood will almost never knock a million dollars off your home's value. I bet it'd be hard to find many examples of upzoning causing SFHs to drop significantly
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by starclerk 5y ago
Probably. I used to commute a stressful ~40 mins by car and would happily spend $6 to be able to read or nap on the way home. I'd definitely pay more to use someone else's self-driving car (and insurance liability, more importantl
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by starclerk 5y ago
(late reply) That wasn't what I was referring to. Net worth is (assets - debts), so the money for a down payment is largely the only part of a house that contributes to net worth at purchase time. In other words, your down payment shou
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by starclerk 5y ago
Totally. I'm deliberate and happy with the the bubble I've created. It's actually quite diverse in terms of authenticated sources-- the anonymous content is what's heavily filtered. > It certainly will be better to kn
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by starclerk 5y ago
I completely agree. But it's hard, since "politics" is broad and almost everything touches it in some way. The main way I've tried to achieve this is by largely limiting what I read to: 1. Authenticated contributors, eit
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by starclerk 5y ago
Time in the market > timing the market. As long as you don't put more than ~30% of your money into a single asset (e.g. a house), then you're pretty certain to always make money in the long-term.
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by starclerk 6y ago
There are 3.4 billion internet users. It takes about 30 W to watch video in a browser [1]. Assuming every internet user watches 85 minutes of video per day [2] (517 hr/year), video consumption is 52 TWh per year. Or less than half of t
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by starclerk 6y ago
You're getting a lot of replies but I don't see anyone answering the initial questions. Some really rough math for playing video games: Assuming I'm playing with someone across the country, I hop 13 routers in a quick tracero
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by starclerk 6y ago
I use my Honeywell 24/7 and also find it effective [1] and easy to clean [2], even with our "hard" tap water. It might help that I use a good air filter nearby, which solves the dust problem. I used to use an ultrasonic humid
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by starclerk 6y ago
0.5% of a big number is a big number. If it were a Google product, I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to get O(10s of millions) users in the first week (or 0.5% of the billions of existing users).
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by starclerk 6y ago
Absolutely. Upzoning never forces owners to "give up their home"-- maybe the issue is owners don't want their neighbors to be able to sell their homes to developers either.
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by starclerk 6y ago
I'd say there's effectively no latency, since most games don't need or benefit from <10 ms response times. I mainly play twitchy shooters on a fairly high-end PC (CSGO, Tarkov, Q3A back in the day) and was super impresse
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by starclerk 6y ago
I back up my photos from my phone to Dropbox, which is automated and seems to be reliable. Dropbox also makes it easy to back up to a hard drive I have in my possession. When combined with Google Photos, it's N+2 redundancy for ~$12&#x