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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
The real problem is that governments around the developed world gave up on building affordable social housing since the 70s. AirBnB investors just highlight the symptoms.
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
I'm one of those that save/invest 70% of their take-home income. It's not about frugality at all - I would gladly pay for an increased quality of life - but it's simply not on offer. Past a certain threshold, a threshol
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
A large reason is likely to double dip on the EV subsidies. Scoop 200,000 x $7,500 subsidies under the name 'Ford', then another fraction of 200,000 x $7,500 as partial owner and supplier under the name 'Rivian'
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
FSD occasionally requesting driver to take over in genuinely difficult situations would be completely fine. The videos in the Twitter feed are nothing like that. The car makes potentially catastrophic blunders, like driving straight into a
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
Propulsive landing has been achieved routinely and with perfect precision since the 60s - Apollo's lunar modules, Lunar surveyor, Lunokhod rovers. The question has never been about the feasibility of landing the booster stages - what h
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
Battery manufacturing needs a lot of land, which is dirt cheap in Northern Sweden. Another activity that needs a lot of land is mining, which is one of the primary economic activities in the otherwise desolate region. > Corporate tax rat
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
There's a lot of corporate fraud like this, even in countries that have a reputation of being well governed. I personally saw a respectable Finnish company leeching on government innovation funds, asking employees to log their working
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
The article echoes what General Jim Mattis commented on the topic of leadership in one of his interviews - (paraphrasing) decisions take an hour to make, the rest of the day is spent crafting the message to ensure there's no room for a
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
Low fees - but only once you're in the crypto ecosystem. If you're after dollars or euros, the on-ramp and off-ramp at exchanges adds a comparable, if not higher layer of fees than existing payment mechanisms, kind of defeating th
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
The trained model is a guarded treasure. There's a reason why very few ML papers publish their trained models; or Deepmind/OpenAI never releasing the resulting models - it's expensive to train the network, but cheap to use it
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
There are several reasons it's mostly a China-operation. Interestingly, it's a textbook example of deficiencies being the competitive advantage. #1 - China's electricity grid is not very efficient at distributing, which lea
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
Expressing the energy consumption in electric vehicle mileage makes the numbers more tangible. 500kWh is ~3000 kilometers of range for a mid-sized EV, or enough to move a family across the whole continent. Just to shift BTC from one pocket
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
In other words - different business environments create different equilibria. In Chinese/Soviet/1920s America equilibrium, with an insatiable demand for construction work, the profit maximizing behavior is to be done quickly in de
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
The reality is even worse. The article depicts the operators as middle-men piggybacking on the tech expertise of vendors like Ericsson or Nokia. Unfortunately, the vendors are subject to exactly the same pressures. The whole industry is in
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by throwaway-8c93 5y ago
Panama has full right to set its own tax rates. Developed countries have full right to deny Panama's corporations from entering their markets, and even forbid their own corporations from dealing with their Panama counterparts. Or, more
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
I do share your skepticism overall, 5G is being pushed more aggressively than its value would warrant. But there are parts of 5G suite that are indeed valuable and go beyond the mere "moar speed" mantra. Network slicing is not con
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
Tesla's lineup is still great, but other automakers are closing the gap very quickly. And that's with the intentional market segmentation they have to do in order for EVs not to look too attractive compared to their ICE lineup. Lo
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
They're not islands in a strict geographical sense, but there are a dozen or so countries which are de-facto islands for any practical purposes - accessible only through large bodies of water, with land borders mostly impassable or cro
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
Sorry, that's just not how it works. What makes a card good at gaming (floating point operations per second) makes it good at mining, and vice versa. If the price/performance of the gaming variant is more favorable than the mining
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
Had this been about diversifying their future income streams, the most efficient way would be the most boring one - buy yet another 1% of everything. Pouring tens of billions into startups with questionable business models, in the world&#x2
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
As Solow put it - "once you have begun to think about economic growth, it is hard to think about anything else". After reading a lot of economic literature on this topic, my gut feeling is that endowments trump policy. Bad polic
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
How much value can you get our of Reddit heavily depends on which subreddits you subscribe to. r/news or r/politics is a cesspool. r/askhistorians is pure gold. Hobbyist subreddits are extremely valuable - discussions are pol
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
On Android, Reddit client RedReader is a great showcase of how pleasant and responsive modern applications could be, had they not been hobbled by tracking, ads, in-app purchase nudging, useless client-server roundtrips, etc. Minimalistic, b
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
A question out of genuine curiosity: Doesn't the nonce puzzle difficulty adjust to the amount of compute the network has, making it a zero sum game? If every mining pool buys 20% extra GPUs, isn't everyone soon back where they sta
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
> Is what RH doing legal for a brokerage? At this point, nobody cares - Reddit found a repeatable distributed exploit that cannot be patched, and the financial system's self-preservation instinct kicked in.
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
> After performing over 100 interviews: interviewing is thoroughly broken. I also have no idea how to actually make it better. My score is similar, and kind of agree. The eerie part is that the intuition can discern a good hire within 2
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
It's not cheaper. However, employee compensation is a contractual obligation. Benefits and perks can be unilaterally revoked by employer at any point.
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
> banks loan out "your money" to companies When the bank lends you money, it usually doesn't go from its deposits. Usually, there's an offsetting loan the bank takes from other banks, at the inter-bank lending rate (e
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
I don't want to be the spoilsport, but yes, they very much can and it's not even that difficult. Case in point: I moved to Finland as an immigrant 9 years ago, with nothing but a backpack, girlfriend and $12k in my bank account. W
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by throwaway-8c93 6y ago
> with the ECB insisting there's no inflation House prices are represented in the consumer price index as 'imputed rent', generally by far the highest weight item. Last time I checked, its weight was at 9%.

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