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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jrnhaLzCqA

Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:57AM (#28956668)
They're positioning themselves as social justice activists, so I left.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

Re:Worldcoin on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:08PM (#28948585)
I wonder if eye-scanning hashes can handle Lasik / PRK
They also have a search engine that's good enough most of the time.
Re:Ask HN: Unplugging on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:51PM (#28802048)
Since much of the Internet is social activity, I'd try to replace it with some real life socialization.
High verbal IQ individuals with shallow understanding will still sound smart, except to a specialist.
Re:How to make housing more affordable on Sunday September 26, 2021 @08:49AM (#28660477)
Vienna is doing a nice job, building new "old town" areas with 75% affordable units.

[Bloomberg] Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VJudBdYXY

Road costs are astonishing. I remember seeing a single traffic light arm cost $250k.
Re:Are NFTs Status Symbols? on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:22AM (#28642816)
Its an interesting piece, people just reading the comments or commenting on NFTs in general are missing out.

>>[Status symbols] also need alibis, plausible excuses for ownership other than the intentional acquisition of status symbols ... The best alibi for NFTs is that they are an investment ... to cunningly flip later.

So when the market becomes saturated and the ability to flip (aka the alibi) is gone, will the market collapse?

Run it through outline.com if it has a bad print.css
I'm tired of seeing Bill Gates lecture us plebs. Saw a meme: "Joe Rogan, who's not a doctor, said such and such about corona" (a negative take) juxtaposed with "10 Things Bill Gates wants you to know about new corona variants"
Re:Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends? on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @10:09AM (#28289056)
A lot of people fall into the trap of negativity = IQ. Your brain can spit out a reason that DropBox will succeed or fail, but the failure case sounds smarter.
Re:SpaceX ships 100k Starlink terminals to customers on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @09:22AM (#28288492)
Also yachts, cruise ships, container ships, anything on the oceans.
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:13AM (#28277048)
We can test your model of reality. When X amount of youngsters get vaccinated, will we go back to normal? Ye or ne? My mental model says ne.
Re:Record rise in U.S. rents on Sunday August 22, 2021 @09:31PM (#28271482)
I just quoted the podcast which I linked. This isn't about commercial, its about residential.
Re:Record rise in U.S. rents on Sunday August 22, 2021 @04:51PM (#28269493)
This came up. He is no longer renewing 1-year leases, he expects to increase rent twice in 2022, so he is moving to a six-month lease. He also said 2022 will feature the largest rent increase in American history.
Re:Record rise in U.S. rents on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:49PM (#28267737)
Neal Bawa explained that rent prices follow housing prices with about an 18 month lag. There is a set of would-be homeowners, richer than renters, who have been since been priced out of the home buying market, so they outspend the previous set of renters, driving prices up.

REI074: Data-Driven Real Estate Investing W/ Neal Bawa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzeTx1KE600

A major takeaway from this podcast is that 4-plexes are the best economic investment because they are liquid, ie. 5-plexes incur more scrutiny from the bank, the downside of multiplex is you may need a property manager, so after scraping zillow and doing some machine learning to deduce the most profitable market, Mr. Bawa builds seas of 4-plexes with all administered by a single property management office.

Its about binding everyday life with government compliance. Everyone will figure this out sooner or later.
Re:Berlin, a divided city. The events of 60 years ago on Saturday August 14, 2021 @10:34AM (#28180962)
Odd/amusing point, the Stasi referred to the wall as the "antifascist defense border". Although these days, I'm a bit torn on the term as I see rent prices jacked up across the world by whomever can borrow money at the lowest rate.

The Stasi and the Berlin Wall | DW Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haxkWC6MgcQ

If you understand DeFi loans, you are 99% there, since that comprises much of the enthusiasm. Lots of good writeups about the collapse of Iron have been mentioned here.
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