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It does depreciate, usually. It's the land underneath that appreciates in value. Occasionally if you get unusual spikes in building materials and labour costs then the house itself…

It's basically one way to implement Georgism, and is a standout real world example of why land ownership policies are very important.

> Cloudflare is an outlier because the company doesn't actually make money at present; their past three annual statements show net losses in the tens to hundreds of millions of dol…

It's significantly more efficient to provide services to compact towns than sprawled towns, so I'm not sure this registers to me as a downside. It's pretty common for small sprawle…

I don't want to just copy and paste my previous comment, but this isn't how companies at this size think about declaring profits. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347993 …

This is a pretty surface level analysis; Atlassian also has stock buybacks of billions of dollars each year. It's an intentional choice to not declare a profit and pay a dividend, …

Jevon's Paradox: more software will be produced, rather than fewer software engineers being employed.

It's not uncommon in NZ/Aus to be paid weekly and pay rent weekly. I find monthly rent to be just as strange!

I found it a helpful analogy. Cooking almost any Japanese food will quickly introduce you to dashi and kombu, and I didn't know what carrageenan was.

Cron job with a bash script syncing media and the database to S3 Deep Archive once a day. Cheap as chips until you need to restore.

> Obviously, every single existing property owner wants it to stop right now. Because more housing means more supply, means less money for them. Upzoning actually increases land va…

If the mini PC is second hand then using it until it dies is already a much better recycling culture than it going straight to the landfill. I much prefer that than buying these hi…

Dell/HP/Lenovo all have huge amounts of ex-corporate mini PCs constantly coming onto the second hand market as they reach the end of Windows 10 licensing, or are depreciated out, o…

I'm trialing a NAS with Immich, and then backing up the media and Immich DB dump daily to AWS S3 Deep Archive. It has Android and iOS apps, and enough of the feature set of Google …

Being East Asian doesn't make you blend in (visually). Japanese people look different to Korean and Chinese people.

Maybe formal spoken Cantonese/Mandarin, but colloquial spoken Cantonese for example is very different from formal written Cantonese. It would sound odd to speak the way things are …

Batteries aren't unrepairable; you wouldn't open one up in the middle of the road to try fix it but at the bus depot with enough volume of battery electric vehicles, they'll have r…

The sale value won't stay flat unless you tax land (or use leasehold like Singapore), because typically incomes rise, and in most places the rate of building new housing has an equ…

It's good practice to separate out your control plane and data plane, so in this kind of scenario you can use the control plane freely to manage and scale up the data plane without…

As a non-American, Hispanic, white, and black American people in the USA are all "American, American, American", and not really a melting pot if that's the only ethnic groups you'r…

It's for workers' rights. Even ole' John Calvin (who probably started it in Switzerland) wanted Sunday as a day off because it protected workers rights against overwork, not becaus…

I don't know about clean, I saw hardly any (men) wash their hands after using the bathroom. Sometimes they'd wave their hands under the tap. Without turning it on. Seemed more like…

> Cultures that value kids will have more. My parents did the same for us Last I checked, cultures that have access to contraception and female education have fewer kids, independe…

Wikipedia says in 2022 there were 4.4 million software developers in the USA. H1bs are ~85,000 added per year. Say over the last 20 years, every h1b slot was filled (by software de…

Shadow interviewers are common; why would it be inane to expect an interviewee to ignore the shadow?