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Jassy needs to go back to being a sportscaster. All he knows how to do is keep Amazon stock down and money-pit projects running in perpetuity.

The bridge flyover reminds me of SimCopter, some of us like retro gaming and don't mind a little jankiness. Especially since this can give you a convenient base to work with.

Exactly, interest rates must come down due to the government debt burden. This debt burden creates a strong incentive to force rates to zero, but we have to pretend the Federal Res…

I don't understand the cost either, apparently it only costs around a billion dollars to build a skyscraper? The Burj Khalifa only cost one and a half billion dollars when complete…

Children and teens don't buy their own smartphones, they get them from their parents.

The Bay Area companies have been driving the economy forward for several decades now, it's been economically dominant since the mid 1990s. Consider more 'recent' companies like Goo…

It's not the overall metro area GDP itself but rather per capita, the people in the Bay Area are simply much wealthier and higher income. This is also true in the Puget Sound regio…

The Bay Area is far wealthier and much more economically relevant than NYC. NYC has a very large low income population. NYC doesn't have nearly as strong of an economy, financial s…

Seattle upset their police force and made them quit, they then had to pay overtime to fewer remaining officers which increased their spending.

There's no shortage of 'talent' in the US, particularly Amazon tier L4/L5 talent. Also, it was always less expensive to hire offshore regardless of H1B fees.

This is a bad marketing idea to compare a golf cart like this to a Toyota Tacoma. There is practically zero ground clearance and a unibody frame, this will high center in places wh…

That will kill the open web for conversations. It will be a sterile, censored place and real conversation will move elsewhere.

This is nonsense, you could buy a nice car and a home 50 years while working at the post office. Because we have faster computers and smartphones does not make us wealthier.

There were cranes everywhere back in 2017, now the cranes are mostly gone. My rent increases every year, generally by 10%.

Google has been doing the same thing. The fact is that these companies simply have too many employees and they aren't able to properly utilize everyone.

It's the same deal in Seattle, I don't even bother reporting this stuff to the police. Elsewhere, the police would respond and it would show in statistics.

Depositors failed to do their due diligence, the bank offered 'sweet heart' deals to get customers. Depositors should lose their pants and have to wait for the FDIC to liquidate be…

Funny thing is, part of why SVB blew themselves up was they bought a bunch of long term mortgage backed securities paying low rates so now those securities have lost a ton of value…

Sure you do, banks fail and you shouldn't expect more than $250,000 of coverage.

Yeah, you can short eurodollars or maybe something else to hedge risk. At a certain point, you need to be sophisticated enough to manage your funds.

The bank has long term bonds that they loaded up on during the Covid interest rate lows. It's not possible for the uninsured depositors to get anything near 100% of their deposits …

There's no such place, smart cameras will be ubiquitous. They are too useful and inexpensive.

There are very specific coding expectations for applied scientists and research interns at these companies. They are not going to allow someone to skip these.

This is wrong, for a programming interview FAANG and friends care greatly about mitigating legal risk and would not treat them any differently. Interviewers typically have their ow…

I haven't been to a physical bank to do any business in close to a decade. This looks like a USPS bailout package for what's largely another useless service other than doing packag…