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Utility has many dimensions. How fast a car can go is one, how many people it can transport is another, how few emissions it creates is another. Someone might be willing to drop bi…

Yeah, it's high time the adage "you get what you pay for" was amended: "You get at most what you pay for". You know the $20 shoes won't be great, and sure, it's possible the $200 s…

> Does anyone else have difficulty understanding why anyone would pay this much for a car? Not really. I mean I've never spent that much on a car and I'm not sure I ever will, but …

Snowflake was just in the news for their big IPO - raising $3.4B and garnering a $70B valuation: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/09/16/Snowflake-sets-new-software-IPO-record/7…

> Among my friends that have bought houses, many of them have gone into significant debt just to buy a 3-4 bedroom house, even though they have no kids and only use one of the bedr…

You say mistake as if it were an intentional choice that turned out to be a bad one. I don't know my history of this subject very well, did policymakers really sit down and encoura…

Hi guys, I'm based in the DC metro area and due to general life circumstances (sharing parenting responsibilities while spouse also works full-time, etc) I'm hoping to find a posit…