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It’s a nickname of the Guardian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graun

Do you drink wine? The best analogy for the difference between Moutai vs Moutai Prince is the difference between a $100+ bottle of fruit forward Napa Cab vs a supermarket red that …

As is true for many hard alcohols, you typically get what you pay for when it comes to Baijiu. Moutai Prince is terrible compared to Moutai but the difference is not in the immedia…

We can build housing very well. It’s a matter of cost. Labor is not cheap. Have you tried to price out construction recently? You don’t need to take it from a random comment on HN.…

Since this comment has been downvoted, I’ll add more math. Building housing takes anywhere from 3 to 4 years for any significant development that can make a dent. When the average …

Then you should do it. The market will clearly reward you for it right?

this ignores the basic economics which is that it’s too expensive to build housing. Labor is expensive, materials are expensive, and permitting is expensive.

Tangential to the topic: articles like this one often talk about “waiting lists” for luxury items like Hermes bags and Rolex watches. To be clear, there is no waiting list, or at l…

This matters for R&D tax credits as well. Only new feature development is considered eligible.

I’ve recently started research construction costs due to a desire to build a custom house. Not sure what it’s like in other areas of the country, but in California, everything is n…

I suspect what is happening is that the affordability crunch is causing a noticeable drop in demand in the HCOL areas (hence the pronounced decrease in prices in the Bay Area I not…

Housing prices are dropping, as would be expected with the interest rate hikes. House prices are set at the margins, just like any asset. Even if the folks with 3% mortgage rates s…

There’s a lot of negativity towards capitalism here in this thread which is hard for me to understand when the average Hacker News user is upper middle class chatting away on socia…

Influenza B is thought to have been made extinct recently due to the pressures introduced by SARS-CoV-2 https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211025/covid-pandemic-may-...

There are 2 things happening at once that seem to be causing a rift in online discussions: 1. It seems like people are severely underrating the flu and always have been. Remember w…

I know a lot of folks are walking away from the puzzling aesthetic but I think that’s the point. Existing Tesla owners with a taste for existing design cues won’t push Tesla sales …

This doesn’t include the fact that all foreign enterprises in China are actually 51% owned domestically. Tariffs, while severe, are no where close to this extreme protectionism. Th…

The real problem is that there hasn’t been any attempt at policy changes to correct this. In order to do so, society needs to chip away at the problem in steps. Right now, real est…

Random Conjecture: the most efficient way to build a new intelligent entity is through the process that we’ve been familiar with all this time — natural birth. Intuition: to truly …

The grandparent post means that the customer hostnsmes also work without any API calls if configured properly.

That's a great idea. We should call them States.

A more "common" Patek like a Calatrava would be a different story and you've changed the goalpost in the discussion. So we're no longer talking about the highest levels of horologi…

Anyone who buys a watch for the status is going to be disappointed. A $200,000 car will get you laid quick. A $200,000 watch wouldn't get noticed except by geeks you wouldn't want …

I have some interesting pieces from the 1950s that are still running with no repair to date (but these were well kept). I'm fortunate enough that my grandparents had some of their …