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This is an unfortunate outcome: under the argument offered by the company, they can lower your salary, and you can choose whether or not to take it. If you keep working, you have a…

Can SBF's parents house be sold on the open market? I was under the impression that you could only sell on-campus Stanford houses to other Stanford affiliated people?

At least when I went to one, I generally had no idea who had generational wealth (there were a few with famous names), and there weren't obvious ways to show it off; the University…

Perfect price discrimination raises the maximum amount of revenue, but tends to rub perlite the wrong way

I had not worked with cobol until recently. If you have a solid background in C, it is not very hard to learn. It seems to show up at older companies, and is fairly good at moving …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hagvGTyEMUA An axe and a broadaxe and a chalk line (though people originally just used charcoal). Making beams is not that hard, especially if you h…

If you happen to have a bunch of high-quality logs on-site, you can get a portable sawmill to come to you. My estimate was that about $1500 worth of rental and labor yielded $5000 …

Balloon framing requires: chop tree -> haul log to sawmill -> cut logs extensively -> haul dimensional timber to warehouse -> haul to customer. That's great if you have a train and…

The author fails to connect the dots: 1) Nails were expensive. Timber framing does not require any nails -- it uses dowels which can be made cheaply with a drawknife. 2) Unlike @si…

I don't think they the games are rigged. Fifa did a lot better than pro wrestling, and there's a reason for that. Likewise, 7/8 group winners defeated the #2s in the round of 16. B…

Isn't it absolutely amazing that VCs are willing to pay you 4 months worth of income to do absolutely nothing?

I've written skills for them. The issue is that as a skill writer, you have to pay for all the CPU usage, even when almost all the benefits accrue to amazon. Not nice.

Originally, the tokens were just a mechanism for low friction money transfers. As such, they have utility and thus value, but the value is somewhat arbitrary.

The issue, which is similar to how alcohol is mis regulated, is that the legislatures machines returns either to the states general funds (ny) or to the companies and their lobbyis…

I had the same issue with Beepi. Had a friend who worked there -- I got the sense that complying with a bunch of interstate car sales was rather tricky and they often had issues ge…

The concept is great. But the volatility in the used car market has been historically unprecedented, and there's no easy way for them to hedge this. As an FYI, I sold a car this sp…

Still rediscovering 19th century finance.

There's an occupied one on my block. They have to move fairly often, but it is cheaper than rent!

Go Sonja! It would be nice if cities could have rent controls or zoning but not both-it would eliminate a lot of conflicts over building new housing

So many people here do not know the details of NYC rent regulation, and are posting generalizations and falsehoods. Basically, you cannot raise rents aside from annual increases th…

If you have an apartment that hasn't turned over for 20+ years, you can either rerent it at a low text and get sued by your tenant for lead or habitability violations, or you can b…

loans are underwritten based on both the intrinsic value of the house and your ability to repay. You can't predict that second one years in advance. You can get a floating rate loa…

The idea that you can transfer excess wealth intertemporally and safely is something of a lie.

If the design is good, this should be cost effective unless the canal requires maintenance. The footings are there, there are no pesky weeds to grow and block the canal, the worker…

The issue is that he's going to be trying to maximize his chance for a win, and not his expected points. So the model likely underestimates his chance of success