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morngn

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    Comment #44559635

    In my area owning a trailer park home requires being in like the top 1% internationally. Owning 1 home in Oakland may be worse than owning 4 in Detroit, in terms of being an under-…

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    Comment #44551718

    “Bitcoin in particular is here to stay.” It’s here to stay not because it solves a legitimate problem or makes people’s lives better, but because like cancer, there is no cure. Bit…

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    Comment #44541754

    I think he was being metaphorical.

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    Comment #44541419

    The bubble won’t pop on anything that’s correlated with scammers. Exhibit A: bitcoin. The problem is not one of public knowledge or will of the people, it’s congress being irrespon…

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    Comment #44532439

    I think cognitive dissonance explains much of it. Assuming Altman isn’t a sociopath (not unheard of in CEOs) he must feel awful about himself on some level. He may be many things, …

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    Comment #44524679

    But if it gets built one town over wouldn’t that be a double whammy: higher energy prices and no tax revenue to offset that increase? Seems like prisoners’ dilemma.

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    Comment #44520630

    Ironically, those may have been the staff with the most institutional knowledge. Seeing people argue, here of all places, that loc or commit frequency == institutional knowledge is…

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    Comment #44520416

    “Your choice of language is irrelevant if your goal is to maintain software.” It may not be the most important choice, but it’s not irrelevant. And whether the staff he fired had u…