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This makes me think; what if you shorted USDT? There seems to be almost no scenario where USDT becomes more valuable than the USD, and the worst case is it continues to be worth th…

The other thing is earthquake safety. Wood frame is often far more resilient to sheer stress than concrete/brick. Concrete can be reinforced to mitigate that, but I wonder how viab…

You could. At the same time, a new construction townhouse (and maybe even SFH) there is extremely limited maintenance work needed. Plus, you don't need to be concerned with a HOA s…

They started ZO back in 2018. I think the bigger concern was the amount of growth and threat Opendoor presented them. There was a vision that they will fundamentally change the sec…

6% has been the norm in the US for a long time. It is absurdly high and is why opportunities like iBuying exist. In the UK, there is no wiggle room for such ventures, but as the tr…

I would also argue a responsibility to their shareholders. How much revenue would they have missed out on during this time? And how much will it affect their longer term growth? If…

I believe that in a society that has free speech, there is a duty of the member's of society to exercise their free speech and disassociate from those acting unethically. Particula…

I think if you were smart enough, you may be able to mask some needed changes under some legitimate tickets. You make certain changes that you know will break stuff, but you assign…

Many will misinterpret it. We have seen how much the public can fundamentally misunderstand technical information over the past year. People will just see that: 1. You can never di…

Yes, essentially.

This is called speech mitigation, btw (Coined by pop-psychologist Malcolm Gladwell). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitigated_speech

I was admitted to Brazil 5 times under an allegedly expired visa. I had no way of knowing it was expired, it’s not specified anywhere on the visa or in any Brazilian embassy/travel…

Shouldn’t Netflix be in favor of remote work for business purposes? I would think there is a correlation between the amount of wfh across the world and Netflix viewership.

I remember my math teacher used to come around and take everyone’s batteries out at the start of an exam to clear the RAM. Little did she know you can just save the notes in ROM th…

And that is why I donate to ACLU every month.

If the kids made serious contributions, that is one thing. However, that really doesn’t seem to be the case here. Nepotism is majorly harmful. If their kids go into academia, they …

Stripe is an example of it. They do have a dashboard, but at the end of the day, without implementing their AI or stripe.js, there is not much you can do with them. It seems like a…

Agreed. It only sounds maybe 1 step removed from where aws lambda’s are now. You fiddle with the code in the lambda IDE, and submit for deployment. Is this really that much differe…

I like that in Australia, retailers and others have to show the final amount. It seems that because sales taxes can't be known definitely for a given consumer at time of advertisem…

That's a great way of looking at it! I've never thought of it like that.

I'm not sure it needs to be like that. Most developed nations have a public health system. Akin to how the US has public schools and emergency services. The revolution could be the…

That's the problem. As a healthcare consumer, there is no way to discern between costs of providers. Just that some are "in-network" (meaning your insurance works with them and the…

I kind of want these issues to continue and get worse. Because then we will have a healthcare revolution, rather than more bandaid policy fixes. It seems like the US healthcare sys…

I’m curious what people think this would mean for hiring? If all of a sudden there a 8 or 9 smaller, but still quite large, giants competing for talent, I could imagine competing f…

Almost all states are at-will. So severance isn’t required. But it’s usually for the employer’s peace of mind, it can prevent class-action lawsuits as well as former employees spea…