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> If every house is overvalued by some metric, then maybe the metric is wrong. We're seeing people moving, and supply limits are influencing both rental prices and purchase prices.…

Posting a contrarian take can get you fired. There is little point in peaking out from whatever novel thing you're interested in and discussing it when there are people who get the…

I don't want social media to censor me, people I want to communicate with or people I don't ever want to communicate with. I want tools that help me communicate with other people. …

I do this in Twitter with lists. They don't make it obvious, but lists actually make it quite usable once you've set them up. Facebook (or Instagram) don't seem to have good option…

Facebook should focus on giving tools to individuals and communities to communicate with each other and speak freely with one another. Communities and individuals should determine …

> You still need a physical machine to access "the cloud", so don't you still have all the expensive problems related to managing a fleet of PCs, but now you have to do it x2? Micr…

> I realized the truth of the Appleton model. Thirty years from now all the new homes she’s selling will slip into the “old” category and will gradually fester as taxes rise and th…

Microsoft doesn't break down sales figures, but overall their Surface business is a couple billion a year. Surface Pros are about as good as you can get right now for a general pur…

High level, there are basically four paths to getting revenue in journalism: - ads - subscribers - donations from small patrons - donations from large patrons These cover a lot of …

You are not immune to censorship. The things that you say and write now are very likely going to be put under a microscope in the future and be found wanting. And you will have to …

Dating isn't fun. At least it isn't for me as a middle aged divorce. I get matches, I meet interesting people and go on dates and the process is just emotionally exhausting. I woul…

Unfortunately, the people that I care about mostly want to talk about what they're outraged about.

Famously capitalist Sweden has a lower tax on corporate income than the US. It's a good policy, and you should be for it even if you want to soak the rich.

> What happens when nothing can be discussed? At that point, not discussing anything clearly means that you're a witch.

> Basically, honesty is expensive and cheating is cheap. Why would we trust it? We shouldn't. And indeed, if you look at a random legitimate review of something it's unlikely to be…

We have a coming of age passage where 18 year olds already spend absurd amounts of money on consumption goods, frequently with loans they cannot discharge in the event the passage …

The virus doesn't care about our posts. It does not read them, does not try to influence them. It is mindless and it may not even be alive, depending on the definition of life. The…

This is good advice, especially for folks who entered the workforce during the Great Recession. You have to take risks and be uncomfortable to grow. But you also have to accept tha…

It's great advice, but if I'm not sometimes tempted to skip a day for a hobby (hello running) it doesn't feel as fulfilling to me. I'm under no illusions that I will ever be a grea…

This one is actually kind of complicated. Healthcare costs are weird. In general marginal costs to make drugs you already know how to make are usually low, so you can and do see a …

I'm sure they're quite nice jackets, but they're a flex. You're telling the world you can drop a grand on a jacket. Nothing wrong with that, or enjoying a great jacket in the proce…

It was, but Active Directory wasn't. If you put your DCs on the Internet you're asking to get hacked.

Another point worth mentioning is that as we move towards zero trust by default, AD getting replaced by Azure AD is a logical step towards that goal.

Make everything illegal and selectively enforce against people the state doesn't like is a viable strategy for an authoritarian government. This might be a problem for the HK gover…

> This is of course Amazon’s model, which underpriced competitors in retail and eventually came to control the whole market. Amazon's model is to be better at ecommerce and logisti…