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FYI, Redfin publishes the average percentage that homes in an area sell for relative to last asking price. For Sunnyvale, it's 9% above [1]. (I'd argue that highest asking price wo…

> but only if we all agree. "we all" in this case refers to the top single-digit percent of holders [1]. It's no small feat to get consensus there! But it's also not very decentral…

I was locked out of my account for 3.5 years before they worked through the queue far enough to get to me. I stopped using Coinbase long before then though.

Hyperbole doesn't help here. Legalizing four-plexes in your neighborhood will almost never knock a million dollars off your home's value. I bet it'd be hard to find many examples o…

Probably. I used to commute a stressful ~40 mins by car and would happily spend $6 to be able to read or nap on the way home. I'd definitely pay more to use someone else's self-dri…

(late reply) That wasn't what I was referring to. Net worth is (assets - debts), so the money for a down payment is largely the only part of a house that contributes to net worth a…

Totally. I'm deliberate and happy with the the bubble I've created. It's actually quite diverse in terms of authenticated sources-- the anonymous content is what's heavily filtered…

I completely agree. But it's hard, since "politics" is broad and almost everything touches it in some way. The main way I've tried to achieve this is by largely limiting what I rea…

Time in the market > timing the market. As long as you don't put more than ~30% of your money into a single asset (e.g. a house), then you're pretty certain to always make money in…

There are 3.4 billion internet users. It takes about 30 W to watch video in a browser [1]. Assuming every internet user watches 85 minutes of video per day [2] (517 hr/year), video…

You're getting a lot of replies but I don't see anyone answering the initial questions. Some really rough math for playing video games: Assuming I'm playing with someone across the…

I use my Honeywell 24/7 and also find it effective [1] and easy to clean [2], even with our "hard" tap water. It might help that I use a good air filter nearby, which solves the du…

0.5% of a big number is a big number. If it were a Google product, I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to get O(10s of millions) users in the first week (or 0.5% of the billions of exi…

Absolutely. Upzoning never forces owners to "give up their home"-- maybe the issue is owners don't want their neighbors to be able to sell their homes to developers either.

I'd say there's effectively no latency, since most games don't need or benefit from I mainly play twitchy shooters on a fairly high-end PC (CSGO, Tarkov, Q3A back in the day) and w…

I back up my photos from my phone to Dropbox, which is automated and seems to be reliable. Dropbox also makes it easy to back up to a hard drive I have in my possession. When combi…

Not defending fraud (in general or in this specific case), but who it being ruined for? Amazon is still making fabulous amounts of money, prices are still low there, and the policy…

Absolutely. I think one of the fun things about that calculator is that you can mess around with the numbers to try different situations. Perhaps there's a way to account for that …

I semi-regularly plug numbers into this Buy v Rent calculator by NYT [1]. They're pretty equivalent in the 10-30 year range and match housing prices I've seen. It's hard to beat th…

No, that's editorializing based on the few differentiating factors I found. Though I think the idea that the more expensive model is pushed by dealers makes sense too.

To give an example, the Subaru Crosstrek is a lifted Subaru Impreza hatchback. They share nearly all parts, and have the same interior and cargo space. The differences are: 1. Cros…

We did this at a previous company in the healthcare space. It made audits easy since we could point to every instance of the design changing, who approved it, and the code that imp…

I believe you can add a delay for what the viewers see, which would give you some time to cut the stream in case any secrets are shown. Else, it's good practice for a secret rotati…

The license is here [1]. It looks like you can redistribute with attribution and alike license. [1] https://design.gs.com/d/legal/goldman-sans-license/