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It's also silly to discount the value of non-liquid equity to zero, unless you think there is literally zero chance of experiencing a liquidity event.

> some female prisoners in Washington state wanted to know how many male prisoners had been transferred to women's prisons This is such an incredibly bad-faith and transphobic repr…

> people who are just plain nuts Are you suggesting that it's "plain nuts" to be against private ownership of land?

> It's no different than evangelicals who try to impose their morality on everyone else Are you trying to suggest that there aren't certain words it's inappropriate to use in certa…

> Could a better thought out measure achieve the same goals? How would you do it? It's a problem that needs to be solved on the supply side. Trying to solve it on the demand side i…

>With the current plan, the city is going to be a city with super high density combined with ultra low density and very little in-between. In other words, it will be full of wonder…

This comment is indistinguishable from satire.

>The fact that you can take out a loan You can take out a loan in crypto that's fully secured against some other crypto. It's turtles all the way down, and has zero relevance to wh…

I know HN is not the place for glibness, but literally: just build more homes. Everything else is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Zoning reform is the answer.

>In many countries, including Europe, new properties are quickly snatched by investment Demand for housing is not infinite, and supply of capital is not infinite. Building more uni…

>If someone clicks your ad and buys the product during that session, you know the ad worked This is not as clear as you make it seem. Let's say there's a hypothetical product that …

>How about I make an app that encourages users to snap pictures of people in public (totally legal) who are eating a big mac? You eating a big mac isn't a threat to me, my family o…

>anything which normalises surveillance by citizens on citizens is a death spiral for society FWIW, speeding causes actual deaths of members of society But I don't think this is th…

>It's going to hurt even more to find out they really don't enjoy your company as much as you thought they did This is the crux of the issue. There are many people who often feel l…

>The point of the article is that it's babyish to be so fragile that a friend cancelling plans causes you great pain, or so guilt-ridden that you can't bring yourself to cancel. My…

I find it a bit strange that the author leads with the example of wanting to "blind cancel", and then suggests that maturity and communication is the real answer to that scenario. …

>Around these parts, these new housing units are insanely expensive. So long as the total number of units increases, it really doesn't matter how much they cost, so long as they ge…

Rent controlled apartments are great for people who live in them. They are less good for everyone else.

>The "drunk driver returning home from the bar" problem has been solved. It's called a taxi. No need for defective self driving cars for that case. This is just wishful thinking. T…

On the other hand, using ever-increasing specificity to emulate !important is about as elegant and semantic as using the hypothetical properties !importanter, !importanterer and !i…

>Questioning the existence of supernatural powers is considered taboo in much of Nigerian society. >To be openly expressing such thoughts, as Mr Adewoyin was doing in a market, was…

Bugs caused by faulty equivalency-related code have been common for a long, long time in React development. I couldn't guess how many bugs related to object destructuring I wrote, …

>The FED ruined young peoples ability to afford a home. House prices have certainly risen substantially in the last few years [1]. But if the FED is to blame, why has the same thin…

>But know that after a few years your skills will be out of date and you will have a hard time keeping up with the field This totally depends on what type of engineer you want to b…

Many/most hot water bottles have a knitted fabric cover. When the heat runs out (which takes many hours), you are not in direct contact with the rubber/plastic body of the water bo…