I turned down an internship in Palo Alto because the least expensive temporary (< 12 mo) housing I could find in the Bay area was a bunk in a "hacker shack" for ~$1k/month. The mortgage on my 4/2 house in Mississippi was <$500/mo. The person who offered me the job laughed when I told her about the wild discrepancy in costs of living and said several potential interns and employees over the years backed out for the same reasons.
Bunk bed is $1,200 a month, privacy not included
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#22cnn is an assault on your browser. The header bar bouncing up and down as it chases your location, the video auto playing top right, the marketing overlay asking for your email to send market insights, the cookie acceptance bs at the bottom. All wrapped up nicely in 443 requests, and 19.1MB of data. I CAN NOT STAND the web anymore.
It's a good test for your ad blocker though. I got none of those things you mention, so I guess it's working pretty well.
(I use AdGuard for Safari configured to use the EasyList lists.)
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#23cnn is an assault on your browser. The header bar bouncing up and down as it chases your location, the video auto playing top right, the marketing overlay asking for your email to send market insights, the cookie acceptance bs at the bottom. All wrapped up nicely in 443 requests, and 19.1MB of data. I CAN NOT STAND the web anymore.
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#24What once was old is new again. The fad we call "co-living" today has been common for most of the nation's history. You can even see examples of it in old movies, books, and TV shows. But now that it's got SVVC money behind it, it's somehow shiny and new. Although the "pod" angle seems new, it's not. Though, it was almost exclusively for the very very poor in the past.
> What once was old is new again.
Does this also mean it is a "step down"? Because it looks like it is. Aren't we supposed to be better off than we used to - with all the efficiencies of market economy and technological progress that is...
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#25The midwest looks better every day.
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#26There are literally prison cells in some parts of the world that are more appealing than this...
There are? Where. Also, it doesn't matter. You can't leave prison. That's the main problem with it, not how poor or nice the finishes are.
Scandinavian prisons look like a pretty good time.
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#27What once was old is new again. The fad we call "co-living" today has been common for most of the nation's history. You can even see examples of it in old movies, books, and TV shows. But now that it's got SVVC money behind it, it's somehow shiny and new. Although the "pod" angle seems new, it's not. Though, it was almost exclusively for the very very poor in the past.
> What once was old is new again. Does this also mean it is a "step down"? Because it looks like it is. Aren't we supposed to be better off than we used to - with all the efficiencies of market economy and technological progress that is...
We are way better off. Just live somewhere else. You can rent a nice house in Ohio for less than half that much [1].
Progress doesn't subvert the laws of supply and demand.
[1] https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/apa/d/cincinnati-stunning-...
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#28This reminds me of the coffin hotels in Neuromancer / one of the Gibson cyberpunk novels, although the real-life version is decidedly less cool (and probably more comfortable.)
In any case: if the cost was lower, I personally would find this somewhat appealing. A private bed and storage space in lower Manhattan for say, $400 a month, would actually be a decent deal. You'd have to be extremely minimalist, but that would be a feature and not a bug for the right audience. Add a VR system to each pod and you won't even notice the lack of space.
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#29How much extra for access to the maggot-burger dispensers?