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Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by GreenWatermelon »

Suppafly wrote: post #360
crooked-v wrote: post #116

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> using real estate as a fiat currency Even if we take your premise as a given, the entire reason real estate is so valuable is that there isn't enough housing in the first place. Real estate is, by its nature, a bad investment; it's only the scarcity of it that makes the value continue to go up exponentially. > buying up available real estate just to make it unavailable There isn't actually any available housing in…

>Real estate is, by its nature, a bad investment; it's only the scarcity of it that makes the value continue to go up exponentially. It's very nature is it's scarcity though. Land is the one thing they don't make more of.

But land is something we have an absolute shit ton of on Earth.

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Post by kentonv »

kristianp wrote: post #390
laidoffamazon wrote: post #81

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A somewhat small subset of my net worth is Cloudflare, which has the ticker symbol $NET

TIL that stocks can have a "$" in their code.

They don't. The symbol is NET. But I think Twitter lets you use $ as an alternative to # (hashtag), and people use it specifically in front of stock symbols, and now it's becoming customary to prefix stock symbols with $ everywhere.

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Post by Izikiel43 »

simonhorlick wrote: post #341
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #320

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The anti-capitalists have this crazy idea that investment income isn’t “earned” in the same way that labor income is. Of course that’s absurdly anti-capitalist and completely ignores the point of capitalism and the function of risk taking incentivized by potential rewards. Failing to make a coherent argument against active investment income, for instance entrepreneurs, they will then revert to criticism of passive in…

It's motivated by the ideology of wanting a meritocracy - the idea that if you work hard you can reap rewards. Having some people in society that can sit at home and watch the S&P increase while some have to work 50-hour weeks to make ends meet is seen as problematic.

I see this as a goal in life, not a problem

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Post by nvarsj »

valzam wrote: post #61
syntaxing wrote: post #41

> Jade and I needed a bigger house, but we really could not afford to buy (much less build) anything bigger in Palo Alto. I’m really surprised about this, really shows how ludicrous the housing market is in the Bay Area. How high does your income need to be to afford a bigger house?!

Also considering 1400 sq ft (130 sq m) too small to raise a family is peak American... That's bigger than 99.9% of apartments people live in in Europe and raise a family just fine.

1400 sq ft is a large terraced house in London and will cost over 1m GBP (so about 1.4m USD).

Yeah, 1400 as "small" is very US oriented :). But having grown up in the US, I really miss the space of the houses.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by nvarsj »

jgeralnik wrote: post #37
kentonv wrote: post #24

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They are L-TEK Ex Pro X. Shipped all the way from Poland! They seem to work pretty well. Have been using them frequently for more than a year with no issues yet.

Thanks, those were the main recommendation the last time I looked into it (a few years ago), good to hear you recommend them too!

L-Tek is probably the best option by far that is somewhat affordable.

Definitely penny-mod them too (just remove the panels, tape washers under the edge of each metal contact point - it makes the pads way more responsive and more fun to use).

You can also buy a portable barre bar on amazon, that's what I use. Super stable and easy to stow away. A bar lets you maintain form on crossovers/jumps, and I recommend for anyone not super casual (playing 12+).

Lastly, if you are really serious, you can buy a replica DDR pad from China for about 4-5k, or a used real pad for similar. The arcade feel is much better than L-Tek, but you need a lot of space for these. [1]

1: https://www.globalsources.com/Dance-pad/DDR-metal-dance-pads...

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Post by chrisstu »

latentcall wrote: post #94

Younger me thinks this is really awesome. This was my DREAM during Halo 2 years. Kudos. The design, the hardware, the room itself. The house is beautiful. The pictures and write ups are fantastic. Feel free to ignore the next part of my comment: Current me with lived experiences and knowledge of the world thinks it’s a little disgusting. I don’t think it’s your fault, or you’re intending to do that. I don’t think YOU…

What makes you think he is flaunting his wealth? Maybe he is just showing this implementation to help people with ideas.

And saying you won't check responses to your comment is pure arrogance. Unlike the original poster who seems a nice guy.

Re: Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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Post by risenshinetech »

LakesAndTrees wrote: post #148

I think the thing that I’m most amazed by - and this setup is truly amazing - is the fact that you’ve got a group of friends to enjoy this with. Good for you; this looks like a blast, and I can only imagine how fun that’d be, compared to years of purely solo gaming.

I think it's a pretty sad state of affairs if the most amazing thing about this is having friends.
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