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6_45··on In a world of digital nomads, we will all be made homeless
I listened to an interview of Zillow CEO today. Housing prices are on fire, above the pre-recession peak of early 2000s, but it's not because of a bubble. It's because of a housing shortage. The high-mid and high end of the market has been getting lots of new construction but the low end doesn't because lack of demand (less buyers esp with post recession lending practices) and because of high land prices. Also, rent is very high now and this prevents people from saving up for a down payment on a house.

Have you ever asked yourself why there isn't a wall Mart or Starbucks of housing? Why are all houses not owned and rented out by a small group of wealthy entities? Just like every other market, it should trend toward consolidation right? Perhaps it just hasnt been given enough time.

Anyway, I think we will see these high prices continue for a long time and demand for cheaper housing, combined with new sat internet, driverless cars and other things, will grow and eventually spill over into a massive flood of cheap housing outside city hotspots.

Wework is massively overvalued, is engaging in borderline fraudulent bonds with high interest rates. Nobody wants their creepy day care centers or to live in their foxconn dorms and I predict that a good many of their bonds will go into default.

6_45··on Ask HN: How long have you been on HN?
Personally I discovered this website around 2014. I saw it mentioned in an article about a serial swatter from las Vegas who was said to visit this website frequently. Intrigued by the name, I visited for the first time. Recently I have noticed a huge drop in the quality of comments.
6_45··on Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News for Politics?
The best resource for dispassionate, objective and accurate information regarding international politics that I know of is actually a YouTube channel called Caspian Report. I have literally never found another place, in the physical world or the digital world, where people are dedicated to being objective about political or human issues. Hackernews is very bad in this respect and it has gotten really bad recently. I've been on this website for years and years so it's not the illusion mentioned by the moderators -- I'm pretty sure that there has been a large influx of people who used to be on Reddit exclusively. Refugees who were driven out by reddits own disasterous decline in quality. This website can in fact be found when Google searching "Reddit alternatives." This is extremely sad because if hackernews dries up then I have no idea where to go.
6_45··on Eugenics never went away
This is completely irrelevant. This article gives a rating on f "mixed" to the claim that abortions have eliminated nated or reduced downs syndrome, and their only refutation is that abortion is not mandated. They say nothing about the general concept of eliminating a genetic illness with selective breeding (effectively) because selective breeding will always have profound effects on genetic traits. This is the very basis of evolution itself and without acknowledging it's validity, you deny evolution as a whole. Please don't post irrelevant links that seem to support a refutation of the topic at hand while actually it has nothing to do with it.
6_45··on Eugenics never went away
I believe that this response actually betrays your advocacy of eugenics. It is a brutal and inhumane form of eugenics, though.