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financypants··on A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K
Reminiscent of gyms that say they won’t raise the monthly rate but charge a “rate guarantee fee” every 6 months equal to a few months rate.
financypants··on Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
Perhaps. I have no idea and am not purporting to know.
financypants··on Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
This person is not saying success -> more success. I think they’re just pointing out that Altman is smart and is surrounded by smart people and a company that understands the demand because they make up the majority of the demand (and they have a strong thesis).
financypants··on Car insurance in America is too cheap
We don’t care what is fine by you
financypants··on Car insurance in America is too cheap
Yeah, the brightness needs to be regulated. We’re all going to go night blind at this rate.
financypants··on Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
I buy all my books paperback, even if I listen to them on audible, for posterity’s sake.
financypants··on Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16
This is such a silly issue on a governmental level. Shouldn't the parents, who spend more time around their children than the Florida House of Representatives does, worry about and monitor their own children?
financypants··on Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes
Is this landlord savior complex common? I’ve never come across it. It’s a silly perspective even at face value.
financypants··on Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes
I’m not really addressing greedy corporation shitbags. I’m talking about the relationship between rates and prices. If you need someone to vent to about shitbag greedy corporations, go elsewhere. (I’m not disagreeing that corps are shitty greedy horrible inhuman profit machines)
financypants··on Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes
I am personally very curious to know when interest rates are not perfectly offset by increased purchase price. I believe this is a popular belief that is wrong. That can’t possibly be the case, not even in the majority of mkts.
financypants··on Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right
Good point. The used market would likely be much more active and valuable.
financypants··on FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising
I guess they’re not doing a great job then? Because of the auto-filing/IRS-backed filing system being developed?
financypants··on Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right
Problem is sometimes you can get by with an off-off-brand product (it’s hit and miss). Many folks don’t buy the “spend more and you will get something MUCH better that will last you for years!” sales pitch. Also a lot of people wouldn’t be able to start fronting (or financing) more money for a better, more repairable product.
financypants··on Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies
When would candidates compete to work for less? I haven’t seen that demonstrated anywhere. I have seen firms compete on pay.
financypants··on Fireworks likely caused water contamination at Mount Rushmore (2016)
Speaking of illegal fireworks… this hilarious thing happens in Hawaii on 4th July/NYE type holidays where people shoot off fireworks nonstop, cops driving around doing nothing, even though fireworks are illegal everywhere in the state!
financypants··on Fireworks likely caused water contamination at Mount Rushmore (2016)
The dogs argument is the weakest argument.
financypants··on The companies employees don't want to leave in 2023
Yeah I think high retention is pretty nuanced. I anecdotally know/worked with many blue collar workers who continue to complain about their jobs, have opportunities to swap, and don’t take them.
financypants··on The companies employees don't want to leave in 2023
Yeah, “growing”, but they’re kind of filtering by growth because they looked at top 100 by market cap
financypants··on How big is YouTube?
So is YouTube storing somewhere in the realm of 50-100EB somewhere? How many data centers is that?
financypants··on Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
Unfortunately if you have VCs on your capitalization table you can pretty much never issue dividends as a private company
financypants··on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
Thanks for this. I’ve been thinking about “lightspeed leapfrog” for many years but never searched it up!
financypants··on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
I wonder if this same law applies to distance satellites like Voyager get away from earth. Like we sent out voyager 46 years ago, but in 100 years, we will send out another satellite that will very quickly catch up to Voyager and outpace it
financypants··on The AI Trust Crisis
Can someone explain the consisten use of “Facebook are” instead of “Facebook is,” is this proper grammar?
financypants··on The Sheep Incident (2008)
Wow, Utah has quite the history of bad air! First the downwinders (southern utah), then the chemical/biological weapons testing, and now the inversion (salt lake valley) and refineries existing around rapid housing development.
financypants··on How does Shazam work? (2022)
I’m really interested in an implementation of this that adjusts for something like pitch. So it could tell when someone is mimicing a speaker, and could even grade them on how well they did. Or even a celebrity voice matcher that tells you which celebrity you sound most like. Does this exist?
financypants··on Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out
What do you currently use? Just a text message group? Is it because signal is e2e encrypted?
financypants··on Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Why did you turn it down then regret that? I don’t hear that often, that’s why I’m curious
financypants··on Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Would you say the majority of people who claim to be contrarian aren’t actual contrarians, in your experience? I’m not sure you can infer this in general.
financypants··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
I’m wondering if the same group of investors would have willingly invested in Sam’s next company (if he doesn’t stay at Microsoft)
financypants··on Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
No, probably not, I just mean they have OpenAI on their resume which I think is pretty prestigious
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