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hermanubison RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters

A growing body of economic research shows that this allows producers to keep prices high even with lots of competition.

hermanubison Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M

In the US you can’t grant coins any ownership or benefits that might vary in value. Meme coins are the only legal crypto so that’s all you get. It’s like Obama only legalizing giant pickup trucks.

hermanubison NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices

Why not just have the server send a token to the client that the client includes in the next request?

hermanubison How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind

For privileged people theft is mainly an inconvenience. When my laptop got stolen I just filled out a form at work and got a replacement the next day. But for lots of people it’s more than that. If you work on cars or houses your tools are your livelihood. Getting them stolen means losing your job or replacing them at retail prices which is out of reach for lots of people. Likewise at the community college I go to some people are barely holding on. If their laptop gets stolen they either drop out or don’t pay rent that month. There are lots of people who would rather be violently assaulted than have their stuff stolen so the idea that theft is nonviolent has always seemed like a luxury belief to me.