jonknee

It's a poor headline as it's not just the wealthiest:

> But agents said the slowdown extends beyond new condos, hitting every segment of the market. While the cooling is more significant at the high-end, smaller units also are affected. In the third quarter, the median price for a one-bedroom Manhattan home was $815,000, down 4% from the same period in 2017. The volume of sales fell 12.7%.

> “What’s most significant about 2018 is that even the sub-$1 million market is slowing because of rising mortgage rates,” said appraiser Jonathan Miller. Rates for a 30-year mortgage averaged 4.81% in late November, up nearly a full percentage point from the beginning of the year, according to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Higher interest rates and lack of SALT deduction are a big double whammy for the non uber-wealthy (who can afford to move to optimize taxes).

Because that's not user data? That's code...

> I actually can't imagine wanting to live in the same house for more than 10 years.

But can you imagine knocking it down and building a new one every 10 years?

> all of these articles are advertisements for mundane shit

What do you think hacker news is supposed to be? Anything that isn't mundane to a lot of people isn't interesting enough for those in the target audience. Amazon is having its annual AWS conference and thus has a lot of announcements, of course they have a lot of new niche products.

When the largest cloud provider takes time to create and market a new product it's probably worth thinking about for more than a "lol".

I'll take the opposite side and wager that few people in Chicago know about it and that it will never be built.

That would be disastrous for YouTube. Imagine embedding a video on your website only to find out later that it had been replaced with spam? So little gain for a huge abuse opportunity.

I think it has to do with size/status too, I couldn't imagine ever wanting to spend my life making a couple of the richest people in the world a tiny bit more marginally wealthy. Bezos, Zuckerberg, Page and Brin all still want more and work smart young people like dogs to get it. Not for me.

> It's a sad state of affairs, really. The only people who have enough money to play the game are either corporations or are in their 90's and bought the ground when it was $30/acre.

I don't think it's sad, more efficient users of resources are bidding them up which is exactly what they should be doing. The idea of a small farmer is great and has a lot of American nostalgia, but in general a giant company that produces much more food on the same land is way better for the country as a whole. It gets messy with subsidies, but the idea of more efficient players replacing small timers is how we keep upping productivity year after year and get richer as a country.

Because there are lots of climates and many of them require constant watering to have a green lawn? Sprinkling systems are a huge business.

What does that have to do with development? My point was nearly everyone uses libraries that are written by strangers from the internet. It mostly works.

> you’re trusting random strangers on the Internet to run code on your systems

I mean that's pretty much how the world works. Even running Linux is trusting random strangers on the internet. Most of the time it works pretty well, but obviously it's not perfect. Even the largest companies in the world get caught with security issues from open source packages (remember Heartbleed?).

I thought sports betting. It's pretty generic.

Well it's certainly enforceable in that you won't be able to use it for your Amazon account. They are free to reject any email address they like.

Probably more likely that nearby land that's within a decent bus ride of LIC will increase in value and higher density housing will be built there. The land that was right next to the existing subway stop was obviously already quite valuable.

That is very different from getting to it from browsing.

This sort of action is very infrequent and I'd be shocked if there wasn't solid reasoning behind it. Tumblr has been passed around several times and is currently ultimately owned by Verizon. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon is essentially ignoring Tumblr and they have ignored a child porn problem that is much worse than that on imgur, reddit, twitter, etc.

The safest way is probably to sell futures on CBOE or CME (those are the exchanges, but you'd do the transactions through your broker). I say safest because you don't have to worry about counterparty risk from a sketchy offshore Bitcoin exchange. The futures are cash settled based on the price of bitcoin, much like SPX or similar equity indexes.

Obviously there's a ton of risk involved, there's no reason it can't double for a dumb reason and you get caught owing a fortune.

Well they are relatively good space heaters at least...

You might as well get used to no headphone jack, they're not going to make a come back.

It's not the same thing at all. You don't pay AWS for support, you pay AWS to use its bandwidth, software and hardware.

> Imagine a restaurant that could see you operating an illegal handgun market out of the corner booth and just decided that was fine as long as you tipped your server alright

Imagine a better analogy because telecom service providers have nothing to do with restaurants (or almost any other type of businesses, regulated utilities are pretty different!). It's more akin to a power company cutting off power to someone who they accuse of using the power that they paid for to make counterfeit handbags. It's quite possibly true, but as a regulated utility it should not be up to them to decide. As long as their services are being paid for they should not get to cut people off.

If AT&T was actually concerned with their network being abused they would go after spammers and robocallers, not someone who downloaded an HBO show. This is one of the concerns of telecoms being media companies.

Aren't mental effects like pain problems? From your problem paragraph 4:

> Depression, back pain, chemotherapy-related malaise, migraine, post-traumatic stress disorder: The list of conditions that respond to placebos — as well as they do to drugs, with some patients — is long and growing.

This is unchanged from the previous model (and probably model before that, Apple has been at it a while).

You can pay people less if they already live in Wisconsin, very few people want to relocate to rural Wisconsin.

It's cheap, widely available and addictive?

A loan that the company knows about is not embezzlement. It's a perk designed to make Rubin's life easier which is worth more than money to both Google and Rubin. He could of course arrange his own loan, just like an average Google employee could arrange their own lunch.

> I'm dreading having to pay more for something that most likely won't be as reliable

Toyota's are still very reliable, even more efficient and a lot safer... You'll be fine.

I'm not an expert, but I don't think there are a ton of qualified short term tenants out there. Cutting the rent to have some fly by night operation in and then not being able to sign a long term lease with someone else seems not that smart.

Put another way, any business that only wants a very short term lease is probably not a business you want to lease to.

Also at least 99.99% less potential customers, but hey.