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jvpon Peter Thiel to step down from Meta’s board

Honestly, no one has ever put it this way. I like the reference to sports! I'd still be happy as a backup QB for 10 years making bank though. Cushy!

jvpon Carvana’s success rides on used-car loans

I'm in Colorado and just bought a home over the last month. I went with a service called Accept Inc. You basically go through the underwriting process first, they then buy the home you want in cash (Giving you a cash offer to the seller), then you do a traditional mortgage to buy the house from them. No mark up.

Sounds great... but I can tell you that having a cash offer didn't mean anything if you weren't the top offer. I lost out on many homes because I didn't come out on top. Lost against those with conventional loans too. People will wait an extra 2/3 weeks if it means an extra $10K in the home price.

jvpon Labor shortage or terrible jobs?

It may not be office work, but I bet it's location dependent (restaurant, janitor, grocery store).

jvpon Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network

But everything you described needs the app to be installed. No app, no problem.

jvpon A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal

A house?! Come on.

jvpon Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

Didn't 346 people die in unnecessary deaths?!

jvpon McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs

Or bun

jvpon Did a Rave Review Really Shut Down Portland Burger Bar Stanich’s?

Kevin Federline

jvpon The PyCon Incident

You are "acquainted" with Adria and appeared "together" on a "panel"?! I'm offended and do not appreciate jokes of that nature.