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Yes PNC Bank also does this, I bet they have hacks that they don't want to disclose and just want to smooth over the problem.

I just think people are lying about it because, you know, it was proven that they did and also fundamentally it makes no sense as the truth.

Pay taxes in real money, get benefits in Disney Dollars.

This American Life did an episode about these plants and debunked the "Mexican billboard" lie.

Can you think of one good use for this product?

No I'm not asking if you think you can you use this to make money, I'm asking do you personally want to sit through a video of a robot telling you do things? Are we supposed to believe this is preferable to simply reading this or hearing recorded audio? This is flat out consumer hostility, basically telling your customers to talk to a sock puppet instead of a real person, I hope this fails, I would pay money to make this illegal.

No region doesn't matter look at the actual statistics on this. I looked at neighborhoods the had above 50% foreclosure rates and those houses STILL increased in value in the long term.

You can argue the real/nominal value, but housing cost are a cause of inflation in this regard not an effect, all prices are relative to the price of shelter for individuals.

It's actually looks like a slush fund for MGM execs to stash their money, pretty troubling.

Ok never ever have housing really prices gone down. Look at any chart of average home prices in the US if you bought a house at any time and waited 10 years you definitely made money. Even in neighborhoods where >50% people were in foreclosure their homes are worth more then ever.

If you can find anywhere housing prices are less then in 2008 please say so.

The Brexit thing is just guesswork on your part those properties will be sell at the same prices they were listed at probably nobody actually purchased them in the first place just for speculation.

As a football fan I hate this, now a major broadcaster (Amazon TNF) owns a gambling company (MGM sports book) not good for the sport.

Yes literally never in my lifetime, even after the 2008 recession those same houses are worth more now then ever. Any findings that show house values are "going down" are just sampling errors, or more likely people being purposefully misleading by distorting the trends.

There are a lot of people vaguely guessing around at what the "real value" of a home is. In a world where you need shelter to produce income the value of a house is essentially all your income over the entire span of your life. So really arguments that houses are "overvalued" are ridiculous to me, houses have never decreased in value historically, why would they do so now? I am fully expecting single family residential properties to reach 7 and 8 figures in my lifetime. Why wouldn't they continue the track of the last 100 years?

No, increasing the supply will do nothing, speculators already own most of the available real estate so that will only drive the prices up further. Look at the number of single family home that are being bought and immediately rented out, in new construction the renters far outnumber the owners.

Until speculation is banned or the government locks in reasonable prices, prices will continue to rise in perpetuity.

Wow this is amazing, and it's Open Source and free!

I sometimes seriously wonder if you born around the 1960s, how didn't you become a millionaire?

Rents were lower, wages were higher, safe investments like T-bills and CD had higher yields, homes exploded in value, education and health care were a fraction of the cost. If you worked at even a minimum wage job you were on track to being a millionaire just by putting money in the bank.

I asked my parents about this recently and it turns out they actually are millionaires... I knew the were well off, but thought they had a third or a quarter of that, I literally had no idea.

This feels weirdly like someone working out emotional issues by describing them in an emotionally distant "rational" way. Like what does this have to do with anything other then the thoughts in Paul Grahams head?

This is exactly the type of thing that should be in PEPs right now.

It's practical, its forward thinking addressing an existing problem that's really prevalent in the py3 native async features and it's not incremental it addresses the problem in its totality.

People say with the recent unemployment payments that's there's no incentive to "work" anymore. But in my personal life I'm seeing more and more people quit their jobs to do things like live off Bitcoin fluctuation trading, living off stock market returns, renting out their properties. etc.

There seems to be almost no incentive to preform actual labor when just sitting back and watching Coinbase 24/7 is objectively more profitable.

Sounds like you should probably pay people a livable wage if you want them to work for you.

I remember there was a DEFCON talk about anti-cheating measure for counter strike and speaker just noted casually that Valve just scans all processes running on your machine during a match and determines what's a cheating process and what is not via a blacklist. Which begs the question what can't Valve do vis Steam?

I read somewhere that the typical density of matter in the "vacuum" of space is about one helium atom per square meter.

Is that true? Seems kinda crowded out there.

I'm sorry China has solved many problems the West is still working on. They've had public funded healthcare/education from the medieval era and they haven't been involved in any major wars and yet still dictate policy in the region.

Well the life of the average Chinese citizen has improved substantially in the last 30 years, no Western country can really say that.

Stripe needs to look at legal action, if she thinks just because she's a politician she can violate an EULA then we have an obligation has citizens to make sure nobody is above the law.

I personally hate it when politicians break the law so it was disturbing to me she would be open about pressuring them to work for her against their own agreements.

If the automobile was invented today it would be owned by the largest conglomeration of horse breeders.

Is this sarcasm? Why wouldn't I still be outraged? Because they have "tax credits".

Okay can I as individual get tax credits by going into debt? If I can't "tax credits" then Zoom shouldn't get them. It's just common sense.

Seriously the current tax structure in the United States seems to be anti-human being. Humans have to pay up front in cash 100% each year, corporations can just claim they are writing off debt, apparently even in years they have no debt. Where does it stop? Why would someone defend this who pays taxes themselves?

Individualism is whatever I say it is.

No I'm dead serious, you are actually doing the thing you are claiming to prevent. There's a new Red Scare going around and it's costing people their livelihoods. First Ebay canceled, then all American companies, then all of America.

Don't want to be a mouth piece for a 50 year old children writer? Canceled! It's basically just virtue signaling, but the effects are huge.

Going to any Christian owned businesses? Are they canceled too because they burned Galio's books? Rank hypocrisy. Go my tribe I guess.

I'm just so offended that you would economically harm all the good people working at EBay due to political stances they might not even agree with. People are so reactionary these days. This is the real cancel culture.

No you're just being semantic about it.

Your suppressing my thoughts by pushing them down the page where nobody can see and providing a big wall of text denial that amounts to "I think I'm right."

Ok then you've convinced me censorship is good.

Don't downvote this just because you disagree, that would expose your hypocrisy.

I still have more points then you now. I win.