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Things that are hard to produce or rare typically keep pace with inflation. Tech becomes easier to produce over time due to improvements so it does not keep pace with inflation and typically deflates.

So what you’re suggesting is Uber has an actionable fraud threshold and if an intelligent actor wanted to float beneath that with fake accounts and identities they could extract even more?

> I think cheap, tiny dwellings are going to be a huge market. Not sure if something without a toilet qualifies, however.

Huge market for who? Airbnbs and landlords? People who actually own land and want to live in one of these?

Isn’t the whole point of cryptocurrency to avoid centralized authorities that can do exactly this?

> In early 2021, a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange froze Alameda's trading account, and the firm lost access to approximately $1 billion in assets.

The anti-thesis of cryptocurrency.

Better quality all around.

> So what was on fire in 1906?

The entire city, if you’re asking what started the fire ruptured gas mains caused quite a few.

> Has anything relevant changed since then?

The city is full of Lithium Ion batteries that can burn uncontrollably when crushed or punctured. These fires cannot be extinguished quickly unless special chemicals are used.

SFFD has 43 engines and 19 ladder trucks.

https://sf-fire.org/about-sffd-operations

SF also has the Auxillary Water Supply System (AWSS) but extinguishing many EV fires will not be practical with only water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Fire_Departmen...

Now imagine when a large earthquake hits a place like San Francisco.

Most of the damage from the 1906 quake was caused by fire.

Not sure how this is relevant to compensation in the Bay Area?

Inflation has skyrocketed in the past few years due to broad money supply. Everyone has taken a pay cut unless they had a pre-covid equity grant (RSUs) or saw their salary grow > 10% a year.

You want this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739026

We live in the age of plastic.

Working rigorously and wasting your childhood years to flounder and pick CS at Stanford is absurd to me.

Tech is one of the few fields you can succeed in without having to go to an elite university or enter higher education at all.

The post could use a 2011 in the title.

> ‘They seem to have hit the sweet spot where the clays are preserved close to the surface, so they won’t have to extract as much rock, yet it hasn’t been weathered away yet.’

> Benson says his company expects to begin mining in 2026. It will remove clay with water and then separate out the small lithium-bearing grains from larger minerals by centrifuging. The clay will then be leached in vats of sulfuric acid to extract lithium.

The article made this extraction sound pretty trivial compared to other lithium deposits. The clay is close to the surface and won’t require significant mining.

> ‘They seem to have hit the sweet spot where the clays are preserved close to the surface, so they won’t have to extract as much rock, yet it hasn’t been weathered away yet.’

> Benson says his company expects to begin mining in 2026. It will remove clay with water and then separate out the small lithium-bearing grains from larger minerals by centrifuging. The clay will then be leached in vats of sulfuric acid to extract lithium.

> Been there, done that. I agree with this for the bay area, living in a vehicle seems like the only chance at getting ahead.

If you’re living in a van in the Bay Area to try and get ahead as a knowledge worker you’re doing the Bay Area backwards.

The point of living in the Bay Area is to get a higher paying job, not save money. How much you save on rent a month is pretty negligible when you’re competing with high earners when buying a home.

Saving 3k a month in rent nets you an additional 36k a year. It doesn’t matter, some people make this in as an after tax bonus within a month.

> The housing market in the Anglosphere is a gigantic Ponzi scheme.

What? Have you seen real estate prices in Hong Kong and Singapore? The US is pretty cheap compared to the rest of the world.

The early 80s were easily as unaffordable as now with the high rates then.

Home affordability is about the same now as it was in the early 80s.

In SF 105k is poverty line.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/under-100k-low-income-s...

> If you want to do something incredible, sacrifices often need to be made.

As mentioned in another comment if you’re not a founder this is a waste of your time.

You’ll be better off and will make significantly more comp at a public company / FAANG if you want to work this hard for someone else.

This philosophy is what founders sell to young engineers to burn them out for peanuts and pizza while the founders get an OK exit if they’re lucky.

This should be a rare event. If it’s not it’s also a sign of immaturity and disorder. Not worth it, especially as a senior engineer.

Work harder not smarter right.

I’ve been working in the Bay for over a decade and this is what an on-call rotation is for. If you’re doing this every week and are not a founder quit your job.

There’s a good chance the equity is also worthless.

Easier to buy a lottery ticket.

> I currently have an 8% yield on cost that I am living off of and renting $1800/mo in Palo Alto.

That seems really cheap for Palo Alto.

> Also your linked video is splitting along the length of the rail instead of cutting directly across it which would take minutes if not seconds.

Watch how long it takes to cut the top of that rail. You must not have ever used an angle grinder before if you think you’re cutting train tracks in seconds.

It took me at least a minute to cut through a single leaf spring for a truck if not longer.

Cutting a train track with an angle grinder isn’t the same as taking less than five seconds to put a traffic cone on a car.

It takes them 30 minutes in this video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjDp5lL7_Q

> In particular, more than 4 hours of screen time per day was associated with developmental delays in communication and problem-solving across ages 2 and 4 years.

4 hours is A LOT of screen time