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Because property values have skyrocketed in big cities. Of course, that's no guarantee that they'll continue to rise, but, this history looms large in media and culture. Everybody knows somebody who became rich this way: "My classmate's parents bought him a condo in Beijing in 2008 and now it's worth millions!"

There is also the continued migration from rural to urban, ensuring that demand will continue to increase for a while yet.

There are a few more factors that are unique to China's situation:

- New construction condos are a better investment proposition than in the West because (1) there's no property tax, and (2) other types of investments are less reliable (e.g., stock market is rigged) - There's a cultural aversion to 'used' things, which explains why an investor might prefer to let a condo sit empty instead of rent it out. - Because they're seen as an investment, some new construction is actually built with the intention of selling directly to investors.

A long-term disaster that needs massive short-term action to avert is really kind of a perfect storm for killing humanity.

You are absolutely right that the discussion needs to be far heavier on what the concrete consequences will be, not in abstract numbers, but in how it will actually affect the lives of their children and grandchildren.

The messaging needs to be ubiquitous. Climate change should be the main topic every single damn day.

My hands are bleeding just thinking about the logistics of opening and closing 2000+ DVD cases, and loading/unloading that many DVDs, over the span of three days. Ouch.

It depends on how you define primary function. Speaking as the parent of two young children, the ability to call 911 in an emergency is the most critical functionality my phone has, even though I've never had to use it.

The Pixel 1 was the first time I'd ever sprung for a flagship phone, and it fell to the audio chip defect in under two years. It was effectively totaled (market value=$180, repair=$150+hours). Google Support was a complete waste of time. I replaced it with a second-hand iPhone 8 out of spite, even though I prefer Android to iOS.

It's a price of 4x higher for just long enough to create the table, not for the duration of the test.

> you're welcome to help us debug this error 500 on population

Create the table with 4x the provisioned capacity and then dial down to your nominal levels after it's been created.

KDE Connect is really fantastic. I recently switched to an iPhone and I miss KDE Connect so much :( Now I have to go through all kinds of ridiculous antics just to copy a file over to my phone, when it used to be so easy.

I'd always had the same kind of buggy KDE experience whenever I experimented with it, so I used Gnome for years. And then I tried KDE Plasma... it works fantastically, at least for me, on the latest stable Ubuntu. So it's sad to see RH moving away. Gnome is such a dumpster fire right now (and has been since the inception of Gnome 3)

This.

For someone to be at T7 after only 10 years, they would have to be truly exceptional. It does happen, but it's rare.

What ever happened to those things? Seems like they were everywhere in the 80's and then they all disappeared.

20 minutes in: the dawning horror that, yes, I'm watching a video about Excel for fun

The Seattle Times did a nice job here of presenting viewpoints from women Computer Scientists at different points in their careers.

All the anecdotes we hear about high compensation come with a heavy dose of survivor bias---we only hear about the high salaries. There are lots of good devs making more modest figures at less glamorous startups or small shops. Glassdoor reflects that.

The idea that this appeasement will make Google a contender in China is blazingly ignorant of Chinese politics. No foreign company will ever be allowed to gain significant market share; it would be seen as a national security threat. The only way for Google would be to forge an equal partnership with a Chinese tech giant---Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei, or maybe one of the two dominant cell carriers.

Google is selling out for nothing.

So we should only have to follow the intersection of all state regulations? That sounds like a great race to the bottom.

Being erroneously deregistered makes it harder to vote.

When something gets harder, some percentage of people don't do it.

Purges are being applied in a way that disproportionately impacts demographics likely to vote for Democrats, by Republican state legislatures.

There is absolutely no evidence to support the premise that voter fraud is anywhere near the order of magnitude needed to make a difference in elections. It is a non-problem.

Draw your own conclusions.

My wife used to run a small volume eBay shop, maybe 50 listings at a time. About once a month she would have to deal with outright fraud, and eBay almost always sided with the buyers. I'm talking about things like brand new items of clothing returned completely destroyed by the buyer---huge tears, burn marks, etc---and my wife would be forced to refund the purchase price and shipping costs. It certainly wasn't worth her time or all of the stress.

> even if there is an off the shelf version done by dedicated professionals

Hahaha. Ahem. Hahahahaha

Source: am dedicated professional

It's a low bar for surveilling individuals, but it doesn't scale. I think that's really important. The more obstacles in the way of mass surveillance, the better.

Amazon's customer service is legendary. It's why this whole thing is such a mystery. If Comcast were doing something so bad for customers, nobody would be surprised.

I really, really want to hear the other side to this.

That there is a serious counterfeiting problem is obvious to anyone who buys certain categories of products on Amazon. It is certainly obvious to Amazon itself. BUT Amazon is also a very customer focused company. So how has this not been solved?

Critics will speculate that Amazon makes more money with this status quo, thus has little incentive to fix things. But that calculus doesn't make any sense---maybe in a very narrow balance sheet view, but Amazon has always taken a long view on these things, and there's no way the long term damage to their brand is worth whatever they make from sketchy third-party sellers. It doesn't add up. There must be something else factored in that I'm missing.

On the flipside, think of the joy of realizing you've finally been connected to a smart, competent person who is empowered to solve your problem. It is like finding a call center unicorn.

So who has standing to sue? How can I prove I /didn't/ see a job posting because I'm too old, and what damages could I claim as a result of it?

How does Tesla fail so badly at basic collision avoidance?? Surely the LIDAR is able to detect an imminent collision, but at least in the recent fire truck and lane-split barrier incidents, the cars didn't even slow down?! That seems really fundamental.

Edit: so they don't use lidar... Is this a machine vision failure, then?

The (large) company I work for also has this policy. If a potential employer contacts the company, they will confirm dates of employment, but that's all. It's a liability thing.

I think this comment may give us a lot of insight into why there aren't more women in tech...

What purpose does cryptocurrency serve in this scenario that ordinary payment methods could not?