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Is this something there’s a federal lever for by forcing commercial loans to mark to market? So if I go to refi my $20M building and nothing is actually rented for 5 years, I can’t use list price and need to use market price for rent.

Or could be a shareholder lawsuit for banks as they are putting out riskier loans than the rate reflects?

It’s also a bad thing for future investment as building new units becomes riskier.

It’s more efficient than other market allocation methods. But it’s not perfectly efficient.

Property tax isn’t based on vacancy rate, it’s based on property value.

The article writes a bit about property value being based on rents.

So a completely rented building pays the same property tax as an empty building with no renters.

Executive coaches always kind of perplexed me. I’ve tried a few ofer the years and while it was nice to chat with someone smart I found their advice was pretty hit or miss as I read a lot and most of the basic stuff seemed familiar.

So I always wondered how they stayed in business and that they seemed at risk for disruption if anyone cared about their market.

So I guessed that maybe they’re for people who don’t want to spend time finding and reading.

I also was only spending $250/hour so maybe the really good ones cost much more.

There was a tivo competitor called ReplayTV that would record tv and then replay clipping out commercials.

They got sued out of existence.

I think it may be a meta statement on people who summarize with AI on others behalf. The value doesn’t exist and we’re left wondering if the tool user is making a statement, or messed up, or can’t do anything unless claude does it for them.

Which is a decent trade off for unlimited content.

I really like the remote. It has mute and volume and like swiping on the top rather than clicking.

I like that it’s aluminum, doesn’t take batteries, and is bluetooth (or at least doesn’t require line of site). It’s the longest lasting of any remote in my house.

You’re probably thinking of earlier versions that were different.

I run Plex and am pretty happy. Will likely eventually switch to Jellyfin as Plex is getting lamer and lamer.

I think GP was talking about the hardware AppleTV, not the streaming service AppleTV (which are stupidly named).

I was an early roku user and ditched them because they’ve sucked for 10+ years. Their players have been trash and had poor support.

Amazing they got $22B and tivo must be really kicking itself.

If someone mails in my absentee ballot and I don’t complain, how do you detect that voter fraud?

Or if someone knows their friend is sick and votes without an id, how do you detect that?

It seems like there are currently many ways to vote illegally that don’t get detected.

And some sites seem to have it not work. I suspect there’s lazy programmers with hardcoded test cases.

But that’s like 1:100 or so. And usually I’m entering my address to a robot so it’s not an issue.

I do something similar with prepend.com and find it helpful for sorting. Also fun to see which domains sell my email and which dont (blacksocks.com hasn’t show up from anyone else in 20 years).

Somehow they mail letters with info.

Encrypted email wouldn’t require a BAA.

Losing google ecosystem is a bonus for me and is the main reason I want to leave.

Google has been slowly sucking more and more each year and I have to spend mental energy figuring out how they are trying to screw me over or bill me for something.

It’s worth $50/year to not have that mental stress.

Sometimes there will be a delay while git rebuilds the index and pulls everything down. But its never affected my commits or anything substantial.

Good point. There’s lots of kinds of negative work.

I was thinking more of people burning stuff down.

There’s also people burning the furniture for immediate warmth.

And there’s people you mention who are doing things that look good but have time bombs inside them.

It’s hard to tell. I’ve worked on projects with 50 programmers and it seemed many did nothing and a few did negative work.

We went through a round of layoffs and I had to “finish” another programmer’s work. It was a java app with servlets and JSP and a bunch of web forms submitting back to a database. He had just copy and pasted the html into his JSP so it had the sample data and messages. Everything submitted and went to the next page, but nothing was posted or saved.

He did this like 20 times for all his modules. Maybe six months of “work” was like nothing done.

I like to work on small teams that collaborate enough so if someone isn’t doing anything then we know. And I don’t think anyone’s work in my immediate vicinity is performative.

That being said, it’s hard to know people’s process and what is productive to them. If you take a small sample you might not understand. And what you think is performative may be essential. This seems common when I was younger when I thought “I don’t understand it, therefore it’s not important.”

I’m currently thinking through a tough program and browsing HN at 10am and it’s an essential part of my workflow.

This viz is superficially neat, but hard to get info out of. It seems like a demo in a movie.

What did you like most about it?

I keep my code in OneDrive. I probably have hundreds of repos cloned and active. Been going like this since like 2018 or so.

I’ve never had problems except for warnings about deleting lots of filed when I git branch or checkout or whatever.

I would expect onedrive not to pull down files after a checkout because from a file io, it’s deleting and copying in new files, right?

Thanks for your note. I’ve wanted to get off gmail for years and your description answered many nagging questions I had been too lazy to look up.

I switched my domain over to fastmail and have been using it for the past hour and seems promising. The interaction with the company is nice too and they seem very much “do one thing well” and doesn’t make me feel scummy like every time I interact with google’s products.

Interestingly I didn’t realize how slow gmail was until switching. Not just the web ui. I use the ios mail app and gmail didn’t support push, only fetch. And the app is 17.8MB (compared to gmail’s 716.7MB). Crazy that it’s 40x smaller.

I like using the webui because my mailbox is too large to pull down locally and it’s easier to handle through the web.

I also have it pulling to local clients that just keep a few messages. Maybe 30% of the time is webui.

Has worked well for me for 30+ years (substituting telneting in and using pine until webuis existed).

“Email in the cloud mainly” is a useful pattern.

> you might get rich, but not wealthy

What do you mean by this? It seems pretty likely to be wealthy by investing in these indices. Certainly a “normal” worker who started investing $10k/year in SPY when it started in 1993 has enough wealth to allow them to retire now.

The US population is projected to 385M in 2055. [0] What makes you think the population will dramatically shrink?

Even if it did, the money would come from global investors who find the US more attractive than their home markets.

[0] https://database.earth/population/by-country/2055

SpaceX would be the target of the lawsuits. Index funds/401ks are immaterial.

Check out previous flops like Enron (only $60b) for examples of lawsuits.

Dogs went into space. Dogs are haram. Therefore, space is haram.

Probably not this reasoning.

As of April, the combined market cap of index funds (including ETFs) is just under $21T. [0]

Actively managed funds is $18T. And, for example, the S&P500 alone is $69T.

[0] https://www.ici.org/research/stats/combined_active_index_042...

I used it. It doesn’t work as FSD. A driver has to pay attention and intervene. Can’t sleep. Can’t read a book. Can’t look at the scenery going by. It’s still super neat and I like it. But it’s not FSD, and I suspect why fewer than 10% of tesla owners pay $100/month or bought it.

Waymo is actual FSD.