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Comment Re:Two Questions (Score 2) 110

Those expensive maintenance costs will occur maybe once during your 30 year mortgage. Once your mortgage is over you now own a great big asset where if you just rented all those years you would own nothing. Post mortgage that house will be much cheaper to live in than paying monthly rent - even if that's a push it will be an arguably better place to live.

Comment Re:Shortage of building permits (Score 0) 110

An area of land can only support so many dwellings before adding more makes it a place no one wants to be, including current owners. At that point adding more housing to that area is counter productive, good urban planning doesn't allow an area to get to that point.

You can't just keep packing more people in, we aren't sardines. Yes there is plenty of land, so build out there and not where it's already too crowded.

- btw, I hate cities and really don't understand why anyone willingly lives in one.

Comment Re:Nothing of value was lost (Score 1) 13

Nike has a history of ignoring bad workplace conditions. If something new comes out that they are still in their old careless ways that could be a pretty bad hit.

I don't even know why as I was in middle school in the mid 80s and knew nothing about their issues but I told myself I would never buy Nike. Probably because a fellow classmate swore by them and I thought they were a clueless idiot.

Comment Finally some sanity, let's also compare efficiency (Score 2) 105

The human brain uses a fraction of the energy consumed by the current method of mimicking AI. How about we press these over-hyped companies to fix their horribly inefficient use of energy. They be restricted from expansion until they reduce energy waste by a magnitude of 10 for the same prompt, then get back to us.

Comment Re:Remember when people made software just for fun (Score 1) 29

That's back when the internet required skill to set up a connection. And putting something up wasn't immediately facing security break in attempts from around the world (port scans so maybe a bit), someone wasn't immediately copying the site to put up their own with advertisements, someone else wasn't suing you for thinking you infringed their idea, trolls weren't constantly trying to deface it (ok maybe they were), bots weren't posting crap to anyone with a forum or bug tracker, and AI wasn't slashdotting your site trying to leach your material. Did I miss anything?

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