If you can pretend that 50% occupancy @ $500k per year total rent is a temporary market slump, why can't you also pretend that 100% occupancy at $700k in rent is also a temporary market slump?
Readit NewsJblx2 commented on Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? archive.strongtowns.org/j... · Posted by u/NaOH
At least in the scope of living memory, sure, but the key is that the prices are not secret, personalized, or—even worse—both secret and personalized.
How sure are we that "digital" coupons aren't personalized? And even printed coupons in mailers could have been customized. To a personal level, or to a neighbor hood, or zip code level. If Instagram had sent out individualized coupons, would that be better?
Or, at a bare minimum, occurrences must be disclosed, otherwise they're basically defrauding the customer.
Secret pricing also destroys any semblance of efficient markets, so any ardent (but honest) free-marketeers should be against it too.
Aren't coupons the standard age-old price discrimination method?
Jblx2 commented on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? reason.com/2025/12/04/why... · Posted by u/delichon
Example, do you think someone that's hard of hearing can't meet the standard for a 'highly academically successful student"? Or someone that's color blind? Or someone that's blind? Or someone in a wheelchair?
What percentage of Stanford students are in a wheelchair? Are the actual stats publicly available somewhere?
Jblx2 commented on Everyone in Seattle hates AI jonready.com/blog/posts/e... · Posted by u/mips_avatar
AI is better than you at what you aren’t very good at. But once you are even mediocre at doing something you realize AI is wrong / pretty bad at doing most things and every once in awhile makes a baffling mistake.
There are some exceptions where AI is genuinely useful, but I have employees who try to use AI all the time for everything and their work is embarrassingly bad.
>AI is better than you at what you aren’t very good at.
Yes, this is better phrased.
Jblx2 commented on Everyone in Seattle hates AI jonready.com/blog/posts/e... · Posted by u/mips_avatar
This isn’t “unfair”, but you are intentionally underselling it.
If you haven’t had a mind blown moment with AI yet, you aren’t doing it right or are anchoring in what you know vs discovering new tech.
I’m not making any case for anything, but it’s just not that hard to get excited for something that sure does seem like magic sometimes.
Edit: lol this forum :)
I wonder if this issues isn't caused by people who aren't programmers, and now they can churn out AI generated stuff that they couldn't before. So to them, this is a magical new ability. Where as people who are already adept at their craft just see the slop. Same thing in other areas. In the before-times, you had to painstakingly handcraft your cat memes. Now a bot comes along and allows someone to make cat memes they didn't bother with before. But the real artisan cat memeists just roll their eyes.
The iPhone 17 (released in September) is selling extremely well, and Apple sales tend to be concentrated in Q4 due to the new phone (and the holidays, though those should also affect Samsung).
>(and the holidays, though those should also affect Samsung)
Doesn't Samsung release their new flagship phones in January/February?
Jblx2 commented on Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video] youtube.com/watch?v=MvkGB... · Posted by u/netten
It is sad to see. I understand where he is coming from though. He is 87 and doesn't think recoding a super niche' software tool is the best use of what very well may be his last few years of life. He still seems super sharp though and is a major inspiration.
Isn't that part of the Forth mantra though, to be written to the lowest level possible, eschewing portability, interoperability, hard coding fonts, etc., to achieve the simplest, most minimal implementation possible?
Jblx2 commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
20 million customers doesn't mean 20 million transactions. Considering we are talking about a convenience store I'm sure a large chunk of their customers visit every day, some probably multiple times a day.
Assuming 3.4 million customers (cash users) and 2.5 cents average loss per transaction, it would only take one visit a month for them to cross a million dollars in losses.
Of course at that scale it's not like that million or two is really making a difference to their bottom line. Doing some quick Googling their annual revenue is estimated to be $6-7 billion.
>visit every day, some probably multiple times a day
Anyone have data on what percentage of the population visits convenience stores 500+ times per year? Sounds pretty inconvenient.