PreachSoup (u/PreachSoup)

PreachSoup commented on Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build darrellowens.substack.com... · Posted by u/greenie_beans

pfannkuchen · a year ago

I don’t think wealthy people are thinking too much about their property values when it comes to opposing building in their own neighborhoods. They want to maintain the social prestige they have from living somewhere fancy and they want to keep the poors away from their home.

PreachSoup · a year ago

> social prestige they have from living somewhere fancy and they want to keep the poors away from their home.

Value doesn't only mean monetary value. Social prestige is one of the values too. And sometimes they are transferable. The invisible hand is not just about the literal money

PreachSoup commented on Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build darrellowens.substack.com... · Posted by u/greenie_beans

davidw · a year ago

He makes a good point. Broadly, in the US, the pendulum swung from "just go build stuff and don't worry about the opposition because they don't matter" to "we have to go through 5 years of process to build a 40-unit apartment building for people to live in". There are some good reasons for some of that process, but there's a strong argument that we went too far in saying no, slowing things down and in general not building things that are beneficial to society.

And it turns out that some of that process doesn't actually help the more vulnerable groups it was intended to help, but gets hijacked by wealthy people to stop things like needed housing from going into their neighborhood.

PreachSoup · a year ago

> gets hijacked by wealthy people to stop things like needed housing from going into their neighborhood.

Everything for inducing the demand and reducing the supply. The invisible hand of extracting values at all cost.

PreachSoup commented on Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video] backreaction.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/lisper

CooCooCaCha · a year ago

No it’s just logical.

If the brain is just normal physics then your behavior is dictated by the laws of physics. This is not what most people consider free will.

Therefore, you would need something outside of physics for there to be free will. Like a spirit.

PreachSoup · a year ago

I think it's just most people don't really understand physics. If they get the concept of emergent effects, complexity and how free will vs no free will are basically indistinguishable to the humans, I doubt they would still agree with the same conclusion.

PreachSoup commented on The Rise of the Forever Renter Class ofdollarsanddata.com/the-... · Posted by u/embeng4096

api · a year ago

It's a network effect. The jobs, dating scenes, and opportunities for career advancement are in big cities. This has always been true to some extent but the trend seems to have accelerated in the 21st century.

There is plenty of land and housing in most places outside these cities.

There are two solutions. The individual solution is to go to these cities, get what you want, then leave and settle somewhere more reasonably priced. In some cases you might be able to skip this step if you're in a field that allows telework. I would personally recommend: once you career is established enough that you can get a good job in lots of places, don't stay in these cities unless you can comfortably afford housing. Comfortably means ideally 30% of your income goes to housing. If you stretch and spend absurd percentages of your income on housing you'll be house-poor and will never be able to accumulate wealth. It's even worse if you are renting or on a variable rate mortgage.

The collective/societal solution is that we need to massively increase the density of these cities and improve their infrastructure, but that will in many places require going to war against the NIMBY obstructionists.

PreachSoup · a year ago

> The collective/societal solution is that we need to massively increase the density of these cities and improve their infrastructure, but that will in many places require going to war against the NIMBY obstructionists.

The Tokyo solution which we should all follow. It's the only way out of this mess

PreachSoup commented on Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments as demand falls 'sharply beyond expectations' macrumors.com/2024/04/23/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

PreachSoup · a year ago

I am amazed that they even have the expectations in the first place

PreachSoup commented on Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores gizmodo.com/amazon-report... · Posted by u/walterbell

speff · a year ago

> Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.

That line was unintentionally hilarious to me. Like looking inside a TV and finding a bunch of fast-working little people drawing images.

PreachSoup · a year ago

It's me, aws Mechanical Turk again!

PreachSoup commented on Tesla stock drops 29% in first quarter as global dominance wanes cnbc.com/2024/03/29/tesla... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

amou234 · a year ago

Ah, your statement sounds like Chinese EVs were inevitable

PreachSoup · a year ago

The competition is inevitable. It comes from everywhere

PreachSoup commented on Tesla stock drops 29% in first quarter as global dominance wanes cnbc.com/2024/03/29/tesla... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

amou234 · a year ago

It's not a matter of time, cars and the car industry are treated as national security. Chinese EV cars will be even more tariffed in US and Europe in 2024/2025

PreachSoup · a year ago

We were talking about Tesla's profit margin and evaluation in the thread. Not sure if you replied to the wrong post

PreachSoup commented on Tesla stock drops 29% in first quarter as global dominance wanes cnbc.com/2024/03/29/tesla... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

PreachSoup · a year ago

It's just a matter of time. China is making ev like android phones. Other countries are also catching up. The high profit margin of Tesla cannot last forever

PreachSoup commented on Thoughts on Vision Pro andrewhart.me/vision-pro/... · Posted by u/AndrewHart

m463 · a year ago

> This is 101 of product design

I think there's an emphasis on shipping a feature over shipping a cohesive product. Shipping simple vs functional one.

and churn seems to be getting in the way of mature products.

PreachSoup · a year ago

Heard the same from the friends working there, that seems to be the case. Apple is much more product and design focused on the other hand