It’s not as dire in NYC unless you’re exclusively considering Manhattan. And even in Manhattan it’s relatively “affordable” if you’re willing to live in the 160s+. Significantly less than people think, at least.
OP wrote about owning a "home" as opposed to his coworkers who live in "condos" which makes me think he meant single-family house. Are you saying that SFH in Manhattan is relatively affordable for average FAANG developer?
I mean, SHFs barely exist in Manhattan so it's kind of a moot comparison. But the thrust of GP is correct - you can buy a townhome in much of Brooklyn and Queens for less than $1m.
>why would anyone go through the motions to have fake chicken when you have multitudes of vegetarian options
Because meat tastes better, and I want it. If I can have that taste without an animal involved then it’s all the better. If not then I’ll continue eating meat.
Vegetarians and vegans just don’t seem to understand this. Food is all about personal preference but the extreme majority of people eat and enjoy meat. They enjoy it because they find it delicious. If people felt vegetarian options were as delicious as meat we wouldn’t be having these discussions.
People who don’t have a taste preference for meat are obviously not the target for plant based meat.
Vegetarian here, you're wrong. Boil a chicken breast and eat it and tell me it tastes better. If you handed me a plate of boiled peas and a spoon I'd probably hand them back to you too.
Good _food_ tastes good. Most times you eat it's complemented with sauces, marinades, etc. Cooking vegetarian requires the same effort. People who slather a Midwestern meatloaf in ketchup likely wouldn't even notice if it was vegetarian unless you told them.
> If people felt vegetarian options were as delicious as meat we wouldn’t be having these discussions.
Meat is a luxury and a status symbol. Eating meat every day is something my parents did because they could afford to because their parents _couldnt_. I'm not going to sit here and tell you a bone in rib eye with a pan sauce isn't delicious - it is, but so is a paneer masala, or huevos rancheros.
Legitimately laughing out loud at this response. You're sitting there at your keyboard telling other people that their food preferences are wrong? Seriously? No one is going to take you seriously if you can't acknowledge the basic premise that food preferences are personal opinions.
Sorry, as a person who eats both, meat doesn't "just taste better". If by vegetables, you're referring to standard meat and 3 veg that western countries were used to, then yeah meat tastes way better. But if you're trying Indian/Thai, etc, vegetables can taste as good as meat, and in some cases, even better.
The number of people chiming in on this article proclaiming food preferences as "wrong" or "correct" is truly astounding. No, my preferences aren't wrong. No, yours aren't wrong either. Food preferences are personal.
The only thing "wrong" here is all the people chiming in to tell others that their differing preferences are incorrect.
>If the West European allies are not that important then the US should plow ahead, but the consequence will be those countries will look elsewhere for partners.
This comment brought to you by the year 2008. Europe did look elsewhere for partners, and cozied up with Russia.
I can’t wait to see how Europeans shoot themselves in the foot this time.
It crops up because people give these absurdly misleading cost estimates for adding incremental wind power to the grid. You can’t have wind power without spending money on an equivalent amount of reliable power, and no one wants to include those required costs in their estimates. This tends to dramatically understate the actual economics of wind.
There are plenty of studies of near-100% renewable energy grids and the electricity comes out similar to long-term wholesale trends (pre-Ukraine), even taking storage/transmission into account.
There will always be firearms. You can make them illegal but you can't make them stop existing. This is the fundamental problem with these types of suggestions. Switch to bow, it's safer! ...but the criminals (and anyone else) will keep using firearms. Comically absurd idealism about society and the world.
For those with means and motivation (money and machine tools), cheap automatic weapons can be somewhat-easily produced from plans and diagrams online, with parts that can be bought from regular industrial suppliers, or sometimes big-box hardware stores.
Not naming the specific plans I've seen, of course. If someone wants to know, they can look for themselves.
Quality is to be suspect, but if you only need to throw out ~20 rounds of 9mm at something that isn't very far away, it'll get the job done.
And precisely what is wrong with gun control and mixing it into partisan politics. It's easier to address the means but not the root cause on why the crime was committed in the first place.
> What needs to be done is not to eliminate those actors, but rather to make our bodies resilient to potentiel pathogens.
If we expose ourselves to these pathogens and wait a few thousand years we might naturally evolve to be resilient.
…otherwise I have no idea what you’re proposing here. You can’t just decide to be resilient. Pathogens kill people. They don’t die because they lacked willpower.
What a hilarious and asinine way to torpedo your own brand. It seems that Mercedes and BMW want to be known as the "Spirit Airlines of electric cars."
...except at least Spirit Airlines is cheap. The Mercedes EQS sedan starts at $102k for relatively middling performance of 5.9s 0-60 and range of 350 milse. I have no doubt that the EQS is a more luxurious car, but the Tesla Model S is $105k for significantly better performance of 3.1s 0-60 and better range at 405 miles.
I doubt anyone is cross-shopping a Model 3 against a Mercedes, but the economics are almost comical in favor of the 3. Model 3 $63k for 3.1s 0-60 and 315 miles of range.
I can only wonder who would buy this. Pay a significant premium for a Mercedes and then stuck with a $100/month subscription? I'd love to hear from someone who is into this, and why.
I wouldn’t want a Mercedes with a subscription, but I’d certainly look for a better competitor to Teslas.. I personally hate the fact that Tesla car comes with a “minimal” dash without tactical buttons and making the driver search for options on a big display for climate controls and such…
I personally want the choice of Apple CarPlay and not be stuck with whatever Tesla thinks is “okay” for me to use..
I have heard from several friends who has a Tesla that the car comes packed with minor defects in for and finish that they don’t bother bringing to service because they know it will be a horrible experience.
I’d rather give my money to a car company that builds quality cars, and not have a cult following, gets a good Euro NCAP safety rating, and allows me to use Apple CarPlay and get out of the way. I have my eyes on a Kia EV6 when I decide to replace my current car in a few years.
Subscription doesn't matter to 75% of the people who buys these things. Also, people who lease these (75% of them are leased) don't care about reliability or resale value...both of which are really poor for almost all German cars.
Subscriptions don't matter for 75% of the people who buy these cars and they're unlikely to have been burned and traumatized by the likes of Android gating their phones like people here in tech.
There are better competitors entering the market, but none can really compare to a Model S. The upcoming Hyundia Ionic 6 will likely be the industry leader, but it hasn't released in the US and last I checked didn't have US pricing, either.
So this is endemic? I noticed a lot of Uber drivers drove Model 3s when I flew into Miami a few months back and saw the same thing in Berkeley a few weeks ago. Are the Model 3 owners having trouble paying that high car note?
This seemed so absurdly impossible that I had to look it up. I went to Edmunds and sure enough the 5-year TCO for a 2022 LR Model 3 is $115k. The 5-year TCO for a 2022 LE AWD Prius is $69k.
The Model 3 is ridiculously expensive. Base price RWD $47k. You can get into a Prius for $25k. At 58mpg there will never be a breakeven for the Model 3. Economics will be different with this upcoming $7,500 tax credit, but that obviously doesn't apply to any current owners.
Maybe people tip a lot more when they get a ride in a Tesla over a ride in a Prius. Or the Tesla owning Uber drivers know the biggest threat to their lively hood is Tesla automating them out of a job. When/if that happens, if they own a Tesla, their car can go to work for them.
Something I've been thinking about WRT SBF and online ethics, is if someone's true devotion is to preserving shareholder value, etc, if you know "interesting things" have happened and been covered up for a long time, lying on twitter to people who mostly are uninvolved and don't care, might be seen as a legal obligation, not a character flaw.
He had an "out" which was the companies business model was to purchase regulations from politicians intended to put all his competitors out of business, that process seemed to be going VERY well, and if he could have held out another half year, maybe two years... he likely would have been very successful. So he is legally obligated as an officer of his company to lie on twitter to keep the charade running long enough to pay off for the investors.
Certainly his investors would have made more money if he hadn't gotten caught than how it turned out, and being a criminal organization he can't be honest about that on Twitter.
There is no reason to believe FTX was going to succeed via regulatory capture. SBF wasn’t a rational thinker. The establishment sucks but it doesn’t mean SBF was competent and had a realistic out. He didn’t. He is an out of control sociopath.
That "interview" that he's been trying to walk back ever since, seems more like the work of a sociopath attempting to change the public narrative. Instead of people talking about all the fraud, he's hoping they'll be arguing about if he's actually woke or fake woke.
Pardon my ignorance, but why would used car prices necessarily impact a used car dealer? Surely these dealers have to pay more to buy these cars and so their margins should be unchanged? Or is the issue that they are buying used cars and prices are falling so fast that their margins are shrinking?
I bet they will crash 25%. On the wholesale market, that might have already happened.
I was seeing 20-year-old Ford Rangers and Chevy S-10s with 200k miles listed on Craigslist for $10k a month ago. If you adjust for inflation that is actually more than they cost when they were new! Pick pretty much any make and model of car and you will see the same thing.
Even just from looking at Craigslist occasionally I have noticed a significant drop in prices for used vehicles in the past month.
Supposedly Carvana went crazy and overbid everyone for cars sight unseen online. This massive inventory is now depreciating at full percentage points on a weekly basis with volume way down.
Granny Smith is a trash tier Apple. The skin is inedible and it is absurdly sour. It's only edible if you peel the skin, cut it up, ...and bake it in something else. Alternatively peel the skin, and dip it into something such as peanut butter. By itself, it's trash tier.
I don't like them by themselves, but I love them with other food. For example, with a nice nutty cheese and maybe some fig jam. The sourness can be perfect with a sweet counterpart.
