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New comment by Nbox9 in "Mortgage rates just hit 5%. Buying a home has become a lot more expensive"

Nbox9 — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:36:52 +0000

I think this is way oversimplifying the realestate market.

1. There is a fixed amount of realestate that must be shared by a growing population.

2. Inflation means the cost of everything is increasing. Why wouldn’t that provide significant upward pressure on homes?

3. Local governments spend a lot of effort maintaining high real-estate values. You can’t fight city hall.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Mortgage rates just hit 5%. Buying a home has become a lot more expensive"

Nbox9 — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:28:42 +0000

This comment is too bleak.

If they refinanced in 2020 then they likely bought in 2019 or earlier. If prices fell to 2019 levels it would be a crash —- and probably merit all sorts of government response including lowering interest rates. No one that entered the market before 2020 is “screwed”.

Housing prices even in the markets hit hardest by 2008 recovered in ten years. You aren’t stuck living in your current home forever.

If you bought an investment property then relax, there’s no indicator that rents are going to decrease anytime soon.

New comment by Nbox9 in "People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?"

Nbox9 — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:21:03 +0000

* 75 percent of the time I leave the website and never return.

* About 25 percent of the time I load the website in sandbox way —- a container or private mode. The website’s intentions are clear and I don’t trust them.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing"

Nbox9 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:05:19 +0000

They are just an improvement on the OLED technology, with reduced burnin risk and brighter pixels being the largest improvement.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing"

Nbox9 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 17:20:10 +0000

I really enjoy the 49” ultrawide 1000R format Samsung has been pioneering. It’s the size/resolution of two 27” 1440p monitors next to each other, has a buttery smooth refresh rate, and a curve that makes viewing more comfortable and natural.

The new quantum dot displays are also very innovative.

New comment by Nbox9 in "FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows for Beef"

Nbox9 — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:34:05 +0000

That’s because it’s a logical appeal. The argument is: Eating meat causes suffering to the animal. Eating meat is unnecessary for a human life. Eating meat causes unnecessary suffering.

New comment by Nbox9 in "FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows for Beef"

Nbox9 — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:26:41 +0000

> No, I took the actual definition, and you just don't like it.

You didn’t take the actual definition. Look at the GMO wiki, and the first sentence defines the term in such a way to restrict it to organisms created with more modern techniques. When having conversations with people it’s important to have a shared vocabulary with people. Having a different vocabulary creates miscommunications. It can be especially hard to assume best intent of people are using a non-standard definition because it is a technique purposefully done around scientific and academic jargon to achieve political ends.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Scientists find microplastics in blood for first time"

Nbox9 — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:10:43 +0000

Plastic is an oil (by)product and the oil industry is one of the top three lobbies in the US. We cannot count on public institutions to seriously address this issue.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Not smart but clever? The return of 'dumbphones'"

Nbox9 — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:07:52 +0000

There’s been a steady decrease in my smartphone use from 2016 till today. In the past I used my phone 6+ hours a day. Yesterday I used it to check email once for 3 minutes, I opened safari three times for an average of less than 60 seconds in each use, and used 2FA 5 times. It was a slightly higher than average smartphone use day.

As a person that is mostly indifferent about my iPhone I don’t understand who would buy a dumb phone. Is it for the price sensitive? Is it for people that don’t know how to use a smartphone? Is it for security sensitive? Is it for people with cellphone addicted?

New comment by Nbox9 in "Each Firefox download has a unique identifier"

Nbox9 — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:10:15 +0000

What’s your point, that someone can attempt to do something anonymously and fail?

New comment by Nbox9 in "Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer"

Nbox9 — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:59:11 +0000

> Honestly dual-booting with Linux and Windows on your workstation is perfectly feasible nowadays.

I’m confused by the word “nowadays”. I had a friend with a dual-booting setup between Windows and Linux in the 90s.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer"

Nbox9 — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:05:35 +0000

I started daily using non-windows OS in 2004. Ever since then I’ve been finding more and more ways to remove Windows from my life. I work for companies that use macOS —- I use proton to play video games —- I have found alternatives for virtually every application I run. I occasionally use a public computer, a friends computer, or interact with systems that run on Windows Embedded.

I feel as if this journey has given me a deeper understanding of computers (a valuable skill), it has definitely provided me with more enjoyable user experiences and a more productive computational environment. My response to being exposed to non-Microsoft software was to migrate towards it. I do not understand why this response isn’t more universal.

New comment by Nbox9 in "France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors"

Nbox9 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:48:01 +0000

> It's particularly smart in this moment

It may be particularly smart for this moment in internal French politics, but energy independence is a smart move for any sovereign.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Have we been thinking about inflation all wrong?"

Nbox9 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:05:23 +0000

Rising interest rates is likely to have a significant downward pressure on home prices. Think carefully before entering a very leveraged position (like the 3.5% down FHA loan) in the current market.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Inflation rises 7.5% over past year, more than expected and highest since 1982"

Nbox9 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:36:55 +0000

It’s potentially bad because the market isn’t as simple as “keep inflation at 2%”. We also want GDP growth and low unemployment. The tools we have to decrease inflation can hurt both of those metrics. This means our position is risky, and the treatment to reduce inflation might have strong consequences.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?"

Nbox9 — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:40:18 +0000

Demand is incredibly high for babies, and drops off with age.

New comment by Nbox9 in "GTA 6 Confirmed"

Nbox9 — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:09:17 +0000

GTA has a satirical take on American culture told through a rags to riches story of a criminal. It’s humorous, filled with exaggerated characters, action packed, and tells the familiar Scarface-like story.

New comment by Nbox9 in "App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee"

Nbox9 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 23:53:39 +0000

> all Apple has to do is give a >60% discount to their current prices.

New comment by Nbox9 in "Impacts of lack of sleep"

Nbox9 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 04:24:50 +0000

There’s a linear increase of dementia risk as you age. It seems to be not a matter of if you get dementia, but if something else kills you first.

[0] https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/76/suppl_5/v2

New comment by Nbox9 in "Facebook loses users for the first time"

Nbox9 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:46:28 +0000

This gives them more (young) users, a better connection to their users, a ton of patents, and jumps them out of the smartphone era. They are dead in the water without a gambit of a similar size, buying up the competition (their previous primary strategy) only works as long as regulatory agencies are willing to play ball.