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New comment by Schiendelman in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

Schiendelman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:48:30 +0000

Once you go that far, you'll just decide all currency is a Ponzi scheme.

New comment by Schiendelman in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

Schiendelman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:48:11 +0000

Yeah, I have always used those interchangeably, do you feel like they're different?

New comment by Schiendelman in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

Schiendelman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:47:55 +0000

Seller financing is not a financial circle. It's how you buy a car, sometimes a house.

New comment by Schiendelman in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

Schiendelman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:47:10 +0000

Their top priority? Compared to what?

New comment by Schiendelman in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

Schiendelman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:46:45 +0000

As a product manager, I can tell you you're making a mistake in the way you're thinking about this. If you actually try calculating it, you'll figure it out.

New comment by Schiendelman in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

Schiendelman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:59:09 +0000

The reusability is what made the rest of these investments possible. Musk is annoying, but you have to give him credit for it.

New comment by Schiendelman in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

Schiendelman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:58:34 +0000

Not just US - plenty of other countries will want to do the same, and there are only going to be a couple of countries with cheap payload capability.

New comment by Schiendelman in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

Schiendelman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:57:29 +0000

Is it? I think you might think differently if you challenge yourself to calculate the total addressable market for Starlink.

New comment by Schiendelman in "ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says"

Schiendelman — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:01:09 +0000

Please cite comments like this. It's not helpful to the conversation to make highly opinionated statements.

New comment by Schiendelman in "ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says"

Schiendelman — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:00:18 +0000

That's because we regulate growth. Seriously. It's exactly the same root cause. Have you heard about why zoning drives up housing prices?

New comment by Schiendelman in "Transit rewards"

Schiendelman — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:57:08 +0000

Of course they went bankrupt. We built free to use roads to compete with them.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Transit rewards"

Schiendelman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:52:22 +0000

It would look like NYC or Tokyo. Both built privately.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Transit rewards"

Schiendelman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:51:58 +0000

The separation and space tends to resolve itself slowly and naturally as density increases. You get the pressure from the new people who live there to make crossings shorter and safer. It's slow, but it is effective.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Transit rewards"

Schiendelman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:02:34 +0000

On the contrary, our biggest cities started as little groups of houses. Letting places increase their density is a natural solution to a lot of this. The core problem is that we need to take away the power of local government to limit development.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Transit rewards"

Schiendelman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:01:43 +0000

When someone says incentive in this context, they usually mean the individual incentives of each of the workers to make money for themselves, get promoted to get a share of profit, not the overall fuzzy public pressure.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Transit rewards"

Schiendelman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:00:43 +0000

In general, this is why semi-private or private transport works so much better. If the end user is getting a bunch more value out of working on the train, they will pay more for the train than the road (if they have to pay the full price of the road vs train each time they use each).

New comment by Schiendelman in "Transit rewards"

Schiendelman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:59:16 +0000

That's a minuscule amount of the value it creates. And that's a problem, and a problem we can only fix by privatizing it. But most of the value it creates is for the landowners around it. And that's why successful transit companies are also real estate developers. Even in our own history, that's how private transit worked before we killed it.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Transit rewards"

Schiendelman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:57:55 +0000

Of course, this is what happens when there's no profit motive. If we weren't making the marginal cost of using a road zero, and they had to compete with each other, and the people running transit wanted to make money rather than satisfy the requirements of a law, transit would be cheaper. That's how it is in all the places in the world where transit is really good.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Transit rewards"

Schiendelman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:50:59 +0000

They really don't. They don't build residential or commercial property.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Elevated errors for multiple models – Resolved"

Schiendelman — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 02:26:49 +0000

Just like a software engineer who gets sick or has to pick up their kids or has an appointment. We're used to this, oddly.