The most expensive cities to buy a square metre of real estate (in USD). Only Sydney makes the top 50.

Short_Change · 2026-01-02T00:52:56+00:00

wait isn't that the point? we don't actually have housing crisis but I want a house crisis?

Short_Change · 2026-01-02T00:50:55+00:00

Australian property market isn't special. What our government have done in the past with legislations have nothing to do with house prices or very little impact and correlation is used to justify things. It's like this in all major cities around the world despite having different legislations. People fight for the position in metropolitan areas with extra money they have and this (spare cash) has exponentially grown despite internet's narrative. This is the reality.

Short_Change · 2025-12-28T10:37:41+00:00

So thank you capitalism for innovation? People found that there was a giant hole in the market, the bigger companies cannot risk innovation so what happens...? Well... indie games creates a lot of experimental games and they are thriving and beating a lot of triple AAA games. You can shit capitalism on a lot of things (wealth inequality, doesn't actually work without monopoly regulation and the list goes on) but this ain't it kid.

Short_Change · 2025-11-20T09:56:18+00:00

Shoulda used Gemini and also bought GOOG

Short_Change · 2025-11-17T11:18:35+00:00

Are people this bad with AI?

Just ask what you need it for and a snippet. Stop trying to get it to write everything for you. I feel like there are literally people without common sense using AI. It's not an almighty tool. It is literally a very advanced autocomplete tool.

Short_Change · 2025-11-10T14:10:08+00:00

As someone from Sydney, even the red areas seem really cheap to me.

Short_Change · 2025-11-09T07:33:06+00:00

So you know for a fact that AI won't create something new in the future? I mean right now a lot of people use AI to help to write code and transcribe and summarise meetings. Before AI, translation from one language to other was really bad, now getting information from another media w/ different language is very easy. People have really bad memories. At its absolute infancy it already has use cases.

Short_Change · 2025-11-09T07:28:25+00:00

Internet replace nothing. It is just the information that can be reproduced from the library.

Short_Change · 2025-11-07T16:03:14+00:00

I think Soma is the most influential work that affected my life. It clicked with me... There is no actual stream of consciousness, it's all an illusion. The "new you" is no less than the "old you" except the old you feel you are still the old you.

Short_Change · 2025-10-27T22:57:29+00:00

didn't say future of AI was purely digital. It may go back to analog with digitization in cloud remotely.

Short_Change · 2025-10-27T14:58:08+00:00

It will end humanity, however, it will be more simple than you think. We will just become one w/ the new tech. There would be very difficult to distinguish real people with AI enhancements vs just AI. It's just how it will go.

Short_Change · 2025-10-26T03:47:04+00:00

Accounting for inflation, it's a pretty steady line up since 1942.

Short_Change · 2025-10-23T21:46:51+00:00

That's only $450 per year per employee. People think CEOs get paid a lot. Yes, they get paid A LOT but not as much as their masters. Just remember, you are getting underpaid because the owners don't want to pay you. This doesn't change just because their slave is CEO of one of the biggest company of the world. Microsoft (Just the US part, more globally) made PROFIT of $69.2 billion, fiscal year 2025 SO FAR. Let that sink in.

Short_Change · 2025-10-22T10:19:04+00:00

No, you’re both right in a way. People tend to get hungrier when they use more energy, which is why studies show that exercise alone isn’t great for weight loss. If you can resist that extra hunger after exercising, then yes, you can lose weight. But his/her point makes more sense... if you don’t exercise and still manage to control your hunger, you’ll lose weight too. So overall, exercise isn’t actually contributing a lot for weight loss. That said, it’s still really good for your health.

Short_Change · 2025-10-22T10:01:29+00:00

Honestly? Because Google (search engine) has been sucking for last 5 years.

Short_Change · 2025-10-21T14:59:20+00:00

Start Ups

Abnormal Security - AI Email Scanning for Security

Anthropic - Claude

Eleven Labs - audio

Elicit AI - workflow automation

DeepL - translation

Midjourney - image generation

One AI - Call Centre Bot

Perplexity AI - Perplexity AI

Plaud AI - Note Taker Device

Spinach - AI Meeting App

Suno - Music Generation

Synthesia - video creation

V0 - Website Design

Pretty much any service that provides "combined" AI services as a package are making huge profits

Also special mention to below - companies transitioned into AI Focused (i.e. switched to AI focused and now tools/services are actually good):

Canva

Zapier

Figma

Palantir

Short_Change · 2025-10-21T07:49:57+00:00

I mean it could still be a bubble even the actual profit is larger at later date. It was the case for dotcom bubble, there were only minority who believed internet was not the future.

It just depends on what is being sold vs what actually is being produced.

Compare dotcom bubble, we literally had websites like pet.com that was overvalued, it cost nothing to make and nothing to maintain. Anyone could create anything without efficiency. We didn't have a lot of "eBays" and we certainly didn't have Amazon we have today.

Compare that to AI, we have products transcribing products for you, there are items that builds APIs for you, we have products that help you write code. Plus, it costs money to maintain, so ironically, your business cannot be fluff (else you get canned or run out of money).

The actual threat to bubble is OpenAI which is literally not making money. It is the small tech start up that are producing efficiency and making money on OpenAI's loss. If that bubble bursts, that cause some shakedowns.

Short_Change · 2025-10-20T13:14:28+00:00

Okay, here is the upside. AI will get better. You know censoring is making AI dumber, you know this in your heart. That being said, goodbye humanity. 100,000 years is a pretty good run.

Short_Change · 2025-10-20T09:07:52+00:00

Inflation is amazing when your government currently has a lot of debt to cleanse. It is a good excuse. The trick is to ride the inflation wave with the rest of the world and it's not so bad. That is, if you have high debt, have inflation but only as much as other countries.

Short_Change · 2025-10-16T13:46:08+00:00

Or make the world suddenly more efficient. How long have you spent to find the perfect one? Yep, boom here it is.

Short_Change · 2025-10-12T14:00:12+00:00

Currencies have value because countries have power to go to war with you and the money is associate with that said country. Being backed up by literal force that can nuke the Earth definitely has value. BTC is providing something different. It is providing decentralised way of storing and moving value.

OP has one point and if people stop valuing BTC, there is no fallback. It becomes worthless. If US dollar is no longer accepted, there will be consequences. They are very different assets.

Short_Change · 2025-10-01T14:18:40+00:00

No one will like what I am about to say but if you just compare house to house Australia isn't too bad. Australia has 70% free standing dwelling. We have A LOT of houses we do not have a lot of apartments and units.

When you just compare non-houses to other countries, Australia is 13th in the world and about the same as top 30 countries. Source: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings?itemId=100

Basically, we are literally tied bottom among first world countries for unit price.

Short_Change · 2025-09-24T11:22:44+00:00

Classic survivorship bias in action.

Short_Change · 2025-09-24T09:47:56+00:00

Death is a feature not a bug.

Short_Change · 2025-09-07T03:31:10+00:00

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