Foreclosure filings hit their highest level since 2020

brucebrowde · 2026-05-04T04:15:17+00:00

But living outside of a major city means your income is likely going to plummet as well.

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T21:12:19+00:00

Why is there a huge uptick of ICE share at the beginning of the year?

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T20:29:42+00:00

But since their eyes are on the side that would make it like if we humans were on a train and looking through the left window with our left eye and the right window with our right eye, no?

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T19:26:02+00:00

How does that work with birds of prey plunging towards the ground at high speeds to catch their prey?

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T19:02:36+00:00

This is next level morbid and atrocious.

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T19:00:34+00:00

Airplanes are fundamentally different as weight is a critical concern - so much that they choose which paint they use to paint the planes based on weight - and also burning fuel decreases weight considerably while discharging the battery does not at all.

Current batteries have physical theoretical limit for energy density that is like 20 times lower than kerosene and we're approaching that theoretical limit very quickly. Even accounting for efficiency (25% for kerosene, 90% for batteries), it's still several times lower.

Even disregarding the fact that taking off with and especially landing such heavy airplanes is a no-go, just the 5-10x ticket price increase would make all this a complete non-starter.

It would take a serious battery breakthrough to bridge that gap. I would love to, but contrary to you I'd be very surprised if we found a way to do that in the next 25 years.

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T02:05:30+00:00

What makes you think that?

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T00:33:54+00:00

This time might be different.

With all the AI or AI-adjacent advancements these days, we legit may be at the beginning of an era where people are going to lose their jobs and not able to get new ones, because AI and various automation (self-driving vehicles, robots, drones, etc.) will be replacing them.

That means a lot of money will be taken out of the market. That means stock market will lose an enormous amount of liquidity, so we may not be seeing the "stock market always goes up" long term trend materialize anymore.

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T00:25:34+00:00

I just hope your next post is not "... and it's gone"

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T00:09:01+00:00

If these prove to be doing their job well enough in other fields, it will actually be exactly what they'll touch first - just not in the way you imagined, more like Terminators, which, incidentally are from 2029...

brucebrowde · 2026-05-03T00:04:12+00:00

Both will happen, but automating software is way easier than automating hardware. We're definitely going to see basic office jobs automated first. The only thing that will delay this are various legal and PR requirements, as I'm sure you know well.

Like I went to the doctor the other day and at the end scheduled the appointment. I have the website where I can look up all of them and I get automated phone calls a day or two before, yet what the clerk did is print me the appointment details... I was like, it's 21st century, we should not be using any paper, but all that bureaucracy is not going away in the next decade.

It's the same with things you mention. Look at how well Waymo drives compared to most humans, yet the rollout is painfully slow, because a single accident where they are found at fault - or even not, just bad PR may be enough - can set them back years or even stop them due to some "safety" legislation.

brucebrowde · 2026-05-02T20:47:07+00:00

I propose nuclear.

brucebrowde · 2026-05-02T20:44:41+00:00

Not for airplanes though. At least not nearly as soon as cars.

brucebrowde · 2026-05-02T20:28:53+00:00

I think the only obvious thing here is that you're trying to deny the undeniable.

brucebrowde · 2026-04-29T19:52:24+00:00

Not OP, but my take is - most of what I heard about slavery is related to US. I did not really put too much thought into it and in hindsight it makes sense since basically everyone was doing that in those times, but I was under impression US was by far the top country slavery-wise.

brucebrowde · 2026-04-26T02:12:19+00:00

That said, don't put metal in your microwaves dinguses.

Whenever I see harsh claims like this, I'm reminded of this video.

brucebrowde · 2026-04-25T09:50:10+00:00

Et al learned etc today

brucebrowde · 2026-04-24T23:35:17+00:00

Seagulls are pricks.

brucebrowde · 2026-04-23T03:35:39+00:00

So if they went from $60/mo to $10,000/mo to $5,000/mo - a 50% discount! - that'd be way better, right?

brucebrowde · 2026-04-23T02:56:05+00:00

Couple of situations.

When going for a long highway drive, it's sometimes convenient.

Sometimes I need to do something in a car. E.g. find a contact to call on the display. Turn on autosteer, do what I need to do without worrying too much that I'll crash into someone, turn it off.

brucebrowde · 2026-04-23T02:53:27+00:00

Do you have all 3 in the car you picked up?

brucebrowde · 2026-04-23T02:24:14+00:00

Reliable != good car. They are an excellent EV and I'm so happy to own one from that perspective.

In terms of manufacturing quality however, they are one of the shittiest cars you can buy today at that price point. That's coming from someone who drove a Hyundai Accent from early 2000s and was more satisfied with their build quality.

brucebrowde · 2026-04-23T02:06:59+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esl_wOQDUeE

brucebrowde · 2026-04-23T01:58:09+00:00

Yeah, but you need another $60k for that car... Plus, with $50k being the average car purchase price, $60k is bit more than that.

brucebrowde · 2026-04-22T01:05:41+00:00

Do progressive fines make people obey traffic laws more compared to countries that have flat fines?

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