It’s not that it doesn’t click - it’s just another stupid thing like Myers-Briggs personality types - and it’s just a shit analogy. Go ahead and categorize businesses by vitamins, pain killers and candy if it’s makes you happy. I believe reading anything into these distinctions is open to the free interpretation and is just astrology for the tech bro crowd. And no one actually agrees on the categorizations for anything less trivial than Candy Crush - as evidenced down thread. The software businesses that are cleanly categorized by this are the exception not the rule.
Once you start having a meta discussion about the analogy itself, perhaps that should be a sign.
> Analogies always fall apart somewhere under scrutiny.
Yeah but this one falls apart the moment you simply try to figure out what facet is trying to be conveyed. Just say what you fucking mean. The general painkiller > vitamin argument is generally bunk/false dichotomy - therefore you’re not saving any time with the analogy.
> I don’t know. People without pain do take painkillers. And they can have a really hard time stopping. In that sense, I would argue that Facebook is a lot like a painkiller for a lot of people!
Nice, you’ve explained by demonstration better than I could why this is a trash analogy and only confuses issues, does not clarify them. Consider stopping using it.
A layer 3 switch does not just “glean” information from the packet , it can switch packets and rewrite IP header data at wire speed to place packets on different networks completely bypassing a router.
I don’t know of any better term for it than a “layer 3 switch”.
Without disagreeing on the specific points about the tooling, I’m not convinced. Golang took off with a far weaker tooling story. Maybe the table stakes have changed in a decade - but I believe other factors are more important. Moreover I remain skeptical that even if those tooling issues were fixed tomorrow it would help Nim turn the corner.
I acknowledged “something you can exchange for money” - that was not the objection.
It doesn’t solve the underlying difficulty of exchanging physical goods and services that are not tokens - you, know, the actual hard part. It also doesn’t solve the laundering aspect once you try to get those tokens liquidated to something not volatile as fuck.
Eh? You can’t like give me anything - you can give me a token - which can also effectively be money. The latter usually occurs due to some other trust relationship needing to be established - we are back at square one.
> 40-50k, but if they are spending more than 25-30% on rent/mortgage they will have a real hard time making utilities, food, car, insurance, etc work.
And yet millions of families in the US alone are literally making this work. So that’s nonsense.
I have literally lived this. There is no goddamn reason spending more than 50% of your income to own a nice home in a good location is necessarily a bad allocation - there are far worse. It’s not for everybody but it isn’t inherently irresponsible. So what value does an arbitrary rule like 25% have - especially considering differences in absolute income - none whatsoever.
Finding suitable roommates is also not something anywhere near as easy as you make it sound.
Have a nice day. I know I’m not going to stop you spewing your inane life advice.
I think 70% should be the goal - why? Because I pulled it out of my ass. Do you have a sound financial explanation for this benchmark, because it sounds like arbitrary dick sizing.
60% of income on a mortgage in a relatively stable area without insane property taxes is likely a very prudent allocation of income, since you both have a good investment and a place to live. Spending 60% or even more of income on a mortgage may well be better than 25% on rent.
Another thing, 25% of income is very different at $30k then it is at $300k. This is something the budding personal finance advisor should understand.
> then you need roommates
Is that what you’re going to tell people in their 30s with kids?
Well then you need to learn your tools better. VS has had Edit and Continue since 2005.