Adding to the strangeness, as the owner of WordPress.org, is Matt violating the trademark owned by the foundation or is there another undisclosed licensing agreement?
I work as an agent in the commercial real estate space. Usually referrals happen when one agent who let's say specializes in office (for example) finds a lead/listing in Industrial, multifamily, etc (That they aren't well versed in). Usually I've noticed 20% (of the commission) is about the standard fee if you get them a listing. Most often however referrals aren't concrete and no sale actually comes out of it. This is because you have to convince the owner to sign a listing with the person you are referring and they are probably already getting contacted by competing brokers who already specialize in the space. I've only had 1-2 referrals work out for me. You'd want some kind of way for agents to list their specialty and maybe a list of done deals (of that property type) to show experience. I've noticed on the commercial side that Generalists (Who do everything) NEVER get referrals. No one will refer for example the sale of an office building to an agent that lists everything, the refer to the office broker who specializes in it. I have an idea for a Real Estate site (I've put it on the back-burner) that nobody is doing right now because from my experience the tech savvy guys who can build this kind of thing are not privy to the high end investment sales market (Investment properties that are at least $2 million) There is a certain culture and way of doing things that isn't really easy to understand unless you've worked in it.
2007 doesn't have to happen again. It's possible to both make houses affordable for people with lower income and not give irresponsible amounts of debt to people who cannot afford it. It just requires smaller, more affordable houses to be built. I don't know why, exactly, but as a general trend the sizes of houses have just been going [up, up, up](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.census.gov/const/C2...) (PDF)! Consider that the [mean, median] square footages of new houses built in the US had gone from [1660, 1525] in 1973 to [2392, 2169] by 2010. Maybe the reason people can't afford to buy houses is that no one wants to build affordable houses.
OP's point seems to be that inflation of bitcoin value is built in, effectively resulting in de minimis velocity and seeking out of alternative stores of value which are more stable. Bitcoin is how I would design a currency if I wanted it to self implode.
Wouldn't it actually depend on when you buy the phone? If I buy a Pixel in one year (just before the "Pixel 2" is released), presumably I will still receive the two years of updates...
Alternatively, if I buy the Pixel on it's release date, is it safe to assume I will receive 3 years of major updates + 1 year of security updates?
It can be expensive, especially for someone not familiar with the area or who's lacking substantial credit history (sorry that I'm about to go slightly off topic). If you don't have luck on Craigslist, our new real estate brokerage in Hoboken has access to most of the rental inventory on the New Jersey side of the river (cheaper than NYC with most of the same benefits). We also learned the business in this market and can help you successfully navigate all the little quirks.
Happy to help anyone looking to relocate or anyone looking to help their employees relocate.
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Presumably Buffet would respond to you by noting that the stock market is a voting machine in the short run and a weighing machine in the long run. i.e. for the companies he owns, he isn't generally concerned with short term stock price fluctuations.
