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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
The problem is that in many urban areas especially in CA, there aren’t many viable housing options for those who are mid career and want to live alone or start a family. “Just get some roommates, we did that when I was young” can be a littl
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
But the smaller planes are more efficient and scale better.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
I just rented a 1BR for 2300. If you want cheap rent, set up an alert on Craigslist. 90% of the listings on CL are above a market clearing price and have been on CL for 6+ weeks. When the prices are lowered, they get snapped up in 12 hrs or
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Not quite sure what this comment means but it feels like you are saying “these rules exist Because a democratically influenced process came up with them so we shouldn’t change them”, which if true is not great reasoning for the following re
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Point still stands, if you paid for the true cost of parking no one would bat an eye, but the current regime subsidized car use to an insane extent through inefficient land use policies. A true “market rate” bart parking spot would likely b
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
In the SFBA, the land use issues with suburbs are that most of them are building far more office space than housing and thus the jobs-housing balance is out of whack. A suburb like cupertino, that’s builds office space for 12k workers (the
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Also, if current growth rates hold, everyone on the planet will be employed by Amazon in 2 years. I am not sketical that China has a quickly growing economy, but models that project 20 years into the future often fail to account for black s
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
That’s not true, it’s the building codes. Municipalities have made creating new naturally affordable housing illegal. There are minimum unit sizes based on expected occupancy, density maximums (ie up to N units per lot), parking minimums ba
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
What you want is socialism for the rich. In a working land market, a group of 3 people could outbid a single person for property in your neighborhood and build a suitable dwelling for them that objectively is not disruptive to the community
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
“If more people wanted dense housing the laws would change” - This is not true. I do a lot of political organizing in this space. The issue here (SFBA) is that the zoning laws are made by the current residents of a small geographic area (ne
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Maybe they’re spending a ton to maintain market position w lyft, who just raised a bunch of money and is now doubt also lighting it on fire for growth reasons.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
More and more we see state agencies standing up to regime change in Washington (ex: CA and environmental regulations). Regardless of your personal politics, I wonder how this dynamic will affect democracy in the US.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
The 24 hour shifts are there because it results in a higher standard of care for patients with life threatening and time sensitive treatment schedules. If they worked in 8 hour shifts, there would be a handoff and loss of information at eac
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Not necessarily. The problem with land is that you can’t make more of it, and owning it allows monopolistic use, and thus rent seeing behavior from landlords and deadweight loss. The LVT if properly implemented will capture the dead weight
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
If these things interest you, consider learning more about the yimby party (sfyimby.com). We’re a group advocating for these policies at a local and state level. DM me for more details.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
I’m also an Uber engineer > was the entire chain of command [...] cleared out? Yes, like 80% of the C suite left. The orgs that had been the worst have had high/mid level management departures too. Our Chief People Officer Lianne ha
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
How so? Uber employs over 1k engineers working in autonomy in both SF and Pittsburgh.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Uber has 5.5B in cash, and 3B in credit available
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
The data here seems highly suspect, every other analysis I've seen puts Uber eats at a much larger market share than 0.1% of the market.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Unions are implemented differently in the US and elsewhere. IMHO the case law around unions in the US sets up a perverse incentive structure that results in an antagonistic relationship between capital and labor, ex: Supreme Court ruling re
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Gojek is also crushing Indonesia. They started a bankless payments system and are expanding beyond just rides now, pretty cool stuff that dominates in their own market.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
This isn't a series B/C/D company. Expedia is losing a CEO and the new one isn't going to be paid 400m (2% of Expedia by market cap).
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
They should do some sort of bankless electronic payments like their competitor go Jek in SE Asia is doing
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Wow, and I must think we're looking to squeeze ~3 more orders of magnitude or more of the reliability before going full driverless ~(1m miles/disengagement)
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
It might be time for people to realize that the lived experience of the vast majority of Uber employees does not match the ridiculous charicature that the media portrays. (I am not saying there wasn't harassment or bullying, that Susan
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
The real problem, and the article alludes to this, isn't just that the boomers aren't moving, it's that they aren't moving AND they're preventing more and denser housing from being constructed in their neighborhoods
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Uber is in SF, Palo Alto and Seattle, oak office is very small and hasn't opened yet.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
Seems like smoke and mirrors. Classic lawyer speak as both sides say it bolsters their case. Mildly interesting tidbit but clearly not the big hunk of red meat either side is waiting for. Excited for the October trial.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
That's a very bold statement to make with zero knowledge of the financials.
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by 0xB31B1B 9y ago
We already have "supplemental income" with the EITC. It's literally designed for that purpose, it's just not universal

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