JBlue42

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by JBlue42 9y ago
Maybe reply instead of downvoting folks.
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I agree. Same in LA. I was merely pointing out things I heard directly from people working with a major real estate developer there. I know from the design side that there was a major fight to try and get in some sort of affordable resident
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by JBlue42 9y ago
What's a worker to do? I live in a blue city in a blue state and vote for the blue people that say they're going to help out with this. They are not the majority and the other party are hell-bent on destroying what little advancem
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Yup. Then again, my assumption is this some old lady that has been in the neighborhood for a while. Her kids won't give a shit about the growth when they can live in or sell her house for a shit ton of money.
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That's kind of funny. East Hollywood is already pretty dense (not height-wise though) compared to surrounding areas. I can see from a parking standing point what the complaint would be but...I don't know, any new building in E Hol
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by JBlue42 9y ago
There has to be an incentive for real estate developers. There's a project at my former company that will redevelop a part of downtown SF. There was a massive back and forth and iterations that had to be done because the numbers guy at
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I like LA b/c no one gives a crap since everyone is from somewhere else and the city just absorbs you. My home state of N Carolina has a lot of people move down for more affordable housing and decent jobs from up north. The city of Car
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by JBlue42 9y ago
If they're arriving in a city that's already unbearably expensive, and it up doing normal life things (coupling, planning for kids), they might end up leaving back to either that Rust Belt city, that might have a 'revitalized
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I would agree. Outside of the deep Amazon and oceans, there's not much that hasn't been covered.
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I think it depends on the office. When I worked in the South, but in a liberal area, you might talk about it with coworkers you trust, privately, but no one of any authority would get up and say anything. The 100+ person company I worked at
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I see your point. I think at market rate a couple years ago, my studio would be around $1500/mo, 1 bd at $1750, and 2 bd at ~2100. So yes, there could be several hundred saved. The "best" deal I've found in LA is when yo
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Depends on where you live. When I looked into splitting a place here in LA, it was only $100 less than if I stayed in my studio, with less amenities. I'm lucky, as I'm rent-controlled, but even people I know that live in 4-bedroom
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Hollywood loves them, esp. if you come from money. To get a foot in the door anywhere, there's unpaid internships that you might work anywhere from 3-6 months, then maybe roll onto the next. I've met people that interned for 1-2 y
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Won't stick with Angelenos. They'll continue to kick their car doors open w/o a thought as to whether bike or car is barreling down towards them.
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You do you.
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You might have noticed Americans are obsessed with technological solutionism, whether it's the form of products or pills. There's a cure for anything.
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Yeah, it seems like it would open up such a can of worms which, in my mind, just seems to be a part of the difficulties of addressing the equal pay for equal work stuff. Not to mention that taking a full maternity leave puts women six month
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by JBlue42 9y ago
It seems like the salary band, determined on experience, would at least give room for negotiation or adjusting wages, at least the hiring level. In terms of a company with the wage structure it currently has, you would have to the executive
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by JBlue42 9y ago
As others said, young folks do the cheap thing, stay in hostels, or the sorta cheap, stay in AirBnBs vs the pre-packaged thing. Also, those intangibles are "creating some new experience" - you're not buying a consumer item, y
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by JBlue42 9y ago
You can still goof off and get a lot from it if by goof off you mean partying, going to sports events, etc. I went to a large public school, learned a lot, met lifelong friends (some of whom have gotten me jobs), worked part-time throughout
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by JBlue42 9y ago
There's a version of that in the travel blogger / digital nomad market where they shill their e-books about how to be a successful travel blogger / digital nomad. I assume Step 1 is to write an e-book.
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To branch off of this, you're also 17 and have a better idea of what your cohort is doing or interested in than all the marketers in the world (who try and sell / create things for you). Solve problems you're interested in or
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Ask HN: How to determine equal pay for genders at a company?
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Sad but good point.
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>if there's pent-up demand for a company that fills Uber's boots, one will pop up. I think we saw that in Austin after Lyft/Uber were banned and people started the various Facebook and other groups to do the same thing. No
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by JBlue42 9y ago
No. She's CEO at HP and, at least in LA, I've heard rumbles of people talking about her for a possible run. There's even an article today from Forbes: http://fortune.com/2017/09/22/hp-hpe-meg-wh
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I use https://hckrnews.com/ since I can sort out top 10 or 20 and top 50% (my usual default) or hit all to see everything as it updates. It also keeps track of dates and when, on all, what's new since my last visit.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Why do people keep putting forth Meg Whitman for a possible presidential run? Obviously, even a baboon would be better and more consistent than the current POTUS but HP has such a terrible reputation and seems like it's always in crisi
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Maybe they meant those mid/high-level employees have enough cash/stock that they can peace out of the work force or work less and pursue something artistic.
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I'll say this is the only reason I've really stayed with Twitter. And it's not about the "right now" everywhere else but in my own neighborhood. If I hear a bunch of fire engines or helicopters lingering around, it&

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