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by MAGZine 6y ago
Maybe if they were paid enough, and/or had to vie for a limited supply of drivers, they'd turn on AC, clean their car, do short rides, etc. People forget that when Uber was charging a fair price, the rides and drivers were nice. T
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Depends how you build your teams. I'm working with people across the globe, no doubt a circumstance of a thousand small decisions. Scheduling some meetings is 100% impossible, and often times it involves taking meetings early (7-8AM) o
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by MAGZine 6y ago
No, I'm not forgetting that. In my experience, most market rate units turn over every 2 or 3 years. 15 years in sf apartment leases are unusual except for people who cannot afford to move out. If you assumption, as a landlord, is that
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by MAGZine 6y ago
you can easily take this into account too, and my calculation did. Assuming your tenant is staying for 2-3 years, you can really only afford to let it set empty for a few months. Your yearly rent increases are just a couple percent (tenths
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by MAGZine 6y ago
So manhattan is to sf as nyc is to the bay? you ignore a lot of other industry around the bay and around nyc. Neither Queens nor Fremont are representative of the other areas, neither is Brooklyn or Oakland. Or Berkeley. Or Bronx.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
IME, sf has falled 20-30% even in desirable neighbourhoods. You can get a recently renovated 3 bedroom with laundry and dishwasher, in a desirable area for $4500. Those bedrooms weren't going for less than $2k a year ago.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
if you do the math, it's expensive to let a unit sit for more than a couple months as opposed to offering a discount on the rent. This assumes your tenant will turnover in a couple years time, mind you. I did the math for SF and IIRC ~
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by MAGZine 6y ago
like VIM commands, you can't expect yourself to read the manual and master them all on the first try. You add them as you find yourself frustrated with how inefficient an operation is. I suspect it's going to be something that you
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by MAGZine 6y ago
The problem for me is rarely typing speed, unless if I'm transcribing something. No, the bandwidth chokepoint is organizing thoughts, and those thoughts into sentences (or into code snippets). It is always nice to be able to express th
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by MAGZine 6y ago
The smaller process size means better battery life. I'll take better battery life over 16% faster performance. I'm rocking a 3a and rare desire for a faster processor/CPU. more battery life is more important than additional p
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by MAGZine 6y ago
They're the same battery. Maybe packaged slightly differently, but being able to remove it does not affect it's ability to supply power.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Can you point to a source that says labour costs are the reason for high Telco prices? The ongoing maintainence of a tower seems like it would be fractional to operational cost.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Founding engineers may take 1%. Go plug the numbers in for yourself on tldroptions.io and see what the return looks like. That said, on the most rocketcorny of rocketcorns the growth curve continues and being an employee in series A or B ca
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Yeah, they're operating again. I have little doubt that Uber and Lyft will continue to operate in california once they a) adjust their business model to pay people appropriately (they seem to be able to roll out new software quite quic
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Independent contractors pay both sides of the payroll tax, don't they? So there's no greed there. Unemployment is a different case, but here, it would actually make the state liable for more money—it would be a pretty weird greed
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by MAGZine 6y ago
The state that scared uber and lyft off with background requirements, fingerprinting, and restricting bikelanes? I think maybe the grass is just greener.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
I had the same thought. Lyft and Uber are already employers in the view of the state. No further modification is necessary. What I'm guessing is that having people waiting being paid $0 is a core principal of Uber and Lyft. They hinge
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Thank you for the clarification—I'd edit my comment if I could.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
except uber/lyft will remove you from the platform if you decline too many rides, thereby only giving the illusion of choice.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
This is a terrible idea. You're destroying institutional knowledge because "it's cluttered." What do you do with clutter? You clean it. You don't burn your house down every year because it's cluttered. Wikis ar
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Preparing for malicious internal employees seems to me like preparing for "the big one," in the northwest. Do a cursory amount of preparation. Outside of basic measures, you're probably doing more harm to the business than go
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by MAGZine 6y ago
I'm not going to advocate for completely abandoning semver, and I do think that people abuse it or try to use it in places where it might not have been originally intended. That said, personally, my most hated anti-pattern (outside of
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by MAGZine 6y ago
building on the surface of the moon is not without benefit. as a static location, it would be much easier to build larger sensors with larger mirrors, rather than having to build one giant thing and hope it deploys safely. You could build a
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Airlines report flights booked directly to security agencies, including new, cancelled, and changed itineraries, with complete customer information. They don't need to hack airlines—the regulatory system has given them what they need.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
changing emails is a common way to keep account owners out of their accounts. might not have anything to do with the mode of entry.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Right. I just want to further highlight that "aerosol," in the context of medical journals, has a specific meaning, and that your lungs generally aren't capable of aerosolizing the virus into small enough matter to qualify. T
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by MAGZine 6y ago
I have a plug-in installed in vim and vscode (and ilellij) that provide me with relative line numbers in addition to absolute line numbers. So, the current active line might display "353" in the gutters for the 353rd line. Both th
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by MAGZine 6y ago
There's early evidence to suggest that masks do more to prevent the spread of the virus than physical distancing. Of course, yes, it would be easy to say, "just never get in range and the mask doesn't matter," but we liv
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by MAGZine 6y ago
Pardon me saying so, though the base vacation policy seems middling in generosity. It strikes me that maybe the unlimited policy didn't work for facet because of that. essentially: including company holidays in PTO calculation is lame.
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by MAGZine 6y ago
As a company trying to donate their leftover cash to charity, what's the benefit of being public? Won't being beholden to shareholders mean wanting to increase shareholder value vs upholding their commitment to charity?

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