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by Naritai 10y ago
Others have pointed out, but I will emphasize, that this runs smack into the local politics of suburbia. Most people don't want to live next to a multi-unit house, and so: 1) the value of homes around a multi-unit house will decrease,
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by Naritai 10y ago
That wouldn't solve what is essentially private schooling: small suburbs that maintain their own school boards and allow only local residents. Tuition for entry is owning a house in that city. See, for example, Piedmont CA, which has
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by Naritai 10y ago
There's an easy answer to this: The government provided the list of books and movies that were allowed to be sold. And Apple realized they couldn't make money selling only this list, so they dropped out.
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by Naritai 11y ago
Not really. "prevailing wage" doesn't mean average wage at that company, it means the wage that posted on the Department of Labor website as the minimum wage for that county. The posted prevailing wage for an EE with 5 years
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by Naritai 11y ago
Very sad. I intended to use this service one my child became old enough to do so.
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by Naritai 11y ago
Pretty sure OP is referring to logical application of legal concepts, not brain-teasers.
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by Naritai 11y ago
The main takeaway from the article (they don't make this argument directly, but I'm inferring it) is that the main opportunity is for a cloud/services company to provide a standard and backbone services for all the individual
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by Naritai 11y ago
Is the delivery person aware of whether you tipped before the delivery even occurs? If so, I will never use their app.
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by Naritai 11y ago
The article, along with the zeitgeist that it refers to, is that all SV has been thinking about for the last ~5 years has been "simple tech and disrupting markets", at the expense of developing real technology.
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by Naritai 11y ago
Sure, but that only serves to emphasize the difficulties faced by companies that need to do true R&D. Your typical HW startup has way more than 10k more costs than a typical SW startup. (Yes, I know the issue is apps vs. tech, not SW v
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by Naritai 11y ago
How much are you driving in those 3 years? I am also referring to vehicles that cost 20-30k (the truly poor, after all, are spending 2-5k then pouring money into parts, maintenance, and towing charges) and using them for 100-200 thousand
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by Naritai 11y ago
I moved to SF in 2007, so yes it's entirely possible the culture has changed. I'm genuinely interested in how it's change though.
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by Naritai 11y ago
Is it still a Micron-dominated monoculture? That one company had way too much influence when I lived there.
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by Naritai 11y ago
To continue your point: Having the credit score to get a good mortgage. Living in a good zip code, and so your car/home insurance is cheaper. Living in a good zip code, so you can send your kids to public school. Living in a good zi
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by Naritai 11y ago
'Discredited' is a strong term, but the problem is that many people, even senior Nazis, made similar arguments. Read, for example, Eichmann in Jerusalem to see an account from a senior member of the SS making a similar explanatio
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by Naritai 11y ago
There's a valuable point made in that article, that in a lot of business reliability is more important than speed. That is, if you do something exactly as your customer expects, every time, that's better than being occasionally t
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by Naritai 11y ago
Yeah, this is Tony calling up his friends and asking for defense pieces.
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by Naritai 11y ago
That's more or less true for sensor projects. The transducer is the area of research, with an Arduino or other simple backend to allow them to focus on the transducer. This is not necessarily the way a commercial product would be done
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by Naritai 11y ago
If your comment were to be somehow combined with jimrandomh's, they would instantly combine, leaving nothing in their place.
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by Naritai 11y ago
The semi-permanent arrangements are usually a small number of apartments for which there are months-long waiting lists. It's considered to be like a halfway house, or a dry run for having an actual apartment, and the shelter frequentl
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by Naritai 11y ago
TechCrunch has one, peppered with their usual breathlessness: http://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/
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by Naritai 11y ago
Your assumption of 10% breakout is based, on some level, an assumption that each company's valuation is uncorrelated with the others, and each company will rise and fall on its merits. However, the nature of bubbles is that valuations
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by Naritai 11y ago
Your comment would be true if it weren't possible to list on multiple sites/apps at the same time. Many studies have already shown that the majority of drivers in large markets (SF/NY/etc) keep multiple apps open, and a
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by Naritai 11y ago
This is where legal concepts (in the US) such as 'reasonable person' come into play. Courts usually hold that any use of a product that a 'reasonable person' would do is an acceptable use (regardless of what the instruc
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by Naritai 11y ago
To add to your analysis, Instacart is also very dependent on a large team of 'staff' (be it contractors or employees) to provide its service. A major cornerstone of low-margin companies like Amazon is high levels of automation an
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by Naritai 11y ago
Yeah, this is a bitter, angry press release that doesn't provide much background or context. No appropriate as a news link, in my opinion - it'd be much better to link to something from an actual news source that gives some histor
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by Naritai 11y ago
That doesn't necessarily prove anything. Google and Apple were partners before Android.
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by Naritai 11y ago
From the point of view of most economic studies, there is no difference. For them a business founded for the purpose of making is a startup, be it a plumbing business or an on-demand food delivery service.
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by Naritai 11y ago
The main topic of the article is about how Theranos won't share any info about the science or about the machines. So that's probably all the NYT has to work with.
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by Naritai 12y ago
True! I do think it's a net win-win.

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