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by abalone 8y ago
Prop C has extensive accountability mechanisms and is directly overseen by the mayor: OVERSIGHT & ACCOUNTABILITY This initiative requires an Oversight Committee comprised of nine experts on homelessness, supportive housing, mental il
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by abalone 8y ago
It was mostly tech funding the opposition (Stripe, Lyft, Dorsey) and the mayor’s campaign also was funded by tech. I love how you think it’s the government’s job to solve homelessness but then don’t want to fund the government.
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by abalone 8y ago
> Nothing in his post even references the earnings drop. “- Some people decide that they'll stick with their phone a bit longer... - Apple misses their earnings target” Direct quote.
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by abalone 8y ago
The low property tax thing is another favorite of the tech industry to target, to deflect blame from the elephant in the room (massive insatiable demand). There is a lot of validity here: there are cases where rich property owners are not p
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by abalone 8y ago
It was mostly the tech industry putting in the money against it: Stripe, Lyft, Jack Dorsey. Arguably the mayor of SF is a puppet of the tech industry. It passed with 60%.
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by abalone 8y ago
You say it’s exclusively the government’s job to preserve affordable housing, not the tech industry. Ok. We just passed Prop C, a comprehensive measure to prevent homelessness. Guess who opposed it?
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by abalone 8y ago
I predicted this response, right? Boomtown economics are tricky. There is just an extraordinary amount of demand that appeared in a very short time. The velocity and magnitude of the surge in demand matters. When you have an entire global p
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by abalone 8y ago
It sounds like you’re saying something a little different though. You’re saying Amsterdam “spent massive amounts of public funds to keep homeless off the street,” not that they were able to lower market rates through more liberal building.
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by abalone 8y ago
See the Prop C campaign (e.g. Marc Benioff) for more insight in this issue. SF tech didn’t invent homelessness but it has clearly exacerbated it, simply by generating a lot of demand for housing. In a nutshell, the tech industry generally t
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by abalone 8y ago
You’re misunderstanding the thread here. OP suggested batteries, a minor factor in the report, were the primary cause in the earnings drop. For whatever reason there are people who really badly want to believe this. swish_bob countered, i
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by abalone 8y ago
I’ve entirely focused on what the OP said using extensive direct quotes. Your reply invalid.
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by abalone 8y ago
First time I've been insulted for sounding too logical on a programmer forum.
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by abalone 8y ago
Clearly that is not "only" what it says. It jumps directly from "stick with their phone a bit longer... reducing iPhone sales" to "Apple misses their earnings target, likely costing them more in value than it would
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by abalone 8y ago
Despite noting that the comment still implies that battery replacements were the dominant factor why “Apple misses their earnings target.” This is an invalid logical leap in its step by step reasoning.
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by abalone 8y ago
> I imagine it went something like this.... >- Apple heavily subsidizes battery replacements for everyone > - Some people decide that they'll stick with their phone a bit longer than they otherwise would have, reducing iP
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by abalone 8y ago
To what extent is this an exclusively American problem? How much of the health care “tech” opportunity is tied to managing the complicated multi-party bureaucracy of the U.S. system? The article highlights how docs are spending too much tim
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by abalone 8y ago
They don’t actually say why they think leads declined. They list a few reasons why they think it didn’t increase , e.g. they’re already fast on mobile. But they don’t explain a 59% drop in leads. Crucially they note that impressions and cl
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by abalone 8y ago
How does Figma compare to Sketch? The article is completely focused on Adobe but Sketch's greatest competition moving forward is from the free-to-get-started Figma. Not one mention of that. In fact the article kind of whiffs on this as
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by abalone 8y ago
That’s what Prime Now is. They added support for Whole Foods in select markets.
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by abalone 8y ago
Well that's true sometimes but it depends on the store. Instacart actually matches in-store prices in certain stores. In the app these stores are noted as having "everyday store prices." If there's a markup it will say &
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by abalone 8y ago
There is absolutely nothing in the article suggesting that Instacart is developing their own supply chain. They are focused on partnering with retailers to provide this soon-to-be-standard delivery amenity. They are differentiating themselv
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by abalone 8y ago
Exactly. Prime Now is the Instacart killer with respect to Whole Foods, not Amazon Fresh. In the SF store where they first rolled it out you could literally see them just set up shelves and fridges upstairs and duplicate Instacart's mo
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by abalone 8y ago
You are now interrogating a quote from the study. I’m not sure what the Harvard dept. of Economics would think about your “wealthy mother” solution to patriarchal gender roles, but it seems a little weak to me.
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by abalone 8y ago
This implies it is a choice on the part of the woman, when the study mentions it may very well be due to sexist gender roles regarding childcare. Hopefully you don’t congratulate successful minority friends for “bucking the typical trend.”
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by abalone 8y ago
You didn’t limit it to the workplace. You said the pay gap is due to “interests” not a “patriarchal world against womens.” The study specifically mentions patriarchal gender roles as a primary factor behind those interests.
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by abalone 8y ago
Great, well I guess that one anecdote overrides a careful study by the Harvard department of Economics.
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by abalone 8y ago
> rise of single motherhood strikes again. The study addressed this. There are sexist gender roles at play even among single parents, potentially. (To wit, you didn’t lament the rise of “single fatherhood.”) From the study, > These
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by abalone 8y ago
The paper directly contradicts your beliefs about “womens”: > These gender differences are consistent with women taking on more of the household and childcare duties than men, limiting their work availability in the process (Parker et a
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by abalone 8y ago
> From the perspective of NSO developers, they are helping prevent the next attack against civilians somewhere. I can’t fault them for that. They are selling spy software to regimes that are known to kill civilians. Ergo they are not p
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by abalone 8y ago
It's not a matter of going to war. The Saudi regime has been propped up by the U.S. since WWII as a means of projecting power over the Arabian peninsula. It's not the same as say Russia or China. The U.S. has a direct role in enab

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