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by akgerber 13y ago
For a variety of reasons, your personal, physical presence in an industry cluster[0] is valuable. Managing a business is a coordination problem, and it's generally the case that said coordination problem is best solved by having everyo
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by akgerber 13y ago
>On another note I was recently talking with a CS professor and he mentioned that rankings are highly correlated with the years that an institution has been in existence which is worth thinking about. Compound interest over 300+ years bu
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by akgerber 13y ago
Qualcomm was and is hiring quite vigorously, so far as I know. Are you studying CS or Computer Engineering?
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by akgerber 13y ago
Those more-efficient means of public transportation (commuter trains) only work if the destination is within walking distance of the train station. But Silicon Valley communities make it illegal to build office towers in their downtowns, so
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by akgerber 13y ago
I have a roommate, which is pretty essential to affordable living in a place with expensive real estate. I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which is a very different neighborhood from what it was in 2001. I eat out a lot, travel reasonably
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by akgerber 13y ago
I mean spending $2k/month on everything, not living on a $2k gross salary. Plenty of people in less-well-compensated industries do that, though— it just means more compromises in terms of living arrangement or commute or neighborhood s
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by akgerber 13y ago
You definitely don't need $5000/mo. to pay bills in NYC, except maybe if you're trying to raise a family on your salary alone in a fancy neighborhood. I live very well on $2000/mo., and could easily cut that without exce
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by akgerber 13y ago
America was >50% urbanized by 1920, when the automobile age began: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Stat... And while most American suburbanization[0] wasn't explicitly centrally planned,
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by akgerber 13y ago
Silicon Alley is the general Union Square area. There are quite a few tech offices in Dumbo, and starting to be more in Williamsburg/Greenpoint and Downtown Brooklyn, but very few in Red Hook, which is one of the least transit-accessib
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by akgerber 13y ago
There are plenty of middle class people left in the city of Milwaukee, on the East Side, and in Bay View, and the Third Ward, and Downtown, beyond. MPS has an 81% student poverty rate, not 90+%[0]. Good students in MPS can access the magne
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by akgerber 13y ago
It doesn't eliminate Chicago or several other smaller rust belt cities. Even right in the heart of downtown Chicago, modest apartments are under $200k.
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by akgerber 13y ago
'If you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien, the rules for filing income, estate, and gift tax returns and paying estimated tax are generally the same whether you are in the United States or abroad. Your worldwide income is subject to
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by akgerber 13y ago
Some forms of wealth we can produce more of: food, clothes, shelter, electronic doodads. Some we can't: land (including natural resources), social status, political power. We should aim for a society that produces plenty of the first t
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by akgerber 13y ago
Nest isn't disruptive: they don't offer an inferior product for a lower price. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/disr... They have the classic business model of a bet
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by akgerber 13y ago
Universal tracking built into cars isn't the solution, but remember that speeding, especially in urban neighborhoods full of pedestrians, isn't a victimless crime: cars at 20mph have 5% odds of killing pedestrians in a crash, cars
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by akgerber 13y ago
Another big difference in the American way of life is that, in most cities, we've managed to engineer a wholly car-dependent transportation system, such that the average American walks half as much people in other countries: http:&#x2
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by akgerber 13y ago
The Kochs' money is mostly from natural resource extraction. Most software businesses are pretty heavily premised on intellectual property rights.
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by akgerber 13y ago
The lower middle classes can't afford a house/apartment in places with laws that make it difficult to build new houses or apartments, including many places with lots of tech jobs. But in rural areas, or many Midwestern cities, or
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by akgerber 13y ago
Dividends.
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by akgerber 13y ago
Wal-Mart and other big chains already has much of that infrastructure in place.
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by akgerber 13y ago
I have heard it asserted that the reason for poor construction quality of postwar US commercial buildings in their 39-year depreciation life: http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/irs-depreciation-schedule-... Hence the lack of
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by akgerber 13y ago
There are real-time variants of Linux, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Linux#Wind_River_Lin...
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by akgerber 13y ago
Qualcomm mostly has the modem on the same chip as the apps processor, but not always: the recently-popular APQ8064[0] (used in the Nexus 4) had a separate modem. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_%28system_on_c
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by akgerber 13y ago
Apparently the CEO of Shutterstock is NYC's first tech billionaire: http://www.forbes.com/sites/edwindurgy/2013/06/28/oh-snap-sh...
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by akgerber 13y ago
Or ctrl-shift-power if you don't.
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by akgerber 13y ago
This is reminiscent of the inclines (aka funiculars) in Pittsburgh, another old industrial city set in a similar landscape: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duquesne_Incline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by akgerber 13y ago
I think the cause-and-effect is backwards there. The prosperous parts of the geographical area NYC is in have very high housing prices and very little new housing construction, so it would be very hard for the population to grow without eve
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by akgerber 13y ago
The number of housing units in NYC increased 5.3% in a time period when US population increased 9.7%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat... New York may be building more than, say, San Francis
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by akgerber 13y ago
Urban housing is most of the working-class housing stock in this country, at least within metropolitan areas. Most suburbs have very stringent zoning requiring houses (and even multifamily) to use a lot of land. In areas where land is expen
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by akgerber 13y ago
This article is mostly about the NYC submarket of the metro NYC market. NYC used to contain much of the working-class housing in the NYC metro area, but as demand for NYC housing has increased as urban living has become desirable, a lot of

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