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by aliston 10y ago
South San Francisco, Brisbane, San Mateo, Albany, Pacifica, Daly City, San Leandro, Castro Valley...
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by aliston 10y ago
I'm not sure its fair to say that they are "ditching" native dev. React native works well for some flows, but is still lacking when it comes to a lot of more complex animations, non-standard views and basically most things t
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by aliston 10y ago
The media, especially the tech media, is not as difficult to manipulate as you think. I think its likely those stories were engineered and sensationalized, built up from less credible sources to more credible, each medium citing the previo
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by aliston 10y ago
The story just doesn't add up. "2X successful founder"... looking on Crunchbase, he founded Digiforce "acquired" by Strategic Link partners. digiforce.com directs to some random japanese site and the Strategic Link
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by aliston 10y ago
I've been invested in REITs for a while, but I've more seriously been looking at direct investments because I've realized that REITs actually behave quite a bit differently from owning real estate. (Traditional) REITs are pri
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by aliston 10y ago
Virtually nobody making 10 million a year pays a 39% tax rate. They likely take most of their comp as stock and pay the long term capital gains rate. If they're in finance/VC, they are taking full advantage of carried interest.
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by aliston 10y ago
San Francisco spends roughly 35k/year per homeless person. Funding is not the issue. There are all sorts of issues around mental health, drugs, tolerance in certain neighborhoods, political corruption, inefficiencies in government et
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by aliston 10y ago
This is how the real world works. Its far less meritocratic than we're brought up to believe and based much more on perception than reality. It's also the way that the world has always worked and probably always will work so long
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by aliston 10y ago
For us younger, but not quite so young folks... what sorts of things have they gone into? Would you say that there is a general trend, or are they all over the map?
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by aliston 10y ago
Personally, I'd probably align most with Gary Johnson, but feel like he has virtually no chance of winning, so there's no point in wasting my vote. Like most Americans in this election cycle, I'm voting for the lesser of two
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by aliston 10y ago
Because those high-tax European economies are doing great right now... </sarcasm>
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by aliston 10y ago
This is not historically accurate. Marin voted in favor of BART, but after San Mateo country bailed, the costs were shifted North. It was the increased costs that prevented BART from going across the Golden Gate.
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by aliston 10y ago
This was my thought too... why use ultrasound when you can use induction? Was there some perceived advantage to sound?
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by aliston 11y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, but there have been lots of engineering layoffs as well. Twitter and Yahoo, for example.
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by aliston 11y ago
- There is a 90% chance the company will fail and you will end up working harder than you ever have for less money and with a less marketable resume. Even though you say that being a "professional software engineer" doesn't
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by aliston 11y ago
If the odds are 1 in 292.2 million, doesn't this mean that the expected value is actually positive? If you had 292.2 million bucks, you could guarantee a win.
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by aliston 11y ago
I think most of the backlash came from the way that startup wealth was definitively placed in the "good" bucket in the prior essay. Yes, on the whole startups create wealth and that's generally a good thing. BUT... there is
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by aliston 11y ago
AirBnb does... https://twitter.com/gadget_guy/status/648977824573820928
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by aliston 11y ago
I just turned 30 about 6 months ago and spent a lot of time reflecting on the ups and downs of the past 10 years. To directly answer your questions based on my own experiences: 1.) Take the challenging job - YES. Of course, this is somewh
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by aliston 11y ago
But there were only 1,500 apps in the iOS store in March 2010, and his rose into the top ten. That sounds... off by a factor of 100...
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by aliston 11y ago
It's unlikely that Dropbox, AirBnb etc. are going to liquidate, so I think you're right that liquidation preferences probably aren't as big a factor in the unicorn valuations. Most of the investors in the unicorns are late st
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by aliston 11y ago
First they talked about valuations being too high. Then they talked about valuations not really meaning anything. Then they talked about companies staying private too long. Then they talked about burn rates. The first 3 are essentially
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by aliston 11y ago
These days, founders are taking massive amounts off the table in the large funding rounds you read about. I know of several cases where it has been upwards of 50% of the round (series D/E 100M+ deals). While she doesn't have a bi
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by aliston 11y ago
These are not the critical facts. The news media wants you to be outraged because it drives eyeballs. That's why it is in their interest to write the story in such a way that you think these are the critical facts.
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by aliston 11y ago
If you trace back the source for these facts, the source is a tweet referencing an interview with Mohamed's father. These "facts" get bubbled up the chain until they make it into reputable news services without verification.
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by aliston 11y ago
I'm not implying its a "conspiracy." It happened, but likely not in exactly the way it is being reported in the news. From what I've seen, this looks like it was engineered for sensationalized media consumption. The phot
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by aliston 11y ago
Does anyone else think that this story seems a little bit contrived? There are so many photos of the incident at each of the various stages -- it makes it look like it was engineered as a news story. The youtube video comes across as prep
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by aliston 11y ago
In San Francisco, the Fire Department is one of the city's ambulance providers. They have ambulances: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/SFFD_amb... Apparently sometimes they send t
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by aliston 11y ago
I'd travel on 5k and put the rest in my investment portfolio. The 5k limit will make the trip a lot of fun and force you to get out of your travel bubble to meet people. It will also lead you to more interesting experiences and force
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Zillow says housing market is cooling, even in Bay Area(bizjournals.com)
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