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by aliston 12y ago
I don't get why this is included in the window.Uber pingData. It seems as though your rating is something that isn't necessary and shouldn't be surfaced client-side. Anyone have some insight into why this data is there in th
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by aliston 12y ago
In principle, this is what the Fed should be. But, in 1977 the Fed became tasked with managing "maximum employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates." This is one of the fundamental problems with the Fed&#x2
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Ask HN: What are the most difficult aspects of running an online/app business?
17 points by aliston 12y ago|4 comments
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by aliston 12y ago
Honestly, I found the UX to be very confusing. Some basic things -- The highlight to select an element is inconsistent. Sometimes it is a padded highlight, other times it isn't. The instructions to "right click" don't
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by aliston 12y ago
Agree -- though the book is actually called "So Good They Can't Ignore You." http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/145550912...
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by aliston 12y ago
Since I know Josh is probably reading this thread, I'm kind of curious, how were you able to build baremetrics so quickly? Were you working on it full-time off the bat?
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by aliston 12y ago
I wouldn't either. It will be the government, just as it was last time. Here ya go: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/student-loan-repayment... Capped payments and all debt forgiven after 20 years.
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by aliston 12y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "throw up" but my prediction is that a large portion of these education loans will end up being forgiven. It's housing bubble 2.0 and there's just no other way around it -- millennials
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by aliston 12y ago
That's not true. Anecdotally, I had several friends buy nice places in foreclosure in 2009-2010 for roughly 50% of what they were worth at the peak of the housing bubble. On average, housing prices fell by 25%, but (note above), in t
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Why is San Francisco Public Transportation so Bad?(alexmedearis.com)
2 points by aliston 12y ago|0 comments
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Vinod Khosla Must Appear in Court Over Martin's Beach Lawsuit(forbes.com)
1 points by aliston 12y ago|1 comments
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by aliston 12y ago
For those interested, the opening arguments are taking place tomorrow in Redwood City for the Surfrider case: Late yesterday, Surfrider's case was assigned to a judge and room. Here's the scoop: Hall of Justice & Records What:
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by aliston 13y ago
The Bush administration advocated for war by hyping the case ("smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud") and feeding the public selective information. They knew that a lot of these claims (including the 16 words) were from questionabl
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Waterloo's OpenText sues Box for more than $268M(cbc.ca)
2 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
So, Cuban is saying Silicon Valley's advantage is the ability to create exits. What's the most common exit path? If you've got the right investor pedigree, it's to flip your company to Google, Facebook, Yahoo or anothe
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by aliston 13y ago
So, have we decided on what would be a better approach for storing global state? Static variables and methods? Pass the instance down to all children?
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by aliston 13y ago
If you read on, the situation is actually even more complicated than just this part of the explanation. Yes, the state Constitution guarantees access, but what can the state really do if someone rightfully owns property blocking access tha
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by aliston 13y ago
Did you read the story? -- it went to court and Khosla won. Apparently the land rights stem from the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which predates California statehood, therefore the CA Constitution doesn't apply.
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by aliston 13y ago
St. Louis is cheap, but it's cheap for a reason. If you think 6th and Market is bad, take a stroll through East St. Louis. It has the 3rd highest murder rate in the country. Violent crime is on the rise. [1] Basically, it's on
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Hacking a More Comfortable Mouse(alexmedearis.com)
1 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
Facebook was the company that broke the cabal based on everything I've heard from friends at these companies. I think it actually started a little before 2011, more like the end of 2009, early 2010. Facebook was (obviously) not avers
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A Portrait of San Francisco in 2007(priceonomics.com)
2 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
Great point -- in fact, I actually recall seeing a similar visualization on a different site a couple weeks before the NYTs one came out. It was interesting, but I dismissed it as less scientific because it wasn't on a credible domain
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by aliston 13y ago
I think that, for certain topics, these sorts of visualizations could be the future of journalism. It allows one to take a complex subject, and illustrate a portion of it much more lucidly than is possible in text. That said, it also reall
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by aliston 13y ago
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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by aliston 13y ago
If a private debtor defaults and declares bankruptcy, then the money supply contracts and you get deflationary pressure. I'm curious, though, why you believe the US would see deflation if it were to default? The Eurozone countries te
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by aliston 13y ago
Why isn't it optimal? Any other thoughts on what one should look at in order to find an optimal place to put their money?
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by aliston 13y ago
This is part of the problem with the American housing industry. How did it become "normal" to borrow 4/5ths of the value of a home? It didn't used to be that way. If you look at average loan-to-value ratios over the l
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by aliston 13y ago
FWIW, I believe Redfin is itself a brokerage.
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by aliston 13y ago
I don't understand why the Broker/MLS system even needs to exist in the first place. I've noticed more people selling their homes directly through Zillow lately -- shouldn't the internet be the ultimate platform for sel

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