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by aorloff 4y ago
We had a Prop 13 challenge in 2020 called Prop 15. The idea was to "split" the way Prop 13 works so that homeowners would still have Prop 13, but commercial properties would not (after a phase in of 5 years or something). It was
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by aorloff 4y ago
The mortgage interest deduction is for your primary home. Investment property mortgage interest is a business expense
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by aorloff 4y ago
The only place I've heard of that went to unlimited that sounded serious about it was a non-profit (non-tech) where the execs said: we going to unlimited PTO, but we are going to enforce PTO minimums if you don't take PTO (you wil
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by aorloff 4y ago
Apple doesn't have to even roll out a user-targeted ad system. All they have to do is offer a buying platform where you can track conversion on Apple devices and software better. In other words, they don't have to offer more user
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by aorloff 4y ago
-- Event-level reports are generated as follows: The browser matches clicks or views with conversion data defined by an adtech. Later, the browser sends the resulting reports to a predefined endpoint, with some delay and noise. -- OK is it
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by aorloff 4y ago
This could be done with Bluetooth or wifi sensors if you just need aggregate data
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by aorloff 5y ago
Ukraine has also not yet attempted to hit Moscow (the city, not the ship) with missiles. Once a nuclear bomb is used, a lot of gloves will come off, not just the Russian ones, and so far Ukraine appears to have a lot of extremely competent
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by aorloff 5y ago
American medical industry is worried that once the xray is taken, you can ship it to another country where a trained physician can look at it and diagnose it for $50. The problem is that the American doctor needs to make orders of magnitud
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by aorloff 5y ago
3rd solution (in addition) - invest in rail to areas with cheaper housing and more land. If BART went to Stockton for example.
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by aorloff 6y ago
Commercial real estate prices are coming down.
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by aorloff 8y ago
The actual data business is pretty thin margins. So unless WeWork can use that data to be a better real estate company, it doesn't much matter. And I have a hard time believing that WeWork needs all that data to create their coworking
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by aorloff 8y ago
More likely the quality of wood and carpentry is higher. You can't buy wood these days, certainly not economically, that compares with what was standard 100+ years ago.
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by aorloff 8y ago
Mind your wants because somebody wants your mind.
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Buddhism.
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by aorloff 8y ago
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I enjoyed both the book and movie, saw the movie first then read the book. Both are good, but different.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Because humans have agency, a quality we seriously dislike in things we create (control). If a computer woke one morning and said, I like being plugged in more consistently I'm moving to your neighbor's house we would not like th
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by aorloff 9y ago
The answer is : tons. Most startups I've worked for do option grant approvals quarterly or thereabouts. But I think it would be unethical to approve grants at a different price or size than promised in an offer. Sure you may have be
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by aorloff 9y ago
In my experience, its actually at real scale (tens of millions of concurrents) that you want to move off of AWS, and at smaller scales where it makes the most sense.
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by aorloff 9y ago
For any company that can, increasing cash flow is a great way to proceed assuming you don't muck around with the balance sheet. Unfortunately, I don't see a way for BN to really do that, the sun set on their business a long, long
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by aorloff 9y ago
Yeah a wiki should suffice. Having a good runbook is a process that needs to be tended to every time devs and ops deploy, troubleshoot, and configure services. More of a process than a tool, because it should integrate with all the tools
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by aorloff 9y ago
Yeah but Wall Street is also the place where success MAKES you a professional. You won't see a guy who happens to save someone's life on the street show up in the ER the next day reporting for duty as a surgeon, yet that is how W
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by aorloff 9y ago
There are 3 primary types of documentation that a growing organization needs : 1. Onboarding 2. Runbook / Troubleshooting 3. Notes and ongoing developer wisdom Slack helps with #3, but is not what #1 and #2 require. New hires shoul
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by aorloff 9y ago
Its easy to invest a lot of money in a good way when you have no ego and all the time in the world to learn about investing. Professional athletes almost never fit that bill.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Another greate option for training people during growth are the Harrison Metal classes, starting with General Management. If you are a first time manager (or even a seasoned one!) in a growing startup, its an invaluable crash course in bus
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by aorloff 9y ago
You might start here : - EB Exchange - Emerson Equity - ESO Fund
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San Jose State University
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by aorloff 9y ago
If you are teaching youngsters, you probably don't want anything more. Show them how to use the tools, and present the higher order concepts as how others have used them. But for young adults and adults, yes we need a map of the bigg
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by aorloff 9y ago
Don't forget Growth and a big and growing Market to boot !
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Because of inter-exchange protocols (FIX / FAST) to share the order book, that isn't happening with bitcoin, hence the spreads (between exchanges) and associated arbitrage opportunity.
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by aorloff 9y ago
Explain that the way to do estimates is to have a process that starts by breaking down the work into the components of the design, estimating each component, and adding it up, with small padding to each granular component. The more granula

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