arebop

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by arebop 10y ago
I think it is going the wrong way temporarily. I expect the vast proliferation of delivery startups will consolidate so that it will just be ups/fedex/uber/? each stopping at 1/6 the residences twice a day. It will still
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by arebop 10y ago
He's saying that land is the actual limited resource and therefore landowners will capture all the value that comes from upzoning. But as-of-right zoning makes it possible to use land much more efficiently than before, because the buy-
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by arebop 10y ago
If construction costs explain the high price of bay area housing, how is it possible that houses in the midwest are produced at less than 1/5 the price? Are the Kansas guys with hammers really making 1/5 the wages of the Californi
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Christopher Alexander talked about that in A Pattern Language, and the New Urbanist architects talk about/design for/build it quite often (the usual solution is the "carriage house" or "granny flat" but more ge
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I've worked for places with trivia-esque interviews and I agree it works really badly. The only things worse was the "tell me about your greatest weakness..." style favored by the MBAs. I'm very happy with the people I w
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I am not worried that there is too much support for civil liberties.
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I expect we would see a general price level increase if we used inflation to fund a basic income. But because it destroys household wealth in proportion to the wealth of the household and creates household wealth uniformly throughout the po
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Also, the wealth of almost all those 20% depends strongly on their labor income. Almost all the stock is owned by people whose wealth depends almost entirely on investment returns. So those corporate profits are helping the top 20%, but mos
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The post-war middle income people had and continue to have legitimately comfortable lives and could afford higher education, single family homes, annual vacation, etc. Today's middle income people can barely afford to raise children an
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I think there's less incentive for automating trains because of the cargo:driver ratio. The cost of the human at the helm is a much smaller portion of the cost of operating the railroad.
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There is no time at which all cars are in use. So there this isn't a problem that prevents that future vision from improving on the present.
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The overwhelming majority of impressions do not result in clicks, so there is plenty of room for clicks per page view to increase.
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Given that individuals can and often do outsource the execution of the tax code to software such as TurboTax, what practical limit did you have in mind? Also, it is one thing to say that the tax code should not be secret or obfuscated. It&#
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by arebop 11y ago
This requires amassing the capital to get started. Does it seem harder to get all that capital than to get half of it? Really you only need to get 7% of it this year to pay the over-18s. What investments should be used in the account exactl
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by arebop 11y ago
It happens for managers and executives. Equity sharing with individual contributors is very much a Silicon Valley innovation, although over the years options/rsus have filtered down from senior management and become a standard part of
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decreases the risk of failure and makes it less important who your parents were.
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by arebop 11y ago
Make your own country less corrupt, more free, and better for the economically-worst-off, so that your own entrepreneurs may eventually overtake the authoritarian superpowers?
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by arebop 11y ago
Do you also believe that welfare recipients would not miss welfare payments if they were suspended today, or does "supply and demand" not function presently to neutralize the effect of transfer payments in society? The second bit
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by arebop 11y ago
The cool part of town where the new billionaires live is The Mission. Note that it is a transitional area with a more crimey side (east) and a more gentrified side (west). This is also the area where anti-tech-worker sentiment, violence, et
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by arebop 11y ago
I was very happy to move to SF from the midwest, because: much better job (albeit with lower pay and much higher living costs), more walkable city, can-do/optimistic/accepting culture, better weather, more options in the job marke
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by arebop 11y ago
The agreements were variously related to active recruiting (don't cold-call employees of X), passive recruiting (don't hire employees of X), and active retribution for exploring career options (if you at company Y learn of any emp
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by arebop 11y ago
It shouldn't be $100k because that exceeds mean income, and we don't have strong evidence about how much BI improves productivity. I think the reason most proposals are well below the mean is that we prefer a modest effective inte
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Rent control, or they bought a long time ago.
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by arebop 11y ago
Then perhaps TV prices will go up, but jet prices will go down. That sort of mixed change in prices is not consistent with the usual definitions of "inflation." Do you still like your argument when you think about quartiles rather
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by arebop 11y ago
Inflation is generally believed to be caused by an imbalance between the quantity of money and the goods & services in the market. BI per se doesn't change the money supply; it can be done by redistribution of existing money rather
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by arebop 11y ago
https://www.noisebridge.net/
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by arebop 11y ago
London is about 2.7 times as dense as Silicon Valley [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/06/there... ]. San Francisco has 18187/sq.mi while London has 14070 and Manhattan h
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by arebop 11y ago
If landlords are making huge profits off people who are renting in the cities rather than buying in the suburbs, then those tenants have an arbitrage opportunity to buy condos or coops.
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Also, be willing to eat canned vegetables.
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Suppose ABNB shuts down tomorrow and all the owners decide to put their units on the long-term rental market instead. OK, you've got your 20% bump... for one week. The open house starts, an hour later those units are all rented, and ho

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