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by asabjorn 9y ago
Wealthy people that can afford luxury units only rents one unit, and if that unit is in a luxury building then they won't compete for the rest of the housing stock. An old building should have decreasing rent over time if the quality o
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Yes, traditionally many renters that count themselves as progressives in SF has fought for restricting housing supply. Restricting housing supply has priced out a previously thriving african american and hispanic community, as well as most
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by asabjorn 9y ago
More people rent in the bay area than you might think: * San Francisco: 65% renters * Oakland: 60.2% renters * Berkeley: 57.3% renters * San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area: 43.7% renters
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by asabjorn 9y ago
It is actually not correct that homeowners in SF outnumbers renters. 65% of the population are renters. Because of prop 13 property taxes are also fixed and decreases to nothing as the property depreciates over 29 years. Prop 13 in effect r
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Great! We need to do much more of that, and build it near public transit and extend public transit to new up zoned areas. For instance BART would enable a lot of people to avoid traffic if it extended around the whole bay and straight acros
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by asabjorn 9y ago
65% of SF residents are renters. If renters did not vote in lockstep with landlords/homeowners and against developer interests, we could change the politics to allow more housing to be build and stop some of the more egregious abuses o
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by asabjorn 9y ago
In the bay area renters vote in lockstep with landlords/homeowners. Breaking that by helping educating renters on how developers interests largely align with theirs and that landlord/homeowner interests often doesn't is by fa
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Does this relate or help at all with speaker identification? The Microsoft speech API also provides speaker recognition which is useful for many applications: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-se
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by asabjorn 9y ago
The obesity code by Dr. Jason Fung gives some great insights into what we know, and in the end it's quite simple. Our body regulates weight through insulin, so try to keep the insulin levels as low as possible and have extended periods
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I don’t think these kind of comments adds much to the discourse, and we on HN try to not comment when we don’t have anything to add. Do you have any evidence that the action here by the new leadership to disclose all breaches was disingenuo
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by asabjorn 9y ago
The article states that this disclosure came out of an board commissioned investigation into the activities of Sullivan’s security team. Do you think that other more serious breaches discovered by this investigation is hidden, or is this mo
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by asabjorn 9y ago
In the disclosure it says that the attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers. It did not contain any passwords or social security numbers, so your passwords must have been compromised in some other way.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I usually read books instead because new world events generally don’t seem to occur at a much greater frequency than the book publishing cycle.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Much of our news media is currently designed to be sports-like, so if your goal is to be informed then this strategy is very wise. To make news more sports-like news channels like CNN offer generous pay to people that are willing to spout c
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by asabjorn 9y ago
They don't fall out for me even when doing extreme exercise.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
> Right; it seems desirable for housing costs to keep even pace with the rest of the market, and ideally stay close to depreciated replacement cost In markets where there is enough housing supply, do we see people change housing ownershi
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by asabjorn 9y ago
What seems to matter more is that there has been a productive deployment of capital that gives you a reason to buy a new product, and that you have discretionary income after housing cost and other fixed costs are paid. High housing costs a
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by asabjorn 9y ago
That doesn’t make sense at all except for with housing. If I want to go vacation I will, if I need a new washing machine I will get it, if I want a cappuccino every morning now I can afford it no matter who I am!
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by asabjorn 9y ago
In Brazil it’s passed regulation while in London it’s currently a WIP according to press. You did not answer my question though. How is Lyft any different in this regard? Quite to the contrary Uber is as far as I know breaking ground in thi
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by asabjorn 9y ago
On second thought I think you are right that it is its own thing. I do not remember the details, but political scientist Fukuyama classifies the Chinese political system in "The Origins of Political Order" and due to the cultural
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Any dictatorship has a ruling coalition, so I think you are making an artificial distinction. What keeps a dictator in power is his/hers ability to compensate their ruling coalition to keep in place a system where you do not have to ru
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by asabjorn 9y ago
What do you mean by following the law in this case? And how would they be different from Uber in this regards? Uber has recently worked closely with regulators in both London and Brazil to create regulation where little existed before.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
The problem isn't the energy cost, but the fact that the energy cost is going towards work that has no utilitarian purpose. Ethereum shows a potential way to fix that, and bitcoin can adopt a similar approach once the core problems of
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by asabjorn 9y ago
What extra value would those service providers provide? I assume here that the service level would be Gbit internet with service levels as high as electricity, which is also a utility monopoly at least here in SF.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
> I'd rather see communities lay the fiber and then allow private ISPs to be the ones to light it up and provide bandwidth from the nearest meet-me room. What is the value of that? Wouldn't that be effectively privatizing the
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by asabjorn 9y ago
What data do you have that building a high rise in San Francisco is financially risky? To the contrary cities like San Francisco is a gold mine for rent seeking as there is such a pent up demand for housing after many decades of under build
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Who is the judge of if the intent was to offend or express a different viewpoint?
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Various collapsed democracies can testament that defining away the free part of free speech to be a path to authoritarianism, and the first step towards collapse is punishing opinions that disagrees with dogma (e.g Venezuela). In the end it
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Is this belief based on any knowledge of similarities of the alleged infringing product? Judge Alsup seem to disagree with you since the end product that Waymo sued Uber over seem very different: "Waymo alleged that Uber had stolen its
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Universities are like dictatorships where only staff has a vote on if the top executives should stay in their job. Since professors are tenured and are therefore not beholden to anyone, the top executives are highly incentivised to increase

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