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by asabjorn 9y ago
I tried the ride sharing alternatives in Austin at SXSW this year and it was back to the bad old days of unreliable transport. For instance, the taxi that was supposed to pick me up arrived in 40 minutes and also picked up someone else so I
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by asabjorn 9y ago
"According to data for 8.7m employees worldwide gathered by Korn Ferry, a consultancy, women in Britain make just 1% less than men who have the same function and level at the same employer. In most European countries, the discrepancy i
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by asabjorn 9y ago
That is because we on the west coast have zoned most neighborhoods to single family housing, and that is a direct cause of our housing supply constraint and therefore our high housing cost. It would be trivial to replace a fraction of that
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I do not think NYC is a great example as it is also supply constrained due to zoning. NYC is rezoning to allow more supply, unlike SF, due to its density friendly culture. As a bay area resident I look around and I see incredibly low densit
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Also, the compensation for renting out your car on the platforms I've tried does not cover wear and tear. I received 80 dollars for nearly 2000 miles driven in one month. Considering the inconvenience and risk this does not turn into a
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Driving for uber eats and uber ride sharing will probably be much busier. Maybe even with no downtime.
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by asabjorn 10y ago
This is very much aligned with what I have learned, and its only made worse by successful startups often taking 8+ years to exit with many more rounds than before. The stock incentives are aligned with the startup exiting in four years or d
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by asabjorn 10y ago
I agree. A little bit more demand constraint for taking out debt for degrees that provide little opportunity return would be great. Would save a lot of people from great stress.
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by asabjorn 10y ago
That's not the effect of turning off incentives that get more driver to go tot he area. Instead Ubers actions made it so that an increase in demand was not followed up with an increased amount of available drivers at the airport. It do
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by asabjorn 10y ago
Did any of them have a good explanation on what went wrong?
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by asabjorn 10y ago
It's still tough from a liability standpoint as the loan needs to be 100% recourse for tax reasons, so you have to pay it all back even if the company goes under. With high valuations this might be a lot of money. You are therefore inv
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by asabjorn 10y ago
With large early rounds exercising your stock might set you back 50k or more, making you an investor as well as an employee. With the odds of startup success it is advisable to diversify more than that unless you are already wealthy.
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by asabjorn 10y ago
That doesn't make sense at all. I do not see why a PhD would disproportionally filter out people with talent for coding, so that the graduates even after years of industry experience afterwards would still be unable to be great at codi
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by asabjorn 11y ago
Artificially restricting housing supply through SF-like approval processes is not capitalism, and rent control is a band aid. It is laws that highly favors the incumbents that already live there. Even if we determined who should be allowed
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by asabjorn 11y ago
Was it running out of memory because of templates? For instance, parts of boost like boost serialization generates an obscene amount of symbols due to the way they do metaprogramming.
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by asabjorn 11y ago
As a music consumer I personally want to pay for soundcloud instead of getting ads, which could bring more revenue than ads and be more flexible in prizing, but when I asked soundcloud support for the option they said they had no immediate
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by asabjorn 11y ago
you might be better off using http://netlify.com since they support ssl for static sites
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by asabjorn 11y ago
If you consider the cost of a car loan, insurance, gas and car maintenance your car might not look as cheap anymore. As a personal anecdote I now only drive once every two weeks here in SF, mostly for weekend trips, and my car is such an ex
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by asabjorn 11y ago
Mostly yes. You rewrite the whole history from the commit you changed authors on and onwards so git will let you know that you have two conflicting histories that needs to be merged. This is why the author needs to force push to master. The
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by asabjorn 11y ago
That assumes that you know how to test and judge engineers. I think the larger issue in engineering interviews these days is that we simply don't know how to effectively separate good engineers from the bad, and given the nature of our
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by asabjorn 11y ago
Ianal, but this might work. However, the irs might look at it as tax evasion if the loan was given at the same time as the election.
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by asabjorn 11y ago
That is correct, but the difference between the instruments is not relevant to my statement. I bought restricted stock when I founded a company, which vested over four years, and have taken options when joining as an employee. Almost chose
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by asabjorn 11y ago
vesting over 4 years in monthly increments with a year cliff is standard, so I did not make a point about that. Founders normally pre exercise their stock at low cost so they are not subject to expiration of vested stock. Employee stock opt
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by asabjorn 11y ago
Personally I chose to join a famous later stage startup instead of a startup for this very reason. Both offered great compensation and fun roles, but while the later stage startup gives me a lot of RSUs that will soon be liquid the earlie
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by asabjorn 11y ago
My impression has been that consumers frequently mistake the url for the brand name, which is unfortunate if your url is for instance http://{try,get,...}{brand-name}.{com,me,...} . I also have the skill of naming companies and t
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by asabjorn 11y ago
I think he is alluding that high rent leads to wealth concentration. A lot of salaried people can invest a tiny bit in a much larger variety of interests than a few wealthy, or choose to work on something less profitable while still making
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by asabjorn 11y ago
It seems like AGPLv3 won by a slim margin, and as a donator I was unaware of the voting and would have voted Apache. Since the desire was to make the selection democratic they should have sent an email with a title along the lines of '
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by asabjorn 11y ago
It hinders growth paths and stops reuse that would lower the bar for spreading secure e-mail support. AGPLv3 has license restrictions that are unacceptable to many or maybe even most companies, and secure company e-mail would be a great fir
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by asabjorn 11y ago
The reasoning also does not make sense at all to me. Making secure email popular is hard enough without restrictive licensing. At this point almost no-one cares about this problem and even fewer about this solution. I donated money to the
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by asabjorn 11y ago
With an estimated 24% of the economy being shadow economy vs 13% in Germany, which adds up to 37 billion euros in tax evasions a year, they could pay their debts solely by lowering the shadow economy by 5.5%. This would put Greece shadow ec

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