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by bkjelden 10y ago
Yes. It may be worse than it was a few years ago, but it still feels like a night and day different compared to the bay area.
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by bkjelden 10y ago
I'm one of those in the 1/3rd, currently in the process of moving to the Denver/Boulder area. I knew on paper the housing would be cheaper, but what's stood out to me is how much less crowded it is: You can go to stores
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by bkjelden 10y ago
We have a dog that's part pit bull, and she's the best behaved dog I've ever had because we can't allow her to act out at all. She just doesn't get the benefit of the doubt from others that a smaller dog or a breed
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Yes, but if the data of when the app was last opened is needed to make more network calls, or to just show the user something in general, you're looking at a network call with round trip latency and a success rate <100%, vs. a devic
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Why make a network call if the device can give you that information locally?
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by bkjelden 11y ago
So, why aren't more people taking the bus? Is service too infrequent? Is the network too small (not enough stops)? Is it over-capacity - more buses needed? Is the city just growing too fast for transit to keep up? Has there been any a
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I agree with this quite a bit. I'd like to see a US city facing traffic/growth problems right now really embrace BRT[0]. To me it seems like the pragmatic solution, given the already extensive freeway networks in most US cities, a
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Redfin offers partial buyer's commission refunds, as well. That way you still have a realtor to help you some if you're new to the area. Redfin's realtors are generally pretty tech savvy as well - prefer email to phone, respo
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by bkjelden 11y ago
HIRED indicates it's not unreasonable at all: http://get.hired.com/rs/348-IPO-044/images/Hired-State-of-Sa...
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Caltrain is just two parallel railroad tracks. What this means is that they have absolutely no way to mitigate minor problems - every problem becomes a major problem. It is not uncommon for them to have a train stall leaving a station, and
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by bkjelden 11y ago
$35k is a price point where a lot of cars are sold as status symbols: it's the bottom end of the price range for new or certified pre-owned cars from the iconic luxury brands, and yet it's a price point that is attainable for most
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Are there any pieces of data quantifying how much of an effect this is having in San Francisco?
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I don't live there right now, but Minneapolis-St. Paul is IMO the most underrated city in the country. It has all the things people love about Denver, Portland, Seattle, etc aside from mountains, but it's cold in the winter so peo
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Seattle's housing costs are definitely rising but Washington's lack of an income tax is a boon for software engineers. Also, many of the big players in tech will pay within 10-20% of their bay area total comp packages in Seattle,
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I'd add to this that millennials are getting married later than any previous generation, and marriage allows one to share resources with a partner and therefore reduce expenses.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I would guess the high crime statistic is just a quirk of the fact that Colma has very few residents, but many more people visit from neighboring communities for shopping.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
+1 to this machine. I bought one for my wife last June and so far it's been great. As a side note: Asus's naming sure could use some help. If I search the Microsoft Store's website right now, there's a Zenbook UX305FA, 2
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Scaling without revenue makes sense if you're in an industry with strong network externalities or large economies of scale. In those cases, expensive customer acquisition is okay because customers have a very high lifetime value. Durin
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by bkjelden 11y ago
My biggest reservation with oil/gas taxes is that consumption taxes tend to be very regressive. Car ownership is already a tremendous burden for the poor in the US that isn't present in other countries - in all but a handful of US
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by bkjelden 11y ago
While diet soda doesn't have any calories, I have noticed that cutting it out of my diet has had a significant effect on my appetite.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Renting out property is a lot more than a large initial financial investment. Most people I know who do well in that space do so after several years. Once they learn how to be a landlord, learn the quirks of the market they invest in, etc,
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by bkjelden 11y ago
> Who decides to make a $20k, 5-10 year investment based on something as volatile as oil prices? Not you or me, but it's more common than anyone with the ability to make long-term financial decisions would think it is. The frequency
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Another issue is that sweeping, curvy rooflines are in style right now. I'm 6'2" and I find that in a lot of newer cars I can barely fit in the drivers seat. If you're looking at midsize sedans, FWIW, I found the Honda A
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Where did you take such a class? A local community college? That actually sounds like a pretty fun idea. The engineer in me always loves learning how to take apart more things and put them back together.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
$MSFT is still down ~12% from late December: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=msft It's not doing too poorly today, but it's not been immune to the larger macro trends of the last month.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Where is the news that Zenefits is struggling? All I have seen is that they are 'one of the fastest growing companies ever'
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I toured an apartment building several years ago that had 2-story units, where a unit's living space was on top of it's bedrooms, so a cross-section of the building would look something like: Unit C living space Unit C bedrooms Un
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I lived in the Dakotas for 20 years and crop dusters were present, but not terribly common. Ground spraying equipment was way more common. As an aside, the City of Fargo uses crop dusters to spray for mosquitoes in the summer - which is eit
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Nevada is closer and seems to have most of North Dakota's benefits? I also wonder if Nevada's climate would make it a better choice too. The Dakotas have some of the most extreme weather in the US - hot summers, frigid winters, se
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Yea, when I think about it some more, it makes sense. But it is interesting how much of a bubble you can live in without really realizing it. Although the 25 miles in the Great Plains states shown in the article is still surprising to me. A

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