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by ceras 11y ago
IIRC the product is not longer called internet.org anyway; it's now called "free basics."
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by ceras 11y ago
This does not line up with anything I've read about mobile Internet usage in India. You may be underestimating the willingness of poor people (the vast majority of India) to save up for an extremely low-end smart phone. By and large, m
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by ceras 11y ago
Apparently it is when someone else is dying for your free Coke.
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by ceras 11y ago
From my experience living in the Bay Area, it was definitely not just landlords lobbying against construction. Normal residents often expressed NIMBY concerns like "changing neighborhood character." Many of the people I spoke to w
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by ceras 11y ago
I agree the height restrictions should be more generous, but we shouldn't go to the other extreme. A minimum isn't necessary: property developers will build as much as they think will turn any profit whatsoever. You don't nee
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by ceras 11y ago
> Building housing in a bull market is almost always the right choice, but let's not pretend rents are going to magically fall. Or stop rising. Housing is one of the most elastic goods one can find. Everyone has to sleep somewhere.
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by ceras 11y ago
I wonder if we should find a word other than "dense" to describe dense urban living. Images like those are exactly what non-urban people picture when they hear "dense," but it doesn't have to be anything like that.
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by ceras 11y ago
It's already inflation-adjusted.
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by ceras 11y ago
> Obviously I never talked about going through red lights, since for red lights you always have time to switch to a lower gear beforehand, and stopping isn't optional anyway. Sorry, I misunderstood you since this isn't obvious
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by ceras 11y ago
I bike daily to work in New York, and I don't buy the argument that it's that hard to stop. Assuming your bike has gears it's almost no effort to get started again from gear 1. I fully stop at every light. I have very little
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by ceras 11y ago
> So you're just going to ignore the fact that the article notes studies proving the opposite? Like another commenter already mentioned, I wasn't very convinced by this one study. I'm friendly and polite with my coworkers,
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by ceras 11y ago
I feel similarly, but I also don't want to be friends with my coworkers. I'd rather we keep a friendly, polite distance in our relationships. I love my job, and go to work to actually work: my social interaction comes from elsew
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by ceras 11y ago
The MTA has planned to upgrade to a tap-to-pay system in its 2015-2019 capital program, but that budget has a huge shortfall. Regardless, last I heard the metro cards are getting too costly to maintain so the rollout may still happen.
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by ceras 11y ago
I once saw that when using a pay-per-ride metrocard and swiped at a different turnstile. I ended up having two rides deducted instead of just one, so I lost a swipe.
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by ceras 11y ago
I'm surprised you found a near-certain pre-IPO company who gave you a lot more equity than $350k. Most options I've seen at that stage seem to consistently not even reach 0.1%, which is already much less than $350k for your typica
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by ceras 11y ago
Wow, this is a surprising response to a pretty normal and mild preference. Would you worry about hiring a Republican in a predominantly Democratic team? What about a Red Sox fan to an NYC-based team? I've had multiple coworkers who abs
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by ceras 11y ago
I agree that there are more and less efficient ways to do good, but not everyone can make it finance, and nobody should feel bad about not putting in 80-hour weeks in soul-crushing work. Many people would feel miserable in that type of envi
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by ceras 11y ago
I haven't heard of Charity Watch, but GiveDirectly is one of GiveWell's top recommended charities: http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/give-dir... For background, GiveWell is the most pro
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by ceras 11y ago
Here's a great place to start: http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/give-dir... For background, GiveWell is a meta-charity that evaluates charities by the amount of suffering they reduce per do
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by ceras 11y ago
> it's totally worth noting that NYC does a much better job than most cities at permitting the construction of new luxury units NYC builds fewer units per resident than any city in the US except probably SF. It just looks impressive
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by ceras 11y ago
To those who advocate avoiding all salary discussions till post-interview, how do you filter out companies that will never match your current pay? Just GlassDoor? What about smaller companies that aren't listed? I don't want to wa
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by ceras 11y ago
We can produce enough now, but at a cost to future production. We're increasingly cutting down forests, draining non-renewable water supplies, and reducing the quality of arable land. In other words, at the current usage levels places
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by ceras 12y ago
What meetups are there in NYC? I've been really into this topic for years now, but don't really know anyone else who is. Would be cool to change that.
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by ceras 12y ago
How many here are pursuing a similar goal? Donating 5%, 10%, even 50% of their pre-tax income? I love the effective altruist movement - it's pretty much what I spend most of my time thinking and reading about - but this is a very touch
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by ceras 12y ago
I'm in a similar boat to this guy for income, location, and donation goals. I spend < $30k per year living in downtown Manhattan, so that leaves a lot of room for saving. And I feel like my life is positively luxurious, so I'd
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by ceras 12y ago
I think both you and the article are in-line with effective altruism (the movement). The crux of EA is objectively and dispassionately deciding what causes do the most good with your scarce resources (time & money) and deciding how to b
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by ceras 12y ago
Do you know how well this actually works for people in practice? My friends, acquaintances, and coworkers know I'm frugal, but I avoid telling them it's because I donate a lot of my money. People can become very defensive and judg
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by ceras 12y ago
Among the disjoint groups of my own friends and my girlfriends' friends (none of whom code or are tech savvy at all), everyone I know in NYC uses Venmo. I learned about it from non-tech people. It could be because Venmo advertised ver
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by ceras 12y ago
Google is such a big company you will find huge variety between teams. I have not personally worked on a team at Google that expected overtime (all of mine chose to cut or scale back features rather than increase hours when things got tight
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by ceras 12y ago
Here's an article of how excessive cash hoarding by corporations hurts Asian economies, and what they could do to improve: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21620203-japanese-and-...

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