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by davidf18 10y ago
Finally! This is a problem not only in SF, but NYC, Boston, DC, LA and London for example. The problem is that zoning laws that restrict housing density make rents higher for tenants while artificially increasing the value of property for
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by davidf18 10y ago
Google's business model is based on gathering data from users and hence by definition will not be as secure to use as Apple which derives their income from the high margins on the phones they sell instead of gathering data on us to mon
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by davidf18 10y ago
> "Did you know that one of the schools that I went to disbursed financial aid a week after tuition was due ...." You are saying that the school you went to was run incompetently. I am sorry for that. You should count yoursel
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by davidf18 10y ago
The headline addresses Obama legislating instead of Congress regarding whether illegal immigrants will not be deported. Only by reading the story does one understand that anyone who makes it to this country illegally, including the world&#x
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Millions at Risk of Deportation as Justices Refuse to Rehear Case(nytimes.com)
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On a related topic: This couple on a dentist's salary and after escaping Nazis and the holocaust saved with Warren Buffet and $400 million -- the largest single donation in Israel's history -- to the water research for Ben Gurion
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by davidf18 10y ago
I was at a conference in NYC and I was met an AWS person and yesterday I mentioned to him that Amazon was a logistics company with the Amazon Robotics subsidiary running their warehouses and leasing of airplanes for airfreight and how it wo
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by davidf18 10y ago
Part of the "product/service" is the protection of privacy that was promised and since breeched. It is because of network effects that make it hard for users that understand privacy and value it to move to another service su
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by davidf18 10y ago
There is such a thing as being a good citizen on the net and part of that should be that these privacy violating features be "opt in" so that people can use them if they want to. Maybe NY State where I live will pass some privacy
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by davidf18 10y ago
> People coming from poverty don't have family that can make up the 10% that you didn't cover out of pocket They get almost $24K free money in 4 years of free money in Pell Grants They get about $27K in 4 years subsidized Staff
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My junior/senior high school charged no tuition -- just fees and books. Entrance was based on grades/test scores/personal interview. I did not grow up in NYC, but there are several free public high schools for gifted scienti
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by davidf18 10y ago
The colleges hire people to help with financial aid and they are supposed to speak with students before classes start because of application deadlines. I'm sorry that your college didn't help you as they should have.
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I understanding what you are referring to but the point of the article was asking if people who come with low economic background are shut out of science research and the answer is no. True, there are some people with an unfortunate back
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by davidf18 10y ago
While my HS did have a course in computer programming taught by a very good teacher, a computer scientist, I learned to program before then. These days one can purchase a Chromebook for about $200 to $300 and put Linux on that and program
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by davidf18 10y ago
From the article: > Last year, Christina Quasney was close to giving up. A biochemistry major at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Quasney's background was anything but privileged. People with little family money get fre
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by davidf18 10y ago
In my market, NYC, VZ is by far the best provider. It has far more spectrum than AT&T, which esp for Manhattan is really important because of the density of people. Moreover, we have many large steel and concrete buildings and VZ gets
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by davidf18 10y ago
I have been a Verizon customer for about 4 years since the iPhone 5 came out. My data usage sometimes varies a great deal depending if I'm out of town or not. I always check a couple of days before the end of my billing cycle and I can
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by davidf18 10y ago
#2, who owns Zara among other clothing brands, never completed high school, but Zara has brilliant ideas. No connections, I think he started as a messenger for the firm that he was to head. He's sounds like someone Malcolm Gladwell w
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by davidf18 10y ago
Oracle has substantially more support staff and support infrastructure in place with existing (mid to large) firms than Amazon, Google, Apple (Microsoft is the exception). In a sense, their "market" and competitor is more like IB
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by davidf18 10y ago
The article states that Samsung released the phone about 10 days earlier than last year, but Apple released about 10 days earlier: 9/16 instead of 9/25, so the lead time before the iPhone launch was about the same.
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Rush to Take Advantage of a Dull iPhone Started Samsung's Battery Crisis(bloomberg.com)
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Much of homelessness is caused by the high cost of housing (SF, NYC, LA, Boston, DC, London, ...) which itself is a result of "market failures" of "economic rents" which are the use of politics to create artificial scarc
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by davidf18 10y ago
Much of the homelessness problem in SF (and also NYC, LA, Boston, DC, ....) can be solved by not spending more money, but by simply reversing "economic rents" sought be landlords to create zoning density restrictions. These zonin
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by davidf18 10y ago
The solution to the cost problem is for competition to enter the market. It is my understanding FDA has in some way restricted market entry as competing firms (eg, generic giant Teva) come up with a device acceptable to the FDA.
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The Verizon/Sprint Version has the Qualcomm MDM 9645 modem https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/modems/x12 which is the same unit in the Galaxy S7. The question that iFixit did not answer is wh
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by davidf18 10y ago
The higher prices for housing are because of politically induced scarcity through zoning density restrictions. SF, NYC, LA, Boston, DC, London, and other cities suffer from these "market failures" in this case called "econom
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"Finally, G.M. enjoys the regulatory advantage of producing a fleet. Because the high-mileage, zero-emission Bolt helps the company stay under the federal government’s fuel-economy standards, it perversely allows G.M. to keep selling m
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by davidf18 10y ago
"He points out that the Salesforce and 181 Fremont towers—also adjacent to the Transit Center—are supported on piles drilled to bedrock. “Millennium Partners’ poor design decision is the cause of the tilt and excessive vertical settlem
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San Francisco’s Sinking Millennium Tower Riles Residents(architecturalrecord.com)
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In economics, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Facebook, Apple have what are called "monopolist rents" a form of "economic rent" which mean because of the nature of their product they get higher profits than they would in an ef

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