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by dmode 8y ago
This story is a little bit underreported. Not because this is a Model 3 competitor. But because it is launching with a native Android Infotainment. This is the iPhone moment of the car industry kick-started by Tesla. With electric drivetrai
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by dmode 8y ago
Union Sq is right next to the worst neighborhood in SF, so not surprising. But overall, people tend to forget how life was prior to the boom. Oakland was facing homicide epidemic. East Palo Alto was gang central. Redwood City was sketchy as
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That’s weird, considering the countries that are better off have even more government
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I don’t understand this argument. We comply to every law “under the threat of violence”. Are you advocating for a lawless society ?
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Having spent 10 days in France and driving from Paris to Lyon to Nice, this doesn’t jive with my experience at all. French cities were clean and nice. French villages look pristine and well managed. Unlike some of the broken rural areas in
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by dmode 8y ago
I work near Civic center and go there everyday. You know, like, Chicago has 500 murders a year. Nothing in SF and Oakland even comes close to that. Oakland used to be the crime capital in the US. People can actually live in West Oakland now
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I mentioned fundraising as a proxy for health of the startup sector in the Bay Area. The expectation was that with high cost of living and relentless FAANG hiring, startups will move en masse to other locations. But fundraising data suggest
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by dmode 8y ago
Only a small portion of SF is matches the dystopian vision you claim. Even those portions are not any worse than other urban areas. There is a reason why housing here is extremely expensive. People want to live here.
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One thing to note. Since the time Bay Area became “expensive”, contrary to expectations it is actually crushing other geographies (exception being China) when it comes to massive fund raising for startups. Just this week Flexport raised $1b
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Honestly, Bay Area is like >50% recent immigrants. I think a lot of the problem arise because we ascribe the American label of "conservative" and "liberal" to a population who grew up in a very different society. A lo
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I had the opposite experience with the Smollet case. I actually never heard or cared about Smollet till it started popping up as the #1 and #2 stories in r/news. As someone who is on the left of political spectrum and politically fairl
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by dmode 8y ago
I never worked in France, but worked in other countries in Europe. There is always an insider vs. outsider feeling when I used to work as a foreigner, especially not knowing the language. How is that in Paris ? I assume it takes a while to
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by dmode 8y ago
This will never happen because 1. There is no appetite for increasing speed limits due to increase in emissions and increase in enforcement costs 2. Drivers here are simply not disciplined enough to make a no speed limit lane successful 3.
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by dmode 8y ago
Elect fascists, get fascism. Indian governments are always flirting with complete authoritarianism and are always eager to randomly ban things (e.g., any mention of Gandhi in a negative light, smoking in movies and tvs). Not a surprise that
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by dmode 8y ago
In a way this is good as we need to stop this race to bottom with government subsidies. Amazon should be expanding in NYC not because of some handouts, but because of the talent it has to offer. Also, Amazon's statement that they are n
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by dmode 8y ago
Hating the player vs hating the game is a distinction without a difference as the manifestation of the hate is on the individual. I sincerely believed that unlike China and Japan, US is the land of immigrants where you work hard and there i
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We have been fighting and have sponsored specific legislation to alleviate this. But there is no appetite in the US government to reform immigration. There are no votes there.
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by dmode 8y ago
It is not a strawman. The Trump administration views ALL H1 workers as detrimental to the American economy. My H1 extension with a FAANG was denied last year and I had to jump through thousands of hoops, beg managers who I haven't spok
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by dmode 8y ago
As an H1-B visa holder, on EB2 green card queue for 7 years, and in the US for over 12 years, working for a FAANG in the Valley, make a ton of money, I must say it is kind of grinding reading repeated headlines (in HN and elsewhere) about h
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The capital spending is mostly for data centers and not opening engineering offices
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Majority of this expansion is building out data centers. Their engineering hub will continue to be in the Valley, where they are massively expanding (and perhaps NY and London)
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Plenty of recent car startups have raised giant sums like Lucid, Karma, Faraday Future etc. , but none of them have produced a viable car yet. Hope Rivian does better, but car manufacturing is HARD
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Despite predictions to the contrary, San Francisco (and Bay Area) continues to kill it when it comes to unicorn production
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I believe another self driving car company, Aurora, also raised $500mn recently [1] I don't really understand how these companies are attracting these massive sums, given that even a company like Google has made limited progress in 10
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by dmode 8y ago
Can we stop saying that "blue collar" people delve in boasting and exaggeration ? Most blue collar people I meet are very polite, mild mannered and focused on executing their tasks. The only people who talk like Trump are narcissi
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Def Trump bots. Mention anything negative about Trump and watch the downvotes
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by dmode 8y ago
Here's the actual Medium post from Bezos himself https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146...
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by dmode 8y ago
Is this due to loss carry over ? The original link is timing out. Can someone explain the rational behind carrying over your loss ? I understand you had a loss in one year and you didn't pay taxes. But why is the business allowed to sp
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There is also a sliding scale in EU. Western European countries like Germany, France, Sweden, Netherlands, take in far more immigrants than Poland, Hungary etc. The point that triggered this whole thread was immigration is the reason Americ
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by dmode 8y ago
I am actually surprised that Reddit is only valued at $3B. Given the amount of traffic and engagement, I thought the valuation would be fairly higher. Pinterest has a $10B valuation, Reddit definitely feels more popular than Pinterest.

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