edblarney

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by edblarney 10y ago
Most tech bubbles develop that pretty quickly. Admittedly, California has a little bit of that going for itself. 1) California is naturally aspirational, it's 'quirky' and the place that people have gone to 'escape'
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"Speculators and investors may be the ones driving up the prices, but I think there really is just that much demand. " Only 5% of buyers need to be speculative. They drive the 'price anchoring' for the rest - including t
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Toronto has 'global city prices' without 'global city industries and wages' to support it. NYC is fully of bankers, global elite. SF is fully of tech-stars. Toronto has no such industries with lots of super high paying j
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"4. Toronto is the 3rd largest North American city;" Not quite, that's only technically correct, due to the fact that major urban areas in the US don't 'incorporate' into major cities. It's better to compa
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The average income in Canada is about $40K 1 $100K earner is in the top 20%. Having both is quite rare. You've made the opposite argument: those people should easily be able to afford a relatively nice home. Homes are completely out
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by edblarney 10y ago
That the lean startup methodology might in some ways apply to other businesses, does not make them startups. A single hot-dog stand will not do something that will change the economy, create 10K jobs, attract investment, R&D etc..
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Yes, that's it. And a 'business' can also be a small contractor, a restaurant, or a hot-dog stand. It's difficult to firmly characterize the difference between such business, but it's probably not fair to refer to e
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No, it makes a lot more sense for Uber to be involved in self driving than maybe anyone else. Self-driving is a 'near rality' meaning, the tech has progressed to the point wherein we can feasibly see it working at some point. I th
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by edblarney 10y ago
I believe they are profitable in many city venues, their cash outlays have to do with targeting new markets, and moon-shot style projects. If they want to be profitable, they can pull back on aggressive expansion, and dump the more expensiv
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Mennonites, Amish etc. are 'intentional' and have in reality fairly 'anti capitalist' ideals (though not framed in those terms). I know it's not the authors intent - but they are similar and should be a basis of com
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In b64, you're going to want to pick a short set of characters that can be encoded clearly and simply, i.e. ascii chars. And the shorter the better, i.e. even in 6 bits. You take the first six bits of your binary data and convert to so
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" So much of modern Japanese life has been molded by the American occupation." Very true. But it's also fundamentally different than if the American influence were to have come from 10 or 20 million actual Americans living in
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Bingo. 1st iteration: 'does it' (barely) but kinda looks hacky 2cnd iteration: better. actually works. 3rd iteration: looks clean, concise, pro, something to be proud of! 3rd time is a charm in software. It's unbelievable how
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I don't think it's fair to assume that 'lack of immigration' = 'bad economy'. There are tons of places in the world with fairly massive immigration and/or multicultural societies - that are far worse than
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Being 'influenced' by other places is definitely not the same thing as mass migration. We often think of 'Tea' as a very English thing (and it is in many ways now), but of course it has it's roots in China/Asia
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'The only way for Japan to progress is to abolish Japanese culture in favour of multiculturalism'. ... is how many people in the other parts of the world would view that position. Maybe it's hard to understand for 'New W
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"that "Tina" has an insecure personality that feels threatened by the people on her team, and thus is marginalizing everyone on it who sticks out in an attempt to establish dominance." Maybe 'Tina' is a bad bos
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These are possibly fair gripes, but they're not at all uncommon in the rest of the world, even outside of tech. 'My manager doesn't respect me'. Well ... my bet is that 20% of the entire world feels this way. 'Banne
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1) Reading and getting to compile/work other people's open source. This more than anything will introduce you to the various styles of 'pro code' that people use, at least in terms of formatting. And if you can pick out
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" is that in situations like this, nobody can really tell whether she earned it on her own merits or not." Actually, academics have a strong track record of publishing, teacher reviews, management etc. Arguably, it's harder t
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Great teaching is the most underrated thing in academia. So many hard things to learn a great teacher just makes it so much easier to get all of it down.
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I don't think this is a good idea. It's easy to write JS once you have the basics of Java. Not the other way around. I find that the 'loose' nature of JS, combined with the very odd/unique prototype-chain paradigm m
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1) They try to be a shade conservative when pricing for IPO because the stock going down on day 1 is a very bad. 2) The underwriters are invented to keep it low because they basically keep the upside - i.e. they buy from Snap at the low pri
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They have no choice in this situation. CEO's all over the world just realized that they can't only depend on S3, and they might have to double up on their infrastructure and have a parallel env. on Azure or Google as well.
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"Are the jobs that are created, in aggregate, as good as the jobs that are replaced?" Are you living at a higher material standard than people at the dawn of the industrial revolution? Are you living at a higher material standard
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"Ball State University found that job loss in the 2000s due to automation" On the aggregate jobs are not being destroyed. Obviously - many are put out of work because of automation, but it seems that jobs are created somewhere e
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"was widely shared by "The Elite" for the past 10" You mean for the last 200 years. Mass automation has been going on since the dawn of the industrial revolution. As long as there is value to be created, and the surpluse
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I've worked at a few startups, and with many more - and most of them did not require 150%. The two most successful were unicorns (networking, back in the day), and there we were barely past 100%. We worked mostly 9 to 5. Sometimes ther
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"Investors just lose money but employees lose years " Comparative value. Most employees are fairly well paid, and don't 'lose years' unless they are working for free, or 'very cheap' which usually isn&#x27
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"The cold war branding of anything communism/socialism as evil is being seen through as rhetoric" I can hardly believe that anyone who was alive during the 'cold war' would ever say that. I grew up in an immigrant c

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