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by eldavido 7y ago
Local paper: SF Chronicle print edition. It's very good, great local issues coverage, which I wish people would pay more attention to, in general. Voting in California (especially Oakland, where I live) is never easy (42 questions last
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by eldavido 7y ago
Tangent, but I wish we'd come up with better labels for our viewpoints in the US than "conservative" or "liberal". It's been on my mind a lot lately. "The Once and Future Liberalism" explores this ide
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by eldavido 7y ago
Law as currently practiced, does not require much capital. You're correct about that. But legal services in general are an expensive, labor-intensive craft industry. Just like any craft industry, there's probably scope for low-tou
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by eldavido 7y ago
There really isn't as much stuff as you'd think. For the condo association, it's a California nonprofit so we just need to file a statement of information annually. We get a postcard reminding us to do this. We have to file t
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by eldavido 7y ago
I've had little difficulty with any of this. Clerky seems to be the standard for tech co incorporation, I know a few that've used this, it works fine. I've worked at places using Carta for stock, it works. I think it's g
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by eldavido 7y ago
I'm on three boards. They couldn't be more different. One is the BoD of an Oakland Chinatown condo association. It's a large building (348 units). The board has eight members. Three American-born tech/finance people in o
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by eldavido 7y ago
This is a great point and pretty much mirrors my own views. I read the NYT but I'm under no pretense it's "neutral" or "fair and balanced". It is a highly partisan, albeit factual, news source that is selective
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by eldavido 7y ago
Diversity is not an unquestioned good. It means more fights, less common ground, more misunderstanding. There are plenty of examples of relatively insular cultures (e.g. Sweden, Paypal) producing great stuff. I don't hate diversity, I
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by eldavido 7y ago
Meta, what actually upsets me is how we seem to be avoiding the need to use human judgment. By definition, every time some process or code is adopted, it takes the human element out a little bit. You have to look case-by-case whether that&#
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by eldavido 7y ago
Had an account on asmallorange ( https://asmallorange.com ) for a while. Can't vouch for their compute power, but if barebones shell access is what you're after, they do well.
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by eldavido 7y ago
No, it's a completely different thing. A REIT owns real estate assets. WeWork doesn't need to own assets, they're an intermediary that does something economically useful.
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by eldavido 7y ago
I don't know why this is so hard for people to understand (you obviously seem to get it). WeWork is basically a hybrid bank/retailer. They take big, complex, slow-moving long-term commitments, just like a car rental company or a b
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by eldavido 7y ago
I love Stack Overflow but there's a lot about this announcement that doesn't make sense. One: is Rackspace really such a great company? Hard to say. Maybe this CEO was able to achieve great results there. From where I'm sitti
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by eldavido 7y ago
I mean...sort of. The problem IMO is the scale of the opportunity relative to how much money is consumed. There are great businesses at every increment of enterprise value from $5 million up to $5 billion. We just need to realize this, and
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by eldavido 7y ago
I had a similar experience at Stripe and it was the low point in an otherwise (what I felt) great interview. I was interviewing for a forward-deployed/field engineer role and they expected me in an hour to come up with a nuanced strate
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by eldavido 7y ago
I agree. You just don't have to ask. Maybe if you're really curious, but it doesn't have to be this damned inquisition.
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by eldavido 7y ago
This is a Bay Area thing (I live here). In places where there's more political diversity, people aren't so uptight. They know there are others who aren't like them, that's OK, and we all sort of get on with our lives. I
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by eldavido 7y ago
Another view might be that it's impolite or rude to bring it up. Consider that other people might not want to talk about these things, and by bringing them up yourself, you're prompting others to share their own opinions, which th
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by eldavido 7y ago
I keep wondering whether these guys will go public. They're at least 6-7 years old, have healthy revenues, and seemingly a lot of customers. I've wanted to see the financials for a while. Show us the numbers, Josh!
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by eldavido 7y ago
In all honesty, when to keep my mouth shut. This is really hard for me. I still see tons of bullshit, posturing, and nonsense, I'm just better at censoring myself. It's useful but surprisingly stress-inducing.
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by eldavido 7y ago
Correct that this is your #1 job. But it would be even better if you could do that job, AND not make people feel shitty / mad / disrespected in the process. As someone who struggles with this, getting the "emotional layer&quo
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by eldavido 7y ago
(Starsky engineer) It takes a ton of data. Hundreds of GB/month. I'd provide more specific info but don't have it in front of me at the moment.
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by eldavido 7y ago
(Starsky engineer here) IANAL, however, a lot of road activity is regulated state-to-state in the US. It turns out to be a really fascinating regulatory problem. To get a flavor of what we're dealing with, we've had some concerns
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by eldavido 7y ago
(Starsky engineer here) That's a blurry line. We think of it like a spectrum running from hands-on-the-wheel, manual actuation of the brake/throttle/etc. to full autonomy. The middle parts are "supervision" where th
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by eldavido 7y ago
> The only good thing is that we are some 10-15 years away from full implementation, but if I were you I would not look for long and prosperous career as a truck driver. (I work at Starsky) That's one way to say it. Another is that
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by eldavido 7y ago
Starsky engineer here. We are actively hiring developers to work on this system (we call it "tele-operation" internally). I'm currently (this afternoon) working on driving the latency of the communication in this system down
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by eldavido 7y ago
(Perspective of an American who lives in a US Chinatown and speaks to many HKers, also went there last year) Hong Kong is over. Historically, it benefited from being one of the only open ports, proximate to China, but not in it. Good govern
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by eldavido 7y ago
Funny enough, I can think of very few businesses that went under due to fines from regulators. Most businesses fail because they don't have customers, not because they're inefficient or badly-managed. They key is right there in yo
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by eldavido 7y ago
It's worth thinking about how companies become #1 in their respective industries. A local restaurant becomes #1 by having the best food and/or location, and providing it at a price people are willing to pay. A car dealership proba
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by eldavido 7y ago
This is silly. All this does is make it impossible for new competitors to enter, as they won't get enough riders to cover that minimum. This is a ticket to an Uber monopoly.

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