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by enjo 11y ago
Most are actually designed not to. There are a whole lot of interesting looks at how suburbans are designed (hint: keeping undesirables like African Americans out is a major feature). While the intent in 2015 may be less overt, those same i
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by enjo 11y ago
$13.5 Billion in yearly revenue is apparently low scale these days.
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by enjo 11y ago
I've heard it surmised that the biggest advantage the United States has in terms of entrepreneurship is our incredibly lax bankruptcy laws. It's easy to start a company, fail, and maintain the ability to do it again. This is partl
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by enjo 11y ago
If I had to choose between two candidates with the same proficiency in a testable skill set (JavaScript, GAAP accounting, laying brick, whatever else), at this point I'd probably prefer someone who spent four years working on a fishin
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by enjo 11y ago
I'd still buy the house. A 30 year mortgage on that $200k house @ 6% is going to cost me $1,199 a month or $431,676 over the life of that mortgage. If the house devalues to $180k my actual out of pocket money spent is $251,676. If I do
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by enjo 11y ago
Using a magnet to connect to the device. You can't just reduce something to its simplest component when discussing patents. It's the specific application that matters.
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by enjo 11y ago
Even if that's true, you're average person on earth is generally better off than their parents were. In the United States it's not quite as cut and dry, but in general you are likely at least as well off as your parents. Infl
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by enjo 11y ago
Here in Denver I see it all the time. I actually don't really notice it (a problem for them as so many competitors directly cloned them)... until that email receipt arrives. It's not ubiquitous here, but it's certainly common
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by enjo 11y ago
The craftsmanship is obviously different, but is it better? I hear the argument that modern houses are all going to be just awful in a few decades. Yet I heard the same argument in the 70's and 80's, and those houses seem to be a
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by enjo 11y ago
Uber drivers can hold more than one job doing exactly the same thing. They are free to pick up rides or not on whatever schedule they want. They bring their own equipment to the job. They've always seemed to meet the definition of cont
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by enjo 11y ago
What if I didn't have the foresight to put that bot into the channel in the first place? Or what happens when the bot goes down? So now I really need to build some alerting into it so that someone can restart the thing when it dies, or
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by enjo 11y ago
Think of a startup whose founders spent 70% of their time raising money, they would never get anything done. That's a bad example. For even a relatively early stage startup, raising money is the actual job description for a typical s
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by enjo 11y ago
In order to win a star, Michelin has to produce a guide for the area. There are only three cities in the United States that have a guide (I believe: San Francisco, Chicago, and New York). So you won't find a michelin starred restaurant
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by enjo 11y ago
While that's..probably true...sometimes the false negative is a false positive (what a fun sentence!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild
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by enjo 11y ago
That's a whole lot to infer from that. Holding a significant portion of the sale in escrow pending retention, legal requirements, and other issues is pretty standard practice.
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by enjo 11y ago
You're correct. In modern browsers we have control over the history via the HTML 5 history API. Previously we used the hashtag to deal with state changes, which mostly worked (does allow pages to be bookmarked).
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by enjo 11y ago
I'm struggling to remember how exactly I was taught, but cross-multiplying was the method I've used for as long as I can remember. I really believe it was how I was taught when we first encountered fractional division.
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by enjo 11y ago
They just installed a pair on the new Pecos bridge over 70. Those are really nice uses of roundabouts, so maybe we're starting to "get it"?
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by enjo 11y ago
Zenefits does payroll and benefits as well,... They do, but they are far far far far away from having this stuff solved. Very few people I've talked to are completely thrilled with Zenefits at this point. It's an extremely hard
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by enjo 11y ago
My understanding wasn't that the men were stunned by the impressive explosion, but rather that Ledlie had so badly botched the whole thing that they literally had no idea what to expect or where to go or what to do. Hell the guy was dr
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by enjo 11y ago
I don't think that is good advice. There is a lot of interesting science that suggests exactly the opposite. Being angry succeeds in only one thing: making you angrier. Here is a good overview: https://www.mtholyoke.edu&#x2F
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by enjo 11y ago
I don't think the author is complaining about the weakness of youth, but rather the weakness of the adults running the asylum.
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by enjo 11y ago
I completely agree.. HN is at it's best when it's inspiring, and this is a cool project that sheds light on a city that I'm guessing 95% of HN will never see. It's well done and highly interesting... I dig it.
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by enjo 11y ago
Sidewalks have been a feature of every city center neighborhood I've lived in (and I've lived in many). Cities can be safer in that I rarely drive and there are visible and predictable pedestrian street crossing everywhere. While
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by enjo 11y ago
Some quick googling for supporting studies: http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2002/lucy-april-30-2...
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by enjo 11y ago
I'd argue that for most, living in a suburb is in fact the worst of both worlds. You are neither rural nor city. You have none of the benefits and many of the drawbacks. For me my decision to live in the city is one of safety (driving
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by enjo 11y ago
For a whole bunch of suburbanites of those early years (50's-70's) the "happiness" they derived came primarily from not having to send their children to integrated schools.
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by enjo 11y ago
Maybe it's hard to see, but these things have a way of coming back around. In 50-60 years the office parks that still exist might very well be where all the hip YC startups of 2066 want to be.
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by enjo 11y ago
It's not just that rides are a commodity, they also have an immediacy effect. I don't care who drives me, but I care that they pick me up in the next 3 or 4 minutes. When an uber driver gives me a card that's great, but it&#x
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by enjo 11y ago
Just to elaborate: Thumbtack also services a very wide range of verticals, which allows them to succeed purely as a matchmaker. It's an inherent flaw in what folks like Homejoy were doing (although they had aspirations of a larger vert

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