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by goodweeds 15y ago
If we thought like a VC we wouldn't get any work done, what with all of the hookers and blow.
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by goodweeds 15y ago
This is a pretty interesting business model on the part of the banks. Banks have realized that poor people don't have enough money for their deposits to cover the risk of overdraft or customer service. Their solution to this is to list poor
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Big banks help payday lenders offer quick cash at steep prices(sfpublicpress.org)
1 points by goodweeds 15y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Why is everybody calling Zynga's IPO a failure?
10 points by goodweeds 15y ago|3 comments
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by goodweeds 15y ago
So .. Cloudkick rebranded?
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by goodweeds 15y ago
According to the BLS, San Francisco's unemployment rate is 9.1% [1] (lower than the 15% I had misquoted earlier), California's unemployment rate 11.7% [2] , and the national unemployment rate is 8.6% [3] 1 http://bls.gov/web/metro/laummt
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The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal(learncodethehardway.org)
204 points by goodweeds 15y ago|87 comments
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by goodweeds 15y ago
If you've ever lived in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, or any of the small midwestern cities you'll feel that San Francisco is a paradise. I've had a gun pointed in my face in Philly and New York. The worst random violence I've ever had i
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by goodweeds 15y ago
They're all in madison, working primarily for one of two tech companies or large cable-based ISPs. The jobs sound dreadfully boring, and I realize they're only able to command such salaries due to the lack of senior engineers to compete wit
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by goodweeds 15y ago
Can you explain to me why Muni and BART suck? I take BART or AC Transit every day, and Muni 2 or 3 times per week, and have for years. A decade ago I was afraid of Muni because I was afraid of poor people. I'm no longer afraid of poor peopl
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by goodweeds 15y ago
The very very poor live in taxpayer subsidized housing called SROs, or camp-out in parks or on the street. Blue-collar families who were lucky enough to buy in the '60s and '70s often have multiple generations in their spots, or sell, profi
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by goodweeds 15y ago
Huh? Can you cite your 3% unemployment source? Outside of the tech industry it's pretty difficult to find temporary work, let alone full-time work. I've heard closer to 15% for the greater bay area.
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by goodweeds 15y ago
Another case of the 1% (hoteliers) colluding to keep the 99% (people looking to monetize on their underutilized resources) down .
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by goodweeds 15y ago
I think HN is manipulated but in a way you're not quite insinuating. There are a few hundred YC start-ups now, and they're like a gang. They've got each other's back. When somebody wants something linked to they can count on the private YC
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by goodweeds 15y ago
The problem is that companies -- particularly larger companies -- are still in Arrogance Mode and think that the job-seekers need them. They don't That's a big dish of good old american entitlement. If you were on the market during the la
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by goodweeds 15y ago
<sarcasm> 1998 called and they want their resume blasts back. </sarcasm> I find work (contracts) by looking for interesting companies whose money I would like to take, then I look them up on LinkedIN to see how connected I a
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by goodweeds 15y ago
This rings very true. I've interviewed with and turned down 8 YCombinator start-ups in the past three years. Of the 8, I would have been within the first 5 employees of 6, within the first 10 of the remaining two. They all offered below mar
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by goodweeds 15y ago
During the last bubble there were two or three notable instances of people scamming investors on projects like these, attempts to buy/lease and load up cargo or cruise ships with "near-shored" indian developers. These scams often remind me
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by goodweeds 15y ago
Every few months for the past decade or so I've seen articles like this comparing the bay area to New York or Seattle. It seems that the New York and Seattle companies all fall off the face of the earth a few minutes after I read the artic
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by goodweeds 15y ago
America: Land of the rich, home of the greenback. Of course Scott is a pornographer, so $100k seems like nothing to him.
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by goodweeds 15y ago
How about an analysis as to which companies have created more jobs or generating more revenue?
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Ask HN: Can I have my Karma locked?
3 points by goodweeds 15y ago|1 comments
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by goodweeds 15y ago
Wow, all of the hate on San Francisco, this place is my home and I love it. New York is the only other city in the US I could cope with. I just wish we had saner policies around our housing (like a rent-control system which didn't create s
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by goodweeds 15y ago
It is pretty depressing to realize how under-paid we are in the bay area when you factor in cost of living. A lead systems administrator in SF tops out at about $150k, but more likely is about $120k, which is the same my friends in Wisconsi
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by goodweeds 15y ago
This from a woman whose husband signed the DMCA into law.
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by goodweeds 15y ago
Here's my idea, up that to $2T by ending our current wars, forget start-ups, and instead invest it all into installing gigabit fiber to every home in the country. This would assure America's competitive infrastructure edge, and create more
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by goodweeds 15y ago
Touche. I guess the other option is amphetamines or other stimulants then, and given that it's burning man, not terribly beyond the realm of possibility.
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by goodweeds 15y ago
Every day on my commute. And once or twice a year I like to either take a green tortoise tour, or play "greyhound roulette" which entails going to a bus station, writing down the next 5 destinations on scraps of paper, shoving them in my po
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by goodweeds 15y ago
How many of us are fantasizing about hacking our own drone so we could become the kid with the coolest rc-plane on the block?
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by goodweeds 15y ago
You could have maybe taken a bus?

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