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by gphil 11y ago
Wow commuting from Sacramento to the SF Bay is a thing now? I grew up in the Bay Area (left for College in 2004 and never came back) and that was unheard of at the time. Every time I go back I'm surprised how much has changed.
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by gphil 11y ago
Development (and lack thereof) is all about how much power the NIMBYs have to stop it. In SF that power seems to be almost absolute in many areas.
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by gphil 11y ago
Nope, you're right. I can't argue the opposite and I'm not. I'm just sick of all the generalizations that get made on HN with no evidence or supporting data.
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by gphil 11y ago
> The likely truth is that most women would rather work as nurses and teachers than as programmers and engineers. How could you possibly know this? Even if this is true in today's society, there's no way to know whether or not
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by gphil 12y ago
My opinion is that you probably shouldn't raise money unless you need money to execute your business plan. Some business plans aren't capital intensive, so why give a big chunk of your company away if you don't need additiona
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by gphil 12y ago
> most non-VC late stage rounds are done by the like of investment banks or private equity firms who have a reasonable idea of what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing, but their customers don't necessarily
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by gphil 12y ago
I don't have the skill to play any song from start to finish in my head, and I don't know about "closest", but "Does It Float" and "Repulsion" on "Dinosaur" are some specific examples you co
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by gphil 12y ago
> What is the "I" that is going to choose? Another good question! http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/ > It seems to me that all these compatibilist arguments aren't really tak
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by gphil 12y ago
Even though they're stylistically pretty different, there are some similarities to Dinosaur Jr. in Uncle Tupelo's earlier more rock-centric stuff. Obviously they never did the J Mascis-style shredding, but some of the other elemen
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by gphil 12y ago
You're really bringing the Philosophy major in me out tonight! First off, naturalism does not necessarily imply determinism. But even given physical determinism, the incompatibility of it and free will is not a certainty: http:/&
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by gphil 12y ago
> We long for a real basis for morals, but if all we are is matter obeying the laws of physics, morals cannot be anything more than arbitrarily-made-up rules. That's not necessarily true: http://plato.stanford.edu/en
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by gphil 12y ago
I don't have a good answer for why this doesn't happen. However, the fact of the matter is that the wealthy, on the whole, don't naturally redistribute their wealth very effectively.
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by gphil 12y ago
> Most rich people would just take the basic income as a small tax break, but they're still getting it. Right, I wasn't clear about this but you're correct that the idea is that technically everybody is given the same amou
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by gphil 12y ago
Not sure if you're asking sama about his opinion or if you want others to chime in. A popular answer among the HN crowd that I tend to agree with is to tax the wealthy and distribute the proceeds to the poor via a "basic income&qu
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USA National Rental Housing Affordability(blog.kwelia.com)
4 points by gphil 12y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 12y ago
Taxes would have been a better example.
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by gphil 12y ago
Wow, I wish I could upvote this comment even more. It's a much more well-thought out version of what I wanted to say on this topic. Thank you. I'll just add that it seems to me (in the US at least) that one's compensation is
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by gphil 12y ago
I actually had posted it with (For Rental Housing) tacked on the end of the title for clarity, but the mods saw fit to remove that part. Omitting the "in the US" part from that was myopia on my part though--we only aggregate data
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by gphil 12y ago
Not good! I'm looking into this, sorry. Edit: This should be fixed now. Anyone, please let me know if you're still having issues.
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by gphil 12y ago
The data is not only San Francisco proper, it's the entire "San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA" MSA. There's a lot of variation within that: https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/San%20Franci
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by gphil 12y ago
> Because a 400sf apartment in NY is not 1/2 of the cost of a 800sf apartment in NY. OP here. This is true, but given its flaws this measure is still the industry standard for benchmarking various markets in rental housing. We actua
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2014’s Most and Least Expensive Metros(blog.kwelia.com)
44 points by gphil 12y ago|36 comments
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Uber sued by 45 Philadelphia taxi companies(statecolumn.com)
1 points by gphil 12y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 12y ago
I don't understand how this role doesn't fall under the scenario of: "The engineer becomes a manager" In order to do a superlative job as a manager of a software engineering team, one has to master these same skills. Per
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by gphil 12y ago
An alternative to this without a remote is ZBoard ( http://www.zboardshop.com ), which uses weight sensing (like a Segway) to control the speed instead of a remote which seems a little more natural to ride to me than something wit
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by gphil 12y ago
This is exactly my feeling as well. I would take a huge productivity hit without a phone, or without a laptop. I would mostly miss my tablet on plane rides. I would love to see more data on this though, because I wonder if most non-HNers fe
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Geiser: Emacs modes that conspire to keep the Lisp Machine spirit alive(nongnu.org)
98 points by gphil 12y ago|11 comments
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by gphil 12y ago
One of the big positives of Spark is that its architecture is amenable to having workers run on spot instances, which are even cheaper than reserved instances.
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by gphil 12y ago
I just reproduced this on 10.9.5 as well.
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by gphil 12y ago
Indeed, the risk-adjusted returns for VC as an asset class are bad compared to other options. I think there's more to the story than "the rich are running out of places to put their money."

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