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by hardtke 4y ago
Some of the building codes are probably overkill, but part of the difference in California building costs compared to other states are energy efficiency requirements (like more expensive windows) that quickly pay for themselves in reduced c
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by hardtke 4y ago
I've been chatting with some friends whose company shut down recently, basically with no warning. They are getting recruited like crazy. In my opinion that's much preferable than to being left go as part of the 20% lowest perform
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by hardtke 4y ago
Is it an exchange or more like a lead gen company? I thought coinbase's business model was to advertise heavily to get newbie crypto investors on their platform and then to charge wildly inflated commissions compared to other exchange
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by hardtke 4y ago
Credit checks are actually somewhat costly for a small landlord. We had a rental house, and you can't just order a one off credit check. We needed to join a rental housing organization (or contract with a rental agency) to get access
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by hardtke 4y ago
Economists like to say "the cure for high prices is high prices." High prices should reduce demand and also increase supply. I don't see how this necessarily leads to a recession (a contraction in the economy) which is usuall
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When Your Job Fills in for Your Faith, That’s a Problem(nytimes.com)
1 points by hardtke 4y ago|3 comments
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The Enduring Afterlife of a Mass Shooting’s Livestream Online(nytimes.com)
5 points by hardtke 4y ago|0 comments
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by hardtke 4y ago
I think likely the number of people living in existing housing stock is going down. I read somewhere that more than half of the rent controlled 3 bedroom apartments in San Francisco are occupied by a single older person (why leave your $150
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by hardtke 4y ago
My daughter did just did college applications and her school used a service call SCOIR. For all of the colleges she was interested, they had a two dimensional (test score, GPA) graph that showed all recent applicants from her school and wh
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by hardtke 4y ago
I assume you are being facetious. Tahoe has always been primarily second home owners. 20 years ago you rented through an agency, craigslist, or word of mouth if you were doing short term rentals. AirBnb just means it is easier to fill the
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by hardtke 4y ago
My teenagers use Snapchat regularly, and Snap Maps seem to be the "killer app" for them. It allows them to see which of their friends are around when they travel or are out and about on the weekends.
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by hardtke 4y ago
The problem with many sites (and LinkedIn in particular) is that they whitelist a bunch of specific websites, presumably based on the business interests, but disallow everyone else in their robots.txt. You should either allow all scrapers
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by hardtke 4y ago
I'm not an expert, but there are several types of unions. The biggest distinction is public sector vs. private sector. Public sector unions have their own issues, but this would be a private sector union. Within private sector union
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by hardtke 4y ago
This data, unfortunately, is missing an important confounding variable besides male/female. In the US lifespan his highly correlated with income, and the trend is getting worse. "The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1%
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by hardtke 4y ago
The initial waves were a crisis in that we were suffering from resource exhaustion in the medical system. People were dying simply because we ran out of resources to treat them, both for Covid and for non Covid medical issues. With vaccin
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by hardtke 5y ago
I saw a 2200 square foot house in Mill Valley, CA on Twitter this morning. It was listed for about $3M and went for $1.6M over asking. Over $2000 per square foot. On the other hand, the pictures seem to suggest it has the perfect Pottery
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by hardtke 5y ago
Agree -- here in California where we only have one relevant political party the California Energy commission has been able to impose energy efficiency requirements for appliances and buildings that have had a huge positive impact on our ene
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by hardtke 5y ago
There are microeconomic concepts I learned in college that make decarbonization nearly impossible. First the FREE RIDER principle. Since CO2 (and methane) affects temperature globally, every nation (and individual) is incentivized to free r
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by hardtke 5y ago
It's important in relating these horror stories to include whether or not he was applying to Computer Science and/or Engineering. The growth in demand for CS has outpaced any schools ability to handle the students. My daughter&#
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A visa crisis is hitting the children of Silicon Valley tech workers(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by hardtke 5y ago|0 comments
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by hardtke 5y ago
The fundamental problem is that in order for the company to accept legal responsibility the self driving system must follow all traffic laws, and there is no way consumers will accept a car that won't go faster than the speed limit in
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by hardtke 5y ago
Texting and driving is just as dangerous as drunk driving yet the legal penalties are not close. I see people texting while driving all of the time.
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by hardtke 5y ago
Are your subcontractors fully insured? Do they fully pay workers compensation? Are their employees legally authorized to work in the US? There is a quite substantial price premium in the market now for contractors that follow the law, and
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by hardtke 5y ago
Canada promised to do that and the proposal was still wildly unpopular and abandoned. If you've build your life around no carbon tax (e.g. you live far from work and need to drive) you will personally suffer from such a change and wil
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by hardtke 5y ago
I'm tied to the 1 year LIBOR -- do you know what that will be?
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by hardtke 5y ago
I have an adjustable rate mortgage based on LIBOR and the lender still has not said what they plan to do. The presumed replacement rate (SOFR) seems to be pegged near 0% which would be good.
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by hardtke 5y ago
The article is missing a discussion of whether the new deals are becoming more founder and employee friendly (no liquidation preferences, less dilution, etc.) If these jaw dropping deals have poor terms it becomes less and less attractive f
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by hardtke 5y ago
> In addition many are not welcoming to women at all Economists are now finding that as more women move into a profession, the pay goes down. Similarly, when computer programming moved from a female dominated profession (early days) to
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by hardtke 5y ago
The deal that really reeked of buying the competition was WhatsApp, but since WhatsApp has very small market share in the US compared to iMessage I don't see how that can be an antitrust violation in the US. In the rest of the world i
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by hardtke 5y ago
The curated search results business model doesn't work. Google gives "aggregators" and other search engines the death sentence for organic search traffic from economically meaningful queries, so you'd get no free traffic

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