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by hardtke 6y ago
And when you combine Silicon Valley and a mobile home park you have a $40M property. With 117 units, that's $342000 per unit + a the cost of renovations. https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/05/18&
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by hardtke 6y ago
I agree that a world of 100% fully self driving cars that talk to each other makes the road capacity and travel speeds much greater. I don't see any way, however, to get from here to there (at least in the US). Are we going to give c
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by hardtke 6y ago
I suspect the adoption process will be slow because consumers really don't want this product. Self driving cars will drive the speed limit and infuriate both other motorists and their owners who are getting passed by speeding human dr
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This change will have zero practical effect. The economics of fourplexes and smaller multifamily units do not work. After purchasing the lot and tearing down or modifying an existing building, the costs are upwards of $750K per unit, well
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> Why does a classics degree cost the same as a CS degree when the market value of a classics degree is basically zero? Maybe I am deluding myself because my daughter has decided to get an expensive classics degree, but the most valuable
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by hardtke 6y ago
It seems to me that as interest rates go down people take on more debt because their interest payment is the same. This is true of households, companies, and governments. At the same time, the price of assets goes up. As long as interest
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by hardtke 6y ago
It's really hard to see how BTC does not get outlawed by most governments. Since financial transactions are zero sum and provide no economic value, it's the equivalent of a giant methane leak.
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Whatever you decide to do professionally, focus on craftsmanship, particularly when no one is looking. The people that focus on craftsmanship enjoy their work more and get better results.
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by hardtke 6y ago
> The most valuable people in the data chain will be those that can take idea to near-production. Having hired many data scientists/ML engineers over the years, people that build robust automated intelligence directly into products
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by hardtke 6y ago
One thing that surprisingly hasn't happened in the 30 years since the Human Genome Project is a Nobel Prize for the work. There are examples from large physics projects where the leaders were awarded the prize. Surely Francis Collins
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by hardtke 6y ago
Lewis and Rao published a meta-analysis of 25 large scale controlled advertising experiment [1]. Here's the abstract: Twenty-five large field experiments with major U.S. retailers and brokerages, most reaching millions of customers an
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by hardtke 6y ago
One of the biggest problems in science (in general) is that your reputation and therefore funding is highly tied to a particular subfield. Everyone in a subfield knows each other and gives positive grant reviews and external tenure letters
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by hardtke 6y ago
The best land for high density construction in SF are the smaller rent controlled buildings, not single family homes. These smaller rent controlled buildings are near lively neighborhoods and transit, and are also often at the outer edge of
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by hardtke 6y ago
Part of the reason white collar firms outsource is that benefits usually need to be uniform across all employees. If you are a white collar firm with generous benefit packages, it becomes comparatively expensive to hire blue collar workers
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by hardtke 6y ago
The subtitle of the New York Times article is misleading if not flat out wrong: "The suit focuses on the advertisements that generate a vast majority of the company’s profits." The DoubleClick ad exchange most certainly does not
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by hardtke 6y ago
With both Google and Facebook, mandatory licensing of their advertising inventory (within reason) would help competitors grow. Advertisers want to buy on Facebook/Google because they are the only two ad platforms with quality and scal
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by hardtke 6y ago
I was estimating a few hundred million streams per year (including All Along the Watchtower by Hendrix). The $4 million/billion streams gets split a few ways and the songwriter only gets a portion of that. Radio was more lucrative for
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by hardtke 6y ago
The only way to justify these prices is movie/TV/advertising licensing which is negotiated for each specific instance. Streaming brings in a fraction of cent per play so his catalog can't be generating more than a million dol
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by hardtke 6y ago
Before the 1980s long distance calls from AT&T landlines were very expensive. The FCC forced AT&T to allow competitors to use their infrastructure at a reasonable price. MCI and Sprint entered and the cost of long distance calls f
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by hardtke 6y ago
My proposal is that we treat liability in the self driving car space similar to the way we have a specialized liability framework for vaccines [1]. Similar to vaccines, self driving cars would lead to reduced deaths on aggregate, but there
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Verily’s coronavirus testing program halted in San Francisco and Oakland(sfchronicle.com)
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Some economists at Vanderbilt used the introduction of Boro cabs (green cabs) to estimate the effect of an additional for hire vehicle on traffic congestion. They claim that most of the increase in Midtown Manhattan traffic congestion is d
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by hardtke 6y ago
The media reporting as well as Google's response is entirely focussed on the consumer monopoly on search, but the DOJ complaint focusses equally on potential anti-competitive practices in the search advertising market. The DOJ describ
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by hardtke 6y ago
Has this reduced search market share for Google in Europe? I suspect not since Google has a high brand loyalty. In fact this complaint may make Google even more profitable by not allowing phone manufacturers to charge the for default plac
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by hardtke 6y ago
I had a real estate agent tell us "that house is uninsurable due to the roof." It was a wooden roof in a high fire zone. A good agent can be useful. The state of California can't force insurance companies to write new polic
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by hardtke 6y ago
Stepping outside the US, there is evidence that misinformation spread of Facebook (including WhatsApp) was directly responsible for the Rohingya genocide and forced migration [1]. At what point do these platforms have an obligation to not
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by hardtke 6y ago
Rent surveys are usually heavily biased towards large buildings. SF has a ton of new development in currently moribund neighborhoods, so I suspect some of the massive drop is due to that being oversampled (Mission Bay, for instance). In t
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by hardtke 6y ago
The first wave of lockdowns had a clear goal: "flatten the curve" to prevent hospital capacity shortages, thereby preventing extra deaths that would be entirely attributable to resource shortages. In terms of meeting this goal, lo
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by hardtke 6y ago
Isn't the long wait due to the arbitrary cap of something like 50K GC/country/year. Seems like Congress should just fix that as part of comprehensive immigration reform.
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by hardtke 6y ago
They seem to ignore this bylaw freely ... "shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind."

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