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by helen___keller 8y ago
You're not wrong, especially about "double the square footage for the same price". But that's why it's essential that the key to affordable housing isn't just connecting outlying suburbs by transit but also ree
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by helen___keller 8y ago
Thanks for the reply. I've actually been looking at renting in Waltham when my current lease ends (as well as a few other places I've been looking - Quincy, Malden, Somerville). A while back I was thinking of buying, but prices ar
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by helen___keller 8y ago
Which station is this? I never had this problem doing a reverse-commute out of Yawkey station, but perhaps that's because trains are more packed going into the city.
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by helen___keller 8y ago
Improving regional rail in greater Boston can also serve as a key to improving the housing crisis that the city is experiencing, especially if some of the suburbs served by regional rail can be convinced to re-zone for higher density mixed-
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by helen___keller 8y ago
Why wouldn't people be irrationally angry at crypto? Every mainstream use case marketed online has turned out to be an extreme dud. Online payment system through bitcoin? High confirmation times, sometimes high fees, and very few accep
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by helen___keller 8y ago
Reminds me of stories about working at Goldman Sachs. I guess that’s fair when Tech has become the 21st century go-to yuppie industry
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by helen___keller 8y ago
That’s 48 over 2 years, and Google(Alphabet) employs 85,000+ so 0.02% per year. That actually feels quite low, though perhaps we can generously say it’s due to Googles hiring and training standards.
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by helen___keller 8y ago
I went to a somewhat poor high school and an extremely prestigious university. My fellow university graduates who are now making lucrative engineer salaries are the ones with teslas and MBPs, and from what I've seen they are not raisi