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by jmckib 12y ago
> That's leverage the poor have in extracting some kind of negotiated benefit, like better public transit, education rights, re-distributive taxes, and so forth. Blocking luxury housing from being built is bad for poor and rich alik
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by jmckib 12y ago
This is one of the most interesting parts of the article to me, but it's not mentioned until the very end. On the other hand, if San Francisco zoning mostly deflects away non-techies who add to San Francisco congestion without adding
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by jmckib 12y ago
The point they make in the article is that the rich are going to move to SF anyway, but without available luxury housing they will have to buy up cheaper housing and have it remodeled. So you still get gentrification and network effects, bu
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by jmckib 12y ago
This was mentioned as a solution in the article. http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html
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by jmckib 12y ago
This isn't mentioned until later in the article, but it seemed important. > The worst thing about regular build failures is that they’re easy to prevent. Graydon Hoare literally calls keeping a clean build the “not rocket science ru
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by jmckib 12y ago
You bring up good points, but I still think 25% of drivers (or even fewer) would be enough to compete with Uber, and here's why. If you've got a new startup and you want to match Uber's response time, you don't need to h
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by jmckib 12y ago
That's not quite right. Airbnb may not set the price of accommodations directly, but their cut does influence the prices that its providers are able to charge. A competitor who takes a smaller cut will be able to have cheaper accomodat
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by jmckib 12y ago
I haven't interviewed with YC, but I felt like I was missing something while reading their account of the interview. I would assume that the YC interviewers DO read applications, and they only ask questions they already know the answer
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by jmckib 12y ago
Your comment reminded me that there's actually a community in Alaska that is located within a single large building. It looks rather pleasant, actually. http://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcom
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by jmckib 12y ago
On the other hand, as workers become increasingly mobile, it should become more feasible to maintain a physical community of like-minded people.
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by jmckib 12y ago
This looks awesome, I just wish it could go full screen on my mac. You can download the OSX dmg here, I almost missed it since it's at the very bottom of the instructions: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-
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by jmckib 12y ago
My own observation from trying this out: I sometimes experience negative self-talk when thinking about my day. If something undesirable or embarrassing happened, I might say "I'm an idiot", almost reflexively. However, forcin
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by jmckib 12y ago
I'd like to hear more about it, if you're willing to share.
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by jmckib 12y ago
App Academy claims on their homepage that SF graduates receive an average salary of $100,000. So unless they are blatantly lying or fudging the statistics somehow, it's not BS.
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by jmckib 12y ago
App Academy claims on their homepage that SF graduates receive an average salary of $100,000. So unless they're blatantly lying or fudging the statistics somehow, it's not BS.
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by jmckib 12y ago
App Academy claims on their homepage that SF graduates receive an average salary of $100,000. So unless they're blatantly lying or fudging the statistics somehow, it's not BS.
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by jmckib 12y ago
App Academy claims on their homepage that SF graduates receive an average salary of $100,000. So unless they're blatantly lying or fudging the statistics somehow, it's not BS.
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by jmckib 12y ago
The best they had was divorce rate per person (including children and unmarried adults). However, I did find some information in one of the links from the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health&#x2F
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by jmckib 12y ago
I couldn't agree more, the moderator problem is huge. I spend a lot of time on reddit, but it's still not clear to me how mods and mod policies are chosen, and more often than not I see the mods doing an absolutely terrible job. F
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by jmckib 12y ago
Yep, you're totally right, I skimmed the middle section when the author was really laying it on thick.
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by jmckib 12y ago
Either you didn't read the article, or I am totally misunderstanding it, because it appeared to me to be a criticism of Uber.
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by jmckib 12y ago
> Doing so, he knew, would require years of clinical trials in preparation for a new-drug application submission to the F.D.A. “That’s the only reason people were afraid.”
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by jmckib 12y ago
I enjoyed hearing about the history of FastMail, but there isn't really much here about "Why You Should Charge from Day One". How do we know FastMail couldn't have had more success with ads?
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by jmckib 12y ago
Awesome, this looks like it might be more fun than codecombat, which didn't hold my interest for long. I hope coffeescript gets added in eventually.
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by jmckib 12y ago
Why are you telling me? I don't post articles about SF real estate or politics, I just like to comment on them. In fact, I haven't posted anything so far :-)
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by jmckib 12y ago
I guess this is only written for other traders? I couldn't make much sense of it and got bored pretty fast.
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by jmckib 12y ago
Ah, ok. Some of those regulations sound quite absurd to me, but I'm not familiar enough with the situation to comment.
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by jmckib 12y ago
Well, my mistake then. Where is your evidence that Uber drivers in Germany are uninsured? That seems implausible.
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by jmckib 12y ago
You seem to have your facts wrong. https://support.uber.com/hc/en-us/articles/202347808-In-the-... http://blog.uber.com/uberXridesharinginsurance
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by jmckib 12y ago
The costs of this legislation are distributed across all consumers, while the benefits are concentrated in the hands of a small group of automobile dealers. This gives the dealers a large incentive to lobby politicians, and little incentive

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