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by jogjayr 9y ago
Hilarious and incredible! Thanks for sharing.
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I agree with the article that even with Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon, Western audiences really haven't seen the full Jackie Chan palette of tricks and stunts. Some of the stuff he did in movies like Police Story, Armor of God and Drunke
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It's not so simple as "luxury housing" vs "affordable housing". Location dominates every other factor when it comes to how much a place should rent for, including fancy amenities. Why else does a shoebox in SF cost
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> existing property owners have more rights, incentives, and skin in the game then potential residents. To be fair though "existing property owners" would also include people who own land in low-density-zoned areas and would li
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Induced demand is also a thing. It's not exactly econ 101.
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When there's a shortage of housing, $1000 units become $1500 units. If housing growth kept pace with population growth this would not happen.
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You can actually achieve a happy medium between the two. About 2 years ago I interviewed with one of the large SF-based enterprise companies. They emailed me a cool little assignment (parse a text file that describes dependencies and build
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This. Not once has a potential employer ever said to me: "Based on your Github, you can obviously fizzbuzz with the best of them, and know a for-loop from an if-statement. Let's skip the phone screen/homework assignment and g
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The solution there is to restrict operation of vacation rentals to certain neighborhoods, limit total percentage of housing stock allowed to be converted to vacation rentals, extra property taxes on vacation rentals (versus regular rental p
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Or...homeowners might become slightly less NIMBY? They would be less enthusiastic about house price increases outpacing inflation and would be less likely to vote down new development?
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I disagree slightly. That's like saying you can't become a better cook without someone else eating and judging your cooking. If you read a lot you have developed "taste" for good writing. When you're starting out, j
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For H1B workers years of education and education is also provided. In most cases it's enough information for de-anonymization. On the whole you may be right about making salaries public. Norway's made tax return public [1] across
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For #3 they treat even the remote possibility of heart trouble very seriously. I went into the ER with a broken wrist and they hooked me up to an EKG first, before even examining the wrist. Later they told me it was because of my elevated h
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Why can't the city just run smaller vehicles, like minivans or airport shuttles, on less popular routes? Sub-contracting may be cheaper for the city but would make for terrible PR. Since driver salaries are the biggest cost, the only w
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https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
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> I compete in British Parliamentary Debate in which no evidence packets are allowed in the round and the resolution is only revealed 15 minutes before the start. The consequence is that argumentation and persuasion take precedence over
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It's funny you bring up Terry Gross as an example. I've found, especially if you have trouble making small talk at parties, it helps to pretend to be an interviewer on a talk show. It puts you into a different mindset altogether.
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> The moment you finally meet someone interested in discussing one of these things, its going to be immediately apparent the basis of your knowledge is a brief article/book or a weekend watching videos on youtube. Depends on what yo
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> This kind of explains everything. As bad as Seamless might be, it's a far better experience for the customer than using the average restaurant website. There are network effects. Even if some new competitor comes up with a far sup
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OTOH job-seekers would know what current employees at the company make and demand similar compensation.
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> Done correctly, it’s a synthetic dividend without the immediate tax burden on the shareholders. Those that want to cash out, can sell a portion of their higher priced shares. If you cash out you're still potentially paying taxes o
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> From a "fair" point of view, the industries trying to hire engineers should fund education. They do, in a way, by paying higher salaries for the graduates they really want. Some companies also pay tuition for employees going
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It's worth calling out that a lot of "temporary guest workers" in SV are Indian and Chinese nationals who are "in line" to get permanent residence. It just happens that the line for India and China is really long:
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> What percentage were created by H1Bs? Well H-1Bs are generally prohibited from doing any paid work outside their current employer. So it would be a miracle if that number was non-zero. But it's still not. Zenefits co-founder Laks
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> Bah, sounds as totally irrelevant to the "freedom of speech" as not allowing cigarette ads and other such things. I'm sorry I just don't see comparable public harm between smoking and idealized images of people. Sec
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> You could always insist that the distribution of bodies shown in a magazine follows the distribution of weights/heights in the general population (with some margin of error). And heavily fine them out of business when it does not.
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Try to find a Repair Cafe near you. https://repaircafe.org/en/visit/ They do repairs for free (voluntary donation appreciated) to keep items out of the landfill.
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> that is not necessarily how it will be spent. British Columbia has a revenue-neutral carbon tax [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_carbon_tax
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> The higher cost of delivering classes with a lab component is generally solved via lab fees. That's fair. Just that (again, my experience) you were charged a fixed amount in lab fees every semester regardless of courses. It's
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> STEM students were charges several thousand dollars a year more than humanities students. That actually seems more equitable to me than what happens at some other schools, where everyone pays the same credit-hour rate no matter what co

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