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by kbos87 8y ago
Yup. The effect of 15% of the city’s population being students works it’s way to all corners of the real estate market here. I currently live in an apartment building that contains 0% students and is pretty squarely out of reach of most stu
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by kbos87 8y ago
Yup. Plenty of houses have asbestos siding and lead paint - neither of which poses a significant danger to the average adult as long as it isn’t disturbed. (Asbestos siding is durable, fireproof, and holds paint well too!)
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by kbos87 8y ago
From what I’ve seen and heard the answer with lead is an unequivocal no - once lead exposure has occurred, the damage is done. It’s compounding and irreversible.
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by kbos87 8y ago
“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark
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by kbos87 8y ago
This article tries to cover for Tesla by relying on the fact that competing systems also cant avoid similar objects. Sorry, this is further proof that the engineers and managers at Tesla willingly put unsafe technology on America's roa
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by kbos87 8y ago
Someone should be facing manslaughter charges here.
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by kbos87 8y ago
If this is a problem that money can still fix its worth every penny.
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by kbos87 8y ago
One thing that stood out to me is how much of what he talked about is still true and still playing out decades later. The fundamentals of technology businesses and the dynamics that occur really don’t change all that often.
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by kbos87 9y ago
There’s nothing admirable about lowest common denominator tactics like this, and it isn’t that out of the box. You just have to be desperate enough and sleazy enough to want to do it. Are these videos an existential threat? No. Are they a n
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by kbos87 9y ago
I 100% agree that a tag based file system is better than a hierarchical or folder based system. The problem is that people seem to fall into one of two camps - too confused by how to make tags work, or too enamored with organizing things in
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by kbos87 9y ago
Buying a mattress sight unseen is the tail wagging the dog. It’s convenient for ecommerce retailers, so they’ve lulled us all into a collective insanity that a one size fits all approach where you have a bed that you’ve never touched delive
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by kbos87 9y ago
Get yourself some Massachusetts-designed Bose equipment :)
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by kbos87 9y ago
Have you tried using Zapier? They may be facilitating tens of thousands of integrations, but they are painfully basic integrations.
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by kbos87 9y ago
I think the mistake is assuming that time that passes means people are ok with a certain amount of sharing, that it’s a safe investment, whether in cash or in investment in building on their platform or with their data. The reality is that
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by kbos87 9y ago
One thing that’s eye opening is how many of these aren’t in the Bay Area, but are in a few other cities that never get any attention for producing a lot of software companies.
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by kbos87 9y ago
JCrew is relentless with this lately. They ask you if you’d like an “email receipt”, which is code for re-subscribing you to their daily barrage of emails. Then they hand you a paper receipt as you walk out.
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by kbos87 9y ago
What seems to be playing out on college campuses is in stark contrast to what is playing out inside many employers. Our leadership is getting its feet held to the fire to find more qualified female candidates for exec roles, which are domin
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by kbos87 9y ago
I haven't read this about Starbucks in particular, but that is a pretty common trade-off for large retail businesses to make. They accept the fact that a certain percentage of stores will operate at a loss, but keep them in existence f
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by kbos87 9y ago
FedEx and UPS should have cut Amazon off while they could still kill them.
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by kbos87 9y ago
The robots will come for you sooner or later too.
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by kbos87 9y ago
This is really a rant against management. Reading it reminds me of my way of thinking early in my career before I had encountered a good manager, and also really understood how hard it can be to get even well meaning people working on the r
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by kbos87 9y ago
TurboTax has been relentless with these kind of tactics this year. Their subject lines include words like “1 New Message” and “IRS” in varying combinations that when skimmed probably make a lot of less adept consumers think they are receivi
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by kbos87 9y ago
Please Amazon, stay away from Boston. We don’t need or want you here.
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by kbos87 9y ago
A pirated copy doesn’t need to equate to a lost sale in order for it to be stealing. You took something of value that was created or owned by someone else. Whether it’s a physical or nonphysical good is completely beside the point.
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by kbos87 9y ago
Today, the competitive advantage in this market goes to whoever has the largest network of drivers and can summon a vehicle quickly and at a low cost to a waiting passenger. The tech is marginally better or worse from Lyft to Uber to compet
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by kbos87 9y ago
I guess it’s all relative. I too feel like the US is a surveillance state on some level, but nothing compares to the UK - arriving at Heathrow feels downright dystopian. I guess it’s just what you are used to.
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by kbos87 9y ago
Look at what prosecutors do today with internet history. They search through whatever they can find in the browser history of a supposedly guilty suspect, cherry pick anything remotely incriminating, and use it completely out of context to
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by kbos87 9y ago
I grew up working at a very successful family owned restaurant and landed in tech after college. The two can’t be any different. Owning a restaurant is a lifestyle in ways that working in tech never would be. There is no free time, there is
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by kbos87 9y ago
It isn’t just about finding “good” candidates. It’s about finding a diverse set of candidates. Having spent a lot of time hiring over the past few years, I can tell you that the candidates we see from “top tier” schools are almost always “g
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by kbos87 9y ago
I can appreciate the core of what he’s trying to do. Autonomous vehicles can bring about a lot of good. They can also bring about massive consolidation of work and wealth in the hands of the few fleet owners that will inevitably emerge. A s

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