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by kcorbitt 8y ago
FC Barcelona ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Barcelona ). Seems to work well for them.
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> Each one of those synapse is a complex, constantly adapting chemical computer which is sensitive to the interaction of dozens of neurotransmitters. Granted. On the other hand, electric signals can propagate across a chip several orders
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That's surprising to me -- Craigslist shows a number of 1BR places around Oakland in the $1500-$2000 range. Which is still crazy expensive in an absolute sense, granted, but should be reasonably affordable for a single person with a 6-
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> The National Low Income Housing Coalition used that number to calculate the hourly wage a household must earn to afford a home while spending 30 percent or less of their income on rent. This is a nit, but I don't think that's
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> Building density housing is cheap compared to building the schools, parks, fire, police stations, and transportation to support the new density housing. And to close the circle, Prop 13 makes it impossible for towns in California to ta
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> Some way to try out/transfer between startups who allow it would be awesome. This is a fantastic idea that I really think we should explore within the YC ecosystem!
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Yes, housing is extremely expensive in the Bay Area. However, consider your options before deciding that there's no way to save more. I pay $500/month for your "Car/Insurance/Gas/Parking/Phone/Interne
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Not the OP, but I keep 1-2 months of normal spending in a checking account, and any excess income beyond that goes into investing in index funds. In the rare case that I need to have a lot of cash available for a big upcoming purchase, I&#x
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Yep, that's a frustrating reality -- I've had my share of close calls too. Out in the suburbs there's usually a shoulder/bike lane that's wide enough for safe passing, but on city streets that are too narrow to fit
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The most important evidence for imminent commercialization is Waymo's recent order for 62,000 minivans. If we're assuming a conservative $100k a pop once they're loaded up with all the technology required, that's a $6B i
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As Uber and Tesla struggle with driverless cars, Waymo moves forward(arstechnica.com)
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My dream is that between these and electric bikes, we get critical mass for real, separated bike lanes on all major roads in most US cities. Taking away a lane of cars and replacing it with one for bikes/scooters vastly improves the qu
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
The voter laws also exclude people like me. I work in SF and would love to live in SF, but because of the high rental prices within city limits I'm living in Brisbane instead. I consider myself a natural part of the San Francisco const
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
TL;DR: real interest rates have been falling for as long as we have records (going back to the 15th century) once you average out some cyclical volatility. Implication is that people waiting for interest rates to bounce back up significantl
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
The Google Play Music and YouTube Music teams were merged about a year ago, and have been working on producing a single app that can serve both userbases since then. I assume this announcement means they’ve finished that work. (Source: I wa
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
One of the key properties of a decentralized cryptocurrency is the absolute control of a private key holder over his/her wallet. My question is this: in the proposed scheme if 80-year-old Uncle Jim forgets/misplaces his private ke
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Buses works great as a middle-class transit option in lots of places. When I lived in Barcelona I used the city bus as my primary method of short- to medium-distance transit, as did, I believe, the majority of middle-class residents. Taking
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Here's a post I wrote about my experience as an individual contributor moving from Google to a smaller organization. https://corbt.com/posts/2017/10/28/small-companies-and-the-p... TL;DR is that I f
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
This might be a good place to modestly self-promote my side project app, Time Guard, that lets you block services like Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/HN by default and only unblock them for a limited span at once (much like HN&#x
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
I left YouTube about a year ago, in part due to cognitive dissonance between my values and the company's objectives. If you're a current employee of a similar company and you're considering your options, I understand the stru
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
For me, the killer ML use case in Google Photos is object recognition. For example, I took a picture of my driver's license a year or so ago, and needed the number on a form recently. I just went to Google Photos and searched for &quot
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
There is no exfiltration of data from the client device. Unfortunately I don't know of a technical way to prove that though.
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Notifications will still come through, since they're pushed by Apple and I can only block the app's own servers. That said, I turned off notifications for all social-style services a long time ago, and would recommend the same to
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
This is self-promotional, but also highly relevant! A few moths ago after reading Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", I decided to try to improve my social media usage by writing an app that could block HN/Twitter/Googl
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
Thanks Dane! I'm working on a version for macOS next that will work together with the phone app. What OS do you run on your computer? PS Good luck with fundraising!
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I'm building https://timeguard.io , which is an iOS app that acts like HN's "noprocrast" setting but for the entire internet. You pick distracting sites/apps to block, and then you choose when to pause th
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
Based on the data exposed, probably from LinkedIn's employee count.
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Social security is fine, but there's no way to over-contribute to intentionally up your benefit. In fact it's sort of the opposite -- the more you contribute, the lower your marginal returns. If the US government allowed voluntary
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So maybe we just need to invent the Vanguard of annuities? An annuity provider with a governance model designed to work in the interest of its customers that can build trust as a reliable player? EDIT: it appears that Vanguard itself offers
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I feel like private annuities should be more popular than they currently are. Like a pension, an annuity pays a defined benefit until the day you die. They can also afford to pay out a slightly higher annual benefit than you could safely ta

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