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by kcorbitt 7y ago
In the Bay Area at least, this is pretty understandable. 40th-percentile income in the Bay Area is $66k [1]. An income-tax estimator puts after-tax pay for a family of 4 on that salary in California at $55k [2]. I live in the Bay Area, and
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
I wonder though! If you were to give every American today an ultimatum that they had to either (1) never drive a car again or (2) never use the internet again, what percentage would take each side of the deal?
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
I worked closely with Geoff on last year's Startup School. I can heartily endorse everything Sam wrote in the announcement – he sees the whole picture, and is a pleasure to work with! I'm very excited to see where he takes YC!
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
You realize that existing utilities don't provide unlimited usage for a flat fee, right?
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Ah, so that’s why I’ve been getting so many robocalls that start with “You’ve been qualified to receive a medical-grade brace”.
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
The other answers you got are good ones. Tangential I know, but out of curiosity, what is your use case?
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
> many white collar workers also don't want to be associated with the image of people in hard hats, even though their power relationship with their employers is not that different from those of blue collar workers I'm not sure
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
> VCs generally don't get any meaningful impact from intermediate numbers, they get their numbers - both regarding investor returns and their carry fees - only on exits. The incentives can change if you look one level deeper. VCs of
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
> several tactical and strategic reasons for choosing Japan over Germany (such as superior German air support, the perceived greater likelihood of Germany's imminent surrender versus Japan, and fears that Germany might better be abl
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
I get multi-mode suggestions all the time, although the precise mix of options it suggests does depend on the points you're looking to travel between. Not sure about their scooter coverage though; I don't use it for that.
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
I use Citymapper for this; have for years ( https://citymapper.com/ ). It does exactly what you're asking for. I too am surprised that Google hasn't eaten their lunch by baking this into Google Maps.
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"Here is a $100 fine because we caught you speeding in a poorly-marked zone. Of course, now that you unambiguously know what the speed limit is here, if we catch you speeding again, we will take your house."
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
> He came across it, and the rest of the Maze, while walking on his lunch break. (His office was in an industrial park not far away.) I asked Fraser if he had been trying to get anywhere in particular. “Well, I roam about all over the pl
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
> if [...] the breach began in 2014, the system would already have been operating securely for five years. It is difficult to imagine how an architectural or platform vulnerability would not have been discovered or exploited sooner. I me
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Nothing stopping that, and they do that to some degree (I get emails from Vanguard once a quarter or so asking me to submit my proxy votes). But realistically, through my Vanguard funds I own very small pieces of thousands of companies arou
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Interesting! I assume most of the invitees live locally then? My wife and I sent invitations to friends and family in 6 countries on 3 continents, so inviting everyone in person would have been impractical. We didn't expect eg. her ext
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Founders don't typically get preferred shares. If employees are wiped out in an acquisition, the founders likely are too. Of course, the acquiring company can always opt to pay large signing/retention bonuses to founders if the ac
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
As someone who works in SF every day, it does seem that in the last few months the city might be turning a corner – there are definitely fewer tent cities, and general public cleanliness seems improved as well. The cost of these programs
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
I was talking to someone who builds a product for recruiters recently. Apparently, common knowledge among recruiters these days is that you can't get anyone with experience to move to SF anymore (they are still able to attract young ta
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
> Optimizing the algorithm for greater “equity" also meant many of the planned changes were "biased" against families with privilege. I'm not sure what this means, and I wish the article had gone into more detail. If
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Qualtrics looms large as a tech employer in Utah Valley, where they're based out of. I went to school in the area and almost ended up doing my first internship there.
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Agreed. Open-air advertising has negative externalities (the annoyance it causes to everyone walking past, which isn't compensated in any way), and as such we should expect that in an unregulated environment it will be overproduced. Th
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
Well, over the last 90 years the USA moved from important regional power to the economic and military hegemon of the world. That's quite the wave to be riding as a US stock market investor. It's also quite a hard act to repeat. To
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
I spent a week on vacation in Chile without an internet connection earlier this year (to be clear, there is internet in Chile, I just chose not to connect). It was a wonderful experience – highly recommended. Biggest personal benefit was th
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
It's a fair question. Personally though, I come down on the exact opposite side of the question – all gifts should be highly taxed, with maybe a nominal tax-free allowance of a few thousand dollars. Making large gifts tax-free is jus
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
This is essentially how the Directory managed to maintain power during the French Revolution when their party was set to lose a popular election in 1798. In departments where the Directory was expected to do especially poorly, they engineer
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
> Most of them could be started for between $10-100k. If you're in the US (or able to get a visa to work here a few years – admittedly a much harder prospect recently than it should be) and have technical skills, it's not diffi
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
> But when it comes to cars in very dense areas, there is a significant discontinuity in social cost between zero cars (pedestrians can freely use the streets, no traffic lights, etc) and a few cars (like in congestion pricing schemes).
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
import { test } from "https://unpkg.com/deno_testing@0.0.5/testing.ts" Won't this get old really quickly? Most of my Javascript files start with 3-4 imports of the form `import React from "r
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by kcorbitt 8y ago
> killing a few people to prevent ww3 > next internet sat/artists on mars/astroid mining. Individuals have very different risk tolerances, often based on their deepest values. But I don't think we should say it's

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