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Who’s Buying Property in San Francisco?(theatlantic.com)
4 points by kelp 7y ago|2 comments
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by kelp 8y ago
I don't think this is very different from Bank of America or Chase running a payment processing system. Both issue cards, and run two of the largest credit card processing systems. Bank of America Merchant Services and Chase Paymentech
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by kelp 8y ago
I have a lot of sympathy for your argument that this problem is making it worse for everyone. I live in SOMA in San Francisco and regularly encounter many of the issues you describe. It makes the quality of living worse for the whole neighb
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by kelp 8y ago
I think op is mostly referring to how zsh users often load it up with extensions to do fancy completions, and fancy prompts requiring special fonts and doing lots of things like showing current git branch. It can add some latency!
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by kelp 8y ago
It also recently added proper underline support, which was previously a blocker for me. Now using alacritty full time when I'm on Linux.
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by kelp 8y ago
Northern California housing costs have been rising much faster than inflation for well over 30 years. Yes it corrected some in 2001 and 2008, but then continued to march upward, always regaining previous highs within 2-3 years, and then sur
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by kelp 8y ago
Many busy supermarkets in SF default to a single line. Trader Joe’s on Market, and Whole Foods on 4th do this. I’ve also seen it at Whole Foods in Manhattan, with reader boards to tell you which check out to go to. Works great!
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by kelp 8y ago
Re AWS Linux support, ~free is about right. You do pay for it. At enterprise levels, you're paying a percent of your total bill for support. That can be significant. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/pricing&#x
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by kelp 8y ago
We wrote our own thing because at the time people were not all doing that with Ansible.
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by kelp 8y ago
Back when I lead Network Engineering at Square, we had a global network of production dataceters and offices. Nothing of the scale of Cloudflare, but we still have many hundreds of devices. They had all been built manually with copy and pas
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by kelp 8y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. Seems right!
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by kelp 8y ago
Mostly it's business growth stalling with no clear plan to fix it. If you don't have visibility into that, there are other warnings signs, like various spending cuts. No straight answers to questions about that stuff. Not providin
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by kelp 8y ago
This is purely my own speculation informed by some Clayton Christiansen, but it's possible that someone at Ford sees Ford as a transportation company, not a car company. So the job to be done is moving people and things around. Ford al
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by kelp 8y ago
Perhaps also luck, but I’ve managed to have a spidy sense for when things are going the wrong way, and got out / moved on before it got that bad.
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by kelp 8y ago
This is about my career. 8 startups, earlish employee at 6. 1 mediocre IPO, and 1 very successful IPO. The rest basically failures or zombies that made me no extra money. Probably a little more lucky than most.
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by kelp 8y ago
Oh you’re right! I’d missed the launch of t2 unlimited. Looks like with t3 they’ve swapped the defaults. T3 now defaults to unlimited, t2 it’s an option.
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by kelp 8y ago
I'm by no means an expert in this, and maybe it's a bit obvious, but hadn't seen this mentioned yet. I think as we run out of gains to be had from process size reductions, the next frontier for cloud providers is in custom si
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by kelp 8y ago
FYI, t3 instances have and option to either be throttld when you exceed your burst credit or just pay more for burst.
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by kelp 8y ago
This can't be overstated for a cloud provider, especially one like AWS that wants to run everything for everyone. ARM has good OS and compiler support, and if you want people to move some workloads off x86 to another architecture, you&
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by kelp 8y ago
From the perspective of capabilities, I think you’re right, the market is nearly fully served. From usability, I think we still have a long ways to go.
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by kelp 8y ago
Not sure if you're making a joke or unaware of https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/ :)
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by kelp 8y ago
I keep meaning to write up a longer form version of this idea that I've been kicking around to solve this. This issue is often talked about as an unsolvable problem, but I feel like we already have the technology to deal with it. Lots
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by kelp 8y ago
What if because of the opportunities available, San Francisco creates more rich people. I know many tech workers who start out in small apartments with many roommates and then end up quite wealthy.
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by kelp 8y ago
I think the issues with the comment is the implication that the wealth creation is the problem. That framing leads to solutions that tend towards reducing the wealth creation. That seems a bit like cutting off our nose to spite our face. We
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by kelp 8y ago
The solution is to means test property taxes. To keep lower-income residents in their homes, we discount their property tax from the standard rate. If you're wealthy and can afford to pay a market rate property tax, then you pay it.
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by kelp 8y ago
Isn't it quite an oversimplification to say that the homelessness issues in SF are due to stupid politicians? Do other cities somehow have better smarter politicians? I think it's more likely that a series of cultural, historical,
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by kelp 8y ago
I'd like to add that the Bay Area affordability problem is not some unsolvable situation that we have to just be resigned to accept. But it does require getting involved somehow. If you have a decent paying job, the easiest way is to s
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by kelp 8y ago
Part of it is likely density of companies, talent, funding, advisors, etc. The whole ecosystem for starting a technology focused compnay is right in your backyard. In my case, I live in SOMA, and was recently looking for a new job. I talked
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by kelp 8y ago
To add to this, I think it would be a worse sign for the company if they have a number of people in such a critical path, that they can never take significant time off. If you're doing your job well as a leader (and an organization), y
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by kelp 9y ago
There is also this theory that it's caused a Hepatis outbreak: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/hepatitis-crisis/sd... People who are homeless would often use plastic bags as a bathroom, and then thro

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