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mahyarm
10y ago
How much is the average GDP per captia in india? Rent? Food? How much is the average low-skill worker make in india vs mass? Is it also 5-10x less?
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10y ago
It's not that part of regulations that are causing housing affordability issues. More zoning regulations that say you have to have x parking spaces with x lot sizes under x height with x impact fees and x long bureaucratic processes.
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10y ago
The high end graphics cards were $500 in 2011 too. Maybe your definition of high end has changed...
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10y ago
As a former K-12 private schooler, the one I went to was non-profit. It eventually went out of business due to being run a little bit too non-profit even though it existed for 20 years. I really enjoyed my time there and was sad to see it
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10y ago
I wouldn't mind if your given a choice of 40 lashes vs. prison time. I would definitely take a temporary few days of pain over years or weeks of my life wasted in the psychological torture known as prison.
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mahyarm
10y ago
Well if these two passing california props are any indicator, yes: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/california-prop-36_... http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-ff-pol-
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10y ago
Cisco is probably seeing their margins being eaten by commodity competitors.
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10y ago
But without the space race, would those smartphones have GPS? Without GPS, how practical would self driving cars be? Would the lack of GPS push self driving cars out another decade?
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10y ago
There are also the perils of not being your own doctor: http://journals.lww.com/neurologynow/Fulltext/2016/12040/Hav...
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10y ago
One case although, is to keep a simple password you'll remember to access your client-side encrypted cloud backups of your password manager db. Otherwise you could end up in a case where you've lost all of your passwords and your
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10y ago
For Sale: 10kg of gold. As of today 10kg of gold equals $X (source: google) For Sale: X gallons of gas. As of today X gallons of gas equals $X (source: my local gas station)
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10y ago
It sounds like you still live in suburbia. I can bike or walk to local stores in 5-10m and since my job is down town, getting to city target, cvs or whatever is another 5-10 minute work errand. I have a car but use it so infrequently that
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10y ago
You can see this seperation in orgs like the ACLU: https://action.aclu.org/what-difference EFF I guess gets around it by being a lawsuit focused organization more? https://www.eff.org/about
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10y ago
Well this guy has a bunch of ideas on how they can improve ;) https://twitter.com/i0n1c
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10y ago
Your handbook mentions nothing about a ROFR, buyback options in bylaws, access to company bylaws or a complete lack of restrictions on equity ownership. All I can see is your equity vesting schedule. You also do not talk about what employe
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10y ago
Canadian small towns of 100-300k have good schools. Most of Canada lacks much of any kind of ghetto area. The few ghetto areas that exist are pretty easy to avoid. The good school worries that exist in the USA are pretty much nonexistent
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10y ago
You can turn it off, but it removes the zero rating. Up to you either way.
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10y ago
lmgtfy: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/is-lyft-headed-toward...
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10y ago
Didi was also losing a lot of money. It was a big cash bonfire race to have the biggest market.
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10y ago
It's a cost thing & a culture thing. Japan likes it's cash too. Sweden loves it's credit cards to a point where you can't use cash in some situations easily.
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10y ago
Most of the uber price goes to the driver. So higher prices means more money for the driver. Since NYC is a more expensive place to live, and people have more money, you have to charge higher prices to get enough drivers to drive. Make NY
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10y ago
So whats the difference between a co-op and a stockholder organization? Is it a stockholder organization with 1 stock unit = 1 member and you can issue stock for each new member?
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I'm not aware of any particular ride sharing startup that isn't burning massive piles of cash. It's a cash arms race induced party by all of the free floating cash probably induced by multi-nation QE policies.
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10y ago
What are the obvious reasons you cannot say what your company is called or link to it's website?
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10y ago
Until they run into their future competitor who won't sell to them, like snapchat.
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10y ago
Market supply and demand is another big part of it. And you are responsible for the fate of mega $$$ corps. If you can create something more efficient you would outcompete those companies.
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I have a feeling that snapchat is their biggest threat. It offered something that facebook doesn't: a lack of a practical record. Now it is slowly evolving into video twitter & personal news feeds. I can see it eventually adoptin
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10y ago
They're great to make sure the zipper doesn't unzip during transport because of handling.
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10y ago
TBH it just looks like a YAWUB (yet another windows ultrabook) at this point. Metal rectangle windows ultrabooks are pretty standard and the category inventor has been out since 2008.
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10y ago
If you move to somewhere mostly tax free $104k USD is like $160k pre-tax in california. They also have private offices, which can be a special perk for a bunch of people.
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