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by malyk 10y ago
BART is way over capacity and a terrible experience for sure. Have you tried the transbay busses? I ride the F from North Oakland every day and I have a seat every morning and, with a little planning, a seat every night on the way home (ge
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by malyk 10y ago
Oakland has a $7000 homestead exception. It actually just takes $7000 off the "value" of the property for taxation purposes. https://www.acgov.org/assessor/decreasetax/exemptions/homeow...
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by malyk 10y ago
Oakland passed a new minimum wage ordinance last year (the year before maybe?) and a lot of the small local businesses around me raised their prices. They also put cards on their menus explaining the increases. It's possible they stopp
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by malyk 10y ago
Ember? Sails?
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by malyk 10y ago
I agree...if you can build enough of these. I can't remember off hand, but I think that you need to build something like 40,000 more units to even start making a dent. Call me skeptical that you can build 40k of these.
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by malyk 10y ago
Do you mind saying where? I live in North Oakland and commute by bus every day to downtown SF. There are 24 transbay bus lines, 4 Bart Lines, and a ferry into san francisco from various parts of the east bay every day. Most of them (all of
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by malyk 10y ago
Of course, then it would just get "flipped" back on the market for $500k because that's what people are willing to pay.
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by malyk 10y ago
public transportation.
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by malyk 10y ago
So after 2 decades of dealing with really bad cross browser incompatibilities that we are just now emerging from we are going to dive into cross search engine incompatibilities to an even greater extent. AMP for Google, something else for B
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by malyk 10y ago
http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/ Here is a really interesting episode where the technology was able to backtrack from the assassination of a police officer to the perps and resulted in arrests (iirc). I know
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by malyk 10y ago
Once you get to ~25 dynos the cost performance large dynos makes sense and you can run a lot of puma workers with the 14gb memory quota.
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by malyk 10y ago
Just a heads up. I hate badmouthing companies, but... I wanted to use them instead of Google but my standard .com domain kept error int out in there interface and multiple support emails and posts in their support forum went unanswered so I
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by malyk 10y ago
I'm the exact opposite. Put all of the common functionality on dials (like fuji does), so I can instantly see what the settings are at a glance instead of clicking through 4 different menus with tiny buttons on a screen that you can&#
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by malyk 10y ago
It's definitely about the specific businesses that are on the one way street. And I might recall (been awhile since I read the book), that he specifically used the example of changing from two way to one way and that the result is bus
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by malyk 10y ago
You are definitely correct. I did the same thing for Paris right after posting. Times were 1.8-3x what driving would be. But, experience tells me that the extra time oftentimes tends to not be an issue, mostly because of the cognitive diffe
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by malyk 10y ago
I stayed off the Urquinaona a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed that area of the city. Yes, there was a pretty high amount of vehicular traffic around that area, but it was full of street life and an easy base to get around the city from
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by malyk 10y ago
According to Jeff Speck ( https://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/d... ) 1 way streets have a negative economic impact for the business that line those streets. Which I think makes intuitive sense. A
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by malyk 10y ago
I just spent a couple of weeks and paris/barcelona and I'd say you could probably do it faster by subway/walking than by car especially when you figure in the cost/annoyance of finding and paying for parking. There'
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by malyk 10y ago
Except most colleges outside the elite (and probably a lot of students at those too) expend more like 30% of effort growing intellectually. There is also significant social growth, generally, but a lot of time at college (probably most) isn
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by malyk 10y ago
But that's the whole point. All those people have more in common than you realize and its knowing each other that makes people care about their neighborhoods/neighbors. Every year there is something called National Night Out which
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by malyk 10y ago
Vanguard has a social responsibility fund.
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by malyk 10y ago
Pretty sure code I wrote in 2001 right out of college is still used in production for mission critical systems for a national association.
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by malyk 10y ago
WedWell - $300 Billion dollar space...$55 Billion in the US (according to a quick google search), Median Wedding Cost: $18,000 (same search). Solving a problem in an interesting way while hopefully reducing the stress of planning a wedding.
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by malyk 10y ago
I see it as defending an "old boys club(now including women!)" who sit on tons of overlapping boards and conspire to "keep it in the family" and "reward" the "successful" businessperson. The reality i
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by malyk 10y ago
This doesn't really ring true for most of northern california at the very least. San Mateo, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Albany, Pinole, Walnut Creek, Concord, Benicia, etc. all have downtowns. It's even more pronounced outsid
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by malyk 11y ago
Except without any regulation or enforcement there is no incentive or companies to care about the environmental impact. So yes, if you do fracking nicely and care about the impact then there is no problem. The reality is that no one involv
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by malyk 11y ago
The problem with this is that /someone/ knows why. And they'll mention half the story to someone else. Then that person will mention mostly the same half story and interject 10% more. And then the person who heard that will c
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by malyk 11y ago
That's not what people want though. What people want is for it to be socially acceptable for men to be the ones that take on the more flexible, lower paying, schedules to care for their kids as well as for it to be socially acceptable
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by malyk 11y ago
We chose Salesforce when we were tiny too, and it worked ok for 2-3 years and then it became a huge liability. I definitely understand the feeling that the main product is top priority, but if you are building a company to last your interna
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by malyk 11y ago
We just spent a year getting off of Salesforce. Our account was closed Friday. I feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. Also, I say "year", but it was really 2 months to write our own CRM system that exactly fits our workflow

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