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by megaman8 8y ago
In some parts of SF, you don't even have the option of sending your kids to Public school, because they won't let anyone else in: all seats taken. They have a pretty massive shortage of teachers because no one can afford to live
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by megaman8 8y ago
It's worth noting, the birth rate here in CA has been reducing for the last 30 years and recently has reached a 100 year low. It's currently lower than it was during the great depression.
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by megaman8 8y ago
believe me, i find it equally frustrating that all the crap we don't need is getting cheaper and cheaper with more progress. And yet, the bare essentials of life which are so important, aren't making any progress at all: shelter
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by megaman8 8y ago
True, but the total wealth increases. Money is just a proxy for the things we want. the things we want are the actual wealth. When you can buy 50" LCD screen for 200$ instead of 700$, you've got more wealth, same for land: that
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by megaman8 8y ago
Whenever people mention real wages, I get the feeling they're not really "real". What I mean is that I don't think they're calculating inflation correctly. Inflation doesn't seem to take into account Housing
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by megaman8 8y ago
It's an excellent point. As for housing, where does the extra wealth go? Nowhere. No one benefits when you lock up land that can't be used by anyone. Now you might argue that existing land owners benefit: but they actually don
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by megaman8 8y ago
Well, the powdery stuff is quite similar to non-dairy creamer and thus is extremely delicious but also very very bad for your health, as they contain hydrogenated or even partially hydrogenated oils: thus may well contain trans fats! person
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by megaman8 8y ago
I can totally relate. This is a big problem to solve. Let's combine video input with some AI to estimate the boba to tea ratio. Then the app can calculate the precise angle of straw placement to maximize boba intake.
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by megaman8 8y ago
For all the newbs out there, if you're trying to figure out whether not to accept an offer, know that there is a huge difference in work life balance from company to company: above you've seen the two extremes. Read the glassdoor
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by megaman8 8y ago
>> After an unsuccessful attempt to sell ARPANET to a commercial buyer (AT&T could have literally owned the internet, but said No thanks), the government split the system in two Can you imagine what it would be like if AT&T bo
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by megaman8 8y ago
Yes, but the Fed enables this behavior by loaning the banks money. The point is, it's due to the govt that the money supply is increasing hence we have inflation.
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by megaman8 8y ago
"This time is different"
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by megaman8 8y ago
Using Patents to patent trivial stuff and then getting a monopoly from the government as reward is just rent seeking evil and wrong on so many levels.
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by megaman8 8y ago
My first impression was that this was something kinda like phpmyadmin, but more convenient. phpmyadmin takes work to install (30m plus when you include debug time). And it's not super user friendly. but then when i went to the web pa
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by megaman8 8y ago
With this finding, I hope we can get back to developing atom based solutions as opposed to bit solutions (reference avc.com).
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by megaman8 8y ago
This will vary widely based on job function: it may be true for engineers, but it's not true for marketing. From what I hear, at Facebook and google, if you apply for a marketing job, You absolutely don't stand a chance unless yo
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by megaman8 8y ago
I think it's much worse when HTC places ads on your phone via bloatware apps that can't be uninstalled. That's absolutely vicious and hardly ever gets any press time. But, oh, facebook makes a minor little slip up and they
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by megaman8 8y ago
What the article is saying is, If you are young and have no family, you can rent a room really cheaply say 1400$ for a 1 bedroom, or bunk up with a mate for 700$ (2 people renting 1 room), and save most of your income for about 10 years - d
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by megaman8 8y ago
You can avoid many of these places if you let the recruiters, HR and interviewers know that your looking for a place with good work life balance. It is hard to find good companies to work for in the bay area, but there are a few that exist
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by megaman8 8y ago
There's a lot of stuff in this space that hasn't been done yet, but that's for a very good reason. First of all, it doesn't pass the toothbrush test: it's the type of thing that's super valuable the first time
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Ask HN: Niche Products, ever had success by partnering with Blogs, newsletters?
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by megaman8 8y ago
the problem is not "me". We always like to think of consumer choice as being the ultimate determiner for what becomes and stays successful, and that's how it should work. But, it's not actually how it works. With sooo
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by megaman8 8y ago
I would imagine that every successful/not-successful startup would post on Show HN. There are entire lists of places to post stuff, and I'm sure Show HN must be in the top 10.
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by megaman8 8y ago
I'm all for reducing meat consumption. But having everyone do a hard and fast rule: no meat whatsover, seems extreme. People grew up with different values and diets. Until we can convince others, I think we should be more accepting
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by megaman8 8y ago
I seem to see this happen quite frequently, it should be a meme.
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by megaman8 8y ago
Well, she doesn't have a computer science degree. She's an MBA who's learned SQL, tableau, excel, etc (working at a large company 500+ people). She pulls out data with SQL queries and knows how to use excel inside and out.
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by megaman8 8y ago
I wasn't even able to get to the article without using copy and paste trick to view the darn thing in my text editor.
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by megaman8 8y ago
What's going on is that there's an oversupply of Skilled labor. They already found someone else. The greater the oversupply, the more qualified candidates they have to reject. I know one person, she's a data analyst (2 year
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by megaman8 8y ago
well there's humane ways to limit growth, and then there's what CA does. If you want to limit growth, then you need to convince companies to move out, get the jobs out of there. once the jobs leave, the people leave. But contin
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by megaman8 8y ago
I see no intention from governments of ever paying off that debt. All I see, worldwide and US is more and more spending. At one point in the future we won't be able to pay for it anymore. So, what happens if everyone finds out they&

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