mrosett

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   by mrosett 7y ago

   They definitely are. I’m saying Airbnb will be valuable for the same reason they are even as regulation limits their market.
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   by mrosett 7y ago

   > The "short term rental" category gets to bypass all these regulations and that is the exclusive source of their margins I agree in part and disagree in part. I do think that regulatory arbitrage is part of what makes Airbnb,
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   by mrosett 7y ago

   I'm genuinely baffled that so few people in this thread see no value in Airbnb providing cheaper options for travelers. As a software engineer, one way I could advance my career would be to move back to the Bay Area. An imperfect subst
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   by mrosett 7y ago

   If property owners can make more money renting out properties on Airbnb, that suggests short term rentals are the highest value use of that property. I derive a lot of value from using Airbnb when I travel, particularly in markets with hous
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   by mrosett 7y ago

   The title of this post (at time of commenting) is exceptionally misleading. A more accurate one is "Landlords rip out escalators and walls to attract tenants like Google and Netflix", which is the one from the original article.
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   by mrosett 7y ago

   Well, that also seems like something state governments would do.
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   by mrosett 7y ago

   Interesting. I think this is for the best. Using the system python interpreter on MacOS is asking for trouble. It will be nice to (eventually) have it removed to avoid the occasional problem when it gets used.
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   by mrosett 7y ago

   Why do you think this will pierce the veil? I don’t know the rules around that.
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   by mrosett 7y ago

   Get real Sudafed from behind the counter.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    The article just quotes the news about MapR and then asserts the same will happen with Docker. That may be true, but there’s no evidence here.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    This seems like a classic principal-agent problem. I can guarantee you that Google leadership doesn’t want this happening. It’s illegal, it’s possibly more expensive in the long run, and it leads to PR black eyes like this article. But t
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    Uber’s share price hasn’t increased since 2016 (or maybe 2015? On mobile.) The increase in valuation is essentially equal to the cash they’ve raised since then - 30 billion or so including a big chunk in the IPO.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    > In the current late stage of a cheap debt infused bull market it appears to be more sane to predict a crash and hence discourage people form investing in it altogether (or at least be extremely cautious) rather than speculating on wher
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    Full text pdf: https://www.researchgate.net/journal/1758-678X_Nature_Climat...
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    10% of topline is frustratingly low. To make matters worse, my bank wanted to total debt to fall in that realm so the existing credit cards kept us from getting the loan at all.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    That's mentioned in the piece: > Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of nakedly e
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    I think this is the key passage: > Reading opposition to SB 50 and other efforts at increasing density, I’m struck by an unsettling thought: What Republicans want to do with ICE and border walls, wealthy progressive Democrats are doing w
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    TurboTax is one of the most aggressive rent-seekers out there. I consider what they do to be so unethical that I try to avoid Intuit's other services even though they're very useful. (I also don't love how Intuit has done its
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    Ha! I’m going to file that line away.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    Anyone who has a lawn in San Francisco is doing pretty damn well for themselves.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    Maybe 7 years ago. Even EPA is pretty expensive these days.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    Huntington’s is a very precisely defined disease. Depression has a much wider range of manifestations.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    I’m not impressed with the comments here. The author has eight years of experience in finance and was apparently the best person to fill this role despite her lack of directly relevant experience. (You might disagree, but that was the persp
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    Alternative headline: “Google complies with law”. They didn’t have much choice here.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    Thanks for the article. When you read in the morning, does that include things like Hacker News or do you earmark it for books?
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    Thanks for sharing the data. That wasn’t my impression.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    I’m glad you appreciated that! I want results to be reproducible.
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    OP here. There are some good guides [0] about using Python's asyncio module (and libraries built on top of it) but I hadn't seen a comparison of it to threading which is what I prefer for client-side coding. The key difference is
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    How to Retrieve 100k Objects with Python: Why We Prefer Threading to Asyncio(medium.com)

    6 points by mrosett 7y ago|5 comments
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    by mrosett 7y ago

    There’s no evidence that non-profit hospitals perform better (or worse) than for-profit hospitals.