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by mtviewdave 10y ago
I think the reason is that, at some level, Wadhwa believes that immigrants make better entrepreneurs than (native-born) Americans. He's never said that outright, but that's been a theme in his writing for a while. For example, fr
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
Nobody wants to admit it but we are in a tech bubble. On the contrary, people love to claim Silicon Valley is in a tech bubble and have been doing so continuously since 2011.
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Man allegedly burgles home after cancelling Airbnb reservation(mountainviewpoliceblog.com)
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
It's not just that they're "non-software" business. They're not really even technology businesses, in the traditional Silicon Valley (HP, Intel, Apple, Atari, Synopsys, Netscape, Google, Facebook, Snapchat) sense. B
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Chernobyl New Safe Confinement(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mtviewdave 10y ago|0 comments
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San Francisco Landmark Tower Is Sinking and Tilting(sfchronicle.com)
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
The tech-aloofness of the two nominees marks a sharp break from President Barack Obama, who fought to keep a mobile phone when he entered the White House... It was Clinton's desire to do the same thing that led to her setting up her
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
As an outsider, the solution to the SF housing issues seem pretty simple Complex problems often look simple from a distance. That doesn't mean they are. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10884840
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‘Silicon Valley’ Writer Sounds Off on Tech Ageism(insights.dice.com)
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Images inside Fukushima's exclusion zone five years after the nuclear disaster(dailymail.co.uk)
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
There was a skyscraper in downtown San Jose that was proposed a few years ago that was designed to the maximum height allowed by San Jose airport. After the designs were finalized, the FAA decided that the maximum height was too high, and l
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
Indeed, there's been discussion about connecting Moffett Blvd to the North Bayshore neighborhood a new bridge over the creek that would connect to La Avenida. And creating a spur of the Light Rail system into the neighborhood as well.
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
Google's current buildings were built years (or decades) ago, long before the current space crunch, and say nothing about current City policy. The maximum height in the current North Bayshore Precise Plan is 140 feet above ground (155
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New Horizons Receives Mission Extension to Kuiper Belt(nasa.gov)
1 points by mtviewdave 10y ago|0 comments
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
The "corporation" you've described is a government. Literally. A government (in the United States) is just a mechanism for an area's resident citizenry to express their collective will. Whether you call it "govern
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
History has shown that, when it comes to strings, developers have a hard time getting even something as simple as null-termination correct. If grapheme handling is complex, that's an argument for having it implemented by a small team o
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A Manager’s FAQ(medium.com)
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Free Trade Is Dead(washingtonmonthly.com)
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
For most of Silicon Valley's history, the technology industry was generally no farther north than Menlo Park on the Peninsula, and southern Fremont in the east, with the occasional exception (Electronic Arts in San Mateo, Oracle in Red
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
There was a nationwide recession in the United States in the early '90s. The chart reflects that. And FYI, technology was not a significant factor in the economy of the City of San Francisco at that time.
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
That merely shows the problem with calling every tech boom a "bubble". Technology has been boom-and-bust in the Bay Area for decades, but there was only one bubble: 1996-2000. There have been technology booms since, but there have
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
I grew up in the San Jose and live in Mountain View. I have never heard anyone in the Bay Area express this opinion, nor do I hold it myself. Moreover, I am a homeowner, and have voted pro-housing in every election where it was an issue, an
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Implementation of Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol (2001)(blug.linux.no)
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
The reason the Millbrae<->SFO connection doesn't run all the time is because it's not cost-efficient to do so: http://www.bayrailalliance.org/question/why-is-the-caltrain-... In retrospect, an Airtrain
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
A list of private development projects in Mountain View, with a number of them (residential and commercial) currently under construction: http://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/planning/activeproj...
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by mtviewdave 10y ago
XKCD has a What If on this very topic: https://what-if.xkcd.com/143/
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Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much(bloomberg.com)
145 points by mtviewdave 10y ago|222 comments
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GitHub Is Your New Resume (2011)(code.dblock.org)
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Mars Beagle-2 Probe 'Seen in Sharper View'(bbc.com)
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WWDC 2016 Enrollment Open(developer.apple.com)
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