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421.
by muzz 10y ago
A lengthy example of "ignorance is bliss"
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by muzz 10y ago
Plenty of people on Twitter are pointing out that this is not new money but rather comes out of a fund that was announced in October, also in WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-group-launches-investme...
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by muzz 10y ago
I submitted the same thing 12 hours prior. Not sure why it wasn't de-duped? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13103340
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Silicon Valley’s Culture, Not Its Companies, Dominates in China(nytimes.com)
1 points by muzz 10y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 10y ago
Those are "outposts" or satellite offices of Bay Area companies, not ideas that failed in Silicon Valley but somehow worked in other places
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by muzz 10y ago
Residency is a temporary proposition for a few years, and has always paid peanuts. When she finishes residency she'll be paid market value which is significantly higher.
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by muzz 10y ago
Can you provide some examples of "SV failures may have succeeded in other places"?
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Tech Jobs, Cheaper Housing: The New Silicon Cities(wsj.com)
104 points by muzz 10y ago|109 comments
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by muzz 10y ago
Transbay bus is around 45 minutes to SF and BART is not much longer, so you must be going to somewhere other than downtown
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by muzz 10y ago
Infill development of single family homes basically makes the exurbs (like Pleasanton) become "farther" since traffic becomes worse
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by muzz 10y ago
Towards the end of those 30 years the mortgage payment would be tiny compared to rent at the time, and often well before that.
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by muzz 10y ago
That would provide an amazing throughput in terms of number of people. Rather, I find they are full of electric vehicles with a sticker but only one occupant
433.
by muzz 10y ago
Yet it provides housing for other Silicon Valley cities via net flux outward. Essentially, it *is" a big suburb
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by muzz 10y ago
that would be 2008, but the graphs start in 1977
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by muzz 10y ago
> The vast majority of operating companies formed in the US, and I suspect most countries, are small businesses (shops, restaurants etc) My understanding is most of these are retail (think mom-and-pop shops), construction, and profession
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The Challenge Facing Deep-Learning Powered Startups(tomtunguz.com)
1 points by muzz 10y ago|0 comments
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Zenefits Touts New Software in Turnaround Effort(wsj.com)
1 points by muzz 10y ago|0 comments
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With Revenue Flat, Zenefits Looks to Restart After Crisis(bloomberg.com)
1 points by muzz 10y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 10y ago
Not surprising that this is coming out as Clinton is surging in the polls.
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Theory of Constraints 102: The Illusion of Local Optima(medium.com)
4 points by muzz 10y ago|0 comments
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Zenefits Settles Insurance Investigation in Washington State(buzzfeed.com)
3 points by muzz 10y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 10y ago
Technically that was Zimride, the original startup by the same two founders but is actually a separate entity.
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by muzz 10y ago
Markets reveal preferences.
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by muzz 10y ago
Good point. There are many examples of this in states like Texas-- open/concealed carry gun laws, rewritten textbooks, etc
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by muzz 10y ago
And for the larger number of immigrants that move into California and buy houses
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by muzz 10y ago
They are well-intentioned but misguided about the true causes of housing shortage, which are more related to statewide factors like Prop 13 than local ones.
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by muzz 10y ago
By dividing that way, the more people are helped the worse the number looks. I.e., if the $241M helped 99.99% of people become un-homeless, then it the math would work out to $241M per homeless person since there is only 1 homeless person
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How Tech Firms Stack Up on Pay(theinformation.com)
2 points by muzz 10y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 10y ago
Housing overshadows pretty much all other expenses in the Bay Area. So the key is simple: if renting, spend as little as you can. Then try to buy, so that you can be on the receiving end of the increasing housing costs.
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by muzz 10y ago
Also in the article, it was also 2012 when VC's were figuring out that the Midwest is cheaper than Silicon Valley. What an epiphany!

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