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Zendesk’s “Automatic Answers” taps machine learning, AI to generate responses(techcrunch.com)
3 points by muzz 10y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 10y ago
Yes but as the article points out the distribution is highly skewed: "About 5 percent of the population — those most frail or ill — accounts for nearly half the spending in a given year, according to a separate government study. Meanwh
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by muzz 10y ago
There are many critiques of this working paper, such as this one: http://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/blog/roland-fryer-wrong-...
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by muzz 10y ago
Yes these are the non-critical back office operations, not the core business and innovation.
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by muzz 10y ago
Exactly, yet for some reason we never see articles about finance leaving Wall St in search of lower costs, or entertainment leaving Hollywood, etc.
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by muzz 10y ago
It's hard to consider Austin as even a second tier startup city-- first tier would be SF/Silcon Valley and second would be NYC and Seattle. I would be hard-pressed to come up with names of 3 successful startups from Austin, and I
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by muzz 10y ago
Not just the two startups you mentioned, but starting salary for almost every funded startup is minimum 6 figures for new engineers these days.
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by muzz 10y ago
Which is dwarfed by home price appreciation in the Bay Area. I guess that is the elephant in the room
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by muzz 10y ago
Yes they were one of the most vocal proponents-- Marc Andreessen would often point out how the company was their firm's largest single investment
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by muzz 10y ago
Looks like they did both , they laid off 106 and then another 129 took the package: https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/14/zenefits-is-laying-off-ano... https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden&#x2
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by muzz 10y ago
That's how many shares he had at the time of the IPO. They underlying source is correct for its time (2012), but whoever wrote the Wikipedia is misrepresenting it as being from 2015.
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by muzz 10y ago
Didn't Eduardo sell his shares in the ~$20 (or even high teens) range?
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by muzz 10y ago
> The things you need to start a company (time, knowledge, morale) are all significantly more expensive, and therefor less accessible, in SV It's always been more expensive in Silicon Valley. I would agree that Silicon Valley is pro
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by muzz 10y ago
Markets figure these things out. Not sure why people feel the need to convince markets / market participants, unless they somehow don't like the decisions that those have made.
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by muzz 10y ago
Not sure if you're saying that 2 months is ample incentive to leave a job you like, or not enough unless you really hate it. Those seem like opposite things.
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by muzz 10y ago
From the article: "San Jose last year estimated that for every 1,000 square feet of single-family housing, the city budget takes a net loss of $255 a year, compared with a gain of $1,064 for the same size commercial space."
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by muzz 10y ago
In California tax breaks are rarely handed out to businesses to attract them. Contrast with Texas, where not only are tax breaks handed out to businesses but housing is taxed at exorbitant rates (roughly 3% of current value, assessed annua
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by muzz 10y ago
"Central planning" meaning 100+ Bay Area cities acting independently?
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by muzz 10y ago
Businesses using a "herd mentality" will be out-competed by those which are profit-maximizers
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San Francisco’s Increasing Dominance Over U.S. Innovation(citylab.com)
2 points by muzz 10y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 10y ago
By technically you seem to mean "all else being equal". The difference between that and reality is that when housing is created, it does indeed change things. Build some nice housing in a decrepit area (Shipyard, etc) and housin
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by muzz 10y ago
I've wondered this myself too. It makes sense that the high housing costs do cause a self-selection for the most determined.
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by muzz 10y ago
If you don't have a window, it's technically not a room. Fire codes usually require 2 directions of egress.
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by muzz 10y ago
Yes, property rights are a pesky thing
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by muzz 10y ago
If it made economic sense for them to create job centers outside of the Bay Area, they would. This gives one an idea of just how great the economic advantage of locating in the Bay Area is.
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by muzz 10y ago
Using 6000 as the divisor is post-$240M, not pre. If instead the $240M helped every single homeless person become un-homeless except for 1, it's not the case that SF is spending $240M on the one homeless guy.
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by muzz 10y ago
All indications are that the new drivers are being attracted to the Bay Area, and more so than they have ever been.
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by muzz 10y ago
No, it's not "a few years". Cities act very quickly on this since broken windows make the dwelling open to all sorts of problems like animals coming in, people coming in (trespass, drug den, etc).
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by muzz 10y ago
Those are very expensive to build, approaching $1000/sqft. Also require utilities, transit, and other city services (schools, police, fire, etc).
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by muzz 10y ago
Except that voters in California effectively did decide that, with Prop 13. In other states, property tax is effectively a liability for the owner. Texans pay roughly 3% of the current value. That is a lot-- keep in mind that mortgage

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