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by muzz 11y ago
How is the cost of living absurd in rural areas of California?
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by muzz 11y ago
I would love to see examples of this "marketing machine" you are referring to
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by muzz 11y ago
What other choices are they unable to make at age 18? Are they unable to choose whether or not to get a tattoo which may last for a lifetime? How about whether to join the military and potentially die for their country?
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by muzz 11y ago
> Then no one will issue loans to those students This is not the case, the non-dischargability in bankruptcy only came about in 2005 and there were plenty of student loans before then
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by muzz 11y ago
Yes, although this was not the case prior to 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_and...
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by muzz 11y ago
Top tier education at places like Stanford and Harvard actually entails $0 tuition for students from lower middle-class families
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by muzz 11y ago
In areas where price/rent ratio is high, the "land lord's profit" portion is a large negative number
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The Rich (Late-Stage Bay Area Startups) Are Getting Richer(linkedin.com)
1 points by muzz 11y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 11y ago
If only people were able to make their own decisions in the marketplace
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by muzz 11y ago
In the case of rental units and purchased properties within most HOAs, the answer is yes it is in the contract
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Here’s One Thing All the Billion-Dollar Unicorns Have in Common(recode.net)
3 points by muzz 11y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 11y ago
But the market cap is down another ~$1.3B this morning, as investors have had overnight to digest the news and price it in
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Tech Expansion Overruns Cities in California’s Silicon Valley(wsj.com)
2 points by muzz 11y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 12y ago
Do you even know what these administrative positions are? I would love to see a breakdown of these, if you have a source.
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by muzz 12y ago
Yes this amorphous group of "administrators". Wonder why no article ever mentions the actual job titles/functions of these administrators? I suspect they are largely athletics-related, and by not providing details the autho
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by muzz 12y ago
Yes this article, and many others, employ the "sticker price fallacy" to advance their claims. As David Leonhardt put it, tuition is like sticker prices at Joseph A. Bank "If you take Joseph A. Bank’s sticker prices literally
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by muzz 12y ago
What percentage is this relative to say, football coaches?
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Pinterest will let employees exercise stock options for 7 years after leaving(businessinsider.com)
1 points by muzz 12y ago|0 comments
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Keeping the data trackers honest(washingtonpost.com)
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by muzz 12y ago
Good point, housing is not atomic.
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by muzz 12y ago
Most of the value in the "per square foot suburban Palo Alto" number comes from the land, not the structure. If all those single-family houses were torn down and rebuilt as high-density, then surely the price per square foot would
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by muzz 12y ago
Even if you bought in 2011, when the $1M home was $600k, you'd be fine.
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by muzz 12y ago
> I hate rent control, but I think it's a symptom of incumbents' unwillingness to allow more development, No. It began in SF as a very-specific response to Prop 13, which is essentially property-tax-control Both are bad policie
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by muzz 12y ago
For rents to go up, people have to be able to pay those higher rents. Ostensibly because they have salaries that are even relatively higher than yours (this is not intended to be a slight, but when there is a bidding war for salaries there
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by muzz 12y ago
San Francisco is not "The Valley"
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“Sand Hill Is the New Wall Street” (Sand Hill Exchange)(ftalphaville.ft.com)
4 points by muzz 12y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 12y ago
Agreed
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by muzz 12y ago
Where are the houses that are close to the amphitheater?
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by muzz 12y ago
How do you suggest going about this? The existing ranch homes with 3 parking spaces are privately owned by somebody.
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Startups, Late-Stage Valuations, and Bull(techcrunch.com)
3 points by muzz 12y ago|0 comments

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