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721.
by muzz 13y ago
Markets and incentives work, and businesses respond to them. If SF thwarted innovation, we would see less of it there and more of it elsewhere, like Kansas City.
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by muzz 13y ago
Not sure that can be inferred. Is innovation really catalyzed in Kansas City more than San Francisco? I would guess not.
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by muzz 13y ago
The only problem with your comment is that construction is under way at a record pace (well, since 1906)
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by muzz 13y ago
The last real estate bubble was fueled by the ready availability of credit (subprime loans, Alt-A, etc). These buyers today are often paying cash-- i.e. they are on the opposite end of the risk spectrum. They have no incentive to walk aw
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by muzz 13y ago
Your understanding is certainly limited. Housing prices all over the Bay Area have increased similarly. SF is not an outlier in terms of percentage appreciation compared to nearby cities.
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by muzz 13y ago
TARP was just one of many bailouts
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by muzz 13y ago
Something to do with Georgia's extremely high poverty rate perhaps? http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2012/11/08/georgia-p...
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by muzz 13y ago
That statement conflates several things and is hyperbolic. The "computer industry" isn't some amorphous industry that has been going strong since the days of semiconductors. There have been many iterations of technology-- mob
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by muzz 13y ago
Another article wondering why City X hasn't attracted more of a tech community given some spelled-out advantages over Silicon Valley. Rather than wondering why markets don't act the way one wants them to, we could learn more by tr
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by muzz 13y ago
Companies tried this in the 1990s-- PeopleSoft, etc. It didn't work, but failed ideas seem to re-appear as fresh ones after a few years.
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by muzz 13y ago
Which cities would that be? Mountain View? Palo Alto? Menlo Park? Cupertino? South San Francisco? The 100+ other cities in the Bay Area? If zoning were truly the major obstacle, we would see more building where there is the least amou
732.
by muzz 13y ago
Except for the 6,000 units that are under construction.
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by muzz 13y ago
Agreed, something like 1 window has been broken on a tech bus, yet media reports often use plural, not singular, to describe the number of acts of violence by protestors.
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by muzz 13y ago
Your second point is a keen observation-- the jobs are in suburban-looking places like Mountain View, but workers want to spend their nights and weekends in the city. It would be like buses picking up workers from their residences in Manhat
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by muzz 13y ago
Must be a slow news day. This same storyline, written over and over again by different writers, is really getting a lot of mileage.
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by muzz 13y ago
this may be veering off-topic, but why would an employer-- especially a big one with lots of individual consumers as customers-- be willing to make it publicly known that that occurred? doesn't it undermine consumer confidence in their
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Sneak peek: Mayor Ed Lee has a housing solution(sfgate.com)
2 points by muzz 13y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 13y ago
Are you unaware of the record building that is going on in San Francisco?
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by muzz 13y ago
[0] is true in theory. in reality, people get friends/relatives to be roommates and give them a portion of the discount, thus incenting them keep the scheme quiet
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by muzz 13y ago
It's more chicken and egg. Clearly the value of a potential housing unit, to a Googler, would be higher if it were closer to a Google shuttle stop.
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Trading Bonuses for Bytes: The Wall Street Brain Drain(institutionalinvestor.com)
3 points by muzz 13y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 13y ago
Even if not, the decrease in earnings per year of $1,387 is a 5% drop, that would indicate that the median college graduate earned $27,740 more than the median high-school graduate PER YEAR. Of course, that is before the "narrowing&quo
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How the College Bubble Will Pop(online.wsj.com)
86 points by muzz 13y ago|105 comments
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by muzz 13y ago
yes, #1 is exactly the reason why BART didn't go very far down the peninsula when it was originally built. the extension to Millbrae and SFO was added decades later and at a huge cost.
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by muzz 13y ago
Parts of Mountain View are actually being bulldozed and re-built with higher density. The shopping center at San Antonio / El Camino for example. There is plenty of infill redevelopment going on within a few miles of the Googleplex, b
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by muzz 13y ago
Why was the title changed to remove the quotes around "Google Buses"? As if SF is taking one company, and not all private bus operators? Changes like these, in addition to WSJ's own wording, can give a reader a very differen
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The Degree Is Doomed(blogs.hbr.org)
5 points by muzz 13y ago|0 comments
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by muzz 13y ago
Agreed, although often the editors change/create the title rather than the author. Even a simple change like "The Drug War is Evil" would be much more befitting of the piece.
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by muzz 13y ago
If low income taxes tipped the scales enough to make it more profitable for businesses, why haven't we seen that already with states that have zero income tax?
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by muzz 13y ago
Why aren't you disagreeing with the premise? Businesses are free to locate themselves as they choose. The fact that one doesn't like the result of market forces doesn't mean that the market is somehow wrong.

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