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by muzz 13y ago
Agreed that central planning doesn't work. But somehow pundits like the author think that their second-guessing of markets somehow would.
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by muzz 13y ago
The biggest factor that the author fails to account for is the market. Businesses are profit maximizers. They locate themselves where they can profit the most.
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by muzz 13y ago
> If development regulations were relaxed more, then more housing could be developed. This is often tossed around and is often a canard. SF is currently in one of its biggest building booms in history. Building is likely occurring as
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by muzz 13y ago
Shuttles exist because their offices are not near any existing or feasible transit. Urban areas have a lot more pre-existing transit, and transit that can be used by more people than just work at one company, than the Shoreline Amphitheater
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Silicon Valley continues to outstrip rest of country in tech investing(mercurynews.com)
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Tech Entrepreneurs Revive Communal Living(sfgate.com)
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Traffic jams paralyzing Bay Area(mercurynews.com)
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by muzz 13y ago
> that the economic recovery hasn't come for most Americans even as high-level averages such as GDP and stock markets tell us otherwise So you're saying trickle-down doesn't work
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by muzz 13y ago
> The author is taking issue with 20 year olds who have spent 50-100k on their education No, the author never mentions or even implies that at all
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by muzz 13y ago
This is nothing new, the Nov 20 date was well-known back in May: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/20/google-checkout-for-merch...
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by muzz 13y ago
This is old news from months ago. The Nov 20 date was mentioned back in May: http://www.slashgear.com/google-checkout-to-be-retired-novem...
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by muzz 13y ago
Why does that matter?
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by muzz 13y ago
Perhaps you may have some anecdotes; however, there has been study of this. Income in areas of high housing costs more than offsets those costs, so that the net result is ($income - $housing) is higher http://www.theatlanticcitie
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by muzz 13y ago
> "Average earnings in the valley grew by nearly 40 percent between 1997 and 2000" Taking wage data from the massive tech bubble is some serious cherry picking. Earlier in the same paragraph: > "in 2005 the [San Jose] m
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by muzz 13y ago
Instead of "funny" you could also say "hypocritical"
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by muzz 13y ago
Yes, in sectoral balance, government deficits go towards net private saving: http://pragcap.com/understanding-the-modern-monetary-system-...
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by muzz 13y ago
Discussed 2 years ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876
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by muzz 13y ago
Except that the shutdown will actually cost money instead of save it. http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2013/0930/Federal-shutdown...
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by muzz 13y ago
I don't get the downtime comparison. In government, it's not the result of an unplanned outage that is being addressed to bring the system back up. Rather our governmental "sysadmins" decided to bring the system down,
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by muzz 13y ago
Nice charts, but terrible editorializing. The relevant Tweeter/Twitter post is titled "The Sheer Idiocy Of The Markets In One Chart" as if the idiocy was on the part of the market rather than on the part of the participants.
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by muzz 13y ago
An investor buying 5% of the company doesn't cause a lot of dilution. Earlier rounds were certainly more dilutive.
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by muzz 13y ago
There was an article comparing the lack of innovation between Twitter and Facebook. One of its most salient insights was that Facebook's product was the vision of the founder, whereas Twitter was almost an accident, and thus there is
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by muzz 13y ago
Isn't the first list just "In Progess" business, and the second list "The Result"?
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by muzz 13y ago
Not sure why you don't just look up the answers to your questions? For example, rebate checks have already been sent out to millions of people: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamacare-health-insurance-re...
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by muzz 13y ago
From a previous article in the Wall Street Journal [1]: "The Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy in Santa Monica, Calif., says the law could increase the number of new U.S. businesses by as much as 33% over sever
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Will Health-Care Law Beget Entrepreneurs?(online.wsj.com)
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by muzz 13y ago
and perhaps c) are considered careers for people older than 35 just wondering, when an engineer is promoted to manager, is he no longer a STEM worker? and isn't he no longer employed in the field of his educational background?
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by muzz 13y ago
Hopefully the owners of these rocks have more self control than that. Maybe his point is that children aren't capable of that kind of self-control, but adults should be.
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by muzz 13y ago
Yes, CK is equating ownership with excessive use.
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by muzz 13y ago
Unmentioned in the article: New York has strict regulations on check cashing that limit fees. Roughly 2%. Only a few states do this, some limit it at 5%. The check cashing business is very different in those states that don't hav

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